New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-04

| j never could urder.fand me foarm OF Sexr,
MiD.trsl.ey. ~ Il is called. cant. for To. M-ss
NE, see TIE fuD Of i. Bat, a. j kDes tast iha
Old Province House che LegeDd. ~bereof ss
;tey Dot writer 10 tie Book Of the Chfysiee.ef
NsthsHiel Hawthorne p nsd teen tlraed iato n
temyls for such srsice years $50. PAID my mar.
tcr.Goar a. he door AID went N % So shat j.
wss lie. And i ceTtaiI., W. lie no.hag Il asol
70 he IN the days 81 is erestusss. The wal,.
YES told were the ssDe thst wer. bull. n le-g.
bat be Indian tie root. his Bonded boz ia hs,a.
viii the ariow on the strsg, Sh.sh the HaFssry
tradition told be shot away uto he night gs. a TIA
clock struck tVel7e-le wax goae fUreVsr-sg,l
lowed IN 10 the sb,ss that bad deyOured hi. a.
rows. Inside the body Of TIE house xas shseAi
into N auditorium, and stage on which Mr. OrS
Way, trOup were del shtBg such a. Liked tAer
outer'sinu eIt. Thtre were the two funny nigsers
81 each end su3 the sentimental ores 10 The ces,e-
tie bones ard the bsno. snd oil the rest Of Il. I
sid 10 my sel( If the DID Governors should bSppel
ever 20 rry.il the scenes OF their provincial State
thew might well Thick the world turned up.ys
down. Sir Edmund Andres lived here pntl tie
PEOPLE one dsy took and locked him Up in the Cas-.
tie. Sir William Phips, 1 suppose, lived Ia tbs
- fair birch house be bulk il the Green hne AZ
North Boston" and wh ch be Lad seen in risioa
when keeping sheep AZ Cssco Bay. Bot LORI
Bellsmoui. snd Sg0ughlou, SOD Joseph bud y, su1
Col. SAuie, and Barnet, son Of The Bishop. ana
himself tie friend Of Addison and Steele, whom tho
General Court worried 10 death and Brlcher, and
Shirley and PoWnal. snd sir Frafcis Bernard.
aud cage an Of them inhabited II, and made 1t tho
center of tie E.rle New England world of tat day.
Hutchinson nay have lived 10 bis Own 6ne house in
Garden Court street. which was sacked BY the moo
in 1865, and which hss come down within twenty
years aud on " site and thst OF SIR Harry Frank
aLd's, which stood uext 1t, crop u sixteen sPcS
ard span new ones have sprung up. The Province
House wss q much hrcr house than Gov. Han
ock's and would bsve been in every way = suitable
Tesideuee for The Governors OF the State, h.d the
fashion OF hLdiog them hoCscrOom conlaged 10
this day.
Tie Hsucock House. however. il associated
with more illus,rious memories thsn the Prov
irce Eouse, and u should be rescued from destrue-
tol and preserved as specimen oi tue modest
State ni tie fathers. lt was the scene of much
Hospitality in John llaucocA's time. He was ia
embarrassed circumstances in the latter part Of his
If. aud venerable grntltman whose society
sometimes enjoy has told me that be had ofte1
herd, on the Ir-t day of term, when the docket
was called. the CTier eIcltin, John Hancock,
" John Hancock, come into court and answer untp
4" John Doe. or your default vii be- recorded 80
And this " hen be was Governor OF the State. Bat
in those blessed days for lawyers, nobody minded
being sued. sud nobody bothered himself about
paying his debts, except upon compulsion. unless
!. suited tis convenience. Still be found means (.
mon l have quoted, who Is probably the last sur
wing guest of the mutituies Hancock entertainer
since be died sixty five years sgo-described u
me a dinner party be particularly remembered.
here were not less than fifty sixty at table, but
the host did hot ut AZ meat with them. lie ate at
little side table, and sat on wheel chair in
which he wheeled himself shout the general ,ablo
to .petk with bis guests. This was because Of his
nj, of which lie made political well as social
excuse FOR doing as be pleased. On the occasion
IN question, when the guests were in the hight OK
animated conversation, and just as the cloth was
drawn, they were interrupted by tremendous
crash. y servant, III removing cut-glass epergne,
which form I'd the central ornament Of the table, let
il fall and il was dashed in thousand pieces. An
awkward silence fell upon the company, who hardly
knew how Ia treat the accident, when Hancock
Teey d their embaTTass by cheerlully exclsm-
ing. james, break much YOU like, but don't
: make such confOunded noise aoOutit" Aud un-
der cover or the Iugh Ihis excited, the fragments
were removed, end the talk went on as If nothing
had happened. This, II strikes me, was the pres
cnce of mind Of true good breeding.
II vas little different view from the one taken
by Sheridan, when a similar acciden, happened 40
d table where he dining. The servant, letting
tray full OF plates fall, the master of the hJuss
demanded what he bad broken J" Noting,
Sir" sad the man. What exclaimed Sheri-
dan Indignantly, have you made all that noise for
" nothing" Hancock's mode of meeting this emer-
gency reminds ne of ali incident somesh hat like it,
with which ] viii conclude my discourse Mr..
BIZ CHAM Of Philadelphia, whose daughter married
Mr.. Alexander Barring, afterwsrd Lord Ashburtsn,
WAS ambitious of representing Pennsylvania in tbs
Senate Of the United States. To this end, be csa-
vassed the Legislature seduOUsy, and Ike a visa
man. Piled them abun5antly with good dinners.
In tbis service he was ably assisted by bis vie.
One day. when he was entertaining party 0f leg
isatOrs, representative from rural distract broke
s dessert pla.e. one of priceless SO Of Sesres
porcelain, ft for q gift 10 Kings, and worth ts
weight in gold. Seeing the CONSERVATION AID dis
trees If her guest, Mrs. Bingham It once relieved
il by saying TO him, with al air vi perfect uHcou-
Germ, " il is Of no sort Of consequence for this ware
sis exceedingly brittle, ard breaks very easily"
And by way OF illustration, she struck the plats
before her With her knife, aud broke it in pieces.
Then, ordering them 20 be removed, and fresh ones
brought, the worthy man had the whole load OF
modification taken from bis mind. forget whether
Mr.. Bingham was elected or not ! think not; but
] hope that man, at least yOtedfor him. BYLEs.