New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-26

Charleston and the neighboring regions. oeaa
Senator wss therefore godsend to Mr. heiI'; ana
he arose; and be did erucsate q la'a stream .,
molten eloquence, which, having Oecome ooo' au0
consolidated. occupies just one column Id IL"
WASHINGTON Union, and may be read as sudor'nc
by any patient whose complaint Is oil emmy 'n''
scter. We cannot reprint the gneous produc'.un
We would 40 soon put on the shirt OF Nessus' we
should be scorched and crsped and CRACKED Du'
we msy, perhaps, venture without temer'! upon
an exhibition of few Of the smolderlng sparAs Vi
Mr. Kett's rhetorical fireworks. In speaking VI
the departed Senator he INDUCED IN the io''o"A's
metaphorcal but miscellaneous language;
The b voice Ia, .resiy ben broken o.o sob' over h'
bier: snd il il fitting that in Our Nah estate nouu
br.;e t.fs triblie TO his memory On behs then OF n
Cunov.,,h OF South Carolina whose sol b. Was oorn
lsy glove upon his fr-shIy-closrd grave
"In our high estate" is not modest, but IN deier'
ence 10 the elaton Of Member for South Carolina
We pardon the vanity of the expression. stllI We
must ask what, in the name OF Mors, Mr' hel'l
means when be says, d" lay glove upon bis fresh-
" closed grave" We have heard of various tunerea
testimonials. Some simple but kind hearted tribes
place yictuss upon the sepuchres OF their recently
deceased relatives, under the influence OF an
amiabe dietetc delusion. Others, with more sense,
deposit the rations with the body. Sometimes the
widows deposit themselves, and are piously wasted
into eternity. Once in Il certain country the de-
fuDct &c nt, man, in view of the necessity of cash
payment below, WAS provided with sum sufficient
10 discharge his ferrage scross the Styx. Flowers,
wresths of cypress, rOtve lamps have also been
employed In Turkey they sculpture turban
upon the tomb. But glove is something entirely
new. We have known gloves to be used upon the
knockers) in cases of sudden life but never before
in cases of sudden death. We can only come to
the conclusion that the glove devoted BY Mr.. keitt
was boxing glove, and that in his eargerness to
make all Offering he forgot that, the throwing down
of the glove is symbol of challenge.
Around how many of the trusted of the land,
continued Mr. Keitt, "have the curtains of time
" been closely drawn" The orator, We suppose,
meant to say "the curtains of eternity;" but he
unconsciously uttered a truth; for the temporal
curtains aforesaid have been drawn about many of
the heretofore trusted, and it is not probable that
the vail will soon be rent. Here is another spark:
Ruk srsv.,ed to superiority BY the law: Of hi. mental
and moral nature carried him distinction the IN
Of the carry him above the mountains up to the very
sun"
How man can "gravitate to superiority" 10
more than we know, and is more, we fancy, than
Newton discovered, when the celebrated pipPin
descended upon his philosophical nose AT any
rate. we are certain that the biggest eagle never
has grayitated above the mountains to the very
SUM-" At least, We are almost certain that he has
not Some very robust and enterprising eagle
may, by strenuous tapping, have reached the lumi-
nary aforesaid, and after perchlng himself upon
red-hot beam, have been "dOne brown for his
pains; but no such bird has returned, in singed
condition, to testify to his solar experience.
Rhetoricaly we acknowledge Mr.. Keitts figure to
be noble and pretty; but stern regard for Orntho-
logical truth compes US to protest against the
scientific heresy upon which it is founded Mr.
Keitt may have known eagle who went "up to
" the very sun" and upon his return, presented a
round, unyanshed tail Of the incidents of the jour
ney to the South Carolinian. If 80, he should fur
nish to the Smithsonian Institution memoir of the
facts and phenomena. In honor and conscience
he should do il.
immortal Squeers:
Certainly noble thing to BEAR ike banner historical
looming ,hror night ages serie. of figures bardd
with drsp-d with ermse who resemble you and bear the
name that you do
Now We can conceive Of a person bearing his
name on banner, or a sgn-board or his visiting
card or his carpet-bag, or his linen; but how he
can bear it Ike banner for moment, we do not
clearly see, much more are we puzzled to know
how anybody, since the period 80 unfortunately
terminated by a heavy rsin.stOrm, has been able
10 bear his name like banner, "for a thousand
years." Methuseah might have made kind of
genealogical show for 500 years, but even this
would be short of Mr. Kett's estimate by 81 years.
Still we must bear testimony to the elegance of
some of Mr.. Kett's expressions. To see series
of figures barded with iron, draped with ermine,
looming through the night of ages, must be better
than TO contemplate the aurora borealis, partcu-
larry when the figures " resemble" the spectator,
have the family nose, wear the family hair, and, in
spite of the looming, exhibit the family complexion
We have been Obliged to find little fault with
Mr. Ketts pathological knowledge. Here, in
speaking of Gen. Rusk, he gives us a specimen OF
his astronomical requirements:
In the very Of the foremost Of Texas h. kept
watch and ward while the lone star blending It's scattered
rays into unity wheeled upward TO mnze is brightness
with The blaze OF the Federal constellation"
From this it appears that the " lone star, when
left TO itself, was of scattered disspated and
dissoute character, requiring guardianship; bit by
constant watching it was prevailed upon TO con-
glomerate. II We say-perhaps We should say they
(the scattered rays) But how are these scatterers