The New York Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1852, Page 2

Seen ee eee cen u EE EEEEEEEEEEEEERREEEREREEEE En =5>-—arE ERE aa ene enn —oel | The Temperanee Movement—Gen. Sam Houston and the Presidency. ‘The recent political movements of the Tempe- tance Alliance of this city have startled the politi- ciane of all parties, and commanded the public GUYWE H.W. CORKER OF cs eee ane TAREAD RS: | attention. Similar movements in the New England THE DAILY HERALD, 4 cents per copy—8T ver | States indicate that this political action of the tem- NEW YORK HERALD. PROPRIBTOR AND BDITOS. WEEKLY. HERALD,very, Saturday, at 6% ‘annum | the European Edition, Der cone, on a eeri of Great Briton, ond 88 te any AMUSEKANTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ASTOR PLACE OPERA HOUSE—Manca pt Ronax, oie a i eat ADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Pavt Czirronp— @vanvian Aner. BIBLO'S OPERA—Dow Giovanni, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street Roas To Rui Tur Kony, RATIONAL THEATRE, Cuatham street--Orierro— LOWED A PeLiceMan MERICAN MUSSUM-~Anverve Punvonma: WuE ArTER#OON, 42ND THe Borie Hit ByesiNe, TwrORD—Avor- IN BOWERY AMPHITHKATHS, Dowery-—Squeerarax Paerosmances. OARISTY'S MINSTRELS, Moobsnios’ Hall, 473 Broad~ way—Srnsoriay MiserReLay. FRLEOWS MINSTRELS, Follows’ Musioal Hall, No. 444 Broad way—Rraioriaw Minera eLeve METROPOLITAN HslLL—Pro Byerenieoscs : Aupeneon’s Formers New York, Sunday, February 1, 1852. Notice to the Public. Our paper bas lately been eerved ata late hour ia the morning in many parts of the city, in cohsequence of its | Jarge ard incressing circulation, unavoidable accidents to our presses, and che necessity of effecting alterations ‘apd improvments in our machinery to enable us tomect the demand for the paper. The alterations will shortly be completed, The Henan will then be placed in the hands of our readers long before breakfast. Meanwhile we will do the best we can. . Summary of News, Ore of our correspondents writes that rumors aro eurrent in Washington city of another extensive fraud on the government ; that the money abstract- ed was under tho immediate control of the State Department, and that Secretary Webster had mado arrangements for the arrest of the guilty party, but was too late—the latter having left tho eapital. There isa screw loose somewhere. It is impossible for all these strange reports concerning ghe management of our national finances to spring up spontaneously ;—there must be germs at their poots. Some members of the cabinet and clerks of departments are either unprecedentedly corrupt or unaccountably stupid ;—e!sc, they are most out? Yageously and villanous!y slandered. Time, per- hape, will tell. The proceedings in the State Legislature yos- terday, may be summed up ina few words Inthe Senate, a‘bill was reported for tho relicf of the New York Voluntee:s, and notice was given of another for an appropriation to aid negroes who will emigrate to Liberia. That many of those volunteers who coxtracted disonses while on the battle ficlds in Mexico, are in absolute want, there is no doubt; coxeequently, an appropriation for their benefit, would be very acceptable; bat whother the colored people wiil avail themselves of an appropriation to carry them to Liberia, is ano- ther question. According te their recent demon- strations, s large portion of them are too well Batiefied with their quarters here, to wish for a change. The Senate passed the bill amending tho @harter of the Brooklyn Gas Company. The As- sembly was principally occupied in the discussion of a bill, the main object of which was to levy Foad toll on funeral processions in Kings county Several members expressed their astonishment ‘hat a moasure of this kind should be advocated by | Christians; and, on motion of Mike Walsh, the enacting clause was stricken out. We are, to-day, enabled to give the conelusion of | Perance societies will probably go on from State to State, till the scheme of organizing their forces into & powerfal political party shali have extended it- | Self all over the Union. | But the most formidable demonstration will be | the grand temperance banquet at Motropolitan Hall, by the National Temperance Society, on tho | 18th of February, at six o’clock P. M.--tickets | three dollars each. It is to be agrand affair—a | national affair—and an enthusiastic affair, on purely | temperance principles. Dodworth’s celebrated band, | and the Alleghanians, are engaged. A large num. | ber of letters of acceptance, from distinguished | speakers, have been received, and the name of Gen. | Sam Houston, of Texas, stands at the topof the | list—the orator of the day—the chief and the cham- | pion of the National Temperance Society, and of | the political Temperance Alliance recently org.a ized in this great commorcial and political contra Gen, Sam Houston, ia this connection, bssomes | at once a formidable candidate for ths Presidency. ' Ho stands, by appointment, at the head of the Central Allianse of this sity. He has boen choson | the orator of the day for the Great Temperance | Feetival at Metropolitan Hall, on tho 18th of February. Nor could they havo selested a more | proper man. Ho has sounded all the depths, and shoals, and quicksands, snags and sandbars of the waters of destruetion. Ho has been gathered up from the gutters ‘like a brand plucked from the burning,’ and bas besome a brilliant and shiving | light among the Sons of Temperance. His case is a living example of the power of an inflexible will in support of a good resolution. Ho has risen from the mud, to proclaim the glad tidings of salvation ; and the manly fortitude with whioca he has stuck to the pledge, among all the temptations | of Washington, commends him to the applause of | all men, of all parties, throughout the Union, and, | indeed, all over the civilized world. Now, then, backed up by a National Temperance Alliance, capable of mustering a million of voters | into the field, what is there to provent the nomina- | tion of old San Jacinto by tho Baltimore Conven tion? Who £o proper to compete with Gen. Ssott? Has not Houston his fall share of military glory? ig Scott ended the Moxican war, Houston commenced it; and he did what neither Scott, nor Taylor, nor Butler, nor Wool, nor all the American forces in | Mexico, combined, ever did. He captured Santa Anna. True, the forces of Gen. Scott, at Cerro Gordo, captured the great Mexican’s wooden leg; but Houston captured Santa Anna himself, made a treaty with him, face to face, and sent him ona pleasure excursion through the United States, after securing the independence and laying the ground | work of the annexation of Texas. So much for the military glory of Sam Houston. In addition to this, he issound on the negro ques- tion—sound as a drum; but more than all, ha is sound on the temperance question—a reformed drupkard—thoroughly reformed and regenerated. He is thus a thousand times more available than a | man who has been sober all the days of his life. [t | stands to reason. Look atGough. He rose, even from a second fall, a greater lion of temperance than ever before. Who, then, can stand against Gen. Houtton, supported by the Temperance Alli- ance ! Douglas cannot do it, for he is the treating candidate. Cass cannot, for he has not had the ex- perience of Houston. Buchanan cannot, for he loves a glass of good old wine; Marcy, ditto ; Wool, ditto. Gen. Twiggs could not, for ho has not taken @ glace of ardent epirits in forty years, and has none of the glory ofa reformation. In fact, let this Tom peraree Alliance go to work actively, and organize | all over the country, and they may say to the Bal- timore Convention, Houston is our man; and hoe will be their man. In this important view of this immense subject, what is the mission of Kossuth and Kinkel, com- the Jetter of the Roman Catholic Bishop at Pitts. | pared with the holy practical mission of Fathor burg to Koseuth. Bishop O'Conner plainly informs | Mathow! Mere gas—smoke—‘“sound and fary the Magyar that the chief cause of his unpopularity | signifying nothing.” What is intervention in with the Catholics is the fact of his having, while | the affairs of Europe, eontrazted with this interven in England, enthusiastically eulogized that govern- | tion of the Sons of Temperance for the salvation of ment as a icodel to be cherished and adored by all | the soule ard bodies of men, women, and childron ? true lovers of liberty; while, at the same time, he was well aware that the Catholics had not only boon recently pereecuted and mobbed by large numbers ot the people of that couutry, bu; that a law was enacted by the government which practically mado j it a penal offence to worship according to the Ro mish creed, and virtually placed the persons and property of those belouging to that particular church within the power, and at the mercy, of tho Officers of the crown. This policy was, at the time, Pronounced unjust and abominable by tho most eminent Protestant statesmen in the world. Not- withstanding all this persecution and intolerance, Kossuth lauded ‘free and happy England.” The Bishop's grounds for opposing the Magyar appear to be founded on plain common sense, and will, pro- bably, do more to injure his cause in the estimation of the Catholics, 2s well as liberal minded Protes- tanta, than anything of a seclarian charaster that hag hi:herto made its appearance Kossuth has raised six thousand dollars in Pitta- burg and ite vicinity—principally from the small @ontributions of the working classes, numbers of whom he has personally visited in the foundries, | factories, &c. We predicted that he would gaia more real, substantial, unmistakable sympathy in the West, than be had hitherto receivedin ‘he differ- ent citics east of the Allegbanies, where the people got up magnificent parados and luxurious banquets which, like bubbles, dazzled fora moment in the gunshine, then exploded and left nothing to indi- eate that they had ever existed. But, whilo he is making friends and money in the West, ho is des. tined to meet with coldness and perhaps repulse from the South. The City Council of Louisville have unanimouely rejected a resolution inviting the Magyar to that place, and, from what we can learn, nearly the same feeling of opposition to him is manifested throughout the Southern country. Late advices from the revolutionists in Northern Mexico state that Caravajal has been groatly re- inforced, and will shortly make another, and, it is supposed, more euccess/ul attack on Matamoras. Avalos, the Mexican commander, is also eaid to have a large number of troops in readiness to repel and destroy (he revolutionists. It matters but little which comes off conqueror. The opposing parties are about on par, ond it would, perhaps, be advantagcous to that section of the country if they were to annibilate each other. The Indians are atill very troublesome and hos tile in Texas. They recently attacked Mr. Yates and four others, in the western part of the State, and carried off their muleg and three thousand dol- lars in gold. The War lDepartment ehould send out a few more companics of dragoons to look after these savages. Cne company of dragoons is worth about ten of infentry, in a Bight with the Ca- menches In another ooluran the reader will find an aosoun’ of the discovery of the remains ofthe missing young peélar at Philadephia. Jean Lehm n, the deceased, bad been wissing eince the Sth ult , and when lay goen was known to li & considerable sum of money in bis posses He had evidently been brataily murdered, and whon found, hie body was cut in pieces an clored in three different rack: which were founa imbe din the ico on the ba of the Schuylh ‘ll. Suspicions are afloat that the brothers McHiride, one of whom kill he others fow days tince at Port Richmond, in connection with others, were conoorned in the horrible murdor of poor Lehman. é The steamships Humboldt and Niagara are over- due from Liverpool—the former with four da: and tbe Juiter with one week's later news, from a] parts of Lurcpe n | Nothing. And how easy, and practical, and oon. | sistent with the laws of nations, a war aga that | universal despot, King Aicohol, compared with a | filibustering expedition against the despots of Rus sia and Austria! Thorefore do we repeat, that Sam | Houston, and tke doctrine of intervention in the | affairs of King Alcohol, are likely to supersede Kos- | suth and Kinkel, free soil, land reform, tariff, anti- | tariff, Stato rights, nullification, secession, and ail | concerned, if the Temperance Alliance only goto work in the right way. Let the pcliticians look to it. This thing of tem- | Perance is ripe for political action. It is getting tired of moral suasion, and is coming to the bailo; boxes. The Usion party in Georgia, and tho State rights party, both propose to go to the Balti- more Convention, as the last chance for the outh. The Union party of Alabama propeso to | hold a eeparate Union Convention at Washington; the Northern free soil, free farm and Kossuth in- tervention party propose another convention at Pittsburg. Ali these thinga indicate the extent to which the old parties have been ew: up by the compromise measures of 1f50. But they aro atill in process of re-organiz: crats are falling again, North and South, into their old party aesociations. Bat let them look sharp The Temperance Alliance is in the field; the doo. trine of active intervention in the affairs of ram, gin, whiekey, brandy, and lager beer, has been pro claimed. Father Mathew has been sowing the pledge broad-cast overthe land. The Sons of Tom perance are a host, and Sam Houston is their champion. The approaching festival nt Metropo- Jiten Hall may torn ont to be the most important | affair of the csmpaign. Let thom nominate Old | San Jacinto for the Presidency, oa the cold water platform, and the Sona of ‘Temperance may eclipse the hard cider campaign of 1840, if they ouly secure the Saltimore Convention. Toe Wie Puaivorm or Mainu.—The whigs of the Legislature of Maine have recommended the 17th dey of Jane, and the city of Philadelphia, as the time aad place for holding the Whig National Convention. They also passed astriog of resola- tions, of which we select the following for the more general information of the politicians as to the | probable whig platform for the approaching Presi- | dential campaign:— | Resolved, That we present the names of Gen. Win4eld Scott and James C, Jones, as our prefe andidates for the Presidency and Vice: Presiden for the favorable | consideration of the whigs of the whole Uaion rubje the decision of the national convention, We prest them as whigs and patriots, whore past services acd weil | established characters give us ample assurance that, if elected, they will discharge the duties of their respective offices In accordance with the provisions of the coasti- tution of the United States, with reference to the com mon good of the whole country, regardless of ali cliqaes and factions, and irrespective of all sectional divisions We, therefore. do not desire from either o/ them any new on; and whigs and demo | | their friends, | State governmenis. pledges, and especially upon matters which ate cule slated to excite sectional prejudices without accomplishing any practicel good purpore, either for the country or the wig | party. Prudence and patriotism alike dictate a matusi | forbearance ard spirit of conciliation on a'l such topics | and ireues, It is in this spirit that we, ae whige of au | extreme Northern State, weuld meet and co-operate w! our political brethren of the South, having fa!! confiden that it will be cordially reciprooated by them, and th the whigs of the whole Uniov will become a united enthusisetio, and triump! r We apprehend that 8a distinct forerhadow ng of the whig polisy for tho ap proaching canvass strict neutrality on the compromise measures, and absolute silenee upon everything of a soctional e, except, perhaps, the tariff--or, in other | orde, the platform of General Taylor is to be the | pisttorm of General Scott, with some slight modifi- atic We euspect the whigs of the Maine La gislature have not spoken without authority ia this ; business, and that the above resolution foreshadows the policy of the Whig National Convention. wellas the time and place for holding it. The time opproaches, and the trath will toon be kaowa. Evrorgan Notions oF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE Unrrep Sratzs.—An intelligent and sagacious foroigner, who has travelled a great deal in the United States, was recently asked the questions al- ways thrust by Amoricans upon foreigners who have visited this country, ‘* What do you thiok of the United States!” ‘‘Ain’t it @ great country ?” “ What do you think of our government?” Tho traveller stroked his beard, and replied, “D> you with my candid opinion?” ‘ Cortainly,” said Bro. ther Jonathan. ‘Well, then,” said the foreign gentleman, ‘‘ you area very extensive couatry— nobody can deny that—but your people are very ox- citable and enthusiastic, and are apt to be misled by false sympathies. They seem to me to be always hunting for something that they nover find—ever in a hurry, and nover arrive at a resting place, like running round a circular pathway that has no eud; and they think they aro progressing because they are fleet, when the truth is, the fuster they go the sooner they got to the place they started from. As to your government, it seems to me to be a perfect paradox. You all say that the primary object of your political institutious is to secure to the people, and for the pooplo, and of the people, ‘a govern- ment.’ This mashino is to secure, protect, main tain, and defend the rights of the people. And yot tho machine you have iavented and denominato ‘a government,’ fails of this object and purpose—for by its own construction it is forever employed in winding iteclf up. Every four years you oleet a President, and eo soon as he is installed you sat aboutelecting a successor. You choose a now Con” gress every two yoars, and in the middle of the Pre- sidential term. The chief political business of your people, and of your government, seems to bo the turning ou’, and putting in, of official funotiona- ties. A President must be a very populir man to have governmental control more than two yours. You must pardon me, therefore, for saying, that I regard your government a failure as to its professed objcots and purposes.” The premises of the forcign traveller may bo conceded, and yet the conclusion therefrom is the reveree of that drawn by him, and is favorable to the institutions and goverament of the United States. This can be proved by logical reasoning. Government is an evil, except so far as it restrains ‘ice andcrime. Attempts by governmental action —affirmative action—to advance what the ralers may deem sound notions, are sure to lead to error andendintyranny. Governments aro, however, an evil that is necessary. The bost government is that which governs least. Tho world is governed too much. If, therefore, the government of the United States is so continually employed ‘in winding itself up,” itis the best and safest om. ployment, co far as the people are concerned, that can be devised forit. ‘Che laws for the restraint 0 crime are petty much the same in all civilized countries—they may be considered as fundamental ardestablished ruies. They continue to be admi- niatered, as also the laws for the maintenance and enforcement of private rights, while the govern- ment may be employed in the outdoor and inci- dental business. If the government was not em- ployed “in winding itself up,” as stated, it might bo doing something worse. Harmless humbag is less injurious than dangerous practical action. Go. vernmental tinkering is the apprentice shop of despotism, and the crude material is the vagaries and theoiics of those thus employed. “Too much legislation is the vice of republics,” was an ancient mozarchical maxim. It was so in ancient Rome, and Greece, and in France. If our traveller's xotion be correct, it is not the vice of gur federal government--and, on the contrary, the vice he imputes to it is inertness, non-action— that it is ‘‘no government,” always ‘ winding itself up” to get at work, and yet never getting at work. This, in our judgment, is ono of its greatest merits, and as to which our federal goverrment is superior to some of eur State governments. The existence of the federal govern- ment has not been perilled, and never will be, except by attempts to logislate over matters it had better let alone—by acting over wisely, and oxer- cising powers the posseasion of which@would soon cause its dissolution. Our traveller, therefore, com- pliments rather than dieparages our federal govern- ment by his objection. For ourselves, wo aro always best ratisfied whon Congress are engaged in any ‘‘innocent” amusemert, debating trifling and unimportant fanciful topics, such as intervention, which nobody has any serious idea of; or flogging in the navy; or the structure of the addition to the Capitol; or even when we notice it is engaged in little else than intrigues, who shall dispose of and | who shall fill the public oflices—for in such case | tho public treasury is in comparatively less peril | from Galphinism, and the people from unwise and ridiculous legialation on subjects of more import- | ance. If the people will watch closely, and seo that they are not ‘ taxed” over much or by in- direct means, nor debts incurred, for the payment | of which they are bound, all is safe. They | should reckon at least fifty per cent of all that is taken from them by taxation, dircetly and indi- | reotly, is Galphinised out of the public coffers by claims, and jobs, and contracts, and schemes, and other peculations. ‘They should thank Heaven if it is no more than per cent. As to the pre vention of membera of Congress, and executive officers, and politicians generally, from bargaining about cflices for themselves and their cronies, it is | idle to attempt it. The people must mske up their minds to regard these as yenial peccadilloes. Wo think that it may be predicted that, at tho proper time at least, seven democratic candidates, and their triends, and at least five whig cand dates, and | be bought of by that rival who stands the best chance of being nominated, by | preinises of cabinet offices, foreign missions, &>. Europeans, with but few exceptions, aro totally | igncraut of the distinction between our federal and We notice Mr Matthews, the Eritich Conayl at Charleston, S. C., has resently opened a diplomatic correspondence with the Governor of that State. We presume President Fillmore will recall his exeguatwr for tais conduct, We cannot see how be can avuid it. Equally ignorant are foreigners of cur people. They seem to think Brother Jonathan never jokes. They are mistaken. Ho is a very great joker. He is fonder of fun and frolic, and has more of it, and on a grander and more sublime scale, than any other human being. It mates little difference to bim whetber it be Lota Montes, Koseuth or Kin kel; he will have his sport, aud geserally he makes it “pay.” He loves, of all things, to excite, aston- ish, and plague Johnny Bull and Jobnoy Frog, and the Cossack and the Austrian, end if he can frighten them, so much the better; and yet be is 4 kind hearted and liberal fellow, but always ** goes in” for hisamusement. If Haynau was to visit us, we do not doubt he would make quite as much fuea as Lola Montes, Kinkel, or Kossuth, though the demonstrations might be in a different style and mode. There would be about as much real excite- ment and feoling ss in tho other cases. All that Brother Jonathan would look to, would be his owa gratification, bis own amusomont, and his own interests. Our government allows all this; there- fore, itis the best government in the world. The “peoples” kere enjoy all sorts of ‘liberties and freedoms,” and their “solidarity” cannot be trenched upon. Newsrarer Postages.—We have heretofore noticed that the House Committes on Post Offices and Post Roads have prepared a bill for the redas- tion and simplification of nowspaper postages, which provides that newspapers, pamphlets, &s., not exceeding in weight two ounces and a half, thall be charged one cent for any distance under two thousand milos; and (rr newspapers under one ounce, one half cont, the same distances—postago to be prepaid, or charged double those rat This | is something of an improvement on the prosent in- comprebensiblo law of the [ostmarter-(senoral, which no man pretends to understand. Wo trast that, 'be‘ore the expiration of tho session, such a jaw will be framed and sed as will bo at onee cheap, just and imparti nd jafactory to ‘Tue Forrest Cas: on THE Srage.—The contest between Mr. and Mrs. Forrest is about to be trans- ferred from the courts to the stage. Mr. Forrest, we learn, is to play at the Broadway simultancously with Mrs. Forrest at Brougham’s Lycoum, the smallest and meanest theatre in the city. As we have already announo d, she will make hor début there to morrow evening ; and it was stated that Forrest was to make his appearance on the samo evening, but for some reason or other, porhaps in order to see whether Mrs. Forrest will succeed or fail, he has deforred action, and maiataining, for the present, a sort of ‘‘mastorly inactivity,” will allow her to make the first move on the chessboard, with the full expectation that it will be a false ono, and that he will checkmate her inthe end. His move, no doubt, will soon follow hers. Mrs. For- rest appropriately plays, as hor first piece, in the “School fur Scandal.” The play in which Forrest is to first appear has not, yet, been announced; we would suggest one, which we think equally ap- propriate—* Othello, the Moor.” This would bo an excellent piece to play off against the * School for Scandal.” It seems that Mrs. Forrest is to appropriate the $3,000 a year she has been awarded from Forrest’s cetate, to charitable purposes, and that sho will rely upon her new profession for support. At least so it appears from the telegraphic despat shes sent to tho country papors. WhenJenny Lind commenced her freer in this country, Barnum snnouaced that she would devote the entire praceeds of her engage- ment to the cause of edusation in Swoden. We have nover heard, since the ongagemont was completed, that the money was appropriated to hat chacitable object; but Barnum’s angel will, no doubt, make good all he promised for her in this world and the world to come; and Brougham’s angel will, we are equally confident, walk in tho footsteps of so bright an example. As a counter move ‘o this, would it not bea good idea for For rest, after paying the lawyers out of his estate, and cuttizg off that fat slice for Mra. Catherine Sinclair, to devote tho remnant of the property, be the samo more or less, to some glorious charity—say tho Hungarian loan fund, for which Barnum, the great commanding intellect of the Revolutionary Com- mittee, would amaly reward him with pulls ia this world, to say nothing ofa future state? By adopt- ing this course, and relying exclusively upon tho future fruits of hia genius for another fortune, he would stand upona par with his late wife for popu: larity. This, however, is a mere suggestion; and whether it be adopted orsnot, will not affect the real merits of the theatrical contest. The rivalry will be warm, and the frien! adherents of the two litigants will also pro! the friends and adherents of the two rivals, and will carry their feclings and lives into the different houses in which these stars will appear. Tho supporters of Mra. Forrest will consist chiefly of the fahionables and Fourieritos, and all those whose social system is founded on the plan of enjoyment, which the evidence in the late trial has disclosed as having prevailed in Twenty-second street. The supporters of Forrest will bo tho Bowery boys, the hurra boys, and various other frequenters of the theatres. The public aro looking forward to this theatrical contest and the result, almost with as much interest as to the groat opera- tio contest which is to commence on the same evening. Progress or Mateniauism 1n PutLosoruy— AnTIsELL’s Lectures on GeoLogy.—The leading organs of all the ‘‘isms” of the day—the Tribune and the Jimes—publish a notice, announcing the commencement of a serios of lectures on geology, by Dr. Antisell, the first one to be given next Wednesday evening, at Clinton Hall. These lectures will number four in all, and will develope the new philosophy of the creation, which has grown to such lengths during the last thirty years, both in the Old and New Worlds, and which is so well calculated to subvert all our old notions of re- ligion, springing from the Bible and Christianity. There lectures will comprise the philosophical description of the condition of the globe, during the primary and carly secondary periods, ita vego- tation, and the formation of coal beds, volcanoes and their forces, reptilian and tertiary periods, and mcderp agencies. These are curious, remarkable, and wonderful developements The enthusiasts in geological science believe and declaro that the discoveries recently made in geology entirely upset the history of the creation, as furwished to us in the Bocks of Moses, and lead the mind conclu- sively to a mingled philosophy of materialism and fpititualism, u'terly hostile to all the principles and views put forth by the Mosaic or Christian dis- peneations. Dr. Antisell is, we believe, a distin- guished philosopher in the new science, and his loc- tures will undoubtedly create a prodigious sznsa- tion among all the professors of Christianity, as represented in the religious press of this city, as well as the advocates of materialism, Fourierism, sosial- iem, spiritualism, and ail the other “isms” of tho day, a8 represented by the Tribune and @imes. The inferences drawn from the facts and philo- sopby of these lectures will be levelled against the truth of Christianity, as now taught and believed in the hundred and fifty churches of this city, and will create great curiosity, and mush excitement, during their progress. We shall report them with fullness end agcuracy, beyond that of any otbor journal. 2G Mn. Weerenn wou'd feeel obliged by being fur- iched with the name of the reporter who is (he author of the very able temperance articles in Sunday, Monday, end Tuesday's papere. Mr, Weatern’s object is to thank him personally. acd to exolain some misapprebeasions as to one of the temperance speakers. 295 Broadway, Jan. Slat. Wertern in informed that it is none of his bueinesa who js the author of the temperance ar- teles In the Heravy.— Ep. Hrnaco. Axswen.— Mr The Irish Extles=The President. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Lovevoy's Hover, Friday Evening. fiq:—You will oblige the friends of the exiles who went to Washington, if you state in the Hrrarn that we did not understend the President to refuse our request, but only to distinguish as to the mode im which he could comply with it. His Inet words at our interview were, that he would “coneult thore he usually advised with on important ccessions,” in thiscase.and that he “would do all he could do” for the patriots in Australia, I mey add, that it ie the earnest desire of tho friends of the exiles, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washing- ton, that their caro should be left in the hends of the government, believing, as they do, that both the Presi- dent and the distinguished Secretary of State, (to whose courtery we are aleo much indebted,) will leave no pro- Per means unemployed to gratify the wishes of fo many American citizenn as are now interested in this matter, I have the honor to be, Bir, Your obedient servant, THOMAS DARCY McGEE, Delegate from Massachusetts, Very Late rrom Benxvpa—The steamer Merlin, Capt. Sampron, arrived yesterday from St. Thomas, via Bermuda, with advices from the former to the ‘Qist, and the latter port to the 26th ult, The Bermudian, of the 2ist, containe the following items :— The rtorm thet war felt here so violently from the Ward on Tuerday night, the 13th inst., raged, as we ticipated. with terrific power on the ocean. Captain joe, of the Princes ioya!, which arrived from New ork on Friday last, reports having encountered a tre- D v mendous gale on the 15th, from W. 8. W., by which bis down vessel Was (hrown lost part of her deck load, Capt. Bramhall, of the bark w York, inte that he @: 6 reat sho rienced at se, She was when the gale commenced of rix Crys Was & ely bolete two cut of ber! eck load ¢ a We learn by the oirival of the Pavorite, from Toagna, that there ie & large euppiy of malt on band; four ves- tele Were loading when the F. lett, We are pleased to heer ef the prorperity of that place; it will give an im- hen beg of ovr scuntrymen whore enterprise bas jed them to leave their homes, and endure many priva- tions, to bring into use the superior ealinus of this fine, but long peglroted portion of the Babama group, We x ai from New York bork’s whole passage u bat she lost only all partice, and simple a8 possible. 6 beauty of the Jetter postage is ise eiinplicity. undersiand (hat more of our countrymen intend to pro- ceed thither, | stefl, that the United States steamer is at this moment on ‘Tue Naroeon or Music in THE Figxp, at Last —Gnanp Cour p'E-raT aGaINsT THE ARISTOCRACY —Tue Wnoxe or THE Coprisu Turnep Our oF Astor Prace—REDUCTION OF 1HE Price To Firry Crnte—Tue Rear Contest now BeGins.—Maret- zek, the Louis Napoleon of Opera management, has just performed a magnificent coup d'état. At a single blow, he has cut the Gordian kuot that bound his destini: extricating himself from every diffi- culty, breaking up his engagement with the Opera subscribers, turning the whole of tho codfish aris- tocracy out of his splendid Opera House, and open- ing it wide to the enthusiastic, generous people, at fifty cents a ticket. ‘We understand this movement has produced a tremendous excitement in the Fifth avenue, almost ‘a8 great as was caused in the faubourgs of S:. Ger wain when Charles the Tenth was turned out of Paris, or among the Orleanists and legitimists when Louis Napoleon expelled the Assombly, and sent the politicians to Ham and Vincennes. The wholo of the heads in ‘*/’utnam’s Book of Beauty” have been put toge’her in this extremity, and tho collected wisdom of such an array of brilliant talent has been devising ways and means to eilect their restoration to Astor Place. But Maretzck is in- | exorablo, and his splendid artists back him in his | resolve. The genercus Salvi has given him a re- ceipt in full for his salary upto the first of March, and the magnificent Steffanone will sing for no- thing avd give him a benefit, and a buss into tho bargain, rather than yield the palm to tho rival troupe. The real contest begins on Monday evening next. The codfish Bourbons and Orteanists are banished frcm Actor Place, and its doors are thrown open to the gay, the brillisnt, aud the beautiful wives and daughters and sisters of the citizens of New York, who, without pretension or atsumption, will appear in elegant, and even splendid dress, though not in the precise formal style and fashion of ‘ the uppor ten.” Without the experse, the trouble, or the st ffnese, of the opera cut that was heretofore fash- ionable among the audience that monopolized Astor Place, but would not support it, the now audience will appreciate the artists, and enjoy the perform- ances and themselves, as the parvenucs never had souls to do, and nover will, to the end of time. A large class will now attend the Opera that never at- tended it before, being repelled partly by tho exclu- siveners of the high price, and partly by the dis- agreeable atmosphere of the building. A revolu- tion in epera has, therefore, commenced, and will very soon be an accor d fact. The war between ‘the two roses,” for the domi- , will be one of most momentous consequence in relation to the final establishment of the Italian Opera in this city, and the progress and fall deve- Jope ment of musical taste among the best classes of society. It will be a contest for supremacy and popularity—a contest of science and skill, and beauty, and musical powers, between the two troupes. During the Jast few days, the Bosio troupe, at Niblo’s, bas carried everything before it, arising from the cheapness of the admission, from tho popularity of the movement, and tho awakening enthusiasm in the middle classes for the highest musical compositions. Astor Place, on the con trary, has been kept out of the field, and reduced to ‘‘a beggarly account of empty boxes,” by these who have been guided by Putnam’s ‘‘Book of Beauty.” But Maretzek, by his coup d'état, has now brought the two houses to the same level ; and henceforth, with equality of prices, there will be a The Politico-Temperance Movement, Another of the great temperance meetings of those im favor of procuring the passage of # bill in this State, +i- milar to the Maine liquor law, was held last evening in this city, pursuant to the following notice ;— Continvation or THE Goow Time —The Alleghanians, P. T. Barnum, and John Hawkins, at the great Mass Temperance Maeting. on Saturday Evening, January 31, at 73; o'clock, in the Pwelfth street Baptist Church, near Fourth avenue. Seats free, A liberal collection expected. Deors open at 7 o’cluok. ©. ©. LHIGH, TF 4A0 J. OLIVER, W. W. STRICKLAND. ‘The attendance was pretty considerable, consisting fur the most part, however, of women and children, who were probably drawn thither more on account of the gratuitous opportunity to hear che Alleghanians sing, and of seeing the great material and moral would be fire annihilator, P. T. Barnum. than through any particular enthusiasm in favor of the teaperance movement, The proceedings were opened by prayer; then followed, “There’s a gocd time coming boys,” by the Alleghe- nians; then the reading and exposition of the objects contemplated by the New York City Temperance All ance; after which, Barnum was introduced and address- ed the audience, He raid, that to carry out their de- signs inestablishing a law in ibis State similar to that of Maine. voters rhould. it necessary, saerifice their politie cal prejudices for the time be Lt is a great thing to ask political voters to abandon thetr party. In Coanec- ticut, all the friends of the Muice iaw sgree to come forward and sizga a pidge in the State Coavention, binding themselves to vote for no taan for executive or legisiative cflice who was not known to bein tavor of the Maine iaw. he covsequeace nataraliy is that the poli- ticians will etop for ther vole roth polities! parties will put forward men in favor oi the Maine law, and then, in such cases, every vou knowing, cf couree, that th of men. It wos, perhaps. 0 the leading principles of th. insult the jiitelligence of b on the curses which intempe is sure to carry in its train. They did rot come ton to beenlighcened on that subject thevgh eeme may uve been induced to come for the sake oJ hearing the Alieghanians, and some may have come also to eve the wonderful man that owned the mermaid and found Tom Thumb. (Laaghter.) ‘The inmates of Blackwell s [stacd have ali been cent there by intemperance. It would be # perfect curiosity, worth exbibiting 1uthe Museum; to eee man rent up to that ne island for any crime which had not its origia in intemperance. Neithcr can there be found # man ip the State of New York who is not in fayor of temperance, Ifyoucan find such a phenosenon, fetch himto mo aud 1 will give him good wages aud exbidit him in the Museum. They had now tried ove law afcer anothat to put down intemperance, bet they all had failed. In Mestachuretts they had enacted alaw which they thovght weuld have produced the desired reeul’, by pro~ hibiting the sale of spirituous liquor in less quantities than fifteen gailons; but the rumvellers, crafty 1a device, soon found a pian to evade this law. They all turned showmen--Barnums on a:mall scale--and got painted on their signs representations cf seme wonderful natural curiosities which they had on exhibition, Most of them went on the dodge of the “s!riped pig,” and the show. men were 40 liberal as to give a glass of brandy, rum, or other liquor gratis to each of the spectators; it was wonder- ful to see how often the same porson would go in on one day, ana pay his six cents to see the “striped pig,” and then appeared to have eprung up, all at once, a taste for the study of natural philorophy, They went the whole hog, and made hcgs of themselves into the bargain. Bo by this echeme the law failed to operate, There is no remedy for the gigantic evil except in the Maine law, which we are sure to obtain if we are faithful to ourrelves, Buring and at the conclusion of Mr, Barnum’s address, there was some applause and lughtef, which, not being character with the sanctity of the house, called for con- demnation from Mr. Hawking and other members of the committee, and then it was anuounced that a coilection would be made, which was accordingly done. but the result did not seem to be af ail satisfactory, and called forth some grumbling observation, that a collection of pennies such as that weuld go a very little way in defraying the expenses of the meet- ing—tbhat Brother Hawkins was engaged to speak for thirty nights, and must ofcourse be paid—that they had to pay the trustees cf the charch for the hare of it op this decasion—they bad to pay singers—in fact, that the pure-minded, relf-denying, philanthropic laborers in the good cause. had all to be handsomely remunerated, ex- cept the Alleghaniane, who thus appeared to be the only uneelfish actors in the comedy, In this state cf thin; it was peor to raise $50, by tea contributions of each; but notwithstanding ail the auctioneering phrases of “Come forward, gentlemen—come forward—now is your time— bid up quick—don’t be afraid—let not too put up,the righ ry for nim to explain. law. oe would nog nce by descautiag fair field, a clear stage, and no favor; and the vio- tory will be decided upon the merits of the combat- ante. Backed by the unspproachable Steffunone, the highly finished Salvi, tho rich contralto notes of Parodi, and the deep toned music of Marini, he goes into the contest on Monday next, and will not give it up till the Fourth of July, if necessary—till he sees which of the two troupes have the greatest wind and muscle, and “bottom,” in this musical campsign. The Bosio troupe will be put to their mettle. Tue Gatway anp New York Sream-Packer Buppigs.—We recently adverted to one of the New York and Galway steam-packet schemes. We showed that it is hardly feasible, and has not met with the support of the public. The appli- cation to Congress is itself the most conclusive proof that the project would not pay, or that tho money cannot be raised among our merchants to eet it afloat. This, however, is but one scheme. There is another. Wagstaff & Co. by way ef taking time by the forelock, started a rival concern, and Wagstafi, jr., went over to gull the simplo Galwegians with his blarney. If our recollection is right, he told them in one of his speeches that, before the clore of the year 1851, his ship, that was then being built, would make the passage from New York to Galway in six days! So the papers reported. This was so very like a whale that wo called the attention of our readers to it at the time. The bubble has burst, and vanished into thin air. Tho United States, which was at first called the Fonneville, is sold, and has gone to Cali- fornia. In order to show tho reader the dolusion that was practised, we copy tho following from a Galway paper, the heading being in large tyse:— Tne Garway Packer Sration—Ma, Wacstare’s Sream- rx.= It will afford great satistoction to the people of Gal- way to learn, ircm the rubjoined letter from Mr. Wag- her voyage to Galwey, having probably left New York | ere this, end may be expected here ou Thursday next, This is glorious news, and # sufficient avewer to the ene- mies of cur port and of Ireland, who would fain insina- aie that Mr Wagsta kad changed his determination, and violated bis promise to Ga _ “New Yorx. Dec. 20, 1851. “Gexturmen—I am still in New York; we have not tniled tor Galwey. es yet, on account of the ship not be- jug as yet finished, We are hurrying the finishing as {art eeweean, The ship is going on the dry dock to-day, to be coppered; she is otherwise very neatly finished, and we hope to have her ready for sea in abouts week. The | ship not belng ready for sea on the 20h of November has becn a seurce Of great ann yanoe to me, for my contract binds the builders to bave her Sulshed' on thatday. IL | was #fraid the people in Ireland might think that this | was another humbug, so have got Dr, Hughes, the Ro- | man Catholic Archbishop cf New York, to certify that the ship is being finished as fast ae pormible, and will sail | for Galway in wbout two weeks. Ihave get elso the Mayor of the City ot New York (o certify to the same eflect. Both of these letters I will send you, Tam fast miaking ® coutract for another ship, to lewve this city mn two Weeks alier the United States,’ so that L shall Lave two or three of the first class eleani-ebips in all, ewrly in the next year. Iwill write you farther particulars by the next steamer, I have Just returned from Washiog- top, where I have been putting in my claia for the mail contract, and I am eatistied L eball get © Yours, truly, JOUN O, WAGSTAFF “To Jobn Kelly and Lienry Stephenson, Esqrs.”’ He was afraid the people of Ireland might think this was another humbug; £0 ho got the cer tificate of Dr. Hughes, the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Now York, and of Mayor Kingsland, to prove that all was right! Have these distin- guiched personages lent their names to this con cern! If not, itis only due to thom to como out and say so. So mueh for bubble No. 2. But thoro is anothor still, which is now being fast | inflated. The Morning Chromi.le says:—* Tho English government has just granted a chartor forasteam company to run vessols betweon Gal- way and Halifax.” Wat shal! become of bubble | tho third we will inform our readers when it bursts. Meentime, they had better keep their Weather eye open for squalls. Late rnom Porto Canvito.—The schooner Buphemia. ; Was committed for trial, The box offi Many speak at once,” & , they failed to raise the wind in this way, only three coming down with the dust. As 8 last forlorn hope, the bat was sent round again, but with no better succ but still,on the nil desperandum Principle, it was anneunced that gentlemen should be stationed at the Coors as they were leaving, and receive the donations of the faithful. The whole exbibition, and the artful dodges rerorted to to make it tell—the scheme of attracting an audience by profane psalmody—the the- atrical outbursts of applause or disapprobation, made that text very applicable: “ It is written, my house be a house of prayer. but ye have made it 7 Colonel E. L, Sxow was next introduced to the audience, and favored it with rome choice specimens of oratory on the subject of the temperance petitions to the Legis- lature, and the last wees’s doings at Albany. It sur- prised bim a little time sgo when he saw the fruitless efforta msde here to raise a collection of $50 What! not 660 when men could go and subscribe $1,000 to Louie Koreuth, to help bim out in his plans for liberty and independence! He hoped all people would be free, bit he wanted freedom at home firet; freedom from the ty. ranpy of King Alochol. It was strange that they could not collect such a smallsum. Why. if he were as rich ae Mr. Barnum or Mr Townsend there, he would make his $5 contribution a $10 one. In conclusion, the gallant colonel pledged himsrlf that if in Albany there was no other man to stand forward and plead for the Maine Li- quor law, he, in defiance of all personal political conse. quences, would ao #0 alone, Mr. Hawxrns, the itinerant temperance lecturer, next addressed the nudience at considerable length, dilating upon the evils of intem nee, aud the moral benents which have resulted in ine from the carrying out of the probibitery law there. Police Intelligence. ARREST OF MANGARECTA LOHRENS, THE .ISTRESS OF OTTO GRUNZIG, ON A CHARGE OF MURDER. Mr, Blunt, the District Attorney, yesterday ordered the arrest of the woman Margaretta Lohrens, the mis- trees of Otto Grunaig, on a charge of murder, growing out of the alleged confession made by her, in the case of the murder of Grunzig’s wife, the prisoner having as- rerted that she (Margaretta) had placed the poigon in the house without the knowledge of Grunsig, which con- fersion was the means of Governor Hunt granting Grunzig a further respite of four weeks. Officer Elder took thie poor unfortunate woman into custody, and con- veyed her before Justice Osbora, with instructions from the District Attorney to detain her for a further examia- ution. as, from affidavits within his knowledya, it was be- lieved she wee guilty of murderivg the wile of Gransig The mogistrate, in conformity with the reqaest of Str Blunt. committed the wretched woman to tae eare of Mrs. Foster, the matrom of the City Prison, there to await the further action of the public authorities. When taken into o dy by the officers she became siarmed, and much excited, exclaiming, in broken English, scarcely intelligible, that sbe did not poison avy one ‘The reader can very readily imagine the awful position this miserable creature has now placed herself in, Recovery of a Coit Wotch —Ofticer Mz Veagh, one of the Vigilant vud pesevertog cfllvers of the Seyeu'a ward, Fucceeded, yeat in oblaining a very valuavle gold watch froma tan who had pure thief, not knoving the same to have b owner is wante: the watch. ‘The offi track of the thief, and no doubt will have tedy iu a few days. Arvest of a Vice Thief. —A black fellow, calling hint self Henry Baltors, wae arrested on Friday night, ona charge of stealing a horse. valued at $200, the property of Mr. Neal, corne: of Bleecker and Greene streets, The horse was stolen and them the rogue hired a wagon of Mr. Gridler, corner of Fourth street and Union place, and drove out of town; but on arriving in the vicinity of Kingsbridge the horse became unmanageable and Tan away, throwing the negro and his compenion out of th Fagen, brenking the wagon topiecas, aud the animal was on his returo home when stopped and secured by oflser Elmore. of che Nineteenth ward. The accusad was oon- veyed belore the magist at Jefferson Police, ana bin in eus- Tie Murper or a Masrer ny wis Stave,— Near the latter part of lart week, Mr. Matthew Lassley, an old man, living near Kingston, in this county, was killed by his negro man, who is now in jail uwaiting hie trial. It is reported that the negro says lie formed the determivation to murder his macter twenty years azo, and executed it the other day, for fear oldnge would be the cause of a netural death, He used an axe to shorter the few remaining days ot bis aged muster.—Mississipp. Free Trader, Vth inst. ee RE , Astor Place Italian Opera.—Card to the Public.—By the advice and approbation of most of the subscribers to the Italian Opera, the Manager has tho honor of announcing that the regular subscription nights have been postponed until furbhor notice, and th: on Munday evening, Feb. 2, the price ef ad Baloony nd Parquet, wil and no extra charge for sectired seats; and $0 the atro, Twenty: five 0 During the week, Mi noné,will appear in her graud charactor of Ma: and Sigacr ealvi in his renewned representati: in Meyerbeer’c tt work of “Robert le Dis appearance in character in the United Opora nights, Monday Wednesday, c¢ {8 open from Y to 4 o'clock dail: can be secured, Kinsley & Co.'s Express, for Boston, Captain Guide, arrived yerterday morning, from Porto what little there wae, scid at from O3go. @ 9750. Hides | Were selling at Oo aG)jc., and fustto at $11 & $17 per ton There was e good supply of American produc ia the market, Dirantune ov Steamens—-Four steamers left our port Jerterday, viz :—The Washington, tor Bremen via South. the day war very unplearant, their departurs, as usual, caused @ large number of persens to agsemble at the lower wharves on the North river, some brought there Clumay, ill-fitting Shirts are dear atwn have over left or will ever be permitterae Fall Rivor and Newport. —Arran cements having Lown made | with tho Now Haven, Hartford,» ud bud ie Cabello, with dates to the 23d ult. She brings no politi- +3 Fi eT et tag wu Guapelen ta bs vs “aly he 68: Cw P te | for Boston, Pall Kiver, Nowport, aud tio fab. Merobi cal news, At the thine of Onpt, G.'s departure, very i> | for Menicn, Pall River, Newport wid ja Zath teal tle of the new crop cf ccffee had come to market; and | This arrarsrment will continue during tho clone’ of navic, tion, Ofttoe No.1 Wall stzoct, oorucr of Broadway. Notice.—Girard Phitadelphian c RY & BILLINGS, propr Pe ore. This now and Betablishment ia now My the reseption of #. Fare pee day, $2 N. 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