The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1853, Page 2

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Michigan Central RR § per cents, 1800, A hse Oe at's at cacne eee ntral RR. 6 per cents, ster! 1872, Jan and Jul a esneseceseces Blimois Central RR. 6 per cents, 1875, «108 2. 99 2. +104 vos 25 0234 w 250734 0025 279 @ 26 S2 3g 3 ‘pm. © 6s prem. Iron, tar, per ton... £8 5a £310 810 Do. Railroad, do ——s Do. Scotch pig, do,. . 508 6d wo Sls Gopper, tile. per ton — s£107 236d Deo. T. cake, co, — 2£107 Yo. Sheathing, per ib. —s —1% Do, Yellow metai, do. —a — 10d Mead, 3panish, per ton, 10 a £22 10 ‘in, bloek, per ton, —— 0£108 Do. Benea, do, _ a£109 Spelter, per ton 20 — » £2210 Coroner’s Inqacsts. ALLEGED “CASE, OF MALPRACTICE--HORRIBLE AP- FAIR. Coroner Hilton was yestecday called to investigate an alleged case of msipractics. charged against a German doctor. named Charles Boerner, residing at No. 236 Bouston sticet, ins case of accouchment, in which the chiki was kilied. 1t appears by the evidence that a Ger man woman, vamed Joanna M. Noll, residing at No 56 svenue B, was taken sick, and Dr. Boeraer was sent for to attend ber accouchment. There was some obstruc- tion in giving birth, and the doctor. in uéing force for the delivery, revered one arm from the ehild, near the elbow. The other arm was then taken hold of by the @ector, which was torn from the body in a similar man. wer. An fron instrument was then applied for the pur Er. of effecting the delivery, but failing in the attempt, left the wowan in that critical situation. Dr. Wilhelm, one of the Coroners, was thea sent for, whe ‘ermed the operation in a skilful manuer, and thas, as believed, saved the life of the woman. Coroner Hilton yesterday afiernoon took the evidence of Mrs Noll, who gu: detailed account of her sufferings, and the maaner tor Boerner attempted to effect the delivery, which jirely unfit for publication. Dr. Wilhelm also testi- to the state in which he fouud Mrs Noll when he and gave as his opioion, that the mother id child now lies in » ve gerous state from ph Kammerer, being sworn, testified—I reside at 89 Chrystie street; Ihave examined the body of the deceased child; it wae, in my opinion, a full time and healthy child; the forearms have the appearance of being torn off, both’ collar bones are fractured, as is also the radial bone of the right arm, which. in my opinion, is the effect of extreme violence, by pullieg and twisting; the ones of the skull:how marks of extreme violene2; those injuries and marks of violence are sufficient to produes death The jury, after a brief consultation, renderad the fol lowing verdict:—Chat the fewale chiid was atillvora; the } effect of mal »;acric# on the 1other egecting the dean of deceased and jeopardizing the lifsot the mother. Fare ther, we hold a man celling himself Doc'or Charles Boer- mer, of No, 226 Houston street, guilty of said charges. On the finding of the above verdict, the aceused Dr. Boerner. who bad been placed acder arrest early in the day, was committed to prison by Coroner Hilton to aoswer the charge. DEATH OF A MUTE BY APOPLEXY. Coroner Gamble yesterdsy heid an inquest, at the Sixteenth ward police station, on the body of John F. Rapp. a mute, twenty three years of age, a ostive of New York, who came to his death by apoplexy, proda from ictemperance, It appears by the evidence that deceased has been in the habit of drinking and beco: jutewperate for the last seven years, amd on Satur day night he was intoxicated on a #voop st the eorasr of Fifteenth street and Eighth avenue, when kis uncle, ifr Robert A. Koapp, endeavored to get him to go home: but | he refared to go, and snotser mute voluateered to re main with deceaced until be became sober. But in-taad of becoming better he bece inle, and tas police onyeyed him to the station honse, where ke died diet of death by apoplexy, produced fron intemperance Police Intelligence, Sifely and Justice to the Communily —P2t'ce Justice @tuart, dnring the past week, ba! sentenced up ards of thirty desperate and vicious young men. kaown as a ganz ealied ‘ short doys,’’ to the Penitentiary for six months @eech. onder the vag-ant act. The community may thank the magistrate for this wise, judicial proseediag, ae the honest portion of our citizens cam remain secure from the depredutions of these fellows at least for that period, and when the term of imprisonment expires, if they do net ocenpy their time in some honest business, ‘the wagistrate ods to order them acain arrested and will send them up for another term. This plan adopted = Justice Stuart, in ridding onrfrity for a while of these eving vagabonds. ought to be foliewed up by the ins rates of the other conrta, and much good would be ved, and y swarded % our citizens and store- Attempt - Someeives Thoms Harrison and Joho Mee, were a. ‘on Saruraay teenth ward, on & cbarce of attempting to break inte the dwelling house No. 140 Tenth sveanue, the occupents being absent inthe country. The suspicious movements of the burglars were noticed by Dar Newell, who 26 sides next door. The alarm was and Alcerman Denman bappeniog 4 the officer king the accused The prisoners were taken before day morning, who committed them both to prison for tria A Charge of Burglary —A German named Joho Died rich was arrested on Saturday night by Lieut. Frirty, of the fixth ward poiics, on a charge of breaking inte the premises No 120 Centre street oseapied by Henry Kal g theref:om, leged. ‘The aorsi art, who detained him far a farther examination. Running Over a Child. colored man named Alfred Paine Wie arrested on Saturday afiernoon,on a charge of rvaning over a child of Mr. Michael Hopper’s, re-itiog st No, 125 Hammond street. The enilé, it sooms, was ia ‘West street, where it was rua over by « herse aad wagoa driven by the colored wan. Tae injury infisted on the child was believed to be of a fatal charseter. The police eonveyed the injured child to the residence of its parents Justice ctuart detained the colored wan for a Carther ex awmipation. Charge of Stealing Money.—lient. Graham, of the ‘Teelfth ward police, on Suturday arrested a man named Michael Breins. on a charze of stealing $102 frem Thomas Seherans, a workman engaged on Racdall’s Island. The secured was couveyed before Justice Stuart, whe com- mitted him to prison for examination. Brooklye City Intelligence, Fx avn Naruow kacare.—Oa Sunday morning, abont thres o’clocic, a fire broke out in the lower portion of a ‘Ubree story Orick house on Conover street, mext to the corner of Wolooti street, occupied as a liquor store by Mrs. Murpby ou the first floor, and by « number of poor families up rtairs, The firemen arrived on the ground promrtly and enginer Nos. 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 14,15, 17 and 19 formed two sines to the Atlantic doek basin, « distanca of four blocks, whenes after considerable, but enavoida- Die delay, they procured a sufficiency of water to com- meveeoperstions, The fire by this time bad made sueh rapid progress tlint ail efforts to cave the burning build- ing were sselese, and they directed their attention to the eunes adjoiving on either side. A family named Reach resided on the fourth Goor, and being aroused from their slumbers ky the «ncke, found all the avenues of exces the usus! way cut off. With great presence of mind Rene forced out & window and lifted his wife out letting her drop on the sidowalk, a distance of some forty feet. Thore below had placed carpets and feather ibeds beneath so a8 to break the weight of the fall a4 auch as posntbia Sho was, notwithstanding, badiy ert, but it is «xpposed that mo bones were broken. Mr. Roach then doscended himself by the leader on tho side of the hours, and after getting down about haif =e loxt hix hold and fell, striking upon an iron pot. One of bin iegs was fractured, and he was otherwise severely injured. Both were yed to a neighbor's house ant provided with medical attendance. I'he house on the cor ner of Wolcott and Conover streets, aiso occupied as a Nquor stere, was eonsdernbly damaged in the upper atories, and the roof of the building on the other side sas burned off. The furniture of the secupants of the house destroyed was mostly consumed. It was goneraliy apinsured. The buildings are owned by Mr. Choster Be dell, and itis understood, are insured, but in what sflices mot ancertained. The lovs will probably arcoed $% G0, an the bouser apyearet to have been very choaoly ptt mp. The police. as well as tbe firemen, did al! in their power in aid of the sufforers. Coxvictions vor Ronprry.—Io the court of Oyer and Terminer, on Saturday, Patrick Lawrenoe, tried and e9a vieted of robbery, in ing down and tsking the puree o@arsilor named Jonathan Robart, some two months etree. jlo walking along Fur man street, was sentenond 0 imprisonment in the State "at Sing Sing, for the term of ten yeers. Jamo: olda, imp'eaded with was tried and acquitted. for highway robbery, in sttacking a man named ‘Bugle, on Fulton avenae, «09 be it four weeks ‘and compelling him to hand over all bis money— few shillings—was tried and coavicted Jobn Blackwell, in 2 | tained to Commit Burglary —Two Youu man, ceiling | night by ofieer Fisher, of the Six- | property to the | ax converet! before Justice | INTERESTING FROM GEORGIA. THE POLITICAL ASPECT OF THE STATE. - Movements of the Democratio, Union, and Whig Parties. The Hsect of the Folicy of the Administration, &e., dic, dic. ‘The Democratic Convention. The Demceraiic State Convention, as we have before stated, met in Macon, Ga, on the 15th inst., and nemi- sated the Hon. Herschel V. Johnson as its candidate for Governor. A committes of thirty-nine, consisting of three from each judicial district, appointed to prepare matter for the action of the meeting, submitted a report through their chairman, James Gardner, Jr., of Richmond, recommend- ing the Baltimore platform, adopted by the National Democratic Convention of 1852, as an embodiment of the creed and the sentiments of the democracy of Georgia, ‘and coneluding with the following — Resolved, That the sentiments of the Ingugural Add of President, Pieroe will moot n hearty response from the de, mocracy of Geot and strengthen the assurance inspired by bis past prlitioal life, that the constitution of our country at home, snd her rights and honor abroad, will be main- tained by his administration. The following is Mr. Johneon’s letter of acceptance:— MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga,, June 18, 1853. GENTLEMEN .—I am honored by the recel it of your note of the 15th instant, in behalf of the late Democratic Con- vention, informing me of my unanimous nominatien by that body ‘‘as the democratic candidate to be run for Governor of Gecrgia at the election in October next.”’ Our political creed originated with Jefferson and Madi- ton, and is co-eval with our coustitution. It has received the sexetion avd ert of all sound republicans from that to the present day. It owes its most brilliant illus- trations to the administrations of Jackson and Polk. It achieved its last victory in the election of General Pierce, During my short and unimportant career it has been the lamp to my fest ard tbe light to my path. Ofcen and over have we rolemply adop‘ed it in our conventions, = iy rt i i? di i rf ; Fi 3 F if z i § £ if 4 BF 4 f i if af i ® F et H i eff itt & i 3 Ee i | { E H is g E E i xen ¢ North who have been the strongest op- ponents of the South. te break down the last entreno.- ment in which Southern epinion bas fortified iteelf, and to place themselves, side by side, with its bitterest foes. ‘These doughty defenders of the rights of the South, who denounced Union men as submissionists and as traitors because they would not join them ins crusade against the whole North, affiliate with the vileet party of the North, recognize as brethren men who are not pure enough for our communion, and reject the compromise, which is the ony basis upon which they should act with Northern men. ‘The time has arrived then, for the revistance party of the State; the true Union and Southern rights party to raise its voice of protest against a political ina. tion, which obliges Southern men to act with abolition ists—to become their apologists, and sustain an adminis- tration which gives them its protection, and its patron- . The time has arrived when all true Southern men Ghose Southern rights opinions, were not mere sound and fury signifying uothing, to place themselves upoa the Georgia platform, to reafirm the fourth resolution of that platform. and though deserted by the par excellence, now again it is inscribed upon our banner, and that ner is confided to my bands during the heat and perils the opening canvass. I receive it with difidence, but au inspired and encowaged by the consciousness that our priveiplo: are as invincible and imperishable as the genius of hberty. To them we are indebted for fs giacies | of our past history, and upon their success must depend the realization of our futuro hopes. ‘The unusual size of the late convention and the harmo- ny of its action evince that the great body of the democ- racy are thoroughly areured toa proper appreciation of their principles, and their united determination to main- tein . This should be the occasion of rivcere grati- fication to every true-hearted democrat. To me, I con- fess, it is Feculiarly so. The recent divisions in our par- ty, resulting from honert differences of opiaion, touching aw subject of gréat delicacy and embarrassment, have passed away with the issues that produced them. The temporary alienation that existed has ceased, and what: ever Greschle Obed feeling and intemperance of expression may bave been indulged are forgotten and forgiven, in ‘the general fusion cf sentiment which unites us in the bonds of political brotherhood. For this I have unceas- ingly labored since the 10th of December, 1850, down to the present day; ard for this I shall continue to con- secrate my feeble abilities, until it may be said emphati- cally, that the democracy of Georgia are “now and forever, one and inseparable.” To this end, I humbly invoke a general spirit of kindness and mutual forbear- of I ance. if our late divisions have produced a temporary para lysir ip the action of the democratic party, there is a consideration that goes far to compensate for the pain which its remembrenee awakens. It is the fact that, en our restoration to healtb, we find oureelves strengthened, by the accessicn to our ranks, of many noble and pa- triotic whigs, who, during our recent temporary aliena- tion, acted with one or the other of the divisions of our party. but now rising above the influence of former asso ciations, have not hes affili.te with us. Feeling that our principles are the soundest and our policy the wisest, they have yielded to them the tribute of their sanction and their suffra; Thus united and reinforced let each strive to excel bis brother in his alscrity to sa- crifice personal preferences, in his efforts to heal local divi-ions, and in his devotion to the best interest of our common country. The democratic party cf Georgia is no sectional organi zation, formed merely to obtain power. by the conceal ment of priveiples on the one band, avd on the other by presenting issues to the country which have been retrled. It is an integral part of the nationsl aemocracy, aud principles, inscribed upon every banner, * are known and read by allen.” Thut party. in the late Baltimore Con vention, reaffirmed those principles. It stands solemnly pledged to muintain the rights of the States and the ia tegrity of the Union. f{¢ triumphantly elected Gen Pierce who, in his inwugural address, reitecated the pledge, and avowed his determination to redeem it, ia the conduct of his administrati t is due, therefore, to our brethren throughout the ecr ey. dent, who looks to us for sup n d harmony, and rd every effort to cecoy us by falxe pretences, from our allegiance to our common +tandard Hence, for ail who desire in good faith to sustain his sdminis ration and | to reslive the hope ‘thatthe constitution of our country | at home, and ber rights avd houor abroad, will be maia- their true position is in the ranks of the demo- j cratic party | Lrepest the expression of profound gratitude to the democracy of Georgia, for the honor conferred upon me; | ami to yon, gentiewen I tender my acknowledgmenta, | for the kind terms ia which you have advised me of the action of the Convention. Respectfully, your obedient fervant, TLERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. The Whig or Union Convention. [From the Macon (Ga.) Messenger, June 22.) The cardidates of the Southern rights party of Geor- gia, for the office of Governor, is befure the people and | be who belleves that sueh a candidate upon such a plat | form, can be elected, bas little confidence in the intelii- | gence of the people, and too much altogether in their | credulity. We cannot and will not believe that the sheer | force of party discipline, and of an empty party name, | ean cause the people of Georgia to blot the glorious record of the jast few years, and to snrrender the exalted posi- tion which they occupy before the Union, by elevating to the first office in their gift< man who opposed every ste) | of she progress by which that position was prot lie’ Lees thaniwo years ago, placivg themselves upon the | Georgia platform. as the juct medivm of correct Southern | opinion, between the two extremes of submission and of | resistance to Northern sger ms, they ceelared their approval of the compremise by # ore whelmiag majority | of eithteen thousand ve and branded as unwortoy of | their confidenee and of their support, the party and che men whorefu-ed to stand with them upon that broad jo atforu of principle. The action of the people of Geor +he com promize, onvention ii , | direction towhe'puuie restin cus ot the Seute, sontedl To | their side ® firm ana unbroken phalanx of Southern States, and gave to their State a. controlling influence in | the polities ef the South and in the destinies of the Union. | This action fuceod the twn creat national parties of the Union to encorce the Cempromice, avd to respect the rights of the Seuth under it, acd to that action we are in- debted for whatever political gcod we enjoy. | _ This was but yesterday, and to dey they are called upoa by the action oi the lats Democratic Convention to blo: this fair record-—-to reverse the position of the State upon the whole eompromise question policy—and insult | ingly ashed to vindicate the Nashville Convention, and | the disunion mevement of 1850, by rowarding the men and the party who projected them, Tuis is the issue pre- sented to the ot Gecrgia-— presented in the candi- date, and in the platform of the Southern rights party; d when we eay that such # candida’, upon such a platform, eannot bea elected. we rely vpoa the intelligence end honesty of the poopie, aud upon the fact that s large | msjority of them, amid ali the chauges of the last two | yeure, *Uili remain true to the comoromise-—otill stand | upon tbe Georgia pletiorm, aud still regard aa agitators, | and a4 enemies of the,dost interests of tae Sta!a, all those | who-opposed it in 1858, and dare not buldly endorse it in 1663. This controlling sentiment of the people, ovidenced by a majority of eighteen thousand of the voters of Georgia a few sbort months age, has been disregarded and out raged in the action af the Democratic Convention, Where are tke 67,047 voters of Georgia who sustained | Mr. Cobb in 1861, and who were denounced by Her-chal Y. Johnson, and’ by the sea who nowinsted him for governor last week, as submsvioniats, and ax traitors to the South’ And ‘where in this bolus of Southern rights and seces called upon.to swallow—do tacy find anything pelatadle tothem? or iz the platfors: upon which be has been placed anything which is a bone fide endorsement of their political opinions: The convention reaffirmed the Palti- more platform. That platform, excepting the revlntion whieh declares that the dermoer. party will * abide by | and edhere to”? the compromise, was mere sound siga fying nothing, and the chairmaa.c! tne J-mocratic State Convention wie reported it+ platform, Richmond, advocated resistance to went to the ore Convention ridiewing the rec, nition of its finelity—aod ngon his return strenuously avé zealously contended that that ¢xvention did not de: sign to endorse or approve of the aompromise, but sim ply # acquiesoe ie it aa in eny other legislation of Con grees. The convention pretwaded to eacorse the iaaugu- ral of President Pierce in the following words :-— Resolwed, That the sentiments of the faaezural addtose of | revidomt Piereo wili met « hearty response from the people of Geory Not that they do, but. th sy will. day. Who ean regord this as a bona fide endorsement of the policy aed principles of the inaugoral? I this the Ianguage which partisans osually employ ia expressing cordial nud warm asproved’ and by Sis cunningly worded resolution can the Union men of Georzia be eateanped? Thi, then, is the relation which the platform ears to the compromise. The relation of the eaudidate ts easier determined, He tas beea disdagamted in his epposi tion to the eompromise part, the State, and 0 the bitterness of that opposition bu ea his Lenent nowii tion, When in the Union Conve pia platform-—that able and bed ¢ vative Southern opinioa-— was reports of Thirty-three, Jndse Johvson war prevent tor, and we quote from a letter ef 3 T. p 1 (at present editor of the Savaosab Courier, bat at that time editor of thin paper), to nh he feetiog with whieh the democratic eardidate fo nor regerded the Georgie platform and its builders ‘After the reading was completod, m m Snifested by all present. Ono or two fire eaters rena: to tbeir personal with the report. mt some fature h gratidention w fiends that thoy wore entirely satiated | One only was lvard to condemo it. par ey chivalry of the South to stand pong it, and there abide the irsue of the inrane policy of the presemt administra- tion, which furnishes ‘‘material aid’’ to our enemies, and hastens protably. the happening of one of those contia- gencies upon which the people have pledged themselves to resistance. ‘Another convention meets today. We pledge to the Lei gor Georgia, in Uphacoadadig ating! od hee give them astropger en en! the principles the inaugural of President Pierce than the covention of last week: a firm and decided disapproval of the policy ef the administrstion in its appointments, and a candidate who better represents the comorise sentiment of the State, with whom we sball ‘torn the tables” upon the nominee of the secession democracy, TELEGRAPHIC. Georgia Whig State Convention. THE UNION PLATFORM ADOPTED—NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR, ETC. Cuartzstoy, June 24, 1853. The Georgia Whig State Convention assembled, and elected Genera! John W, A. Sanford, (Uniom democrat) President ; 187 delegates were present, representing 52 counties, Charles J. Jenkins, of Richmond county, was nominated for Goverwor on the first ballot. The Convention adopted the priveiples of the Union Convention of 1850. ‘adorescen were delivered by Mesers R Toombs and A. W. Thomas, of Elbert, and the proceedi: ous and enthusiastic, ‘Dr. David A. Reese, whig, of Jasper, has been nemi- nated for Congress in the third district, ings were Miscellancous Matter. From the Milledgeville ( Ga.) Recorder, Jane 21.) ‘This body (Demoeratic State Convention) which as- sembled in this city last week, was respectable in num- ber snd ability; though there were present few, if any, gentlemen of very distinguished eminence, being mostly composed of comparatively young and inexperience: mep. As we avticipated, from the powerful and deeply laid combination and ccalition which was consummated some days previous to its meeting, the deliberations of the convention were much more harmonious than at first predicted. Now the result is known—but the modus nd palpable to those who at a distaace yet glass darkly. Billy Fatterson is hit, badly not £0 oh see throvg hit; everybody is on the qui rive tohear what Mrs Grundy will ray about it, and yet everybody is in profound ig- norance of who created the mischief. Col. Murphy, Judge Warner. Judge Lumkin and Col. Jackson, are all decapitated, and everybocy now zees, or will heresfter ree, how, when, where, acd why it wax done. Of course the Union artecedents and arsociations of Hiram Warner had nothing to do with his tremendous strength of two score and four votes. in a convention numbering upwards of two hundred members, aud backed oy his own thrilling and imely biography. Of courée, the cuslaught of Col. Marpby upon the Nashville regime und coftin regiment had no conection with bis deteat before the Newnan Convention. Still geome strange fatality seems to have befallen all those Union democrats eho have identified themselves with re organized democracy. It is true. the expectation is held out. we understand. that the patriotic services of Gov Cobb, in behalf of Judge Johnson, are to be rewarded with Senatorial robes. and it has also been intimated, that it would be both just and graceful in the latter, rhould hs canvass the ‘State, to make the c’aims of the former to this dignity the burden of his addresses before the people, and urge upou them the importance of eect ing the right kind of men to the next Lagislature. This would doutiess be deemed by bis exeelleacy a vital fssue —not like the Unicn organization and issues, an obsolete iden. It would eertainly be more vital than the un- meaning platform adopted by the convention. With the present lights and maxks before us, we cannot present vw onr worthy snd efficient executive a more promisin destiny than the one so recently attained by his ol Union comrades, Mesars. Murphy, Warner, a1 [From the Marrietta (ca.) Union. } The Democratic State Convention commenced its ses- sion yesterday. The convention called to nominate a candidate upon Union principles, will mest next Wedaes- day. The action of these conventions will be important. It is needless for us to eay to our . that in maki our selection between the nominees we will be gui solely by principle. Should = Southern rights man be nominated by the first convention, and # Union man the basis of the Union party, be nominated by the Ii we will upbesitatingly support the latter. Othi imilar rearops, our preference between the jay be reversed. MAINE POLITICS. Our Portland Correspondence. PorTLanD, Me., June 13, 1853. Maine-—Discontent Among the Democracy—Wool- ly Heads and Wild Cats both Discontented—Vir- gil D. Parris—Governor Hubbard—Mr. Strick- land—The Administration and the Press—The ise, no- Governor Crosby—Disunion of the Democrats — Whigs Uniting with the Maine Law Party, §c. It is now almost a year since I wrote you last from this place. Then, I recollect, I told you that the predictions of the whigs that they were about to carry this State for General Scott were not well founded. The event justified what I then said, and which was based on the belief that the democracy woukl not quarrel about the Presidency. Nor did they, though abusing one another in the choicest billingsgate on local affairs. Almost on the very day that their dissensions lost them the State, in Septem- ber, they were holding mass conventions, and avow- ing an eternal hatred of the whigs and ‘an undying attachment to “the spoils.” Matters are very dif- ferent with the same party now. It is as if one had been asleep for the matter of twenty years, and had just weked up to an entirely new state of things, not dissimilar to that experienced by the late Mr. R. Van Winkle, who commenced his nap a loyal subject of King George, and rose from it to find General | Washington's name on the rignboards of taverns, the surest proof of popularity, which J doubt if my excellent friend, Neal Dow, very soon receives. In addition to their locel causes of quarrel, the democ- racy now have national matters in their hands. They are, in some cases, as sour, and in others as bitter, as men weil can be, who have asked for broad nad received a stone—said stone being flung at their heads, They ave quarreling like whigs, ond making | anything but a creditable display of their dieappoint- monte and weaknesses. They are qnarrelling about the liquor law, about offices, about nominations that are tole made, and about those which were made last year, about the past and about the foture. In brief, “ They all agree to disagree— A most united familie.” The chief complaint is against the President, who is acensed of bearing himself with much baughtiness towards pretty mach all our people who go to Wash- ington, and who does not reemto have made any retusing gracefully. ‘‘ Don't say a word to me aboat ie 20. y. At wovor, a genti¢inan aporoach he thought of the sabmissiontste ay © wea most thorough eontem: sok.” I give nearly, jsoly, his you to robbie that in tema thaa Keial will be asking © ren commisslor pack whom he now professes to oon temp, Tt ts bn rtunato that the sountenances of oy wen oc Lully imalonw Che shade of feuding Whivk dag, merely visited ceremoniously, He also declared that he knew ail about Maine polities. With submission, | T must say that Le bas showed, aller a total igno- | rance of the condition of the democracy lere, or else | he has determined to proceed in the business of ajr Bateman without regard to the circumstances of | at condition, It is diMeat to ray which party he § 4 « went in” for the rhteen or twenty thousand at , a year, but .” He was, to use his own $1 Fee EY é ! General Pierce Preaii full part in that piece of Lannea different, as you may chance to ho! Baltimore as in course of the contest that followed the nomination. I doubt if he would have been half as angry as he is if the President had Be refused him any thing. As it is, he scatters his indignation about with as much yehemence as Virgil, of Mantua, is said to have expended of grace in scatter manure over those fields that bave come down to us embalmed in his song. I would just whisper into the ear of ‘Gen. Pierce that he'd better beware of this new ‘Thane of Fife, who is not exactly the sort of personage that, were T Presi- dent, I should care to have for an some. Another angry Maineite, but whose sting has been withdrawn, to be incorporated into the liquor law, ia John Hubbard, lately our Governor, and who is what some people say Gen. Pierce will find himself to be some four years hence—a used-up man. Goy. -Hub- bard wanted to be Consul at Honolulu, and bad set his heart upon the place. He had several reasons for desiring the office. The first was, that it was a ood place, and that is a good reason for desiring it. hen Li3 has been of late years the custom to give the Sandwich Island offices to Maine men—Mr. Severance being Commissioner, and Mr. Allen (by long resi- dence a Maineite) Consul. Then, it is said, the ex- Governor is a devout believer in the annexation of the islands to the United States, in which businesshe had voted himself a leading post, and a reward, in the shape of a United States Senatorship from the new Gages fey lear apy pee ete en “ee agne, but he could not get a penny of insurance o1 tion. He had sunk into the Kennebec, and posed to rise out of the Pacific. it—as well at He wished for High Office, too, to show our rum democrats that they had not killed him, when they Bot him out of our guber- natorial chair, and, therefore, if Honolulu were be- spoken, he had no objection to Havana; and if some- body had been ahead of him in the Sopit aee why he would condescend to take Havre, or Val Eastern Argus—State Politics—Unpopularity of progress in that first of all political acts, the act of | Maine politica, for { won't listen to it,’ was the first | observation that he addressed to one of our principal | men, only a fortnight after the inanguration, when | © or any other place whereof it was impossible to ex- ress the annual profits in less than five figures. The ‘he President squeezed his hand affectionately and left in it somethi®¥, which, on being opened, proved to be the appointment of Consul to Trinidad de Cuba. Mr. Hubbard was enraged, and he vowed by the whiskers of Neal Daw’s tom cat, (an oath as solemn in the month of an original Maine law man—and the ex-Governor is a very igo article of that kind— as that of the ancient eyptian when he swore by him who slept in Phile,) that he would be drowned in a butt of tipple brewed under the late whig stat- ute—anent, the manufacture and sale of liquor— sooner than take the place. They do say that the President, who is a wag in his way, (some people have found his anything but pleasant,) was td of a practical joke in this appointment. From fe dad de Cuba do they bring sour molasses, from ir molasses is made new rum, with new rum do men get drunk, and to prevent all this was the Maine law assed, whereunto Mr. Hubbard Vee his signature. The President was too cruel in thus twitting the ex- Governor of the peculiar form and shape of his folly. Another offended man is Mr. Strickland, a gentle- man who seems born to be disxppointed. He was not long age prevented from going to Congress by his own party, and now the national head of that party refuses to him any of that balm of which there issuch an inexhaustible supply in Gilead—Wash- ington, | mean. He means “ miching malicho,’” un- less people are greatly mielaken. He is clever, and the sort of man who ought nvt to be affronted. That “ chaise” has not been sent to him; but when he re- ceives it, no doubt he will go over the course at a slapping pace. Sa i One of the purpores of the administration would seem to be the control of the press. They wish not merely to sway that engine, but to own ‘as much of it as possible. It was in pursuance of this policy that, through their agents, sa! Jetely made an at- | tempt to get possession of the Lastern Argus news- | paper, a daily, which has been published here tor | many years, always following its party, and ready to follow it to the dcvil—an eligible opportunity for doing which, many think, will soon be afforded. The Argus wields a power that makes it necessary that it should be conciliated, and efforts have frequent- ly been made to purchase it, so that it might in hands upon which government would rely under any and all circumetances. _ The sum of $17,500 was offered to one of its proprietors for half the paper, but he being arensible man demanded $20,000,which is certainly what his property is worth. How the matter was settled 1 do not positively know, though Ihave beard various stories, which I do not repeat, because 1 have no desire to say anything that might turn out to be unjust to respectable persons. The propriety of government meddling with the press may, however, well be doubted. No objection can be made to the common usage of bestowing adver- | tisements, &c., on party journals, as goverment | does not pay so high as to give the impression that the business can amount to corruption. | “Tunderstand that some of our democrats are striving | very hard to get into the Boston Custom Houae, but, thus far, with but indifferent success. Bee that pecause Gen. Peaslee went from New ae shire to Boston, he will be more favorable to eppli- | cants out of Massachusetts, than were Mr. Henshaw. Mr. Bancroft, and Governor Morton; but from their premises I should draW the exactly upposite conclu- sion, as the new Collector would hardly wish to so roceed, as to excite local discontent, which might Rotow were he to carry out the idea that even politi- cal importations are to pass through the Boston Custom House. We we so many ports of onr own that we can’t make a great argu- | ment in favor of free trade in inspectors, Xc., | _ As respects our local politics there is not a great | deal to be said, trade hat both parties are much | ent up. Governor iby is not #0 ponpler. eo he was by 4 great deal, peonle =e¢ wking Into account the exceeding dimeulties of his position. The whiga came into power through the aid of the anti-liquor | law democrats, if they can be said ‘to be in power when they can do nothing of coi uence; but they the law, and to rely upon them for a victory in Sep- tember next. It is a risky game, and would not have ashow for success were it not for the distracted con- dition ofthe democracy, growing out of national matters. What will give zest to the campaign s0 toon to commence, is the fact that a United States Senator will have to be chosen by the next Legisla- ture, there being now a vacancy in our delegation. Mr. Pitt Fessenden, who made so good ran at the last session of the Legislature, may carry the day next winter. The whole thing a he upon the de- mocracy. Should they choose to unite, forgetting their diseensions, and make use of the power which they unquestionably possess, and which needs only to be massed to be invincible, they could prevent the choice of any man out of their own party. But, from Pay a, appearances, it would hardly seem possible forthe democrats to bring about that “perfect union,” in effecting which lies their sole hope of vic- tory. The time ir too short—less than three months—to achieve so great a change as the exis- tence of such union would imply. I suppose that the philosophy of all this is, that our democrats needed defeat, in order to bring them into a correct position, Theirlong tenure of power had worked its usnal results on them, and the Maine law's exis- tence only hastened a quarrel that was inevitable. Had it net been for the Presidential election then occuring, they would have lost the State utterly last September, and then they would have this year come together Cop under the wholesome disci- line that adversity is sure to bring with it. As it 8, complicated as matters have been by the extreme discontent that has arisen out of the office-seeking mania, it is yo Seah to say what course events willtake. After our State campaign shall have been fairly opened, J will write you again, and, to the best of my power, endeavor to give as clear a picture of the field aa my means of observation shall allow me to make. SeBaco. Who ts to Keep off the Grass? TO THE EDITOR OF THR AERALD. WAN you allow me to inquire, through the medium of your widely eirenlated paper, of the elty officer having charge of the parks and public squares, whether the same ar@intended for the recrention of pedest)ians or to be used a@ siding scho Is for city mounted militia? The perions im the neighborhood of Tompkins’ square, who have oceaion to rend their children there, are much an noyed vy the place having become o regular readezvous for cavniry oomspanios. They meet there very often, aad ia thelr rides aad manceuvies agound the grounds break | up ihe weiks aud kick up a ter: ble dart, compelling all persons in the waiks to get ont of thelr war, under pevalty of being ridden over. The o ther day J noticed » horseman on # bleek charger galloping &!0und ata rapid rate, ane thereby making {t very daog Tous for children who might happen to be in hia way. Th %e wre notices up forbddicg perrons to walk on the gra #! but where are we io wv to when there cavaliors oceap)’ te walks 4 are filling the air with dust? It connot be (hat the regulations of the park a “ow thia, ape | hove that the officer having charge of the ‘watter may do his duty, and oblige MANY IN ST. MARKS PLACK , Frer at Toroxto. jth inst., a fire broke On the ont in the rear ef Mr. N Reid’s auotion atere, on King ntrewc. The hoi ithe one adjoining, oecupied Mr, Myer, cloth were entirely dertrojed, The bi Wulldings were very mnch injured, : | seem to have elected to go with the supporters of | | Mr. Hawthorne— His Origm— The Havthorne Family— Residence of Mr. Hawthorne in Maine —Educated at Bowdoin College—Pilgrimises in Search of “The Great Carbuncle”—Returns to Salem, Mass.—Writes for “ The Token”—Js Appointed to Office by Mr. Bancroft—Joins the | Told “« Brook Farm” Community—Takes up his Re- | with sidence in Concord, Mass.—Is Appointed Sur- veyor of the Ports of Salem and Beverly—Remov- ed therefrom—Removes to Lenox, Mass.—Returns to Concord— Publication of “ Twice- Told Why so Called— Appearance of ‘ Mosses froman fetely made it romantic, adn 4 dreamiu Old Manse”’—Origin of that Title—‘ The Scar- let Letter’—Its Popwlarity—“ The House of the | to Seven Gables’"— The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales” — The Blithedale Romance” — “ Life of President Pierce” —Mr. Hawthorne Ap- pointed Consul to Liverpsol—His Political Opi- nions and (want of) Political Acts— His Estimate of Politicians— Miscellaneous Observations—Au- thor of Works for Children—General Tone of hts Writings, §c., §¢, §c- When one hears of a gentleman having been sud- denly promoted in this world—whether through vir- tue of his own acts, or from having a friend at court— one feels a natural desire to learn something about him—where he was born, what he has been about all bis lifetime, and all and sundry his antecedents, intentions, hopes, and so forth. Mr. Hawthorne, au- thor of “The Scarlet Letter,” has attained to a won- derful degree of fame during the last three years, and his having been appointed Consul to Liverpool by President Pierce has made him an object of reve- rential awe on the part of politicians, who probably would care very little about his books had they con- tinued without the Presidential imprimation.. Hence asketch of Mr. Hawthorne's life may not be unac- ceptable to the millions of people who read the Heratp, not only in the United States, but in all parta of the world to which the lights of Christianity and journalism have penetrated. A friend of mine, a year or two since, read something that I wrote for the Hrratp in the Convent of Mount Sinai, and I. am not without hope, considering its subject, that this sketch may be read on Mount Ararat. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born at Salem, about | the year 1805. He is regularly descended from one | of the early settlers of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. “ It is now nearly two centuries and a quarter since the original Briton, the earliest emigrant of my | name,” cays Mr. Hawthorne, “ made his appearance in the wildand forest-bordered settlement which has since become a city,” (Salem), so that he can claim to belong to an old family. The founder of that family in America was a rigid Puritan, and a bitter | persecutor of the Quakers; and the son of thatfounder | was prominent in the murders of the so-called witches. The Hawthornes, however, appear not to Toles | lating to he of clonal times wea Sagaee et ht nies of En; . ve always su) he was the antae of a series of rs pies in the American ne ae ikon y ce about that period of ieee that one would hardly su connect it with H Magazine in ; “An Octogel F ‘ears Since,” for are not. only worthy of him in all respects, but heeae acon- tributor to that periodical, and they have many | number which are | and perhaps qui | Goodman Brow: have been a very remarkable family, none of them rising above mediocrity until the present day, when, it must be confessed, they have obtained ‘a place in | their country’s history, and present fame. Those who are most familiar with Mr. Hawthorne's writings will have no difficulty in admitting that he is a genu- ine descendant from Puritans. Amiable and kind as ¢ his works, speaking generally, there occasionally hoots across them a gleam of savage ferocity quite worthy of the pious wolves who laid the foundations of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Hawthornes were a nautical family. The father of Mr. Hawthorn@ died when on a foreign voyage, when his son was but a mere child. The family removed to Maine, and dwelt on the shores of Sebago pond, or lake,a place of great natural beauties, and where the boyhood of the future writer was passed. In 1821 he entered Bowdoin College. Among his classmates were Franklin Pierce and Henry W. Longfellow. He was by no means famous for excelling in’ collegiate studies, but passed most of his time in desultory readings. He left college at the end of four years, and resumed his residence by the waters of the romantic Sebago, where he re- mained tor some time. Peubaps it was then that he undertook bis pilgrimage in search of the Great Car- buncle. There was a tradition among the Indians of Maine, which the whites took with their lands, of the existence of a famous and most precious stone, light, and which has been often sought, after having been seen, from a great distance, by the eyes of faith. This tradition has furnished the theme of onejof Mr. Hawthorne’stales, which he closes thus:— “Some few believe that this inestimable stone is radiance, like a flash of summer Jichtuing, far down the valley of the Baco. And re it owned, that inany a mile from the (ral hills I saw oa wondrous light arewna wueir summit, and was lured by the faith of poesy to be the latest pilgrim of the Great Carbuncle.” Returning to Salem about the year 1830, Mr. Haw- thorne there led a life quite retired, as if he had re- mained in the Maine forests. Mr. Goodricl—now our Consul at Paris—induced him to write for “The Token,” an annual that was very popular in those days. He aleo wrote, I believe, for so gentleman’s publications. Some years later, Mr. Bancroft, then Collector of Boston, sepainted Mr. Hawthorne to { place in the Cvem House there, which, however, he did not tong hold, being « single man, and not obliged to submit to drudgery. When the celebrated Brook I’arm Community was formed in West Roxbury, Mr. Hawthorne joined it. Tn 184 having married, be took up his residence at Conco1 in the Ripley iven so agreeable an account in the opening part of his ““Mosses.” He resided there for about four years, returning to Salem in 1846, having been appointed Surveyor of the port of Salem and Beverley, hy Pre- sident Polk, probably at the instance of Mr. Ban- croft, for itis not likely that the President had ever heard of him or his writings. He held t til the coming in of the Taylor admiuist 1849, when he was removed to make y, or the entieman who has just “sneezed in the sé asthe ‘rench, that lose people, used to say, for the benefit of Mr. Josselyn. Mr. Hawthorne soon after removed to Lenox, in Berkshire county, a place which many clever people have at times for their place of abode. As yeti all the girls there into Priscilla Tomboys, it is to be hoped that Mr. Hawthorne’s grave itlemanly mode of life had a proper effect on the “‘ingenuous youth” of that beantifal region. His life at Lenox wag as retired as it had been at Salem, twenty years before, and they tell a story in that city to the effect that, for a whole year, he never went out of his house in the daytime. In the spring of 1852 he removed to Concord, Mass., where he now resides, ation, ia The first of Mr. Hawthorne’s works, in a regular book form, that was given to the world, (the first by him acknowledged, J mean, for I have heard that he ublished a volume some years earlier, though I ave never seen a person who was acquainted with its title,) was published in the spring of 1837, by the American Stationers’ Company. It consisted of stories and sketches that ba by Loses originally in some of the periodicals of that time, and particulart: in “The Token.” One of these pieces— Dr. Hel- degger's Experiment,’ in which a subtle moral is deduced from the old story of Juan Ponce de Leon's “Search after the Fountain of Youth,” appeared first in Clarke's ‘“ Kuickerbocker.” Hence the big td and slightly quaint title of the volume— « Twice-Told Tales.” “That volume’s contents were identical with those of the first volume of’ the later editions of the work, except that it did not contain “The Toll-Gatherer'’s Day,” which was first given the world in the “ Democratic Review,” almost two years later. In 1842 2 new edition was published, in two volumes. The second volume contained “ Le- gends of the Province House,” from the “ Demo- cratic Review,” and “Snow Flakes,” “ Chippings with o Chisel,”’. and “Footprints on the Sea Shore,” froi the same periodical ; ‘ The Lilv’s Qui from “The Southern Rose ;”’ “Edward Fane's Rosebud,” from the “ Knicker- bocker ;” “The Threefold Destiny,’ from “The American Monthly Magazine;” “ The Sister Years,” which appeared as a New Year's Address from the Sa- lem Gazette newspaper, in 1839, and several pieces from “ The Token.” This edition attracted but little more attention than that which appeared almost five in the Crystal hills-a carbuncle—a perfect blaze of | arsonage houe, of which he has | Kemble’s example turned | | | | | | i} | } me other of that | came through Mr. Bancroft, then Secretary of Houses,” which tober, 1837, and reading. ints of resemblance to his acknowledged writings. hey were preceded by a paper entitled ‘ supers in the “Monthly” in Oc- the series is well worth any man’s Jn 1546 appeared the second of Mr. Hawthorne's works, ‘“‘Mosses from an Old Manse.” It formed parts 17 and 18 of Wiley & Putnam’s Library American Books, and like hi: consisted, with the exception of the first reprints. The name of the book was derived bg ra bee most of its contente were written while ir. Hawthorne was residing in the parsonage —which the Scotch Ripley, who for more then half a centary had settled over the principal church at Concord, Mass. Of the twenty-three pieces in these volumes, about a doven were written for the Democratic Review, some for the Boston fleet ag te literary monthly; one, ‘‘Drowne’s for Graham's the exception of long before their author resided at. Concord; e0 that however mossgrown, from an Old Manse. Among the best of acquaintances is “Monsieur du Mirroir,” which was of ie yeevions volumes, it 8 openin, part—The Old Manse’ Pot mi house call a Manse—of the late Dr. been oven image,” len Sid lagazine, and the remainder, with ie first, were old tales, produced they are not exactly Mower old. published in the Token, and which is inferior to very few of its author's productions. Ci a8 a whole, the ““Mosses” are not so good as ‘The Twice-Told Tales,” though there are some of tleir gue equal both on to the best of the tals I particularly spec'fy “The Christmas Bm- quet” and ‘ Egotism,” and next to ip their equals, are “ Youg n,” and ‘“ The Celestial Railroad,” and “Earth’s Holocaust.” A gem-like thing is tie “New Adam and Evo,’ which feminine reades especially admire. ‘“ The Hall of Fantasy” is a well written piece, and will bear repeated readings. “ The Celestial Railroad’ would make John Bu- an’s hair stand on end were he alive, and not bali. it is an adaptation of the pious tinker’s idea modern things, and shows how immensely progre sive they have become in the City of Destructio, and at Vanity Fair, and ‘‘ all along the line” of pl- grimage, since the days of Christian and Greatheat, and Miss Muchafraid. “ Reppacais Daughter” iz a very powerful production, but leaves too painful sn impression on the reader's mind. It appeared in tie Bemocratic Review for December, 1844, and pp- fessed to be a translation from the French of M. le l’Aubéssine, and is preceded by an amusing criticien . on his own writings, by the author. As this criticim has never been incorporated into any of Mr. » thorne’s collected works, perhaps an extract from it may not be unacceptable to the reader. ‘As a wri- ter,” says Mr. Hawthorne, ata of himselt under the French form of his thoroughly English name, “he seems to occupy an unfortunate position be- tween the transcendentaliste—who, under one name or another, have their share in the current literature of the world—sd the great body of pen-and-ink men, who ad- dress the intellect and sympathies of the multitude. If not too refined, at all events too re- mote, too shadowy and unsubstantial in his mode of developement, to “uit the taste of the latter elass, and yet too popular to satisty the spiritual or metayhy- ical requisitions of the former, he must necessarily ception and in executi ‘Si find himself without an audience, except here and there an individual, or possibly an isolated clique. His writings, to do them just ce, are not altogether destitute of fancy and originality; they might have won him greater repttation, but for an inveterate love of allegory, which is apt to invest his plots and characters with the aspect of scenery and people ip the clouds, aud to steal away the human warmth out of his ccnceptions. His fictions are sometimes historical, sometimes of the present day, and soue- times, as far as can be discovered, have little orno reference either to time or space. In any case,he generally contents bimeelf with a ery slight gn- broidery of outward manners, the frintest possible counterfeit of real life, and endeavors to create an n terest by some less obvious pepetianty of the subject. ure, a rain-drop of Occasionally & breat 1 of neture, ) thee. and tenderness, or a gleam of humor, will find ts way into the midst Of his fantastic imagery, aid make us feel 0 1, after all, we were yet within the Jimits of our native earth.” ‘This is quite a fair criti- ‘eu for a man to make on his own writin, Te will fe recollected that, Sir Walter Scott once wrote sn Vlazing, as of old, and say that they have cans tS | elaborate review of one of his owa nevels for the London Quarterly. In 1846 Mr. Hawthorne removed from Concord io Salem, having, as already stated, been appointd Surveyar of the port of Salem and Beverly, by Prei- dent Polk. Among the political and Werary ecn- dal of that time, it was currently said that the di tors of the Democratic Review could not pay hn for the many valuable articles which he had ca- tributed to their publication ; and so, having “ inti- ence,” they got him the office above named. I e- lieve it was all scandal, and that the appointmet te Navy. Some years before, when Collector of Tx- ton, that gentleman had conferred the placeof measnrer on Mr. Howthorze, which, however, ie did not long hold ; and it is a fair inference thathe gave him the Surveyorship of Salem—or obtaine it for him—for the same reason that had caused hir to appoint him a measurer, nemely, admiration of ihe ‘ genius of a man whom the world was then too ta- pid to appreciate. A more creditable motive ofsc- tion it would be hard to find. [t mast be admied that the democrats are wiser in the matter of ler- ary patronage than the whigs ; and some of teir statesmen who never rend, and who can scarely write, are often found the best patrons of literry excellence. No one, | presume, is snch an ass asto office une | spyose that the democrats care one d—ime mre for literature than do the whigs, but they kow that the literary class is quite numerous, tat its influence is not to be measured by he mere number of its votes, and that every ddar which it throws into the schclar's pocket will thre, by a peculiar alchymical process, be converted sto a golden eagle for its own use. It isa simple bsi- ness transaction, nothing more nor leas; and it is continued because it pays well. Asa general ral, our literary men despise democracy, and hate th- democratic party. Among the many scholars amt writers of emiuence in Mussachnsetts, there is hardy one who is or ever bas been a democrat. Mr. Emet- son is a freesoil whig. Professor Ticknor, Mr. Pre+ cott, Mr. Longfellow, Professor Felton, President Sparks, Mr. Everett, aud Mr. Hillard, are all whigs. Mr. Whittier is a freesoiler, with a due infusion of old-fashioned abolitionized whiggery, with all ite love tor Southern niggers and hatred and distrust of Northern white meu. Mr. Brownson is uct a party man. Mr. Palirey is a freesoiler, and go is Theodore Parker. With the exception of Sam. D. Bradford. nd his English is all Greek to the democracy- know of no first class literary man, except Mr. Haw- thorne--or even qne of the second class—-in Masea- chusetts, who belovgs to, sympathizes with, or acts for, the democracy—and he only sympathizes with them, never taking the trouble to vote, It has been my luck to he a voter at eight elections at the same place with Mr. Hawthorne, two of which have occny- red since his appointment to the Liverpool Consu- late, and at neither of them did he vote, nor was it supposed by any one that he should vote. Yet he calls himself a democrat, and a member of the demo- cratic party. I suspect that he is very mach such « politician as was Dr. Robertson. ‘For myself,” said the Deetor to Horace Walpole, “I am a moderate whig.’’ ‘A very moderate one,” quoth Horace, who could be us satirical as bis Sabine namesake. But J am getting off the track. Mr. Hawthorne remained abont three Salem Qustom House. [am not aware anything while he was there. In g1840 he was re- moved from office by Secretary Meredith, who pro bably had never heard of hiswritings. It should seem that‘he took his removal with but little equanimity, another proof that he is, no politician, for your true man of that class never thinks of complaining when the fortune of war is against him, but carelessly lays his head upon the block and dies like a philosopher, if not like a Christian. In lesa than a year after his years earlier. The few read the “ Tales” and other pa- | removal, Mr. Hawthorne published the “ Scarlet Let- pers, but the many passed them by, as so many dull fellows did the riches of California and Australia for years, unconscious that they were neglecting gold | way to make his fortune. and diamonds. Yet if men wonld tell the trath, there is not one of the readers of Mr. Hawthorne’s works but would admit that the ‘ Twive-Told Tales” contain something more than the germs of all that | object for he hae since written: they are the armory in which | him for a bi he stered up his intellectual weapons. No one who has read “The Minister’s Black Veil” can fail | man Consuleh' ter,” to which he attached an introdnction that made his reputation, and which has put him in the But for that introdaction, his book would have been no more mar than its predecessors, to neither of which Er if sapetior. His literary standing would not have made i resident Pierce, that waa to be, to ha’ her, and 60 the consulate ty ave been as w le as a Ro- It ia not the least singular of the 10 Liverpool would 1 to see in it a clone resemblance to “ The Scarlet | ‘Curiosities of Literature,’ that a man of jing, Lette: The Rev. Mr. Hooper is the Rev. Arthur | after being neglected for twenty years, should have unmesdale, under cireamstances somewhat different | “waked up one Goa f and found himself famons,’* fro.” those in which the latter figured. The idea that | and all because be bad written a hitter prose satire dim<v phadowed forth in the one tale is boldly de | alled forth hy a ¢ireumstance, the ovcumreaes of