New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-07

very first joke ever Dtoe scqoems 'oo "rsn 80
IN, about with coeAet IA: or it, hesd and gosd.
hvs5e3 =, se Ia its h.od-mch as Waller Scott used
10 sive 10 tie s.ores he kidospped from bis neisn,
bot,. think i. Vss the seIy Inst uneXoee'ea
nn,on;nou,tsn Of dps.nilar deas thai ever g,ancsd
mo-, rnv fapc,-Er remember IT had ~ be eI-
nI,ined To me before took the joke. The Old
farmers Alm.naek used 10 have. AID very likely
h., ,tl ,elect qusD'i,y Of very 'lender jests q,
.hs srd a il but sh,ch We useJ % l,ok forward
70 a. school where. sfter the strict-st sec, Of our
reEriop. I was brought up, at ADdoSer, from year
20 ,s.r as the best OF the kind we could get
Thers could scarcely be a more moarDful proof OF
the ;e;on,t, of oar Intellectual f,re Tns jest was
.ons,,t, ated into these threo lnes-soace being so
object v lib the Sage Of the A!maoack ~ i,dl
"s,kinp sailor the reason why ship 1as called
" A, he ans se red bec,us, the riggIog is worth
" more than the hull" Within month or ~ met
thi, On |, friend, as good new taking the sr 10
ene of your city papers forget which, dressed out
,fter this fashion 1.-The other day as one Of our
+" first uerchsp,s was visiting one Of bis Dagn1cent
"ships iust returned from lodis, he jocOs-y asked
"a ,silor # be could tell him The reas"n why a-hp
was always Of the feminine gender. Jack reflected
ga nomeDf and theu turning his qlid in his cheek
"apd hitchDg up his trousers, replied, j doot
".knoW your honor, unless j. Dc thai toe riggIngs
xor,k more than the hull ~ stand by the origl
nal edition. The emioeat hand who adapted it 20
the present time, haf.spoilt i. by making the inter
Iocutor man instead Of Q woman.
And this puts De in mind OF the fra. joke ever
made IL, SELF or the first that IS on record. Sh,l
repeat It 1t would be 100 great violence - my
paiursl modesty il il had not been made well, no
matter how many years ago but wasn't more
than Ten years old IL il still eItant in sprs Wing
school boy band in letter 10 my mother. L was
giving an account Of the great went OF the week
which WAS the ospture of young alligator in the
woods at Andover. not far from the school. Ihsn
follow I'd the explanations of this phenomenon BY
diff. rent prrsobs the most probable Of which was
that ii had escaped from some travelling sho"man
], however, dissented from all the theories ad-
yance6, and set up my OVID, that the stranger was
on his way 10 Join the Theological Seminary, or
Mill for making Ministers, As the proaDe used ID
call it, clD.e by the school, b-cause has taee nas so
long and his back ,cds SO STIFF .hlok that Was
very well for o beginning. Indeed don't believe
could DO any better Dow.
This letter does DO. contain great deal ot news
or what a scho"lmssier would consider useful nfor-
nation; but you must consider that It Is very
upnev able season Of the yeaI-ayery dry time, Tor
all the rain We haye bad. We have had O1'y a
couple Of rows H. speak of, one over the brass body
Of Mr. Webster, the Defender of the CInsutuslon
and The other over the flesh and blood one OF Mr.
Heepap. the Beuicia Boy. The committee hayiog
in charge the Molen lmsge really had not brass
enough in their compositions 10 consent TO the
settiI ND of such carcature of the comely and
portly Mr.. Webster when i, came to the poiot, aud
the msority at the first general meeting dlsallo"ed
the proceedings ofthe subcommittee IN proposing
10 erect it in the Stste-liouse yard. Ana this IN
spite Of Mr. Eyerdts having ceased, Tor a season,
his missionary efo't for Mr. Washington, aDd com
ing to The rescue with speech proving toat IL was
more like Mr.. Webster than he was himself, and an
amazing fine work of art into the bargain But
since then they have been round feeling Of the com
mitteemen 10 see which Of them are stft and 1T IS
said that enough tave been found so, to give IN.
The other scJimMOgt was III coOseque0ce OF some
disappointment of our scientific men about prac-
ical exeeess on the principles ol the Noble Science
by Mr. HeeDaD. lie was fslen upon by crowd
of IuffaDs, supposed TO be partisaus OF the great
Morrissey, and iDsly knocked down aud serioI Isly
wounded after doing all one man could in self-de-
fense The result Of the two rows, you will OBJ
serve, was painfully Opposite-for the Benicla Boy
came down while the New Hampshire Boy will
probably 90 up SO different s the fate Of great
men.
Not knowing what might happen, took occasion
lately to ask learned mag eistra'e who is j1dge IN
art as well as in law, whether it would not be well
TO charge The Grand Jury that this statue, when
erected, was a public nuisance, and as such,
thing to be abated by any body. He did not Teen
TO think that the evil cOud be best reached IN this
way; but was clear that no indictment could hold
for any injury done to it, 1t being thug
uhich cOutd not DC dgdetd Ana Ahng vi JuuSe'
puts me in mind that the lew Superior Court
erected on the ruins Of the Common Pleas, goe
INTO fleet about this time. You must know tha
We have great respect for the pernaoency OF the
judicial office in this State, and utterly abhor your
elective system; but We abolish Court every now
and then ,Dd turn the Judges adrift. We never
throw Judge overheard, YOU understand, except
ing in the case Of Jonah, like Judge L0ring, and
then in the regular constitutional way-we merely
scuttle the ship and let them all go down together.
/ will end this paragraph about Judges, and with
it this letter, BY fact illustrative Of the extreme
hberaity our Courts show on the admission of evil
dence An officer not long since approached the
Judge on the bench in the Police Court and said,
"Your Honor, here's gentleman who says he is
"nepbew of President Buchanan, who wishes 10
make complaint" 81 Certainly" replied the
Judge, " let him sign his complaint, by oil means
He may be all honest man, notwithstanding"