New-York tribune., 1870-02-05

,r ,eady self possesdon In six months said Prem
Tee him Sq o. ana e Pep ps and id
finally drive him away from Louisville To 81 Louis. where
Inc died Penn could say nothing nos write
tenceNthat Prentice did seize to his
Penn uDgnardedly speaks OF lying these cola
nroves what we've always said that you lie like dog
PENN comes back aDgry with somefhng about Prences
~ we ever do we will certainly swing you for
sign Penn says he has FOUND rat hole. Prentice
saws that will you your next years rent Penn
saws has met OF Prentices statements squarey
Yes says Prentice. by lying roundly. Then Penn
wceried out, says he will have no moro to do with Prem
tce We'll, says Prentice. auntingy, lie II resolved
play dummy will torture him no longer We never
were cruel TO dumb creature s..
''Ie greatyexasperatedb by the Byron scandaland
wrote all the editorials that appeared In the Courier
Journal on that subject Most Of them he read TO me- as
his habit when anything seriously Interested hun;
broke down twice. thrice and finally altogether; his
voice hoarse; his utterance failed him the tears
came raining down his cheek. and he rose silently and
glided OF the IL was not decreptude III was
feeling; for. excepting few triing cNaggcfatI0ns
moved. the article was clear vigorous. and compact
Strangers supposed that he was decreplt. and there
existed impression that he had resigned his OLD place
ing doubt whether he ever did more work. or better
work. during any single year OF his life than during tins
last year He said, on the lst OF January 1862 VIII
make the last OF my lie the best years OF my e
machine which seemed to have no stop in IT, In note
to Mr. Haldemau. two or three months ago. he wrOle
work "a hours day, and the reason DO not WORK
any more because the days longer He actually
averaged from 10 TO IL hours day ana Kept ths up
all SORTS OF matter. from gay to grave from hVey 10
severe
For i've and thirty years his life realized an unnter-
rupted success His imagination, however TOOK haDt
uay melancholy turn aud threw out IN the midst OF
wild and witty partisan bursts flashes OF somewhat
morbid description. t is not strange that as he grew
aged he withdrew himself from very close ana active
Intercourse with The lttle ambition he ever had
deserted him. His dOmesticy, to which he was attached,
was gone Society was bore. All his faculties re.
mained clear and full but the motive Tor personal enot
was wanting aud worked because 1t his nature
to work lie woud have died else. lie quoted on three
occasions "A verse Of a fine poem Of Mangans, when
seemed to represent his condition:
Homeless weless. aigonless. alone;
Not quite bookess though, unless choose.
With nothing len TO do except t. sroiu,
Not soul To WOO except the muse;
Oh Is bard for me To brsr,
Me that whlom lived : much en- hoUt-
Ne that broke all hearts. ike ehIBaware,
Tweny golden years sgo
"Mr Prentice Quilted the office Christmas Bve to go
well and cheerful few days before he placed IN my
hands a long manuscript which he had written win MS
own hand IL is an autObiOgrapc note OF the lehuhg
dates and events of his life, and, though tue wflug
must have been painful, II u neat ana clear ne sdlu
snuff ont like a tallow candle but he had no Thought
of suuting out when lie bought the ChrlstnaS
presents for little George. The rest however told IN
line cold ride OF 10 miles, an lnnuehZa, pheumohh'
weeks OF prOstratiOn and death ,
lie sleeps now in Cave Hill Cemetery In quiet spot
where the yioets which he loved to sing and the meadow
grass that grew grecner iii his viii presently come
any " Gu Grittenden Marshall and Prentice They
cotenporares in stirring times and is much 10 say Of
Prentice that he borrowed light from them. but that
he LET he Glow and sparkle OF genius fall upon their
contemporaries more III the presence Of the ever
lasting Genius OF the Universe The Statesman 10y whose
compromising spirit and patriotic heart peace was 50
long maintained the people, the Senator VINO gave
the last effort Of noble life TO avert the long Impending
strife of States; the Orator. who might have Wed with
either and his own worst enemy; ihe Journalist VINO
launched party against the winds and the currents, ana
its seadest and truest pilot as long a. Single pt
tered tossed upon the Waerd are gone now,
and stand side by side, Immortal peers.