New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-25
FROM BOSTON.
oDsl Correspondent.

nltBOs ana TIE envy OF NY eHc"ho'' "''f "
had not been brought up after the most strsghtest
principles 1 should be sadly tempted to swear,
which exercise ia said for never tried it, to give
tie sane relief TO men that crying does to women.
Bu: as that is out of the question must see what
comfort can get by venting my il-hupor upon
you. The fact is have been TO old friend,
snder sentence of death and left for execution. |
think gave you an account OF the Franklin house,
at the corner of Hanover and Union streets, which
the scene of all Frsnklins Boston life and the
center of all his recollectOns of it, at the time
described the great celebration here two years ago,
the occasion OF setting up the funny figure Of him
IL front oi the City Hail. Well, if you want to
tee 1t YOU must be quick about it. Not one stone
or one BRICK will be left upon another in ten days
from now. IL is to be RACED to it, foundations
snd not vestige left to tell where it stood The
land OF which il stands has been taken By the city
tO widen tie street afraid Poor Richard
would have said that it all right to sacrifice
Mere historical associations to actual present con-
venence. But don't like it.
The poor old thing looked as if il knew that it
War all up with it. Ii was plastered all over with
pLcaids telling, all and singular, where the late ten
ants had gone Ia, if anyb body cared The windows
We're broken ill., and the bah protruding from the
corner of the house into the street, with 'JOsias
Franklin, 1855" upon it, which was the sign of
that worthy soap-bUilcr, had disappeared from
who're II had hung for more than century and
hsh i Wonder whether they have sold il for old
iron TWAS, undoubtedly, one of the earliest oh
lecis that attracted the notice of the Child
Franklin, and was symbol OF mysterious purport
that puzzled his infant philosophy. Just read over
the lew pages of his autobiography giving the
h-tory Of ais life in Boston, before he ran away to
iLi.dr hia, and you viii see how full of shadows
the old lace was Ia one who has the true gift OF
~ IL al n
chandler sitting 1T meat with ms thirteen children,
who grew up aud were married. listen to him
NJ be- AMUSED himself by playing ON the violin and
siI png witbal, after his days work was done.
I hen yoa may 60 down cellar with hun and hls
Youngest son. whom il is very likely he thought the
lP,st promising oI the whole brood, aud witness his
horror at tine proposition of the infant economist of
Line. To- say grace over the whole barrel of beef
they were putting down in the lump, instead Of
over each separate piece IN detail II came To the
table Or you may peep into the attic, where the
Il,cnous boy IL devourlng the books borrowed Of
the bCtkscilers apprentice Tor the night, probably
BY the lkht OF chndlc-,nds Struggled from the shop
below. Then Won may him returning thither
again, after his successful escape To Philadelphia
With "a ronecl new suit from head 10 foot, watch
d" and his pockets lined with near five pounds
" sterling in siiyer"-the admiration of his mother.
and tie envy .ol his brethren. And so on.
Ii he'd been "a more sensible thing 10 have raised
house could have been bought twenty years ago,
when il renamed substantially, # not exactly. as II
wah IN / Tankiin's day-and secured this most IN
ter,sting place from destruction than 10 submit To-
The scTOage which the country Is even now und r.
golI Tor he benefit OF the Mount Vernon skin-int
However it Was not TO be- and 1t is too late now. !
en- glad tLat went over il, thcn, as happened 10
Lave TIE good luck to do. 1t was then inhabited,
rather lis inhabitants had just left il, and from
the character aid disposition of the rooms, have
LO Reason 10 believe ia 1t had uudrrgo1" any ma
tcral change siuce the hitle Franklin used To climb
Oh, window seats or toddlc up and down stairs. |
remember | Was moved, chiefly by this visit. 10
white description of it and OF some other old
houses Standing al Tint time, but lately de-
stroy, d-s'ch Gov. Hutchins0ns, sacked in
lstJ, SIR " iiiiam Phppss and the Province House
ill Mr. fprk Bcnlanin's American Magazine,
and which It dtrs EO violence Ia my mOdcsty 10
sfy al Iris distance of time, was not bad Indeed,
] stumbled the other day corroboratiye proof
in favor al ny opinion on this paint, from an odd
quarter. | happened To be- looking over the excel
Lut iBGcx 10 Periodical Literature of Mr.. Poole,
the Librarian of the Abensum here, for another
purpose when my eve CHANGED 10 fall IN the title
OF Iny article "Old Houses" referred IL tho Rich
mond Souihern Literary Nessenger. Thinking il
Was all accoint of SORc old houses OF the Oh Do
mEon, | locked il up and 10 there WAS my pro-
perry, without It word of ackuow ledKmcnt, line for
hIc, and uhsPrint for misprnt With only Il date OF
"Boston' subioiucd, Ia give 1t the sir of having
been sent tl,orc a. IA contribution. This gave me
occasion TO see what had made, and, behold, il
was yeD gocd. Ii did honor to the Richmond
editors t.ste, whatever II might do to hs honesty.
LISA lirle odd that the house Of the other phi.
osorhcr Of whose residence Boston is Justly proud
though Ls was net born here. but AT Salem
should le also Visiting execution for the same of.
ierse OF standing in the Wa! of the gathering speed
of this fast rgc. / mean, OF course Nathaniel
Bowditch, tie author Of the Practical Nayi-
gator" AID the translator Of iaplaccs .hecdrique
Cs.ae." 1: stands in Otis place, Iut Is TO be NJ
terry abolished and destroy ed, 10 open new street
for the purposes of trade DR.. Bowdltch, Ike Dr.
fraiklin, was II seli-tUught man, and fought hl'
way y, himself 20 scientific cminence and social
distinction. Like Franklin. he received the rare
distinction Of being elected an Honorary Fellow
q. The ROYAL Society of London, OF its own mere
motion, aud with exemption from the payment OF
ices. OF course, there have been several Amer-
cans who were entitled 10 write +. X. :. after
t,eir names; hut they have been elected in the
usual WAY ut their own desire, and with the usual
ts,ren,s. / believe that, beside these two phi
iosopLers Prof PIERCE Of Cambridge Is the oay
American who has received this particular dstlnc
top. Dr. Bowditch was Fellow OF the Edin.
tur.h and Dublin Societies, and of multitude OF
coutipeufl learned bodies; but recolect he once
told me that the degree of Master of Arts, which
Was Given to him by Harvard IN l>ol, gave him
ar. s,er pleasure than any OF his later donors. He
Was at that time sea egpt'ln, sailing out OF
Salem, aid hsd not the slightest personal rcqpoint-