New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-11


If the prisoners ARE sons OF Revolutionary sires.
They cone of a good stock, and are noble Sons II
Liberty
The London correspondent of The Maaelester
Guardian saw. that We may look for the appear
spce ot Mr.. Trunyron's four Arthurian idyls Dill
entities ss 70 the choice OF publisher have retarded
the publication OF the four poems to be comprised
in the new voiu e, the Repentance of Gninevere'
ia 50. ken Of a. the purt~ masterpiece IN the opinion
of the NOT cor rtct critics who have had an oppor-
tuutv of bearing tie poems. Next 10 this they seem
10 place the Men e. which details the witeheryot
Merlin by the harl-hear,ed coquette to whom the
wizard weak enough TO surrender his anecnons apd
his magic secrets. Tie Maiden of Astolet' Is an
another tr. atmelt of the subject OF the Lady Oh
Slalvtt." already 50 well known among the authors
poems.
Mr.. Rarey is row in st. Petersburg, but his int
experiment, upon nm incOnitable horse belonging 10
NJ. Arapotf MAS unsuccessful.
M Guizot as LEFT Paris for his country seat, Val
Richer where lac rs at work upon the third volume OF
his Memoir.
Polly Boston colored woman, whose age from
reliable authority is s.t down at lO9 years, died
,be 18th ult in Baltimore. She born and raised
in Virginia.
Lord Frederick Grosvenor who, with numbero'
other English e Itcmen, hunted in the tar North, and
c.copd scalpinr by the Indians by the hair Of their
heads at St. Louis, awaiting the arrival OF ono
or two con panions with whom he purposes going tn
California, over the Southern Overland Mail Route,
and ii euce to China and the East Indies.
Mr.. Lawson Of the Cost Survey and son Of
Prof Aga,sz engaged in surveying the harbor OK
Crescent City.
Tile following extract of letter from an officer Of
the L. S. sloop Decatur, we publish by request;
"REALEJo Nicaragua, March 81, 1850
friend Mr. A,sht Ponrry Edwards Of Northampton, Mass,
parted thi. life after having been sick for so"I, mouth
Chaplain the T. 5 s,camsate Merrnac Com Long and
w s ssG anS aSs h as GS' al who snss him
by liz Mind Of the sick aud his consideration oil her
waItI"
Two new Catholic Bishops recently conse-
Grated in the Cathedral Of St. Louis, by Archbishop
Kenrck. One, the Right Rev. DR.. German is to be-
Bishop il N,braska Territory the other, the Right
Rev. DR.. Whelsn, TO be coadjutor OF Nashville, Tenn
Several bishops were present The sermon was
preached by Bishop Smyth of Dubuque
David X. Atchlson, says correspondent of The
Boston JonrHoI, still enjoys the sweets of private
life on bis plantation in Clinton County, No. During
recent revival of religion in that section he seemed
seriously inclined and some Of his relatives, who ara
Jealous ard consistent Methodiss, really had hopes
of his conversion But Just then some friend sent
him barrel of his favorite old rye whisky like Mr..
Buchanan, he drinks nothing but old ryel, he re-
turned 10 his idol and from that day he has been the
ame old Dave" A'chison rs of yore.
We learn that though Mr.. 7. +. Meagher has
withdrawn from the editorial responsibility of Tho
Irish Nccs he has not broken off his connection with
that Journal but continues to write regularly for its
columns We believe The Neps is in highly pros
porous condition.
For three Winters past the Cortandvilla Lite
rary Association have invited distinguished scholars
to lecture in the "stone church, and some of them
lccturcd Saturday evenings and stayed over and
preach cd in tho oamo church the Sabbath They
were Wendell Philips Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace
Greeley, Joshua X. Gddiugs VIM Lloyd Garrison,
T.. II. Chaplin, Il. Starr King, A. ID. Mayo, George W.
Curtis, Henry Ward Beccher, Thos. Bsecher, Theo-
dorc Parker, and others Stephen Brewer esq, at
tended these meengs and the ministers and elders OF
the Presbyterian Church to which he belonged la
bored with him because he did 50. Mr. Brewer
thought the elders had authority to restrain HMM
this after, but they insisted they had, and because
he refused to submit judgment and conscience 10 their
dctation they indicted, tried, and suspended him for
breoch Of corenoRt.
Mr.. Charles Mackay has his American letters in
prers, two handsome volumes, on "Life and Liberty
in America, illustrated by engravings The result
Of the poet travellers observations is, it is sad, not
very favorable to American society, as contrasted
with English freedom and English manners.
The Jackson Miss Eagle says; Mr.. Beasou
of Ken per County arrived in this city the other day.
He will be tie STATES guest for the next seven years,
in consideration for his servcec in endeavoring TO
tabish the institution of Slavery on free territory with
another mans nggers."
The suijoined obituary notice Of Oil Irish gentle
man appeared in the morning journals Of this city
few days since. As Of the most remarkable
specimens of this department of literature which wa
have seer, transfer it to greater publicity
than it has yet eijoyed
Yesterday Ish gentleman died. BIZ, days ago ha
down Broadway prhaps the observed of all ober
ers ia the bloom sud freshness o youtha remarkably
gondookDs mot svaggeDs tshonaby attred fellow. Tbs
moved nthe confidential clrk Of the merchant prince in whose
poyueD he and lastly though
Of the uneIsmped and virtnus beauties who and
ponenadr Broadway To-day he cold inanimafe coTpse
but his soul Il believed and hoped In the full enjoyment
the glorious 9th great died Friday ana
the subsequent Sunday risen from the dead
for the salvation unfortunate He
ws bold be was he brave crcumpect
as he was social aud as discerning a he unuspectnf Aud
lasy 10 doubt good who honoTed his beloved
now bayed psInt that his days might be long In the land
Alas however, be has been ia the spring
promising r while the world enjoying Of the
and Ls Spring. the oldest inha btan recoeet
When IN day two the earth Of h kindred country IL
making How noise his otherwise silent coffin kindred
eah because the OCunne main ansd
nt strong relationship exists between land and America
there stone-wa barrer-banz British manof-
the between hem let all exclain:
In the midst II life In death o. let bis particular
~. fnOlah dOtgna thu