New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-07

-, h,onpm down seventeen men; ifbe haa broush'
tty be would have settled the Slavery QUESTION: for
eyerr
A trial. v hich he's ius, Terminated al one Of the
Hv Go, rts brings before he public, under cover ~
an Ilusirious pane, curious iuxtspo-,ion Of thugs
NJ koug,t De Lse the author Of the famous aud var
Hke Mrseilye, appears IN this t'iAl ~ tn plaintiff
in suit sg,iusi an individual for coun erfeng h in
venion for hermeticaly sealing Selizerwa bottles
The poet aud inventor gained the sult'
The Sophomore Glars Al Brown University has re-
yiyed the custom # wearing the Oxfor hat. Il has
been several tines adopted At Cambridge the A-t
zine by ,e elass Of 1885, But before two weeks bad
spsed IN the st case the hats ceased 10 make their
appearance ID public.
Several Of the Virginia officers who commanded at
Cbsrlestown are now 10 Washington, on their return
to Richmond, and they say thar the marching and
couniermarehing Of the troops under Oroer Of Cot
Smith, while Brown stood wuh the halter round his
neck excited feeling Of horr and Indignation among
'those troops.
The grandson Of Tecumseh il now living in Nat
chez. Ml1,. He IL a vel -eduea'ed and accomplished
gentleman, having travelled over greater part Of
Eurore He a physician, and is said by The Free
Tyadey to he al eAeelen one. In his pharmacopeia
IA lot Of medical herbs the Of whose curt
mowers he derived FROM his grandmother, who wa
great {" medicine" woman.
-PostrnssterC encral Holt has Gently decided an
interesting and novel question. A husband who had
been separated from bis wife, demanded TIA. his yd-
lace postnas er should oliver her letters 70 him. sDd
threatened a suit NJ law IL his demand WAS not com
.nEed with The wife on the other hand forbade the
delivery of her bitten TO the husband. la thes- cir
oomstapces. tie Postmaftsr appealed % Mr. Holt for
iDttru1ticrs That officer prononnceS the clam sd
yanced by the husband preportsros 70 be seriously
retuted Indeed he says il ia abhorrent to law rs i
to the Christian civilization Of the age and he directs
the Postmaster to deliver The letters 10 the wife,
On Sunday lss, Ralph Waldo Emerson took the desk
in Theodore PatkeIs church, aud delivered essay
on "BlorsIs" In treating at the power which devo-
ton 20 urea, idea or Irueple will accomplish in the
Individual and out 10 society AID tho world, he aiu'
ded TO tie recent events in the life of John Bfowo.
The desire Of giving freedom TO those who were III
bondsVe-ol establishing moral intellectual govern
oeptI equality had lifted obscure Connecticut
farmer mo the regions of the great mdn aud made an
oihers aptear a. inferor men IL hard, he said,
10 find M all history 30 noble man a. this, who n al
dared 10 sacrifice lite 70 a principle. 'e% sueh men,
the speaker asserted he'd done more r The world than
alI The tribe of merely intellectual men mankind "a
ever seeu IA this connection Mr.. Emerson reclted
The following very appropriate Poem
A man there came whence could tell,
bssns i0 -. sso1. N N the h. s11d'
by its uBeumg spell
A thousand transformations rose,
IRON air % foul from foul 10 fair;
The golGtn crown b, did no. share
Nor soon the beggar. Clothes
or heirloom jewels. priced 50 much,
Neie many changed 20 ctips aud dods,
And even statues Of the gods
Crumbed beneath It's touch.
Then augiy the people cried
1.-THE oss ouWti1hs the . ont far,
DOR goods .uffo, ny
We will not have them TIED
Bet since they could not 20 avail
To check his uureloi ling quest,
They s,iled him -, Ing Let him test
How reals eur Jail"
But though they slew him i'h their swords,
Aud ia he ire The tonchstone burned
Its donrs could rot be oefturncd
Its Ubdoings Test,Ted
And when O stop All future ham,
They streRed is ashes to the breeze.
They ittie CUES ed each grsu OF these
Conveyed the perfect charm
Thee were the only alnsion- made to Brown