New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-02
FROM BOSTON.

LITTER, that IL ~ more than TWO montns, hcafeI
three. aimee it was written. am appreheusive,
lest the fact should begin to tell on your sub
scripticn list. as ! am not unaware how large
proportion Of the almost (tbere are VINO say
svite) fabulous figure claimed for 1t Is cue 70 Id!
Occasionalites But let Jour subscribes tahe nes.'
of grace. and send in their annual dollars In humble
faith that Mr. Byles will yet now and tDen Voucn.
safe them a Strengthening ana eohyihs "oiu.
am sure cannot tell why have oeen 10 P''T.
graphic Of late, for have had plenty 10 ''y'
was kind of Epi.tcSphobia, or antIPsthy 70 'e.'e'
writing. which makes one, while the nc !" ." ni'n'
envy the hermit Of Prague, who nad 10, see. pcu
and ink for forty years. 40 tne nise p'eoe' .n'aU
,vs, the P,ecoLomGnia, which ran t"ehty-ohe vi
80 ,;ah,s before u turned and was very pleas
ct deigsion while il lasted. COstve critics, VINO
ST. y Essential 10 singer that she should sing,
NAV srowl a. the little prlIna donna, but would
dey hOuse-ful of hyenas 10 resist her run down
the stage in the Daughter OF the Regiment, ana
her military salute to the audience at the foOtlghts
And ought to know, as have been referred more
than once by competent authorities, to that parIc-
Mar department Of Natural History Or her CO.
ouetteries ard niTauderies Susanna, IN the Mar
rage Of Figaro And then there were Laborde
and Poinsot, not 10 mention FOrnes, who most
undeniably could sing But that IL all tale o.
yesterday.
There were. I recOlect, some interesting facts
observed at that time illustrative of the physiology
of the Dead-head which would have given me text
for a lecture on that branch Of Natural History,
when they were fresh. | am afraid they are some
what musty now. If i remember Inc aright, some
prggish structures on the opera company appeared
in Mr.. Caleb Cushings Organ-a NewDuryporI
paper published in Boston, called The Co"r'er-
which gave offeDse to Mr.. Ullman, who struck 1t
off the free list Its musical critic, as the news
papers said took up arms (or fists III ylndlcau0n
Of The natural and inalienable rights of dead heads
and hostilites ensued, Of the particulars oil winch
there were diverse accounts the discrepancies
whereof do not feel called upon to settle, 1t is
not material to the moral deducble from the prem
ises. which is this. Although Mr.. Ullmans con-
duct in taking any other notice Of the concerted
prOlusions in question than laughing at them, as
every body else does at the solemn cOxc0mblcahtles
of The Courier, may not raise a violent presump-
ton of his direct descent from Solomon, yet his
petulance rises into the regions of Pure Reason
when put alongside Of the folly and absurdlty OF
making a quarrel of his exercising his undsubted
right of saving what guests he chose to invite into
his own hired house. l trust, therefore, that, II
any manager should for any reason, cashier you as
a dead head and reduce you to the ranks OF the
base slaves that pay you will not undertake to iet
him into shape again. For 1t is melancholy iact
that in all QuaTres between managers and dead
heads, the paying public sides with the manager:
Indeed, If the whole system were abolished, and
you were all compelled to pay your way like your
even Christians, we shouldn't break the benches,
or tear down the scenery, or smash the chandeliers,
in your behalf. Nothing of the kind can assure
you.
Then we have revamped our State Government,
and made it up for the year TO come in tidy shape
II was done without serious accident, excepting
that Gov. Banks's memory received some little
damage, which occasioned him to forget that there
was any proposition to steal negroes Mt hrst hsnd
in Africa, or at second hand in Cuba, or any such
trile as Slavery anywhere. Excepting that the
part of Hamlet was omitted whether by particu-
lar desire or not, l cannot say, there could be no
fault found with that capital performer at the
opening of the season. He seems bent on cutting
down the extrsyagances of public expenditure
good work, which he began last year, and sensl6y
checked the process of financial phebotomy to
which the Know Nothing sangradOs had subjected
us for the last three or four years. ANY attempt
to check this depletion yet further will be well
coined by all who bleed for their county, unless
there be some survivors of that rare patriot IN
whose obituary II was written that he lOvec 10
nav his taxes ~ Then We have taken step to-
ward overtaking the time, which we are sadly be-
hind by putting our State Offices as prizes into the
wheel of the political lottery, to induce the more
10 adventure therein. We have, to greater de-
gree than any other State, | believe, adhered to
The old.fashloned aud exploded idea that an Office
is for the good Of the public and not OF the holder,
and that this end is better served by keeping
practiced hand in il, rather than by putting in
raw one, whenever there is party overturn. We
have Just shown our proficiency by discarding Col.
Stevens, who had been sergeant arms for five
and twenty wears. | believe he and old Mr. Kuhn
were the only two We have had since 1850, when
we set up in business. / remember Old Kuhn we'll
ne the terror of all little boys ntrudng into places
of sacred reservation in the State House, or not
taking their hats off soon enough. he was queer,
weazen-faced dried-up, little old gentleman, re-
member, who struck awe into the generation which
was rising one-we won't say how long ago.
When Governor Eustis died in lS25, and was ylOg
I'm state in the Council Chamber one of the cadets
who acted us guard of honor, looked through the
keyhole and saw-so the story ran-his Excellency
sitting up in his coffin playing AL Fours with Old
Kuhn. Observe | do not yOuch for the truth of
this, only will say that Old Kuhn looked just the
man to relish such nights diversion.
ought to have written an account of the Web
Fter Dinner here. IL would have been IN very
different strain from the vein of proiane leviiy
which ran through your two leaders on that solemn
subject, which i cannot too severely reprehend.
My excellent friend, Mr.. FELTON,, see, stated that
the poet Rogers pronounced the hero of the tyen-
ing "the greatest man that ever lived If he
were not in his dotage, surely he was the most re-
markable Britisher that ever lived, to say such
thing. wonder whether the bard, the beau,
the banker" did not think he was speaking Of
your photographic idol (would he were dashed IN
pieces y the Noah of the new dispensatlOn with
which you afilict your readers Az any rate, it is
not likely that the opinion is very prevalent one
in England, inGsmuch as no republiSber has ever
been found theirs for ms works. And you may
have noticed that one 81 the English gentlemen
who We're guests that night with the best inten,
tons of being complimentary and polite, would
IN stV line ha ~ w D.