The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1852, Page 4

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BROADWAY THEATRE, Broa¢way—Loua Montez Davania—Lorraky Ticks. NIBLO'S GARDEN—Panricrion—Caranina- LaBay- amnas—Rowekt LE Diawer, BURTON'S THEATRE. Chambass street—Lavom Wu You Can—Mumaiv—Nexrvou . NaTIONAL THEATRE, Ci ov Roven—Catrie Sree wuene. | RYCEVM THEATRE, Brosdway—My Litre Avorrsen —Voruies or 4 Nigur—Princese Ravient, ASTOR PLACE OPERA BOUSE—Consican Brornens, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Amusine Praronmances mm @ue AVTBRNOON AND Evunine. CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE--Neono Mixernensv sv ry'e Compan, ‘WOOD'S MINATRELG, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Brond- way—Rrmiorian Minerexisy. DOUBLE SHEET. ——IIyCL SL SSS New York, Wednesday, May 26, f 'The News. e The politicians are in a most wonderful state of excitement and trepidation— more especially the @emocrats, some of whom appear to be in an ex- eruciatingly agonizing predicament. No matter, Abe whig locomotive has likewise got the steam up tea pretty high notch, and, in a few days, we may expect te find the water foaming in the rusty boiler -—then look out for an explosion. The delegates to he Democratic National Convention are beginning *e flock into Baltimore, and the friends of Mr. Buchanan are quite busily employed in Washing- ten, in endeavoring to secure hig nomination. A meeting of the committee appointed to sup port the nomination of Secretary Webster was held | uct night, as will be seen by the report in another eclumn. The slim attendance was accounted for Dy the chairman’s assertion that the friends of Mr. ‘W. wore ‘overpowered by ciroumstances of a poli- ties} nature.” By theway, the honored Sccrctary will probably be in the city this morning. Cannot hie sdmirers get up arevival? Wall street ought ‘te take the lead, and turn out a strong torchlight Procession to-night, similar to those formerly prae- tised by the Empire Club. Such a proceeding would astonish everybody, and set the whole vity to talking. The report of the sub-committee appointed by ‘tbe Young Men’s Democratic Republican General Committee, on the subject of the corruption and violence at primary elections, which will be found in another column, is worthy of attention. Horace Greeley having heard of what this committee had in contemplation, borrowed their thunder, and anti- eipated them, by publishing an article on the same subject, and recommending the change to the whig party. Will either of the parties dare to adopt it ? We shall see. Bat while the people, or rather the political por- tion of them, are thus troubled about the action of the nominating conventions, our Congressmen stil, manage to keep the Presidential pot boiling among themeelves, as will be seen by the proceedings of yesterday in the House of Representatives. Mr. Bay}y, Virginia democrat, made a strong speech in favor of the Fugitive Slave law, and against any attempt to repeal it. He considered this law essen- tially necessary to carry out one of the provisions of the constitution. Mr. Cartter, Ohio democrat, oppo- ved the ground assumed by Mr. B., an@ was especially averse to incorporating the compromise measures imte the party creed. This political clatter will probably be kept up by the democratic members till Tuesday next; after that a row will commence among the whigs, that will last for a couple of weeks donger. A great number of petitions were presented in the Senate yesterday, asking for the enactment of the free farm bill If attention is to be paid to these petitions, would it not be as well to make a few inquiries concerning the character of their signers? It is hardly probable that one truly in- dustrious, sober and sane person in one thousand, would favor this unjust and unlawful scheme, which would be a direct and wholesale violation of the stipulations through which the government became possessed of the lands from some seven of the old States. The Senate yesterday passed the bill to relinquish to Iowa the Salt Springs in that State, and en- grossed the bill for the construction of certain plank | roads. Several] amendments to the deficiency bill were diseussed;—one proposing an appropriation of $110,000, for a balance due to those friendly Creek Indians who assisted our troops during the war of 1812, was rejeeted. An unsuccessful attempt was made in the House to have a national veesel placed in the vicinity of Australia, for the aecommodation of the Irish exiled patriots, when they are liberated. It is hard- ly probable that a natinoal ship will ever again be sent out for the benefit of the liberated patriots of fore ign countries—the Kossuth affair en board the Mississippi killed off that kind of busi- mu The Senate bill concerning settlers on the Menominee lands, was reported to the House, (with amendment.) that settlers shall have the right of pre-emption to all the unsurveyed public lands. The House passed bills for the benefit of invalid and naval pensioners, &e According to our telegraphic report, the abo! tionists were ina blaze of glory at the meeting o the New England Anti-Slavery Society, in Boston, yesterday. Abby Kelly opened the ball with a tce- total pirouette, in her peculiar style. She is of the opinion that the Maine law will do much towards Propagating abolition principles. 1 followed, ina tirade against the anne and Mexico, perspectiv nerally, and against Dan’ Abby Kelly’s husband, 8. 8. Foster, then took the stand, and very indignant at his Satanic ma- jesty for havi bury under hie banner. diate such com Satan’s household Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold, and the debate proceeded in this strain throughout. yort—it will be found rich and amusing The movements of Gen. Flores in Ecuador, have slarmed the Venezuelean government. Our Port Cabello correspondent of the 3d inst., says that President Monagas has sent a message to Congress, Kunilar in tone and spirit to that of President Lo- pes to the Congress of New Grenada. It a virtua) declaration of war against Flores, if he sue- weedsin his designon Ecuador. It is clearly seen that the present governments of New Granada and Venemuela anticipate the intent yd Garrison tion of Cuba hurches ge- gainst the No doubt Mr. IP. will repu- y, by backing out from King me of Gen. Flores and his party, and are making preparations aceord- | inlgy. The Post Office report, given in another column, ie an interesting document. Jt embraces the opera tione of the department for one year, showing the number of letters mailed, the cost of traneporta- tion, the oumber of ebip letters transmitted, &e., &c. It gives the publie some idea of the immense correrpordence annually carried on in thie country. We elsewhere publish Judge Johnson’s decision against the constitutionality of the canal lew. This document will be attentively read by all who take ap interest in the legislative history of this Btate. To the Board of Assistant Aldermon, a message was received, on Monday evening, from the Mayor, returning the report and reeolution in favor of grant- ing Sob Sharpe a lease for ten years, at the rent oftwenty thousaud dollare yearly, of the slip at the foot of Wall street, with a ferry privilege, for the parpose of establishing @ ferry to Brooklyn. The reasone which induced him to withhold his approval from this measure, will be found in the official re- port elsewhere. The document was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. The steamers to bring the next news from Cali- fornia and other parte of the Pacific, are the North- ern Light, Crescent City, and Empire City. The agente of the Northern Light cannot tell when she will be due from San Juan. The Cresent City, from Aspinwall, is expected on the Ist or 2d, and the Em- pire City, with the mails, on the 5th or 6th of next month. The Cambria is the steamer due this week from Liverpool. She will bring six daye later news from Europe. We may expect to hear ef her arrival at | Halifax to-day or to-morrow. Mr. Scott's Letter to the Democratic Can- didates—The Turning Point of the Cam- paign. Once ugona time there was a celebrated back- woodsman, knewn as Captain John Scott. His rifle, when levelled by his unfailing eye, was inevi- table death to the ‘‘ varmint” singled out as his victim. The tip of a bear’s ear in the thickest chapparal, or the glimpec of a squirrel’s tail in the top of the loftiest hickory, was enough for him. He fired, and the animal invariably fell. The ter- ror of his name extended far and wide through the woods, till it became as much the dread of the In- dians and wild beaste, as it was the admiration of the white settlements. One day, while sauntering through the forest, he espied an old ’coon endeavoring to hide himself from inspection by dodging round the topmost branches of a tree at least one hundred and fifty feet high. But it was of no use. The in- exorable sharpshooter brought his deadly rifle to bear upon him, when the sagacious old ’coon hung out his flag of truce, and demanded a parley. ‘‘Is | that you, Captain Scott 2” “Yes, sir.” ‘Captain John Seott !” s, that’s my name.” ‘* Well, don’t shoot, captain—I'll come down.” It is an old story; but it has a most admirable application to the case in hand. The infallible rifle of Captain John Scott never more completely covered the mark than does the letter of Captain Robert G. Scott, of Virginia, ad- dressed to the democratic candidates, individually, on the finality of the Fugitive Slave law. It meets the issue exactly—it admits of no dodging—it leaves not aloop-hole of escape. It reduces the question to this practical text:—Will you, if elected Presi- dent, maintain unimpaired the provisions of the Fugitive Slave law, even to the extremity of veto- ing any act of Congress which may be passed during your administration, which shall weaken or repeal the effect and intent of the provisions of that law?! This is exactly to the point—it anticipates the designs of the Northern agitators—it meets them upon the threshold, and requires of every man aspiring to the White House that he shall show his hand—whether he is for peace or war—for good faith or treachery—for the constitution or the higher law---for the Union or disunion. It has recently been given out that, after Gen. Scott shall have been nominated by the Whig Na- tional Convention, he will define his position on the Compromise measures. We presume, from his ex- traordinary precaution thus far, against any com- mitment on the Fugitive law, that the position which has been prescribed for him is this:—That he be- lieves, in the lump, that the Compromise measures have happily allayed the dangerous excitement which existed between the two sections; that these measures, including the Fugitive Slave law, are the Jaws of the land, and that, as such, if elected Presi- dent, he will, according to his constitutional oath» see that the said Jaws are “ faithfully executed.” Now, we apprehend that this, or someth‘ng like this, | is the dodge intended for General Scott, not before, | but after, he shall have received the whig nomina- tion. The dodge, too, is quite plausible. What more can you ask of the President on this fugitive question than that he will see the law “faithfully executed.” If he does that, what are his private opinions to us, that we should attempt to choke | them out of him? Surely, for the sake of harmony | | | wi g Will be found bold enengh and honest enough , by mixing up. little fetion with it and working it Money, in aid of railroads connected with their Tus Sranien GOVERNMENT AND THy BrANtstt to put Captain Ecott’s questions to General Seott— | into # novel, he might send it to the pious Harpers, particular localities and interosts. It is calculated | Pxass.—By the last aecounts from Europe, we pers* and not only to Scott, but to Webster and Fillmore aleo—rome whig whose general charaeter and repute tion will call for areply. We have no faith in the Whig Convention. Seward holds the majority there, be- tween his finger and thumb. But we do veri- ly believe that some Union whig will put the Scott letter to Beott and his two rivals, and that they may answer it, in some way or ether, before or after the Whig Convention. We do not, however, Pelieve that General Scott will come up to the mark. He will probably say, if he says anything, that he must judge of the legislation of Congress as it transpires— that he cannot undertake to restrict the freedom of the legislative department, by pronouncing any veto in advance of its action—that tho constitutional re- servation of the veto wasintended to follow, and not to precede, the action of the two houses. But as all such equivocations will be tantamont to taking sides against the rigid maintenance of the Fugitive law, whatever policy he may be persuaded to attempt, his position must be either for the agita- tors or for the law. ‘The democratic candidate will take the Geld pledged to maintain inviolate this compact between the North and the South—this constitutional compact, if you please. Gen. Scott will be put forward without any eatisfac- tory declaration, either for him or by him, on the | veto question, what will be the result? Possibly, in their mad-fury, all the abolition cliques and co- teries ef the North, of all stripes and shades and colors, may rally upon Scott, and, together with those whigs of feeble principles, more intent upon plunder than anything else, they may possibly olect him. Such an event would be the signal for seces- sion and disunion, for there would be no longer any safety to the South in the Union. The only escape for the South from Northern incendiaries and ser- vile insurrections—the only hope of safoty, with their social institutions, their property, and their lives—will then be, in good season to leave the Union, whatever may be the known or unknown hazards of that desperate extremity. On the other hand, if the Union men of all parties, of the North, shall make the Compromise candidate their man, against the combined forces of the higher law, then Seward and his abolition allies will be crushed, and effectually crushed, in the coming election, for the next twenty years. Now, where is the Castle Garden Union Safety Committee? What are the real intentions of the Fillmore an@ Webster Compromise men of this State, and of other Northern States, in the event of the nomination of Gen. Scott without a platform—a visible and self-supporting platform on the fugitive question? Are they for principles, or are they for plunder? Are they quite ready to join the anti- slavery cliques, and to rally the power of the North to their utmost exertions, against the constitutional rights, the cocial institutions, nd the domestic peace of the South? Are they willing, after all their late professions, to connive at any Seward dodge that may be attempted at Baltimore? We have our misgivingsthat they are. But, above all, are the Southern Union whigs disposed to be a party to such @ game? We trust not. They, at least, can no longer evade the clearand simple issue made out upon the finality of the Fugitive Slave law. We repeat, that the thanks of the country are due to Mr. Robert G. Scott, of Virginia, for his simple and efficient plan of bringing out the democratic candidates upon this fugitive question. It falls like the shock of a galvanic battery upon the Seward party in these latitudes. Let the Democratic Con- vention follow it up, and let us have a fair fight be- tween the constitution and the higher law. A New anp Cuntous Paasz oF THE ANTI-SLAVE- ry Socrery.—There are many curious phases of anti-slavery that never see the light. It is only now and then that we happen on a shining placer. We stumbled by chance upon one, in recently reporting tho proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Society; and the case of William Johnson, reported in the HERALD yesterday, who was sentenced, in the United States District Court, to State prison, for three years, for passing counterfeit money, is an- other rich vein in the abolition gold mine. The convict was secretary to the Vigilance Com- mittee of the Anti-Slavery Society. He was an English emissary, or represented himself to be so. He joined the church, and becoming exceedingly pious, qualified himself for the office he so admira- bly filled. He soon became distinguished for his zeal, dexterity, and success, in sending fugitive slaves, by ‘‘ the under-ground railroad,” to Canada. But while engaged in this holy vocation, he com- | in the whig party, and for the sake of the spoils, | (fifty millions a year,) you cannot demand anything { more of General Scott than a faithful execution of | | the law. This pledge would, doubtless, prove to be | | satisfactory to the whig party, with the democrats | occupying similar ground. And to conciliate the | Van Beren and other available anti-slavery ele- | ments of the North, there was reason to fear that | the Democratic Couvention would go no further; , and that thus the most critical and vital issue | which hae agitated the country for the past thirty years, would be left wide open for agitation, modification and repeal, and for the consequent | revival, to tenfold bitterness, of the late perilous excitement between the two sections of the Union. It very often happens that the greatest discoveries 1 i bined with it another of an earthly nature, for which his calling before he became a saint eminently qua- lified him. He was a silversmith; and while en- gaged in stealing the property of others, he con- luded he would turn his old trade to account in counterfeiting money, and employed the fugi- tive slaves to pass it off'¢n route to Canada, but chiefly among the green Britishers, as soon as the slaves crossed the line. He has been engaged in this profitable and thriving business for a length of time. He has eent away probably one hundred slaves, and has passed through their agency some $50,000 of base coin—recciving from the Anti- | Slavery Society good money, and giving the fugi- ives that description of money—for which he was dicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the good and distinguished | Assuming, on the other hand, that | | are the results of the most trivial accidents, and / State prison. The best of the joke is, that the that the simplest plan of overcoming a great ob- | greater portion of it has been circulated among the stacle escapes the scrutiny of wisdom, and science, | anti-slavery zealots in Canada. We would advise and persevering inquiry, for years, until some lucky | our readers there to have a sharp look out for the 1 Webster especially. | enrolled Judges Story and Wood- | Mr. Webster was compared to | Read the re- | genius hits upon the secret by accident or intuition. The tublime theory of the laws of gravitation we thus owe to the fulling of an apple upon the head og Sir Isaac Newton—the application of steam to ma- chinery is thus attributable to the accidental ob- servation of Watt of the force of the jet from atea- kettle; and the idea that the East Indies could be reached by sailing due west, gave a new world to ‘pain and the Pope, but ultimately to the Anglo- axon race. Jt is also related that when Co- | lumbus, on one occasion, was seated at dinner with | a number of wise old fogics, they taunted him by | saying that the discovery of America was no sur- | prising matter, after all—it was so large that he | couldn't miss it. Columbus asked them to set an | egg upon either end on the table. They could not do it. He then took one, and tapping it until the | <kell was broken suffieiently to form a good foothold, | ivstood plumb and firm. Any of them could do it | alter that; but the wonder is they did not find it out | before. So with this letter of the immortal Captain | Robert G. Scott. It covers the ease exactly—it meets | the issue precisely; yet it isas simple as the secret | of making an egg stand upright; and the wonder is, nobody thought of it before. Captain Scott brings | General Seott down fi the tree as quietly and quick]. stor did the ‘coon of the fo! as his ‘This hit is the more surprising when we consult the | recedents upon this question of slavery, for ques- tioning Presidential candidates in advance of their nomination. It was upon his pledge of “inflexible ility ’ to the abolition of slavery in the District | of Columbia, by act of Congress, that Martin Van Buren was elected in 18386; General Darrison was elected upon some such pledge in 1540 ; in 1544 Mr. Clay avd Martin Van Baren both gave their opinions in writing, on the Texas question, months in advance of the national convention of either party. Mr. Polk, too, in endorsing the resolution of the democratic convention, in favor of the annexation of Texas, joined the distinetly, and was elected. In 1843 General Taylor was elected with- ont pledges; but he was a minority President, and issue purity of all silver that passes through black hands in future. Johnson is not the only worthy connect- ed with this lawless organization, set on foot to subvert the constitution of the United States. There are other individuals, as holy and respectable and adroit as he, who are now engaged in the same pious frauds. He has been caught—their turn is to come next. Johnson was not only a sanctified man, and a man of good character, but he was able to prove it on the trial. He was sworn to be a highly religious man; and so he was, as religion goes. There are many very like him—he is but the type of a class There is one melancholy result that will flow from this denouement. The conviet was a warm supporter ofthe Tribune, and furnished it with all the in- formation that appeared in its columns in relation to the operations of the underground railroad. Of course, during his sojourn in durance vile, the Tvi- dune will be without that inteiligence—an omission which will be very lamentable for the reader. There is, however, one hope. It will be recol- lected that Governor Hunt a very short time since considerately released the slave of Mr. Thomas two s before h imprisonment expired at Sing Sing, under a sentence for larceny, in order that he might escape to Canada, It is possible that if the anti-slavery men exert themselves, the sentence of Johnson may be remitted by General Scott, when he is President of the United States, not two days before its expiration, but two years, and perhaps more; and, shedding a shower of croco- dile tears of repentance for the past, the culprit may be taken into fayor once more, and, like Lola Montes with the sainte of Boston, stand higher than ever in the e#timation of the brethren, black, white, and gray. In that event he will again have peculiar access to the traffic of the underground railroad, and he can des- pateh bulletins of all the particulars to Greeley. Meantime, we would snggest that, after the ex- ample ¢f the pious and famous Dr. Dodd, who was | hanged ia England for the perpetration of forgery in order to raise money for charitable purposes, he | clipped in between Cass and Van Buren. No whig candidate can expect such @ streak of luck in 1952, | » same trick over again with Genera! Scott. The Fugitive law demands a simple ay or no. Will you sland by the law, or by the agitators? Sak out, like a Now, we verily believe that sey? 8969 aruinous yenture to t Jt will} | ( write a serioa of letters under the title of Prison Thonghts,” and furnish these lucubrations, as ho indites them, to ¢he abolition journals, and when they are coneluded, i:¢ can print them in pamphlet form at the office of the vening Posi, and have it cireulated by the news age * and colporteure of the Anti-Slavery Bociety, for the gd of the cause; or, who would bring it eut with illustrations. It might, perhaps, beceme as popular as “My Unclo Tom’s Cabin,” by Mrs. Beecher Stowe, and ay hu- | erative a speculation as coining itecli. | ‘Tae Orerarion oF THE Maine Liquor Law in terest to inquire what the effect of its operation will be, and what clasees will suffer most by it. | ‘Those who have invested their capital in ite manu- ' facture, and wholesale and retail dealers, with the hosts of men in their employment, and the furmors who furnished the raw materials for the production of fermented and distilled liquors, will all eustain | Joss, more or leas, by the change. Moderate drink- ers, who, following the direction of St. Paul, “took a little wine (brandy, rum, er other etimulating | drink,) for their stomach sake, and their often in- firmities,” will suffer in their health; while a very large class will be deprived of their accustomed en” | | joyment of a “drink” at the bar room, or their | wine at dinner, or the convivial glass around the | domestic hearth. This class, perhaps, will not, on the whole, sustain any positive loss in health, or money, or property, by the withdrawal of those liquors in which they indulged to a limited extent, and without any injury to their constitutions ; but being used to the indulgence, they will feel it as a great deprivation, and as a most arbi- trary and tyrannical interference with their personal rights and liberties. They will feel that it is too bad that, because one per cent of the population make beasts of themselves by intemperance, the ninety-nine should suffer inconvenience, or be sub- jected to restraint, particularly as drunkenness is n sort of half moral, half physical disease; and if deprived of the intoxicating medium in one form, must have it in another—the.reformed drunkards, picked out of the gutter, either dying off like rotten sheep for want of the charm of ‘the hair of the mad dog that bit them,” or gratifying their inaa- tiable craving for stimulants in the use of opium or some other drug more deadly in ite effects than even brandy or rum taken to excess. This large class of moderate drinkers will not pull very emoothly in the teetotal harness forced upon them by the fanatics. Again: Men of every class, except the infatuated teetotallers, have been in the habit of taking brandy in this climate, under certain circumstances, as a preventive of disease and death. In regions where fever and ague abound, it is a specific, and infallibly drives off the disease if taken when the first chill is coming on. In the intense heat of summer, men who are exposed to the sun in out-door employment, often fall vic- tims to the ignorance and imprudence of drink- ing cold water while their blood is at fever heat. The admixture of a little brandy, whiskey, or rum with the ice water, obviates the danger. All these and other advantages of the moderate use of fer- mented and distilled liquors, are swept away by this new ism, without any compensating advantage arising from the innovation. Lastly, the watering places of Massachusetts and Rhode Island will be utterly ruined by the Mainelaw. The classes who frequent these haunts may be divided into two—invalids, and those who go for pleasure. The first often find it necessary to take something stronger than water to sustain their sink- ing frames; and the second, ‘going in” for enjoy- ment, must have it, by hook or by crook. Both classes will, therefore, eschew Cape Cod, Nahant, Plymouth, Lynn, and above all, Newport—once the resort of the gay and the fashionable, but hence- forth doomed to be deserted like “‘acity of the dead.” In future, the visiters will betake them- selves to the watering places of the States of New York and New Jersey—Saratoga, Niagara Falls, West Point, Lake George, New Lebanon Springs, Sharon Springs, Litchfield Springs, Cape May, Keyport, Long Branch, Schooley’s Mountains, Fort Hamilton, Bath, Coney Island, Flushing, Glon Cove, and a number of other places on the two shores of Long Island. Already the people of Newport are preparing for @ general breaking up. The wholesale houses are selling out, because whatever liquors are found on their premises when the law comes into effect, will be confiseatcd; and the root beer and sarsaparilla men, and the manufacturers and venders of various drugs more poisonous than ‘‘Jersey lightning,” “blue ruin,” or any such plain, simple drink, areon the qui vive, ready tomake hay while the eunshines, and take the spare dollars and cents of the former customers of the rum ehops. In a single number of a Newport paper, we find the following curious ad- vertisements :— MAINE Law. Be it remembered that the reign of terror, stave-in- head, and tyranny, sanctioned by the congregated wisdom of our masters, is to commence in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, on Monday. July 19, 1852. Now, therefore, in consideration of the high t which we entertain for our numerous customers—including a large portion of the worthy and considerate Sons and Daughters of Temperanee—we have the pleasure to in- | fom than that we have on hand an extensive and choicely relected steck of pure liquors and delicious wines, “worthy of praize,”’ and suitable forall the various purposes for which they are used—medicinal, mechani- cal, artistical, convivial, &e.—which we shall continue to reil until it becomes # eriminal offence, at low prices, in quantities and packages to suit the requirements of all sensible people for twelve mouths. We pledge the most strict secrecy to all friends of the Maine law, who can purchase of us in large quantities, with perfect con- fidence, that they need not apprehend a plethora of friends and suckers during the famine. All respectable, honest poor people of this town, whose consciences are not troubled with this most ridiculous “humbug,” shall have their wants supplied “without money and without price,” two days before liberty is surrendered to folly, fanaticiem, hypocrisy, seliisbness, and vinegar-faced reformers, in this glorious land, where naught but justice, freedom, cheerfulness. and generosity should dwell. “Can such things be?” Newport. May 11, 1852. NEWTON BROTHERS. MAINE LAW. ‘The subscriber is now prepared to supply, as usual, | hotels, storekeepers, and private families, with bottled soda water. root beer. and sarsaparilla mead, a healthful and invigorating beverage, free from all stimulating in- gredients, and in perfect compliance with the Maine law, AIL orders left at the subseriber’s will be punctually sup- plied every morning from our wagon. RIDER'S, 171 Thames street, DR, LANGLEY'S. root and herb bitters, just re- ceived and warranted fresh and genuine, by RR. HAZARD & CO., Apothecaries’ Tall. GREENE'S celebrated oxygenated bitters, a sure cure for dyspepsia, ast nd general debility—a fresh sup- ply this day received. by ©.G. © HAZARD, Agent, next north of post offiee. ‘The next thing we shall have to record in relation to Newport, is a list of advertisements of ‘hotels to let,” which will be taken, if at all, at a very reduced rent, and probably turned into manufactories of oxygenated bitters, sarsaparilla, reot beer, and soda water. There will be, hereafter. a complete social | revolution among the watering places, hotels, rail- roads, and publie places of resort in the two States of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, caused entirely by the tyranny of the new Liquor law. Ramroad Movement ov tHE Day.—The pro- gress of constructing and opening railroads in this country, at this moment, is of the most extraordi- nary character, and is withont a parallel in any country, except a similar movement in England a few years ago. On the day before yesterday, a vote wa® taken by the people of Albany, for the purpose of pledging their credit, to the amount of a million of dollars, in order to raise money for the assistance ef one of the lateral railreads leading into Pennsylvania; and the question was decided in tho affirmative, by an immense majority of the people—a majority of nearly five thousand. The city of Albany has dealt outits credit, on former occasions, for similar works of internal improvement; and the liberality with which, in the present instance, its inhabitants went to the polls and voted in favor of a fresh debt, is only an ovidenee of the extraordinary momentum which is now urging the public mind and the public instincts in favor of all sorts of works of internal improvement, but particularly of railroads. Formerly, State credit was alone brought out in support of the construction of canais and railroads; but during the last two or three years, cities, towne, ad counties, in all the central and middle Statee, New ENGLAND.—The Maine Liquorlaw having now | passed, !oth in the States of Rhede Island and | Massachusetts, it becomee a matter of public in- | that nearly two hundred towns, cities, and counties in New England, New York, Ohio, and othor western | States, have, during the last twelve or eighteen months, raised, in different sums of money, an amount equal to forty or fifty millions of dollars, im the shape of bonds sold in the market, fur the purpose of aiding and assisting in these railroud enterprises, And yet this vast movement is only in its commence- ment. New England, at this moment, is nearly covered with a web of railroads in all directions, | New York is rapidly following in the same course. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Western States, are run- ning the race as hard and rapidly as they can receive the money for city, county, and town bonds, to be sold in the New York market at any and at every price. According to the most moderate estimates, the whole amount of capital which has been already raised for the construction of canal works in the United States, probably approximates nearer to four hundred millions of dollars than to any other sum. We have said that this movement is only in its commencement. It certainly is only beginning to attract the notice of the other classes of the commu- | nity, and particularly of all those who will have to pay, ultimately, the interest and capital of these dis- bursements. The increase of these enterprises—the vast extent of the lines—the rivalry sometimes be- tween lines and rivers and lakes—evidently prove that although many of the railroads now in process ofconstruction, will be hereafter valuable property, yet numbers of them will be utterly useless as in- vestments for money, and will endin ruin to the stockholders and bondholders who are involved in them. These railroad enterprises, of all kinds, un- doubtedly add much to the value of the property in the country through which they run—probably more than the amount originally expended in the roads themselves;—but the stockholders, and some- times the bondholders, by whose enterprise and credit, and capital, the roads are constructed, are very frequently the losers, and the other classes beeome the recipients of the benefits and profits of tho line. Tho indiscriminate rush of the pre- sent day, in favor of all railroad enterprises, re- sembles, in a great degree, the mania of a similar kind which prevailed in England a few years ago, and which ended ina terrible railroad convulsion, the effectsof which are felt in that country to this day. We must expect that the same mania will preduce, to some extent, the same consequences here ; but the time is not yet come, nor is the fruit ripe, for a decided revulsion in these matters. This country has prospered of late years beyond all former periods of its history ; the seasons are generous, th® mines of California are abundant, our foreign and domestic commerce increasing, our population aug- menting every ycar, both in the natural way and by emigration; and the sources of our prosperity are the most remarkable in their character that ever were before exhibited in the history of the world. These elements of success may prevent or delays very aggravated species of revulsion in the railroad, or any other mania of the day. But nothing can prevent a too great expansion, in any particular line of business, from creating a reaction of some kind, sooner or later. So look out in time. Inripgt Pariosoruy np “Isus.”—We pub- lished yesterday a report of the somewhat remarka- ble proceedings of a clique of infidel philosophers, who arein the habit of meeting in a public room in the city, every Sabbath evening, and there discuss- ing and enouncing ideas on religion, infidelity, agra- rianism, socialism, Rochester knockings, and all the equally interesting “isms” of which the present time is so productive. The subject for last Sabbath was ‘Man and his Destiny;” and the lecturer and prominent debater on the occasion was a pretty, ro- tund lady, of a certain age, named Mrs. Fanny Lee Townsend. She took care to state explicitly, for the benefit of her auditory, that hor mind was not cramped by any of the popular superstitions of the age, as to future existence, human responsibility, Christ, or his religion ; but was, in fact, an infi- del in the widest senso of the term; and further, was one of the lights of tho socialist community who claim the right to appropriate to themselves the public lands. She brought down the authority of Moses and Christ te sanction her own sentiments on that head. The latter she denominated as a ‘land reformer,” who had directed the people to gather what they wanted. She did not wanta “home eternal in the heavens;” but she wanted one here, and should have it. Neither did she care about the hell of the next world, though she did about the hell of this. Her only Bible appeared to be the Tribune. The only prophet, or evangelist, in whose incoherencies she had full faith, was the Hon. Horace Greeley, and we might add, judging from the exhi* bition she mado of herself, that ‘ folly’s all they’ve taught her.” The lecture room in which these edifying doc- trines were propounded, has been for several months back an academy, or temple, attended every Sab- bath afternoon by some half hundred men and boys, and used forthe ineulcation of infidel notions of all kinds, and the propagating of ‘ isms” of all descrip- tions throughout the city and country. It is now about twenty-five years since the first attempts were openly made, in this city, to establish journals de- voted to infidel philosophy; and the progress of that movement has had many variations and many phases since that time till the present day. At first, such attempts created nothing but disgust and hor- ror in the mind of the rest of the community, in all quarters of the country, but particularly in New England, which was then considered the head-quar- ters of the good, sound, old fashioned religion of the Bible. Of late years, however, it seems that a great, society, as well in New England as in New York, and gome places further south and west. Journals of large circulation have been established, pretend- ing to all the virtues and morality of the day, which, pure philosophy and merals, have been sapping atid undermining the religious notions of the people, introducing a new code of morality of the most atro- cious kind, and expunging all those anciont idea* of honcety, propriety, and virtue, through the iaflu- | ence of which, mankind has been brought to the high | state of civilization in which we live. Those de- appellations, and appeal to different sentiments of the human mind. tionalism, transcendentalism, socialism, Fourrierism, abolitionism, Rochester teetotalism, Bloomerism, woman's rights, and all those ultraisms which pervade society at the present day, are all so many efforts to attain the same end, namely, the subversion of true Christian principles, and the infidelizing of society. But the aiders and abettors of this iniquitous scheme are not confined | to the laity, but, perhaps unconsciously, the clergy themselves are in the foremost ranks of those who Dosiege tho strongholds of morality and religion. It is generally considered that one half of the Pro- testant clergy of New England and New York are ity in the shape more of a German than a French origin. These new religionists class Moses, Mahomet, Confueins, Aristotle, Christ, and his Apostles, in the same category, and look on them as entitled to no more respect or consideration than themselves. Most of these religions infidels, as thoy may be call- ed, who applied the term Messiah to Kossuth, on his first appearance hero, consider themselves each, in his own circle, a sort of Messiah of the same kind. yen the women who are concerned in this scheino of social revolution, make some strange and eure movements against all the p respectable doctrines of Christianity, as taught for centuries, and are, somet nes, the most violent, most ultra, and most ow ous in theirsentiments, ae is evinced by the doctrines put forth by such visionaries as Mrs. Townsend. Jf these see are to be considered the preoursds of the millenni- um, we have no desire to hurry on thre pdvent of that | {he later ment have Seely granted their credit for Jarge rume of | * good time coming.” 4 gaat change has taken place among large masses of { under the specious guise of inculeating all sorts of | | destructive principles are disguised under various | | knockings, spiritual communications, agrarianism, | deeply infected with the transcendentalism, philo- | sophy, and socialistic notions of the day—an infidel- | ust all the pure, simple and | ceive that the Spanish government in Madrid hayo determined to suppress entirely the Diaro de la Marina, published in Havana, and to withhold the subvention given to the Cronica in this city. Wo suppose, if the Spanish Ministry could effect it, they would stop the Cronica here, too; but not having authority in New York, they can only withhold their money, which they think will operate the same az suppression by the censorship. The reason given for this singular policy towards these journals is, that they have been so violent in respect to the Cuban question, and particularly so severe on the United States, its government, its citizens, its press, and its all. Now, we have a word to say on this point. What policy is there im the Spanish government showing so much sensitive- ness to the management of these two Spanich journals, whenthe American government, people, and press, are perfectly satisfied with them? We always like to read the tirades and aimusing pieces of violence in both these journals, and we should mies them very much from our exchange list if the one should be suspended in Havana, and the other be forced to give up the ghost for want of provender in New York. The Spanish government migealoulates and misunderstands this country. The violence of these journals towards the United States never produced a single ripple, and hardly a single reply. They served as mirrors, useful in their day and generation, in. which we could see whether our conduct was right or wrong by the violence of their attacks and the peculiarity oftheir commentaries. We hope anid. trust, therefore, that the Spanish government will recall its decree against both these journals, and al- low them to go on in the usual way. We cannot afford to part with them so easily. The truth of the matter is, wo suspect, that the Spanish government has been taking into consider- ation the position, destiny, and security of Cuba; and that—under the good sense and influence of Queen Christina, who is considered the owner of that island—they are preparing the way to dispose of the gem of the Antilles to the United States, at eighty or a hundred millions of dollars, or as much as they can get. They want to smooth the way to a good bargain, and are doing everything for that purpose to conciliate the good feoling of the Ameri- can people, and draw forth a high price from the American government. The sudden removal of General Concha—the arrival of a new Governor in Cuba—the suppression or disapproval both of the Diario de la Marina and the Gronica—hitherto so very savage against the American people and go- vernment—are all parts of the same grand echome,, instigated by Queen Christina, for the purpose of getting the best price for Cuba at an early day. That beautiful diplomatist has found out that she can make more money by selling the island than by the revenue she could hope to receive from it here- after. She has a number of very fine young daugh- ters, who want large fortunes ; and the sale of the island to the United States, for a hundrod millions of dollars, would enable her to marry them off to gome of the princes and royal bloods of Hurope, with great éclat and splender. Tar Annva Rerorr or tae Tex GovERNoRs.— We have received, at Inst, a copy of the long due and long expected annual report of the Governor: ofthe Almshouse. After all the preparation and all the delay, we look in vain for any elucidation’ of the points we submitted to the attention of the board in relation to expenditure—the vastly in- creased expense of each inmate—the tremendous increase of salaries, and the shocking increase of brandy and wine in the hospital under the tectotal regime. The report, though making a large volume of words and figures, is so dark upon these and other points, on which information is very desirable, that we are forcibly reminded of the saying ot Talleyrand—that language was given to man tocon- ceal his thoughts. We may, however, take au early opportunity of supplying a few notes and comments, which will have the effect of throwing light upon the whole subject—as well upon thing: unreported, as upon those that have been given to the public in such a mysterious manner as only to make the ‘darkness visible.” Moantime, let us be thankful for the few items of real intelligence furnished in the report, which are like two or three grains of wheat in a bushel of chafl—which must be all winnowed to find them—or half a dozen grains of gold ina mass of quartz rock, which re- quires the operation of the crushing machine tv extract them from the rubbish. We learn, then, that within the year ending 31st December, 1851, there have been admitted to the institution 2,783 persons; that 2,535 have been dis- charged, and 203 have died. The number in the institution on the 31st December, 1850, was 1,504; the number now therein is 1,349, and the average number supported has been 1,186. The not ea” ~ penses forthe year amount to $30,881. The whole number of persons admitted during the year was 2,783. The total discharged was 5 535, Of the number admitted there were, of Ireland... ae Scotland... Natives... 850 Tt will be thus seen that more than three-fourths of the whole number supported in this institution are born in foreign countries, and probably three- fourths of the natives are children of foreign parents who have died or abandoned their offspring. The Tarf. Union Course, L, 1—Trorrinc.—A most enpital trot came off yesterday afternoon. between Lady Brooks ant Pet, for @ purse and stake of $500, which was won by the m after five closely contested heats ; and taking inte consideration the number of races whieh she has beer | engaged in this season, und particularly the two iil: | race on Monday with Tacony. they stamp her as ene 0 | the best nage that ever appeared on the track. Long Island now presents a most charming aspect Spring having been unusually backward. vegetation wa- | for a time retarded; but within afew weeks it has quick. | ened wonderfully. "The grass has grown at a rapid rate~ the crehards have leaved out, und are now in fuil bloom while the brilliant hu ountless flowers add beauty to the landscape, A ride on Long Island is « pleasaut yeereation. and a drive over the various plank roads truly delightful, The great increase ef the population in this city. and the crowded state of the avenues, must ly put an end to riding on this island, and our i Be conips sort to Long Island for res | erent pidly on the inerease, par- ticularly so on Lovg Island. ‘Their smoothness and por fect freedom from jarring and jolting, so annoying ov | an ordinary road, commend ‘then especially to the invalid, while at the suine time, the speed of vobicle | may be increased without the slightest dang: mong the number of plank rods already compl i one to Jamaica, from Bedford; the Division leading from Williamsburg to Cypress Hills Ceme | Which will be extended to Rockaway this eumme: to Flushing ; and a most excellent one to Coney taant. | Others are contemplated. which will, as wo enid before, | make Long Island the great revort of ali persons who enjoy # pleasant ride and are in search of both healtis and Feereation, The following i Tuxspay, May 25, pur: best three in tive | ultimate cith summary of the trot ;-— hd stake $500, mile heats, in harness, §. 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