New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-14
PERSONAL.

In a recent letter from the West MIR. Wits,
while recognizing the merits of the prares of Illinois
for farming lar ds, says that no man with liberty of
choice would be content to live where there no
mountains. This is not surprising sentiment, consid
eripg the grandeur Of the hills that tower every
side of the noble landscape at Idlewd. We feel the
sublmty of mountains too and all the beauty of the
ever-yaryng light and shade that play upon their rug
ged sides; and yet we should incline TO change Mr..
Willis's question, and ask, what is there with
liberty of choice who would be content to live any,
where except upon the seashore But after ALL these
individual preferences not fair subject of contro
versy One man has natural liking for the plain, and
another for the hills; prefers the sea, and an
other the inland river and through this great variety
of instincts the earth is everywhere inhabited, and
each finds coDgenial home.
Mr.. William Page the distinguished artist, has re-
turned to the United States af absence of
raj years, spent principally in Rome His family have
returned with him. and presume that he intends to
remain in America.
We have received the following reply to the recent
manifesto of a candidate for the Presidency:
81 saw note in THE TRIBgNE, a short time since
from MIR. Pratt who says he goes for Liberty, Con-
stitution and Union" lie undoubtedly means this as
joke, he being a famous wool. gatherer. Four
lrisbmen, during the last Presidential campaign in
formed me Mr. Pratt paid them two dollars day TO be
in Kansas that they came to this country, with five
thousand others, and the border ruians aud did
the voting there And at another time, another one
told me, those peculiar flags they carried Prans
sgs, especially the put upon the burning hotel in
Lawrence. II is understood he meant then to have
commenced revelation, to have overturned our Gov
ernmeI t. and as he informed me, in the presence of
dozen gentle among other things he authorized
10 tell me, he declared war to the knife and to the hit
he meant to establish the Catholic religion ard make
every man a slave that not worth five thousand
dollars, whether bla k white. Another person told
me he had been in his employ the past eighteen years.
mining our Cities ready to blow them up, and within
the Isst week his d. uses and rip raps invited to
Boston, to commence, the 18th or 18th of this
month, such scenes as they have had in Syria. Such
ia the Liberty, Constitution, and Union, to which he
wonld invite u.s.. Yours, truly, w. +. MELLEY.
" Boston, August 8, 1860"
-LoId Clyde, who has just returned to England
from his most successful as the commander of
the British armies in India is received with cordial
welcome from all classes Of the people. Here, at
least, Gays The Examiner, is one English general
who bas not been rewarded beyond his deserts though
in station he caDnot be advanced higher and he returns
with fortune proportoned to his rank. To the youth
of the country, in every walk of life, well as in the
career Of Lord Cydes adoption, could not possibly
point on. nobler or more encouraging example; a
hoh
Who has attained the summit of public distinction, not
with the help Of fortunes wings, any flight of
what is commonly called genius but by the arduous
,ath hewn out with his own hands, by the mastery of
lis profession, by industry perseverance, fidelity to
luy and the wise use of the times and opportunt
hat come to all but which only the few grapple by tn
orelock,"
Mr.. j. c. Brough, brother Of the late Robert
3rough has addressed the following note to The Lon
lon Ners:
May request that you will give publicity to the
Glowing facts respecting story entitled " Marston
lynch, by my late brother, Robert Il. Brough which
ONE unknown hand has abruptly finished in three or
our unmeaning lines. "Marston Lynch was COM
nenced in The Tram, q magazine with which my
rober connected, but it was never completed ia
hat publication. In justice TO his literary fame.
rust you will allow inc 10 make this protest agaiust
he publication of half finished story in form calcu
sted to mislead the reader who would Of course sup
'ose the work complete, there being word of ex-
6naton to the COZ traIy. From notes in my pos
ession i am enabled positively 10 affirm that
he omax-if climax II can be called-of the
tory now Issued Is utterly unlike that which
Is author had imagined. Had he lived TO complete
lis work, II would of course have been open TO crt
lam upon its own merits but think you will agree
With me- that it would be hardly fair for any one 10