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Sfanitag Wispatcl).
SUNdTyTaPHIL, 5.1846.
On the first page will be found —Chapter 16 of
the History of John Tyler. Sketches of Emi
nent Congressmen—John J. McKay, of N. C.
Young Physic, No. 4 —Errors of Medicine.
The Smuggler’s Leap—A story. Roman Cam
pagna, &c., &c.
On the third page will be found a number of
Items, &c.
On the fourth page will be found—Poetry—The
Lost One. Tony Tidmarsh —A Sketch. Li
braries of Constantinople.
The Acquittal of Tirrell. —In the strong
case which the government made out against
Richard P. Robinson, on his trial for the murder
. of Helen Jewett, the counsel for the defence, re
lying on the indisposition of the jury to send a
young man to the scaffold, for taking the life of a
courtezan, boldly threw up against the complete
chain of testimony which indicated Robinson’s
guilt, the feeble and unsupported witness, Fur
long, and this man, though not ten persons in the
whole city believed a word that he uttered, the
jury rested their consciences upon, and the mur
derer escaped punishment. The defence was
simple, consisting of one lie, deliberately sworn
to in open court, and the jury were glad to shut
their eyes and endorse the perjury, in order to
save a young man who had enlisted their warmest
sympathies in his behalf.
In the case of Tirrell, the defence, though more
ingenious, was, in the eye of common sense and
common intelligence, more absurd. It tasked
human credulity, more than it was tasked by the
Furlong alibi. There is not in the books, a sin
gle case (and we defy the most patient research,)
of somnambulism, in which the subject of it did
violence to any other person than himself.
, Forty or fifty years ago, a boy was tried in
England for the murder of his master. It was
proved on the trial that the boy was a sleep
walker, and that while in this unconscious and
unaccountable state, he approached his master,
who was asleep on the bed, and beat out his
brains with an axe. The defence of somnambulism
prevailed; the boy was acquitted, and having
been a favorite in the family of the murdered
man, was taken back again by his widow. In a
few months afterwards, the boy killed the wife,
precisely as he had killed the husband, but on
being brought to trial,the jury refused to swallow
somnambulism a second time, and he was con
‘victed. Before his execution, he confessed that
both murders were deliberate and premeditated;
that some injury, fancied or real, rankling in his
bosom, as slight injuries will rankle in some
natures, impelled him to the savage butchery.
Without giving a moment’s attention to the
various phenomena of somnambulism, the rule
should be held inviolate, that until one case of vio
lence committed while in this extraordinary state
is fully established, made apparent beyond a
doubt, it should never prevail, in opposition
to the dictates of common sense, in opposition to
the requisitions of common justice. Human life
is nowhere safe, if this successful defence of
Tirrell is to be fixed as a precedent in our juris
prudence. It is only necessary for a man who
wishes to commit murder, to walk every night in
-SIT sleep, for six months, waking up and annoy
ing the inmates of his house, and thus giving
them the most uncomfortable evidence of his som
nambulic propensities, to be assured of a safe de
liveience from’the penalties of the law. It would
seem that the tender and credulous jurors, who
tried Tirrell, apprehend consequences like these,
for they say now, that other considerations, than
that we have alluded to, dictated their verdict.
But this is impossible. Mr. Choate, did, indeed
try to convert a palpaple murder into a suicide,
and to direct the finger of suspicion to the other
occupants of the house, to account for the arson,
but lame, and weak, and untenable, he knew
these positions to be, and therefore, the whole
weight of his gigantic and fruitful intellect was di
rected to the establishing of the first somnambu
lic murder that was ever heard of, and the last,
we hope.
Regarding these two cases, (Robinson’s and
Tirrell’s,) which in their incidents are so nearly
alike, and the utter perversion of every principle
of justice, in their issue, we respectfully submit to
legislators, whether it would not be better at
once, to openly licence the murder of these poor
creatures of shame, by their partners in vice,
than by a shameful mockery of justice, to place
them beyond the protection of the laws I Better
make them outlaws by special enactment, than
force judgesand jurors, with solemn oaths resting
upon their consciences and clearly defined duties
imprinted on their intelligence, to make unlaw
ful distinctions in the most awful crime, and
wicked exemptions from its penalty.
To correspondents.—lf our esteemed friend,
General Morris, will send us his military boots,
we will fill them with communications, which of
themselves give evidence that they were intend
ed for the National Press and not for the Sunday
Dispatch.
For instance : that sweet little gem of poetry,
“Lines to an unsweetened cup of tea, without
milk in it,” was intended for no other than the
General. The delicacy of the sentiment, and the
beauty of the versification, would be quite out of
place in a rude, rough sheet like ours, but in the
“ daintily stored columns” and “richly freighted
pages” of the brigadier, they would shine like a
“ good deed in a naughty world,” or a pendant of
ice from the nose of a pig, on a clear, frosty
morning in the Fall ofthe year—ear.
“ Directions for blowing the nose in polite
company.” This article, which Was evidently
intended for the Mirror, and no doubt proceeded
from one of the “ Upper ten thousand,” is of too
refined a character for our columns. The direc
tions, we are bound to admit, are of the utmost
importance to well-bred people, and we hope they
will find a conspicuous place in the “ organ.”
For the benefit of the vulgar million, we will
state, on the authority of our correspondent, that
polite persons do not now blow th ir noses with
ungloved fingers, or wipe the nasal organ, after
the bellows of the lungs has ceased its action,
with the sleeve of their coat. Are we under
stood I
“ A curious fact,” we have dispatched by our
swiftest footed devil to the. Gazette and Times,
where, we have no doubt, it will immediately ap
pear among “Scraps of Curious Information,”
which some patient laborer, weekly resurrects, as
they say out West, from the forgotten pages of
old almanacs and magazines.
J. T. T.—Really, we'cannot tell where the first
paving-stones, which were laid down in New
York, came from, but we think our correspond
ent Jrrs in supposing they were imported. We
do not know that any of the original paving re
mains. The question should be referred to one
of the learned street commissioners, who, we
understand, are trying to find out, by removing
the gradual deposites of mud, whether there is
any pavement at all in our streets.
Caution.—We assure our correspondent that
the Tabernacle is perfectly safe. Its main pillar
and prop is David Hale; and, while he remains
sound, there is no danger of a crash. For fur
ther particulars, inquire at the office of the Jour
nal of Commerce.
Lady.—Pray ask Nathaniel P. Willis, Esq.
A letter, by penny-posl, pre-paid ,will find him at
the Astor House; as he has recently returned
from foreign parts, he will be able to tell whether
the ladies of Paris have discarded a monstrosi
ty, the name of which can never find admittance
to our columns.
We are aware of the importance which ths
world and its first cousin attach to editorial de
cisions, and we are always happy to answer all
questions propounded to us. We know every
thing, and can answer any question at five min
ute’s notice. Persons writing to us in the Potta
wattomie language, will oblige us by spelling out
their words.
The Emporium, which, as the ghost of the Bro
ther Jonathan, is doomed for a brief season to
walk the earth byway of expiation for the mis
deeds committed in the days of its material ex
istence, undertakes to administer ghostly comfort
to the Reverend James Mackay, whom we re
ferred to, last week, in connection with the va
cant seat in the pulpit of Trinity Church: The
ghost of the Brother Jonathan, is so indignant at
our article that it refuses, for the present, to copy
it, but contents itself with an outpouring of angry
superlatives, that would positively shock a man
of weak nerves, and delicate sensibilities, The
poor ghost was once associated with the Reve
rend James Mackay, and knew him well, “ as a
writer and a teacher—as a man and a Christian—
as a husband, father, and friend.” Alas, poor
ghost I you knew a great deal more of him than
we did, for as you say, in your shadowy and se
pulchral type, we did not know him well enough
to spell his name correctly—for we dignified him
with the initial of a middle name which has an
existence as imaginary and unreal, as the excited
ghost which has assumed his quarrel. “ Rest,
perturbed spirit, rest;” we deal with realities,
and not with the flitting shadows of the past.
The rumor that Wm. B. Cozzens, the Native
American candidate for the Mayoralty, has with
drawn from the canvass, is positively denied,
and by authority.
“ Who is Andrew H. Mickle I” —Not to
know Andrew H. Mickle, is not to chew Mrs.
Miller’s “(fine cut.” To ask the question, which
we have quoted, is to confess that you know no
thing of the “cud;” that you are not “up to
snuff,” that you never wore a pig-tail. Put all
this in your pipe and smoke it.
Why, you can’t ask a grocer for a paper of
“fine cut,” without being provided with Mr.
Mickle’s visiting card; unless, indeed, Mrs.
Miller’s great competitor, and our old friend,
John Anderson’s prepared weed is handed out.
If all those who chew, choose to vote for Mr.
Mickle, he will be elected Mayor by a handsome
majority, but if there is a division in the ranks
of the chewers, if those who chew Anderson,
refuse to swallow Mickle, at the ballot boxes,
Mickle will most assuredly be defeated.
The Whigs have not nominated yet, and we
doubt whether they will be able to give us
a “ sweeter morsel” to roll under our tongue,
than that which Tammany has prepared for us
But we should remember that there are those
who renounce what they are pleased to term the
“ vile weed,” that they will have none of it, and
have provided a substitute in Mr. William B.
Cozzens, the popular host of the American. Too
good natives to condemn a native production, the
supporters of Mr. Cozzens only object to tobacco
as manufactured and turned out in the person of
Mr. Mickle, by Tammany Hall. They say that
the article in its natural or native state, is not of
fensive, but that in running through the mill at
Tammany Hall, it loses all its juicy sweetness,
and is, in fact, nothing more than an "oldsojer,”
in a new shape. We leave Mrs. Miller and An
derson to settle the matter at their leisure.
There is still another party in this tobacco
•quarrel, who say that the constant use of parti
zan tobacco causes such a constant expectora
tion, as to weaken the chest of the city, and
greatly debilitate the whole system ; but, though
they have called in a Taylor, we do not believe
he will be able to mend the matter.
On the eve of an election, the readers of a neu ■
tral paper always expect a political article, as it
is called. Here is our’s for the approaching in
teresting occasion. How do you like it I
P. S. Since the above was in type, we learn
of the nomination by the Whigs, of Justice Tay
lor, for the Mayoralty. We hope there will be
no more candidates in the field
Mrs. Mowatt.—This charming actress and
most estimable lady has commenced her Second
engagement in New Orleans, under herusual suc
cessul auspices. On her first appearance during
her previous engagement in that city, she was
subjected to an ordeal of no ordinary rigor. The
audience conceiving that her alledged success in
other places, was owing to the mere gall.intry due
t o the sex, and to the fact of her being born of
native blood, determined to try her on her merits
solely, and to take nothing upon trust. Accord
ingly they received her in almost total silence,
and sat for the first two acts in a sort of moody
quiet; but in the third act they began to f eel th
“ thick-ribbed ice” in their souls to melt before
the fervor of her genius, and the piece closed
with transports of applause, forming the comple
tes! and most gratifying of triumphs. But the com
pliment to our gifted fellow-citizencss .were no l
confinod to her public career. In private, her so
ciety has been courted by the most distinguish
ed ; and among the foremost to pay the homage
of his respect and admiration to his fair country
woman was Henry Clay, who as our readers
know, has been passing the winter in New Or
leans.
We hear it stated, that Mrs. Mowatt after com
pleting a second engagement in Mobile, will re
turn to this city, shortly, by the way of the Ohio
river and Pittsburgh; and that it is highly proba
ble she will appear at the Park, with Mr. Vanden
hoff, early in the ensuing month.
G. Washington Dixon, who says he is “ the
candidate for Assistant Aiderman of the Inde
pendent Reform party of the second ward,” has
issued an addres, in which he very cooly invites
patriotic citizens of other wards, to move into the
second “for one night only” in order to vote for
him, assuring them that twenty four hours’ resi
dence “secures them the right to vote and aid in
electing the Independent ticket!”
This is one of George’s practical jokes, for the
perpetration of which he has become celebrated.
No honest or intelligent man needs to be told,
that a person who, on the fact of sleeping one
night in a ward for the purpose of voting in it,
swear that he is a resident of that ward, com
mits perjury. We know that the the thing is
done at every election, but never by any man
who holds his reputation at a pin’s value.
We hope no one will understand us as object
ing to the ‘candidate for assistant Aidermen, of
the Independent Reform party of the second
ward.” We have no doubt that, if elected, he
would, redeem all his pledges, and made his con.
stituents as happy as it is possible for good men,
blessed with good rulers, to be, in this wicked
world. Still we are impressed with the idea that
Mr, Dixon can be more useful to the second
ward and the city generally, by standing aloof
from office. Exercising his ponderous influence
in a private capacity, he can do a great deal for
virtue and other things, and we have no doubt
will; but oppressed with the many cares, which
office entails upon conscientious men, we great
fear that he. would be compelled to omit his su
pervisory control over matters which all must
admit are ofthe very first importance to the com
munity. We hope therefore, that George will not
be withdrawn from the position he now occu
pies; a position which he assumed in obedience
to the dictates of his own heart, and which he
holds by a higher authority than that of the hus
tings. Long live George Washington Dixon,
the self elected conservator of the public mo
rals, and may he never be an assistant aiderman!
The Marine Court, we notice, is snugly escon
sed in the room occupied until lately by the Am
rican Institute. The immense box which the
wisdom of the . Institute used to seat
itself in on great occasions, is now the bench of
the Court, and it certainly is the biggest bench
that was ever made out of soft pine. When the
Court is in session, the spectator can see nothing
of the Judges but their heads, which seem to be
fastened upon the top of the huge pile of lumber.
The man who planned this strange affair, should
have his name placed in a conspicuous place,
above it. Such an inventive genius should be
known.
Is there no person in this city who can trace his
descent from Miles Standish, the military leader
of the Puritan settlers of New England I If such
a happy man can be found, £60,000 a year are
impatiently waiting for him. It is too bad that
such a princely income should go begging, to
say nothing of the feather it would be in one’s
cap, to establish a relationship with Standish.—
And then Rose, the wife, whose sweet face fixes
the admiring gaze of every one who looks on
Wier’s picture of the “Embarcation of the Pil
grims.”
The £60,000, Miles Standish, and the high-soul,
ed, beautiful wife, taken altogether are worth
looking after.
The number of applicants for tfie vacant place
in the pulpit of Trinity Church, has wonderfully
decreased since the discovery recently made by
some irreverent lawyer, that Trinity hasnotgo
an inch of parchreent to show her claim to the
property she holds. If the stories be true, the vej
norable mother of all our city churches, is indan
ger of being turned adrift in her old age with not
a rag to her back. In this case the reverend cler
gy will not be too anxious to hold situations un
der her. ..
The Mystery Solved.—The Mirror has at last
screwed up its courage, and confessed that tha
reason why Willis’s letters,-which were promis
ed, do not appear in that paper, is because Fuller
can't get them, Why didn’t you say this before,
man! We do not think that your readers have
sustained a very great loss. The letters which
were published, were awfully stupid, and not
worth reading below the line formed by the let
ters of their author’s name. It seemed as though
Willis wrote them against his will.
A friend in giving us a description of the cha
racter of the President of the Boston and Ver
mont Railroad Company, says, “So enthusiastic
is he in these railroad enterprises, that in five
minutes, he will convince you of the practica
bility of a road to h—l, and show you by figures,
that the doumward freight would pay all the ex
penses, and yield a handsome dividend to the
stockholders.
There is a colored association in this city, call
ad “ The Ancient Order of Romans.” It is full
of Caesars and Pompeys. The colored ladies
are associated under the title of “Ancient Daugh
ters of Ruth.” Maria Washington is Queen,
and Sarah Grundy signs herself, in a card, pub
lished in the True Sun, “queen of queens.” Be
fore reading this announcement, we were not
aware that there were any “ ancient daughters”
in the city.
Horn, the mad wag, the Yorick of our times,
is doing a fine business at his new bowling sa
loon in Broadway. While you knock down his
pins, he keeps you laughing at his jokes. Fine
exercise for body and soul.
We are-rejoiced to know that the principles of
the Thermal system of medicine are triumphing,
and that there are some men courageous enough
single handed, and in spite of the most determi
ned hostility, to advocate the holy principle of
“right.” Dr. Gale of the city of Albany, is
practising the system most successfully ; but we
understand with most determined hostility from
the Faculty, as well as the “canaille” ot the Pro
fession.
The immortalized Semuel Dickson, M. D. late
of the British Medical Staff in India and else
where, was the first to oppose blood-letting in all
its forms ; as his work entitled “ the Chrono-
Thermal system of Medicine, and Fallacies of
the Faculty,” published in London in 1836 will
testify-
Dr Dickson is the only author who has rational
ly accounted for that developement of “constitu
tional disturbance,” termed Fever, and which
constitutes his “Unity of disease.”
John Forbes, M. D. F. R. S., of British Fo
reign Medical Review notoriety, together with
all the hireling medical press of the day, oppo
sed Dr. Dickson and his views as much as in their
power; but what are now the views of this ‘self
same John Forbes will be found in No. XLI, of
the British and Foreign Medical Review. His
statements are Ist, That in a large proportion of
cases, treated by Allopathic Physicians (or those
who let blood ‘without measuie,’ and give calo
mel toe., in doses, only fit to be given by Far
riers to horses of a strong constitution) ‘ the di
sease is cured by nature and not by them ’
2ndly, In a lesser but not a smaller proportion,
he disease is cured by nature in spite of them ;
in other words their influence opposing instead
of assisting the cure.” He ventures to predict
that a. medical reform is ‘impending,” and he says
it “assuredly will come.” One of his measures
of Reform is to “discontinuance as much as pos
sible and to eschew the habitual use, without any
sufficient reason, of certain powerful Medicines
inTarge dozes in a muhitutProf diseases, -a prac
tice now generally prevalent and fraught with
the most baleful consequences,” and states that
“Mercury, lodine, Colchicum, Antimony, also
Purgatives in general and bloodletting are fright
fully misused in this manner.” Thus advocating
in 1846 the very system he opposed in 1836,1839,
and onward.
There is a physician, a Professor of the Theo
ry and.practice of Medicine, residing within one
hundred and sixty miles of the city of Albany,
N. Y. who has declared publicly that since he had
been in the habit of giving smaller doses of ca
lomel, in the acute diseases of children, his prac
tice has been much more successful. By such a
epnfession what is to be inferred 1 Then is it too
much to expect that this “ self-same ” Professor
may yet advocate the doctrine of Dickson as a
whole and fall into the wake of Forbes and the
other worthies who have “ turned with the turn
ing times,," and it may with Dr. Copland ac
count for his change in practice, by stating that
the “physical constitution of man has changed.”
Dr. Dickson observes in the Preface to the fourth
English edition: “the Chrono-Thermal system
is denied, plagiarized, and whispered away;—
the Chrono-Thermal system secretly tri
umphs on every hand.”
We have now the eminent Doctors, Holland,
Forbes, Sir George Lefevre, (all Physicians to
the British Queen) Sir C. Bell, Searle, Copland,
Louis, &c , &c., all become practisers ofthe
Chrono Thermal system. It must become fash
ionable and the practice ofthe world.
It may be consolatory to many persons and par
ticularly to parents, to know, that Doctor Gale,
in the cure of Opthalmia or of any other Infl-a
mation, neither uses Caustics, Blisters, the Lan
cet or the Leech ; and that he cures recent ca
ses of Inflamation whether in the chest, abdo
men, or any other part in half the time that is ge
nerally occupied in the “ orthodox,” routine
practice even when most successful, and he de
nies the Medical Faculty of the whole world to
prove to the contrary.
—Dr. Gale’s mode of treatment, consists as far
as practicable in a rigid regulation of the diet,
the temperance and purity of the air, clothing,
the mental and bodily exercise, &c., baths, fric
tion, change of air, change of occupation, &c.,
and to remove the whole disease, and not a parti
cular feature; he uses nothing as a reme
dy but what is authorized by the “Materia Medi
cas” and Pharmacopceias of London, Edinburgh
Dublin, and of the United States; and not in the
large doses denounced by Dr. Forbes, but on the
“Minimum” or the smallest available doses, advo
cated by Samuel Dickson, M. D.
The Chrono-Thermal system of Medicine
with Fallacies of the Faculty, [the True Young
Physic ofDr. John|Forbes] by Sam’l Dickson, M
D. republished in this country last year, edited by
William Turner, M. D., late Health Commis
sioners for the city, &c., of New York, may be
had of almost all Booksellers.
• Book ®obU.
Old Times and New: ora few raps over the
knuckles of the present age. Burgess, Stringer. &
Co. There is an attempt at smartness in this
pamphlet, an effort to be satirical and severe—a
hearty disposition to cudgel vice and folly as
they deserve to be cudgelled, but a ** plentiful
lack” of ability to do the work effectually. We
see great evidence ot labor in the ninety three
pages before us, and the author is deserving of
credit for his patience and perseverance in string
ingso many words together.
Typee ; a in the Marquesas, by
Herman Melville, New York, and London— Wi
ley and Putnam.—This is not a work to be dis
missed within the limits of an ordinary book no
tice, and, as we have not room for more extend
ed remarks, this week, we will what we
have to say to our next, when we will enrich our
columns withextracts from Mr Melville’s strange
and delightful narrative. Meantime we advise
all who have the leisure to read it through, to pur
chase the book.
Blackwood’s Magazine.—We are indebted to
the attention of Leonard Scott and Co., the pub
lishers of the American edition, for the March
number of this magazine. The low price at which
this edition is furnished, should secure it an im
mense circulation- Surely no man of the least
pretension to literary taste would omit to read
Blackwood, especially when it is brought to his
doors for a price, which, the intrinsic value of
the work considered, is next to nothing.
The ordinance against obstructing the side
walks, will, we fear, soon have to be enforced
against E. T. Lee, of No. 245 Greenwich street.
We hate to complain ; but the fact is, that the
immense crowds of ladies, which are constant
ly pouring in and out of Lee’s store, stop the
way, and oblige people who have no business at
the establishment, to cross to the opposite side
of the street.
“Why will you go to Lee’s 1 .” said a gentle
man to his wife, a few days since.
“ O, because he sells so cheap!”
“ But other people sell goods at reasonable
prices.”
“Yes, but positively Lee sells cheap; and then
his stock is always fresh; one is never fobbed
off with old goods. It is because he buys cheap
and for cash, and turns quickly at small profits,
that he has the newest styles, and the choicest
goods.”
The lady was quite right. Lee is a master in
his business, and his store is thronged with cus
tomers every day.
The ornamental cards, manufactured by Carey
and brothers, No. 156 Broadway, are certainly
the most elegant for all purposes of art which
can be found in the city. Cards of all descrip
tions can be found at this establishment. It is
difficult to visit this establishment, without being
strnck with surprise and admiration, at the won
derful skill, ingenuity, and taste exhibited in the
manufacture and embellishment of the various
kind of cards. The show cards are especially
worthy the attention of merchants.
A friend says that at Palmer’s furnishing store,
No. 89 Fulton street, a gentleman can supply
himself with every article in the furnishing line
of the best quality, and at exceedingly low prices
Go and see Palmer.
Mrs. Isaacs’ fashionable millenary establish
ment, at No. 5 andsfc Division street, draws the
fashionable world from the west side of the town
Her establishment is daily thronged with taste
and beau y.
Hallock & Co., the chemists and druggists,
whose establishment is at No. 149 Fulton street,
have acquiredgreat celebrity for the excellence
of their medical and other preparations. What
ever is purchased at this establishment may be
relied upon.
Stockwell, formerly of the Croton Lunch, has
teken the first floor of National Hall, Canal st.
and fitted it up very handsomely as a Temperance
restaurant. There is a well supplied reading
room adjoining, and visitors will find the esta
blishment one of the most comfortable in the ci
ty. Every department is complete.
On April Fool’s Duy, a wag chalked on the
door of an apothecary’s shop up-town, “No con
nection with the establishment next door,” The es
tablishment next door, was a coffin warehouse.
Important to the Mercantile Community'.—
In transferring the annexed article from the
Commercial Advertiser, to our columns, we be
speak for the important facts it presents, a care
ful and attentive consideration. All men of
business are interested in the matter. We are
of opinion, that the superiority of Gayler’s
Salamander Safes, is most satisfactorily demon
strated in the article we quote
Safes that are Safes.— It will be remembered
that a short time ago, a trial, the fairness of
which was attested by many gentlemen of unim
peachable veracity and honor, was made at
Vauxhall Gardens, of three kinds of safe, as to
their capacity to resist the heat of an immense
furnace, built expressly for the purposes of the
trial, in which, if our memory serves us rightly,
they were kept forty eight hours, the fire being
replenished as often as was necessary to preserve
the utmost intensity of heat. One of these safes
was Mr. Gayler’s salamander safe, and it alone
came unhurt out of the fiery ordeal. Its contents
were entirely unscathed, of which we had occu
lar demonstration, for we saw and handled the
books, which were not even discolored, beyond
the outside of the binding, where the glue was
somewhat shrivelled.
Struck by what seemed an indisputable evi
dence of the efficiency and superiority of these
safes, we obtained permission to see the process
of their manufacture, having a notion that a safe
which is a safe is a desirable acquisition, and
worth almost any money. We found at his
establishment safes in every stage of manufac
ture, and came away perfectly satisfied that the
material and the workmanship were of the first
quality, and that the production of an article, not
to please the eye or indeed the popular idea of
cheapness, but to answer fully and permanently
its purpose, was Mr. Gayler’s honest aim. And
it is under such an impression that we take
notice of the matter.
Each of his “ double safes” we found to be
composed, first ot an outside of sheet hon of
great thickness, strengthened at all points by
transverse bars of wrought iron, no cast iron
being used in their manufacture beyond the
casing or cavity into which the fire resisting
compost is ponred. The sides, back and front
are secured by screws to wrought iron knees,
Within the frame is placed another, made with
just the same care and strength, and within that
another, and each of the spaces’hhus made is
tilted -VYttli the rompooHion, tho. trrs--r«dientS ot
which Mr. G. properly keeps to himself.
A recent improvement, which to our thinking
is founded upon true science, is the introduction
of a bead round the edge of the door, fitting into
a counter groove in the frame of the safe. When
the metal expands with the heat the junction be
comes perfectly air-tight, and the contact may
also be supposed to draw off the heat from the
interior. The great strength of the wrought iron
frames is security against fracture in falling from
any height at which they may be placed in the
building.
As to security against thieves, we imagine that
these safes are equally perfect. All the screws,
&c., are counter-sunk and then cut off close with
the surface. Even supposing the hinges, which
necessarily project, to be cut or filed, or broken
ofl; the door remains equally firm by reason of a
simple contrivance, making in practice a pair of
inside hinges. The Iscks are so constructed that
a key varying in size the sixteenth part of an
inch from the right one locks instead of unlock
ing. And to each there is a minor lock which
secures the main lock, and yet another which
secures both. The key of each of these smaller
locks is small enough to be carried in the pocket
without inconvenience. And over the key hole
is another lock, the mode of opening which re
mains a secret to all but the operator, if he so
choose. Altogether, they do seem to us the most
perfect, substantial, impregnable safes we ever
saw.
Death from poison.—An inquest was held
yesterday by the Coroner, at 111 Houston street,
on the body of Amos Saxion, a native of Troy,
who was a hand on board the steamboat Troy.
It appeared from the testimony that a demijohn
containing a mixture of New England rum and
corrosive sublimate, \yas kept on board the boat
for the destruction of bed-bugs, and the deceased
unfortunately in ignorance of what it contained,
took a drink, out of the demijohn and died on
Friday, from its effects, the jury found a verdict
in accordance with the facts. It also appeared
that another man lost his life about a year ago,
by taking a drink out of this vessel.
From Washington.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington City, April 3, 1846.
To the Editor of the Sunday Dispatch :
The only matters of moment that have tran
spired this week, consist in the speeches of Gov.
Cass and Col. Benton.
Governor Cass made one of those powerful
speeches, for which he is remarkable, and con
tended that Oregon was ours up to the latitude of
54:40. He was calm, dignified, resolute and
manly; and, whilst he accorded to others an un
qualified right to their own opinions, he main
tained those which he has so long and so zeal
ously advanced in support of the rights of the
country. The effort was worthy of the fame of
Gov. Cass.
Mr. Benton, followed on Tuesday, and took a
novel position for him. He appeared to be in
clined to compromise the Oregon difficulty on the
49th parallel, though I did not distinctly under
stand him to arrive at that point. In the course
of his speech, he illustrated his argument, by re
peating the well-known episode in history of
Agamemnon and Ajax Telamon; and, was ex
ceedingly sarcastic and at the same time witty,
at the expense of Governor Cass, and Mr. Han
negan.
He noticed that Gov. Cass had the day before
pledged himself to accept the 49th parallel, if that
line of boundary had ever been settled or run be
tween the United States and England. He con
tended that that boundary was defined un
der Mr. Monroe’s administration, or had been
settled by the treaty of Utrecht. But, after all, I
did not understand Col. Benton, to deny that our
claim to Oregon was not good up to the Russian
settlement.
Col. Benton spoke in a tone so subdued that I
could not distinctly understand him; and, lest
I do him injustice, I refer you and your readers
to the speech itself, which, if it be not approved
for its general position, will be found to contain
an immense amount of interesting and important
historical reading.
It must be here remarked that Col Benton has
very much changed in his manner and matter,
since the Whig papers, from one end of the
country to the other, declared him to be great
er than Edmund Buike, because of his speech on
the annexation of Texas.
Gov. Cass being absent, Mr. Hannegan of In
diana replied, and made a thrilling speech—one
that called down thunders of applause from the
galleries. Whereupon Mr. Webster, a little en
vious perhaps, of the “ rising sun” of the West,
rose, and said that if anything of the kind occur
red again, he should move for the clearing of the
galleries. This was, to my mind, in rather bad
taste, though I do not approbate the out-poring
of such evidences of exhuberance of feeling and
sentiment. I have on several occasions known
Mr. Webster to be most unnecessarily applauded
by the galleries, and yet I never saw him before
threaten to turn the People out for indulging their
emotions.
Mr. Hannegan, who of course did not relish
Colonel Benton’s speech, in his reply to it, for
Gov. Cass and himself, in a strain of scathing
irony, complimented the Colonel on his finding
himself in company with Mr. Calhoun, and the
advocate of that gentleman’s “wise and masterly
inactivity.” He concluded his deeply impassioned
speech, by saying to the Colonel: “ The Senator
spoke of the Agamemnon of our little band—of
its Ajax Telamon, and its lesser or little Ajax. If
by this title he referred to me, I disclaim it; I
have no title to be called an Ajax, great or little.
I am a poor private soldier in this cause. I ask no
favor, and I seek no reward, save the triumph of
the great cause. I ask for nothing. I should de
spise myself if, in a cause like this, for an instant
I could cherish a feeling of selfishness. I would
rather be the little Ajax—rather the private sol
dier, fighting simply for subsistence ill this
cause, than to hold my head so high that I could
not see aughi below me; rather be the private
soldier than with my haughty feet to press the
lowly earth as though it were too mean for my
tread; rather be the private soldier, than in every
look, and attitude, and act, and expression, pro
claim—* I am the ruler! I will rule or I will ruin
—and it is indifferent to me whether the conse
quences be rule or ruin.’ Sir, be he who he may,
there is in this land no man so high as to have it
in his power to elevate and depress public senti
ment in America at his will. Be he who he may
who makes such an attempt, he will speedily find
his level. * Little Ajax’ let it be; but let me re
mind the Senator from Misouri that the Agamem
non and the Aj axes were not the only actors at
the seige of Troy. There was an Achilles there;
and we have an Achilles here. Let the Senator
from Missouri beware, lest he be the Hector who
will grace the triumph of this Achilles.”
It was at this point that the galleries, unable to
repress its feelings, gave vent to them, in a round
of the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Hanne
gan’s reply, was unpremeditated, impromptu, and
won for him new laurels. He is one of the most
eloquent men the country has ever produced.
Mr. Webster’s speech of Friday or Saturday
week, was a guarded and wily production, and
was written out and read. He appeared to be
determined, that he would not suffer anything
from misrepresentation, or from the accidents cf
the Press at any rate. It was rather non commit
tal : but asserted that our claim was good up to
49°, and must be maintained at all hazards. This
was saying more than was expected from him.
The Oregon debate has at last become an in
tolerable bore; the Notice should be ordered at
once, and Congress should proceed to some oth
er business.
I read the other day, with a great deal of in
terest, a report made by Mr. Yell of Arkansas,
of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the sub
ject of establishing National Foundries, for the
manufacture of arms. In that report, the com
mittee state extraordinary facts. They are thus
set forth :
The primary object sought to be attained by
means of a national foundry is improvement in
the quality and stiength of cannon. It is well
known to Congress—the fact has frequently been
reported to us from the executive departments —
that the cannon now in possession of the govern
ment, both for land and sea service, is defective ;
much of it is good, undoubtedly, but much of it
elso, is as certainly unfit for service, and danger
ous to those who use it. Congress has received
from the Secretary of the Navy, in an official re
port to the President, the shocking and astound
ing intelligence, that in our late war with Great
Britain nearly as many of our gallant seamen were
killed by the bursting of our own gans as by the fire
of lhe enemy. We shall incur the justest con
demnation if we receive such information with
indifference, and refuse to provide reasonable
and proper security against such terrible accidents
hereafter. In the land service, too, of the can
non procured for the fortifications, not an incon
siderable proportion of the whole is found to be
of such uncertain and dangerous character that it
ought to be condemned and rejected from service.
The ordnance department of the army have made
repeated complaints to Congress on this head. —
The letter of Colonel Talcott to this committee,
accompanying this report, shows the condition,
in this respect, of some of our most important
fortifications. The announcement of facts of
such moment as these, cannot fail to arrest the
attention of Congress ; and the executive depart
ments at least acquit themselves o their duty and
responsibility when they lay them before Con
gress and suggest the proper remedy.
The following is an extract from the letter of
Col. Talcott, of the ordinance department, refer
ed to in Mr. Yell’s Report; and the facts disclos
ed in it, will amaze the reader, while it should
teach the country, that some change in the mode
manufacturing arms for the national defence,
should be had without delay.
The necessity-of devising means to improve the
quality of our iron guns will appear to you very
clearly from a statement of the character of the
cannon we have heretofore been able to pro
cure. My annual report of this year, which has
been presented to Congress, states the measures
which are now in progress to test the heavy ord
nance at the various forts, lhe report of me of
ficer engaged in this scrutiny, shows that of rhe
heavy guns in Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 574 in number, the quality is as fol
lows:
42pndr 23 pndr 24pndr
Good 10 160 74
Doubtful 7 150 31
Bad, unfit for use 22 104 16
Making a per centage as follows : 0f all cali
ores, good 42 per cent. ; bad or doubtful, 58 per
cent. And this is a fortress of the first class and
of the highest importance.
I advert, in this connexion, to the lamentable
fact, officially ascertained and brought to the at
tention of Congress in a report from the Secretary
of the Navy, that in our last war with Great
Britain more of our men were killed aboard our
ships of war by the bursting of our own guns than
by the fire of the enemy.
Another report from the officer before referred
to, received at this office since my annual report
was submitted, states the result of trialsand tests
made upon heavy guns in the fortifications of
New York harbor. These last guns were cast at
a different foundry from those at Fort Monroe,
and, indeed, at one of our oldest and best con
ducted private establishments, and where as
much skill and care is exerted as can be expected
from private founders under such circumstances.
The examination embraces 571 pieces of heavy
ordnance, and the officer classifies them as
° Of'those cast between the years 1826 and 1834,
65 per cent, exhibit a strength of metal which
may be relied on in service ; while 35 per cent,
are doubtful and unsafe. Of lhe cannon cast be
tween 1834 and 1840, the officer considers that of
the 24 and 42 pounders none are good and safe, 37
per cent, are doubtful, and 63 per cent, certainly
unfitfor service. Of the B-inch seacoast howitzers
cast in that period, he considers 31 per cent, good,
63 per cent, doubtful, and 6 per cent, unfit for
service. Since 1840, he finds all cast at that
foundery good and serviceable.
This uncertainty and irregularity, which in the
present state of the art attends the operations of
private founders, is one of the essential reasons
for the establishment of a national foundery.
The country is indebted to Mr. Yell, of
Arkansas, for the attention he has paid to this
subject; and, it is to be hoped that it will be
promptly acted upon, by Congress. I am very
weary of Washington; I have been here many
years, but never witnessed so dull a session
of Congress. An adjournment of that body
ought to take place as early as the Ist of May,
but, I suppose that the eight dollar a day men,
will protest it till August. Yours,
HOMO.
(ftljeatrual.
Letter from Spranger Barry, Esq.
New York, April 3d, 1846.
To the Editor of the SuHday Dispatch:
The drama is rapidly increasing in this coun
try. ft begins to find favor among the disciples
of the Church, especially among the Episcopa
lians, and the more enlightened of the Presbyte
rian order. All this is abundantly proved, by the
immense audiences of the “elect,” who the last
season, thronged Niblo’s Saloon, another name
for a theatre, but without any distingushing cast
in fact; as well as by their nightly attendance at
the Park, during the engagement of the Keans.—
And the Olympic, too, has often its share of the
“saints in crape,” who, if they do not despise
the saints in lawn, are very loath that they should
at all times, come “ betwixt the wind and their
nobility.”
Whilst the Keans were here, and especially on
these nights, when Mr. Sergent Talfourd’s nam
by-pamby tragedy was enacted, I met at the Park
a number of ladies and gentleman, of the most
pious order; and who, I had often heard de
nounce the Theatre, as the play house of the de
vil, relishing and realizing the delights of the
drama. I was g’ad to see it for it was indicative
of the dawn of an era of tolerance—a kind of a
foreshadowing of the advent of those days of
light and reason, when fanaticism and bigotry,
will cease to persecute the fine arts, and close
the door against the advancement of civilization.
At the Olympic, one night a year or two ago,
I found the boxes mainly occupied by the mem
bers of a very pious congregation who had given
a round sum for the sole occupancy of the Thea
tre for that night only ; and, though the pieces
enacted, were the “ Savage and Maiden,” and a
burlesque on Ole Bull and Vieux Timps. They
seemed to relish and enjoy the preceding*, with
the same gusto that was manifested by the un
godly and the impenitent.
In this country, the drama has always had a
very violent opposition to contend against, espe
cially in the puritanical States of New England.
As late as the year 1792, Mr. Tudor, a citizen of
Boston, of some eminence, attempted to obtain
the abrogation of an act of the State of Massa
chusetts, passed when the Bay State was a colo
ny, and when Massachusetts was at the exclusive
mercy of Puritanical rule, prohibiting dramatic
exhibitions, and was met on the ground that eve
rything of the kind partook of the “ devil’s do
ings.” And, at the same time, Mr. Benjamin
Austin, who afterwards was distinguished as a
political writer of great abilily, wrote a series
of essays, in which he attempted to prove, that
Shakspere was destitute of genius ! In this mon
strous work of absurdity and folly, he was aided
and assisted by the countenance and concurrence
of Samuel Adams, one of the famous movers of
the Revolution.
Mr. Adams was warmly and ably opposed by
Mr. Percy Martin, and Harrison Gray Otis; and
the twain got up a feeling in Boston, that led to
the erection of a theatre, and to dramatic per
formances, in defiance of “ all law and all or
der.” And even now, Boston, 1 believe, is the
only city or town in Massachusetts, where a the
atre can lawfully exist.
In the year 1833, Mr. George Barrett, now of
the Park, who was, at that time, the manager of
lhe Tremont Theatre, Boston, got up a theatre
in the city of Lowell, and opened it. The “se
lectmen” of that place, declared it an abomina
tion, avowed that George was a traitor to lhe
public peace and good order; that his company
were a set of vagabonds ; and, putting the “ she
riffof the county” on the scent, lodged all hands,
except George and the late William Jones, in
the “ lock-up.” Thus ended the theatre in the
city of Lowell.
In this State, and in all lhe States, wherein
Episcopacy has obtained a foothold, the drama
has been fostered since their earliest settlement.
The Puritans, notwithstanding so much has
been said and writtenlin their favor; and, not.
withstanding all New England is annually re
quired to do homage to the “ Pilgrim Fathers,”
whilst they kiss the American Blarney Stone at
Plymouth, did more, during the period of their
supremacy, to retrogade the world, than all the
curses that, ever before befel it. They were oppo
sed to the progress of every art. Sculpture and
painting were, in their eyes, utter abominations,
and led to that idolatry which is expressly for
bidden in the decalogue. Hence it was, that
they incurred the contempt of the poets and wits
of the times of Charles 11. To borrow an idea
from Macaulay : “ the Puritan affected formali
ty; the comic poet laughed at decorum. The
Puritan had frowned at innocent diversion;
the comic poet took under his patronage lhe most
flagitious excesses. The Puritan had canted:
the com’c poet blasphemed. The Puritan had
made an affair of gallantry a felony, without the
benefit of the clergy; the comic poet represent
ed it as an honorable distinction, The Puritan
spoke with disdain, of lhe low standard of pop
ular morality; his life was regulated by a far
more rigid code; his virtue was sustained by
motives unknown to men of the world. Unhap
pily, it had been amply proved ih many cases,
and might be suspected in many more, that these
high pretensions were unfounded. According
ly, the fashionable circles and the comic poets,
who were the spokesmen of thoso circles, took
up the notion that all professions of piety and in
tegrity, were to be construed by a rule of con
trary; that it might be well doubted whether
there was such a thing as virtue in the world;
but that, at all events, a person who affected to
be better than his neighbors was sure to.be a
knave.”
This state of things was mainly brought about,
by that famous bigot, old Jeremy Collier, who
attempted the prostration’of lhe drama, when he
wrote his famous “ Short View of the Profane
ness and Immorality of the Stage”—a work that
should be read by every one who wishes to ob
tain a bird’s-eye view of the bigotry that beset
the times in which old Jeremy flourished.
Bigotry and the cant of the “ Canters,” have
but very little influence in this city, and the stage
now flourishes beyond all precedent. That it
should be somewhat purged, no one will deny,
who frequents the theatres. But, taken altogeth
er, it is comparatively free from objection, and
is daily becoming more chaste.
Within the week, a new theatre has been open
ed to the public. I refer to the Greenwich. It
is a very beautiful establishment, and is most ad
mirably located, on the old site of the Richmond
Hill. It opened on Thursday evening, with “ Ro
meo and Juliet;” Miss Clara Ellis, a lady who
last year was well appreciated at the Park, enact
ing the part of Romeo, to the Juliet of Mrs. Crisp.
Mi. Henry Grattan, sustained the part of Mercu
tio, with great ability, and proved himself to be
an actor of sterling merit. The house of course,
was crowded ; and all who were present, were
delighted with the theatre and the acting. The
Greenwich is decidedly one of the most elegant
establishments in the Union; and cannot fail to
meet abundant success. Everything was new,
from the’boxes to the scenes; and all was as taste
ful and as elegant as it was new. The company
engaged, can be, and undoubtedly will be, very
materially strengthened, in lhe course of the sea
son ; and I am told, that much of the talent of
the country will be congregated there during the
summer season. Mr. Grattan, the acting mana
ger, is capable, as a dramatist and actor, of great
things, and 1 do not doubt that he will achieve
them.
Mr. Deverna, of the Chatham Theatre, sailed
for England, I understand, in the Hibernia, on
Wednesday, in pursuit of talent and novelty. In
the meantime, the Chatham will go on swim
mingly, under the able management of his part
ner, Mr. De Bar, a very excellent and popular ac
tor. Few men, are capable of catering more suc
cessfully than Mr. De Bar; and the great popular
ity he enjoys with his audiences, furnishes abun
dant proof that his merits are neither forgotten
or neglected. The Chatham has among its com
pany, a number of very respectable actors; two,
certainly, beside Mr. De Bar, who may be rank
ed among the larger lights of the profession. 1
refer to Mr. Bellamy, and Mr. Marshall. The
first named gentleman does the eccentric comedy
and restive old men. The second, is the trage
dian of the establishment; and, if he depended
more upon himself, and had less of imitation, he
would be much more successful. I had rather
have bad original, than good imitation.
At the Park, the Seguins closed their engage
ment on Tuesday evening, with the Brewer of
Preston —an opera that has many merits and
more faults. It was successful here for some five
or six nights, and paid well. The Toby Cross
belt of Mr. Seguin was the life and soul of the
piece, though it must be admitted that Mr. Fra
ser particularly distinguished himself, in the
character of the Brewer, and evinced more of the
actor than I supposed was in him. Mr. Frazer
has improved immensely since he came to this
country. Mrs. Seguin’s Effa was well sustained
—but she is far more interesting in other charac
ters. It appeared to me that she might have
dressed the part, with better taste, and still con
formed it to the Puritanical times of “Red-
Nosed Noll,” and the Round Heads.
After the close of the opera nights, the good
old play of “ Every Man in his Humor,” by Ben
Jonson, was repeated for the third time, and
was well enacted. But as the impression it made
on the town, at the two first representations, had
been obliterated by the lapse of time, it did not
call in the audience it ought to have done. They
have a queer mode of doing things at the Park,
which I suppose is the result of circumstance
and necessity. A piece is got up, which makes a
favorable impression on the town, and for a sin
gle night or two, calls in a good house that is en
raptured. It is looked for with some earnest
ness, and its repetition is demanded. But, in
stead of being repeated, it is laid aside to make
room for something else—lies on the shelf for a
fortnight or so, until its original impression is
forgotten, and then is brought forward only to be
neglected. Had “Every Man in His Humor,”
been run six nights at the Park, I do not doubt
that every repetition, would have shown an in
crease of favor, or that the end of the run would
have shown most advantageously on the right
side of the profit and loss account oi the mana
ger.
The Park management, however, understands
its business best; and, he who has been a suc
cessful theatrical manager, for thirty years and
upwards, needs no advice at the hands of a green
horn.
Lee’s tragedy of “ Alexander the Great,” was
brought forward at the Park, on Thursday night.
It is one of the best plays in the language, the
dialogue is most eloquent and energetic; and
the whole forms one of lhe most splendid pa
geants known to the stage. The author of this
play, Lee, was the cotemporary and rival of Ot
way, Dryden and Rowe, and early in life, be
came the inmate of a madhouse. In consequence
of this calamity, he was dubbed the mad author
and actor, by his rivals, and most cruelly lam
pooned by Shadwell, and cauterized by old Den
nis. Left without the means of defence, the in
mate of a lunatic asylum, he suffered much by
the lampoons and criticism of his enemies, and,
the consequence was that it became fashionable
to laugh at his productions. Though Lee died
more than two hundred years ago, the ill-nature
that followed him in life has survived him, and
it is yet fashionable to deride the extravagances
of mad Nat. Lee. Be this as it may, and as it
will, I am one of the admirers of Lee, and regard
his tragedies second to none of his cotemporary
writers.
“ Alexander the Great,” was well got up at the
Park, and was well played. Mrs. Bland and
Mrs. Abbott, as the Rival Queens, were excel
lent: And, I may add, that Roxana and Statira
have rarely fallen into abler hands, or been re
presented by two more splendid women.
Mr. Marble has been playing the round of his
characters at the Park during the week, and has
been most kindly received. lam happy to learn
that he will probably soon be in “ possession” of
a comedy worthy of his talents. He is a man of
genius; and yet I do not believe that he could
successfully play Stephen, in “ Every Man in his
Humor.” John Fisher is the only man I ever
saw who correctly conceived and played the
part.
Mr. Murdoch is underlined, I see, at the Park,
and is to make his first appearance at that thea
tre on Monday evening, after his late very un
successful tour to the South. lam very glad of
it, and hope, for his sake, and for the sake of the
management, that his friends will come forward
and sustain him with their pockets, as well as
with their hands and plaudits.
Mr. Murdoch is a man of merit, though by no
means a good ora great actor in the higher de
partments of the drama. His private character
is pure; and, I have never heard any man lisp a
word against it. It is to be hoped that he will
not, at the close of his present engagement, leave
us, complaining that the public and the old stage) s
gave him the “ cold shoulder.” This lament he
indulged very pathetically, or his presses made
it for him, at the close of his last engagement.
I am no foe of Mr. Murdoch’s. On the contra
ry, I wish him well, notwithstanding I have said
some hard things of his acting; and, if he will
cast his lot upon the waters, abjure and abandon
charlatanry, commit his claims to the unbiassed
judgment of the public, and submit to its decis
ion, he shall have my hand and pen. He should
be willing to join issue with the public, and abide
by its opinion. He should not, if he can help it,
suffer his injudicious friends to attempt to force
him upon the good opinion of the public, for it is
capricious and mulish, and though easily led,
cannot be driven in opposition to its will. The
Press is an useful auxiliary to an actor’s fame; but,
but, it cannot give reputation to un-meritorious.
And he who depends upon the press for the ac
quisition of substantial fame, must ever find him
self in possession of an impalpable vapor—a
thing that’ is wholly evanesent, and the main
tenance of which will cost him half of his in
come. Garrick, Henderson, John Phillip
ble, Cooke, Kean and Forrest, all acquired the
fame that lasted, and secured their fortunes in
defiance of the press, and without its auxiliary
aid. And, it was only after they had established
a name, that the press came forward,
to do them justice. The elder Kean, after hit
unfortunate affair with Mrs. Cox, and at a time,
when the British public, almost to a man, de
nounced him, went to the press for its aid, and
was known to pay fifty guineas for a puff, in the
“ London Times,” but it availed him nothing.
The people acknowledged the merits of the ac
tor, but were not to be disuaded from their de
testation of the man.
It is justly lhe pride and boast of Mr. Edwin
Forrest, that he had not the aid of the press,
when he was fighting his way to fame and for
tune. He depended entirely upon his own mer
its—they were acknowledged, rewared, and the
actor and the man triumphed equally and alike.
If, during his late sojourn in England, he had
stooped to beg or purchase the press, the attempt
that was made to oppose him at the Princess
theatre, London, would not have been hazarded.
But he proudly scorned all such schemes, —
submitted himself to John Bull’s unbought opi
nion, and was successful. From the day that
Mr. Forrest first trod the stage, up to the last
time he played, he had not, to my certain know
ledge, paid the press one farthing to secure its
good will. And, when an attempt was made, by
one or two presses to “black-mail” him, he
turned upon the incendiaries with ail the indigna
tion becoming a man, and treated them with the
scorn and contempt they merited from lhe public
stage in the presence, of the million.
If Mr. Murdoch, I repeat, will throw himself
upon his own resources, submit to the verdict of
the public—abjure charlatanry, cease getting up
mock presentations of swords and copies of
Shakspere, and repudiate all attempts to injure
others, to advance and exalt himself, he shall
have my poor support. That he is a clever actor
and would be a useful stock member of any com
pany, is a fact that I neither gainsay or deny.
At the commencement of his career as a “star,’»
I was most earnestly solicited, by some of the
best friends, male and female, that he ever had,
or that I ever called “ mine own,” to advocate
and sustain him if possible. This I should have
done, had I not discovered at the outset, that a
most loathsome game of charlatanry was being
played. Consequently, I took an opposite direc
tion, though to do so, I subjected myself, to much
severe pain and regret—for I offended my friends,
and afforded myself no pleasure.
Mr. Murdoch has more than once intimated,
that I have been in pursuit of “ black mail.” The
infamous insinuation is not entitled a response ;
but I can tell him, that whilst neither he or his
friends, could muster means* enough to purchase
from me the avowal of an opinion, that was no 1
based upon an honest conviction. I regard the
wretch, who attempts to enforce “black mail,”
as a villain and a coward, to whom the common
foot-pad, stands in the relation of a hero and a
gentleman:
The following, appeared in the New York
Morning News of yesterday:
Mr. Murdoch, to whose engagement next week
at the Park, we alluded yesterday, is, we have
since learned, about to open in the character of
Claude Melnotte —which this actor has in a man
ner made his own, by his extraordinary success.
The News, it will be remembered, was earlv in
its assertion of the brilliant talents of Mr. Mur
doch. Since that time, within the limits of half
a year, Mr. Murdoch has made the tour of the
States, and his reception by the press of the coun
try has confirmed all and moie than we asserted.
The kind of notice his acting has elicited, marks
the man. It is both discriminating and sanguine
very different from the hireling puffs of some
foreign stars, and shows unequivocally that Mr.
Murdoch has created an interest in the mind of
the country.
1 notice this paragraph with much reluctance,
and am sorry to say that it is false, in every part
aid particular. Mr. Murdoch, since he started
as- x star, has met with nothing but a succession
of t>e most mortifying failures. He failed at the
Park ,he most sadly failed in Boston ; and has
more failed in New Orleans. He failed
to obtain engagements in all the Southern and
Western c*j es> except New Orleans, and there
he played in he Amphitheatre and Circus. His
attempt to forettyjr. c rlS p from the stage, that he
might play with Mowatt, was most signally
and indignantly reb^ ed by New Orleans peo
pie; and his effort to qj c jt political sympa
thies of the Native Am^.j can party, was equally
uncessful.
I repeat, Mr. Murdoch ha had not hi llg but a
succession of the most mortit; n g f a fl ureg . an d,
if the assertion be contradifci d j will show
what were the receipts of every O n which
he has appeared as a star. lam P 0& o f all
the facts of the case.
Let Mr. Murdoch have a fair trial, dm n „
coming engagement, and if he prove succets-ui
1 will most gladly record the fact.
If after all I have said, Mr. Murdoch does not
make a profitable engagement for himself and
the management, no fault need be found with
me.
The Bowery Theatre continues to do its usual
good business ; and, if untiring effort to please,
deserve success, it will always be a source of
profit to its able manager. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Thorne have been playing there during the week,
and have been deservedly applauded.
Mitchell’s Olympic, ever popular, and always
full, has had its weekly measure of success and
triumph.
Sand’s company, at lhe Bowery Amphitheatre,
continues to present "its unequalled, unparalleled
performances, and to attract audiences unsurpass
ed for intelligence and fashion. So lam inform
ed, by those who know all about it; but, for my
self, I was not present this week. The dancing
horse, is indeed a prodigy, and I have no hesita
tion in saying that the “ teachings” the animal
has received, may be regarded among the. abso
lute wonders of the age.
Mr. Sands, the principal manager of this “in
stitute”—for all things that border on the Olympic
games, should be classi-called, that is to say,
should be made classical—is a gentleman of great
intelligence, enterprise and perseverance. He is
an American, a native of the State of Maine—
was borne on the “ other side of sunrise,” and,
like many of the live Yankees, has worked his
way to wealth, fame, and eminence. He travers
ed the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, and the
West Indies, and has had the patronage of almost
every crowned head between the Cape of Good
Hope and the Astrachan mountains ; and by the
correctness of his life, and the superiority of his
talents, has merited the rich reward that has at
tended him.
More than I have said, I might say ; but I am
weary, and so I fancy, will be the reader, before
he has accomplished the task of reading this
epistle.
Respectfully and sincerely,
SPRANGER BARRY,
Of Great Jones’ Street.
♦ It is far from me to intimate, that Mr. Mur
doch has ever purchased the good opinion of the
Press I know that he is not in in possession of
the means that would enable him to do so. The
very injudicious puff’s of him, that were publish
ed in the Evening Post and the Morning News,
originated in the partial friendship of Mr. Corne
lius Matthews, and were sincerely intended to do
him good. If Murdoch had possessed means, he
would have been puffed to death, by one of the
presses of this city.
The New Greenwich.—Our friends will thank
us for reminding them that the managers of this
already popular resort, have a grand treat in pre
paration for to-morrow night. Mr. Eddy, who is
said to be but little inferior to Forrest, makes his
first appearance as Othello. He will be support
ed by Mr. Grattan, Mrs. Crisp, and Miss Ellis,
and the whole company. Mr. Eddy is a gentle
man of fine attainments, possesses a handsome
personal appearance, and an excellent voice. His
success must be certain. On Tuesday, Mr. Plu
mer, the favorite vocalist, will make his first
appearance. He is in excellent voice and condi
tion, and his appearance will remind us of the
palmy days of the old National.
Chatham Theatre.—Manager De Bar is deter
mined not to be outdone in novelty and attrac
tion. He has secured the greatest wonder of the
world, Hervio Nano, who has astonished all
who ever witnessed his performances. His won
derful flight through the theatre, as the gnome
fly, and travels from lhe stage to the dome as
the baboon are enough to astonish the world. —
He appears every evening, this week, and if we
are not mistaken, the Chatham will have a great
run. Mr. Deverna, the partner of Mr. De Bar,
sailed for Europe, by the Hibernia, on Wednes
day last, for the purpose of securing attractions.
The coming season at the Chatham will be look
ed for with great interest.
Le Desert, which was received, by a large
and fashionable audience, with every demon
stration of delight, will be repeated to-mor
row night, at the Tabernacle. It is one of the
most brilliant compositions ever produced; and
it is sufficient to say, that its execution under
the direction of Mr. Loder, was of a character
to develope most fully, all of its beauties.
For the next week the various Colonization
Societies of the city, will be very busy, but their
philanthropic labors will not be directed to the
improvement of benighted Africa. No, philan
thropy and politics demand the planting of col
onies nearer home—yea, in some of our own
wards.
Pray heaven the wags who are firing epigrams
at Mickle and his “ fine cut,” may not burst their
their breeches before election day.
John Jacob Astor has presented to the Chari
table Fund of k theJFire Department, SSOO. As
five hundred is to thirty millions, so is John Ja
cob Astor to liberality.
The Ashland on of Broadway and
Canal, has, under the management of its skilful
host, secured a fine reputation among the up
towners. It is indeed an admirably well-con—
ducted establishment, and we are glad to see it
thrive so well. Jackson has troops of friends,
and they call on him often.
GRIEF, FRIGHT, MUCH INTENSE STUDY,
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
OOr These may be the occasion by the strong im
pression they have upon the moral, may seriously ef
fect the bodily functions. How few persons are there
who consider that the the action of these upon the hu
mors is the occasion of their becoming corrupt, or of ex
citing the principle that occasions their corruptions!
Rut so it is. And the application to Brandreth’s Pills,
under these circumstances will be productive of more
benefit than all the nervous remedies in the world. —
Practical facts prove it.
EXTERNAL PAINS.
People who are affected with chronic sickness, and
those crippled, firmly believe that their painful sitna
tion, after a fall, or a blow received, or a bad wound,
or after having strained themselves, is only and simply
the result of the action ot these external causes Let
me tell these people that the majority of these cases
would have been cured had they resorted to Brand
reth’s Pills. In proof of this, we find a number of
persons injured, much ijn the same manner; the
same applications cure some, while others receive
no benefit. Thete latter had that within themselves,
which being roused to action by the accident ag
gravated the cause of their suffering. By purging
with Brandreth’s Pills their bodies will be placed
upon a par with those whose humors were in a better
•ondition.
A CASE IN CORROBORATION. '
A gentleman walking one day at a pretty quick step
put his foot upon a piece of orange peel, and fell hea
vily on his leftside. His arm and hand being extended,
had to bear the whole weight of his body. His wrist
proved a moment after exceedingly painful. This
pninful sensation in a little while abated, but soon re
turned more acute than ever, penetrating to the centre
of the system. The least motion produced a terrible
pang. This gentleman understood the method of curing
diseas aend pain, by abstracting its cause out of the
body, and recollected the case of a carrier or porter,
whom he had cured of a strain inhis back, by lifting a
trunk some fifty pounds in weight. The man described
his pain as a tearing of his kidneys. He was unable to
move, and was, with difficulty, put to bed. The least
touch, the smallest motion, threw him into the greatest
agony. The opinion of all present was that the man
had badly strained his back, and that alone was the,
cause of his painful situation, My friend thought con
trary. He represented that many a time the patient had
lifted burthens more weighty, and that the lifting fifty
pounds could not be the cause of his extreme pain, that
this was surely occasioned by the corruption of the hu
mors on part where the pain was felt. He had been be
fore affected by rheumatic pain. At length he consent
ed to take ten of
BRANDRETH’S PILLS.
The same day he was greatly relieved, and by taking
them for a week was quite cured. Now to return to
my friends case, who made this observation : if the pain
he was now in was the result of the fall, that pain
would not have ceased ; but it had, and therefore it must
be from a secondayp cause. The fall may be consider
ed the first cause, which has acted upon the impure or
corrupt humors, which is the secondary cause of the
pain. The shock roused, so to speak, these humors in
to action, which settled upon the place where the in
jury was sustained most. He therefore went to work
to battle the internal cause of disease ; and it was four
days before he found the pain cease, and took in that
time ten Pills a day. At lengthen the fourth day he
evacuated a quantity of highly putrid and corroding
humors, and was immediately well. Suppose he had
been bled or leeched, and trusted to topical applications;
he would have fixed the fluxion of the humors on the
part and perhaps had a lame arm for life. I have
known too many similar cases to end so, to doubt it for
a moment.
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS.
Be very careful and go to the Agent when you want
Brandreth Pills ; then you are sure of the genuine arti
cle. When you purchase otherwise, inquire whether
the person selling them knows the Pills he offers you are
genuine Brandreth Pills. Every man knows whether
the article he offers you is true or false. Beware of
cheats ’
Remember 241 Broadway is Dr. Brandreth’s Princi
pal Office ; 274 Bowery Retail Office ; 241 Hudson street
Retail Office, and of the following Agents in New York:
D. D. Wright, corner Houston and Lewis; William D.
Berrian, corner Ist street and Ist Avenue ; Geo. Hansell
167 Division; Geo. B. Maigne, 98 Catharine st; Benj.
S. Taylor, 80 Vesey ; J. O. Fowler, corner Greenwich
and Murray sts; Mrs. Wilkinson, 412 Cherry st; Jno.
Howe, corner Ludlow and Rivingion ; Jasper S. Web
ber, 689 Hudson street and 45 Canal; Ivans & Hart, 184
Grand st; Mrs. Clark, 134 Canal st; Mrs. Booth, Brook
lyn, 5 Market st; A. Dennison, South Brooklyn, 15 At
lantic st; Mrs. Terrier, Williamburgh; James Wilson,
Jersey City.
At 241 Broadway, a physician is in constant attend
ance to give advice and explain the manner of cure of
the Brandreth Pills.
Brandreth Pills are TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER
BOX, with full directions.
GOURAUD’S LIBRARY OF ROMANCE.
Julia Wright.—Canto XIX.
And did friends whom Julia long had known,
Call in, to sympathise in her distress 3
Ah, no ! for each warm heart seemed turn’d to stone,
Qr else congeal’d to sudden iciness!
By all she was deserted—save, alone,
Young Blackstone Story ; he, I must confess,
Made Julia think, with “ Evelyn”—(by his call)—
‘‘ There’s good in human Nature, after all!”
[To be continued.J
One friend the fair sex have, which will never desert
them—and that friend is Gourarp’s Italian Medica
ted Soap!—so wonderful in the removal from the skin
of Tan, Freckles, Redness, Roughness, Pustules, Ring
worm, Salt Rheum, &c.; this inestimable Soap is also
exquisite for Shaving! Goukard’s Poudres Subtiles
possesses the marvellous power of eradicating superflu
ous human hair! Gourard’s Grecian Hair Dye, will
positively color red, light or grey hair, a beautiful
brown or black! The most inveterate cases of Deaf
ness may be completely cured by using Gourard’s
Xccoustic Dacps !
11 s h°uM be remembered that the genuine,nr-,
at His ae w< Walker street, first store from Broadway.
J- , ucas»Tp arg 0 11 g ) (jg Cannl street., has for sale
a “Popular Treau e on Diseases of the Sexual System”
by Edward H. Dixon M. D.; containing a complete ex
position of the origin, symptoms, and treatment of every
known disease ; and w Hie consequences of self-abuse,
with its trpntment. moral an d surgical ;Hr effects upon
offspring, in the develo’ emem. ©ccrrnfula,consumption,
bronchitis, &c-, &c. Horace Greelyin a notice of this
extraordinary work, remarks —‘This is a work for
which there was a most urgent need. Thousands are
annually hurried to premature graves by vices which
they scarcely knew to be such, who would have been
preserved to lives of usefulness and honor by the sea
sonable perusal of a work like this. There is hardlv a
page which does not bear on its face an impressive
warning : shall not that warning be heard 3 Boston Mq
dical and Surgical Journal—“ Dr. Dixon has written
much and well on varioqs branches of surgery; his book
shews a thorough acquaintance with modern practice ;
there are startling things in it, which the non profession
al reader will regard with surprise ; yet, his acknowled
originality, and thorough devotion to the rational prin
ciples or medicine, and his ingenuity under trying sur
gieal circumstances, stamp it with more than ordinary
interest. m 29 3m
30“ Medicated Fume Bath. DR. SWEET’S
celebrated Sulphur Fume Bath, bar, at the request of
several Physicians of this city, been erected at 304
Broadway, corner of Duane street, for the cure ofßheu
matism, Scrofula, Gout, Salt Rheum, and all other dis.
eases of the skin, joints, &c., and is in constant readi
ness. The apparatus has been erected in many parts of
this country, as well as throughout Europe, and is
highly approved of by the Medical Faculty, and meets
with universal success in curing the above named dis
seases, besides many others.
The following certificate, from a physician, dated
Washington, March, 1846, will be read with interest:
Dear Sir : In answer to your communication of the
Bth instant, I am pleased to say that I have every confi •
dence in your Sulphur Fume Bath, for the cure of tho
diseases named in your advertisement. Your brother,
W. C. Choate of this city, has a bath of the same kind.
I have found it an excellent auxiliary in the treatment
of many chronic affections, especially Rheumatism, dis
cases of the Skin, Joints, the Gout, &c- My patients,
without a single exception, have been greatly benefited
by its use, and many have been effectually cured of the
most inveterate cases by its use. I know of no bath pos
sessing the same peculiar advantages, and Ido think its
general use by the faculty would give great satisfaction
to both patientsand physician. Yours, respectfully,
mls 3m J. WROE, M.D.
Fashionable Hats—Spring Style.
JOHN N. GENIN, 214 Broadway, justly cele
brated among fashionable gentleffien as the true connoi
seur in finishing hats, invites those who have not alrea -
dy the Spring style, to call and ge i |t,
His silk hats are the most superb ever offered the pub
lic.
ADVICE TO HAT WEARERS.
Never buy a hat unless the brim suits your form and
countenance, for on that depends its beauty and ele
gance. An experienced fitter is always in attendance
at Genin’s who will not sella hat unless it suits the
form and size of the purchaser. This is the reason of
the popularity and preference manifested for his hats :
’tis thio that has caused them to be enrolled as the ne
plus ultra among ha'.s. a5 Im
Spring Fashion. WM. BROWN, 126
Chatham Street, opposite Rosevelt, would inform
those wishing to procure his new style of hats, that
they are now ready, and they are far superior to anv
heretofore offered. Also, New Fashion Caps, and, a
few unfashionable hats selling for half the usual price.
To those who do not strictly follow the fashion, here is
a chance for a bargain. Also—4oo of the fashion of
1837 will be sold at a great bargain. in 22 Im
Spring Fashion.— BßOWN & CO., 178 Chat
ham Square, corner of Mott st., wish to inform the pub
lic of the recent improvement in lhe manufacture and
finish of their $3 HATS, combining fashion, beauty
and durability, three important considerations to the
wearer. The proprietors do confidently assert their
hats to be much superior to any ever before sold for the
same price. Call and satisfy yourselfyof this fact. m 22
95" Knox’s Fashionable Hats, FOR THE
ENSUING SPRING, are now ready for inspection and
sale, at 110 Fulton street, between William and Nassau,
To those who are not the votiyies of fashion, but al
ways wish to look uniform in the kind of hat they wear,
which is most becoming to them, can have their hats
made to order at a very short notice.
This store will be removed on ’ w the Ist of May, to 128
Fulton street, Sun Building. m!5 3m
LEARY & CO’S
Fashion for Spring, 1846.
The preference so universally manifested for
our present style of Gentlemen’s Hats, has decided us
to continue the same for the ensuing spasop.
LEARY & CO., Hatters,
Nos. 3, 4 and 6 Astor House.
New York, Feb., 19th, 1846.
Circulars, descriptive of (he peculiarity of our style,
forwarded by addressing us post paid. mls 3m
90” Genin’s Fashionable Hats, for theen.
suing Spring are now ready for inspection at 214 Broad
way, opposite St. Paul’s Church. mls Im
11. AMIDON
90” Begs to inform his friends and the public,
that his Hat establishment is removed from the corner
of Wall and Nassau streets to
NO. 177 BROADWAY,
DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE HOWARD HOTEL.
The very liberal patronage which has for many years
been extended to him at his old stand, is duly appreci
ated. And his arrangements are now such, as enable
him to offer every inducement for a continuation of
the same. His celebrated fine Beaver Castor and
Moleskin. Hats, which are too well known to need com
mendation, will be found still farther improved and
beautifiied. Also, a complete assortment of genlle
men’s, youths’ and childrens’ caps, umbrellas, &c., at
moderate prices N. B. Gentleman’s Hats of the
Spring Fashion are nnw ready. mls Im
90“ SPRING FASHION FOR HAIR CUTTING
1846.—E. Phalon, 214 Broadway.
N. B. This is the only establishment where a clean
brush is used for each person. m!4 Im
90" Magic Hair Dye.- RED OR GRJJY WHIS
KERS changed to a beautiful black instantaneously by
Hie application of Phalon’s Magic Hair Dye. Country
gentlemen can have a bottle forwarded thsm by Ex
press or otherwise, by sending their orders, cash en
closed, to E. Phalon, 214 Brodway. Price $1 per bot
tle, with full directions for use accompanying each.
City gentlemen are invited to call at the Depot, where
they can have a superb pair of black whiskers substitute d
or red or grey ones,in less than fiveminutes. mls Im
90" To all Ladies in the city of New York and
every where, greeting : —Know ye, that 1 have removed
from 102 Chatham street to 444 Pearl street; with an ac
cession of capital to my stock adequate to your wants.
The situation is but a stones cast from my former stand
and opposite William street,and among the earpet stores,
ml 3m JOHN BROWN.