New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-03

,sue vt,o a had been 10 the family sibce before
esift Ar born. The tradition IN the tO"n ~ M
ton. stere the Gulyers lnally settled ~ eu,
,ro rms. that there 1ere two bro,her- emigra'ei
N IN, country from Ireland about The middle OF 'he
,eyeDtsen,b century, one Of whom nanei Ltmuf
r.,urped bone again after a while, aud There 70
manned. while the CULVER family have descended
from The other. The Lemuel Guliver, y y 'shL
was distinguished IN tis 1eighoor1c"t' Al ~ n- r.
turn for The szs and quality OF nis trb'e~i s''-
res one Of nhich il SAID 10 have been ina, lb' roR'
In America we're ss bigh az man hl-e, shh tai.
biz naus passed into local proVrrD AZ an magma
five historian. Nov il is not unlikely that this
neiobIorbood was that Of Kilkenny, where S"lit
veT, N school. or Of Laracor where be lived after
~. er.t r.Axrn 70 ireland, and that the name Of
.ruel (;u,Yyer. ssncisted With ttis particular
Characteristic might have inhered ID hs memory,
and that when he was casting about for name for
Dis immortal mariner, this one occurred 70 him "a
snzu.arly pat to his purp0se-a. once odd, AMI yet
natural and simple In one of ropes ietter. u
swift, May %, l727--, be says; send i"n "a
" YER, odd thing. A paper printed ~ Boston, New
" FnolaEd. wherein you'll find n real person,
" member Of their parliament Of the name Of Jona-
:. thsr Gulliyer If the fame Of that traveller
" hath Travelled thither il has travelled very quick
:. ,o have 1olks chrs.ened already By the name Of
" the suppoeed author. But il yOn object that no
child 70 lately chrs,eDed could be arrived az years
d" If maturity 10 be elected into Parliament, reply
" 10 solve the Tidde), that the person may be an
Auabapti,t and not christened TIL OF full age,
(which sets all right. However il b., the acc-
dent il very singular that these tEO names should
" be- united" Swift replies, May 10: " / have with
great pleasure shown the New England newspa-
per with the t1O names Of JODathIn CULVER and
" / remeD Der Mr.. Fortescue sent you an account
from the sssizes OF one Lernuel CULVER, who h id
cause there, and lost il on his all reputation Of
" being a llar.
Last week Commencemen at Cambridge Oc-
Cured as usual. The Only Observable thing about
il was that the authorities of the UnIve sity still
evinced self-contrOl enough 10 abstain IRON giving
Mr. Sumner the Doctorate OF Law, which they
have never failed to give 10 the OF the College
occupying 80 prominent place Ia puolic lie "a ne,
in much better season. And as they had gone out
Of The academic family thus TO ilas,rat5i Mr.
Nathan Appleton and Mr. Abbott Lawrence there
seems 10 be 10 reason why gentleman occupying
a higher public Office than either Of them ever
reached, and certainly as well qualified in know-
edge of laws and the hUmsnties, should be passed
over in their distribution Of ho1ors However, II
the Powers that BE did not think the Senator
Massachusetts has the most reason to be proud OF
worthy Of their Donors, they Mt least made some
amends by thus distinguishing the gentleman TO
whom he owed bis election. This beDefactOr OF the
State and country II the Hon. Sidney Bartlett, a
lawyer of emiuence here, and the way in which he
secured this important event was on this wise: He
was a Whg member OF the Lower House from
Boston the year that the memorable struggle which
resulted in Mr. Summers election took place. You
well remember that for long tine there wa' ne
BET cen bin and Mr.. Winthrop. 1t also was obvl-
Ouf hat there Was one more vote cast than there
were members Of the House. The Wing papers
charged this upon the FTec-SOllers, but il done
so adroity that il could not be discovered who put
it in. Mr. Bartlett, being man OF most ingenu-
ous mind and remarkable simplicity of character,
supposed the Wing papers must be right, and so,
one morning moved that the next balloting BE- done
10y means of envelopes, which would make double
vote impossible. lie suggested that as the gentle
men oD the other side were in favor of the Secret
Ballot, he presumed they would have no objection
to the arrangement. II 80 happened that they had
not They al voted for it, and enough simple
minded Wings to carry it, TO the utter cOnsterna-
ton of the wire- pulers One of the chief of these,
il was f;lid at the time WAS overheard to excalm,
soto rOce, Cd d-n that Sidney Bartlett he has
'made Sumner Senator n' and that he proceeded to
telegraph on 10 Washington what had been done,
adding that Charles Sumner would be elected the
next morning by one vote; which he accordingly
was. ] would add that, beside tbs pubic service,
Mr. Bartlett is at all other points as deserving OF
the honors Of the College as those on whom they
are generally bestowed.
The next day the Phe Beta Rabba Society he'd
IFS anniversary, the orator being the Rev. Thomas
Hill of Walthem. | am sorTy 10 say that the
Oraton was by no means what We had right I
expect. II was not built al all on the model long
since set up for such performances. An orator on
such an occasion should begin by telling the society
what tremendous fellows they are, and what an
awful responsibility they under the Educated
Men of America HaJ educated would, perhaps,
be more correct but less gratifying 10 the carna
heart Then the orator should set forth the duties
of the Educated Men, which chiefly consist in t,y
ing 10 Keep the universal Yankee nation from gong
ahead too fast and especially in any right direction.
Ard he should conclude with pathetic appeals TO
them not 70 INTO any of the fanatcislns OF the
day (Which 10 do them justice, very few are IN
clincd 70 dO) but 10 exercise sound conservative
influence, and especially 10 preserve the Glorious
Union from goin' to eternal smash. That is the
sort OF article ", Ike Mr. HIPS was nothing of
the kind One wouldn't even have known from
anything he said that we had Union TO be- saved
And yet he calls himself minister OF the Gospel
The Chief End of American OratOry | take to BE-
10 make the hearers comfortable IN their minds and
think no small beer Of themselves. Mr.. Hill merely
sci forth his views OF the philosophy aud method of
culture which would resu, in making those submit
ted to il really whole educated men, and something
certainly very different from what men are now
made by the usual processes they 90 through. This,
of course, was not fa.terIpg to us who were there
But il will be printed, presume and it would do
no harm Ia your readers if you should give them an
opportunity of judging for themselves Of the Justice
of my structures upon it. ByIES