New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-18

- ~. s,.v there After rem aiong 10 Washington 70
.one day, he viii depart FOR Richmond, Cha'estoa'
ard on 10 NewOdeans, ard return by the way OF ta9
Mississippi and Ohio rVer- sto JPing 20 pay r,7n >
sn only brother who resides in toe vicinity o. HaoeT
vile, Ohio.
Mr. Hackett he been playing at the S. Charles
Thester, New Orleans.
Mr.. Booth has been playing with succe'' a; =" ood
Tbes'er, Cincinnati. His Hamlet IS n'a~y oo"f
mended.
.a..o,o ri the reo,sseutsous of tde " Raine
Tonsze . M the Tbesor Lyrique, Pdnce jerome, WOO
was present. cant TO Madame MClsn TdrV.'hD mag
;6oent brooch Ct rcbed With rubes and diamonds I'D
a marx Of his satisfaction
Tho editorin.cbief Of The London Time. j. said
70 have The taue salary the President Of the United
Statee-s2o,O VU.
"A property, by some believed to be of the amount
of $40 900, 900 10 now held by the law officers Of
EpgsDd ID charge for the descendants of Lawrence
who oied without known heirs.
Mr. Charles c. Perkins hes been appointed Lee
turer on Art at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn Meas
uree are also on foot at Trnity College to establish
Professorship Of Music, and thus complete me depart
mept Of art. Doubtless much OF TOE impulse 10 "a"
good move has been impaired by another Boston gen
tleman, Mr. Samuel Eliot who for some FIX montns
past has occupied the Ctar Of Literature and History
in the same college.
Six negroes of Mr. Ransom, a. Covlngton, Ky,
a few nights since administered the original hobeas
orpus act upon themselves and crossed 70 freedom on
the ice of the Ohio River Mr. Ransom considered
one of the kndes masters in Kentucky but the negroes
preferred to be their own masters, nevertheless
The National Magazine has sketch of Douglas
Jezroh. We make Oh extract regarding this popular
author in his private and social capacity:
''By this time il Is no secret that be IL reputed 10
London literary circles 10 be the wtest man going.
In grave downright dscussiye Conversation, or in
eloquent and vaed monol)gu there may be others Oh
our METROPOLITAN Of letters who come up to him. or
surpass him; but the quality OF wit, aud, above
all in the facility Of instant pungent flashing blasting
retort be is believed To have equal. Not that he 10
a peeuharly srgumer tative cOmbatye maH, far HSd
that he is really cynical il-natured. His ordinary
or spontaneous talk s bright, free varous, anecdotc
fsncifu and often very earnest Though sn character
lied by the play Of wit Blu. the fashion of witcon-
bats even among lends. has not yet gone out and
often where there is no difference ct all or where, If
there is difference il is a perfectly anlc able one,
something will be said by some preeen, containing
within ii the element by possibility Of jes-s jest
confirmation jest critical jet sarcastic, Test dis-
solvent est personal to the speaker, or eet purely
arbitrary and fantastic. Then is Mr. JeTOlds moment.
A fash, and it is out Away meshere among the
anities ere one could count two; the thing bas been
caught; a word has been doubled up, an analogy
seized on the wing two de that hsd lain apart sine
chaos are suddenly brought together; toe quickest
nearer has il it fret the laugh gOes round ike q
cracker; and Just when the rest done, the meta
physical ScOtchnsn at the end Of the table cries ont
Il see it. and sends round the laugh again. When
the Jest is confrmstive fantastic, all pleased
when il Is critical, or sarcastic, or dssovent, the
speaker may 90 at the peril Of another when il ID
personal and harm IL meant, good fellow viii keep
his temper. There lie, perhaps, no conversation in
which Mr.. Jerrold takes part, that does not elicit
from him half dozen of supremacy good things of the
kind described"