The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1842, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. New York, Wednesday, January 12, 1s ~ Circulation of the Herald, Provipesce, Jan. 10, 1812 James Gonpon Bexxerr, Esq.— 1 would respectfully suggest to you the pr, of sending to this place a sufficient number o! of your paper to supply the wants of custome such a course is now pursued, would recommend that you give the sale of then to some person more disposed to accommodate the public than is she pre- sent agent, T have tried for three or four weeks to buy copies of the Weekly Herald, and have heen able. Semetimes Lam tuld that the cop Herald “ have not yet come;” at others “are sold,” &c. &e. Other persons con much as myself. Can you do any thing 1 mises ? Resanxs.—We fhave had similar complaints from Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. The only remedy is to sell Heralds in every city to any number of agents that chooses to buy—and this we shall do. ‘Tremendous Agitation—Repeal of the Bank- rupt Law—T'wo Public Meetings. ‘The pepular agitation on the Bankrupt Law has jncreased witha geometrical foree—perteetly ap- palling. Two tremendous Pablic Meetings are al- ready preparing to be held—one by the Bankrupts— another by the Anti-Bankrupts. The former party had a preliminary meeting yesterday, and agreed to meet at the Merehants’ Exchange, in Wall street, to-morrow, at 2 o’clock. The anti-bankrupts have alocalled a meeting at the same time and place. It these meetings take place at the same time and saine locality, there will be a row—a concussion of the elements—a sort of civil war—the eominence- ment of a thoreugh revolution. We advise both par- ties to meet at different places, and at different times, so as to avoid physical collision, and thus pre- serve the reputation of the city intact. Let every thing be done decently and in order—present argu- ments—but no pistols. It is one of the most excita- ble questions that ever came up in this county—a question between debtor and creditor—a question between the solvent and insolvent—a question be- tween the laws of the dark ages and the benign principles of the present—and care must be taken to keep the public peace. of New York, if both parties should meet on the same ground. Let the Mayor, therefore, double his We tremble for the peace police—call out the military—no very legal act—but to prevent a civil war. We live in most exeitable tunes. In the meantime our splendid corps of reporters are ready to give an account of the proceedings of both parties—and to see that justice be done to the arguments of all—to the unfortunate bankrupts—to the haughty capitalists—to the proud financiers—to the great u Ney varnished rogues—to the character of York—to the reputation of Congress—and to What is the cause of ty has thus been reduced to two hos- ered camps, by the abuses of the banking sy-tem—and the unlimited issue of paper money by dishonest men, and dishonest institutions. The first thing that should be done by both parties, is to tear the present age. down all the shinplaster institutions ; and to hang up all the paper and shinplaster financiers—then go to work guietly, settle their own affairs, and get a discharge each The Wali Street Moral War against Con. gress—The First Broadside-Big Black Mall. ‘The recent movements made by Congress, in re- lation to the repeal of the Bankrupt Law, have pro- duced many singular movemen‘s and developments in this quarter All this might have been expected. But, perhaps, ove of the most extraordinary developments that ever appeared in any newspaper, or in any country, is a deliberate, elaborate, precise, formal statement or arraigament, or iadictment (not a pork indictm which appeared in the “ Courier & Enquirer” of yesterday. In that arrai ent which is contained in two consecutive articles, the * Courier” charges that foreiga agents, or the agents of British creditors in this country have accumulated a secret fund of several millions of dollars, and actually bought and paid for the repeal of Bankrupt Law, by Con- gressmen, at the rate of $100,000 avote. (A capital price, too). Aud in order to give more precision and point to thie singular—this most extraordinary and monstrous ge—th Courier s, in addi- tiou to the charge, and iminediately in connexion with it the specific names of the members of Con- gress to wyom it points as having received the mo- ney paid by these foreign agents of British credi- tors out of the general faad, in order to change their votes, and produce a repeal of th In order t this matter, subjoin some extracts from the “ Courier’s” article sterday in relation to it :— Here is the very first paragraph as a sample of the tone of the whole Tae Baxxavrr Law.—The recent vote in the House of Representatives, is one of the most alarming intica- tions of the moral depravity of the times that has as yet deen brought to ligh This is tolerab! More 0. That the same body of men should pass » law in Jaly to go into operotion in February, and epeal the same before going into effect, and before the People have mpatible remarkable law. sstating saghe m w 8 eeping ; bet here is another had time to judge of its merits, is utterly inc with honor or honesty. If this assertion be r votes d Sourier.” If this wer true, then are all who change » in the Opinion of the anew Congress, fresh ‘from the people, least the shadow of apology fer the n the ground that there hid been a atiment. Even bribery and corrup- might be screened by the appear- © public opinien. t charge, not only that bribery and m employed, but also that mem- so lost to shame that they ar hon But in case any gress, the ** Cou- change in publi tion in such an ev ance of y corruption ha bers of doa’t even desire to app gress ar repeal of the Bank nd that th was intended to to corrupt certaia Members of Congress, w ake eapecial care to e before the People the names of all who have hanged their votes since July. This was evidently written before. the arrival of the vote on the question in this city; and, therefore in order to make the thing very clear, “Col. Webb, of the regular army,” as soon as the mail arrives, publishes the names of the following members as be- | ing the men above pointed out, in immediate con- nexion with this menstrous charge. Here are the names he gives, te which we add the sums he charges them with receiving :— Charles G. Ferris, of New York, $100,000 Thos. J. Campbell, of Tennessee, 190,000 R. L. Caruthers, of Tennessee, 100,600 B. 8. Cowen, of Ohio, 100,000 J. H. Cravens, of In a, 100,600 Garret Davis, of Kentucky, 100,000 A. R. Sollers, of Maryland, 100,000 C. H. Williams, of Tennessee, 100,000 A. Young, of Vermont, 100,000 $900,000 Tothis Mr. Webb adds “ The entire delegation from Kentucky !” Therefore, wesuppose we must add their names thus :— Kesrucky Devecation. Mr. Boyd, $100,000 Wm. 0. Butler, 100,000 Mr. Green, 100,000 ‘'T. F. Marshall, Mr. Owsley, Mr. Pope. Mr. Triplett, Mr. Underwood, J. B. Thompson, Aggregate black mail, $1,800,000 Here, then, according to the * Courier’s” arithme- tic, we have nearly two millions of this “ vast fund;” but there must, by the same parity of reasoning, be a large balance inthe hands of somebody. Perhaps that’s to be used in the Senate, and elsewhere. The “Courier” closes with the following advice :— What is the remedy? “ Aye, there’s the rub.” We do not believe that mem who have been bought the rate of “a hundred thousand dollars per vote,” as it was the boast of certain individuals that they could be, ean be easily driven from their purpose. All attempts to change the action of the House of Representatives should be abandoned. Let the members of that kody consummate their infamous work; the day of reckoning will most suredly come, and the renegades who have been tam- ina with, if such there be—will, beyond all question, e placed in their true colors before the people, and their namesfheld upto an infamy as notorious as that which attaches to the memory of the traitor Arnold. Let them be left to their fate. Awful—awful—indeed will that fate be, if the “Courier” tells the truth; and its advice is followed, for it says :— Let the facts, in regard to the immense sums of money collected trom foreigners to buy the repeal of the Bankrupt Law, be all placed before the Senate; let committees be appointed and agents selected, to trace the use af this enor- mous sum; let the pleas which members of the House may make for their sudden change of opinion, be care- fully canvassed; let their past and present habits of liv- ing be examined into; let their former and present asso- ciates be ascertained; in short, as they are few in num- ber and have placed themselves in a position which is prima facie evidence of having been tampered with, let every act and movement of their lives since July last, be fully traced and thoroughly canvassed. This would doubtless lead to some funny discle. sures, if followed up closely—if every “ act and movement” of those eighteen Congressmen, (includ- ing Tom Marshall and his nine associate delegates) was fully traced and exhibited, since July last. Hea- ven and earth, what an expose there would be! But would it show where all the money wentto? We doubt it. But here is the close of the argument :— The very idea of a grave and important law being passed in July, and repealed in January, by the same Congress, without even the stempt to give a reason for the repeal, argues corruption such as our worst enemies have never dared to charge upon the couatry. Can any thing be put in a more lawyer-like man- ner, ina stronger position? Yes. For Mr. Webb, after inserting the above arraignment of eighteen members of Congress, as the first or leading article of his paper, in order to do away with the doubts, which many may have, as to whether Congress did receive the money or not, scatters all these distine- tions to the wind, with the following endorsement, over his own hand and seal :— We do believe that such political bribery and politi- cal corruption have been sad afb at the bottom of this disgraceful proceeding ; and we do not hesitate to say, that in our opinion, the member of Congress who could be thus seduces from his duty to his country, to his own conscience, and to his unfortunate fellow citizens, is as dishonest and dishonorable as if he had openly received @ bribe in dollars and cents. This caps the climax. We expected tosee some horrible commotion or ourbreak in Wall street about this time, as soon as we saw the result of the late mevements in Congress in relation to the Bankrupt Law ; but such a stupendous mine as this, we never dreamt of seeing sprung, and that too immediately under the floors of Congress; why it is worse, if possible, than the celebrated mine laid by Guy Fawkes to blow up and blow to atoms the members of parliament in England. We are so astounded with the stupendous nature of this charge by the “Courier” that we hardly know in what light to re- gardit- [tappears to us to be a new species—but a most magnificent species—of moral war breaking out, as usual, in Wall street. But instead of simply charging a daily newspaper with levying black mail en an insignificant scale, we have the arraign- ment of a Congress—-representing 17,000,0¢0 of people,—on the awtul charge that they actually been legislating during the extra ses sion for the purpose of forcing or extorting from Bri tish Bankers, or European merchants, or stock holders, or their agents in this country, or from some one, a fund amounting to several millions, tobe distributed on a grand and liberal scale, ac- cording to a systematic programme, among the members of Congress, atso much per vote, or per man, or per capita, in order to induce those members to vote for a repeal of the Bankrupt Law. This is black mail of the blackest kind. Allthis, it must be recollected, is a distinct and separate matter from the general feeling in relation to the Bankrupt Law. The repeal of that measure—if itis done—is a simple question, easily understood. arge inthe “Courier” is altogether a new ens up a new field of enquiry ; represen Congress in a new and unheard of light. It repre- sents it av a Bandit’s Cave, where the members are like so many brigands, laying down their plans how they can contrive to rob the world at large—and this country in particular—on a grand scale. We won- der how many caucuses were held before the price of a vote as given by Webb—$100,000—was decided upon? We euppose they commenced at $5000— perhaps less—and inereased after the Treasury was found to be empty. But seriously ; this charge is one of the gravest and mest important that ever was brought by a news- have American peo- Offers no Fa. y may hang a so palpably bt with regard ed to the inspection o rup’ # publi neral outlines The above are a fair sample of the pecifications. The for the Now e char ‘ourier” after saying t bunkrapts are forei of imm wealth, and hav o believe by men in this country that ten per cent on the amouat of the debts due to them, they could buy the repeal of the law, adds thi Then, i mous mog disposal ot ned upo is and Agents, beth one man in thi iu their tpholy crasady. Foreign and Ainerican, aren famous work. ‘This infar s of Congrese new that ork !"—that is buyin, or the “Courier” a ey relied for success sofely upon jy said that, if vould be purchased ut one hundred piece,we did not think thata sudi- could be found w would the repeslof a L: voted in July, and thus P ir votes had been pure by gold. Wedid not believe we say, that eve boasted eum of one hundred thousand dollars per vot would be snfficiwntto Induce such asacrifice of self— such anopen exhibition of corruption Wellif this be not a direct charge that all thove who have clanged their votes have been pil $100,000, then we don’t know what a direct charge But imnediately afier the “Courier” the nail thus :— up mem- be elinches et, who the inen are that coal! uh we have not had tin v t Ji ions of Holl reign Ag hat m: the Lie Fo ponents of the | paper or any one against a deliberative assembly, since the creation of the world. How true or other- wise it may be, we know not—have no means of ‘knowing. But this we do know, that if such charge appeared in any London or Paris newspaper,the edi- tor and proprietor would be had up before the House of Commons or the Chamber of Deputies and made , % prove the truth of what he states, or be punished accordiogly. And we trust that Congress, if it hag | any regard to its character—its reputation at heme | erabroud—any regard for truth or morality—any re- gard for virtue or honor—any regard for the country and the institutions of whieh it 1s the leading feature —any regard for all that is dear to man, to humani- | ty—will instantly take the proper measures to ascer- tain if there be any (truthat ail inthiseharge. They owe it to themselves, and the honest portion of the members owe it to their feliow countrymen, to take | this step, and that too immediately | ar against the Lancet-—Breaking up of the Medical Cliqnes=The Freedom of the Press, The arguments of counsel before the Court of Chaneery in the case of the “‘ Captain of the deek,” versus the Lancet, will be heard this day or to-mor- row. We will give a full report of the extraordinary proceedings the day after. This is one of the most interesting cases ever sub- mitted to a legal tribunal in this country. A medi- cal journal is established on independent principles designed to draw owt the struggling professional talent throughout this country, which is at present ground down to the dust by the insolent intolerance of sordid, grasping, and tyrannical cliques—it sets out with a determination to bring the teachers in the most prominent medical schools properly before the bar of public opinion, in order that they may receive the due reward of their works, and accordingly it enters on a review of the labors of an individual who at present occupies a conspicuous position amongst the professional men of the country.— Immediately on its appearance, it gives evidence of its independent character, and is aszailed with all the inherent virulence of a selfish, arrogant and monopolizing clique, who, in their efforts to crush it, trample on every principle of equity and overthrow the foundations of a noble public institution. In the present case an amiable but overrated in- dividual hasbeen jaded on to a course which will tully test the principle whether a public lecturer can interdict the publication of a review of the discourses which he has sold to the public, because he is led to believe that such publication will interfere with his anticipated pecuniary profite in bookmaking. The Express characterizes Dr. Houston as a * literary bandit,” because he reports and publishes the lectures of the ‘‘ Captain of the deck,” while this very Express a few weeks ago made an elaborate defence of its own conduct ia reporting and publish- ing the lectures of Dr. Sparks. Whilst the Express POSTSCRIP Se Og The mail, south of Washington, did not az rive here lest night. ‘Washington [Correspondenee of the Herald.} Wasutnerox, Jan. 10, 1842. The fankrupt Law—Mr. Clay’s Position— Extra Session and President Tyler—Cor-| difficulty with Great Britain, when our shores were respondent of the American—The Navy. | daily liable to invasion, every owner of property on The extraordinary demenstration in the House of | the Atlantic coast was fearfully sensible. Sha!l we Representatives’on Saturday, on the bankrupt law, | still continue unprepared, until we learn the folly has produced general consternation among its | of it by dear experience, and the enemy have again friends, and universal astonishment in the minds of | destroyed our capitol?’ Every day’s advance in the all who were not in the secret of the movement. | arts show how increasingly important navies have The act is without precedent in the history of our become, for purposes of natural defence or offence. government, and if the design is consummated, the | The history of every modern nation shows that much English language will be searched in vain for ade-| more has been accomplished by navies than by ar- quate terms wherewith to exprees the scorn, the | mies. indignation, the contempt, with which every right- | England to nayal enterprises, ‘‘ chivalry has been judging man will view the inconsistency, the ea-| launched upon the seas,” and there it should be Price, the folly of the whig party in Congress. The | kept. repeal of the bankrupt law will be most appropri-| ‘The United States is possessed of the most exten- ately followed by the repeal of the distributien law, | sive and exposed coast, and the most active, wide- and then the whigs in Congress may as well be bu-| spread commerce of any nation in the world. .We tied, for they will be dead for all useful or practical ) should therefore have a navy equal at least to aay purposes, thereafter. If they give up these two] other power except Great Britain; yet we know it meesures, or either of them, for they are indissolu- | to be the shameful fact that net only Great Britain, bly connected in their passage, they give upevery | but France, Kussia, Turkey, Egypt and even Hel- thing. They abandon the whole ground, and stand | land, each have navies in actual commission superi- self-convicted of a degree of vacillation and corrup- | or or equal to ours. Can it be said that we have ion withouta parallel in the history of legislation. The merits or demerits of the measures have noth- ing to do with the question, No manifestation of the popular will has operated upon Congrese in re- government, no standing army, and merely a no- lation tothem. If they are inexpedient or wrong in | minal debt of small amount, can it be presumed that Principle now, they will be no less so, when, after | we cannot easily increase and improve our navy in mature deliberation and full discussion, they passed | proportion te the demands of the times, and the both houses. Neither reason nor reflection will] efforts of other nations? Is not our maratime and have any thing todowith the repeal. If accom- | coast property worth the little proportionate premi- plan, with even admit, that we should have a navy at least suflicien' ‘o protect our traders in all parts of the world, and the 500 millions of American property afloat in every sez, and be also ready to prevent the landing of any maritime force upon our shores, That we navy? With a thriving population ef seveateen is perfectly justifiable in reporting public lectures, Dr. Houston should be “locked up in the Tembs,” and 1s to be regarded as a “rascal” for doing the verysame thing! Consistency ! thou arta jewel! But whence, we would ask, is this extreme nervousness—this frenzied alarm, exhibited by the “* Captain of the deck,” respecting the publication of areview of his lectures, which are now for the first time presented in a tangible form to the profession and the world? “ The Captain of the deck” is little versed,tobe sure,in the mystery of book-making,but the most emasculated intellect of any of the gentle- men of *‘distingushed scholarship” about him,might be able to see that an analytical review of the afore- said lectures on ‘ the Operations of Surgery, with Surgical and Pathological Anatomy” in a popular Medical Journal, was the best advertisement in the world for “the book.” A manof such profound philosophical and scientific attainments as the “Captain of the deck” is universally supposed to possess, should desire, above all things, such-an an- nunciation of the elaborate work which he might in- tend presenting to the public. Before the publication of his lectures in the London Lancet, Dr. Elliottson was not worth a hundred guineas a year, In a year or two after that publication, his professional income was £10,000 per annum. The statements of the Courier respecting what it designates the “disgusting exhibitions at the surgical clinique” betray a beastly ignorance that is almost incredible. True, these surgical operations are disgusting to the noa-professional eye, and any thing but agreeable to the surgeon himself, but are they therefore to be abandoned—is the science which teaches their performance to be abandoned ? By the bye, our amusing, exciting, curious, tick- ling history of the attempts te control the reports of the clinique, are yet to be given. The Express describes Dr. Houston as “a foreign adventurer,yetfresh upon our shores,” a literary “‘ban- dit,” “ a rascal, who if in London would be lodging in Newgate, and who is one of those men, who, be- cause they could not commit their rasealities with- out incarceration, have left London or Dublia for their couatry’s good, and take up their midence in New York.” A “foreigner!” Who ever heard of such distinctions in science? Science is of no country, and her true followers and friends, wher- ever born, constitute a wide and diffusive brother- hood, which no artificial boundaries of sea, or mountain, or river can ever separate. A “ foreiga- er!” Not a day passes in the course of which the ‘* Captain of the deck” does not boast that he received his education in the very schools which this “ foreign adventurer” has recently left. Who were Hervey, Hunter, or Astley Cooper?) Were Sir Charles Bell to arrive on our shores and commence lecturing or practising, he would be only a “ foreign adventurer.” Pshaw! All this opposition to the Laneet, has, as usual in such cases, resulted preeminently in its favor. It is now established as an independent joumal. Orders for it are daily pouring in from all quarters of the Union. All the most distinguished and liberal medi- cal practitioners in the city, approve of its course; and the attacks of an interested clique have only given it a twelvemonth’s start in the attainment of public favor. Nor Sty Exoven.—A man named Sylvester Fox has just been caught in Rochester forging checks for small amounts in that place. Church and Ball were to have been the sufferers. Vox is “ respecta- bly connected.” New Tauat to tHe Rev. Ma. Van Canpe.—The Rochester Post states that a motion for a new trial isto be made by Mr. Van Zandt’s counsel. We should think he has had trial enough. Tur Mexicas Scnoorers.—It is now stated that the two schooners detained by the Collecter, will be released and permitted to sail for Vera Cruz. Cer- tainly—who objects? Let every thing be done ac- cording to law, and then build and sell as many ves- sels to foreign governments as they can pay for in cash down. Give no credit. If Mexico, Texas, Greece, Russia, or any other country want vesse!s built here, letthem do so according to law—it is so much clear profit to the country. New York Sacred Music Society, Nenkomm’s splendid oratorio of David and Goli- ath was produced at the Tabernacle last night to an immense assemblage. There must have been two thousand persons present. While we consider the music of this composition exceedingly beautiful, we are unwilling to assert that it even approaches Beet- hoven’s grand everture of the Mount of Olives. Some passages in this oratorio are truly sonl-stirring, and at times we are carried away in a vertex of en- thusiasm by the sublime sounds which salute our ears; but as a whole we caanot call it a composi- tion of superlative excellence. The orchestral de- partment was very defective, and this, in a great measure, detracted from the actuni merits of the oratorio: The instrumenta! performers were very few; double, aye threble their number would have been barely enfficient to give effect to the music. The few there were, however, did admirably, It could hardly have been otherwise with Hill as leader and Mr. Keyser as first violin, In relation to the choral department we do not feel at liberty’ to speak. It consisted of amateurs, wh lent their aid in behalt of the society; otherwise we might say that it did not con Pp to our ideas of This is no vague and groundless arraignment Here is a specific statement made out 5 the list of the names charged with being bought over is osten- sibly given, and the actual sum of money alleged to have been received. Congress is organized under the Constitution to give us good laws, inculcate vir- tue and sound morality. But if such are its and uses, we shall be better Without a Con, Look at this matter in any light and it presents but tw strong points—two bold features. The charge is true, ord is not. In either cave anu immediate and thorough investigation is necessary. If it be false, te’ this bé shown and proved. It it is true, God knows it is high timé that this was proved and shown to the whole country. We await the action of Congress in this matter harmony. Attimes it was singularly at fault, and the grand hynon of the Shepherds was irretrieveably lost by the diseerd eccasioned in miscounting tine Mr. Braham sung the m as if it was written for him; so the ease and confidence he manifested lent aid to his astounding powers: His cadences at Limes were extremely beautiful; indeed we lost sight of the eran, and thought it wasthe rich, fall y of youth we were enjoying. 0 fescue of my father’s land!" was given with gr effect, and stok deep into the feelings of his am exce. This solo, and the Triumplial March of the leraclites, we consider the gemsot the composition. Mir¢ Strong and Miss Pearson were véry good in their respective spheres; neither of the voites, however, were equal to their parts. t mer The rest of the quited themselves very weil, and we \nnot bit congratulate tis Society at the sucelss hich hast night attended their exertions, We wich hem ail the encouragement their Lavdabls wader . plished, it will be an act of passion or pique, utterly indefensible in every point of view. Every sagacious man in the nation foresaw the um of insurance which a suitable navy would cost t Ifnot—if the people, through their representatives, parsimoniously refuse to aid the navy Secretary in mischief which has resulted to the country from the | securing safety for their property—then let it remain uncalled for, impolitic and absurd extra sescion.— | asit 1s, a tempting bait for foreign aggressions. The Every sagacious man predicted. the destructien| Secretary of the navy now asks for only twe or three of the whig party as its inevitable consequence.— | millions more than last year to accomplish all he But no one supposed that at this early day, Mr.| proposes for the present. Tois sum is not to be Clay would repudiate, that is the da’ Phrase now, | given to foreign countries for rail read iron, or the action and policy of the extra session, and ad-| cloths,'or silks, but is to be returned to the people mit the necessity of undoing what was then achiev- for sea-stores, for beef, pork, flour, cotton and ed. This he has virtually dune through his parti-| woollen cloths, canvass, hemp, {timber,&c.—to edu- sans in the House. The movement against the bank- | cate the sons of sick and poor for an honorable pro- tupt lawcomes from him. No man knows better] fessien, and to sustain and train up hundreds of hor- than Mr. Clay, that the distribution bill could not} est native tara. have been carried through Congress, except by con- aecting it with the bankrupt bill. They were linked together like the Siamese twins, and the fate of one depended upon that of the other. If the tie had] qhe First Sermon of the Rev. J. been severed, the death of both would have follow: ed asa matter of course. Let the bankrupt law be repealed now, and the distribution bill shares the same fate, just aseertain as effect follows cause — There cannot be adoubt entertained on this point. The thing is clear as the sun at noonday. yet Mr. Clay, with a thorough knowledge ef the consequences, instigates their mevement upon the Bankrupt Law, with a view to coerce the whig Senators into a position of uncompromosing hostility } both brauches towards the administration of President Tyler. His purpose is to have the repeal bill pass.the House, and then to hold it over the heads of such of the whig | all doubt havin i i ‘y vatleman entered the Hall encircled found no streant 2 buen euchel EGRea nae Senators as have manifested a disposition to fall in with the administration, and endeaver to settle the currency question. We shall see what success at- tends his sinister management. Whatever evil grow out of the extra-seasion, it] prayer. Hethen commenced the ser should be born in mind ,that President Tyler is in no wise responsible for it. He is guilty of all agency in that piece of supreme and unspeakable folly.— | tone ef voice that we could only hear an occasional Mr. Clay foreed it upon the country against the better judgment of the whole party. Mr. Tyler was decidedly opposed to it, but the poor compliment of asking his advice'was never paid him. On his ac- cession to the Presidency he found the thing in pro- | ofdiction,he had doubtless been induced to prepare, gresa and could not arrest it. Neither the tax upon the country, therefore, Mr. Clay, and the absurd course of the party under his dictation, is to be charged upon the President. But this matter is too well understood by the people toneed argument or illustration. The course of a majority of the whigs in the Senate on the fiscal plan, isto be inferred from the conciliatory speech of Mr. Evans, of Maine, and it is not improbable that the bill with some modifications may be carried through, but every thing is in the greatest state of confusion aud ex- citement. There has been attempts to procure the removal of Mr. Skinner, one of the; Assistant Post Master Generals, on the allegation of franking violent parti- zan papers. The movement was prompted by an impertinent clerk,who ought himself{te have been re- moved long’ ago, and who will prebably get his deserts if he fabricates further charges: against his superiors. The New York American is congratulating itself on its precious bargain of a correspondent at this place, speaks of him as ‘free speken, honest, un- bought and fearless!” Now this is refreshing and delightful. ‘*Free spoken” the man is, no doubt, nobody more so. The veriest drab in Billingsgate could not scold more volubly, or ejaculate ridiculous slanders and absurd epithets with more freedom or worse taste.‘ Unbought” he certainly is, bat only because there was nobody to purchase. He was a long time in the market, but the administration would not buy himup. He was hanging about the White House and the State Department, we under- stand, almost from the day of General Harrison’s inaugurration up to the opening of the present ses- sion, imploring for office of any sort. Poor devil: His voracity was such that he grasped at every thing, from the mission to Bogota down to the petti- est clerkship under the government. He wasbacked up by some members of Congress, but alas! his pretensions were set aside, notwithstanding the potent support he had secured, and now he is strain. ing to avenge the slight by abusing President Tyler and his administration. There isa vast deal of this sort of unbought patriotism extant in these days, and the whig press has put a considerable portion of it in requisition. The Supreme Court commenced its annual session to-day. The entire bench was present, with the exception of Judge Thompson, who is expected to- morrow. The Report of the Secretary of the Navy will soon be the subject of discussion in Congress ; and, from the spirit of the times, it appears there is much doubt concerning the issue. ‘The Report itself has every where met the approbation of the people of all parties, and classes; but the speeches and casual remarks of politicians or demagogues who are bound to indiscriminate retrenchment, intimaie And] the eloquent and distinguish f nor the;de molition of the | the benefit of mankind, but that intention was near- whig party, growing out of the factious violence of | ly defeated TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Second Session, N. Mafitt, Jess appropriation than is gramted J man! annualy to the war department. Every one wil! were not so prepared, in the recent quest ions of | Sion, and saw the vast New Jerusalem Since the grand Spanish Armada roused | °t it with the desi Not proportionate resources to support a suitable | ful ripples o millions of people, an inexhaustible soil, a cheap | His Jesus, re; to he saw the glories of the transfiguration when ven was let down with its splendor, on the mountain’s to gered with wonder around the cros; he soared like an eagle into the ay vens, and gazed in spjrit upen the no earthly sun, or moon walking the eternal and incomprehensible God, in th uage of men, he wi dpeeription of an . no more. The attem;t to bring infinity down to mortal comprehension is vain, and always ends fruitlessly, except in the lessons we thus of owe own ignorance, impotence, and folly. The mys- terious power in whom we live and move and have butes, aud the communications of his spirit with Yet if we take any single attribute, and look of investigating its properties task our in- jon,and carry Y 5 the result will ever be the same—it will end, on the one hand, ia layii u low in the dust, and on the other, in 4 ty. Contemplate his wisdom, and we shall find infinite! His goodness, or liness, or his justice, and lo, sure. Naturetells of God—but points no weary wander- er to the bosom of eternal ahve Nature is elc quent in praise of the wisdom and power of her creator— yet none of her voices have en of his ee- sence. The loud organ of th 8 of heaven—the deep-toned thunder—the music of the blue waters, or the babbling brooks, Jeaping in white and play- u the shi pebbles, have never ar- ticulated one word to indicate their know! of His nature, orfto initiate us into the my: of unrivalled perfections. The extent of our in- telleetual power—second only to those bright spirits who bask forever in his smiles—is too limi- ted to comprehend the exhaustless, because unapproachable, subject of unereated—-un- defined Deity. He gocs me, says Job, and I sce Him not. behold I go forward and he is not there : and backward,xbu! f;cannot perceive Him. The poverty of human language as well as of th t and conception should abase rds we use to express the actior ‘im mind toward us, are but the puling express: of our li d re. They all point to our igno- rance, andare utterly igadequate to express the ion of the unfathomed fountain of intellect in its mighty radiations over the empire of mind. It we say that the Lord is “g: ed,” “an “ pleased,” bide oe ‘repents” him of impending judgment-—turns again and calls after the moral wanderers who are scattered like sheep over the mountains ef sin and deli sion—can we for a mome te ourselves rat our express ons have done jus ce toour God? No. N Lhe condescension of that God is the only reason why the red thunder bolts are not out on the wings of the storm to avenge the moral wrong we do our creator every time we express the motions of the ineffable mind, as we clothe the action of our finite passions—endeavoring to eternity inthe drapery of time. The great tural lesson which we would learn on this part of our subject is humility. Every great view of God, teaches this lesson, Abraham, I-aac, Jacob, Gi- we » Q an Chaplain to the House of Represeata- | deon, Mansab, and other ancient saints whenever tives. On Sunday morni , the House of Represen- tatives was crowded at the usual hour for the com- mencement of Divine Service, the rumour having run through the city on the ho of the wind that Chaplain to the House of Uh eas ives—Professor John New- Jand Maffitt—had arrived by the Railroad cars on Saturday evening from Baltimore, to enter upon the duties of bi ‘haplaincy. Many members of Congress were prezent, and inha- bitants of the Distri erally, but the display of ies was very impo: The number, however, willdoubtless be proatly increased on Sunday next, en removed of his arriv; The Rev. Ge: in the ample folds of arich blue cloak, and proceed- ed to the Speaker’s chair, where a temporary read- ing desk was placed, where he knelt down for a few minutes and was evidently engaged in secret ing a chapter from some part of the ment, after which h= made a prayer, but all part of the service was gone throug! ‘esta: this in so low a word, and therefore are unable to give the readers of the Herald his devout supplications. The devo- tional exercises being over, the Reverend Profes- sor took from his pocketa manuseript eermon, which to avoid the possibility of even inelegance by an anaouneement that the Reporter fer the He- rald would be present to secure a full report for oy, the too gentle accents in which he commenced his address. His introductory re- marks were wholly lost, but it may sutlice to s that he was understood to express the mingled em: tious which he felt on being placed so unexpecti ly in the prominent position of Chaplain tothe Na- tional Legislature. He then read his text from the 33rd verse of the Ith chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Roman’ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; kow unsearchable are His judge ments, and his ways past finding out. After craving the prayers of his christian friends for the Divine aid in his arduous labors,he waa un- derstooz to say,—ard if we have not done the Rev. Professor strict justice, it must be attributed to the difficulty we found in hearing him—that these words were the outbreakings of a heart powered with an ineffable view of the different points in the character of God. The Apostle bad taken a survey of the economy of Grace, and bright gleams of the divine perfections broke through the veil of flesh upon his soul,as the sun-bursts pene- trate the morning vapours, In the commencement an intention of thwarting the noble efforts of the Secretary, and of exposing us yet longer to the taunting arrogance of Great Britain. Efforts have been made and with great success, to spread a pre- version of the Secretary’s intentions, to this effect, that the immediate design is to increase the Navy to half that of Great Britain, at an annual expense of twenty-five millions of doliars. Certainly no one who has read the Report, could so understand it. He expressly says, after enumerating the soundest arguments, in favor of increasing the Navy: “Ii these views be not altogether deception, the policy of increasing our navy without further delay, is obvious. How far it shail be increased, the wisdom of Congress will decide.” Again he : “Ttis better to have no navy at all, than to have Jess than enongh. | am aware any great increase of otir naval power eannot be effected in any short time, I propose it only as the object at which our policy ought te aim, and toward the attainment of which yout measures ought to be steadily directed. An agnval appropriation, as liberal as the means oj the Treasury will cilow ; will, in a few years, accom- plish all that is desirable. In his tables of estimates | the Seer scarry out his magnifi | ! ry pro: of bis theme the Apostle inquires, Hath God cast | BCCCssatS ai Bie i ¢ aueayhis peas? The anwercomes back, Goud for: | Eeent arrene abaeay icekata ns wed iave bid. But ah! his people have failen—and their fa . - has been like the gush of ten thousand fountains of | $00; and he is not far from every one of us By life to the anrvoninding. world. Yet,even now there path of repentance whiel por directly to Chriat, { is hope, for the people of the Lord chozen of old — + ; P k They shall be atcrod again. Recalled from thar pach the srereiee whi me faith npon Lag geigd ts wanderings, a day shall come when the silver wings | °¥.~ RUYer Mident | wate eee vat eracie of the Cherabim of Hope shall wave over them, | Gay “Opt eet te nee a that with Thonas, we eg thei <2 | God, who spoke on Sinai, that with Thomas, we and long forgotten joys shall come back to their ing seaseained to onclaten T ar of. bosoms like youthfiil remembrances : and the bles- | iY, he;comptrained to exclaim in rapturous ce sed spirit of inspiration seals the irrevocable pro- | '*'Y'Y> My Lord and my God. mise, that, as the temporary casting away of the IL. —Seecondly, His works. We whe standin the ancient people of God. hud been the reconciling } midst of the workmanship of God, are also the of the world, their recal should thrill Christen- | works of His hands. © very power which we dom with moral sensations not uolike life from the | have to analyze nature, explore her heights, and dead. Wonderful people ! Selected from the mass | depths, and distances—for all that is of mankind in those early year:, when the earth | spt i d subline, looked out like a virgin from her diluvian baptism, | from Ged. oul first, the and continned,to up the presenttime, whetherin the | as creatures s'anding in the lro sunshine of Almighty Love, or in the gloom of an | at the head of nonum overshadowing curse, a standing evidence of | We'know and feel a reasoning, im- the faithfulne:s and power of God. mortal sou!—a blast of the Divine breath—the * Di- W onderful people ! whose raia is balm to the | vinity that stirs within qs.” Yet this epitome of earth; whose reinstatement will impart new vi- | the “great first cause” understands not so muck as talityto mind, as if life had descended upon the | itself. We know not what our spirit is. e pale dominions of death, and had overcome the | sometimes almost question i's origin—whether pay and Ug of the grave! from heaven, earth, or mea. We know but litvle of The Apostle for a moment contemplates the | its substance, powers andfaculties. Where is this grafted branches of the wild olive, standing inthe | strange, busy principle, that actuates and ii is al tree, only by faith. He points to the 1e- | this wonde! ce of workmans| 0 that it can cent traces of the severe knife of judgment, which | freely move of pleasure Bf | had fora season, cnt off the ancient branches, and | and pain, bon ce? Who can over tenderly admonishes the nesphytic world, tobe not | the source of his own ideas, or how, by rei high minded, but fear. The goodness and severity | they are brought up by the mind into the result of ot God and the Gentile world, were placed in the | reason? Where begins it to compare, distinguish, opposite seales of a mighty balance; when one fell | and eonclude? Who knows by wat secret me- the other rose; but the clad time was predicted | chanismthe passions and affections oved, or that should witness both rising by a reflex action | how allthe notices of things past—the images of toyether; the lifting up of the one woald be the ele- | sight or hearing—are traced upon the memory, vation of the other. The Aposile as the lover of | or take up their bodiment in the brain? Well his own kindred, hails the promise thatoutot bis | might David exclaim, “ii are fearfully and own beloved Zion, the Deliverer would come who | wonderfully made.” In the areana of nature the 7 should turn away ungod, from Jacob, He | same diffiewt ist. We are confused in (ae foresees the time when a great nation, on whose | multiplicity s variety of matter. And mind the moral darkness of unbelief had fallen, | although at times the veil may be threwn aside, should onee again be called within the Je of | and seme of the secret workings of creative power salvation: be eres out—and so all Israel shall be | in the wonderful pheaomena that alternately alarm, saved. The eye of inspiration here flashes over | astonish, anddelight us, become tangible; yet we the world, Jewish and Gentile all included, and | are far from comprehending even these. We sup- finds that all alike, at one time or another, have | pose ourselves competent to the developement of been shut up in unbelief. And why? That the | canses and effects, when suddenly an unseen ever blessed God might have mercy upon all. It | throws diffieultiew in our way. and a thick palpa- is the falness—the ‘Boa honoring nature of this | ble cloud settles dewn upon the mind. Pe 4 alvation which clothes the Apostle’s lips withthe | bewildered, and confounded, we give up in despair words of the text—O the depth of the riches both of | under the humiliating conviction, that we had the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearcha- | dared too much, and t+ at however correct our con- ble are his judgments, and his ways past finding out. | clusions, we sat bud in part and prophecied only in In illustrating this fine passage we will contem- | part. [t cannot be dexied thata beaaty and fitne plate the Nature, the Works, the Word, and the | soothing and enchanting to the finer ha Judgments of Great God. of our nature, are spread over all the visi 1. Firs Name and Exsence, Oh the depth! | of God. Theecye of man is delighted God is payilioned in the clouds! Atthe very tlres- | everthe creation, ard throwgh the inlets of the hold ef the attempt to draw aside the cloudy dra- | sensesjthe mind drinks in the impressions of beau- pery that invests the character of Jehovah, we are | ty and grandeur whieh are visible wherever the arrested by a voice from the most Holy Place, say- | Creator hath ehaped matter into forms of exquisite ing, Hitherto shalt thon come but no further. Whata | loveliness and perfection. Go out into the fields, vast distance separates us from his throne! Canst | around whieh the everlasting mountains bave thou by searching find out God ? thou find out | drawn their line of sentry and_ observat tie Almighty to perfection? It is as high as Heaven; | fringed with the forest dr Let your what canst thou do; deeper than Heil; what canst thot | take in mountain know? Tie measure thereof ix longer than the earih, | river, ® faract leaping and broader than the sea His name—Jexovan— | from rock te reck down the face of the tgrigeencd startles us. The Jews thought it too sacred to be | dashed 1nto feathery clouds of foam, asif the pure pronounced with base material organs, and too nt was lef down from a region higher than the gzeat to be comprehended by dust and ashes. 1} earth. Look abroad on ali this seene of ceaseless AM THAT I AM, repels the proud enquirer into | echoing action, relieved by quiet nooks, in which the nature and essence of the Great God, Yetafar} infant angels might lull their silken eyelids to olf we may contemplaie that wonder of wow sleep, and say, if an eloquence does not plead in» ‘ ip & Woiverse of wonders, the nature of the su your borom (or the ereator of this wondrous divers" Greater. wified picture.. Aseend, that sky-pointing peak, ~~ John, called by way of eminene divine, wl+ | which divides the storm cloud as it marehes on to thong) he hal m ! been n con | ihe wa'ery deluge; from its topmest rock look far ti t f the v nity in wn wher h crs ¢ jash, 6a they saw the covenant God, clothed in his angel he walked the patriarchal whelmed with tear, or abased deepest humilition of soul. Mansah, after seen the countenance ef God very terrible, cried out—We shall surely die, because we have ‘seen God. The Prophet Isaiah, exclaimed, after hav- ing seen the Lor lupon a high and lifted up —Wo is me for Tam undone, Iam a@ man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the mivsi of a Bale Of wc dita Sor mine eyes have seen the the Lord of Hosts. And in the prophet Danii during his exalted spiritual communing with his maker, there remained no strength; for, he, my %omlimess was turned inio corruplit ‘nt Te. We learn a lesson from God himself in the sation of the law from the Mount--one of the wildest, grandest scenes of terror aud majesty that ever astonished nature, opened on Sinai. An awful crown of cloud surrounded the mountain, rolling billow above billow, toward the heavens ; while, like a mighty brand in the centre, the moun- tain was altogether in a flame. The hoarse and deepening thunder, like a trumpet, long and ex- cee ingly, terrible, blew the peal of terror, and startled Israel gathered around its base. Did the King of Eternity then disclose to man hie, nature and his essence? No. Jehovah mained in his pavilion of thick darkness.— His Will blazed forth tinct in the perfect | fires that shot their unearthly glare upen spaaiog hills—but Deity lay concealed. dreadful mandate was—(o ye not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: let not the pric and the peo- le break through, to come up unto the Lord; lest he break forth upon them. Even the inhabit: Heaven, whose spiritual nature has never. tainted by sin or companionship with earth, and unable to climb the heights or fathom the di the great Inrisitz, whose nature and must ever temain, as in the j hensible and inapproachable. 8] abeing but of yesterday, a star, aspire to that which the bright epirits of Paradise cannot reach! How can the dweilers upon earth look upon God and live, when angel and archangel veil their faces under their wings in his presence, over- whelmed by the ineffable effulgence! And if all the harps and voices o| Heaven peal out the mag- nificent response—Hely, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God of Hosts; Heaven and Earth are full of His glory—what should be the language of falien man? What the response of mortality and sia? Tous the Great Eternal seems to say, as Jesus said to Mary at the Sepulebre—-Zoueh me not. But be of good cheer. God hath withholden nothing that is rus to know Although we are not ‘although he had leaned on the besom of ing bis soul on the soul of immortal inthe master’s bosom—although hea- strange bewildering p—all h he lin- although alyptic hea- Mount lighted by ’ im borrowed brightness—yet when he would deseribe or define lan- our being, can only be known through his attri- been © S$ EE