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KEW PUBLICATIONS.
I AR! i AMERICAN LITERATURE
CTCL-)-* ? DIA OF AMERICAN LltERATtRE. By Etbbt
I Dni k.iui <4 (lioii.r L. Di vaim n ZvoU-.Svc
Tol. I- PP- ?***? Cbarlea Pctlbeer.
Tee ?cholart of thi? c mntrynwe a Urge-heir od
welcome to tbe adoiirab'c record of Amer can
Iterature wbicb ia here presented in inch an
agrt cable and instructive form. It bat evidently
Bad its origin in an enthusiastic love of letters,
hberal and comprehensive tastes, genial cultiva?
tion, and rare patience of research. Apart from
the general execution of the plan, which can
ec?rc? ly be commended in terms of extravagant
praise, it breathes a tine aroma of literature, show?
ing the vigilance of the editor* in spyiog out
xnasy scattered flowers by the wayside, and weav.
hag them into the odorous and brilliant wrea.h
which tbey have gathered from such a wide variety
of sources.
In arranging the details of tbe work, the Messrs.
Jrnychinch have aimed at giving a succinct view
of tie writers of the country, and their produc?
tions from the earliest period to the preseut day.
Regarding tbe history of American literature more
M a record of mental progress and cultivation
than aa an exhibition of art and invention, they
have judiciously abstained from elaborate critical
comment, and limited their task to the statement
of biographical facta and specimens of the most
important producta of the pen on Atnerean soil
Still, a large proportion of our authors have not
been book-makers by profession; their lives have
mostly been devoted to other pursuits; and hencs
many details not of a purely literary character
most be introduced into the story of their lives
Nor has the work been rei-treted to writers
btrnin the country. It inolodcs also those who
bare lived and written here and enriched tbe land
by thtir labors. Some of the most valuable pages
of the CjfUptdia are accordingly, devoted to
Berkeley. Priestley, \\ itlierspoon, Cooper, to say
nothing of the eminent foreign scholars who are
BtiJl living among us, and tbe writera of the ante
revolutionary period who were almost exclusively
of English birth.
The Colonial period marks the first epoch of
American literature. Tbe great men of that
time were Rojer Williams, John Cotton, Hooker,
tbe Mathers, LI nr. Colden, Logan, the Birtrams,
and above all Jonathan Edwards, and Benjamin
Franklin. Several of the highest seats of learning
in America were established in this era, and have
not failed to be honored w ith conspicuous historical
notices in the present volume. The Revolution?
ary period comes next in orcer, devote! to the
discussion of legal and constitutional principles,
illustrated by the labors of statesmen like Ot .
Dick'nson, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton
and Jay. and a variety of miscellaneous writers
" who caught tbe various humors of the times and
"introduced a new spirit into American literature."
The third period includes the interval from the
commencement of thia century to the present
tame.
Of tbe Colonial period, the first production
written in America which is entitled to a place
in the geneial history of literature, is the transla?
tion of Ovid s Metamorphoses by George Sandys,
printed in London in 1626. Sandys was a distin?
guished Oriental traveler, who acmetime after his
return from tbe East was employed as treasurer
of the Virginia Company. Hero oa the bsnks of
James River, he completed the translation of Ovid,
?and with so much success as to be praised by
Pope and pronounced by Dry den " tbe b?jst versi?
fier of the age.'' William \augban, William
Wood, and the world-renowned Captain John
Smith follow in rapid succession till we come
to tbe founding of Harvard College in 1037.
ts Tbe Simple Cobler of Agawatn" by Nathaniel
Ward of Ipswich was one of the famous produc?
tion* of that early day. It was written in ltill,
when the author was 78 years of age. In style,
it affect* an uucouth " Babylonish dialect," and in
tone is a growling satire on toleration, tbe condi?
tion of England, and the follies of fashionable la?
dies. A specimen or two may antuwe our readers1
While lookirg over tbe notices o* Ward which re
mam, axd whk b are not so many se could be wiased,
it has been onr good fortune to hold in our bands the
copy of I%$ btmph Cobltr whi h belonged to Rob
ert Soatbey, wno, as is veil knosrn, was a diligent
reader and warm aopreciator of tbe American colonial
history and reo rda. it ia marked t i-ougbout with
hie peculiar penciling < on tee mar?in, of t ie following
?ui"i "ti n tine P'o>- u< - " The leaet 'ruth of (lad s
kuccom doth in ite piece uphold tne wti>le kingdom
of fdietruUifi take away tbe least viricuhim ou of
the world and it nnworlds all ro e..tially, and may un?
ravel He a hole Ux'ur.o actually, if it be not cons? rred
by an arm of extraordinary porcr' ? a eentenee whici
haa a very C dent ge;?n iook. AgtJa, aa. illustration
worthy ol Miltoi : " N$a aassSSCti attrtfos, No man
?wer saw a gray bair en tbe head or board of any
troth wrinkle or morphew on tti face: the b?d of
Troth ta gretn all the year Jot g " This u very tersely
eipMweu " It ie a most toileo ? e taeat to run ihe wild
aotae cXase af.< r a wtll btcaihd opioio..-t ti.ey do
Ugbt in vituiti^atioD: it is au hob, tbtit lov s a h o ta
be eertbd; tuey ue?ire not satisfaction, but sa isdl ?
tion, wlereot thtmseivt i must bo iudifs" In tbo?o
?more eeriest V '".i^hta h? rise* beyend bis word a' ihr
iog; but one portion of bia book is very amusing iu
thin way ?thai oire< ted agaket the fas don able ladies
of the tine. Tne "Cobler* i.ofodsis to be a solitary
widower of twelve yeate" stai dmg, OB tje lookout
foi a mate, aiii thinkitg of ^'oing io Boa laud for toe
Earpoec?'? but," eaye he, wben I coziaidet how women
ava tripe-wiled Itemeelvi* wi h their < a-lmeutf. I
/save no heatt to tie voyage, lest thtir nauseous
eha|>ee and the sea shou d work too sorely uoou my
?tou.e.h l si*ak sacly; ? Ma at* it nhoull bras,
tbe hearts of hfl 'hmeu t > see eo many go .<)!? E ?
flisb BOBBM ;iiif.- son od in Krem h cages, BOsjiea* out
of their bocd-holes for some men ot mercy to help
ttbem wiln a litt.e wit, and nobody r. l ew- LOOta
lie tells oe tber'- are ?' aN>u- five or aiz " specimens ot
the kino iu to - ivl?b} : '? If l e?o auy of t-.eai acci
dentally I cannot c o*l>h o>y fancy of them for a
?Moth after.' On tbia matter the " Cooler tnasdetinea
htaptaiton: "Itia knowu um e than enough that I
am n?itber tii^-^are! nor cytic to tbe due bravery of
the tr?,e g?ptrv: if any man unlike* a bully ? sag
JJtosotk snore than I, let him take ner for his labour I
hot oar the woman that can honour herielf with her
att ie: a gntKl text uiwavs . eeervoe a fair marg-m*; l
mm mm ?nneh off, nded ii I see a tri a far tri nm?r than
": "' * wha ev-r I brie ianity or
??\ ZZ I^i!"1 1 ?,r*"? wita London measure:
what iWmm tlTlZ ,'B?'e*~?" geuitodau., Iisqoire
aobstanco, theo ei:ber bont.ur'd ?r bumour'd.'
A ju*t tribute i* paid to the character of Roger
Williams as tbe apostle of civil and religious hb
orty, aod one of the most enlightened and excellent
of the English university men who came to New
EBg'and for conscience' sake The principle which
brought him across the Atlantic did not depart on
bia lancing. With him, the divine right of con
ae?et c? wa* to be a* uinch respoctVd io the mind
of another as in his own. He did not flee from
pertecntion to become a perecc itor himself.
Rom in Wa'?a in lnOo, educated at Oxford, i' no? a
BtuCcnt at Law with Sir Edward Cote e- i<>. irr^ an
earl) irtreacy wlih him; tb. n a none u t iruo-t m ma?
ter tn conflict with t?e eecleeiaetical anthori.ies of tbe
ttse*. be arrtvec in Mswaechasetts iu lt-ji. Asaertin/
ot once bi* vieas of ndu-ioae tolera-ion, the iode^end
?aace of coooieice of U e ilvii magiatrate uoi the
aeparau<n of Church aid SUes,b?woa driv.m froui
Halem wbere he tad b?c>me t?*Ub'i*he<l asaprna^ber
ky an order . f thai < iereral Coun' d in Ma ,, into aWiio!
for "bia new and daogeroue opinion* a/aiust t iu
outhority of ma*,is*ra*er." He then made bis metnor
aSle iourney *"* Winter ?**?<?, ?hrou-h what ?m
then h wiiderrewe, to tbe viHni y of Nerragansett Bay
" l ? ?! in frendsbip by tbe Indian*, he estab?
lished hirrael? a* Seekoet; ba* nc mg hitneebf witain
th? ibriite ??( the PI? month oolonv, he eeiied with hie
frieno* in ? OS* o- doern t-cnver tofonnd on the oppo
?ite ebore the Ci'y of Providence, a ffving name wui'b
eilt aira>a bear wi'ne** tob * aer*eoutioti am fruit tn
Ood Here he main'ained fr?eidly relations witn the
h diene, warded off Giea<ter. by quieting thair thre?t
eu? d egsrefsions, from the people who bad driven him
away, reoeivi d fugitives for conscience' sake fro n
Masrachnretts Hay, and promoted the ISAtksSaTSsBt of
Ithttce Ialatid. In 104) he sailed frcm Ifta fittltfST
cam for England ea an agent t > procure a chartar.
Or. bit way thi ter at a>a, be wro e hi* K'y into the
l.anguagt of America, whLh be pub'.iahed in Lonion
en I it arrival. " I drew, be says ia hit address, " to
mv tear enc wdl beloved frisnds and countrymen in
OIj and New England, the sna'eriala in a rude lamp
at tea. as a private ttlp to my own memory, that I
might not by my present absence ligh'ly lost what I
has so deorly tou.ht in some f'wyoas of hardship
end charges emong tbe Barbarians.' and ho commit?
ted it to tbe public for the benefit of bis friends. A
litt e key, teeeyr, ''may open a box wflere lies a
bunch ot keys "
This book is ia a series of th:rtj-two chapters, es h
contaiL it g a vocabulary, with an ocasional enla-ge
rnett at a suggestive word relating to manners o: no
rlois; and eouc'u 'iok wrh a . ?>,?> of verses. To the
second chapter, of '? Eating and Kutertainmenf. uis
pious and betevoeut man .ooehiugly adds:
Coarse bread and water's mo;t th-.ir fare,
O England s (Met tine,
Thy tap runs t er wi'b plenteous store
Of wholesome beer and wine.
Seme times Ood gives tnem fish or fleeb.
Vit ih>> re content without;
And what cotius in they part to friends
And e'/tnger* round abtut.
God's Providence is mb to bis,
l>et note dndrust'ul be:
In wilden ess, in great distress,
There Baverts have fed me.
Tbe re is the san e liaoplijity and fai h in I'-oviden^o
in tte rest of these it'..'? ? oj:ns. wherever the topic
gives bin' an opportunity to express it. The not'is are
simply jottim/s Cown ot tee s he bad no'ioed ?but oven
these ftw words are sent how if s inet with his kindly
spirit. " I once traveled," he says, "to an island of
the wildest in our puns, where in tho night an Iniiai
(as he seid had a -inon or drenm of the son (whom
they worsfip fcr a Gor | darting a beam into his breast,
which b ? conceived to be tl I mes-onge r of his dea'h.
This pi Of native called bis IrienosAid neighbor^ and
prepsttd tome little r< freshing for them, nut himself
was kept wi.kirg and fasting in great humiliations and
invocatioi s lor ten days end nun's. I was alo-.e |hav?
ing t'ave.ed frcm my batk the wind being contrary,
at d littJst (01.I I speak to tbein, to their understanJ
ing, especially because of the change of their dialect
or manner of speech from our neighbors; yet so much
ftbiongh the 11 lp <>! God I did ?peak, of ibt/rateend
and hvtmg only wise God, of the Creation of Man and
his fall from (Jod, Ac, tha: at parting many burot
fur b, Oh u hen will you come aRalu to tiring el tome
more mv$ of tfnn God?" And to this follow tne
' more particular reflections)
God gives them alee p on gronnd, on straw,
On s< dgy mats or board;
When Ei_gl ah softest beds of dowj,
Sometimes no sl<-ep afford.
1 have kr own them leave their home and mat,
To loege a friend or stranger,
When Jews und Christians oft have sent
Ctrist Jesus to tbe manner.
'Fore day they invocato their godp,
Tbnugu many fa'se and tew;
O, bow shsmld that God wombip! bo,
\\ ho is but one and true !
" How sweetly," be says, '? do all the several sorts
of heaven's biids, in a I consts of the world, preach
unto men ihe praise of their Maker's wisdom, power
and goodttes, who feeds thorn and tseir young one?,,
Summer ai d W inter, with tt.eir several sorts of food;
although they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into
bane.'
If birds that neither sow nor reap.
Nor store up any food,
Constantly to f em and theirs
A maker kind and good I
If man provide eke for bis birds,
In yard, in coops, in cage,
And each bird spends in songs and tune*,
ilia littie time and age!
What care will mar, what rare will Ood
Wot bis wife atid children take ?
Millions of biids and worlds will God
Sooner than bis, torsake,
To the general " ol>*ervatioee of their travel,"
God makes a pa'b, prov'He* a guide,
Aud foeds in wilderness.!
His glorious came while breath remains,
O, that I nmy <? infers.
Lost maty a time, I have bad no guide,
,V> bouse, but bollow tree!
In stormy Winter night no tire,
No food no company.
In Him I have found a house, a bod,
A table, company i
No cup si bitter, but 'b made sweef,
W en Ood sba'l sweetening be.
Passing over the wile space which separates
Roger William from Dr. Franklin, we must give
a word of commendation to the curious propriety
of phrase and the judicious choice of details which
characterize the biography of our great American
I safe. We must find room for a few of its excel?
lent paragraphs.
Franklin's voluminous concspondence wou'd alone
have given bim huh liie ary rep it at ion as a It*: t - r
writer. His etsentiil philanthropy, good-haimr, w it,
and ready resources, uro everywhere apparent in this.
It is tne beet part of bis ceMYereatkon, > i al for potta i
tv. and we mny re adily imagii e from if bow Franklin
talked, as wi ii bis fiua tact be always offers eotnethiug
ins.iring, useful, ano entertaining to bis friends. Bat
it is to the rajrepicuUy, nethod S'nl ease of Frank?u's
p| i Otopbleal writn -h tiia* bis solid reputation will ro
intun gr? ritiy indebted. These qualiiifs cannot be bet?
ter described tbatr in tho woroa of Sir IIuji.hrey
Dcry, tbe gexteroui enromiast of his s ien it c breth
I ren, who I imsell trsotitsd ev-ry grace ?rfaichneat?
tributed to etneis: "A singular saliettyol induction
guire>d ab bis tt se'arcbe s, and by very s nail meacs be
established very grand truths. Tne style and m >
of bis pnbMtntetB on eleciricity, are aimost as worthy
of aennra io? tu> the docttine it contnins. He has en?
deavored to remove all mystery aud obscurity from the
subject, lie has written equa'iy for the nntoJtie'ed
6no lor tiie pkilosopher; and bo has reuderel bis de?
tails amnaisg aid persj.icue u.->, sJegnnt as well aa
simple. Bclence appears ia bis language, la n droes
woncetftilly decorous, In-st adapted to display her
native lovelaess. Ho has in no instance exhibi e>d
tha falee digi i'y by which philosophy is kop-. alo.if
from common applications; ana he ha- sou^h ra:her
to make her a u-eful inmate atul servant in the co n
mon habitations of man than to preserve ber men ly
as an ol ject of admiration in tempiea and palaces.'
( Tbe uniform indu* ry of Franklin was IsBSJaflBte; and
though ?r:tiigwas but an incidental pursuit to one
who war. r ot an au*l or by profession, and derived no
revet tie fn m bis tie n, the eggTega'es of his distine* lit
erary compositiots outdistances tbe labors of many
who have trcckcd dlreotly (bs reputation aad the bo>k
s< 1 . is. As enumerated by Mr. Sparks the list of bis
writings, separate be?oks, ar'tclee, or distiiu''. [itptTI,
itdt |h udent'y dY bis bufto conespondenc?, amotiuts
to . I i i ics, thickly sown a ong bis busy y cats?and
' lie was always busv?from l?.'o to 1790. I'hev ex
1 bauetcviiy mc boiot doing good prac ically trbk b
. fell within tlie range of his powers ?.r expen^mx' I'ti y
are upon topics of it ilividua aud social inprovemmt,
of the uie'ul artH at.ich adorn and ameliorate o .ily
life, of tbe icieuce which enlarge* the powers of tbe
mind ai d acreasts t e comfort of the body, of po iu
cal wist'orr, extending from the direc Ion ot a village
to the control and proejK ritv of t e State. In every
form of purely human cm eavor tbe genius of Frau? lin
is psramout.t. There were pilnclpttt in philosophy
I tna religion bcyono bi< ken, fiel.Fl >f s|>eculati >n whi 'j
bistelescote never traveiKd, metapbysic eptces el"
the aoul to tbe e ectric powers of which hi* li^h'mug
itx's were no xincuc o s. In tbe parcel allotoieut of
dutits in this world bir path lay in the region of tho
ptrcticsl. In ibt words of COT ?r-at Siro to the arch?
angel. Iu nngl 11 ave prestlttd that
T. know that wlacb bciuie ui .us ia 4ti y life
It U . piirpe wisdum.
There bo wss s? Idom at fault?cool, wary, po'.iticsl,
never betraying himself tt ret betraying the State: iu
tbe lar>guai(C of hit American bie^onau, a writer b! n
?*)f tkil ed in aflai-s: " Franahn was tbe greatest
diplematist of the SSghtecalt etiutury. He never
i Mokeaword too s.von; bo never spoto a word ; a
I f*,t;.fc* never speke a word to> much, b-> nev.?r
\a L? "sTbt wor d a* tbe right sea?oa "
? , ?J'u^ed at Franklin's philosophy ae ktetic :
me ol tbe r?:Ui?us powers. Ilereit Stay bt tsid thai
be ra h. r nvec h5 th ai Man in the n. He spprevia- 1
tne devout ard Irans?merit labor- of su o men as
I J?-?'1'?D tdaardi in i,ving the foundatijus, and
corld empM his p ekete at IVt bean-Sthr ng appeal
of V\ hi eneld His tnendebipi in England und A n- r
ica were wl.b b sho:. anj aiviR,m lhe 4iah 0,- S(
AW. Of Bode r nd llai, r? tea? thai, the Moth > I tt
WMtffMd, we: Ma frW*; a-vd bo could cast an . \ ?
backward wrb tmedtn and leveretre from the ra'
f.rirg sal'n? of Parkt tt the dark ?h?d.a ol PsaTltM
ancestcts. There was a aonnd vein of pie'y in his
ronposition wbi<h bore Hi frc<'?: tur tad Fron h
levity, or cmj au'.roef ip with the Meyclopird'sts
blonted hia re ;M, me eda Atiot). Ms warabjg haod,
isised to PaiDe od the eve of hin infidel oooli a ioo,
l nervee to be reaoembere d with hia appeal to tbe ob
liyatioca of that arch-cx-ropter hi r.~-it to reiuiop:
" Pribapa you axe indebted to her origin* ly?th*'. i-.
to jour religious er'noaT-or ?for the haoi'a af virtue
upon which you row justly valae jorjrae f. Younwht
easily display jour e xce lent talents if rcaeoniog np?n
a his hazardous subject, and the ? ? , obtain a rank
with our moat diaiinguiehed authors; for atnong us it
is not rfftssary. aa among the Hottentots, that a
youth, to be raised in'o th? eonpany of neo, shoal 1
prove hia Oianhooc fry beat in < bia mother.' In the
same le-.tcr he asserts his belief of a partim'ar Provi?
der ce, wbicb he Bates BO empbatica ly annoini u in
tfe Cotveition cf I7t7, At trie close of his 1'fc Wtm
d*nt Stiles of Yale dr-w from him an expression ot hia
religious opinions, in wbi h he simply announces hie
belief in ibe unity and moral government of the Deity,
and the paramount "svs:emof morals and rel:*i>n
tl "Jesu? of Nazareth!'' as ? tie beet the worfl ever
saw or is likely to s?e." bnt bis interoretatioo of what
tfe latter was would probably have differ d much ir <m
that of Dr. Stil. s.
One of bis very last actB, on his rU-ath-Vd wat to
r" it? to his fai'hful attet dant Mrs. H?r?on, nt
daughter cf his Lorrton landlady, tho simple and cle
rated itsTtes .>f Based Doctor Wa"a.
The corplimerts to Franaiir, tbe sage pbUo'orih'T.
politician, wonld fill a vo nm.-. Prrnaps the La*m
sb it-raph, wiilten by tbe pi dloeopher Turgot. has been
the moe' proem five ever paid:
Eilptiit copIo folmen scerrrnm-ine tyrsnnls.
His pcrtra't is frc<|neDtly graced with similar in
sriptiors of which t^e tx'et is that from Hora
placed by Bnbop Shipley in the edition of the Mi'ce-I
Uniee of 1779, f/on $ordidtti auctur JVaaWa Vcritpu.
He was equally admired by peasan's andkijg*
Louis XV., "th-grand mmaroi," commanded a re?
turn of hi>> thanks to Mr. Fr.nklin M for his useful dis?
cover i? h in tltciicity;" tbe court of Louis XV I . ??
- philosophers, aits and ladies of fashion, hailed bin
with entl ueiarm; ( hatbam was hie eulogist in F.n
fcland, and Washington in America; be bad the bett
non in both hemispheres for his f-ie:ds and correspnn
?leite; towns ano counties, and even a State, hare
been named after hin; bis portrait end bus* ara famil?
iar as those of Washington; " Every peony stamp,''
rays Robert C. Winthrop, b ippily, in hia address, Ir
elumtdt* and f'rank/tn, "'is a mo'utnent to Franklin,
? a Ltd if Lot established by Uraanlf v- tbe fruit ot bit
esr'y labor* and I is signal success in the orgaoi/a'ion
of our in ani post-oCiee." His wri'iuge are read wi''i
equal seat, though aith different emmion*, in child
bord 8iid agf?as tL- old mangoes out of the world re?
peating to tbe grandchild at'he tire t>ide the aprlogue
of quaint familiar wirdom which he had learnt in bis
pi in. er.
A very different character was the old Tory
divine, M?thew By les, who is chiefly remembered
at this day for Iiis inveterate attachment to the
British Government, bud his detestable attempts
at pun making.
The Rev. Jacob Hailcy, the Missionary at l'ownal
borough, before the R'-volu'ion, saysofhitn, a'tor a
?bit to his houco, in 177H: " The perp tunl roa-h aft^r
puLB ifcnc'ers bis conversation rather cia'asteful to p< r
eors of or?nf<ry elSfttOB and refinement.'' And Mr.
Kcttrll quotes fon.o eotemptrary virus to tho same
effect:
There's pnnnirg Bylca provokes our smiles,
A man of stmely psrtr?
He vinitH folks to c.-aek bis jokes,
W hieb never rr.eud ther hearts.
With air utting gait and wig so great,
Ho walks along the strvois;
And throws out ?rif, or w lat's like it,
To every olo he rxeetf.
Tbe Infer part of his parody of Joseph Green's par?
ody on his paw Ita, hho*? that he was occasionally
coait? in his j-eliug; bnt we have never heard any b>
c'tlicucy or breTOtenoe alleged agaiift bim.
I !.< ?Sil which have been preserved, show that his
repntation as a wir wae well 0eeerveo. TborowoBB
slouch oppo-itc bis bouse, in which, on a certain wet
Cay, a chaise- containing two of the towu council stuck
fart. Dr Bylesi-ame to bis door, and sdutoi. tha ofli
cia's with the rtmark, " Gentlemen, I have often com
tdairnd'o you of this ntii-aiice w't iout any a'tsntiou
Ix ii g paid to it, and I am very glad to see you itir
ririj: in 'kitmatltr tow."
In ibe yearlTPoa very dark dny occurred, which
wsa OTg rtincrr be-rtd aa"tbe dark day.' A lady
n< Itbboi sent herr?on to tbe doctor to know if he could
t> liber the cause of the obecurity. "My dear, was
tbe Biewer to the rteeeengor, ' Rive my complimenU
to your mother, aid tell her thai I am as mu.di iu the
derk ae xbe ie."
Ote day n ship arrived nt It ?>?[. with three hun
drtd etr et laa]e. Tho eame day the doe tot happened
to receive a call from a la~y whoso convorsational
powcrn were not of the kind to render a Ion/ interview
docirable. He availed himself of the newly arrived
cargo tociepa'ch hie visitor. "Have you heard tho
nawer mi-1 be, with empbaeis "Oa, no' VVhat
DOWBf" "Why, three- hur.drt-d row I ghte have come
over in the ship this morning from London, and tbe
Stloctneu have wisc-iy crdoied them to bo put iu irons
imaeoiattJy." The visitor foitowith de-camped in
ee&rt boi tte particulars of this invarionof religious
lioerty.
Wh< n brought before his .iu-fgos at tho time of bia
trial tbey requested him to tit cown and warm him
felf. " (ieLtle-tr.tn, was the reply, "when I camo
en ong yen, I expee'ed persecution: but I cou'd not
Ibb k you would nave offered me tbe fire so suduenly.'.
A mot of BjUs'b is related by tho hospitable wits of
Poetou, to the viri or, as he pa?se? by Kings s Cnape!
?n Tremont street. There are two ooaftMB of windowe
by which that boildicg is lighted oa its sides: the
I. ?> r ones sre neatly si|u^re. In allunion to this archi?
tectural peculiarity of tbe square embrature* ol its
solid v-a ls, By Us said that he ba l of en heard of
(cclttisttiobl canons, but ntver saw tbe portbslei be?
fore. Another, a revolu'ionary wit'i:?i-'m, do-s j me ice
t-> Bylea's torybm. When ti e llnti&li troopa, the
libtteia, pat-soil his door, after an'oring tbe tovn:
"Ah,' sa:d he, "now our giievatn t-s wi 1 be rel
c"rt use d."
II iv> f\s'em of practical joking is said to have been
as Mici'ons es bis verbal, t^ougd lather more e.\ bb>
aive to the vietiflaft
Th.- dector, bowercr, oeoaaionaily mo' his match.
A lar y atiom he b?d long courte<l u"?uc?essfully,
u,arrit"j ai.ci.tl. man by tbo name; of Quincy. " S i,
U BdatOi 1 eaui the ur su -tx-eeful sui'or, OB DaM io^' bet
efter-Wrtid, " it a,peuta jou prtforaf'ui jcy '.> BykM
"Yes lor i; Lbere had been BoatbtBg worse" in an
bi!i>, tJod wou d nave atlli trd Job with them
He was i.or, boivtver, always uueucceseful wit o the
fhii tea, as he was twice BBairl d His tiret wife wa-<
a nice ol" (Joveruor Belcher, and her . ,
tit I igi i'y i ]'phitLtly diminishing wi'h t'n rela ioj
sbip, a daughter ?' L'.catonant-(l tfOTDOff Tailer.
h, poraon l>r. Hyit-s was tall aud we I BffOBOrtioaed.
His voice w?* potveuful and nrebJiour, and Le wa< a
giacilul and impteetive speaker.
The arrival t>f Berkeley in America hta been
nottd as an event of no inconsiderable influence on
tbe progress of literature, particularly in Rbode
hland and Connecticut. On this subject, we hare
several interesting statements.
l?ean Btrkrley ?et sail, or atsBOBt WMraodyto
emberk from (JiavefCt d, S. ]>teti h i - 17-.'-. tor the
KtW Weild. He had iuet couj Ittel the hote/moon
oi biaDortiaga win. Anne Porafer, t e caighterof
the Si^-ker o' the Iriah HotBOt ot COSBBOXM. to wniin
he bail bi"en n oiled on tfe 1st of A u, a-'?and of wh jh
he write s be fore leaving ftkriand at this ti are, to nie
ft it nd Thomas Prior, as a lover sh mid. that "her
humor and turn ol mind IBBOACOBB beyond Boythlog
I kLow in her wbole sex. Tbi? ladv aecompame 1
him wiih bet l.iend, " my Ladv Hancock I dnu^'fr.-r.'
m d time gtutlerteu compete i the parry, Mr. Ja i ia,
Mr. DaltOO, i.i . .Mr SadbOrt The last was rhe artis'
WbOBB BOXDC is pnillllilBWlj con. ected wi:h the eaily
history of Arne nt in art. He aktteboi OgT0tB9 of his
feiloa-trnve ere in tie cabin, at sea?at least thia is
?ie >f the Berkeley tradings?whi h he af erward
painted in the batereatiog pi -t aaloh aov noasga in
tbe G.-l fiy of X*a)eCoitSge If so, he madetbaai
ci'ieu of the cb?d in hi* ?ife's arms MbaaqtajBlUy, for
that iifatt aas born in America. Tn? trave'era
reached Newport the 23d of Jaaraary, 1739, arilsr a
pro'rBCted paaaage of tiro anontha l i re ii i tradi
tii ti which is p obably worth wry little, that Berke?
ley se tt a 1-tier, on e-n iug u j t e bay, t?> the Rev.
Janes Hooevatoa. the Kpsaoopo cier^Mman of the
town which found him at court b celehr ulag a holiday.
Ihi in'el'i. ? t ?. w . mouniouuil t.. IkeOaaantl ra
?ion, Mr. lK-i.e\nian d.-.-n." s d tii m wi:tihi-> ?
ir>-, ar d the ?hole bodv proo-?e.i.-1 ... m^et th-< i-'m
guiebid Dean on ibe w?sK S x months pa-wed, and
ihe Heim s PerinudaOBttVpriM ttiU ltngertd lor ladt
lithe jeom-t mei.t of " M ije*iy s bonu'y."
ibi opeLirg of bummer loooorflet him bowOTer, to
tbe delay. He ari fs in June if tlie delight of tbe
mate and of ihe bir h of aeon.
"The truth is," be >ajs, " if "he king's bounty coull
be paid in, ard the charter cou d b-- rt moved hitfi r, I
? beule bke it tet??r then Bsf*JMBOO. ' His fr.^n'sof
tie voyage were drawn at tbe close of the year to B la
tor. Biio foliii-atons were ma Ie to Barry BaYfeOtaj
thiilet Irr, "jtreierring quiet a?d soli ude to tbe
nou? ol a i real town, ' and ba^pj in the ?? :?j doJi?-?
lie on for s tha* are very agneab e, my wife an 1 uiv
i tile son." fe s-i'l r trtimed at Newp.r- in BBOaOfOf
mmtol fe eooBttj ?State whi. h h > h?,l pure^aa-d.
If.-re f is aeqaaintem-e was saogai.b<| saotasjl I
son, srnwara the P eeldsol of "BB King s Cetloge i i
New-Y.irk, and th?u a icejsjoaa la Coaot ttiemt, ?b.i
wi rd bit a'ten'ioti to 'be wn: te cf Yale ?' tilej,'e, :o
?hieb be became *> liberal a donor of book* and land; !
alter bin retirement to England set'ling noon tbe Col
Tie bi> farm of nirety ?ixaerea, to whi-h he bad fc~iven
the r a me ot W hi'eball, lor the aeeistanee of H*J
at'hoUra. He eleo trace valuable gift* to the library
of Harvard, and when h3 left Newport dietribu'ed toe
book* be hid with him amo 1* tie neighbor eg; clergy.
It wan also after hia arrival in England, in 1739)
that be presented the organ to Trinity Chore'?, at
Newport, which i? Hill surmounted by the crown of
the olden time, and whicn bear* an Lnti rip'ion tha' i"
ie the gift of Dr. George B ikeley. late Lord Biaaop
ofC'ojie.
Th e organ wai originally forwarded to Amen a by
the Dean, aa a gift to tie town of Berke'ey, iu Massa?
chusetts which had been named af er him. The select
m?n of fbc toao. however, were not prepared to har
bo- eo range roue a guest, ami, voting that "aa orgaa
is an ire rument of the Devil, for :ce entrapping ot
mere sou is," de diced'h? offer, wh?n the Dean...r.
ferred it on Trinity. It etill sfnde forth ite strainj. :roa
, some of tbe old pipes.
I During hie pleaaant a-.lourn in America, we always
bear of Merkel? y in tome amiable rela'ioo. He c ?m
p imerf* the Huguenot refogea, QebfieJ Brrnon, .n a
letter written in French, on nis " zeal for religion ani
tee glory of Oed.'1 He pro?, bee constantly for bis
friend, the R? e'er of frini'y, the Bar. James Honey,
man, in tbe pulpit which is still there, while tin IJtia
ktrr sfard in tbeir broad-b.immed ba's in the blalat to
bear him; on one sooceakta huoioroiis'y atin lucciag
that, ?? lo aive the Derail his due, John Ca viu wa-< a
great man In company wih Sruiberr, Col. Uj I ke
ard l>r. MtSusrren. he visi s the Narraghansott Indi
ate. To bis friend, Daniel Cpoike, the e/tcrney '.en
?.ral o' 'h>-1 Ie ony, he presents hia " well- arou<l.- li -
I ver coffeepot.' still preserved es a re'i ? in tha family,
I estbe goon bi?hop e old fashioned i ha'r, " iu wa ch he
ia bei cved to have composed the Minute I'tilc :ooh< r,
' s er-'?emed as an he ir-loom at this d*iy by I)r Coil
I Iforeie an aneedo'e of Berkeley's calcc!a"i^;s re
ej ecting tie vslue of prope>ty at Newport, preserved
by a tra? e cr. the Church of England clergyman, An
urew Burnaby, who virited Newport in 17c mtrS h it
Iiis in e of day i-1 uiious. Tbe growth of Newn rt,
whijh suffered a rtlapte after the K-vo!ution, and was
for a long whi.e in abeyance, is now a<ain ia ts>
ondaiit; not aa Herktlev may have an?cipetsd with
the od in' rc? of Cheap side, but wirb tbe lax jry i
Armr cawBais.
" About thr?e miles from town," writes Burnaby.
" is an ir tiiffirer t wooden house, buUt by D an
llcrke'ey wlun be was in th< ?e> pait* th? si-nation is
low, but commards a tii c view of the ocean, and of
some wild rugged rocks that arc on the left en id of It,
Tl ?y relate h-re several s'ran?e s'ories of the Djtn'e
wild and chimerical notions; whicn, as they are char
scetist1. ol thai extraordinary mat. deserve to be
taken DO'ice of. One in partioiJar, I mas' beg tbe
reader's indulgence to allow in? t o repeat to him: The
Dean bad form? d a plun af build ng a toru upon tho
rocks, and of curing a road through a saody beach
wbk'h !i>s a li'tle be-low it. in order tha' shies ni'ght
eon 11|> and be sheltered in bad weather. He was so
lull of ti 'if project, ss one day to say'o one- S D ? r. a
designer, whom be had brought over w.th hin from
Europe, on the latter ssking some ludicro :s <|Uast:on
(OLceti ii g tbe future importance of tbe place: " Tra
Iv. )ou have very little foresight, for in fifty year*
lin < every 'oot Of land in this place will lie as va'.ua
hie (s the land iu Cheapside. " T o Dean s house, not
witratai dir g bis prediction, is at pres-n' netb ng bet
ler than a farm bouse, and his library converted into
the dairy: when be Iefc America be gave it to the
College at New-Haven, in CosttM * ticut, who have let
it to a fa'mer ou a'ot g leas<>; his books he divided b -
fwter this College and that in Mssttfhtttftt Tne
I ?tan is said to have written in this place "The Min?
ute I'hiksoj her ' For the va'ue of tlie farm, it mutt
be great to its pn-se-tt bolder. Vale College having in
the last century lerased out the land for a term of DO I
hundred end met>-tine years, at a ren* payabl > in
ahf?t, which wis afterward commu'ed into ths pres?
ent at i i al ie. eipt ol cu6 hundred and forty dollars.
We are compelled to omit all notice of the
writers of the Revolutionary period, with the ex
ccptii n of a slight allusion to the Ballad literature
of that say, on which point tbe editors have made
extensive inquiry, and have raked out of tbe dust
a remarkable collection of these eccentric produce
tions. One of the m oat celebrated effasions of this
hind is the Sapphic Ode by N'athtniel Niles, writ
ten at Norwich, Conn , in 1776. It has often been
printed, but v\ill bear another appearance:
Why should vain mortals tremole at th-o sight of
Death pimI destruction in tte field of battle.
Where bb'od and car nage clothe the ground ia crimson,
Sounding with dca'h-^roans T
Death will invade us by the no at - appointed,
And we neust all bow to tbe King of Terrors;
Nor am I anxious, if I am prepared,
What shape he esosntf in.
Infinite OoodcesH teache? ue submission,
Bids us be quitt tinier all His dealings;
NtTtl ien:mig, but forevr praising
Ood. our Creator.
Well nay we jirawe Him: all His ways are perfect:
Though ? risplet-dtnc, iii?uitely glowing,
I lastet s in gloty on ihn sigKt of mortals,
Stru. k"blind by luBter.
Good is Jehoveh in bestowing sunshine,
Nor less His goodness in the sfo m ac<l thnuder,
Mttciei snd jiifltrment both proceed frcm kindness,
It.fu ite ?herlttst.
O, then, exult that God forever reigneth;
Ciouua wbicb, around him, binder our rerceprion,
ISir.d us tbe si root er to e xalt His natu?, and
Shout louder praiie s.
Then to the wisdom o? my Lord a"d Master
I wi 1 (omntit all ? lint I have or *i-li ?r,
Sweetly n? babts' s'cep a ill I give my life up,
When call d to yirid it.
Now, ti&Ki', I dsro the", clad in smoky pi'.'irs,
BorstUTg fiom bomb ?hehs, roaring f om the cannon,
Battling in grsp" -hot like a storm of h-. List ones,
Toftanog tXcr.
Cp t|c bleak heavens let th? spreading flimes rise,
lir' tail X' like .En.s, tb ougii the saaoky columns,
Loweriaaj like EayPt, oti tne (alnog e.iy,
Wantonly OutLcU doac.
While all tbeir hearts qoick palpi'a'e for bavoc(
I^tt slip your blood bounds, num d the lirit:ah hone:
Dauntitss as te i'li s ans nimble as the whirlwind,
Da adtul hi d. mots !
I.i i recant wait on a'l your flca'irg castles,
Fiaught withrjes'ru -tioti, horrible to na'tire;
II en. w Ith y our sails fail d by a storm of vengc-an; >,
Hear com to battle.
Fiom tl e cirt caven s, mto'e by ghostly miner*.
I t ibt- * tplosioo, dreadful as volcanoes,
lhr.\e the broad tows, with nil its wealth and peo, ie.
(Ju i k to d rtlUetlon.
Still ? ba I ?M tan: ft of the King of Heav. n
Neve r adTance ahete I am afra;d to follow:
While tbal j rscedet me, with an open bosom,
War, I defy thee.
Feme snd deer freedom lure me on to ba'rle.
White a fell dttpot, grimmer th?n a d< a' .'s-bead,
Stires n.e with serpents, tiercer than Mcansa's.
lo the encountt r.
Lift, for my country and th caure of freedom,
1? i ut a tr tie fi r ? worm to \ art wiib;
And. if pree+rv - d in so great eotaenk,
Li'e is rt doable J.
We may rerbsps say the eame of the Yankee
I u ( die b illad, which we here copy, with the his?
torical notice of the ed.tore.
Il.cture of Ysnkte Doodle is said to have been
seed by a Dr. 'heokbnrg, a"a be 'i to * t B Itish
stay, in 1781. nbtn tbe troop* et th? Northern < olo
titsmaieLed intt> Albany, preparatory to the a"a-k
en the Fie:cr potts of Niagara and Froiteaac. The
habiliments of tbese recruits prte^n e-d a s'range con?
trast io the otder'y epp ointments of 'be Eoplisa sol?
di) ry. at d the music to which thty marvhed was as
at t'>iuattd and outre as their uniforms. Sosx'kbare*,
a bo j otsetr-eel some musical knowydge, compjsed a
tut i tor tbe te* ee-n.eie, which he bold them was one
of tie mot: ?-elth.'a'ed cf ih so in uee by'.he army
to i c grett amurenert ?fine Itriti-h the provincial
tee j ted the giit. and ' Vetkee D^oclo tajasnt rorj
pppmar natong them.
?he- isjne wa* tot original wi'h Shacbburg as it has
been tr&c d back to the time of Charles I., in En
glai d. In the reign of hi* son we tindnt ao easy a. -
i rapaateeat to a litt'e songon afamo'is lady of ev-j
vir ue ol that date, whica has oetc perpetuated as a
nu.*> ry rbyme ?
Loop Locket Ice* her pjL'ke-:,
Kitty Fiiber found i' |
Noihing in it, nothing in i',
Bu* the bi-ding round It
A little later we have the tiret appear-nee of that re- j
douhtab e pereonaao Yankee D'tedle. HeaeemsevMi
tt tbal tarly stage of his career to have shown the
t harret'ristic rait of nuking the m^st of h:m*eif?
Var kee Doodle came to town
Cpoa a Ken ish porv,
lit stuck a feath< r in bis ha',
Atd calk-d tib'i Macarot i.
It ie n t irxi oetibls, hoirever, that Vaakee Do.die
nayte.ioui 11. Iiand, Aeoiitin u^e amor.g the la?
bor- r*. wlo it. the bervett (Janeaakgrata from (i^rmaiy
to tie Lear i.'o'inUos, where they rc-eive for tbeir
work tr b ? I t "' nbk at tb-vrnn griab acl a
tenth of ihe ru eecnred ty tteir exertions, hae this
burden
Y acker cioel, ("eodel down
Dldel, dude! lanter,
Yaake vtver, vooTer towo,
Botenmlk and Taather.
iu' is, batrenmlk and m tentb.
Thie tons; our informant baa r-eard repeated by a na?
tive of that eoun'ry, who bad of:eo liateoad to it at
ban nt rbxe in bic youth.
1 he precise late when
Fa fcer and I went down to atnp
eacno', we fear, In? fixed wi'h ao-ara.*; but. as th?
tune waa sung a* Banker HID, may be assumed to
have been in 1""'.
Our copy of tbe words is from a bmads.de in a eol
kitioa of ' Sonus. Ballads, Ae . pur.-ia?ed from a
ba,lad printer and at ler m Bos'on ia lc*13. ' mate by
Isaiah Ttomas. TTc variav<>: s atd additional stanra*
in tie totes are from a version given in Farmer A
Moore'e Hia'oriceJ Co.iec-.ioca of Now-Hampshire, ?i.
187
mr. rAXKEB'l rtrrrrts from camt.
Fa'her ai d I went oovd to eamp
Along wirh i'ap'ain Gooding,
Ai o to*re we see the men and boys,
As tbisk as has'y nur ding.
CaWi ??Yank?e Doodle, keep i*. up.
Yankee Do*iie, dandy,
Mind the music and the Step,
And with he girls be bandy.
And tt ere we see a thousand men,
As rieh ?p Sqtdre David;
Ard what they wasted every day,
[ wiaa il coold bj ssv.'d.
The '.aiies tbey eat every day,
Would keep an bonee a "-Vinter;
They have as much tnat, I'll be bound.
Tears eat it when trey re a mind to.
Ard tbe:- we see a swamping guo,
Large as a log of maple,
Upon a d?uced lit'le cart,
A ioad for fatirr 's cattle.
And every tine 'key shoot it off,
It takes a hom of powder,
A: i makes a no.-te UM fa'.bcr's gun,
Or!y a nat'on louder.
I went as nigt to one myself,
As Siah s under >i. ning;
.\nd fa'her went ae nigh again;
I thought the d-u at wae iu him.
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
I thought he wouit hare cock'd it;
It s ared mo so, I eirink'd it off,
And hurg by tathcr's pocket.
Ard Cap'ain I 'avis bad a gun,
He kind of < lapl his baud ou t,
An-: stut k a creoked stabbing iron
Upon tie little er ?1 on't.
Ai d theft I se?- e. pumpkio shell
As big as mc.'ier s basin;
And every tine tbey touched i' ort,
l hey t .ampcred like tbe na ion.
I k<- i. fittle bsnel, too,
The heads were made of lea'he-r.
They kno k'd upon t with little clubs,
And called the tolke together.
? rii there was Cap'ain Washington,
Aid gen.bfolks about him,
Tn-y eav ei ti;rowo so t arnal proud,
He will not ride without 'em.
He got him cn hie meeting clothes,
I'pon a ilappingstallion,
He ee-t tbe wo Id a'ong in rows,
In hundreds and in millijas.
The flaming ribbons in hi, ha*,
They 'ookeJ to tarit g fine, ab,
I wan od poeki'y to got.
To give to my Jemimah.
1 tte another snarl of men
A oiggicg graves, tbey told me,
go 'arnal long, so 'arnal deep,
l ney tendei they should bold me.
It scsr'd me ro, I book'd it ort",
Nor stou'd ae I remember,
Nor turn'd about, till I got home,
Loc'd up in motoer s chamber.
Ibis volume is embellished with numerous por
' traits, autograph*, and sketches of the residences
I of authors and of public buildings, most of which
are highly successful specimens of engraving, and
I materially enhance the and interest of the
work. We have already alluded to the admirable
manner in which the editors have completed their
difficult enterprise, taken as a whole, and hare no
wish to dwell upon the blemishes which a miuute,
or rather a mousing criticism, mieht discover in
some portion of ita details. Slight errors have
indeed come under our notice in examining the
work, but they are not of it character to load us to
question its general thoroughness and accuracy.
For instance, the Librarian of the Boston Athe?
n?um is called George Folsom instead of Charles;
the " Conflict of Ages, by Dr. Ed Ward Beecher,
is ascribed to hia brother Charles Beecher; Charles
Prentiss is said to have died in Bromfield, Mass ,
instead of Hrimlield; Adin Ballou is spoken of as
belonging to tbe family of the celebrated Hosea
Ballon: and a whimsictl blunder is made in de.
! scribing Sibley's History of the Town of Cuion
an a " mon gram,' instead of " monograph,-' which
I scarcely naturalized word was probably lingering
in the writer's enr. <>nly the first volume of the
Cyclopedia has thus far been published, and on tbe
issue of the second we shall have something more
to say. _____________
F UFliC MKK1INGS.
LEGISLATIVE FOUCE COMMITTEE.
TheCommitfee met at 10 o'c.cck yesterday morning,
in the Library Boom of the City Hall, and proceeded
*o tbe Tombs, in pursua/n e of a resolution of the pre
viorj? day, to examine fie n e rds of tbe Court and of
tbe property cUrk.
Tte Ccaamittee roc ivod by Jti?t>c-* Connolly |
axd the oleik. Ml Netbitt, and tarnished with facilities
for their investigationf. After iookng ino iome of i
the records ol" the Court, Ui?y repairei to tbe room in
which OOOtfjBOd th ? property taker) ft Oil Of Is Mal
arrest?d. To give an ao-urato descrfptioa Of the ron
trn'sof this d-'oartneent would require the kuowc ige
of a dealer in Yankee notions < me prominent o ject
wee a gem ie slungeao-, suspended a?ainst the ? all,
awaiting tbe discbarge of ire owner fr?m p- ison. It it
well known that to carry a elungsnot is made by a r*?
cent low a vate Prison oft'oLse. A trunk was exhib?
ited . onfatning a glass cake basket, fancy d die, and
similar r.it:c'*s, wfc:ch bad been recent y taken fron
an (xpffBM wngon by a parti of young thievoe. It ap?
peared sn evidence that the articles, which were in
tratti u 'rom a Fair in Jtraof Ci'y, were etolen by the
toys for tbe role pnrpoe of r?eing uted ae pii/?e on a
tarp< teicm. lon. Mr. Neabltt, XDB clerk, e'ated that
an au.''^"n sale of cone of ihe property In his charg-?
had late ly I "U to i, atid that ne would furaiih the
Committee wi'b a^j invi u'ory of it durng tbe week,
as weil as of that remaining in his possession.
Subfeqneitly the Committee visited the various de
par'm^rts of tbe prison under the conduct of the
ae p. r, Mr. < ;rt,y, and Dr. Covil.
Ihe Conimitiee as ill resume ita sittings thin morni kg,
w?.n Ju>'ji-?s CosnoKy and Uabornj and exjutfe-e
Betbe are to be exaiiiir
B''AKI> OF COUMCILMEH.
M< BOAT, Dec. 1-?D. D. CoBOTEB, ee<i., President,
in t e chair.
PttUim+t rff-rn i.? By Mr. C01 mis-f)f offi ers
oi First D.vi.ijL Maw V-*ik Stare MatUn, that Hanil
:od t quare be leveled.
By Mr. Wivt.ru-O* E'ijah If. Kimball and
o b?rs. for a re wer in Forty-seventh street, from Sixth
t-i Reveotb avenuefl.
By tbe PutiDi rr?Of Easrbas Coapany No 27, to
' eve amount paid fat ren* of house reiand?c.
By Mr. Bnowa?Of S A. Frort, fiat the wrsck of
the brist Maj?o?er. sink between piers N s aa anl
? East i: ror, bn ught there to raise tbe ship Joeeph
V* ?Her be removed.
Rem! Uimnt ?By Mr. Hannaj? Tiat ?heS'reetC im
ttia?-ioiier sei i to tii.a Board the oids for regu'au ig,
grading etc., Fcurth avenue from rhirty-eigoth to
Kiry-Mghih itieet; F'i'tj tirth str-et fron Toi-d to
Fif h avenue, and fircm Seventn to Eighth avejue.
Adopted.
B) Mr. Lambhe. ht?That all itc imbrant?aof hay
be removed from i.iers No. M and II, E^a' Rivor, aod
tnlkhea-1, and ail other pier* used bv speculator*. &ud
r_.it abow them *o bo ns<?d as ?torehoueeiii.
Rtpor't.?iji ('ommivee on Law Deiar'ment, an
concur relative to grading a^l r-^ula ing Fifty nirith
street, between B-oneway and Tenth avenue. Laid
over.
Of Cvmm.'.tet 'n Raiirovis, to concur to rTJroat
E-gbth avenue Railroad f -T.pary to be r-iail aad
rare to be -nn to corr.tr <,f Broadway and Eighth av
ei ne. l aid BWAP,
Of ftace r fav .-o: raBiaana Ufalilag railroai
ears to r av? tornc a; para! at to prevent objectt:iT) ng
on he tra. t? from |. easing uader the wbeet?. L*3
over
Of ( irr-. ??? ?? on Finance, iq favor of granting ad
cf tl.'-'OO to tbe N.w York .Inv. niV Atrium, .o las t
of '. mal ' g I to St. Lok? a Home for indigent fe?
male*. To Committee of tae Whole.
Of Commr. ee on Fire J ?epertmoat, ? favor oi ad?
vert iaug pro: oaaJa for a lot hetareen Thirty aiath aod
j Tbiry eighth etteet* aad Eighth and Tenth arena*
for tue of Fn*ir,e Company No. 13. To aama.
Of Committee on Poli e, in favor of payiug D .
Kin bark for metrical service*. To same.
Of Comuitiee on Fire l>- ;-a-tn:<n . to ooocar to
. 01 firm re. i <>r* of Ihre Commissioner*. Laid over.
Several report* of Committee on A?ee>*arneata were
received a J referred to Committee of the Whole,
CVrr.miian-dfma* ?From Bureau of At*ee*n?nts,
witr. eectab* no. -muu ii-'s, aeknig that they be c>u
fi-me.t; a ... a**<s?iDcnt litt for ailing; loft'between
, tonieihaid Forte-first s'rees ami Ninth and Tenth
avenues, with objection* of Campbell P. White. To
l. n it itr.e on Assessments.
, From the Meet Commissioner, with apportioatnenta
of a*s? s*ment. To tame.
Copxmithf of tkt II We.-Tha Board then went
into lotnrxlttte. Mr Mo?i in tbe chair, and took
Into co. sicera ion vaiu.ua papers which ha 1 previ?
ously bevn retcrred to it. i he Committee rote and
repot Ii r in favor of recommitting ordieanoe re a'ive to
New-Yoik Bit nage and l'aee?pawat Line, permitting
tee licensing of certain s'a<ts; iu favor ot adopting
subeti'u'.e w favor of advertiijag lcaee of ferry be?
tween Tee nty third ?tritt. Nee York, an.l I, itreetj
(ireenpoii.t; that the ordinance aa to driving eattlo
through 'he s rear* ba 1 beau mate the special ?ubjeet
for n< x*. MoioUy. Papon were ordered to a third
reading. Accoutred to Frrayncxt a* So tloek.
BOARD 01 EDUCATION.
The Board of F.ducation met lasteveting at ftt Hall
in Grat-d etreet. Wat. H Neiuok, President, it the
choir.
The rerort of the Contni'tee on Repairs relative to
Dw\ei's Lightning Conductors, witii the folloaiag
icse.u ton *?? adopte.':
K/iStrd, Tb\t it I* iu-xp dient to furnisl tbe school ba.ld.nt*
wttl i sh'tit ? cccdu ;iort tt t he fir-tent til*, toil tKtt tbe
t aa a* t e to Ueehacgi i t'om '.be tuttber coaeideraU*a at tbe
taejeet
tbe repo t of the Committee on Warming and Yen
tilatiou on tbe *pp'n ation of School Otlioere of tbe
Fifteenth Ward, for an appropriation of #2,100 for
heating apparatus waa ao'opted.
Iba repojt of the Finai te Conmittce, wi.h tha f >I
lowiug ti rolu ion, wee a<io..iec
Hiul' fd Ihtt tbe run of S'.SffO )>e, ted it be-eb; appro
putie.l for'he ptechve of lea lot* of (round, own*i or lie
Tiunftt ot ib? fteiheedt B>p i-t t'harrh in. .'Injttl.- street, aetr
!V: .ii. ? t fi the Te nth Wer?, each 25 h? IC0fr?tt raid perehMe
moLty t* b- ptld < n tbe ctrutictte of tbe Coouesl to the Car
to ttict); tbet tne ti le to he raid lots mveetedin tbe Nltyor,
A fii i l md Comment, ty ef tea City oi N. w Yock; raid
Bjoeej to be pail nut of th ' Beaool moneys to the year IMS.
The report of tin Cotiimi t?e on Furniture, reeou
mencing an apptopriatitti of (4,944 39 to p.iy sunlry
bille for extra wt rk and fitting up of Ward School No.
t", in thirty-seventh *trtet, I'irenty-flrst Ward.
I be re.>ort of K.\ecuti?e Coannittee, appointing
M'n-B Ai Del IIa nman a tt .ichor i? tie Normal lohois,
w?s sdopte l>
The rep rt of fhe Finaoce Committee appropriating
ft67 it lor famishing tevcrat school buildings, witn
Ventilat oil and ?ppaiatus was adopted.
The rewrt of the Kxecu ive Committee approon**
ing (l.ooO for the support tf the Normal Schools, was
aoontod.
The tepo't of Finarc? Couittiittee? in favor of ap
proprtatil ?(30 OOO for Tea hers' Salarie?,wa? asfopted.
The report of the same Committee in favor ot ap.
propiiating (3,' oo for exjenst* of tho Ward Schools,
was adeptrd,
A commui ication from Ward Officer* of Twelfth
Ward, rt im sting the estahbshment of a eciool for
tmigrotit ohib'r.-n on Waid* Island, wa* referred to
Committee on New Schoo1*.
Another emmanication from the School Officers of
the Fif.h Ward, tolativo to purchaaing a lot and erect?
ing an addition to Wa'd Schoo! No. 41.
The report of tbe executive Committee in favor of
approtnu'ing i'i 5uo for sujiport of the Free Aoademy
wan adopte. .
The report of tbe Committee on Sites and Sahool
Houses reei'mmending au appropriation of $t,dro 71
to p?y for carpener and other werk to complete
school house in Twenty eighth street, near 8iith av?
enue, Twentieth Ward, called forth considerable dis?
cussion?'be ground of oeoate Zeitig upon as item of
$73 for csrpeting tho teaebcts' tilatiorm. Tue report
wss fi. ally ado tea as presented
Treieport of Special Committee on Al*eratiem of
Schooi'Laws relative to distribution of funds levied
by lax, wa* adopted and or ered to be printed.
After the transac'ion of some other buoinos*, the
Board adjount d.
Commission kks Of EMIQBATIOaT.
The Board me' jeeteiday afternoon at the oftiae in
Wortb-et. l'bo Hon. Julian C. Vhin.am r praeid
ii tt, aud Messrs. Carripan, Kelly, Cumiuing, Craltree,
Purdy, aid Oanigae, present.
A o'otnniunication from the Consul General of the
Netberlatda was received and referred to the Castle
(Jsrcen Cuuitn i'ie.
A slight modification was made in tbe by-laws regu
latiig tbe Medical Departm nt of Ward a Island.
Dr. Haititis io'ormed the Hoard of the quantity of
land attached to the hospital at Quarantine and the
manner in which it is cultivated. The \>'i <rantme
i r. in ('s contain ?? acrrs, which, it appears, furnish
tbebsatiuitka witb neatly ail of the vegetable* re
quirt d.
Csj t. ( hSBTRKI reported that Mr Fsgiu ha* shipped
it .i t ii to Sout'. Carolina, during tbe pant week.
Ti e Committee on Ward s Island advised the agent
to purer ane abont "00 barrels of Hour, if he c midget
it a t' 73 a barred.
The Committee on Retrenchment reported to make
gone turttie r clerical alteratio:*, aod in lavor of dia
pei sing with anot>er clerk. Adopted.
Mr.Kii Li moved that fhe former rejnttofthe
Rene"? ! n.ei t Committee b" suspeudod, *o far as it
r. ferred to Mr. De Burgh. The length of h:? services
wttrrsnted this.
A coi.eiderable c"eb ite urtm- in refereuee to the mo?
tion, wh'cb *as finally earned.
Mr. N i i i o.a.n, the agent of the Board at Albany,
tepotted that ie could d p< t.se with one of his aasiat
aLts. IM'trr'd t-i.be L'-trei t-Lmt-nt Committee.
lhe to lowing i* a sammir* of the we klysti'.o
nent of tbe affairs of tbe Coo mission:
NLn.be.-cf emlarsntt tnlve.l to l'?c. 5, 18&\.177.28 >
iN'lu.i.. . of rmignntt amred ? at-, to Dec. Vi. 311
Total.127 W
To c.n.c aate, r i.as est
i .N.m. 1n.14.
Inrrt'ft la iiMtittition on Word't lilted.... I.! Ol it,
laaaatat ??, M? - io*(.itti. ss . hi
T'Ul.lja~i S*\t
Rtluiee- in btn? Jen. I, 13 5. .T- : : ?- *S
a#?o ?tte r-<:h|j,t. to lOec B.tt-Htflti V
K'ce.ve.1 ri to Da* 13, for commute
Uon ot (ttea paiteLjaii, Ite. 2,0|S 21- 319 SSS 51
Total. t7io,7t7 f?
DUbii.eenf at? to Lea 5, U35.?462 9di It
Sui-d y expttaes p.14. 5,41/7 2i
t)\. idm! <>o Mrebeoiri' Ber k.fW,032 TT
lie Board then adjourned.
GRfiOVING TBE Itl S6 PAYEaTEMT.
On tlie 5th of February, 1-.;:., Councilman Mather,
at a session of the Board of Counciiiuen, offered the
following resolution:
" Btteekd, Ihtt tba Coronjletloner of Repairs and Heapllee
be aaS 1? heree.> <llr> ced to ?dv> rttee for prop^et!? I .? ?'.xiin*
tbtt tti" i 'O '.f toe Roes ptveraect aet a ree-y fr *v*J ; the ip
t?-( >B*rfea* ef each b oek to On ir.,..ve i tt rl.ht ao*ie< ei'e toe
ooe of tne Ortet, In *a*B nvaouer diet the iptee be weae tba
?i'.ou? tfi.i r', w.t .L... not etreet. tlx lochte?tti.i at greets
be Let lete laaa ?Ol tad t .(noter inch's ?iJ? in In earfjee,
md oot era fa-ntl..ee qitr en of an inch deep; aad tbtt be
etLd tbe time to tbe t'on.msn Coaoeli for fartbir eetun."
lhe a nt er ws referred to he Committee on St'eets
of the Board oi Counci'tneu, who, af er conaidering
the subject, reported in favor of the aiopt oa of tho
reeo ..lion, with an amendineu'. that tne ptv>"n?nt be
(io>'-gr? n*c. at th? innrse. ion of the vexioui e'reat*
on Broadway The Board atop'ed th? rs^ort and
ieeo a'ion. The do unx.-nt wee then s-rit to the Board
e f Alaermen and re'erred to ?hs Committee on Streets
[ of that Board, who raptor ed in favor of con mring
wi'b tbe lloerd of Coun 'men. On the 12th of April,
i-35, the rt i ort' t th" I Dmlt'OO was taken op, and,
atret son.e o. b on tbt) su jee-r, was laid on the 'able,
?her* it reir-sined m til the loth inst., whexit?"**
ega n called up aod r. fi-rn-d o a Sp-^nl Co-avaittsv
?onsistiig f Aid. Will;aa fucker, Aid. Voorhis aad
AJ.i. Howard.
This Special Committee met yss'erday sfteroooo -o
Mr \'aeti'int-a oflice, end entered into a ?neideratioa
of Ibesabjee'. Tbey final y determjoel ? eon having
groove* two inches on the ?nrface, one inch dse^? and
ft-ur itoh'S apart, cut across he s'reet frou curb to
curb, fcr the e bvance of one yard, in order to te*t tho
m alter.
S ooJiI tl i-prove a bei^fit, the Comoxitite will re?
port accord i&lj.
COMMirniK ON WITAItVES, PICRS AND
SLIPS.
The Committee on Whar% es, Piers and Slips of tb*
Board < f tout oi men root yesterday afternoon, bot sd
j'ioined w t.tou: doing any busiteas, owing t) the ooav
appfcaraIC', of panics itttres'od ia mattere before the
Con miuae.
COMMITfl.F ON RAILROAD4.
Tbe Committee on Raifri acs of the Bosrd of Csno
cilrxen, held ro meeting yesterday, a-piornin not bslng
pn t-mt.