The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1852, Page 4

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Provoost, Moore, and Hobsrt,-were | be properly managed, of their ultimate euocoss; but | The Rev. Dr. Cummings on Social Reform. rectors of Trinity Church, Onderdonk was one ofits | we would first, and above all, desire to sce the ly affect the interests of all. In connection with much other interesting intelli- gence from Mexico, we to day publish the Messsge of President Arista on the opening of the Congress. Though somewhat lengthy, this dooument is well worthy of perusal. A despatch from Philelelphis chroniclee the ar- rest of a conductor of the express train on the Baltimore Railroad, named Comegys, cu a charge | of having been for a long time engaged in rifling the mailscf money and drafts. It is said that he acknowledges having obtained a large amount of cash upon drafts forwarded by the New York banks to Southern merchants. thousand dolla:s of the money thus obtained was found in his possession. Read the report of Mr. Field’s argument, before the Committee of the Common Council, on behalf of the applicants for a railroad in Brordway. There is nothing like being well posted up on all sides of the question. The court martial on Capt. McLane sat again yes- terday, but adjourned till noon to-day, in accordance | with the request of the accused, who clzimed that indulgence in order to prepare a suitable defence The Board of Assistant Aldermen met, per a4d- journment, yesterday evening. The onlr interest- ing matter wae an oxplanation made by Alderman Barker, relative to the remarks he had uttered tho otherevening on Mr. Jarvis's portrait of General | Morton. We to-day publish a sketch of the very interost- | ing oration delivered in Beaton last Wednesday evening, by G. P. R. James, on the life and military history of the Duke of Wellington. Five days later advic by the arrival of the steamer United States at this port. wall, awaiting the arrival of the steamer Cortes, which left San Francisco on the 20th ult. The Progress of the Eptscopal Church: It is but sixty-two years since five clergymen and eleven laymen of the Episcopal Church met in this city and formed the first convention of a new | diocess. This was in the year 1785. Thore was then but one Episcopal parish in this city—Trinity | Church. Energetic measures were adopted to procure the consecration of a bishop of the diocess. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Provoost was unanimously elected, in the year 1786. He and Dr. White, of Pennaylva- nia, proceeded to England for consecration, whish they received in the year 1787. In June, of that | | year, on his return home from England, Bishop Provoost, in his first address to his diocess, said— “The object of my late mission, being the indepen- dence of our church, and’ the regular succession of the ministry, was of such magnitude, that its Between seven and eight | the tighest order of the clergy. The eged and venerable Bishop Brownell, of Connecticut, who pre- #ided at the late consecration, was also ono of the asistants in Trinity parish. Upfold, too, and Bishop Doane, cfficioted for some time as ministers in Trinity, St. Paul’s, and St. John’s. And we have good reason to rejeice, that when the bounty of the Church of England was bestowed upon the Hpircopal inhabitants of this city, in our infancy, @ foundation was laid for a spiritaal fuperstructure, the imposing grandeur of which every good citizen, a3 well as every Eviscop.- lian, may contemplate with feelings of religious re- verence. Long may the lift her towering spire to tho hea- vens, and long may the music of her chimes he heard, and the deep notes of her monitory great bell, that knells the departure of our fleeting hours. The Contributions for the Washington Mon- | wment at the Ballot Box—Var National ‘Testimonials, On the national clection day, the plan was re- sorted to, in several of the cities and towns, of placing at the polls boxes for the receipt of the voters’ contributions, a dime each, in aid of the erection of the Washington monument. We may shortly be expected | At last accounts, this vessel was at Aspin- | Apart from the commercial news reecived by the | happy accomplishment cannot fail of inspiring | have only seen accounts of the sums 50 col- | lected from fifteen towns; but the results are | such as give us the assurance, that if the | same mode of ralsing funds had been generally adopted all over the Union, the aggregate collec- tion would have reached a figure more than sufli- | cient to complete that national undertaking. We eubjoin the list of these’collections, as compiled from our exchanges and telegraphic despatches:— Cumberland county, Md. Westminster, Md.. 137 00 878 00 see L210 00 1747 00 Annapolis, Md. 30 00 Savannah, G 350 00 Jeffereen county, Ky niece ny 29°85 Louisville, K: 305 82 Parle. Ky 88 00 New Haven 168 00 New Orlean: 1,109 00 Griffin. 8. C...... 18 25 Wampum, Fon’ du Las county, W: 337 Queen Ann county, Md. 57 00 Kent county, Mi 85 39 Chatham county, 330 00 Total in twenty-two places. aeeeeeee se $66 It is new some five years since the erection of this monument, designed to show the nation’s respect for the memory of Washington, was commenced; and still it progresses slowly along for want of the ne- | piece of statuary. There islittle doubt, if the affair ascisfunt ministers; and now another is promoted to | Washington monument completed in # manner wor- thy of the man and creditable to the nation. All these circumstances inspire us with the con- viction that the time is not far distant when ridicule ard reproach—too well merited, indeed—shall cease to attach to us for our posthumous disregard of our great patriots and gtatesmen, and when the monu- mental records of this country shall be worthy of the high position we occupy among the nations of the earth Tue Eriscorat CLExGy anv THE RePoRrers OF tne New York Press —‘‘ A chiel amang ye takin’ notes, urd faith be’ll prent ’em ’’—We have great complaint to make at the annoyance and vexation occasioncd to the reporters representing several journals in this city, in the difficulty of procuring admission, and the want of yccommodation afforded, at the ceremony of consecrating Bishop Wainwright, in Trinity Chureh, on Wednesday morning. Our reporter being cooped up amidst crowds of peraons, ard placed inthe mos: unfavorable situation for heatirgand seeing, was unable to perform the duty which had been assigned to him, viz: to take verba- tim notes of the sermon. Waehad occasion some time since, when the Epizcopal clergy held a con- vexiionin St. John’s church, to complain of the churlith, ditcourteous, and ungentlemanly behavior of the officials, in refusing to furnish the representa- tives of the press proper accommodation, and a sight of the various reports and other documents which were read; but it seems that it has produced no effect We again sppeal to those who have the control of these matters, that on any future occasion when like religious ceremonies are to take place, that proper accommodations be afforded for the reporters; and let the Episcopal clergy bear in mind this fact, which was aptly put by a talented lecturer in this city a few evenings since, that any individual or body who comes into frequent collision with a stant attrition wea:s away adamant. Company for the delivery last evening of Albany papers, in advance of the mail Ovituary. DEATH OF THE HON DAVID HENSHAW. ‘The telegraph yesterday announced the death of the Hon David Henshaw, Ho died at his residence, at Leioes tock cold by exposing himself too much: to the weather, and this brought on a severe illness which reduced him very low. His old complaint, the gout, also set in. It is | only a short time since he returned from Europe where | he bad been for the benefit of his health, | Mr. Henchaw was formerly a merchant of Boston He was of the firm of David Henshaw & Co., which wes newspaper would certainly be overthrown, for con- | Exrnsss.—We are indebted to the American Exprees | ter, Massachusetts, at seven o'clock inthe morning He | considera’sle anxiety among all workers and dealers | ‘Trinity, ‘8 20 many love to call her, has sgain, as them to purchase for the nation this magnificent | THE LECTURE SEASON. The fourth unnual course of lectures of the Catholic Institute. was commenced yesterday evening. at the Stuy- yesant Institute, by the delivery of the above lecture by Dr. Cummings. A large and respectable aulience were prevent. the lecturer said:—Ladies and gentlemen—Ubo mari rers who from rome goodly city go down to the seain ships, may serve 88 8 fit emblem of a people jourarying in various nationalities over the ocean of life, There may De found among travellers those who look bask with re- gret to the fast receding shores of home, while others an- ticipare with delight the freedom. renown, or gold. which awaite them in sume land far uway towaras the set- ting :un Thus, rome nations seem to live wholly upon the past, seme wholly upon the future, ‘The Hebrew of old looked to the past only for a promise, Hiseyor weve strained to pierce the coming time and decigh of the firet twinkling of Jacob's rising star. Europe pasted from her mesio:val slumber aud built the temple cf wirdom from « fragmentary mass of recollec- tions Light was sought in the folds of encievt manu reripts Kings beld festivals at the discovery of a clas. fic painting. and ages wept from every eye over ® Spar ten ccinor remnant of Atheninn statuary. ‘The tone and ‘picit of Cbristian civilization is, beyond a doubt, in & gicat mewure deteumined by these iniluences, A people may sit down in the apathy of usconearn upoa the present, and. like the once powerful Ottoman emptie, allow ity nationality to become stegnant aad dead; but then its influence will be trifling for good or for evil, Our own country. in reference to #bich especially T wish to lny before you some thoughts of social reform, the faverrd (hewe'ot this age, is yet in the vigor of youth and s future before it; Fut at the same time ft has bo:rowed much from tie past in its intercourse with older Lalions. end would to God it had borrowed pothing Dnt gocd At the ramo time there is much that nceis reform in our social rystem, and this is loudly frociaimed on el) sides, and we must now make our preptrations, and gree upon our plans for the fature, or it will sion be to late The sunny regions of South America were settled and peopled by & noble Kuropean race before the Puritan pilgrims meored ther bark uader the Ply. mouth rock or the Catholic sung his Je Dewn at St. Mery’s, , Nobles and warsiors stood ia council in Mexico. relence and arts flcurished, and religion's warn- heard in Peru. Brazil and Paruquay, long ton was gathered to bis grave, or the re- volutionary cénnoy were beard at Burkers Hill. But vice bevat violence in this happy land, and disunion com- pleted tbe cocial ruin which impiety had begun. Yet in rpite cf experience, we. like the republics of old are mak. ing ute of our growing strength to introduce what caused thuir cownfall Luxury is everywhere upon the increate, apd +0 is crime, for the police records each year | prove that crime is far ureater than in the preceding yeur. ‘he pecple of Europe are ceying out for liverty. aud the great engine, rome think that will effect it is popular | government. ‘ Away with your kings ” cries the Italian ezzini; * Away with emperors,” ehouts the Hangarian, Koxsuth; “No more 1oyal'y.” erles Lediu Rolin; * We mutt and will bave a Republic, and we will nét be still until we get one.” shouts the prosaic German dewvorat, Inour country. we have never had,practioally,any thing but a republican ard popular goveroment We have enough Liberty, and yet soctal eviis exist and call for remedy. In Europe the ery is, “ Education, education.” * Tho people are only bad because they are ignorant,” cries the | centrel ccmmities in London, and the roffians at the dict at Frankfort re-echo it? In this country sehools and schoo!musters abound, and an American who cannot read is seldom to be met with One who cannot write is +t ll more | seldom, and one *ho cannot calculate, never. (Laugh:ar) | Yet our social difficulties are great aud growing; an | the most of the offences committed against society are | not. by the unlettered, but by the educated man, ‘Tarn | again to Burope, and the next cry is toleration. |“ Re'i- | gions toleration,” cries the Englishman; ++ Equal tolera- | tion.”? saya the Protestant preacher. Toleration, says the | poor peélars who are found proclaiming that the Pope and | all who follow bim are tools, The lecturer then went on to | just'y proud. | largely and successfully engaged in the drag business. For | dirouss the isms of the cay. and pointed out how injurious Humboldt and Canada, and specially reftrred to in another paregraph, the most important and iater- esting piece of intelligence to this country, is the | sutagonistic fecling with which the Eoglish joarnals | regard the prospective occurrence of any serious | collision between Spain and this goveanment, in re- lation to the island of Cuba, and the a%emp! made by them to induce Louis Napoleon to identify him- | favor. Whenever we shall reflect on this important | self with the Spanish side of the question. The | London Times, in an article which we republish, | deprecates the movements taking place in this coun- | try with an cye to the independence of Cuba, endea- vors to defend the conduct of the Captaia-General, and finally indulges in a menace, that any hostile | movement on the part of our government would in- | evitably embroil it in a war with the maritime | powers of Europe, and would prove to be the great- est act of madness of which this republic could bo | guilty. It ignores the views of the British govern- | ment in the matter, but holds up Louis Napoleon to ur eyes as the great bugbear whose prowess we | must tremble at. Now, the object and drifc of this | §s quite apparent. England, while she would regard with the most exasperated spirit our interference in the affairs of Cuba, dare not, for reasons too obvi- | ous to noed recital, declare herself the undisguised | ally of Spain against us. Her interests would co- erce her to be neutral in the quarrel, and therefore she would endeavor to incite Louis Napoloon to | espouse the side to which her sympathies lean. But | the attempt is certainly « fatile one. Louis Nepo- Jeon could never think of engaging in a war fer the mere purpose of strengthening the hands of the royal family of Spain, solacing and adding to the power of the Bourbon family, and thereby strength- | ening the legitimist party in France, He is too politic and circumspect to assume an attitude of hostility to the only great and real republic oa the | earth, with which the sympathies of the French | people are so closely entwined, as he knows that | such a course of policy would irretrievably subvert his government, ard produce a revolutionin France | which would again embroil Europe in a general | war. In this game he would be at once playing | into the hands of the revolutionary party at home, | and the autocrate of central Earope, and Louis Na- | poleon has shown too much shrewdness already to | permit the supposition of his making such a faux pas. The menaces of the Times we can afford to eontemn, but the honor of our flag, and the rights of our citizens, we are bound, at all hazards, to guard and uphold. It will be perceived that the foreiga news has | had a favorable influence on our produce markets Three thoueand bales of cotton sold yesterday at an advance of one cighth of a cent. Flour advanced all its members with the deepest gratitude to Almighty God, and to all, who, unoder Him, have, by their good offices, contributed to its success. To the English bishops particularly we are under*indellible obligations. And I cor- dially unite with you in a public testimony to them for their benevolent and paternal exertions in our era in the history of our church, they must be re- membered with honor and reverence. Let us, my beloved friends, zealously strive to make due im- provement of the spiritual priviloges which we now enjoy. Let our faith be sincere, and our lives un- | blemished as our doctrine and worship are pure and holy, and God will continue to shower down his bleseings upon us and eur church with a bountiful hand.” Among the lay members of the diocess, at that period, (1786 to 1788,) were James Duane, Marinus Willet, Johz Alsop, John Jay, R. R. Livingston, Richard Morris, William Duer, Pascal Smith, John Lawrence, John Rutherford, Richard Har- rison, Augustus Van Cortlandt, and William Samuel Jobneon, with mavy others, who were emineatly qualified to take part in devising the best mea- sures for the accomplishment of the important objects contemplated. Any one among us who is | acquainted with the public doings of the men who bore these names, need not be told that there were “giants in those days” And these ‘mighty men,” operated with Bishop Provoost and his clergy in their good work. The number of clergymen in the | dioecss had increased to twenty-three, when (151) | the Bishop was compelled, by his bodily infirmities and domestic afllictions, to resign bis jurisdiction of the diocess. The statistics for the first seventeen years repre. | sent the number of the clergy, at six successive periods, as follows:—1785, five clergymen; 1788 eight; 1792, twenty ; 1795, twenty four; 1799, twenty-one; 1801, twenty-three. During the epis- copate of the second bishop, the Right Rev. Dr, Moore, from 1801 to 1811, when Bishop Hobart was elected Assistant Bishop, the clergy increased to men of renown,” wisely as well es powerfully co- | forty-seven. In the nineteen years of Bishop Ho- | bart’s eminently sucsessful labors, the number of clergymen continually advanced, until (1830) it | reached one hundred and twenty-seven. The cbief increase, however, was after the com- mencement of the episcopate of Bishop Onderdonk, in 1830. Eight years after that time there were in the diocees of New York two hundred and forty- six clergymen, and two hundred and thirty eight parishes. In the year 1838 the diocess was di- | Vided, the thirty-one eastern counties of the State aix cents per barrel, and wheat afd corn two cents | being included within the limits of the diocess of | per bushel cach. Pork, alco, advanced twenty-five and fifty cents per barrel. Sugars were likewise | in good demand, especially for the cheaper qualities, | which are wanted fof rofining. The indication now are, that England will require a larger supply of Dreadstufis than was at first supposed. Tho stocks ! ofcotton in Liverpool and Havre were light, and the sales for the week prior to the sailing of the Canada were among the largest ever made at this | § season of the year. With large shipments of Amo- rican produce, sterling exchange must continue to @roop, and it is within the bounds of probability that Europe may again send us epscie to settle balances. Gen. Pierce, whois at present in Boston, has been waited upon by the delegation from the New York democratic committee, respecting his visit to thir city The democracy in the vicinity of Washington, held & grand jubilee last evening, in order to com- memorate their recent urparalleled national victory. Speeches were made, a torchlight procession march- ed through the streets, many houses were illumiaa- ted, bonfires blazed, cannon roared, music played, and every countenance was illuminated with happi- ness. According to the returns from Delaware, George R. Riddle, democrat, has been re elested to Congress by a majority of 111. The complexion of the Logis- lature is whig, thus rendcring that party sure of a United States Senator, in place of Mr. Spruanee, whig. It is suppored that Texas hag given a majority of about eight hundred for General Pierce. Only two Congressmen were elected in Massa- chusetts on Monday. Zeno Scudder, who was re- ported elected in the First district, lacking nine of ® mojority. The State Legislature at present | stands, nincty-eight whigs to ninety-six coalition. Four thousand bushels of wheat have been thrown | overboard from the brig F. G. Clarke, which revent. Jy got ashore on Middle Island, near Detroit Our Albany correspondent writes, that the appli- cation for an injunction to restrain the use of | Boardslee’s patent planing machine, has been | abandoned, and that it has been stipulated by tho: who applied for the injunction, to permit said ma- | chine to run forever, without molestation. While | upon the subject, we will direct the attention of those interested to the report, elsewhere given, of the proceedings in the United States Circuit Court, in gelation to Woodworth’s patent moulding planing machine. This controversy bas been productive of New York, and all the other counties being embraced by the dioceses of Western New York. Tho dividin line was formed by the eastern boundary lines of end Lewis, and the north-eastern live of the county of Jefferson. The diocess of New York, therefice, tow com- prises, besides Manhattan Island, Long Island, and Staten Island, the counties of Westchester, Rock- land, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Delaware, Greene, Columbia, Rensselaer, Al- bany, Schoharie, Otsego, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schenectady, Saratoga, Fulton, Hamilton, Warren, Washington, Exeex, Clinton, Franklin, and 8t. Lawrence. The area of the diocess was reduced by the division from forty-six thousand square miles to twenty-fou thousaad. Yet in ten years, (1843,) the clergy numbered two hundred and forty-eight; and last year, (1851,) there were two hundred and seventy nine clergymen, forty nva oandidates for holy orders, and two hundred and wwenty-four churches and chapels in the diocoss. Tho cusoni- cal collections for the episcopal fund, and the dio- | the counties of Broome, Chenango, Maison, Oneida, | ceseary means to prosecute the work with vigor. Instead ef the expense being met by appropriations frem Congress, it was entirely left to private con- tributions; and we trust that, in the direction of these, there will not be the same blundering mis- management and inefficiency shown as in the eroe- tion of the Bunker Hill monument. If all the during a long series of years, had been sent direct into the fund, it would have been almost doubly sufficient to have completed the monument; but in- stead of that, a large proportion of it was idly and urelessly squandered in ministering to the self con- ceit and ridiculous pride of those into whose hands it went. Every little temperance circle, public or Sunday school union, literary institution, and vil- jage corporation, contributed liberally towards that object. And, finally, it was finished by tho ladies of Boston. Now, the Washington monument is to be completed. Popes, Sultans, Emperors and Kings, Strange to say, have sent contributions to it, States, societies, and individuals, have forwarded blocks of marble, gold quartz rock from California, copper rock from Lake Superior, granite from Quincy, Mas- sachusetts, &e , &c., to erect a column to “ greet the sun inits coming” in honor of the Father of his Country, and of true republicanism. Money is now wanted to complete this splendid testimonial. The same sentiment which manifested itself im antiquity in the erection of pyramids, obelisks, and colossal monuments, raised to perpetuate the memo- ry of powerful kings, warriors, and patriots, or to record great national victories and events, and which has also made the cities of modern Europe a classic ground, by the countless column; erected to departed greatness, is possessed of no less vitality and force in the public mind of this nation, though we are yet too young, and have been too much ab- lic, to be able to point to many of its results. True, besides that now in construction at Washington, aud the one erected on Bunker Hill, | sorbed in consolidating and extending our repub- ary hi:tory of which that ground was the witness, we have in Lexington and Concord, where the first struggles of the revolutionary war commenced, memorials of the events; and Baltimore possesses so many similar testimonials as to have acquired | for it the cognomen of the “Monumental City.” But still they do not constitute such testimonies of our national taste, in that respect, and of our grati- tude to the great men whom the country has pro- duced, as to enable us to point to them with any- | thing like pride or glory. We can notice, however, a fast-growing improve- ment in public sentiment in this matter. The foel- ing, that we are behind all other nations in our monumental records, is becoming very generally diffused and entertained throughout the country, and be able to assume that proud pre-eminence in the realms of national taste which is at present accord- as a free, powerful, and enlightened people. We have now time to pause in our triumphal pro- gress, and give to tho fine arts a little of that the more useful matters of life. The cemeteries about the city—ornamented as they are with the most magnificent, costly, and elaborate monuments to be found congregated in any other city of the dead, in Europe or elsewhere—furnish evidence of the progress we have already made in this branch of the-fine arte, and of the taste and liberality which are brought to bear upon it. In the matter of na- tional monuments, too, the same growing sentiment ia manifested; and the desire is now becoming fixed and general in the public mind, that our great men | should be thus fittingly commemorated; and not | long hence, few cities in the United Statos will be cesan, the education, and the missionary funds, and | Gevuid of columns, obelisks or statues, in honor of for aged and infirm clergymen, amounted during | those whore life and services have conduced to the the your to ten thousand six hundred dollars. Thoro are eighty-six clergymen in the city of New York, twenty-two in Brooklyn, and five in Williamsburg Most of these are rectors, assistant ministers, or missionaries. It is now proposed again to divide the diocess of New York, #9 as to reserve about fourteen coun- ties of the present thirty-one, and to constitute with the remainder a new diocoss. That great benefits would flow from such a divi- sion there can be little doubt. The old diocess would yet retain a geographical area of more than eight thousand five hundred equare miles, the Bishep could more readily and more frequently visit the parishes, and the division of labor would pro- duce in ecclesiastical affairs, as it so wondrously does in temporal affairs, from the conduct of our civil government to the manufacture of a pin, re- sults not to be gs well nor as expeditiously offected in apy other manner. The prorpect that invites the efforts of the new bishop is exceedingly alluring. He has before him enough to occupy the whole mind and tax all the energies of any man. And the influence which his elevated station enables him to wield may produce glory and welfare vf the republic. Present appearances give unmistakeablo indica- tions of those results. Already subscription lists have been opened for the erection of a monument, in Boston, to the memory of Daniel Webster, and no doubt it will be such a one as will do honor to that city, and be worthy of the great man whose character it is te commemorate. It is also proposed to raige funds, by dollar contributions, for the eree- tion, in the same city, of a monument to the memory of the Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr.; and in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, @ monument is being raised in honor of the late Colonel Richard M Johnson, who distinguishad himself in the war of 1812. It has also been proposed to erect, in the city of Washington, a memorial of Christopher Columbus, for which @ beautiful design has been made by Professor Costoli, a celebrated sculptor of Florence. Columbus is, in this design, represented as uncover- ing and displaying the New World to the Old, by the action of his drawing aside the veil from the American Indian, and exhibiting him to allegorical figures, representing Europe, Asia, and Africa. The group and pedestal aro to bo of Italian marble, and forty feet in height. The amount necessary such fruits as it is the lot of few to have the privie | to be raised is $150,000. An association of gen- lege and blessedness of gathering. tlemen, in New York and Washington, has been The most venerable pariah of our city, “Old Mothers ormed, for the purpose of raising funds onable money actually contributed for that monument, | as a record of that early page in our Revolution- | gives promise that at no very distant day we will | edto us in all that pertains to our grandeur | impulse which has been hitherto entirely directed to | a long time he was a leading politician of New England, | | of the democratic school, and was called to the cabinet of President Tyler in 1843, we believe, in the capwity of Secretary of the Navy, taking the place of the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, | Those who knew Mr. Henshaw perronally speak in the strongest terms of his clearness of intellect, quick appre: hension, and entrgy of action, His mind was wonderfully acute and vigorous, and his knowledge thorough and varied. In matters of commerce, gciense, morals, and Politics, he was equally a proficient, and in conversation eminently instructive, On all questions of public polisy he was not only up to the times and their exigencies, in | feeling and sympathy, but in action, and in his death | the liberal, enlightened, and practical community, have | sustained a severe lo’s, | Personal Intelligence. INTENDED VISIT OF GENERAL PIERCE TO NEW. YORK The Democratic Republican General Committee re. cently passed resolutions, inviting Gen. Franklin Pieroe, President elect, and Mr. Wm. R, King, Vico President elect of the United States, to visit the city of New York, as the guests of the Committee, The Chairman, Augustus Schell, Eeq . and Messrs. McIntire, Barr, Francis, Dillon, and Mitchell, were appointed to convey this invitation to perform on Wednesday, the 10th inst., at Boston. The Committee had an interview with General Pierce. at the Tremont Houee, where they presented the resolutions, and a letter of invitation to him, to which he gave a yer- bal answer, accepting the hospitalities tendered to him from the New York democracy, and promising to reply soon in writing, fixing the day for his departure for the immortalized itself by the largest majority ever given for any candidate—11,137 for Pieree and King. The Hon. James Buchanan arrived in Washington, on ne ee inst, and has taken lodgings at the Irving lotel. Colonel Miller Grieve, late of the Milledgeville Recorders | is at preeent’in Washington, and is about to proceed on | his mission to Denmark, as Charge d'AMfaires of the Unit ed States. | | The Hon John J. Crittenden has returned to Wash- ington, after a brief trip to New York. Hon. Wm. R. King, the Vice-President elect. is at his reridence in Alabama, and said to be in a bad state of heelth. Arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel—IIon. James Chase, Virginia; R. W. Hartney. Tennessee; W. A. Evans But. falo; T J. Wilson. Baltimore; J. H.’ Shothen, England; J. W. Muilen. Jamaica W. I; L. B. Moody. Alabama; P.E, Tuthill. Cincipnsti; Hon. R. 1 Gardiner. Georgia; W. Arnold. New Bedford; E. Hobart, New Orleans: E Chappell, Norwieh; J. Leycraft, London; H Wecke, orton. Astor House—W. Murdock, Philadelphia; A. Dickins, Washington; Col. Beddle, W. Platt. Fitz Henry Wanen, | Philadelphia; George Coit, Norwich; Col. Baker. U.S A; JB. Jobnson. New Haven; Col J. Lock. Memphis; @ J” Abbok, Washington; J. M’ Barclay, Indiana; Thomas D. Hanns, Georgia. At the Irving FE, Bartlett, Missouri; W. Hobbs, Baltimore; Dr. Macalpin. Norfolk; U1 do; Mr. Gibbs.’ Cani B, Peck, Vermont; E, Herbert, W. Hunter, Alabama; C. W. Rockwell, Washington; R: W. Coleman, Pennsylvania, At the American—J. Ciwinn. Boston; Professor Myere, | do.; J. Root, Connecticut; Mr Naves, 97th. British army; D Felt, Fellville; A. S. Mitchell, St. Louis; A Pouzini, Richmond. At the Howard—Captain Parish. steamship Roanake; W. Parker Chicago; J.T. MeVicker. Fayetteville; J . Gileans, Wood, London; A. 8. Reles, Rath; 0, Boston; 3, | MP. Day. New Jertcy; FA Johnson. Ohio; W. A. Ogdensburgh; Gen, Spencer, St Louis; W.G, Wright, Shields, Niinois, Gen.’ James, and Goy, Thurston, Rhode Island, and James Bealea, Evq., Sergeant at Arms, forming the executive committee of the Senate for examining Custom house frauds, are at the Irving House; also the | Hon. Jerre D. Bright, of Indiana, and the Hon, M. Cooley, | of Staten Island, Military Parades. | THe Hor Gvanps—A very fine company, compored of | the workmen and apprentices employed in the factory 0° R. Hoe & Co., eorner ot Broome and Sheriff streets, pro. | ceeded to Rull’s Ferry for target practice, on Wednesday | last. They were under the command of Captaia R. 8. Bowen and made a very fine turn out. Tho following prizes were awarded by the judges:—Ist, Moseg [Hilt Bold watch, valued at $65; 2d, jompern, second watch, valued at $55; dd, Thomas Shipley, a rifle. valued | at $45; 4th. Dana Merriam. box of drawing instruments, ) valued at $40; 6th, H Baldwin, large silver enp; Oth, | William Drane, gold pencil; 7th, William flaona, a ten | on their return from a country excursion, They num- bered about forty murkets, and looked well. They were | attended by Dodworth’s band. Excelsior Fusiliers, Captain John ©. Nicoll. passed, on their return from target practice. Shelton’s band ac- companied the Fusiliers. Original White Hall Guard, Captain Griffin, with Sheiton’s band, went to the country for practice, Leary Guard, Captain James Duna. passed, on their way fom their first annual target excursion. The fol: Jowing prizes were won :—Ist A beautiful sword, won by private James Devlin. 2d. Silver goblet, by private Pat- rick Haley, Sd. Revolver, by private’ James Gregory. 4h, Splendid gold pencil, by Lieut. B, K bt Gola penell by private Michael Broderick. 6th. Gold pencil. Pee" Patrick Cain. 7th, Pair of pistols by Lieut A Ford, 8th, $6 hat, by Capt. James Dunn, Police Intelligence, Charge of Stealing a Watch and Chain—A young woman, named Elien Flemming, was yesterday arrested by offiser Gerrghty of the Bixth ward. on a charge of ste: wateh and chain, valued at $133 the proper:y of a mes ed. it seems, induced Mz, Smith to accompany her toe house situated at No. Mulberry street, where she ox- General Pierce, which duty they had the gratification to | metropolis—the banner city of the Union—which has | H, &mith. residing at No 74 Eldridge street. The accus- | they were to social reforms Pro ostantism, said bi from its nature and principles must become popularize avd must work as a political rystem. When the ching- | Ing interests and cries of the multitule tura away from & potitieal echeme once popular, Protestantiem, ton, | must turn away from it and follow the people, perkaps | in the most opposite direction, or it must perish. Una-r | Jawes the First it must assert the divine right of kings | and entire derpetixm, aud, under Cromwell assert | the divine right of rebellion, and notozious treason, | When the pulpits rosred with resistance to the govern | ment. at the time of the American Revolution, the peo- | ple liked the text, praised the sermon, and caressed the | preacher When. during the late anti slavery excitement, | the puipits resounded with similar expressions against the | government of the United States, the peopie disliked the | text aud the discourse too, and called the preacher a worlleyhend. (Laughter) The Kings and Parliament of Grest Britain found that the new religion eerved their turn in robbing the Catholic churches, colleges, and abbeys, and upheld it. Should the English people | get into difficulty, and need money to get out of it, do you think it is likely that their rulers weuld scruple trom praying upon the same revenues because they are held by a different set of incumbents ? These rulers did not respect the ancient bishops established by the grace of God; and will they accept, under similar cireamstan- ces. the statutary superintendence established by act of Parliament The trouble with Protestantism is, that | it is somewhat like a London soda water bottle. | for it cannot stand upon its own bottom. It cannot | carry on business on its own account, but must go into | partnership with soms broker, who ends by taking the petit of the Jaw or perhaps a through ticket by the earliest boat to California, But let us resume our theme, apd see if Catholicity is not a more vigorous agent to offer for the correction of social evils and abuses than | the various human systema which have passed in review | before us. To proceed with fairness in this matter, we | must notice two mistekes that are often mate; aad one | is by the enemies and one by the friends of the church, | when curveying our history and looking into our social | porition, The enemies of the church identify her with abures which are merely accidental, and her friends identify ber with abuses and embellishments which are only accessories and contingents. In history and in every day life, you may meet Catholics | whose conduct is’ rinful and scandalous; but do | you bold the church responstble for their actions? What they do is what she forbids, and what she com. mands is what they will not do. You read of institu- tions and cities where hypocrisy and viee go unbridle: | but im most cases you owe your information to some | bishop, or pope, or’ council, that interfered to cor- | rect the evil, and sought to punish the offenders, | ‘The traveller in the desert of the East, who approaches | some far famed monument of olden time, may see at | firet only the uncouth outlines of a shapelers muss, and judges perbaps that little of worth can be found in the | rude pile before himr; but. aa he draws nearer aud nearer | he is undeceived. and gazes with intense delight on the noble structures of Memphis, Thebes or Palmyra, although full proportions ate buried and partially hidden be- neath the gathering sands of the desert. Thus stands unmoved, frcm age to age, the church built by the hand of Christ, The lecturer then went on to discuss the differ- ences in doctrine and discipline, which existed between | the Reman Catholic and Protestant churches, at great length, and contended that the only mode. for the introduction of @ social reformation in this coun- try was the adoption of the religion of the for- mer churck. In bis arguments he travelled over the same pround as the every day polemical dispu- | tants on either side, and concladed thus:—If the institutions of the couniry are good they must be pre: served. Abuses have crept in and must be remedied— difficulties are ahead and must be overcome; and, I ask you. what isthe source from which this country must Grink in this inward life, health and strength? ‘Ladies and gentlemen, it isthe Catholic Church—the atholic Church atone ’ (Loud applause.) ‘The meeting then dispersed. Lecture Upon Opthalmic Medicine. Dr. Stephenson delivered a lecture upon this branch of medical and surgical pathological study, last evening, in | the bali of the New York University Medical College, The leeture was preparatory toa regular course for the instruction of students, A very large audience was pre- fent, consisting of the governors of the institution, » large number of leading practitioners, and a crowd of me- dical etudents, The reserved seats wore filled with ladies, Alittle before eight o'clock, Dr. Stephenson took his stand at the lecture desk, and raid:—In this, m: intro- ductory to a regular course of lectures on opthalmic me- dicine and surgery, 1 enter upon the task under far | more auspicious circumstances than upon the precedin occasion. and yet not without a just sense of the fearful responsibility connected with so Important an under- taking. 1 enter upon it with the more confidence from the fact that at the close of my first course, the p'lemen whom I bad the honor to address not only +ndered me a yote of, thanks, but very respectfully in- vited me to repeat the coure d the present winter. I need not stop to inferm you that, since our last meeting, ‘sc bave openedan opthalmic hospital in New York for the benefit of the pcor. Allow me to congratulate the students and friends of the institution upon the occur. rence. Before enter! upon the details of the rise and | Saw oreasee’ fo a ee ag siti | Progress of the institution, it may not be eee sliver cup; 11th, P. Dries, hat; 12th, Gilite Draher, hat; | face the institutions for opthalmte diseases in Hurcpe 18th. J, Donchoe, bat; 14th, L Rickert, oil painting. 3 some of the blessed fruits of ‘The Hamblin Gusrd, (named after Thomas fambiin o° | of fuflering humanity are some of the i | the Bowery Theatre), Captain Btovens, passed our ofioe | Phe CPIM AON at What country ean boatt of ; , yer i | Hier mimtered aout ghiy vance "mea | mere cmpieydeioted te ring God gad the case | alee rpearanen, ade eget wwe Rated. | Sohn tans ous fre eet tne grt ents | We saw eome very excellent prizes. The Guards were . A he dof amit | secompanied by Adkins’ brass band, wise perkedien by Titeac coos tis aged tether, twos. Wookley Guard. Captain George Wildey, also passed | Gi'nos to the injunctions given him by Ri The ‘aphael. profession of medicine opens a wide field for the exercise z the mupsificence foyal Westminster thaimic Hospital el eg ee pe oe) weligy im surgical practice. has labored ears, Iu i851 tuere wore 152 pationts cued, ta 3160 treated ve out parieute: and 1 woe Time wocld fuil if [ were to speak oF the le liant achievements of Saiiers Travers, Cooper, ere Veitch. and a host of others, of whom England be William McKenzie of Glasgow, amd Sir Philip Crampton Cartoichae! and Jacob of the Emeraid Tele. fhoula have honorable mention in our pro-esuting this history. The rameser our brethren ia Hrance should be honored for sole improvements sud sug- gestions in ophthsimic science But peg ara ready ise. what heve Americans done in this respect? Na~ elmost nothing; ind!vidually. a great seal With. ption of Marrnchu’etss. none of onr legirlative have manifested a ‘iveral spirit, In Massachusetts the Kye Infirmary receiver $5,060 annually from the State trearury this is noble, aud as it shovld be. docs not. New York make an appropriation worthy of the Empire S‘ate! It is trueshe has given some aid to the New Yors Esc and Ger fafizmary. but the managers have principslly depended pen Bs enations of private indi- viduals for its support > 4 small appropriation from ,the Corporation of New York. This _iustitution has been in active operation for tase pea and io it the jiate Dr & J Rogers, and survivin; colleague, d-livered the fist course of lectures oa opthelm‘c medicine ever given in this city A for our ip-titution was obivined upon the 2's; of 1852, ond the hospital was o,ened upon the 25th of May Jast. upon which eccasion an address was deliveced by our estecmed President the Gea. 0, 8. Woodbull It has Deen didirated to the cause of humanity, setenc medical knowledge: During that period we mitted threo bundred and seventy patients tothe ter cf the hossital a measure of Euceess upparall < ia the history of optbatwic science. Death has already been amongst your ranks. Mr President, and removed @ MWe governor from the boepivul, by the lamented death of the late Stephen Allen. woo made a donation of $40 to the hospital shortly before planting his foot upon that ill-fated steamer With our limited means we have doue more good than any similar hospit Patriotiam should prompt our legislators to support us. as well as they do our pabiic rchoole, and o*her charitable and institutions. As phtlanchropists, men of science, and Christians, they should support us Shall our Bible So- elety distribute the Word of God to the poor in the city, and we refuse. through waut of means, to remove the im- pedimente to the reading of the Holy Book ? ‘The jearned lecturer concluded by an admonition to the medicai students to pursue their studies diligent» ly. Be was much uded throughout. We regret that want of space prevents ur giving a more extended report in fayor of an institution so deserving of private aud legislative support. The Government opes. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York. Nov. 10. 1852. I think you have been misled in the matter of goverm- ment envelopes, When I 14 for the contract, I was informed st the de» pesisakny that bids had beep received from Daitom and Worcester Mase ; from Buffalo and Albany, N. Y.; from Philadelphia and Baltimore, end other places. I was also intormed that my bid was materially the low- est, for the truth of which J refer you to the Postmaster- General cr to Mr. John Marron, bis third assistant. TI have been told by those who bid, that I cannot supply the contract—I bad tuken it too low; in answer to which, I refer to ay pene reputation. You we, I think. mistaken as to the quantity required If the public should discon‘inue the use of stamps alto- gether. it would not induce the stoppage of one sin; establishment, as Mr. George H. Bell. ope of the envelope manufacturers of this city can now fold snd gam one million of envelopes per week, which alone would more than supply the place of ell stamps consumed at this time. snd you cannot believe the public would relin- quieh the use of an article so very convenient as the }Terent postege stamps. You axe sgain mistaken as to my intention in reference to the location of my fuctory, and the interf-reace with the employment of females’ I am now in treaty with several in reference to the folding and gamming. and the Probavisity is that Mr. George H. Bell. of this olty, will fold exd gum the envelopes which will rather inerease his employcea Fome 100f as the folding. as I shall feel bound to euperin- tend, in person. there operations. ‘The paper I +ball have made at the mills of one of the first exd the best envelope paper makers in the United States, where it is my prerent purpose to have the envel- oe cut. in orger to save the cartage and freight on the shaving: or refuse, The cutting for all Mr. George H. Bell's establishment where more are cut than the govern- mext can by any possblitty require is now done, I think, bd ete men. ‘bis change, therefore, will not be ma- eral. You will see by the above that you have beea mistaken, and that I shail not materially interfere with the busi- ners of manvfacturing envelopes, or with the labor of this cr epy other city. I have been in the envelope business ever since the adoption of the cheap postege law. I was offered de- clined to purchase the machines first introduced im this country, and now I believe, in use by Bell. to which fact. and to a reputation o! ing in this city. I can with confidence refer, as an endorse- ment for the manner of securing or carrying out the contrect. I have the honor to be, respsctinlly, your. « bedient servant, GEORGE F, NESBIET, Court Caisuder=This Day. ap UATE Status Distaict Covnr.—Nos, 12, 16, 18 to 28, . 26, Svrxeae Court—Cincvrr —Nos. 889, 041, 1251. 2.060 $60 1.502. 2160, 659, 000, 205, 656, 404, 676, 748, T10, 712, Burenion Covnt.—(Two branches.)—Nos, 458. 404, 1 0334 7. 450.4 493, 513, 159, 811, 672 678, 676. 677. 578,680.” peo ea Twelve Gold and Stiver Medals awarded to ROOT, No, 863 Broadway, for his superior dagnerreotypes, a number equalled by no other daguerreotypist in country, Prize -Medal Doguerreotypes.—The first medal ever awarded for Dacuerreotypes in this country wi riven to D E GAVIT, 192 Broadway, corner of John street; he excellence of whose pictures is un: ally ack led nd whose prices are lower than any other good ‘sin the city. The utmost satisfaction given in al Vox Populi Gold Medal.—Haas’ ere reotyres. 371 Broadway, have received the gold medal vox Populi, the greatest prvof of their superiority. Storeossopio Dicvures are done in this establichment to great perfection, as well as HAAS’ ni d ori Vignette daguerreotypes, Brady, having received the Gold Medal from the American Institute, snd also other prise me- dale for years in ‘succession, ag well as the prise medal awarded in London, at the World's Pair, deoms it unneces- sary to expatiate on tho superiority of his pictures, but. fas une ae nance of the Publis te his eaperb and uorivalled collection of daguerreotypes, now exhibiting at his gallery, 205 Broadway, corner of Fulton street, id 4 Singer's Sewing Machines, within the last. fow weeks, have reosived premiums of the fires ol the American 1 Philadelphia, Mar; Btate Fair, at Indianapolis. They. are invention of the time, doing al! kinds of stitching with asto- nishing rapidity, strength, and b Call and ree $hi in operation. Principal offices—New York, 258 B tele 57 South Fourth stroot, Boston, 19 Harvard place. Fashional Clothing, so Country like this, where tho rich and dress 80 highly, san, at all times, TER'S clothing Eatablishment, 27 every article of dress can be parol able terms, the lowly Cortlandt ireots whore ‘the most reason- At the corner of Nassau and Beckman streets you can buy cheaper clothing than at any oth house in the city. J k at tho prices:—A beauti! t lining, for $6; fi coats from $3 to $6; pan aloony, $1 eg rey the original Five Dollar Suit Store, 186 Narsau strict. HENRY REGAN. ree, individus Parties disagree, sects di ala disagree, and yet all mon of f times, and in all’ place reo that th ade by GHEEN, No. 1 Astor House, fit better in the bosoms, wrist bands and collars, than any other they oan obtain in New: York. “What everybody THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN, tof Chambers streot. New York, d ‘sizon of underclo thing for gentlemen. silk, and cotton shirts and dra oravats, stocks, glores, hosiery, &e. Shirts made to order, and warranted moleskin hat fis sunerior to anythin selling at $4 aad i rein the city’ Hab Plalehere ‘Unica It where in the CoA i fo ° ‘bark TOW, 0 posite the Astor Mead fonadle; his fascinatin, superior stock rel play of fars, have [te a ¢ low pr'e mn puvistacticn to all wi is at No, 123 Ful ed Cheap Hatter, of feelings of benevolence. and I believe no body of men tre more unmindfo ot self than any other portion of 6 are more unm self than any other portion of find but little reward for their labors, frequently. except the approval of their own conscisnce. In uncing the history of opthulmie diseasos, we find the Egyptians are the first who are entitled to any claims for having paid ial attention to this department of medic @ Greeks derived much of their in- | formation, if not all, from them upon this subject. The | {mpedimente to the progress of anatomical atudy aon “4 have been the jer to their progress 9 | often the case in more modern days. ‘The Romans were | | ciety, and yet bef ine ed to recka for their knowledge, meagre as it ms Tadeo’, 26, or definite Sm tylnen 4 bead | tained until the beginning of the present century. | anatomy, bystology, and pathology of the eye, with the | true seat of vision, were not coi known until that period, In 1728 we are told that Chertelden, a tamous English surgeon, pertormed, for the first time, the opera- tion for artineial pupil. Only two hundred yoars 990, Davila French surgeon. med the operation for the extraction of cataract. e Austrians soon eclipsed the | English and French, and established their great school in the city of Vienna, ’ Here it was that the distingnished was. Indeed, no positive d th rty from his person, and w.ade off. bat Beer and Schmedt, flourished, who gave such a : rabseq(uon iy caught by the offocr. and the property | Geekied influcnce to this branch of ‘literature. They war Voneeie nn The iced was conveyed before Justios = wi a Prot tb hao hated 4 fat Cael ison m rm bate as phere ntilaed aemrnt s | Scfebeatea sche bal They diivered neatly two waded leotures, and nearly every German university. has now its Vinoreiamtthe Richmond Whi, Beetetarne. anoficial, | opthasce profesor. ‘This had an effet in England, nnd from every county in the Btate of Virginia. by which the | the Englieh Va oo #oon established hospitals in London, mejority for the Pierce and King electoral: is put | Liverpool. 1 cmap ny a andall sone impor- down af 0,516. In 1648, Cass carried the State by 1,462 | tant cities and towns London Opthalsale Infirmacy pojority was qlapiiebed im 1804, and Doctor Banders, with Dooto, ft ® spl lot sf fare, No. hate ‘he chilbren’s beaver The Proof that Genin’s Hats are the Fa- vorites of the public this seasos cedented rapidity and extent an‘ winter ety of which he offers & the BULPIN, Paris Clo ter GKO. Porium, 861 Broadway. Embroidertes, Laces, &o=—D. Ed: No. 626 Broadway, ni Houston street, regpee! the Indies to examine i received, erobraci stylosef tho seacon Al unsurpassed patterns, By much jess than the usual rat Repo) Account ‘The embcecing must be done v.2der the- ee eee ———