New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21


for spy sntbropomorphous being, except mermaids, it
was uncomfortable All day long it was immanely
to,my: every breeze brought the food as though the
earth wa, TO be converted INTO an aquarium
nle,e a. that which distinguished the days Of Noah.
Late at night the storm was keeping up and pouring
down dismsly.
ACADEMY OF Mrsrc.-The third and last "Berloz
night comes Of this evening. The programme may
be found in another column.
The Philharmonic Society give their fourth and last
Concert of the season on Saturday evening next at the
Academy Of Music.
AT a meeting OF the Trustees Of the Eastern Dis
pensary, held on Monday evening April 49, 1853 the
following were elected as officers for the ensuing year
William p. Coolidge, President; William Dennistoun,
Vice President; Robert r. Crosby Treasurer William
W. Smith, Secretary.
Spring work never was more forward than it is now
in the vicinity Of New York Some of the Long Island
fa mers who plant 80 acres Ct potatoes had them all
in the ground week two ago, and nearly all OF the
early planting Of the market gardens is finished and
the ground for the next of crops all ready. We
have never seen such breadth Of land the Goth of
April under cultivation, or powed ready for planting,
as we can zee ST this time in all directions. Even in
tie colder lands of Westchestsr County and Connect
cut we found gardens planted and many potatO-felds
being planted and the oats all and oil kinds of
Spring work very forward. The buds Of peaches,
cherries and pears nearly ready to open, and show
enough to insure full crop unless killed after this,
which it is not impossible they may bs. Apples also
bid fair, and quite forward. The leaves OF forest
trees begin to show themseves-the sms looking
slightly green and the oaks giving reddsh tint that
adds beauty to the landscape. Pastures are not yet
very green; but rich moving lots and warm hill.
sides show such coat Of grass as would make glad
The hearts Of all sheep and kne Generally speaking,
the soil is moist and for the of the year is
warm and dry, and tho husbsndnans prospects are
| unusually fatteriDg.
A AFRosrIERsMAS.-We met in Broadway the other
day COL Geo. W. Ewing, an old frontiersman-an ln-
dian trader on the frontier Of the Western settlements,
when that frontier was on the Wabash River. The
reader need not imagine, however, that we met an
antedluvian man Of bygOne age, lingerer here
hey end his time Far from it, Col. Ewing s still 10
the prime of lfe being ouly fifty -four years DID, stands
ak feet high as straight as Miami Pottawotamle
warrior.
"Wbat changes" said he, have taken place
sinee first met upon the treaty ground little
| way from what is now the City of Loganspor, amid
thousands of Indians at time when they held posses
sion of the whole northern part Of Indiana! The Wa
bash IVES beyoid the frontier for the hliamies held
flmly 20 their reservation, extending forty miles south
Now not soul Of ny old Indan customers aud friends
remains. l can hardly realize the fact as am
whed along the railroad through their country, that
they are al. gone almos expect to see the smoke OF
| a wigwam, we approach cump OF trees on tue
prsiiies but instead find white house ana large
| barn. and mowing-machine at work where my Gus
| TONERS used to hunt muskrats / am as much 1851
on my old stumpug ground as am in this city, so I'M
| Ike what once krewit.
"Are Won still on the Wabash, Colonel? Didn't
YOU 20 West with the Miamies r. Yes, for season.
but soon found there was no frontier The Missis
sppi was no barrier. The tide of emigration rolled on
| aud filed Iowa, and passed beyond the Missouri ard
now il is flowing Eastward from the Pacific. There s
| no Western frontier now, and am living in city
| where only Fort Wayne was few years ago when
my brothers and myself wers Indian traders, and
packed our goods upon Indian poues along the same
route now ccc1pied by the Wabash Valley Railroad
What startling sounds these screams Of the locomotive
would have been to the wild inhabitants of that Val.
lev who swapped their fur skins for our calieoes and
| Blankets T.
belle it-you are not so.
Indeed, sometimes think that must be 80 when
| tink back upon the scenes OF my frontier life.
All, yes, aud viii many Others Of the old compsn-
| ions and warm friends Of Wash Ewing, for be had
host of them, who have witnessed the rapid stride at
| wb oil The frontier has receded.
RErrsLIcAs YorsG MESS GENERAL COMMITTEE.
We have the following additional names
Srsenth Ward-Thomss Roberts Charles Rogers Ihos
SOmeNie, j. T.. Snodgrsss ID. W Neville -.
Ninth WGrd-S B. Butcher, Charles T. Evans. hoosrt
Edwards j., Stephen Griswod Humphrey Bower It'd
Fifteenth Ndrd-F. R. Sherman II. A. MeCurdy, John Il
Hopper Richard Wynkoop +. 7. Breed - -
Eighteenth Wayd-John A. Foster. james FaTmsn, r. r.
Hal, Nm. ;. Mathews, Jss M Thomson.
YorsG NEw-YoRK "A grand party was given few
nights since by wealthy citizen, at which the peculiar
eraces Of the fashionable young men of New-York
shore with unusual pendor. In an upper room, where
card tables had been set for the old gentlemen, was
lsro hon Nc ,ta