New-York tribune., 1868-10-31

donbfng which To mt ON first or whether to put on
either Indeed IL was Gc To think oi escaping De
fore onr time. We had paid for berths, and 1t was
expected that we would sleep in them The doors
locked, our boots were gone there were no seats
to sit upon, and To return to our Derts' Whch hau
been liked 10 prove Deaths was the only resource;
So after much deliberatOn, | cTawled back, and
longed for tho morning. If l had been PrpVIdehI
enough to bring my writing nialorias "I'n me 1
could then and there have written sllch descIlp-
tiOn of a shipwreck as has never YET Deen Wltten'
could nave put such feeling into II as no reader.
unless made of castrOn, could have Resisted You
wonld have had a set of weeping suDscrDels. Dut,
for lack of the poetry that might have been, tahe
this plain prose. Beware OF seepng-cars unless YOU
are an old traveller or can sleep sOundly under cr-
cuInstancus that to the majority OF human beings
make sleep impossible The young gentleman VINO.
if we may believe the newspapers, slept sounny
through the recent collision the Albany ana Dos
ron Railroad may, without mlsgiVings, take Derth
in seeping-car But. let only those who think
they could match HIM III the one leat, emulate his
rashness in the other
Whoever wishes to see the Boston OF his youth the
Boston of the last generation, must come mere
quickly, it, indeed any speed Will avail him Since
| was here last Summer. even, great changes nave
been made and Others begun. In every direction
streets are being wdened, old land marks torn down,
handsome bindings are going up. Dr. l0ungs
church has disappeared, has the church in Chaun-
ceyplace and the brick wall that ran from sidewalk
to sidewalk and wOnld have made the street quiet
and secluded place if 1t had not been for the boys OF
Chauncey place school But the school is going too.
Its shutters closed. the masters and pupils have
fitted and probably before another week, the build
Next 10 the Latin and High schools, the school IN
Chauncey place held tho first rank IN Boston thirty
years ago. This buldng,as read the tablet on ITS
front was built in 1898. How many hundreds OF the
generation now i'm middle life passed through this
school their way TO the Latin school ad Haryadf
Well do remember the master, Dir. Ihayer, and his
assistant, Mr.. Cushing who has now ship Of his
own, and, with Mr.. Ladd at tho tiller, carries
lively freight of boys every year To Parnassus In
those days Lowell Mason taught us Chdunc,y, boys
singing. and. presently, all Boston; little later. set
all the Northern and Eastern States to beating time,
and laid in this city at least the foundations of
irst-rate musical education. or memorials lar older
than either the church in Chauncey- place or the
school, Boston has Of late lost only one but u ~ IN
eXpcabe that she should have consented to Let that
be destroyed / allude TO the hohse on Beac0i-St,
formerly occupied by John Hancock ana whlch,
some years ago, gave place 10 two extremely ugiy
but pretentious houses of brown stone. The old
house of gray stone, made sacred by Its intimate
association with the patriot Hancock, WAS arcntec-
uray of the best designed, best built ana most
picturesque houses in America. lnternally IL may
have needed complete reiitting-thongh DO not
know why il should. since houses OF the same age,
and even older in this region, are yet in perfect
preservation, and. without cXaggeIatlon may be
said 10 he good for another hundred gears The
frames Of all these old houses hereabOut are OF SOLID
oak. and the wainscotings, and httngs doors ana
sashes all of the best seasoned pine. They were
built 10 last and they have done what they were
pected to do and would go on doing II If we OF tins
generation could keep Onr destructive hands OH
them. In this particular case we can see no motive
Tor the destruction could II have been anything
but apathy that prevented the State from
purchasing the building. making IN 1t whatever re-
pairs were needed and using H. say, as "a residence
Tor the Governor when III town. NJ the worst III
might have been turned into government Offices.
Faneuil Hall and the State House have thus far es
capped the sacrilegious hands of Improvement aud
remain in all their old-time simplicity. The State
House IL well l-prOpotiOned, and. on tho whole.
handsome buiding, but II owes most OF the impress
sion makes 10 ITS good proportions and IFS admirable
situation. IL used 10 crown the hill on which the
older city stands, and with lts shapey dome helped
90 compose outline that madc Boston, To The eye
gf
turesque of our cities. But odiOus church with
final on its dcformed spire like the mop at the end
of a mop-sick has got itself built close by, and des
royed the picture
Faneuil Hall must rest conented with its hstori-
cal claims upon Our NoueraiOn, Tor II ~ certainly
without any architectural claims To our admiration
| ltis however. admirably suited 10 ~ purpose a. n
place of popular assembly; II viii hold great many
people aud believe II has excellent acoustic proper
Speaking Of il reminds me Of what saw there
| q certain day last summer. and which deserves
chrouicliug a really wonderful invention even III
this inventive age. happened to bo passing the old
building day Just ~ noon and seeing people pour
into II from every direction. Joined the crowd. and
after brief but delightfully."- cNhllamtlng. struggle
found myself as The reward OF my efforts. pinned
| fast directly ia front Of long platform whcreon
! wrrs ranged the Chinese Ambassadors and their
| suite hko the little kenwigses with their tails all
| one way. a. If this were not pleasure
enough. found myself hNed IN such u position that
! / could not choose but look at that most wonderful
of wonderful pictures. Mr. Webster addressing tue
| senate IN reply % Mr. llayne," which Mr. llealy
ture Mr. Webster j. made twice tho size of HE, or
thrrenhouts every right-mindcd citizen OF Boston
/ believes that he was, and ryb9dy else. but
! ouc Is dwarfcd to rNaggcrato stll more tho
| divine Daniels immense body. Mr. Calhoun -
| tho sole exception, aud only his head ~
allowed 20 compete with Mr. Nrbsters proportions,
his body Is Obliged 10 follow The example OF every
body esc's body The effect Is charming and the
history Of II is more lt ~ said that the painter
originally had Mr.. Calh0uns head OF the same SIZE
with that of the common people but that the south
crueTs who 10 when finished were indignant, and
threatened 90 scccde n something were not done aiont
10. At last "A compromise was elected bY Mr. WEB
ster who VIVA always ready 10 compromise everything
and Calhouns body was made 10 SUIT the heart ot
Massachusetts, aud ms head TO suit the heart OF Car
Olina. All this, however. has nothing to do with
what wanted 90 tell you. As the crowd OF washed
and unWashed, dressed and uudrcsscd people. men
from the market stalls, rcdocnt of meat and
fish. shoe-boys. carmcn-the whole street IN hne,
piled up the platform steps and advanced 10 shake
hands with the Embassy the ingenious mem
bcrs Of that fraternity the situation at
once aud made an lmpromptu invention
that DID them the highest credit As each
man put out his hand for shake the ambassador
bowed smiled put his own right hand into his own
loft. gave II "a little shake. and with neat win
ming little grin at the discounted citizen,
turned 10 the next one and took him III
the same Ingenious fashlonl Wonderful people.
Hero have our miserable public characters been
shaking hands for half century with their fellow
countrymen and no way devised by any patent
contnylng Yankee Of us ALL when suddenly comes
John Chinnman and solves the problem IN "A
trce! Shaking hands h-themsclvcs, then. is tho
last great contribution 10 our mundane utilities
made by the people that gave Ms gunpowder.
the mariners compass printing, and tho
Golden Rule. In little chat which |
had few days later with Yangtse- Kang nj Law
renee lie told me that the idea first suggested 10
him by reading Weems's Life of Washington, where
IL is said that that Great Man never shook hands
with anybody at his receptions, but stood like IA
giant IN black velvet on the hoarth-rug. with his
hands behind his back.
Let mo say "a word of the new fountain in tho
Public Garden in Boston, (which pretty pleasure
ground is IN a sadly neglected condition at
presently recently erected To commemorate the
d.rnV.rv of the relieving nrnneriieO nt