The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 5, 1870, Page 2

} Amagem Beadems of Music Apollo Mall Moko terion Beoth's Theatre Maw Moles Bema Walle—teen ng yant’s Minstrele-fhoe Fy an The Tammony Wal Wood's Niue The duily circulation of Tur. Sex during Ree last Weck was aa sollount JODIAY sc cssseen ODOM U 06,133. Ar rege etry previous werk, caving Ju On and after Tnowlay, March 1, the price of advertising in the Darry Sux will be 40 cents por Mie, — Will Mr. Hoar Siay tn the Cabinet t Tho Senate has finally rejected the nomi sation of Mr, Hovr as a Justice of the Su preme Court, ‘The vote stood 83 to U4 Will Mr. Hoan remain Tt is said that he will doso, This means Coubtlers that he will not resiyn on account of the unfriendly action of th enate, Tle will remain as lony as Gen. ANT finds it convenient to keep him. Of course he will bot say a mement after he has rece frem the President on intiination that his resignation would Le agreeable Is it Lkely that Gen, Gnanv will wish to keep him much longer? We judge not. It is net in the natare of the case that Maseachurctts should have two members of the Cabinet for any great leagth of time. Gen, Guant undoubtedly understood this when he appointed Mr. Hoan, He made au 80,000 dally. him Attorney-General with the purpose of soor transferring Lim to some other place. In the original com) os.tion of the Cabinet, as it was first designed to be made up, Mr. Hoan did not figure. ‘The place of Attorney-Gen eral was then intended for Mr, Winwtas TH. Wanewonrn of Kentucky, a schoolmate and erony of Unyesis 8. in his younger days. This appoinimont was prevented by the earnest op position of gentlemen who wer then very intimate and influential with the appointiig power; but Mr. Wapsworiit was brought to Washington in other officiel relations neverthelese, and is now on laud there all rendy to stop {ate the Attomer- General's oMee whonever it is thought expe dient to pat hm there. Gen, Guan will not wish to contend with the Senate to keep Mr. Hoan in an office to which he unwillingly appointed him. He knows that his Administration has weakness onongh in its possession of a Sprnish Seere- tary of Stato, and in Its pursuance of a Span ish policy toward Cuba, without encumber. ing iteclf with eny avoidable quarrels. We presume, then, that he will make a virtue ot what he has desired to do from the begin ning, and thet at an early day Mr. Moan will retire from tho Cabinet, and Mr. Wane woutit—who has made himself more popu lar in Washington chan he used to be—will te now to the Senate as Attorney Geveval. — State Interfercuce wtth Rast River Navie gation. slature of State a bill ior the purpose of excluding tl Jaree Sound steamers from the navigation of the East River below Corlear’s Hook, which ip a point on the New York side of th river, and just opposite the Brooklyn Navy Yan, Much opposition to the m been man Jown-town mc There is now before the Leg ted by many ¢ chants. The expense arting freight in y great; and t) portation from the new landing places of the steamers to the yy this city is ve rst of trans. ut stores and ware y equal that of bringing from Bos houses would prob the freight the entire distane or Providence to New York, As the stock of our dry goods merelants comes almost whally from the Bast, they principally are interested in this change. Upon thei will fall the necessity of removal, or the expense of conveying their goods scross the city, if the bill Lecomes a law ; and the assertion is boldly made that the object of {ts alweestes is ouly to increase the value of certain up-towa property. Mr, Gkoues W. BLuNt, in a letter ¢ disroputalle " been prosuted to the Legislature the bill was alse says that he propa P memoral on the subject which has and that awn under his d rection “The diuiuis) ing the danger of the naviga. tion of the Eust River, and the re the harbor, i> writes, * ho lation of a be n for many yeors a eutject of muck thought with me.” ¥, a9 is asserted, the passnge ot the Sound steamers below Corlear's Hook particularly endangers navigation, some safeyuard, such aa slow ronning, may be requisite; bnt it ean scarcely be noecesary completely to ex: clude them from that portioa of the river, But the power to legislate mpon this mat ter properly belongs to the National Govern ment, and not tothe State, Why was not the bill taken to Washington rather than to Albany? Perhaps the chance of its success would not have been so great as it is with the New Y probable, however, that should {t pass, the Bound steamship» companies would demand a judicial interpretation as to the constitution ality of such a law. ———_— Mr. Paul 8. Forbes and the Spanish Gun boats, Our correspondent at Havana, iu his loiter which we publish this: morning, fue father indaw, Mr. Hasnuton Fis, galned 4 potorivty so unenviable--were ncgutinted by Mr. Pact S. Ponnes, also a specist frier ol on the other, game out bere froin Ewsopo with aut] from Gon, Pui to have the gunboats bu on uccount of the Spanteh Goverum: tj an vhen we believe he went back ty Kuro, « Gyain, with sme sort of private antl yf ee United States, ‘Tho fact that Mr. Forpms was thus employed by Mr. Fist has been re peatedly affirmed by the World, a journal controlled by Mr. Sipsey Weer oa, and cordingly alwaye an advocate of hie father-ine law's policy toward Spain and of his baeo nud treacherous betrayal of Cuba, But the ‘Ler fact, hat Mr. Ponnes has also been au ent of Prim, and as such had the gun s bullt hers, is now revealed for the first tuwe by our Lavaua correspondent, Wonld it not be well for Congress to inquire Into thie matter? Mr. Pisi’s con. duct upon the Cuban question has through. out Leen such es to render it the duty of Congress to invertigate his acta, and put a decisive stop to sucl abuse of the power ani good nae of te Executive. Le first seizes the gunboats on # falee pretence, all the while assuring the Cubans that he is their friend ; he keoys them in enfety under guard until they ere finished and ready to be de. liverod, ‘Them he hands them over to the Spaniards et the same time that he seives a Cuban vessel of war whieh stress of weather had driven from tho high seas into one of our ports. In this whole atlair he was evidently wetaated by the desire to serve Spain and ine jure the Cubans. The right aad wrong of the case he igacves with stolid obstl oll that be cares for is to help bis friends at Madrid And now it seems that the gunboats were acy ordered to Le built here Ly a gentleman whom this same Mr. Fist Las employed as @ private agent in some hidden negotiations of his with the Spanish Government, These aro the facts as they appear on the surliae and we say they seriously need investign- tien, A committee of Congress should in- quire into the secret relations that appear to exist Letween the Spanish Government, Mr. Paci §, Porprs, and Mr, Hamu ron Fisit, If our Government must be carried on tn the intercet of Spain, and without regard to the interest and honor of the United States, the American people ought at least to be allowed to understand the tacts and to know the reusous, John Foley—A Rrave Fight. Mr. Fo.ey made a brave fight at Albany, and in the first battle of the campaign he has won, Attorney-Genoral CHAMPLAIN has already commenced an netion to test the question whether Hrxny Ssitn or Mr. Pon.y is entitled to the offi visor. While at Albany Mr, Forry made many friends among thor who had before been op ce of Super. poeed or indilirent to him, Me was wannly congratulated by ali sdes on the courage and perseverance with whiel he had waged the fight These who have the beet: means of k: ing now concede that Mr. Fousy actually received more votes than Mr. Sarit, They say that he proved the strongest outoide candidate ever trun fa New} York. He was counted out Ly order, The whole State will be interested in th settlement of the Iegal question, ‘The solid men of this city are nearly ell for Mr. Foury. ow ; ered SES The Pate of the Lost Children of “Sy nockie. Josrr Wy ntr's three ehiklren left home at nearly 4o'cl kb ou the afternoon of New Yeur's Day. They went to a white walnnt tree but litle over half a mile from the house, They must have reached the tree at abont half past four, The weather wasmurky anddamp, Probably the elildren spent an hour in gathering white welnats and in pecl- ing of the ouier shells. By the time they had filled a bag and a tin pail with nuts it must have been halfpast five. The s vory short, and darkness rushed upon them ina heavy rain storm, Territied at hia situation, the oldest boy, thinking 1 was retrachng his steps, piloted his brothers ina etraight line to the left of twilight wa home. ward path, ‘The night wee so dark that one coald not see his hand before los face, and the rain fell in torrents. The frightened Jdren hurried over the rocks and through the underbrush, but every step took Ua further from ho At halfpast four the mother ran from the house inte the woods, and called the chil dren, She did not go to the hickory tree, be: cause she did not kuow its situation, She hardly peretrated the forest becanse the yonnger childran at hone followed her, and alarmed her with their cries, At about seven o'clock the farher entered the woods with o lentern The deep aud steady full of rain drowned his shouts. It was certainly gafter seven when he reached the hickory tree on Camel Mount, The children had goue from the treo al least an Lour and a half be fore, aud wore then, nehed to the al flrog@ling through the forest throe-quar' of a mile to the left The neighbors w not fa'rly on the ore ork Logislature, It is altogether eals a fact of much interest—if it be @ fact, and there is strong reason for regarding it as h. We states that the Spanish gunLoats Duilt here last year—in connection with which Mr. Sipxey Wester and bis . Fist on one side aut of Gen. Prin 1 other woran, Mr. Fours | f rity fiom Nr, Fisit to carry on some secret nego otions or other with Prim on account of the ped thempelves © tue reogery coate in y vii search until after one o'clock A. M. By that time the little fellows, exhausted, wot, cluiled, and hungry, had probably tudlen asleep at the roots of some large tree, or under the shelter of a teck, Day dawned, but the rain still fell in torrents. The poor children awoke and — stragyled onward, Their gufferings may — be imogived. Bat one of them wore shoes, Tho storm did not clear away until nearly 3 ck on Sunday afternoon, They had then been twenty-four hours without food, and fur tweuty hours. bad suffered the pitiless beating of the rain, When night was setting in they had reached the rcugh est rocks of the mountain, From where they stood they could see the lights of sixteen dwellings, ‘They shouted forhelp, The air being rerified by the rain, their voievs were borne to the ears of Mrs. Covan, only « mile distant. She testified that on that night she distinctly hoard children erying on the toun- tain, ‘They first eried * Hi-ee-cel” A second tine lie heurd thoir weal voices shout “Papa, papa!” wad yet a third time “Papn, papa, pope!” As her husband wos deaf, she said uotbing, giving as an she cid not know any children were . The boys then prepared fer th stragy Procipices eighty fect high were near them, and the side of the mountaly was covered with huge boulders, With blesding ii shiventog Dudles Hey anoved tu the | diroe ‘ he lights Whe 0 ‘ Jhemmiod in by males ig i Vdien Aropped in deay op ds trom the tawwr ’ v fell astooy vade cover off 16 rele Drotheim ery Ss etlert tokoop him warm, Wane: the tin pail to hie breast, and dropped asleep } while Axritony, the , and watched at his brother's feo oldest brother, climbed the roc the lighte ag they faded one by ane, until, be nuinbed with cold, he rolled from the rock fato of the Wynockio children, dying within a hundred yards of dl, within a imile of a comfortable mansion, and within thirty miles of New A wonth elapsed before th ‘Their parents have ally spent their last penny in searching for their lost ehildrea, the brother of Josrrm, on Wednesday night had hardly a mouthful of breed in his house. Ile had epent over & month in searching for Time in his case wa The people of Paterson and Wynockie have raised less than a hun. dred dollars for these poor people, That will hardly suffice for the burial of their dead. “A Friend of tho Afflicted” to the SUN office for their benefit, that he wes able to make it a thousand. The dollar has been forwarded to Mr, Wyner. Shall this be the only response from the est city in America? bodies were diseovercd, Groner Wra.r, bis little nephows, truly money. sends a dollar ‘The clamor raised against President Grant to receive « dog sent bim as & present, for the reason that the express charge not been prepaid, Why should the President be expected to pay ten dollars freight on a present sent to him without his knowledge or consent? We think he in refusing to take at that not want; and it would companies to establish the animals shall be re- very wnrease perfoetly justitied te any dog that he well for the expre: rule that no packages and t cvived for conveyance to the President without Prepayment of all charges. This will prove the incerity of the wendev, and relieve the eompany of the enburrassment of keeping dogs for whieh other complaint that is often made against President is equally destitute of reasou, is said that he does not always acknowledge the resents that are sent to him, could he acknowledge them all? ‘The gifts are many and life is short, and the President has public duties that must be done, even if he should have to neglect sume of the mere formal- ities of ordinary fetiquette. omit the usual acknowledgment in For instance, the following letter—we have seen the original in the President's handwriting—was sent toa gentleman who had sent him a meer. sclaum cigar-hokler uf fine workinanship : Peroutive MANSION, ~. Nov. 27, 1869. ¢ receipt of p Bat be does not te rome Lue ug Uider the Mupreesion that 1ty receipt Lud bocw ‘ It has afforded me for not answertng Eq., 73 Navsan strect, y can object to the President's writ. ing polite letters in returu for present ness is always right, end excellence in epistolary y r other than comme: at is not right nor commendable i en to oitice in consideration of is a blunder—indeed, it is a crime and we fear that the ovil consequences of Gen, Guasi's sins of this kind will remain long after Le has censed to be President. Some time ag the Assembly, direet a resolution was adopted iz the Committee on 1 ance of that body to examine into the affairs and trust comp meets at Thomas C investigation. Firos's oflice to begin I that the Committ door, and conduct trust companies resolution openly stated was good for a hu ubly wud of the Ligh-toued wnnculate gentlemen omposing the Com ld_be open and free Y appearance of evi ittee, the procecdings st to all, and eve companies have nothiog to fear, ones can be exposed as they deserve; while with There is no occasion fer this matter, and any atte + will be strong presumptive evi- tien lesves us today, after dining with a lot of old fogies and dun their dowey wiv youth and beauty of th occasional and transi that instead of the y men who took him in tow, and monopolized bin, Wien into the hands of thirty-six n ue, Who could have given d much more favorable Just imagine what a ant gathering of young daudies and belles eve Leen made if the entertaining of him n token in hand by men like Exexnoe T. Texey Cinws, Jov if, Liorp Aspinwant, Grorce Benn, a wished ornaments of our farbionable Te weuld have been amused instead of being bored es he has been, wn do not hesitate to sey, more pretty end well-dressed gurls tu New York than he ever suw he will carry away with that our men are wil sixty years of ee and up- ward, and that there are no women here younger than bis mother, chters; but of the real city he has canght ouly ix venerable gentle. young men of his him a very diMorent idea of New York soi been able, we report that there Buchingla Ps It really locked yesterday as though we should buve seme i The ice companies had come to reriously con. sider the probability of having to draw their tupplies from the region round about the North Tole, but a few such doys as yesterday will quit c of the comniodity ind keep the p down to a resonable figure, The incapacity of political officials has long been a just cause of complaint by citizens of every part of the country, and nowhere more usly 80 than in this city. fore most beartily join with the World in de. manding that in the new city charter provision shell be made for a commission composed of men of recognized standing in the community, ine every person presenting him- upon cach one tisfuctory examination ; it bemg understood that the possessor of such a dezree is to be first onthe list for appointment to offlee cours. But we cannot agree with that journal in the assertion that the Demo. cratic party has a special futerest in such @ re- It sects to us that the Republicans would der's+ great benefit if they eould in some way put their incapable who shall exer self to them, and confer a dog when « vacancy ond substitute Nor do we exactly see how the Democrats would be uble to run their political ein this city on the principle of making appointments with respect to fitness alone em try the experimen have our sincere a aud they shall nimost crazy by her asithic lea) lee 2 1U Clork street #ehouk, SOMT REW BOOKS. — Mr, Bryant's Trans!iation of Homer's Itc d. Withio a, few years the two most illustrions ports of the New World have done signal reverence to the great poets of the Old World, Mr. Longicl- low hav produced a translation of Dante which re- fleets more remarkably the story of the "Divine Comedy” than any other yet made; ond now Mr. Besant brings all the exoeriences of a tong lite of etndy and cnltnfo to the final trek of giving to English readers @ version of thet grentost of all the porms of the elder time, the Miad, and links his name finperishably with that of the old Tontan bert OF this version the first volnine t# now publiehed (Plelta, Onroad & Co); and the second, whic will Je the work, 18 to appear In May. stain'y wok an nnexpeeted labor for Mr. to undertake, for Ma Mfe has been that of an active jJournaliet, mecting and dealing with tha queetions of the day ns they arose, Me tas been no closet scholar, The nective duties of his editorial Nfe have not per- initted him to five much in the past, That he was a man of general acholarehip we knew; but that h’s studies had carried him deeply enoagh into Greek Iitoratnre to enable him to ventare on this great une dertaking was to come extent a aurprise, Nor has his poetry been of euch a cheraeter as to Tend one to euppose that Homer would !. 6 been the poet to whom ie would have ailied hinwelf as @ translator, Homer {# the poet of war, Bryant hae been essen- tally the poet of pence, Kvery page of the former Dreathes chatlenge and slanghter; every line of the latter repeats the atorien that the winds are teling @ they Whisper thronzh the treca, or the brooks Dabble ae they murmur along the meatown, Homer becomes most graphic when be has ar. Fayed the “Dravs-clad Greeks” agninst the men of ‘Troy, and the air is cloudy with the ashen # care that Avon their errands of death, and hends are sev: ered, and the tron barbs erash hroash the sknite of warriors, and the limba of heroce are “slacked in deat Bryant is most ielicitons wheo in close communion with nature, when writing of the sweet violet that Weralds fo the wpring of walks at fun. fet, of} enmmor rambies, and of satumn ‘Woods, of when chanting a Hymn to the North Star, Ie tsa Little curious, then, to find this Tuctt exponent of our modern thougnt, this poet of nature and of the refined ctvilization of our age, turning back twenty-eeven centuries to tlie brotherhood of that Ol! port whose very name and piace of residence are only matter of conjecture, not of knowlelge; who lived im the very childhood of jettere,and in an ago of barbarism ; who had not even the art to write of What he sang, bat wandered aboat trom place to place reciting his tales of heroism and valor, leaving Mt for an after generation to co'lect and inscribe them ; but reciting them in langunge #0 noble, so graphic, #0 simple, so perfect, that the world sill ‘Marvels at it, end pores over it, and feels ite atte imcompetency ever to renew its moxie flow. How many men have set themselves tnis task of transferring toe thoaglt of Homer from that sono. rous and flexible Greek tongue to our own Lobie but unyielding language. And of those who tave tried the dient work, how few there are who have mct with success! Bere are the namics of some of thore who have made the attempt: Chapman, tie dramatist of the Elizabethan age; Tobhs, the po- Iitleal economist; Ogilby, Pope, Cowper, Bothedy, Wright, the transistor also of Dante, Buckley, Worsley, Munford, an American, Newman, 2 Pro- fessor in the London University, Derby, the Kag. lish statceman, Merivale, author of the History of Rome ander the Empire, aud Oualiy, latest and best among them all our own post, Mr. Bryant, One would think that among all these anthors there might be foand a good and readable translation, and Jet it is pernaps not too much to say that with the exception of Lord Derby's work and that of Mr Bryant, none of them are entsfactory. In the first pace, many of those we have nawed have made thetr whole work useless from the outset by the selection of a wrong metre, There is no point aboot which the tr ‘ore have been in uch compiete antazonism as this, Each has thought tuat bis predecessors bad blundered into the wrong charseter of verse, and that te himseifhnd at last found the exact line that would convey the Homeric expression, ‘The difficulty that lay at toe root of the matter was in the fact that we have no metre in our language that corresponds prevircly with tie metre of Honer—for the reaton that 9 Greek hex imeter te not an English bexamcter, The secent or Jresody of the language forbids, Accordingly « itute was tobe found, and rset translator went rch of iC after his own fasion, Piret aud Inst, nearly Cvery measure from the jinghug rhyme of Scott to the dreary Alexsodrioe line of Drr- den was resorted to, Pope selected the berole eovpe let, New, though Pore was a capital port, he was but @ poor Grecian, His reverence — for his author «and his ilelity = to. ohim were mot great, His fret thought wos to produce @ poem that hom reat well and give scope to hits own poetical genius and mouth versification, He ha! au immense faeility at rhyming also, It was but natural, therefore, that be should resort to the Leroie rhymed measure, The dfievity with his ironeletion was that Le gave bis om genius too free reins, and parapirased hiv aut Tonthy, the great critic, tummed the matter up when he seid “it wae ali very fine, but it was not Homer.” Sotbeby darinzly followed with a metrical version of the fame eburacter, He rendered the text n Hterally, but wiat he gatned tn Mdeiity be tort flow of vervife Supremacy still re walued unrivalled . ithough often vive orous and forcible, had eiouded t city of Homer wits a thousond conceits of his own foreiin to the teat; and as for Hobbes and Oguby, their por- try Woe heavier than the Daluest prose, Cowper made a poetical trausivtion, snd a faithful one,but it lacks Iiomer’s rapid movement, ‘Thon cate Wright, who bors much ¢ Ne relation to Cowe per thut Sothery did to Pope, lus work being cone ceived in the wame spirit as Cowper's, but sxecuted fn cu inferior man Dr, Moginn, an impulsive Irishman, aud & good schoisr, thought that a ballad meine was best auited to the poet. Here is a apeet- men of the way In which he believed that Hot could be best rendered into Baylisiy Tt wae a wound trey ry Aller wate si Whore be wentto hi r With baad Evidently that sort of thing would not answer. Api yet the learned Professor Newman, with ample of Mazinn be to follow cox hin eves, wade up bis mind 8 Dalladist, thoush with a differeat bot lad micue, In the profuce to bis work he ealtuly say an} qualities of Homer's ° Eacliet ba Je being Like Jd, we need a metre of we KoHUA. Mt mart be cundamonta iy musical and popular, Only those metros whieh, by the very Poss asion of these qualities are tittle to degenerate 11 degyerd ore suitable to teproauce the -auicont Ik is diMcult to conceive of a lenrned Theben” straying further tito the darkness of error than the tor, as Matthew A-nold hat enid so many times, and in so many various ways, * Homer is rapid in his movemeut, simple in ideas, plain in his words, ant noble tn his man. * ane no traselator who fails to combine in his version all ct these qualities can possibly translate the poet, © course, any one who wet ont with the intent of edopting w tetre and a style that should ust tremble on the verze of dozgerel, Would make a lamentable failure, as Irotessor New man certain'y did, im spite of the many great exec) Jencles of his version ‘Then came Lord Derby, of whore tramslution we stall presendy speak,ind close upon his heels Charles Merivale, The Merrivale tanslation we regard as the very worst of nil, It condenses ail the vices of all 1% various predecessors, It is in rhyme, and even Newman Was aware that no one couid hope to render Homer in that way, °°1 hold it as an axiom,” he pays, that rhyme must be abandoned, Even ty» Chupinan, with is Homeric genius aud a metre funda mentally good, it was imporsible to let the roader know what fomer had said and wot obtrode on hin. what was Chapman's own, for the ex!y rhyme positive!y forbid faithfulness” But not only Las Merivale taien @ rhyming meature, but he I taken 4 Valid measure, and one nearly akin to that of the sip-shod Roman ballads that Macaulay wrote ‘Tho Unes are of great length, and many of them bul badly, Bri an exomple will sumco better thin any wordy Of txplanation, Take the following from the bein ing of the celel rate! norration of the parting In terview be ween Hector and hiv wife Andromache : icles of ‘How fmiled the vite tn silenoe, the Infat when be my Reside ini wept Anvromanche, aut pros:'d hie hand and cried: ‘Good Pusbeod, shy great courage wii surely oust (ec hi apare thy tender chiki, and spare thy Nit, Ven Widow ! for eon ite at abtow 1 t Noe j= WHat p/CUsHIFG (By Whi Thayer ‘only grief !' " &e. This, surly, is poor enongh. yond the Yimit that Newman fet, lapses into unmitigated doggerel. Lot 04 eco how Mr. Newman himeelf renders the for it certainly 166, conebody who evidently knew what exeers riders the majority of the officers rnd members were, 1nd are etiil, for that matter, conceived the no~ tion of a r members of the Cavalry Brigade, and where they could daly exereiee and Improte themselves In hormemanship. For many years past, Col. Dickle has kept a Livery stable and riding schoo! at 11, 19, 15, and 17 West Thirteenth street, and belr quatnted with Gen, Post number of other officers of the Cavalry Brigade, and learning of the movement that war on foot, he trn- dered the uro of Lis cstublisiment, and eventuslly his offer wee accented, the Board of Supervisors “The father east upon hie boy a glance, and ¢miled in VA. ‘olde Andromache stood, alt im sorrow 1 she prose his hand, and rpake, his name “ik nardinood, thy vory wnight will Kft vy wife il-fated, oon eal be Ceepolied of thee : for rallying to eether, Soon shalt tho Achoiane Hay thee; Duk for me, of thee ‘weru It below the earth to ink; for other ¢om: None, wil! remain, tf thoa by fate shall once be over led. Bot ouly prvete. ‘This, aa will bo readily eeen, is moro forced and liing could be more un- i stilted as Merivale’s, Ni Homeric thon such epithets ae “ elf-porsessed,” or more un-English than such words as “ overhendod,”? the versifeation is azly, baral, cr flows with a mej etic wnd mateliess ‘TLe tranaition to the casy flow and diguity of Lord Derby's lines is very gritefal : nt he emited as on the boy he e704 5 fe rent of this so-called cavalry r io be thy wilon any the Greeks with force entabined Aseall and eiay: for ma ‘twere pete Otthee heretty to ihe be neatly the #0 ‘or cow ort abil ut endless griet ‘The follow ing is Mr. Bryant's version: “The father on his chia Looked with a sitent # mine if thow be lost awihite, aid at 1 Coare yet will rave thy deatsn, ¥ tander child, ‘Who Foon Must Ue lot were mine, ave Nd L799 Who Noting but rorrow.""* Every one will confers at ence that Mr. Bryant's version is the best, the emoothest, and the noblt. It is mmearurably #uperior to Ne vale, and its dietion Is better than Derby's. ‘There is one eften quoted passige of Homer de- tcriptive of the eneampment of the ‘Trojans by the banks of the river Xanthns, which may #erve fur- ther to illustrate the method pureneu by Mr. Bey- t in bis translation, and which we quote the more rds opportunity of comparison with en aversion of the same thou art’gone, ‘winan and Meri. Mr. Tennyson, who b. ‘This te the poet-taureate's: “And these all ntaht a the ridge of war ny m tire beture tiwan oraned 4 Tul, when all the winds Ard every heleht comes out and Intting peak easaranle heayons Hopak Open fo their bimhert. and ail the 1. « Diazed betore the towers of Troy, it); aid close by each, ‘Tis translation of Tenayson's is almost literrlly How far tho poctical Pope departs from the troth of thy text o citation of his trave rather paraphrase will make clear. tin order round, edd wll che ground, Tt is as follows: nee eprea ts hier «acri ttt ts the deen vene's the wolenin rene, pd stars auoumbered «ila | Fees a yellower verdure sh Wor every mountatn’s herd. i trom ail tthe wkle A flood of clory hd Fieh'nn etiinmering Xauthus wito Weir Faye fleam on tie walls fee ty ick fashes Fonds Of course in the original there # nothing about spires, or dusky horrors cilding « thonsand piles, or ty Instres suooting seross the Geld, or ambered ber effects above mentioned. colume of the Thnea, Lam ¢ Wighly poetical and beauticu), ix letter ag weil as from the epinit of It mw these bold Hberbes with the txt, «dues not condone, ake Pope worthless to ony one who really wania to know what Homer wrote. What the old Greek did really say Mr. Bryant has most faithfaily reprovecd in these tine £0. Mgh tn hove they sat the who'e nt many wateh fires blazed be from the wile even their br A week later, the spite of two anil Atty wheriors hy enon Are Fat ta ite Uzhe ping their oate ana their white Abd Walved for (he Fylde Morn to Flay,” Twill be seen from aco Parison of thore transis ty trae medinm in whieh to is lank verse, Indeed, Lord Derby Homer, and before he bad made up bis mind to ren given iat “if jurtice © ver to be dune Lo the easy fl tunjesiic sim pileity of the grand old poet, it could only be In the herole blank verse To this conclusion Mr, Tennyson piroval by bis translation of the frag quoted in the «ame metre dthe eunrent of three such men as and Bryant, we soppose at jomicr can best be ‘ Brvant’s translation will be re coved as the standord ene, Ttdoos not differ eas: tially from that of Lor Terby, Both have those ual ribes to Tomer, riptd nobility of manner; enrly an equal degree, ther that Arne! so and bouh poser determine which f# the more worthy of udmtr 60 completely are bork imbued with the spirit of tn original, #0 faithful are they to every werd ant form feltertons in the el terms In which to reproduce the thought, tines Lord Derby will rem to have Leen more bap: ning of a portic e the merit will lie We believe either of these translations sa: ied them, and of the two inetine to consider Afr, Bryant's as the better, and He is for more largely endowed al faculty than was Lord Derby of expression, # feo of the exset | f py in his ren the personal expense of wy inform, pub fshers nor guia ot another ti H that Lave gre thon mnder whieh Eres in Ue Timea, ae Inia ie translation, ond has produced i Fentiest you.'as the sole tesponalbie hen! of the no other kindred work, while In 9 great mearure, been giv of the poetic! are more varie for the puryore of com metrical form greate more perfect, bis ti of expression more acenrate, way better Otted naturally, and bett pit for the work than the Eue e cannot hea donit but that this work, of whied he has Just given the tirst volume ew honor to his name, Dut give iresh lurtre to Atnerican leiters Cox visited Europe and Africa ome volume of up to the eullivation At a consequence, his powers “t; his command over tn Yorabulary riever and tiveiiminution in forms Tu fet he war in every trained by long b statesman, and aaliv papers of ie city meape of levee ran the world, will ot lost year, ard hae published @ lund Cour, and it te ni He calls it A Search for Whuter Sunheams ea, Algiers, and Spatn (A 10 bir constitu thoy hould have forged & bs Piereut ew, tn the Riviera, Co ton); nnd dedicuter tt Pixth Com restional Dietrver. fal for (us attention, th ¥ ure Nat grule writer, ronetines and CUTIOMS DEC eof the velutut r deve. Tk seems that noue of Lieut. Mitehe The Mova reparations tor of the Brooklyn Navy Yard ar probable wait of rater) to hick relur In which the ome pected to partic torelgn visitors, val surgegpa Were juy cesponeible fox the fesult of Dr. K The ws Mr Mites side ae tho Monarch, be looked forward to with int rest No orders have yet becn rei 4 {Fee OF Wor kamen wt the ya a. will be au event tu Ve to Increase the THB MILITARY GENTLEMEN. —— TRE Oavairy Kiding School for which uly One of the Theits that aro Po rpetratod in the Name of tho > tonal Guar Soon after the Cavalry Brigado was formed, in i echowl, whicv should be free to the o , Col, Brinker, amt a paesing a resolution to pay €0,000 a year rent for the ce, There seems to be some underiend manwa- vring, Lowever, for although this large sam I* prrd Hig eehool, nearly those officers and men who have atcempied to I themsal vee of fia benetite, have been charged #1. an hour for the privilege, * It ia freely chareed hy miny that certain officers, who bonst of political influrnee, ate not onty 9 lowed to use the riding echool dally, tree of hay Dut also fo stable thelr horses there on the tam terme, So tranaparenc 16 the ewit cle thal, with the exception of these favored ones, none of vie uMecrs or men of the cavalry brigade wlll attend the echonl, whch was orened with sueh a flourish of trum ets The putative ermorer and actual manoger oF the fea Major Groene, emp oved during the late war © perilous duty of surplying rations to the #1 tenmorarily kent in the Pork tan ed bis military title. Why hy lowed (0 draw ® salury ae ni city should pay $6,000 per annn & private livery #table, under the cul ry, i something that the majority of merobere of the Cavalry Brigade we Id ike to eee explained. ———— THE DEATH OF SALNAVE. o— Betrayed and Wuured Down Dow on the I tee ofthe Clty. The Meriden (Cona,) Rapu¥?ican ou-Prince an recount of the tre: of the Haytian war steomer L pture by the revolutioniste, ar resi re Balnave war defe himself, We quote: Aa soon on We § re ordered to tke our t the Preaident’s palace, Salnave was devending the palace wita canyon and musketry, and would not be perenaded to leave the Havlding and toke refuze on hoard the English or French men-of-war lying in the hurbor, there being no American man-of war here at thet tine, We opened tire with the 11 neh ewp, and tho ninth hell from it Ftrnek the root of thy palace, and went «rash. ine downward Into the amuannition, exploding the the Doilding on fire we the arderto leave the alien, tak. 400 officers and nen, whe }. Domingo border font ©: ae ie eupnoed, wr! nm of jining Presinent Baox, of St. Domin i noment, Alas, misguided and {il Awhile Prexideut, betrayed by forcign minis ters, desperate in bis exiremlty, he ern ntis ing with fouwht their way to th toe limite © ti ener of war exceated when theenomy entered the itrayed and hunted like a wolf, he fell into the hands of the revolutionists af St, Domingo, ander Cabral, their Yeading reneral (who wor Ile enemy Alo), and after a desverate land to hand eomfict.in wiieb bis left han’ was disaved, 16 was captured, ound and det Prince, and ted w stake (erceted for the perpowe bet shot hke a whieh the py the revointion Suffice itto . Faxti, was, on the afternoon 6 pre of thousand: arrival as @ prisoner, fatiene of bik Journey boon captured reet reports, nd there ¢ «to he quite » exploded with a “remendous report, as also thi arsenal not fer distant from i, eeattering dest" notion tn every direction, and evusing the burnin; Of about uals the exty x— Lettcr from a Vormer EAitor table Tine To the Bitter of The in Sin: Task the favor of a place in your columns for the sul) letter, It war ¥ ten to Mr, Georse” Jones, r to an attic apon me. and ne ju retuned iw tie welled to BeOK It elaee of my book om Ke Prise, the nt ofa ibe choracter; but duree youn? tlemen oppored to the acting Management of the permitted by Mr, Joues to flad expression 18, n i nin attacked, it {¢ my habit to defend my- felf; and in laying tis eorrespondenes betore the public, T have only to ald the expression of w sin cere regret that the justice and the courtesy, as welll f the Disropus whe At the first 1p / Times paid st ne exceptional eo eolvinn review. of tie most favor as the consisteney of tie 7'nes. seem to bave been buried in ave of tts Founder = Very respeet{ullr, A. MAVERICK. New Youn, Few 4, isa LETTER TO THR VENERARLE MR. Anode JONES, New Vouk. Fob. 1si0 We cast pon tne bo ta Drom sin: Antndust asnes c appears in a cone follovr'ne tasneral h, wt piace 1 tne Voor ta-tavs F. Moveriek’s forthcoming volume on * Mtr Ray mond aud Now York Jonrialiau, there != 8 Viet pure uM tas the Mims of tne BeLCIpal editors ave * i Mute bo state that chy e tf y Gutrioud!y sotrit. ie improperly deseribed in 4, wi tle puree. Any others wre Altogether of kin! could not poe ibiy be author, and ie we Peace pigeon wileh journal h, Gicted for us to mew any a Dee hie inthe avenues that ta Tiga s thu enced Ui a fatMe edition enithen Fil} necewsanly wil be wnadtivitzed wod ine (Solon ronie/hyior tothe Timea te named in wy hore Who are regulary eugloyed on Lue “ fawies witch mppears oa page S82 te de- rate,” ¥, and prove it by # ment Wat avery Name’ KIVeH WAS Larhiehed to 1 6 fry Hie OG! ee OF (he Times, lu Feeponne Ww persona: suuieitar 3, The Tumesenve: “A list of Uue kind could not por. It Wore given Ny wuthorly, und tptes ‘on wil Br tte ducted torts to turobh any ©. thet fam much oblige at of the Phos a vo the aude? * Web ent in gitestion. bat even wren ame snanittioniaed aud tcoupete,” Wy? How cap tue 1ue8 wl Witsees tt? To soothe el auper ithon wean editor of the paper, Lvkeule the request of tac alion Was orginal fectual ther hand ny ordered to be tena neither my be blame he let. ws finally re eprint. I now eonsider mys it and 1B ol! the editions of there W the Lot as oFiginmily Mirae bod OW 4. Hat, the Tones shat! dom fn cvonrly ne td me wrong. [took Da Licaa exuet. Lhave te of couse Tan There chang detend mad) consequenes Off Mi ANG IL In HO ciac that the remvay o¢ made Wp and ave sive e ulence, Very respect tilly youre, AL MAY Gronun Jos, Esq. — Auother Exposure of the disvep New York 2 ay To the Bilitor of The Sum. On Wednes tay list T forwarded to several of the lved Dy me Lat day, ened WIE the mane at the wont ot the Cuan Julia tn Key Weat, T enelore yon tiie oF hal whieh of tye!f proves tie faiseliood of tue aesertion din the Times of this day HUM BOL strike me at Che thie that the be a Kpaaih triek Spaniah of jourly slirged any awe au Heakues to 4 proclaumetion iht be of ure co then int Mposstble that. elayeriste foreery, Bul failuve ot rasrenny bo vcure fous hnpntation contained In the Times o theo it Wee strech to the eosplerois, eapecttully yours, MIGUEL DE ALDANA, a he Monpital Digioulty We have reeeited from Drs, Jackson and Wels, of he United States Naval Hospital, Brook- # statement 1m roterence tothe travafer of Lieut the Hospital to br, Kissaw's re rence advised him to go to Dr, Kissat, wud sul Wt to & new Operation for the cure of varifose veins The ieuionant thea apple Hosyiial for permission lo have the operation por 1 in te Mo-pitat by Dr, Kisaau), ‘The sure went, ai) ew reper ior sue done int Mal, Lica. Mil tiell went to Dr. Kissam for iecatment of bis o Jo The statement that ' the sirgeous of tus arine Hospital convexsed their iuabit'y aud dasin jon bo paderoke the irestment of the ease, a y Were Pot fivaallar with Ue modera and best ‘a vowed operation,” ia denied by hore eoutlemen As the case is exntained. It seems to us that the n. fied in refunine tobe helt «operat many feehiug with regard to s porition us alive oMcer. They eas mot actuated by woy such motives, Keons disehi y Wer Hall Politicians Pay $6,000 the intens at the red overdo be brought back to Port: hh hts lett Gisubted) arin tow is tran!), to te Puiace in pple tad piaced him, and whieh he hed defended to the Mame extremity against the party of He late Pres! nt of Saterday Inet, the Abth day of denearr, thos publicly executed in the almost tomediately upon his And almost exhanste’ by the Hisgencrola have pearly atl ot, wecording to tle most Con. Jet-ap " in the ertiling of blood, and things are cetting more anict. The large quantity of powder tm fe palace SUNDEAMS, _— —A Kenostia, Wisoons them Lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin, f@ kai ts hq the largest hoay of water entirety within the | yy Wertern Btate, —flope Seott, who married Miss Loo\|, rranddaugiter of Bir Walter Foott, is Jaw practice of #100,000 n your, =A Westerner, speaking of the perf of bis villyge choir, aye that © it le ike dritt woo) Wtarags on the bare, but M8 don't anion io @ fre dam. —A clergyman who moved fre to Phila teiphia, on account of fs * rny tom jad his overcoat stolen wi ile he there! A Frenchman was lately fouid oxrem of tears over house. —A number of the most resp men of Fredericksbarg, Va, have wy to Conere Of the white people ae sre to their eaploy inter ert Il, cannot pay 0 the vaination of p Tf, Is now lees than hal —A somnambulist walked off 9 train while itwas golne at the rate of / hour. The trainbacked down to where 1 corpse war mppoasd to be lye, Where he Still adtoon, and aniniared, —The British Musenm has just ree: romarhuble stone ttatwes from Raster Islar of the ereseent ana trl tured stones of Scotland, Every word which falls fran Py fe trournred up. At the mpper etve At Woshtnton, he sald: Them are orsters." ‘The political witeacres uteeoy nifleance tn thie apparently harvatess teins The Scotemaa, in epeaking of tl which the Eeyptian Pyramide ore nee Miehtand Keeper of Lort Dudiey's, an: nythlue but Glenewry and the Mack 80 Common fb dia it, —Thongh the tee crop in this view it to prove at tal failnre, there need be ne + thet we phall be cestitute of fee my {# plenty of it on the rivers of Maine, whe. York and other ports, tepreventatives on Enrolied Bille reces in favor of employing @ scholar to over the spelling nud make eood grammar of « troduced In the House before the billie wr on teeond reading.” -Mise Julia Hubbar!, the "ty Clerk * ofthe Wikeonsin Lagtsininte, i v Some nnd well edneated. A baehfet rome nm: her the © transporting eter.” fh Ne conty i ‘orer unmarried me nbe:* —An Irish steamer, carrying a exe England, having tan hort of cont, thy « Wandred Of tae ples Into his furmaces, wint vv without diflentey. Buch parenrere we nested the holocaust have fasted to hear) the wretelod an iia Rove thought that punctnal ty tn reaciiog tion w # the eaptuin’s wakes —the phosphate beds, a few n Charleston, and extending a mile or ine non river, rield 490 tome of fomrth of an acre. Foestiine tb vinn orfein=form @ large part of tie er irks teeth Koom to he very prenty f ” Charleston. —In “A Book About Words,” an o> fe given of the phrase, * Niae tution mn) the olden time the strokes of the po ealio! tellers,” and as the aine Atrokes 9 death of a man, while throes annonno Ani fix that of @ woniae, the words * Dine carily perverted foto nine tallors, Wounds made by the teeth efter forons, A maa in Detroit tenck anrtinr | ‘on Chriftmas day, entting tis own kourk! The band swelled and indiame:t, aud tice vv Aveo ved from the wounded figer @ hae Leen Keraped, but without Efvet, a © Avthony #8 ‘Aimong the piri o Anthony Blair, with ¢ nt bie heed tiene dows on bu tC rigit away wn‘taat all ny by the ged Who loved bist, Lat, —A locomotive firm in Vauvtor Jvet put apon the Tevuton and New fr bow man mets locomotive, Which is au eut betng what way be called a“ double-enter Dropriate!y named Janna. Uc ie conttroct ward and backward alike, and is double iu the enginect’s standing piare being to we Weiglt of Ue machive seixty tone. —Among the “ things not geners!! fays ® Birmincham paper, ie Jourents, numbers among his ch Conniry puddier. This pudsies leo uo ot Fartveford, and he ts presented by 0 cach of lls volumes as the; appear, Tt Fort (00, and bis effusions Lave Pict praise, Out hiterto not a fine hi —A lady ut Gloucestor, Mas#., since, tavited @ number of Muwnds to her Daring the meal the guess found tho *«s but not tnebria bitter as to be wn't f ext day tlw Indy of tho tutes discovers teation that ¢he had eweetmied ihe to A quUIUUty of that usefal bab any. oven placed ou the sume # seit wis » luted murar, Ata very succersful seance in Ci other ight @ man burst tote teary wh de-cubed very aceneately a tw l, bluo-es ¢ ing by im, with Hent side whiskers anc his ja Gie middie, “Do you know him At his aide, tn @ sympathetic whisw * L dy," report the unbappy wan, ‘He Was engaxed to my wue, Ihe hud Wont Wave been her husband 4 orgs, George," he murmured, lan otlon,* why, why aid you peg out” —An ent of ice M0 feet long and 18 feet wide or tick, and started to raft it, en maga, down spot to 8) Louis, 109 miles dtatant, ficld was sharpenod to serve as bows, and : rounded (or wstera. A okitf was fastoun to pve the requisite sheer when pec stove and provisions were taken on th PETOUS VOyAKY Of LWonty miles, the cou hate'y ran tnt an fee-bound point of land futo (ree pieces, Althongl it was dars a! the men and the eook-inve were Faved broke rapitly up aud dieappeared tp the « Projector of the echeme will try It aga ent that he ean do better noxt time. Yhis is the way the Fox gitls pr *piritual rappings: Fasten one end of ay band, four oF five tuches long, to tue midis bar of lend. and the other end to » ring 10 to receive the too of your shoe. Take av elastic band eighttneh s+ or more In lene! eud to the ring aad the other to tho Fic" Ir knee. When standing, with the contrivance described, the bar of leat rhould not co Basie, OF conme & cong dress be necessary it, When altting, tho raps can be mate h | too of the tert anoe thronh thefring, an’ Movement Of the foot cauatie the led & floor, Ono ond of the bar will ve likely Look with the Moor w Hicele before the Wher ANG thus HrOdage the paoalinr double-wnoes the Fox mediums, By a whirit lateral 1 foot. raps can be mage with euch ac tableleg ae Of the RiFlA,one eveniine aibes a ¥hu sound tn connection with hur slap lke “is! Wooden pew in walking; aud the embarer the could not coneviry what caused It Mi . We Thr vit posense What makes s Tn sestin? Yous ver thar Cau'talmand Ji eae ny eum st ase 18): Bat you mir Tt Wonid un You and y Dew Poor lite Why, tise dou Wa t ‘ Thon to ba Well, thar: G Dora'd ot Long lenge man bas bee, whipped by four women because bo * taj Ban Fr wnppored tomb of Wu at Movnt Aubrn, bur it tarned out to be ou able ee ted ta y # to Pelieve of all political dirwhiis —Some of the western cities are uiter efile, wile exhibit on their backs a marking eked to go up faster (han any Arab of the « that several hundred thouesnd tone will he © —The Committee of the Alaborns | Gay, and wat Immediately ea) ed to ori) 1 6 OF heard (ws they fubetance forms a valuable portion of t rising Missourian ext 1 Fadoor, Agentomun walbius |