The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1842, Page 2

iversary Meets | boties I belleve—(la cle last night—Extra- Assemblage—Men, Women and d young—Rich das have been the wnniversari wubled-at the Tabe: this city for many years past, nothing could exceed the mighty leviathan jam that took place in and around that building last night. Great Cold-W hter) wrote to t the Tabe ing at the very few days of seeiig ti — vid, mark me wall, I's] honorable frat on down towards, and, 1 bel New Orleans, the different news he felicity in the course of a YORK HERAL | Thursday, May 5, 1842. NEW. \ lieve, quite as hext mail—the vei time’ tovhave ‘start occurred with myself, brought on r had taken place, in the village from the town of Lexington—and all over Congress, that there formed just about the ti gress had taken the same step, munication between them. ent of this society were two ge: jemen, that, if | am a judge of the matter—an ht tobe a tolerably “fair one fortably in @ state of most comfortable inebriety (great laughter) the last night that J passed through the «is celebrate my departure after that rati Host Orrick is re tral building ‘atthe eorne 1 streets, where all advertisements and subscriptions Also, orders received for printing of every oved to the spe of Fulton and | ots kinds that have afier these events hi the news that the most extraordinary and just at that vi ‘ whence I came—i the district whigh T was « Temperance Socie their representative in Without any sort of ¢ y particular ti Ge Ax Acenr wanted for Provic the Daily and Weekly Herald. None nec who can conform with our terms of paymes mighty Cold- t in advance, as no credit will hereatt of Passamaquody and Bay of Fundy to the Sabine, and from th to the Rocky Mountai nary assemblage it certai house was literally whole Atlanti seaboard, back And a most extraordi- very part of the ammed from the back of the orchestra to the back of the gallery; so wasit all round the sides and down the broad aisles; seats upon seats—heads upon heads, shoulders to shoulders hundreds upon hundreds stan four broad aislés—and round tionary platform. this or any other city 6000 or even TOO e ure hardly under wa Our Removar . new office—but a few days will complete the busi- ur machinery shell be in trim we fashion, and we dil celebrate it after such w fashion that it was with very great i that | was enabled y (Peals of laugh: ion in which [ then left them rendered it quite impossible for them to unite in any sort of move i. (Loud ‘and co can serve every city subscriber before six or seven The speed of our new press nd gives us more ivance of our old system, whieh r possessing the vast busin is equal to five thou all dowa the | ,, y part of the sta- Never was seen such night in Washington, that would be kind enough to etween him and myself, as he er Was as bad as | was (peals of laughter)—and who ¢ Society on the 7th of January — 4 !—the very precise day that his elder brothe step without any communica. T heard of him | draw a line of distinction Ww ORLEANS.—The following Mics Gaither Ss telligent source in New f things perfectly as- s. ‘To our financial readers no explanation need be made:— oles from an Washington took the sam tion between them the was leeturin und discloses a s And the next thin; indeed was the sight ays, April 24, 1812 # such cheeks, | jappened it then that the such forme, sneh tecth, such ringlets and euch a | isn’t it strange? nge indeed, und st one of the most extraordi- ary movements of the human mind, which he Gentlemen, it is a movement of pvement of any particular i R— vosing it will prove aps very beneficial tosome of them to be edof what is now going on in our financial world, | submit to you the following facts, “an make such use in your journal as you may the circumstances You are aware that our Legislature recently passed amost extraordinary Bank Bill, the principal feature 3 that it allows to debtors time, whether the banks be disposed, or in a ¢ tion to grant it er not, of two years to parties re- i » to those in the coun- ting to your re enough to carry a tolerably frigid imagin s of delicious romance and honorable Tom Mar- shall; and at one period of the evening he even —but as he removed his handkerchief from his faee, they appeared to be tears of thrilling di The men who we were a few ¢ to the wildest d. sm’t it mark this as a confounded the honest individual or nor agency whatever. to have swept } at might be indulg- ing in that vein of scepticiam of which I hi far, in this presence and before this audience. ne and how has it happenedy be that there surrounds the human understanding moral atmosphere, just ay there aurrounds the human. body May it not be that as certain effects impressed upon re of allages (there nage as five MW appeared in ind healthy counte. idren there of as tende: irs) end of all conditions of life. fine health, with clear color, nances, and eyes bright and intelligent; and few of them appeared to hive ever been intoxie time fixing the lst of De- period of reaumy words, forei h taking from them the with which to pay. interest, and at the sam a natural atmosphere ? changes are produced and cérta 1 atmosphere wh: ¢ it feel and are earth, 80 may t 1 in this operation, moral atinosphere ? formed the human understanding may have some inscrutable tie of » has called into being 7 to suppose that we may thus be connected by a se mysterious bond of union and which we cannot explain, own? And that this cord of w tablished by the hand which c: swept by that mast ond in tones of moral ho throughout the whol continued applause.) a payments, or, in the whole course of th the men were ev nd undoubtedly were drawn t fay travelled tame of the orator of the night, the hall; who, aa will be seen by our ort below, ucquiited himself with great eclat. 3 present were also of all ages, from the ting her teens to the vener- d the measure of days e earth, and fluenced by at the + ere not be also effects alike otly tradesn and out of their neeption of the was soon to be produc nthe eredit and el tself. ne Whole mystery soon be developed to the 1 You are doubtless awa largest banking establishm nks,” are founded apon ¢ on their own credity » bonds were issued, the veipal to be paid by sneh banks on » footing as th ¢ ulterior view at he who has ittul efieet whie mpathy all the minds w faney rather than phil which we cannot und interesting girl just en! able matron who had fulf allotted to the lif even many had evidently numbered four score years, And most happy, bright and beautiful did young ladies Ic h its, known as d ersal sympathy thus e pital borrowe us all, may be from ee ? (Loud and long if ever there were a . ‘h would favor such a supposition, this isthe very time, and these are the v facts. And the agency too—how simple! cold philosoph an event, according to human reason, of adaptation of What utter disproportion between the nstrumentality which achieved A simple declaration that we And the temperance pledge offered, prance preached, not by wise men and philoso: ucked from the ranks of the very low- Men without characte of the ordinary’ means of influence. ing—without wealth—without social dignity—without eloquence even, except. that all power ful’ eloquence which deals only in truth! These are the instruments which thet power, whatever it may be, which has set aboutthis revolution, has chosen to effect it ! go on, gentlemen, I do not permit myself to doubt, Its final and complete success could not and wi astonish me more than that which has already I know that the temperance difficulties to encounter. ill-fated Union grand series of onds falls due “ho were assembled on this interesting and extraordinary occasion. less rich, and less costly than the crowds of beautiful women who regularly attend the Bible and other anniversaries; yet the very fact of their neatness of dress caused them to look far more love- ly than they would have looked had they been clad pparel imaginable; on the ster- auty When unadorned is always And added to all this we think seldom seen such a mass of intelligent fe- 6 present on any occasion in any part of ty millions of the: ost immediately, and the question ar nd how will the eredit of the they to be paid ithe property banke nexed you have a statement of the: will drink no more ! rs, but those t outcasts of socic Union Bank of La. in the most gaudy c adorned the most. orld ‘The crowds that went aw: y unable to put their door, would certainly have 00, ainounted to at | Another remarkable fact connected with this great was the extraordi » with which they listened to and the speech of Mr. Mar- y so still that one could have —no shuffling and out, as is so fre- « public meetings; although was almost suffocating—the he heads of male and female wasquict—all sat stilland ly deiighted to the ) 1 know that it has of human bein: i and I fear with the bitterest hosti counter, not reason—not truth—not argument—but it has to encounter pecuniary interes! than all put together—established and inv habit, known by the name of “Fashion, It has all this to encoun rapple in which it has to close at last has not come on! war thinking net long since of what could oppo the temperance cause—-of what could be said against Who on earth, and how did it hay net embrace it at once? tt has to en- to these enormous sums, whi will observe they have to pay. semi-annually to London an and which is more potent hey have tor sat of 5 and 55 on ‘Their other liabilities, ce to the off in drop—noe couxhii DOUT—NO OLN quently the ease ont and elegance, if and the death- will see by re ement beginning of blished in the T perspiration rolled of pen that all mankind did jans demonstrate that al- cohol is a poison—they demonstrate that the use of this vitably leads to disease and death, and universal experience corroborates the work of Cicero’e—I read € 10,000, and this be of negotiating a farther amount 1 $1,100,000 of post notes. se fall due in Aue uriag nextyear! The state ¢ we have to look forward to is traly ¢ hasten the catastrophe, within a day ort ning were commenced Dr. Coxe, after by the choir. t of the report y ated for the informa- f the society could command i From this it appears that the Washingtonians through the Union amountto half a thirty thousand have joined the so- and sixty thousand shout the whole west hundred thousand, of which every isa Reformed Drunkard, and one out The state of Maine has T learned from a ro when I was a boy, that it n preparing to cond to make out the best argument possible for the opposite ll, I have done so in this case, and for the soul of me I could’nt make rolitary argument—if so it can be called—on the oppo- site side, and it is this:—the appetite for aleohol exists in man, and there exist in nature, tor, substances from which this alcohol can be made. Why then should this appetite exist—why should this sub- stance exist, were it not intended that we should gratify that appetite by using the substance which it craves 7 tated the argument in favor of light in which id that there was inking. The first ate prayer by the Re by an appropi which a temp: ary then read an ed would be pi by rs which he atated _ tion of the public, funds for that purpose. . decided that balane more than one banks are to be settled, after thirty days trom It would really seem a million; of th rmed by the Great Crea ciety in Kent Ww to break down the ranks and the State roval, too, of our worthy gover- J possibly have been e perform the feartul work more surely or eff ; rsot the bill are known y banks, and amounts to tw No law cou! Gentlemen :—1 hay yholic liquors fairl it ever occurred to me, that it could be anything in favor of the practice of d ponent whom we haye to convince is the preacher who yocates temperate dri four a reformed tipper. fifty thousand, (reformed drankards five thousand.) ty thousand total abstainers, thirteen thousand of whom belong to the Washing- tonian Societies, The city of New York hassixteen thousand members belon H Societies and auxilaries. portions of the state of } Philadelphia "The originate Boston numbers tw indebted to these proj leaked out; they will pay their en- gagements in a depreciated cu nts in the dollar! Y that the law inqu ing—there are non ¢, 80 degraded,—as to advocat said to have been created in red food sufficient for man—from his cra- from infancy to old age—has not man, I y, been furnished by nature without the ai ess or the exercise of man’s ingenui y thing necessary fi restoration of his anit to the Washingtonian e central and wes New York numbers fitty nd neighborhood twenty thousand, and Pittsburgh ten thousand. The number of reformed drunkards throughout the Union i i id, and of reformed tip- plers and hard drinkers, there are supposed to be one hundred thousand. It also gave an account of the origin of the Tem- » movement, by six intemperate men in a public house in the city of Baltimore ; said that the Total Abstinence Society numbered mentioned the fact that there was a : Department, and llons of spirit were former- at this time, You will readil This appetites not nattire pre can’ posibly work unde stock banks isso lit- ood by the mass of the community that the former are still supposed by many of the uninform- gest of our institutions—deluded, “state bonds.” n, Mr. [ditor, of unhappy victims of the fallaci wnking upon borrowed capi forgotten or disregar is supposed to be r and examine that sub- stance which nature has provided for the it is unable to provide for it two things in the whole universe which are more unlike, between which there is more dissimilarity than between the child extracts from its mother’s br quid which is elaborated from the Is there in the whole universetwo ik. ou can, asthe source fromwhich the milk flowswhich sustains and nourishes the child,and the accursed source fromwhich the other flows. an prove. Jf we look to na- iskey nor shall we find that We may deny Congressione 8) members andthe alcoholic worm of the distill things as much ed will not soon be e of this country disastrous and which is so rapidly take the liber going statement of facts said that wh ly distilled there About halt past eight the Hon. T. F. Manstrata., the orator of the occasion, advanced to the front of the platform, and was greeted by a prolonged and enthu- i Isof applause. On its subsi thus addressed the vast multitude :-— p> Lavine ann Geetirm ared my imagination, and had anticipated, to some d , the nature of my own emotions at the si rangenoss of the scene with now surrounded. i peak up !” but he w: iat hould in the mouth of May be standing in the ei York, in the midst of an assemblage like this—whose num- nee of my own, although that mewhat of a large one in addressing hat I should be standing , may justly, T th na, sir, attending this he gentleman who has preced- itlino—a general outline of ar, marking the progress of this nature of the crisis mmunicating to you the fore- it milk is not whiske we shall not find a e is any natural taste for whiskey. the appetite is natural, and say that it is an acquired et us admit that it is a natural taste, and what it prove? Does it prove that it. is not injurious, aye ous to the constitution of man? Adm natural, and still what ruin stare you in the face. Have you the n n unjust or cruel, or has acted in variance with all established and harmonious rules w! That nature has not imp! in the lower order of animals, and therefore is unjust ? That among all his creatures he has left man without guidance, where the instinct of the lower orders cient to prevent them, You cannot make anything drunk Try this once on any other ou will never make it drunk periment has been tried, and I will te how. Once upon a time—and it was tried on an imi ly approximating to man—a couple joke, determined to take ish the liquor. ern they took Jacko, determined critter,” and join them idence the Hon. Sution have given a third concert in Mobile, and are most rapturously The one is a violinist—the other is a vo- ‘They mean to travel, concerting it all over n. Parsipent the fact that the us Consequences n that the Creator Fanny Ellsler comes direct from Havana to Phi- prevail through lanted this taste all his works. , from any past exper ‘Tims? Concert.—We call the attention of oe jence has been ourreaders to the splendid musical enter oflered by Mr. Timms at the Tabernae owds, I can form no more than once but man. reature but man, and See advertisement nd who has giv cts within the y stated enough, I think, to satisfy any one that of wicked wags in want of a Jacko, and sec how he would re me they went to the that he should have some of the . ‘They decoyed him, from the spirit of imitation 1) Jackothought,that being possessed of facul to any that he possessed, so capable of ted to their notice, ny thing that would injure him, they him «wallow a quantity of the liquor, and sufficient of it to make him drunk chattering, lively, frolicksome monkey he was, drink passed off, and the next day b " ent; the foct was he looked horrid, and no doubt fe y and sad and disconsolat ¥, however, were much tickled with t J that they deter- They accordingly took Jacko again uit Jacko would not. ‘os have carried 30 in joint ballot. ing to the last account ing in the present movementof tI et that properlyand ju Virginia by a majority of 24 Where the devil is Mr. Clay to get his vote for next anding on this sv inary moral ‘and social changes it over the world and nt from barbarism and bably (jor who can Fashion goes to the und to-day, if the weather permits the frequency with which Ido ask first. surprise whi ng strenge in the movement with which "i? Ithink the gentleman read from his induce him to do ‘Cat all diminish i managed to mak: ill at Camden, but will probably be on toa the froubncy « is said to be doin we are eurroun: yess this race 14 Who will wi robably twice exceed those of the great day of eaumber of f appeared very who hat teken this pletwe, Kentucky, the State from He looked very lo arrangements f they had don mined to try again. and wanted him to drink the liquor, They tried to force him, but Jacko fought and bit and J, and finally escaped to the to 1, nor could they induce we see, that is a mind lia violent movements—never have political, or reli- Ivertivements arrangements, will be published ia road and the Ferry setting forth the iched and sere: the house where he remain to return to with all their Jocko to get drunk a second time; the , but instinct taught him to shan planted no appetite for it there. a brute once sickened never tri has Deen provided and implanted d, why has not the substance to satisfy that appetite 1 provided ready for consumption ? hid thia substance ; Why placed it in the most impenetra- ble of her arcana anil failed to provide for the appe- which man has been furnished ? been fully proved that every. thin for the ‘satisfying all the “appetites granted to the been left? Isnatare un- Lexington—with the capacities of two of of the consumption of alchohol, it to be most intimat ) T mean Lowisville and y'if a wayfiring man who (laughte)—and acquainted with ins commence runing from daylight until periment was mad o'clock, the fare will be increased » and from eleven until the race comes 3 returning fare 25 cents. hed the city last d directly acrosa Lon; Fashion landed at Fort Hamilton, from a steamer, to avoid a crowd find one within (Laughter and applause. I was born and reared within ten miles of it, and at thistime [ have the honor to represent on the floor Congress of the United States that isthe centre and th fond of the marvellous; the habit of my mind has the marveilor tin the struetuy hy has nature ning, and proceed in my own dis. to the course rict of country of has been provided (Great applau proceeded to the tion, and why has mai ture provide for T do not believe that nature has not given to any other creatw ea to man the power o , and in the most desirable of that mind is a prone- yet so remarkable are the facts in nesion with this subject, and with which » that I have sometimes thonght it not imperti- neat to the subject.and perhaps not injarious tothe cause,to Well,then, gentlemen, within all the broad ere does not breathe aman who about temperance societies, or the a to man, what she ha: structure of our what is benefic appetite to exist—to on to control it ? Has nature bes us reagon to detect and power to 'y ence of this distinction between man and the oth orders of animals, demonstrates the justice of na- provided fot all animals, and has Annual Confere its session in sin the Mulberry street Church, Admitting nature has permitted this cleave to us—has sho not given us rea n fault ifshe has gi territory of the Unio yan,) beginning at 9 o'clock. quence of ill health in Bishop Andrews’ family as Bishop Soule leaves for May, Bishop Waugh will preside, assisted, occasion ally, by Bishop Hedding cial interest to engage th No love mat 1 had never been in a and I make the acknow- I never had boen ing in my life, and iff picked np a per or A political papor with anything nit, [threw itto one side ax amack- as allogether beneath the at leman of my vast ambition an ni laughter ands anything of the Tem cared as Tittle ae k you that I had no ec sland on th ture. — That tho appetites bestowed upon all otf left man to his reason to protect and. to save h consequences of this appetite, i i ‘Tamperauce moeting in my lit th shame and contrition. There is nothing of spe- attention of the Confer- © ease both last » refer to the Hudson about Temper estimation in which the Creator holds him, whom he has creat image and nature, whom he has armed with the power of protecting himself, Nature, wise and just as sh from which she has protecte: Ie instinct mightier and more powerful than Drunkenness js man’s own work, It it pe- i It is not found any iv A drunken man is the in the whole crention can say to what genus year and the and Mason cases ile ig appointed delegate to the English , and will ho doubt suitably -at his brethren a , Youngs, Stopford’ Crewf, sill b* rethoved, their two years having n, Col. Perry, Wi We hope that Brother Rice will still retain the Presiding Elderahip, which he sue ch dignity, promptaess and justice exposed man to evi this eubject T do assure with home, or any body bont my movement jer to his kinds throughout the who hardest and most diffi for philosophers to classify he belongs? In the whole course of my examinatioa ani ample experience, and feeling too (Lam srry to have heen unable to dedide to what he belongs. man ; he has not the feeling, the intellect, the heart ar the He has no longer the erect countenance aped in the image of his to the skies, ashe was on this subject, the bet 1 means to make myself the hy hat which is fact, an: faving, or receive what explant any body chooses—bnt that itis the fact 1 eng: the eer —(A laugh.) Without knowin; h society of © Reformed Dank: Brethren Ric it may have what b ely and Poi- about it then, I joined the avis in Washingten on the 7th of Jonnary—at (Laughter and load applause.) him about it—(langhter)—and somebody sal will remain form of a man, ‘That face and form, Creator, no longer looks upwai tains with so 1 made by his Crestor to do. He cant walk i a ‘brain, bieere bis eyes, deadens his ears, swells ‘ windles ‘his legs. at: laughter.)— What shy it/not work upon hi rer oan couttitution. All the rest it does ove might over- look. If it only made him sick, cut a ie his'life and sent him to mature grave—if it a tis fortune, rut his health, and took » we might forgive it. ' Man must die, and what only accelerates this a few days or weeks, might be overlooked. But there the diviner part, which, on the authority of revelation, was breathed into him by the Creator. He alone, of all ereainres, becomes unheerted, destroys his reason, hin” heart, and moral organization. ing else. destroys parwstal ferling—that feeling whic n all hope of ite has forsaken him, stilt clings to him. It is*alcohol alone that has the power to do this, You may give arsenic to a man, you may poison him, still at. the point’ of death “he thinks of wife and child, of his country and friends. Alcohol can achieve what nothing else can do; it cen overthrow, destroy, anni- hilate' the immortal soul. What else can poison the heart, and Lif thearm against the inmocent? You may make @ mun a robber, a murderer, an enemy of his kind, but let him go to his wife and child, he is “#till aman. Nothing but alcohol can destroy the chivalry of manhooi—can e the arm of man against fecblé, helpless, innocent nan—nothing but alcohol can destroy parental feeling. . a man suffering from dis tty, from crime, and bring him to the immediat of death, and Mite him the infant bound to him by the strong and indissolable ties of a parent, and still his feelings will be drawn to him. Alcohol obliterates every trace of the great original whence he was taken and form cd. Gentlemen, Tmight discant for ever ou the evils of alcohol, I might trace its every operation, might show the evils which it brings without the slightest particle of be- nefit to counterbalance this enormous evil. When I think of intemperanee, I trust-to reason for its overthrow. The time is perhaps ‘not yet come, and there will perchance great struggle before the grand consummation is sved. Let not the cause of temperance.—I speak to you who have joined the society--to you high priests of yple~-let not the cause of temperance mingle itself up with any other cause whatever. «(Great cheering.) And above all teiee whatever let it eschew. party. Taide (Loud and enthusiastic cheering.) Let them fight out their own battles by themselves,but don’t you go even into the smoke of them. (Cheers.) Is too high forlaw. At- tempt to make no statutes on the subject. Tt began in weakness—leave it unaided by human legislation or by human enactments, Leave it to that agent which God lected to be its support, and which has thus far sus- tainel_ it through every trial, and which will sustain it till its final triumph. (Cheers) Let the politicians ax politicians alone; leave legisiators ax legislalators alone. If they'll go’ in and join. you all very. well Let them come ; and when they come, oh, in God’s name open wide your ‘arms to reecive them. | (Cheers.) But dor you go to them. Let them alone. Let thom fight their politics! battles and wrangle and weary the very at- mosphere with party din; but do you keep aloof. Keep to yourself. But look with compassion on those unfortu- nate wretches who are doomed to be mingled: up -in thore i is ; don’t make any laws to bear hard on, or to perse- cute them; they're ander a law hard enough to bear already, (Roaré of laughter and loud cheering.) Thave already said of the temperance cause that i's too high for law—and_ it’a too pure for any politician to meddle with. (Tremendous sheeting’) Like that beautiful and chaste nymph, Diana, whom Tonce read of in classic love, who waa pressed hard by some enemy from whom she dreaded the destruction of her purity and honor, and who then invoked the assistance of her tutelary goddess to eld her from pollution—as we are toklin the beau- tiful fable to which I refer, she was turned into ac fountain of pure and gushing water—(enthusiastic ‘s) —and not only so, but to shield her still farther, and that she might find a more certain refuge,she wont under ground, and flowed under ground ‘and thus went on, and so escaped from her glorions, beautiful native Greece, flowing clear under the ocean and rose in another land of beauty and delight, pure and undefiled. (Cheers) t our temperance cause imitate the example of Are= Let it flow on its glorious course throu urbid elements of strife, and passion, and pre and ignorance and party clamor, and malice, and kind that beset and surround it—tet it fow through all this salt sea of discord as she. flowed on, and refused to mingle her pure stream with its dark and briny waters. (Loud and enthusiastic cheering, even from the ladies.) « men, there are many, many other points of view in which this matter may be considered—and one in par. which before euch an audience as thi it would nly not be amiss to glance at. And that is, that one greatest powers the temperance cause will have to le with is that stubborn thing called “ fashion.” rs.) But as ithin the limits of possibility that k on this subject again before I leave New he was interrupted by vociferous cheers, waving of handkerchiefs from the ladies, intermin termingled with cries of “ bravo,” “ good,” “ bravo,” “ “erehall,” goon.) Tehall therefore: postpone the consideration of that and other matters “for the present.— ‘There is one point, however, that it may not be improper to touch upon. With regard to this subject I have neces- sarily had to speak much of my: Thave said more on this subject perhaps than I ought to have « “no, no”), and certainly more than T should I not heard that I was expected to allude somewhat to my own case, and from what has been said in the public print’. I tound from them that some little portion of my private history, which I had hoped would ever been private, was known to you. A good deal has boen said that is the truth in this matter (here he paused, and continued in a solemn tone), and far more than the truth was told about me. And that, too, is one of the of intemperance. (Cheers and laughter.) Bad as itis, in its best estate, and bad enough that is, God knows. A man has always friends or enemies enough to make it a great deal worse: (Cheers and Inugh- ter.) In my case, I am modest enough to admit was bad enough! but it wasn’t 60 bad as w f (Cheers.) But oh, if my example could bring back to thi cause any one who has now commenced the carcer of temperance—if it could only bring back one human bei who has commenced such a career, he wfectly wel, come to the benefit of all my experience. ‘fic cheer- ing.) Andoh! if there be any high tone cous, gellant, noble young fellow, that has commenced this ca- reer, although society may not consider him yet to be a drunkard ; although ‘even the ladies of his acquaintance may not consider him any thing more than a , social, gallant, cheerful young Slaw ; alihongh he may ve con: sidered one who id not under the influence of fanatics or preachers, and only glowing with the high toned chivalry of youth that dares and loves to indulge in the largest free- dom—if there be such a one here present, oh! let me warn, and give him some of the benefits of my experience. (Loud cheers.) W 1am no more a fanatic now than I ever was, (Cheers and laughter.) I'am as gay a fellow to-day as ever I was in my life. (Loud cheering and roars of laughter.) Iam no more gloomy now than ever I was, (Cheers) The temperance cause gloomy? Why ite the gayest, the most delighful and cheerful thing upon earth, (Cheers.) ‘Temperance gloomy? why, its the fountain of health and life! (Cheers.) And from health flows happiness and all the blessingswe enjoy beneath the sun. Temperance gloomy ? Why it’s the ‘very fountain head, and cause, and well-spring of cheerfulness and joy. (Loud cheering.) Our pledge is perpetual. (Cheers.) An rb iae hen ind of pledge that’s good for anything, (Enthusiastic cheers) Ad if you don’t sign a pledge, let any man who‘has only been drinking a little—just sufficient ‘to disturb the tran- itity of his nerves—cloud his reason—and derange for a time the economy of his physical and moral aystem—I say juat let him quit it altogether for one month, and then just see how he feels at the end of it. (Roarsof laughter ‘and tremendous cheers.) Oh! what a change it es in the whole of his aniinal and mental being—(Cheers)—what a pleasure—what delight he feels not to have changed the whole nature of his Seing—but to leave his nerves to the regular and tranquil action of unalloyed health—to leave all his animal powers to the calm and rational enjoyment of his re r menls, and blessed rest and sleep, and the influence of cold water! (Tremendous cheering) No; 1p. Don't let him do it himself; but let him go to watch another who does do it. (Cheers) Let him go to one who has been drinking pretty. free. to-night —let him go to his bed-room to-morrow morning, before he gets up or just ashe wakes—(Cheers and laughter.) Let him look at his eyes, (Cheers and great laughter.) Let him contemplate the uncarthly color of his cheeks. (Roars of laughter and loud cheers) Let him ask him to put out his tongue, dry, and perched, and furred, and ask him what of a taste there is in his mouth. (Roars of laughter and cheers) Lethimthen hoist up the curtain from h east window, if hi nough to have a window in the room that loo! st at all, (Loud cheers and shouts of laughter) and tell him to look at God's glorious sun as it is mountin; i and beauty to gind- den creation, whe ent career, and commencin ) and hecan’t see it! (Roars of Innghter and cheers) Or, if he enn see it, he can't it. (Cheers) There sponse in his breast to that grandest of all nomeda presented to the senses of man,—the ann in its beauty, majesty, and glory! (trem cheers.) And then, let that same man abstain from inking of liquors for one month; and then go and point the same eye to the same window and the same kind of scene, and he will raise his heart in gratitude to that God who has been pleased thus to grant him the fall en joyment and delights ofthat beautiful connection between tind and matter—between the senses and the soul, that ers him capable of tasting, of feeling, and of fully en that gorgeous beauty with which. all-bounteous clothed the whole body of creation! (Most vociferous cheering!) Why the argument of Temperance might well be advanced to Epicurus himself. (Cheers.) The temptations of alcohol would never lead astray your true Epicurean. Cheers and laughter.) And if man will by his crooked ingenuity im torturing this poison from nature, and changing his appetite, and his whole being, deal so unjustly by h let him do it; and he'll soon see who is the ‘wirest: he, or nature! (Cheers.) God mad has unmade him- self, and ren ‘of enjoying no other pleasure. Then, let him give up alcohol altogether ; i ¢ has any love for his manhood—his own natur sterity—his connections at all—or h e has any poetry at all in his soul—if he wishes to enjoy all the beauty and sublimity of nature. And, oh ! the boundless store ree ny All that the mountain son shields, ‘And all the dread maynificens heaven, O! how canst thou renomuce, and hope to be forgiven!” At the close of his speech, Mr. Marshall was most enthusiastically and rapturously applauded—the ladies waved their handkerchiefe—the men waved their | the organ struck up “ Hallelujah,” ‘Oh! he joyfu and we believe from the bottom of our that every human being within those walls went home delighted and wiser and better. Cusrnam Turarre.—The series of vandeviller that have been produced at this house, are increas ing in interest. They indeed merit the appliuse nithtly bestowed on the enterprising manager. ‘The entire stage is covered with a willow carpet of the snost costly deseription, The drawing room furni- ture introduced is of the richest silver gilt. The dresses, decorations, scenery and appointments are entively new. With this material, the fine perform ance of the lovely manageress, supported by Messrs. Scott and Hield, is brought out in bold relief, and forme a most agreeable evening's amusement, City Intelligence, Sruige FoR Wages.—ly adiition to the excitement that ha gbeen created int oureity {rom disputed elections, Rhode Island constitutions, abdlition meetings, &c., @ portion of the workmen engaged in laying the pipes for the intro. Muction.of water, bave made a stand for an advance of 25 cents perday on their woges. The persons who have re- ceatly contracted for this work have reduced their wages from $1 to 75 cents per day, and the result ha been several row-dextows, rumpusses and riots. ‘Phe police were stax tioned yesterday at several points of the work in order to keep things quiet, and several arrests were made during the day. Latirence Sapel was caught on Tues- @ private watchman, while busily engaged rockery ware froma crate in front of the store Whitney, in Fulton, near Nassait street, and locked-up. for trial. : Farzixe Ovr.—Emma Anderson on Tue day night in the act of stealing w hlack dress and other articles of clothing, valued at $16, the property of Mary Saunders, of 37 ‘Thomas street, and sent tothe Tombs for meditation. Asotnenr Disnoxret Wasnenwomax.—A colored wo- man, named Mary Chase, while en in our for the family of Claus Shepperd, on the 28th ult,, stole a watch valued at $30, and other articles worth about $15. On being arrested a portion of the goods stolen were found in her possession, and she was lodged in limbo for trial. Arortectic Deavu.—An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Boge Scott, a native of Ireland, aged 32 years, who died audddenly on Tuewlay, night trom apo: plexy. Fouxp Drownxn.—The body of Nicholas Vesper, one of the hands of the brig Julia, who was drowned on the night of the 3d of April, in company with Areck Satter- goest, another hand of the same Vessel, and Frederick Johnson, boatswain of the Russian barque Theodore Hen- rich, was found in North river yesterday between pier No. 2 and 3, and interred by the coroner. Common Cou: May 4.—Boanp or Atpranes. dent, in the chair. Resolution to Sg ergy R. Burling 60 dollars for ser- vices as clerk of Bourd of Assistants during the sickness ot Edward Patterson, was referred to the committee on sa- aries. ‘The report of Special Committee from the Board of As stants relative to the Market and Inspection Laws were d upon the table for action by the new Board. The committee to whom was referred the application of ¢ Manhattan Gas Company for a reduction of $439 on the assessment made on their capital stock on account of reduction of the cash value of such stock in the market at the time the assessment was made, reported in favor.— Alderman Innes moved to amend, by’ inserting $276 98 in place of the first named sum, which was lost, Alderman Punoy, in a short speech, pointed out what he believed to be the injustice of the law allowing corpora- tions the privilege of claim ME areduction of their assess. ments on account of a fall in the cash value of their stock, when individuals are not allowed any such privilege, and concluded by avowing his intention o vote against all such applications, Alderman Benson replied, and admitted that all corpo- rations had the advantage of individnals, and he should be happy therefore to see them placed on @ par only by a change in the law giving them this privilege. ‘The resolution was finally defeated, after much argu- met between Aldermen B , Kimball and Pur- dy, The three latter opposing it in any shape after the eat of the amendment. Alderman Lxoranp offered a resolution to authorize the aqueduct committee to lay water pipes from Broadway to the City Hall, and construct @ basin in the Park, asa foun- n fora fountain to be constructed at a future day, the expense of whieh is not to exceed $1000. ‘Alderinan Pottock offered a resolution appropriating the sum of $100 in payment to Stephen Mend, Street In- spector of the 16th ward, for his services as Health War- den, which was adopted. Alderman Hatrretp introduced a resolution referring the dispute between the proprietor of the ferries at the foot of Grand aud Water streets to the Committee on Fer- ries, and the counsel of the bozrd for adjustment, which lerman Pury, Pyesi- was adopted. Alderman Lyoxanp called up the ordinance regulating the © yn water works. It was then taken up and chris- The Croton Aqueduct.” ‘Three sections were J, when the Board of Assistants entered, and the members proceeded to Jomt Batzor.—The Common Council then met in joint ballot. ‘The resignation of James H. Kellum, Clerk of the 9th and 16th Ward Court, was received und accepted. ‘The resignation of James Fagan, Street Inspector of the 14th Ward, was presented and accepted, and David Kiss- ner, formerly Keeper of the City Prison, was appointed in his place. James B. Greenman was appointed Clerk of the 9th and 15th Wards Court, in place of James H. Kellum, resigned. John Cummerford was appointed Sealer of Weights and Mensur of Francis De Forrest, deceased. accb Burdett, Michael V. Banta and William Honey were appointed City Weighers. The name of Garrett Gilbert, of the Ninth Ward, was then proposed for the office of Police Justice in the pla of Robert Taylor, Exq. Alderman Bexsox nominated Robert Taylor. ‘The vote being taken the following was the result : Garrett Gilbert 18 Robert Taylor, Garrett Gilbert was therefore declared elected. ‘The Common Council then adjourned, end the Board of Aldermen then adjourned to Monday even: ing next. Boanv or Asmstant Atprxaen, Wednesday, May 4. —The Preemest in the chair. Reports of Committees.—Recommending the Mayor to call a meeting of citizens with the view of ing re lief to the sufferers by the late fires in the sixth and tenth 12 ‘ied. ling the middle of 424 street, from 3d to Sth av. (from other board.) Concurred in. From the Committee to whom was referred the subject of taking the Harlem Rail-road depot for an Engine House, stating that two Engine Houses are already loca- ted street, and a third about to be erected, and persisting in taking the building occupied by the company. Mr. Bexepiet ngpoee’. During his remarks the Ser- rapier of the other Board came in announced that y as being ready to meet this in Joint Ballot. ‘The Cuain announced that the message took prece- dence of all other business, Mr. Benepicr retained the floor, and Mr. Murphy ap- pealed from the decision of the chair. Decision reversed. Mr. Bexevicrt then proceeded his remarks, after which, on motion of Mr. Dodge, the report. was laid on the table. Mr. Doner then moved that the resignation of J. H. Kellam, ag clerk of the fifth District Court, be taken from the files. Carried, and the resignation accepted. Mr. Dopor moved that a recess be taken to meet the other board im joint ballot. Mr. M said he supposed that when the resignation was brought up, gentlemen intended to follow it by offer. ing to gofurther into the subject, but we ere now called upon to go into another room to finish the business, ke. Mr. Bexeptct also made a remark against taking a re- cess, Mr. Suaver pointed to Mr. Watenmax, Assistant Al- derman of the Nii » he said, had come here this eve waiting to go into joint ballot, and thought it unfeeling that he should be unne- cessarily detained. Mr. Uxprnwoon asked who was most to blame, those who were speaking or thore who had brought the gentle man from his sick bed to be present at the joint ballot. A recess was then taken. After its return from Joint Ballot, the Board took up papers from the Board of Aldermen. ‘The following were concurred in. Others referred. In favor of forming a company for Engine No. 16. In favor of suspending Thos. Lawrence, of Engine Co. 29, for three months, and expelling Wm. Doll, (he, in ad- dition, not being a citizen) for an assault onone of the members of Engine Co. 24. ‘To repair Cedar street, from Greenwich to West. In favor of transferring certain Butchers’ stalls. In favor of leasing the hay scales at the junction of Honston and Second atrecta nt $100 per annum, j ‘Tore-number Troy street. The Annual estimate of the Comptrol $303,300 be appropriated for expenses of the co! was exiled up by Mr Davis. Mr. Uspenwoon hoped it would not be taken up preci- pitately. In the course of a month, he said, he trusted measures would be taken whereby a: saving of $200,000 er annuum would be saved to the After debate the document was laid over till Monday. In favor of paying Stephen Mced for his services as Health Warden of the Sixteenth Ward. In favor of taking the Harlem Co. Depot sean Engine House : Mr. Munrmy thought that the stable in Chamber street, adjoining the United States Court, should be taken in- steed. He thought that the public documeuts should not be jeopardized from fire in having a stable placed direct] against it, and one used, too, at all times of night. He made an amendment that the engines referred to be ac- commodated directly west of the post oltice, in Chamber street. Amendment lost. Mr. Muneny then moved that it be placed directly wert of the Engine House. Lost. Resolation concurred in. The Board then adjourned to Monday evening next. Srecunation.—The Cleveland Herald says thay 1800 live squirrels were shipped on board the Gene- ral Scott, for New York market, Proeurr Minter continues to preach at the Apollo to increasing audiences. On Sunday he had the room as full as it. gould hold, and the way the coppers were showered into the plates wasa cau- tion. May not this prophecy of his be a new method of raising the wind. He admits in his discourses, that he may be mistaken in his interpretation of the doubtful passages of seripture,but tells his hearers to get ready for fear he may be right. In one of his lectures he said, that all the persons who had writ- ten expositions, and what not of the Bible, had gueseed at one half of what they had put down as the meaning to be attached to certain passages, and that he had as good a right to guess as any other person. This smells rank, although we are inclined to give the prophet credit for sincerity and candor; and as he said eome other person had come to the conclusion, or gueseed as he terms it, that the world had to last 865,000 years, while he says itis to come to anend next year, we will average the time, and that it wont come to an end before 180,000 years. As we dont intend to live any longer than till we have stteceeded by the influence of the He- rald in reforming this-wicked world, we shall have plenty of time todo it in. In the mean time, go ind hear the prophet, LATEST INTELLIGENCE SOUTHERN (WESTERN MAIL. Washington. [Correspondeuce of the Herald.) Wasuinerox, Tuesday, $ P. M. Congressional Proceed: —The Custom House Reports. A few: private inatiers were disposed of in the Senate this morning, whea Mr. Merrick rose and called the attention of the Senate to the movement ot Mr. Benton yesterday, in relation to the St, Louis Post office. Mr, M. treated the matter with the greatest delicacy, but intimated that there should be wome Mode devised by which'the action Of Sena- tors in relation to documents sent to the body from the depaitments to be used in executive session. Mr. Benton replied, and insisted that no document placed on file ina department could be considered confidential, and ayowed his determination to use them when and how he pleased. He was cut off by the hour of one, when the ay propriation bill was taken up, upon which the day is to be occupied. After the presentation of a petition by Mr. Adams from 178 stone-cutters of this city, praying for an ap- propriation to finish the public buildings, the House went into committee of the whole on the apportion- ment bill—the question pending being on the amend- ment requi the Legislature of the several States to divide them into single representative districts. The debate was continued upto the hour of two, when, by the resolution adopted yesterday, all de- bate ceased, and the House proceeded to yote on the various amendments. The result will be forwarded by the next mail, in time for your paper. ‘The Custom Ilouse report affair seems to be get- ting more involved every day. In the Touse the controversy is a triangular fight, but the paramount object of the whigs is to find occasion to implicate the President. Mr. Adams who acts on the gene- ral principle of doing as much harm aw pogaible to every body not immediately conneeted with him- self, cuts and thrusts right and left. He abuses Gov. Poindexter and the President, Mr. Wise and the New York merchants, all in the same breathe. A full and faithful history of the inv ation, in all its parts, embracing the fun and frolic (rat hasgrown up collaterally, would be more amusing than any novel that was ever written. At present no more than a isolated parts can be given. The following er, addremed by Governor Poindexter to the Secretary ef the Treasury, on receiving the summons of the committee, would seem to vindicate him from the charge of wishing to treat the President with. disrespect. But the _re- port was in possesion of the House before the Pre- sident knew that such a letter was in existence. Wasnincrox, April 27, 1642. Hox. W. Forwanp:— Sin :— The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives has this day served on me tho summons, of which I en close you acopy. which it becomes me to tak my character of commissioner, I represent the Executive, to whom I have submitted a full report of the proceedings of the Board, and my opinion founded on the evidence given in New York before the Commissioners. I there- fore have the honor to request that you will make known this proceeding on the part of the House to the President, and communicate to me his wishes on the subject. If he hos had leisure to peruse the report and deemsit proper to furnish the House of Representatives with that document in a day or two, I should consider myself bound by the re- lations which I'bear to the Executive, to await his action before appear in obedience to the above mentioned sum- mone. Signed, GEO. POINDEXTER. This letter, by some mischance, did not reaeh the President, and it is doubtful whether it has been communicated to him up to the present hour. The course of the whigs in the House, acting through the committee on rates expenditures, has been most extraordinary throughout. They made a call upon Gov. Poindexter for his report before it was sent to the President, but the Governor refused to give it up. Almost immediately after it wes sent to the Executive, the committee made another call, and Gov. Poindexter, after addressing the above let- ter to the Secretary, appeared before the committee, report in hand, and the House had poescasion of it at the earliest moment. Not content with that, they immediately procured the adoption of a resolution calling upon the President for all the reports and decuments relating to the commission. And this too, when they had been distinetly informed of the fact that the business was not ted. ‘The first report, written by Kelly, is supposed by fi Gov. Poindexter. the House to conflict with that of This is not the fact. On the contrary, there- discrepancy between them. They touch upon dif- ferent points only, and the principal reason alleged by Poindexter for refusing to sign Kelley’s report is, that it is not written in the English language. | The prompt action of the President in sending in the reports of the House on Saturday last, has tlirown certain gentlemen into what the old lad: called predicary. Not that they cared for any Teal reform, not that they wished to benefit the country in the least, did they make such hot haste in their efforts to get these documents before the people. It was evidently a move founded on a desire to make capital for their candidate, at all hazards, and bi fore they knew the contents of the very papers on which they have mace such gross attacks on the President. The Executive was in the act of perusing these documents, which had been in his hands but a few days, when the Committee, by the proceas of a du- es tecwm, undertook to anticipate his action, and be- lieving that they had something, they did not know what, by which they might assail him on the floor of Congress, they made the attempt, and as it will turn out, to their own complete discomfiture. If Congress would do their duty, as promptly as the President has done his, there wou!d be leas embar- rassment in our public affairs. But no—President making appears to be the chief employment of these gentlemen. Men not measures, is the motto of these patriots. Let Congress reform the abuses pointed out in this report to which they can apply the reme- dy, and the President will meet every responsibility which belongs to him. Arroixrments BY rm Presipexr.—J. F. Cox, Henry lor, Nathan Lufborough, Joshua Pieree, Lewis Carberry, John Cox and Robert White, to be members of the Levy Court for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. Thomas Sewall, Thomas Donoho, and John W, Minor, to be neste ge of the Penitentiary in the District of Co- jumbia. Corroration Arrorntments.—It will be seen, by reference to the proceedings of the Common Coun- cil, that Garrett Gilbert was appointed Police Justice last evening, in place of Robert Taylor, Greenman Clerk of the Fifth District Court, and David Kissner, Street Inapector of the Fourteenth Ward. ww Yo * , , May 8, 1842. J. G. Baxsttrr:— Sir, On looking over that epitome of every thing “The Herald,” 1 perceive that the steam ship © Baitannia” refused to acknowledge the signals of the packet ship “United States,” although having been at one period within a couple of miles of her. As offering the best solution of the cause, may T request your attention to the following conjectures: —First, there was no telescope on board the “ Bri- tannia;” second, if there was the officer of the watch put the wrong end foremost ; third, if neither of these be the true reason, he must have shut his eye when about to look. I would rather adopt any of these conclusions, than to_ suppose for one moment that the omission was wilful ; particu- larly as on our approach, the steam ship with a rare and graceful courtesy, abandoned her course and. steered due north in the winds eye ; but the best of Motives are open to misconstroction, and there were persons on board the United States malicious enough to suggest, that ag the steam ship was peace- ably ambling along at the rate of eight mules an hour, whilst the “United States” was cracking it off ata fraction over ten, the authorities of the former vessel were unwilling to aee her passed by a “Liner.” I can’t bring myself to believe this insinuation, but it’s a talking world, Mr. Bennett. A Passer 1x THe Pacnet Saar Unrrep Stare. Ix Baxgruvrey.—Judge Story has made an im- portant decision upon the question arto the ef- fects of attachment laid upon the property of bank- rupts previously to the filing of their petition to be declared bankrupt. The opinion was long, and is spoken of as very able, The result to which he came was, that such at tachments would not hold the property, but would in eflect be dissolved by the proceedings in, bank- toptey. ‘This decision is considered of more im- panes by legal gentlemen, than any which is ikely tc-arise under the bankrupt law, and, in seme of the States, it will make ‘a vast difference in the effects of bankrupts. Judge Story remarked, tha! as the decision was of great importance, he shoulc furnish it to the Law Reporter for publication, anc he hoped the counsel in the easefwouldtdo the same with their arguments,