New-York tribune., 1869-03-11
OLD NEWS.
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p,, VI March 1.-FOrtune has smiled
-, ,,o,r bonpv correspondent and turned him
- ;,+o n new New-England garret, as Mr. Lin
ooI turned Carpenter, the painter, into the WhIte
TIonse That triangularprismatic space, that IS De-
tyeen the rdge-pOle caves, and two gable ehdS OF
an old farmhouse is open TO me whenever the OUT
d weather is nclement or the inside society dull
Attic is the term used, believe by urban ana te-
rary peope but never could see the connection De-
tween Attca and this feature of our domestic archl
lecture. Garret has royal descent from the Scotch
and the romance languages, and acquires Vlyiu
coloring when we think of garrison" and all the
glorious paraphernala of ancient housetop detense'
Nv oorret isn't as literary as that one of Hawthornes
IN his Old Manse at Concord, where it is said, the
stope productions" of the land are magazineartcles
and systems of philosophy. Mine is good one,
tbouph 1t is in state of perfect chaos
"a every well regulated garret should De-
Parts of old bedsteads pieces OF stoVepPe'
bunches of fragrant "aaTbs" hanging from Knots Oh
the rafters hdeOus ol-paintlngs OF sOmeDouy
ancestors the unointed framework OF one OF thoSe
massive looms in which our mothers WoVe rag
corpets q worthless $40 sewing-machine, par OF
little old wheels for spinning tow the use OF when
Is lost art" even to mothers, good for nothing
patent apple-parers chuns, and washing-machlnes
fasces of cande-rOds, such as talloW-d!Ps useu 10
he Tun on in antikerOsenian times and piles Oh Other
relics of the past and prophecies OIL, the IuIuIo
There is the cradle too unused these HQzeh SethLs fh
not because there have been no candidateS Ior ING
cradleship but manifestly because the GIdIo - @ ~
progressive rocking in the same tracks Dy te & nOul'
In this locomotive age Young America wants I soiLo
thing that will "qO" even while he is asleep, Daby-
cart or a velocipede. Any BABY thaI VIII SUI SuU
NIT to cradle must indeed DC a. Pionn'tt,a9 ontr
In one end of this spacious room Is PIE OF Wool
feeces the last clip and kicking about the moor is an
occasional butternut which, by some disturbance OF
bQS hppD rolled ont OF Granny ludI III
has occupied for half century perhaps. Inc
thing of most interest to your readers is tle MUS
pensable old newspaper box or chst as tne lalols
has it, Now / was going TO speak OF the VlVluhess
with which an old paper presents the scenes OF ls
time to all succeeding generations DC on his VeTV
acre. But will say thatlt is curious that we 40 oU
save more files of OuT papers lhey are tlle Des1 Up
tories because each days story is written WITHOUT
thinking of the morrow, and yet we tear them up,
throw them away or sell them for mil apiece-uo
anything with them but preserve them Q ae bssn
TORS were more thoughtful, or should not nave Deeh
poring over this old box the last stormy day' anu
| writing about it to-day. -. ,o,, " .
tbe date of correspondence that struck my eye as
| Ipulled ayeow log Cabin We'll th0ugHt l. ieIs
| see what the present home OF Schuyler C1llaA was
thinking about % years ago and looked aIoS uoNn
through straightforward letter about crops State
| taxes and enterprises, Wing Candidates, anu lIco
fOco misgovernment for aDouI Iall It LS %
what initials should appear at the bottom Dut o. N.
Now purpose to enter into controveisy 10 PIpN9 P
who wrote the letter. Jump at the conSsi4h p taS
n was our Vice President, who moved 10 South Dehu
from Carlisle in 1910. On this sand bulld my stOIy
and if the floods come, my tale might come 10 gleI
Mr. Colfax was at this time about lS years OF hgc.
and was depnty county auditor something Of that
sort having lust served clerkshp In store ~ was
not till 1915 that he became an eGa w was WORDING
under he thus evinces that same eXaltcd lailh m % n
man nature that has made his public life so pleasant
venture nothing in saying that every cent OF lhe ueD
of the State honestly incurred, and by authority OF
the State, will ultimately be paid IN otog lhls was
not his Birt essay rs a TRIBUNE Log Cabin CORE
| his last but among the papers now De-
fore me- have found only one other letter Ihis Is
dated July O. 1542, and is in the 45th number Oh liz
and tells something more OF the improvements gong
! on i'm the State which majority OF your Eastern
folks think is composed of mixture OF dense forests
imnassable swamps and unCultiyated praries inter
spefsed with few patches OF arabic lana Wheie pam
! Tiers and bears promenade IN the suburbs OF we
towns and wolves howl their nightly seenade IN the
! door-yards" If we wanted evidence OF the writer
! beinG Young COlfax we should find In good word
he dTops i'm speaking of the grOwingmanuiacnrcs OF
South Bend for -. u. Dcfrees, esq, who owns two
| STYLED the 'Kankakeo Mills-One with two pair OF
Bnrrs-the printers capitalized everything IN those
daysl-emplOyed in custom work alone, the olher IN
| fournR Both are propelled by water brought from
the head waters of the Kankakee "a tributary ol lhe
the Mills cost $4,000" So long ago began TINS mt
macy between two humble young men. This letter
is nearly column in length, and closes with an elo
uuentish plea for Henry Clay.
The most remarkable thing abOut these Letters is
their entire unTemarkabeness and tins is character"
istic Of Mr. COfaxs whole career ana III mat feature
generation expect to be favored with such an
almost miraculous chain of circumstances as brought
to light the genius OF Gen. Grant Bnt inc wee
President is an example of steady growth, such as
every man feels himself capable of. know that the
everybody may -becOme-P President theory ls getting
unpopular at least stale IL Is very well ior men,
after they have got up in the world, TO look back
and sneeT at the old enCouragements but Is rather
unkiDd TO the present weary wayialers' >,
But newspapers improve with age, as well as other
things and soon found myself as much absorbed III
d sheet quarter of century old as III to-days latest
edition, and rather more so. Few people remember
how Fog GaonD looked. nad pam n FeauS 9eni n
which waved the Stars and Stripes from a liberty
pole, the banner bearing the motto Retrenehment
and Reform Here is the weekly issue OF July -,
1S4 1t contains account OF public dinner at Ed
inburgh in the preceding June to Charles Dickens,
to whose name 1t was then necessary to tack the ap
position, "the popular author OF the finest works
| in the English language In his speech on
that occasion, Mr. Dickens declared that he
Se desire and shall feel It til death TO increase the
stock of harmless cheerfulness" Kit North presided
| The Log Cabin soon became THE TRiBUNE, In an
1912 number of the latter IS account OF the cTls
tening of the Prince of Wales, five or six columns OF
Emerson's lectures who wasn't cross to reporters
then as he is now, whole department devoted 10
Association" and the address OF the first Liberty
party Convention nominating James G. Birney for
| the Presidency. a..
The Boston anniversaries are done up In THE TRTB.
UNE for June g. 1896 in way that brings yiyidly to
mind all the sternnesS Of the old battle for free
! DOM The speakers at the meeting OF tho American
Peace Society were the Rev. DR.. Sharpe, Amasa Wal
! ker Ehu Buritt Walter Charming and Stephen ).
Foster. At the Anti-Slayery Society IN Faneull Hall
| Francis Jackson presided Wendell Phillips and
Theodore Parker spoke. The latter, denouncing the
North for its miserable bargaining with Slavery de-
| clared amid mingled cheers and Kisses "Ihegreat
American Trinity consists in this creed believe in
the golden eagle / believe in tho silver dollar j
believe In the copper cent" Then turning to prom
nent hisser the gallery he launched this scathnP
! bolt full upon hm i have given you your belief
! i'm my own language You have echoed it back in
wa when religions