New-York tribune., 1871-05-02

"lcss alone than when alone :" tho poet above
quoted avOwod that there "is society where
"none intrudes;' and this recalls the fine
couplet in the prisOn-s0ng of Loyeiace-
Minds peaceable and quiet take, This for "a
Hermitage" The most pertinacious recluse
can never get away from himself from that
other Ego, with whom he is fated either for
grief or gladness, to maintain AZ Endless col
,.,r,uy, ana from whom he cannot escape even
in his dreams. Then each solitary takes into
his solitude fine company Of experiences, OF
sucoesses 10 grow complacent over, OF failures
to keep up healthy irritation or hopes
wrecked or come to port in the p2S' ~ wei
as of hopes strong enough 10 make tne
darkest present significant OF tw-iLS1t, as ]ne
cocks are swindled into premature salRtaiions
by q full moon. After all, there il no such
thing as genuine solitude. Our London re-
cluse had twenty books to re0d-quite enough
for ten years if they were GOOD or bad enough
He had the life behind him and 10000 be-
fore him. Though he did not see with his
bodily, he did with his minds eye, the mcnial
who brought his food. Ho who looks into
that wonderful book, Buffers Lives of The
lonesome asccticism, but there is no hermit
without the company of angels to cheer hm,
or the assurance of Paradise to elOrify his
squald quarters. Let us venture to say then
that in this world, as probably in the next,
there is no such thing rs complete isolation
for any creature. In the most interior dun
geon there viii always be Che crust to eat the
gpiders to observe, the mice to teach, or ten
fingers to count over and over.
II does not speak well for the modesty OF
our kind that, while many men hide themselves
with a feeling cOmpacont enough that they
are too good to live in this world we never
hear of anybody who has immured himself
from an opposite feeling that he was not good
enough. Hence, We have seen that reciuse
against his Will, the eminent Andy johnson,
striving TO get back TO the strident life III wash
ington, and not relishing his Tennessee refuge,
to which everybody was pleased to sec him retire
The wrong-doing people, who have been al
Judged unfit to live at large--aF always scraping
away the mortar of their prison walls with the
design of rejOiniDg their kind, Whlch ohiy
cares to be well rid Of them. The poet mas
declared that under certain circumstances, !. G.
when wicked men bear sway, the post OF honor
is a private station; and yet II you look INTO
Congress, you viii find divers democrats" in
dignantly crying that wicked men do now bear
sway; ard yet not one Of the complainants
shows the smallest inclination to gratliy us,
by initiating the American gentleman in Lon
don although they must know that If they
will but consent 30 go into hiding, the public
will gladly undertake the charges of their main
tenance. IL has been said that the world is
too much with us; there are some OF us, poor
creatures, who are too much with the world.
A law for the indictment and perpetual lm-
prisonment upon conviction of bores would,
tormented as we are by them, be held an over
refinement of jurisprudence. Fortunately, the
night at least, dedicated to Morpheus, affords
some chance Of escape from them; and 1t is
not irrational to believe that, even in Heaven,
they will live within a nice, comfortable, but
strong inclosurc.