New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-24
THE HEALTH or THE UNION.

The Union was well when last heard from. AS
comfortable as could be expected. Indeed, safe
Al least it was last Saturday. Mr. Mayor Mayo,
of Richmond, a city now chief! known BY the blood
less civil wars carried on between her sons, mas Is
sued the bulletin of its sanitary condition. He is
by his birth. at least by his retdence, beyond the
magic line once described by Mason and Dixon, an
expert in this branch of pathology and has right
to speak Doctors who have the power TO Kill, and
who brandish the shaft Of death over the patient
to make him comfortable, have clearly the privilege
of saying when he is alive and ike to live. 1t was
at Boston that this learned eech relieved the anxi-
cites Of the friends Of the Synthetic vaetudnary
and promised its case hopeful Tired of the hospit-
able prodigslity of this city, he turned his face
toward the East nor stayed till Lis feet had kissed
the soil Of our Athens, hoping perhaps, to have
some rest for season from the seTery of Municipal
eloouence. But it was in vain that he had changed
his latitude" cGtrm non ammum, the SKY
nigh. diter, but the same logopoietic mind re-
main Speech is the distinctive peculiarly of Man
and speeches the GROWING sttribution OF the
American variety Of the species. lie found the
Athenans still bent new things like those OF DID,
And be was the newest,
So the Mayors Of Boston and of Richmond, like
Mercy and Truth, met together For aught that
We know to the contrary. ike Righteousness and
Peace they kissed each other They were To-
eether but day, but it was day not lost. They
went 10 Deer Island, and there they had speeches.
They dined at the Parker House, and speeches
spced the feast sgsin. We grieye to say that, for
some reason hard to understand no report of these
speeches has reached US. Why this waste Or
what use the tropes that Hew out OF the mouth OF
either Urban Pretor whenever be opened 1t IN
speech. unless caught by skillful reporters and
daiptily served up to a hungeriDg world But
sure we are that the Union did net go unsaved,
either on the island sacred to the psuper sons and
daughters of the Emerald Isle, or at the higher
festiyty held under the suspicious catering OF the
Boston Delmonico. The Mayor of Boston could
not have been so false to the traditions OF his office
as TO leave the salvation Of the Union entirely to
his brother of Richmond. Did not his two imme-
date predecessors Bigelow and Smith by name,
save that entire and perfect chrysolte from flaw,
the one by binding it up with chain round the
court House, dlu tuC otHci ". oeH"ibS - "H'~NN
aged. under the escort of the embattled Shopocracy
of the town, through the streets, to the point OF
embarkston Aud would their successor refuse q
compaginatng word to keep its brittle substance
from flying into flinders Forbid II, Justice
Forbid il, Patriotism
At the Parker House, too, We are told that the
Richmond Mayor had the happiness OF drinking out
of"a tumber which one Sir Richard Haskinsformer-
"ly owned in Virginia" "One of the identical
| "tumblers" There was no doubt Of its identity,
it seems. Interesting fact More interesting
symbol of that vitreous brttleness, the Union,
which hath been kept whole, by incessant care and
watchfuness, unto this day The account doth
rot specify what the drink was this historic goblet
contained. But We are sure that it must have in
spred spostrophe opposite to the illustrative AL
aloges Of the two frspg,bilties. Whether at Deer
Island the guest was told Of the slitering general.
ity once made use Ct by an Abolition orator that
the South would dissolve the union with the North
land should dissolve their Glorious Union with the
Oyerseers Of the Poor, We are not told
Perhaps So for he seemed 10 be penetrated,
as Southern orators in Northern attitudes are
very apt to be, with the value of that fral
commodity Possibly they are DESTROYS Of
keeping up the spirits of the trembling North,
shvering in the prospect being cut adrif to take
care Of herself, robbed Of the patrisrchal protec.
tonthst now ministers to her being At any rate the
civic gnate from the banks Of the James had not so
exhausted his Uniosalvatory powers during the day
" not to have some left to be expended in the silent
watches Of the night For his labors did not cease
with the courses of the banquet, nor yet with the
Gilmore Concert to which he was taken after it
py Mr. William Parknan Of the De Molsy Encamp-
ment
his concert seems to have been given By band
which inspired tie steps of this Encampment to
laehmond On pilgrimage it lately made to the
capital OF the Old Dominion. And this band pro-
ceeded after its concert,
- oil Il. while
TO pay tributary compliment to that hospitable
city by sereua3e to its chef magistrate He wss