The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1842, Page 2

POSTSCRIPT. | Cou dederte se ove ace rgh owe urely local and private ehavacter, were taken up and passed. Ona bill to amend the charter of the Whitehall Bank, Mr. Loomis moved an amendment probibi- ting voting by proxy, for mere than half the amount of stock owned by any person so doing. A con- siderable debate arose on this proposition, involv- ing the discussion of the various opinions on the matterof banking and bank reform. It is evident, that these institutions have but little to expect from the present legi-Iature. The bank, to w this bill refer merely a:ks to ba allowed to change the day for the election of directors. Pending this discussion, on motion, the House adjourned, after having transacted a larger amount of real busiaese, than on any day during the last ten days. if The Senate to-day, passed the New York Crim nal Court bill, and thea took up the bi'l to reduce the eapitsl of the Dutchess County Bank, in the dis cussion of which, they continued unti! the adjourn- Exciteme the Tabernacle Last Evening—Mysterious Absence of the Rev, JN. Mamit! ELE» = The announcement that the celebrated itenerant ens Difficulties with Engl 4_The Right | orator, Professor Maffit, would deliver a lecture on of Search,—The British Press. the “ Life of Genius,” collected an immense ar- semblege ot the lecture-going portion of the com- munity {within the walls of the Tabernacle last light on the other side of the water. In France, the | evening. At seven o’clock the house was tolerably leading Journala declare a war between the two well filled, and in a few minutes after we had gained countries inevitable. In England ail but the Radical | @ seat, the last arrival, consisting of two very fat papers, insist that the so-called Right of Search can | young ladies, escorted by theirmamma, who, to never be given up, wi:hout bloodshed. The letters | speak after the manner of the immortal Boz, seem: of Mr. Stevenson seem only to add fuel to the flame; | ed like one of her daughters multiplied by two, en- and it is worthy of notice that the only remarks] tered the house, and eucceeded, by the polite as- City Intelligence. “Tue Tomps” was honored with a visit from Drewes yesterday morning. He entered alone and proceeded through every department before it was discovered by the prying eyes of the police that Boz was inthe midst of them. Either his presence, or the dull rainy weather, created almost an entire stag- nation of business, and justicee and officers leoxed as languid as they would in the season of the dog days. During the morning David Roberts was caught and caged for attempting to steal a tuo of butter from Anderson Van Vassetl’s wagon, in the Bowery, William Mosher stole a shaw}, worth four dollars, from James W. Baker, of 71 Carmine street, and was caught and jugged. Tyler Jacocks, who ‘Washington. whenever it ean be done without riot jolence. [Correepondence of the Herald.] And further, the Court decides that the huliaoew ‘Wasuixcron, March 1, 1812. | says the slave shall be delivered up to his owner, Proceedings of the Senate—Mr. Clay—Im. | contemplates some ether remedial process than that Pertant Decision in the Supreme Court. capable of being exerted by the owner himeelf, In the Senate, this morning, after the presentation | therefore as the legislation of the States will not be of petitions, and reports from committeee, numerous | adequate and uniform, the powers with which the adverse reports on private claims were taken from | National Government is clothed must be exercised the tabl:, and concurted in. to do justice to the owner of the slave. The bill to establish a board of elaims,toexamine | This decision will have a most ealutary effect in claims against the United States, came up in its or- repressing the incendiary movements of the aboli- der. tionists, and ia quieting the just apprehensions en.-. _ Mr. Wasont remarked that it was a bill of much | tertained at the South. importance, and likely to lead to discussion. He The difficulties existing between ‘his country and Great Britain seem to be regarded in a very serious which the “ London Times” and other organs of the | sistance of a middle-aged ¢lergyman, with a slight- | was concerned in stealing a copper sugar pan from b ‘Tory Government deem worth serious notice and de- | ly florid complexion, in obtaining # conspicuousseat | sy) ¢, Mille, of pale Pie a pcan ae wank Aap yrewes re widegense: Bane ro therefore called for the special order of the day- ene ae Representatives—Quackery Sand: liberation, are the statements made by President | immediately behind the platform, where they could | \ 44. since): was nabbed endian welows exa! ion into the merits of the point at issue. | The orders of the day brought up the resolutions Seen ecm ene and Thempse- It is immaterial, however, so long a3 they have an opportunity of indulging an their propensity to talk. A large number of ladies ed the Capitol te- day with their presence, the weather being fice. As usual, it had the effect ef drawing out the speech makers. It is understood, that tl rect tax on real and offered by Mr. Cay on the 15th ultimo, which were published in the Herald of the 17h, and Mr, Clay M. id th i iseipli addressed the Senate for more than two hours anda eve Ator seat she romaine of Party nerd half in their snpport. This is Mr. Clay’s last “great berber phn yg ed ‘oe es Siete speech,” as each of his efforts is successively de-! tint contest, coonskins and aie retrenchment scribed by his obsequious admirers) The Kentucky | ang hard case were the PB soiuh dT and the senator is certainly a remarkable man, and yet there | hems of the whig party. The democrats tae is a great deal about him which, not to be profane, | outdone in the ery aan ee eunaente and pital may be called humbug. In the first place, he never | for they roared and bellowed like bulla of Basan; reste his fame upon his permanent policy, but is al- put the “restrairts of party” prevented that cs-ope- ways startling the public mind by some great ques | ration to which Mr. Mason ps ey atriotically recon, tion or system, which is for the time his hobby, and | ciles himeelf. Mr. Mason ee that politicians exclusive Property, = had “given up to party what was meant for man- His last demonstration is the “home league,” | \ing,” bat the, magician of the White House has ha} with which he hopes to catch the friends of what is pily dissolved them into a patrietic mass; yet en called ‘domestic industry,” as if thattime should be | adhesion is not genial. They bellow a alee confined to the labors of the loom and the epindle; | « retrenchment and reform,” but they ddruiniter not inelude the natural arms of the millions who | jt in small doses—so small as to be invisible. The toilin all the other more numerous departments of political doctors distrust each other while advocating human exertion. The consequence is that while he | the same mode of treatment, and hence their prac- pleazes one clas, he offends or alarms their more tice amounts but to an application of homeopathy numerous competitors, and thus loses more than he | 19 the body pelitic. It may be that there areamongst gains by these baitsfor popularity. This must ever | them quacks of another sshool—the Thomposian be the effect of those acts which address themselves | steam doctore; most assuredly they make Uncle- to classes and coteries instead of the more patriotic | cam sweat. aad comprehensive exertions which seek to protect The homeopathic maxim is similia similibus cu- and advance the interests of allupon fair and mu- rantur, or that diseases are cured by small doses tually advantageous terme. f of the medicines which preduce the eame morbid’ But my object now, is not to discuss these ques symptoms in a healthy patient. The German physi- tings but to call attention to the little dramatic ex-| cian Habemann came to this conclusion after hav- pedients by which the great disappointed seeks to at- | ing made all the healthy poople he could dose with tr.ct attention.™ At sixty-six he is aseager for ap- bark as feverish as malaria could make them. Thus,. plause asa child ora woman. No fading coquette | too, the {political doctors, after having produced dis+ practices at her toilette the arts which the Senator | ease in a healthy nation by their favorite specifics employs to retain the favor of his wavering admir- | hold that their nostrum, in emall doses, is the cure ers. He is like an actor who cannot perform to @ | >; the evils which their specifics have produced in. thin house. He speaks forthe nation through the } robust subjects. But the first discoverer of the ho- galleries. Mr. Maffitt cannot be more solicitous for mccopathie principle was not Habemana, nor Par- the apprebation of the fair, than this almost cepta- acelsus, but a sage whoee fame has heen cls genarian Senator who plays high fantastic tricks | - - ramilii upen the very brink ofthe grave. This ueual plan siheas sdiiaiesieukcd: ascites 2b) a of letting it be known when he is going to epeak, reo “There wes a men of Thessaly, ‘Tyler in his message, which they consider embraces | hear and be seen to the best advantage. All eyes the whole ect. And it is certain that if this} were now anxiously directed to the door of the troublesome ¢ ion is settled peaceably and with | Committee-room, and the audience behaved, we honor, it will be through the firmness, sound judg- | must say, with the strictest decorum, svarce a whis- ment and good sense of the present President of the | per being heard even amongat the ladies. No symp- United States. . i toms, however, of the apparition of the eloquent ‘Tne “ London Times” thus goes into a brief his- | Maffit met the gaze of the respectable and uneasy tory of the right of search, 80 wie , multitude. One of the Rev. David Hale’sdeputiee, xt Deine Ee ae aanseh iste ice a modeet and disereet-looking young man, decently haps friendly —if not, it is probably re-opened, and re- | attired in a blue roundabout, and neat pantaloons to settled, till at last it finds that shape in which the gradu: | match, with a vest of a sober hue, now ascended the lL acquiescence ef the world makes it dai gerous for an: jndividuel State again to disturb it. Thus the cooalvat platform, and placed two tallow-candles (four to Jaw of search had to fight its way, to its present state.| the pound) onthedesk. This little incident agree- ween Elizabeth, inher war with Spain, was able to f ‘ . aicen et on Poland und Denmark, but not on France, | ®ly diverted, it seemed, the attention of the assem- Soon the justice of the principle won acceptance, | blage, for the universal gaze was now turned upon and durin the Proteciorste the only question c, Fased by Sweden and Hollend was. whethir an | ‘2¢ Youth, whose countenance was thereupon euf- ‘armed veesel of @ neutral Government, accom. | fused with bluehes, and he somewhat precipitately ying its merchantmen, was not to be received as suf- ; , t = Felent eaixantes of the legal character of their cargos. retired, with an PDECANOUR confusion, rare to be —This encunibrance of the right of search, the law of witnessed in this laxter dayjof integrity and honest ations has since negati fn 16:9, England and Hol: | facedness. land, at the treaty ot V |, agreed to notily to 9s e pv nga wrong at at war Ube France, thet they | Stillmo Maffit came; and the general uneasiness should consider as lawful prize any ship trading with | now found vent in mutterings of discontent, “not art of that country. This unwarrantable extension hichiigerent rights over neutral Powers was protested | loud, but deep,” and numbers of the younger males against by far weaker nations—Denmark and Sweden— | gave sundry exhibitions of the vigor of their heels Se een eae attanatet be ame kind of ge | and toe, which called forth the indignant rebuke ourselves, has equally failed to gain admission into the | of several grave and sage-looking old gentlemen, who international code. fn all this histo occupied some of the front seats. It was now twen- diency have ultimately triumphed deen the result of a struggle, such as is now pending be- | ty Minutes past seven, and yet to the earnest query, = tween ourselves and the United Stetes. Law has hedto| Where is Mr. Maffii?: echoanswered Where ? “wework its way ; and so, not only the existin; sitive ‘ Tak tar tutetantiol” justice in anaicgy with thet | The assembled ladies and gentlemen now began law has heen claimed und contended for. With this | to chat among themselves, and an agreeably buzz, substantia) justice on our side, even ifour precise claim bf 5 hadnot yevuistinetly received the seal of custom, yet, as | ke that of a colony of wasps when disturbed in lainly and immediately necessary to give effect to those | their peaceful retreat by an invading tarrier, filled ws which have, we should be justified in demandin, . z ite recoguition. We Send va tovaa ve aii onin perforne | the ear. Immediately behind the reporter's table ance of eur duty to our ewn subjects, who are mainly af- | sat a party of young men destined for “the church, fected, and to all the world, none of which is entirely | their faces of orthodox paleness, and their ehanks in ‘uninterested in the maintenance of maratime order. . Dae 3 . se ; 4 a becoming state of ecclesiastical famine; they were This is about the poorest specimen of reasoning | terribly annoyed by Mr. Maffit’s non-appearance. ‘we ever remember to have seen in the leading jour- | “Why isn’t he here?” ‘Oh! what keeps him?” “If nal of England. What follows might he considered | he should n’t come!” and then their uneasiness de @ little better in point of style and logic, were it not} prived them of speech. That ominous whisper characterized by the overbearing impudence and} seemed to have been re-echoed throughout . the Jor Bator or tur Common Cooxcir —Last Ia the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Sam- evening being the regular night of meeting of the members of the Boards of Aldermen and Assistants in Joint Ballot, Assistant Alderman Lee, in the ab- sence of Alderman Purdy, who is unwell, took the Caair, and on calling the rol] but nine members an- swered to their names. A quorum not being pre- sent, the meeting then adjourned without the tran- saction of any businees. At the next meeting a Police Justice is to be elected, in place of Justice Tayler, whose term expires in a few weeks. The prominent candidates in caucus, are Garrett Gilbert of the Ninth, Ward, and Paul Grout, present mem- ber of the Legislature, of the Seventeenth. A Cupora anp Bett on tue Tomps.—It is con- templated to erect a cupola on the Halls of Justice in Centre street, forty feet in height, and place therein a bell, weighing from 1700 to 2700 pounds ; and also to divide the city into three Fire districts. Should the former object be completed, ‘, hark, from the Tombs a doleful sound!” will often be the ex- clamation of the quiet inhabitants of the bloody Sixth, aid, are ‘his will afford a fine J and means will, it is ly, report atthe sametime, and inconnection with the tax bill, a system or pay upon which the internal improvements of the fate areto be conducted under the present ad- ministration. is to bea meeting, I hear, in one of the ht, of the democrats to express their »” at the course pursued in regard to and appointment of the various minor Capitol, &c. It is in bad taste, and can certainly be of littl s Cave Unciscar. Axsany, March 1, 1612. In the AssemBy to-day, Mr. Weir presented a petition from 250 citizens of New York, praying for the repeal of the law known asthe market mo- nopoly, Mr. Swacxnamer presented a petition from merchants, mechanics, and others of the city of New York, praying that a law might be passed to provide for the redemption of broken bank netes, and to make a penal enaetment against over is- sues. A petition was presented from Conrad Hardy, praying that a divoree mig be granted him from his wife, Abbey; The petition was read, and sets forth that he is obliged, from the peculiar circum- atancez, and want of pecuniary means, totake this method of redress. That his wife has repeatedly Jeft him, and is n:w in Canada, from whence she sends him word that she never will retarn. A remonstrance was received from 800 citizens Late rrom tHe Coast or Arrica.—We have received a file of Africa’s Luminary from Oct. 15 to the 17th of December inclusive. The Slave Trade is carried on as briskly as ever. A small charp schooner ran into New Cess, eerly in October, took on board 200 slaves and in six hours was off. Matters and things at Cape Palmas were peacea- ble and prosperous. A letter speaks encouragingly of the Wesleyan miseions on the Gold Coast. Continued efforts are made to introduce horses at Liberia; three had been brought from SierraLeone, and it was hoped they would not die as all those previously imported had. A cutter of 25 tons was to beelaunched at Monro- via on the 20th of November. The English barque Niger, Merritt, from Bristol, on a trading voyage along the coast, was wrecked dictation which uniformly characterizes the English “ : “ Ly? be. | near the mouth of Mesurado river, Oct. 28. The | of the county of Otsego, against the State extend: | ; . A ‘And he was wondrous wi journals in all matters where their national interests va sae bes art cal vi ge wit a | first mate and two sailors were drowned. The car- | ing any further aid to the New York and Erie Rail i aah aor a whet prea gt priv He Sesped inte quickaet hedge, i areconcerned. The Times thus summarily disposes} moment of intense anxiety. The excitement in- sotad ies gol aenare, cereal: Be a netins Road. Several remonstrances were also received proclaimed in Baltimore that he is to speak on And when he saw his eyre wera gal of the question at isewe :— ‘ creased every moment. It was now thirty-seven. | troduced at pene 5 aed the alligator pear. r against the abolition of capital punishment; also the | Monday. Another plan is to employ certain ac- He jampad nee ora ves ann ihe Roredointgruptiaate: ssenibers ofS otrtags and-a-half minutes past seven o'clock. The hearts} — A Portuguese schooner had been taken by the na- | usual number of petitions fora law to suppress li- | tive old ladies to circulate the important intelli. ‘To scratch them in pete id republic ; aul are affected by the behaviour of each—all of the Direetors sank within them. Dr. Grisco », in bh Berrybee, janees sipeaes tale Cape Pal- | centio a8. s ; gence thrungh all the saloons of fashion, while the | This was homeopathy ; the wondrously wise man are concerned in the laws dane perpen H siren i, | great dismay, hurried to the e1.trance—looked wild- | Tj, e had been dreadful mortality in the Niger Mr. O’Sottivan, from the judiciary committee, | obsequious politicians spread the momentous news of Thessaly having found that a quickset hedge eceptance of laws necessary for the well being | ly round—returned—entered the committee-rooms— | expedition. reporied the bill from the Senate to repeal the | in the taverns and boarding houses. Again, the nu- | scratched out eyes, saw clearly that by another New York criminal court bill. Mr. Seymour introdaced, pursuantjto notice, a bill to restrict the liabilities of the safety fand, &c. On the reception of a report from the standing Committee on Public Printing, a debate was drawn merous letter writers are put in motion, and they | quickset hedge only his eyes could be restored disperse the intelligence to the four quarters of | The legend doesnot, however, tell us that he took a the heavens. That the Kentucky Senator is about | small dose ofthorn. Uncle Sam has evidently imi- to make some mysterious movement, and the | tated this celebrated example, for there can be* country for the fortieth time. Not long sinceare-] no doubt that he has jumped into the |, unless unsupported by the common Maitined. in ealoecizg tuem-wyteews re-appeared—ascended the platform with a faltering commonwealth which pretendssuch , @) step—the excitement was terrible—‘‘Ladies and pendence as empowers it to introduce disorder a: ” ‘ ‘ "A Bariig. sup niecessity indeed rust be-aiplein chet met | So eres see aaner on Dean ara Mm herrible at soitis, An unquestionable flag is,inits broadest extent, | tempt at a smile, “Ladies and gentlemen—we are imponit and the repression of such is,! in a very unpleagant perdicament—the Directore— The vessels suceeeded in Feiting up the Niger, and had just landed the model farm, when sickness made its appearance, and threw them into a state of despondency. Twenty six soon fell victims to death ; and seventy were yet on the sick list, and in @ Very precarious situation. ¥ P The Wilberforce has-gone ‘o the islani Ascension right which, it desied, musi be tacered mnkestaregiy | that is—ah! all the gentlemen who have lectured | The Sudan was at anchor off the river Num, await. | Ot» consuming more time than the whole expense | gular notice appeared in one of the Philadelphia | quickeet hedge of political quackery to scratch anodat oll hazards. here say that a New York audience is the most de- | ing the arrival of the Albert, which was some of printing would amount to, Thus it is, these | papers, that Mr. Clay would make a great speech | in all that the quickset hedge of political quackery questions of economy almost invariably cost the people twice as;much us is prepered te be saved. On a motion to take up the New York Criminal Court bill, without suffering it to go through the erdealof the Committee ef the whole, Mr. Sru- mons said, that he observed many members on this floor very anxious in regard to this important branch of the machinery of legislation, when any thing like a favorite measure was concerned. The friends of Units DIT did net dare to submit it to ims ordeal. They dare aot do it, because it was pass. ed by their opponents, who, ofcourse, must be all cither knaves or fools ; and, because afew soap- locks of Coenties slip demanded its repeal, it must bedone. He (Mr. S.) considered its repeal un- constitutional. He hoped the majority would not skulk from the consideration of this bill in Com- mittee of the whole. Mr. MeMurnay replied, that the language of the tleman frem Es:ex, was so different from what e generally used, that it must denote the shadow of argument he relied upon to sustain his position. The gentleman chose to stigmatize those who had asked for the repeal of this law as soaplecks. He, therefore, ro aes ‘as such, a majority of the most respectable of both parties, the Corporation of the city, &c. Mr. MeM. went on to show that the law was looked upon by the people of New York as illegal, &c , and that great inconvenience result- ed from it. He charged that thefreasons which in- duced the Neon 3g of it was not to benefit the people, but to reward political partisans. e con- tended that the regulat ot the Courts, as they stood previous to the age of this law, were fully satisfactory to the people of New York, and they had desired no change. ii ason why time should be consum- in the discussion of this bill in Committee of the whole, it already passed through that or- deal inthe Senate, and is considered certain to be vetoed by the Governor. Mr. O'Suttivan replied, that though he did not tance up the Niger, but unable to come down, either from want of hands, or not being able to stem the wahanty which in this season runs up that river very rapidly. . eh p Sa wa, frcm Norf ik,had arrived out. When taree days from Norfolk, William Savage died of a chronic complaint. Mr. Savage was about went six years of age, and formerly from near Savannah. He immigrated to L:besia in 1840. 8 Dei Wileve isdead. He died near Cape Palmas, ov. 18. Intelligence has reached ns feom C; almnas. of the oximence of an epidemic Dy Hert! 1ce5 and also along the coast, north and south thas raged equally pen colonists and natives—carry- ing off many of parties. Cape P. it has been general in its attack, although except in a few casee, the aged and infirm of the colonists only have died. It had gotten into all the ree schools, and swept away native youths from the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal establishments, and had only partially abated when our informant left. Fat pga in the too free use of new rice, is sup Pp to be the cause of this hog epidemic. ly. oma particular day,.and cntreating the good citi- | has scratched out of both his head and his far more zens not to fail to take advantage of the railroad | precious part, his pocket ; but as the faculty are one cars to enjoy so rich a treat. The day before the | part Thompsonian, one other part professing homaef Senator is to speak, a number ef strange faces are | pithy but adopting Thompeonian practice, while the always to be seen at the hotels, who have come all | rest act on the homcopathic principle, his recovery the way from the neighboring cities to hear an ef | is questionable. There are some who advocate fo- fort whicb{they have made up their minds before | litical hommopathy without kaowing it ; they obvi-- hand to admire. ously fimagine that great abuses can be cured by- Yesterday, Mr. Clay seemed to be in great anxi- | small measures of abuse, which they mistake fer- ety lect he should not be permitted to hold forth to- | positive improvements}; or perhaps they held that day, and thus disappoint the audience which had | the ‘‘reform” fever is to be cured by administering been drammed up for the occasion. the millioneth part of a grain of reform. This is in Itis a pity the Kentucky Senater could not print | the strictest conformity with the doctrine of Habe-- his face, his voice and his action, as well as his | mann, that the virtue of the remedies increases with words, which are flat without these accompani- | the reduction of their magnitude. The recent ments. In one regpect his eloquence is demosthe- “practice” of the “doctors” of the House of Repre- nian, for it consists almost entirely of action. Peo- | sentatives has been a strange admixture eof Homeo- ple who hear him with admiration, are astonished | pathy and Thompsonianism. The Homeopathisis at the emptiness of bis printed speeches. No dis- | maintain the aatonic theory in reformation, (waiv- tinguished man will leave co little behind him. | ing the question whether what they contemplate is Read all that he has recorded, and it is astonis! reformation) and that efficiency belongs to the how little it contains. Mr. Ulay’s elequence dies | smallest conceivable division or solution of it. Of with the echo, The fact is, that with all his talents, | this character is the recovery which contents itself he has not a logical, well balanced miud, and it has | with the saving the fraction of the salaries of two not been improved by study. No public}jman has | humble clerkships. 1n legislation, for the last few read so little, or is so ignorant of history and poli- | days, thehomepathic practice has been seen. It tical science. The proofs which might be cited are | has been administered in the smallest fractions ef absolately ludicrous. A few years agohe talked | the smallest particle; but the Thompsonians have- about the Chancellor of the Exchequer in England | sweat Uncle Sam without compunction. Of the throwing up the seals,” confounding him with the | hermaphrodite practitioners, to whom allusion has Lord High Chanceller. Of English history he has | been made, John McKeon isa distinguished pro- read comparatively nothing, and the most familiar | feseor: he prescribes retrenchment of emall fractions British classics are a sealed book te him. Inap-| of a dollar; but by drawing his per diem for six plying the phrase from Shakspeare, on one ocex-| weeks while he was attending to other business sion, he said— of a private professional nature in New York, he “* Must be asserted—at all hazards”! Very well.| eorous and patient they ever met—yee, patient, (a And if these are to be considered the sentiments of | ghaetlysmile,) now you'll sustain this good character. that government, as promulgated through their offi- | (Faint cries of, Where is Mr. Maffit?) Really, la- cial organ, it is high time that this country began to | dies and gentlemen, I can’t tell—that is—the fact is make a demonstration of what it means to assert at | —we heard from him on Monday, and he said he all hazards, would be here. Here is a letter—no,] believe I’d Iris too late for any nation, however proud or| better not read it now. (A laugh) I think Mr. powerful to think of coercing this country into what | Maffit will be here after all; but if he don’t, we’l, it does not consider just and right between nution| get a good substitute Please wait fifteen minutes.” and nation; or even by intimidation to make it | And theufthe worthy doctor retreated. The Directors waver for an instant. It not only can’t be done] were now hunting in every direction for a “ avbati- now, but it never could be done even in the infancy | tute.” One man offered to lecture on total absti- of the country, as Great Britain knows to her cost. | nence. ‘‘ It was a fine chance,” he said, “ tomake Bat whilst we feel thus secure, a little preparation | converts—he would take them by guile.” But the for probably coming events would not be out of | shrewd Directors were not so easily taken. “We place. have heard that Mr. Maffit has arrived in town,’ Great Britain is increasing her navy daily and | said Dr. Griscom, again addressing the now agitated hourly, end with great energy. She is sendingdo-| multitude. ‘1 can conglomerate that,” exclaimed zens and dozens of armed steamers on our coast, | atall young man, with an unexceptionable white along our whole line of seaboard, commanded by | neck cloth, and ample shirt collar, who stood up in active officers of her own navy, directing them to| one of the centre pews—“I seed him this day at eaterour harbors, and to become acquainted with | the wharf.” all the difficulties of bringing vessels of war up to| - Eight o’clock came, but still no Maffit. A vague the walls of our cities and towns. She is increasing | suspicion that he might have been kidaapped began her powerful fleet in West Indies, and yer army | to spread amongst the ladies. ‘‘ He was to lecture in Canada. She is diseiplining the whele of her black | before the Odd Fellows to-morrow night,” said a pepulation in the West_India Islands, placing them | respectable green grocer and member of that bene- under the command of white officers, and endeavor- | volent fraternity, and who was standing amongst the ing by every possible means to make them eflective | crowd at the entrance. ‘‘Oh! he’s an odd fellow soldiers. himeelf, if he intends playing such tricks as this !” All these movements with many others of a simi-| said another bystander. A little man, wrapped in lar character that we could name, may portend little | an old blue cloak, was new eeen hurrying through or nothing important. Still we might as well be| the feg towarda the gateway ; and the cry ‘‘’tis brushing the rust from off our resources, and rubbing | he! ‘tis he!” was raised bya score of voices. But The crops promised fa Interestixc Lecture to-micuT.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, of Concord, Mass., will deliver a lecture this evening ‘On the Times.” It will be worth hearing, for its originality of thought, and the pecu- liarity of its delivery. Mr. Emerson is the leader ofthe Transcendentalists, at the East, and in this and other lectures the singular view of that sect will be given. We advise all who can to hear hirs. See advertisement. Albany. [Correspondence of the Herald.] Avzany, Monday, Feb. 28, 1812. Inthe Assembly to-day, Mr. Davezac presented a petition and proceedings of a meeting of the in up our energies. The commander of the Clyde, it was a mistake—it was not Maffit. . : A i ‘ that arrived the other day, stated that it a) the here in the name of all the Saints in the calen- pena ts satan arene Mi sd Fe 1h peers oe aisat’ vrotece of the Nay, They “ Our ‘Withers are yet unstrung,” proved that in practice he is a Thompsonian. universal opiaion and common talk among the Bri- | dar is Mr. Muffit 1. The man who married Captain | "°P ens ys Tinea Webel gr aRpige oA not to be defied into a disexssion of a subject | —and laughed quite; heartily when he was cor-| The operation of these two systems in the House Land. The proceedings were read and one of the | which was already ciently understood. He | reeted. of Representatives may be worthy of further in-- tish officers throughout the West India Islands, that | Shinley has been discevered, but—where is Mr- the difficulties between thiscountry and Great Bri. | Maffit?—the Rev. J. N. Maffit?. What has become tain could not be settled without a resort to blows ; | of Professor Maffit? Can any one tell us this morn- said he had never beard any argument urged in fa- vor ef the bill; and he was by gentlemen that time, that resolutions is highly eulogistic of the course taken by Major Davezac in this matter. Mr. Swacknamer presented a petition from Mr. Clay is a magnificent political actor, and | vestigation. Thompsonianism sweats Uncle Sam when he leaves the stage, as it is said heis about to | tothe amonat of $2000 per day for sessions of three do, a long time will elapse before another perfor | hours duration—(212 members at $°, three dele- and that these opinions had come from the| ing any thing about Mr. Maffit? Has he been . F ay known as 7 xi ibe rt New York, praying that provision may be made for were d through the i ‘i th * best informed, military and political circles | Burked by the reporters at Washington? Oh! do the redemption of broken safety fand beak notes: th high-bi a ed p dingerof le- “nd : rer apeTy willappear upon the metropo- | gates i the ey eee Seeley double com- in England. He added, moreover, that he, ag| let us know what hes become of Mr. Maffit? well as many other Britich officers, could no | Where is Mr. Maflit? We pause for areply. rationally account for themselves and so many fine, DEES SR stout vessels cf war being kept constantly hovering about this coast; except that it was in order to be ready for a rupture and to be able to strike the first blow. And in conclusion, he observed, “the rup ‘ ey ture is expected every day, but we are all prepared som padi solools hehe ghar aig carota for #! perusal. It isa most interesting subject at this time, All ths, from a commander in the British navy when such a clamor is made for a change in the may mean nothing ; but still there can be no harm | Public school system; and of vital importance to the in our being “prepared for it” also. And we would| Whole community. Mr. Taylor lays open with @ dispassionately recommend the members of Con-| ™asterly hand all the errors,follies and abuses of the gress to give over quarreling and fighting amonz | Common School System; shows what they are, and themselves, and seriously and effectively set about and what they ought to be; and if the plan here putting the countiy and navy in such a proud posi- | /tid down was strictly carried out, we should have tion that it may be able, if necessary to quarrel and | !e8 of mobsand riots, demagogueism, swindling fi- fight with @y body and to conquer every body. manciers, and miserable mouatebank politicians poianienicinae in every style. Mr. Taylor’s style of lectunng Sr. Daviv’s Day.—The first of March was cele. | i ¥erY good and full of humor, bat at times he is too brated by the natives and the friends of Walesfin a| ©x*i#ting. We shall report his second lecture betore most eplendid manner at Niblo’s. Cold water was | *¢ ladies, Acc. of Rutger’s lastiete to-night in' to- the order of the day. The sparkle of champaign | ™0rew's paper ifwe have room. gave place to the sparkle of ladies’ eyes, and the Navat.—The U.S. ship Columbia, attached to only ruby was the raby lip of beauty, adorning the | the Home Squadron, will sail from Boston ina few 4 well-thronged seats. About three hundred Jadies ‘ j and gentlemen sat down to a splendid repast, music Ainonena are ave peel puerta enlivened the seenc, and the affair throughout was Commander Frederick Engle ordered second in rare bia ig ig exten, Z command of the Philadelphia Navy Ward, vice is honor, the mayor, the president of St. Nicho, Commander Gwyan s Jas Society, with his lady and daugher, the preei- dents of other benevolent societies, some ministers Chie Jamatca-— Captain Lord, of the Oriana, at of the gospel, &e-, were among the guests. Boz | she left on the 2d uit’ tiege tha eas thao ee had been invited, but returned an answer express- | count of the state of 1 n that island, at the ing regret that he was eompelied to leave for Phila- | time of his departure. fe ness was nearly ata delphia. He sent a toast, however, full of pith and | Stthds and the Rreatest distrust and anxiety appear. meaning. It was to this effect :— diguthegeds ant oe omg Frequent fires and ig, and every man felt it “Gold water! It was onee employed to destroy |, not only in self-defence, the world.—It is now exercised as a means to re- » which it was a. in the power of a iyal ary. to exercise. re had recently repealed oneofthese and he hoped this would imme- diately folk . To use the words of anepitaph, “They were lovely in life—in death let them not be separated.” Mr. O'S. went on to show that the was passed directly in opposition to the ex- pressed ‘will of the people. Mr. Swacxnamen hoped the motion would pre- yail. He hoped the gentleman from Essex would have the privilege of making five speeches if he chose, and each member of the minority one.— When the Aiscussionjcome up, he would assure the gentleman that he should haveas much of scap- locks, juntos, &c , asfhe could desire. He hoped the minority would be allowed to make as many speeches on it as they chose. Mi. Horrman, afier aienee the wide range the debate had taken. said he had no objection to its being referred toa committee of the whole if an early one was selected. He would not agree, however, that it should be put back on the calen- dar, where it could not be reached anti late a day at the heel of the session that ussion could not be tolerated. If gentlemen were serious in this matter, let them give it some such direc- tion, The debate was protracted to considerable length, in which, although the question was merely a motion to commit, extended into a discussion of the merits of the bill itself, attended with matual i dthe like The result itted to the committee of the resolution of Mr. Mr. Towssexp presented a petition praying for an alteration of the charter of the Trust Fire Ia- surance Company. Me. Baxer presented a remonstrance from Onei- da county against the abolition of capital punish- ment, which he stated was headed by five clergy- men of different denominations. It takes the ground at such abolition would be in direct contraven- tion of the will of God, as expressed in the Bible, and that, therefore, a christian people cannot just- ly suppert Mr. O’Bullivan’s proposition, &c. &c. Onthe reception of a report from the committee on public ‘printing, quite a piquant and personal debate sprung up. The report was against a mo- tion to print an extra number of copies of a certain document, and on presenting it the chairman (Mr. Tamblin,) said he felt bound to make an explana- tion, especially as he had been dishonorably hi d, by the supposed he must call him, an honorable gentleman, of bi uilty of purloining extra copies of documents, and felt more bound to notiee it as he perceived that there existed an alarming confederacy between certain newspapers and that gentleman, and this attack was simultane- ous. Mr. Huxavarp, of St; Lawrence, avowed himeelf the member who had noticed this subject. He had observed the chairman of the committee on public printing directing more than the extra number, and upon nicer oar him on the subject, the an- swer he received was that he borrowed them from the Sergeant at Arms. He would like to know if members hada right todo this. He begged, how- ever, to disclaim all intention of discourtesy to any gentieman, After further debate, the report of the committee was disagreed to, and the extra number ordered by the house. ‘The Committee on Banks and Insurance Compa} nies reported a bill in favor of extending the charter of the North River Baa! Mr pe a from bey ittee lea report in opp charter. To, in explanation, nai the only one whe signed, but the democrats who had signed the majority rej did not by any A question of vitel importance was settled in the | gt@ater groes sum ; but this may suffice)—that sub- Supreme Court to day, no less than the unconstitu- | divided give $606 anda frat e hour, and $222 tionality of the laws of the free States, by which fu. | 4nd @ fraction for every call of ayes and noes, gitive slaves are secured the right of trial by jury. | which occupy at least twenty minutes. What ther The Judges were unanimous in the opinion that | are the records of the practice? Yesterday the all such laws are unconstitutional and void, thongh | homeopathists agreed that the Secretary of War the decision was of couse confined to the case un- | should report tethem why and wherefore General der consideration. Mr. Justice Story delivered the | Scott had received some extra allowance on a cer- opinion of the mejority of the Court in am elaborate | tain occasion ; this morning they spent forty min- and very ably argued paper. Chief Justice Taney | utes in making some verbal amendment of the jour- dissented from the majonty on some points, and de- | nal and hence, presto, they became Thompsoniane, livered a separate opinion, in which Judge Danie] | andsweat Uncle Sam to the tune of $444 and 9 concurred. Judge M:Lean differed with the ma- | fraction, which would not have been necessary but jority in other points, and read a separate opinion; | for their own irregular practice yesterday. The ‘and Judge Baldwin gave a brief statement of the | House next’ went into Committee of the Whole, grounds en which he differed from the other mem- | and while some of the learned doctors were bers'of the Court. But, notwithstanding this dis-| preparing @ preecription on the homoopathian erepance of opinion on minor points, there was no | principle—the millioneth part of a grain of re- disagreement as to the result. The entire Court | form—they were deeerted by their compeers, came to the same conclusion. and a call of the House was moved; but as The case, upon which the principle has been set- | the call was objected to, the ayes and noes tled, was brought before this Court from the Su- | were ordered, and, according to the Thompsonian: preme Court of Pennsylvania. Accitizen of Mary- | practice, 222 drops (“Benton's”) were sweated out land was indicted tor taking and carrying away | of the suffering patient. The homepathic legisla- from Pennsylvania a slave, contrary tothe statute of | tion to-day was the passage of a resolution, instruct- that State. The defendant was tried in the Court of | ing the Committee on Commerce to enquire into Oyer and Terminer, pleading not guilty. The jury | the expediency of establishing a Marine Hospital found a special verdict, that the defendant did re- | at Memphis, Tennessee, and the adoption of an- move the slave from Pennsylvania, and restore her amendment to} the Civil and Diplomatic appro- to the custody of her owner in Maryland. By the | priation bill, regulating the publication of the public law of Pennsylvania, passed in 1826, such an act is | advertisements, and the printing for the Executive made felony, punishable by fine and imprisonment. | departments—the advertising to be done in the The case was taken up to the Supreme Court, and | mewspapers having the greatest namber of subscrib- there the dicision was affirmed, proforma. By a| ere; and this was an almost invisible grain of le- fnendly understanding between Pennsylvania and | gislation, but it was positively all that was edmin- and Maryland, the case was brought to the Suprerre | istered. This day, then, the Thompeonians were Courtef the United States, that it might be adja | dominant, and the patient was steamed to some pur- dicated, and thus settle the question between the | pose; and how long he will survive under this treat two States. ment the experiment will demonstrate. Of his pro- Posture Scnoor LecTUKES on Epvucation, &c.—We publish to-day on our firat page the rest of Mr. Taylor’s Jecture on the Common Schoo] Educa- tion of this State,and we would advise all our trus- & with the report of the commiitee on the General Election Law, Mr. Lort objected to the changing of the number of voters in a district from 500 to 600, as most of the citi incurred the expense of making ich by the change would have to be in- ain. It was soamended. suscitate and adorn it.” News rrom tre Easr.—Notwithstandi ves on the | the adjournment. The company broke up about eleven o’clock, | night betore last, Harnden & Co.'s Fr ot eerie wy eae jon tl vey tear would ‘The Speak has been obliged to go home on| The opinion of the Court is, that Congress, under | gregs fature ‘ Bulletins” shall speak. truly gratified with the festivities and enjoyments | Express, and the steamer New Haven, arrived yes: | Probably support bis resolution, which denied the bey in! Core Sg pat, family, eg ees the Constitution, has the exclusive right to legislate Baltimore. “ the ges A terday in good season. From the papers received oe gat The repert,of Me, T., was ne tem. atl M Chatheld’e retarn. upon this matter, the concurrent power of the State [Correapondence of the Herald j Niblo excelled himself; this entertainment was] we clip the fellowing items:— Pith ‘seleet committee to whom had been Senate, the proceedings were confined | Legislatures being suspended, except the right to Bartimone, March 2, 1842. equal to any thing that has been got up in this city] Sream Si Usiconm, Captain Douglass, will leave | feferred the invitation of the Western Railroad Fe phe Ae fc a be tosephir og bic enaet auxiliary laws to assist in carrying the intent | Mx. Eprron :— ‘ for some time past. this port at 3 o'clock this afternoon for Heltfax, with | Corporation, reported in favor of accepting the in. | bill in relation to reducing the charter of the Duteh- | 6°14) constitution into efiect. Our city at present isin « state of considerable ean bees: f Bank, was also taken up. ja * Tocuman is to deliver a lecture on Poland this evening in the Assembly chamber, and will no ge fave aiaes auditory, as his fame had reached us before his appearance among us. ‘The enterprising manager of tke Amphitheatre has engaged Mr. J. H. Kinay, from the Chatham Theatre, to perform his round of characters. He lays Claude Melnotte, in the Lady of Lyons to- ni he, and from the fame that has preceded him, wil havea crowded house. Mar This decision is of the very highest import- excitement in reference to the dej reciated curren. - qnce. This is the first time that the Supreme Court | ey. ‘There seems to exist a low under current has been called upon for an exposition of that clause whispering, strongly indicative of mob or riet. of the Constitution which declares, that slaves es- | Last night as soon as darkness drew its mantle caping from their masters into either State shall be | over as, groupe of persons could be seen in elose given up, d&c. This clause contains a positive un- conversation at the street corners, which to say qual.fied recognition of the right of the master to | the least of it, seemed unusual. Boys too, suchas take his slave wherever he may be found, and the | constitute the necessary ingredients of an out the Ei ropa bee ee pas. Bax Roesens at Favit.—In consequence of 15,000 letrers.— Becton Transcript, \e “a _ the general use ef Andrew's Combination Locks,| Sasever, Wann, the custom house officer who which Wadsworth 4 Smith have for cale, few banks | fractured his leg by « fall, died in Boston on Tues- ‘Or stores are now entered and robbed. Every at-| day morning. ee tempt made to pick these locks has failed. Ack| Hupsow Riven Ormw Acain!—Steamer Tele’ nearly all the Bank Presidents in Wall street and graph has again forced her way through to Albany. they will tell you so. We may now consider the river open for the season. rodace a resolution proposing to sus- of mi rabere an the oscasiea, which it was referred to two. rd bills, ‘accudabidail