The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1837-04-21

Progress OF Revolution.
The general revolution in the social system, origin
ating in the commercial revulsion, advances with
rapidy fearful and omnous TO all those IN power ana
authority. The disorder increases every day, and al
every pont Denomination is breaking out all over
the country In the southern states, stop laws are
talked e-n the west the officers of justice are threa
tened-and even here ia New York. those who appeal
IN the laws for the liquidation of debts, are beginning
70 he denounced BY the Wall street papers, as if they
had nerpetratei henious offences. Ii IS recon-
mended to the mercantile community to refuse ODE
aienee 10 the laws and to cheat the government out
of the duties imposed by the acts of Congress. At
ether points general suspension Of specie payments
is deiberated upon-the Issue Of post notes by the
banks-and general scramble through all ranks of
society.
Ii we pass from commercial to social life will
find the same spirit of revolution and Reorganization
madly marching onward
The failures in the mercantile world which have
already taken place, have precpated many hundred
families from the heights of afaence TO comparative
poverty. Fashionable families stripped forever of
their plumage and gewgaws. Horses, furniture, car
rages all the appendages of extravaganza are rapid
ly passing under the hammer. Beautiful and engaging
females, hardly through the delicious honey moon,
have the prospect opened TO them of long, cherries
and forlorn life. Never, perhaps did such radical
revolution in society take place in any country as is
now going on in this fair, rich and smiling land
Some of the private histories growing out of the
French revolution of 1892, may furnish parallel in
stances to the sudden fall Of pride, elegance, wealth,
beauty and GRANDEUR the lowest depths of despair
No where else.
Many families and persons Of distinction, whose
wealth was founded on cur commercial SYSTEM are
gone forever. Others preparing to spend the next
summer in Paris or Florence, under the smiling sky
of France, the delicious groves of Italy, have 10
abandon their fashionable enterprises, and will soon
be forced to wander TO the praires Of the west in
search of mere subsistence. The fashionable MILL
ners in Broadway, are on the verge of despair. We
learn that all the orders for the summer have been
counermanded, or as of the most fashionable of
them calls it, the ladies what have given me orders
for the very latest Paris fashions have protested the
most on them" Broadway is now almost destitute
of gay equpages and person on foot cross that
street without endangering his limbs.
There never was such general sweep of the specu-
lators-of the parreaus-of the noblity-of the beau
monde-of all those classes OF fashionable society
who have been figuring at all the watering places fo
the last five or six years. The route is overwhem-
ing. IL were confined to that class of society," there
would be something TO rejoice at and be glad for
but unfortunately the innocent and the guilty are in
volved alike in the general wreck of the high crcd,
system. We hardly have throb ofpity for the mob
of SPECTATORS but for the poor females who by tho
Ties of kindred love and affection are involved in the
general calamity, truly sorry--we truly regret
Rendered, by the atrocious system Of fashionable
boarding schools, recently introduced among US ut.
tery useless for all the household purposes of human
life their destiny embittercd with the consciousness.
of ncapabliIy to bsilci the rigid pillows of the fu
fnre.
We do not pity, therefore, any Spectator, or any
class Of spectators who are destroyed by the existing
revulson but we weep and for the poor blush
ing, weeping, defenceless, Innocent beauteous fe-
males, who are involved in the general crash. They
have been deceived, betrayed, cheated, and sadly
abused by the folly of the agethe pride OF their ia
theirs and brethers-the vanity Of mothers-and the
general laxity Of corrupt and wicked generaton.-
These the wicked andunprincipled men who in the
rsing tide of speculation, looked with contempt upon
their more moderate, scdaie, industrious neighbors-
Such men deserve utter prostration They have led
the world astray-the men and women equally so.
With the present terrible train of evils before us we
Aust that all persons in this community will pause
and take lesson. Lee there be general reform in
oar social system Lit education, manners, morals,
and life itself be changed for the better Instead Of
building gay and lordly churchs, and salarying
empty and pompous clergy, let US plant religion in
our hearts-modesly in our conduct-wsrship God
BIN simplicity and in truh-and shut up all the fash
ionable boarding schools. They have been the hot
beds Of pcsiilence and corruption These vain and
empty pretendcrs, who, if the best man in the com
munty would object 10 their exiravagant charges,
would shy, "sh he amt genteol-shan't have his
daughter at my schoo"-ought to be taught lesson
of modcsty, simplicity, rccttudc and true elevation Of
character.
The present terrible revolution every department
OF life may be made useful lesson if we with
profit and discretion.
JAcKAssEs ron sALE.-Thc following list Of Jack
asses are advertised in the Lexington (ky Observer
and Reporter" Achilles, Blue Jim, Magnum 9onum,
Mammoth Warner, General Jackson, General Gaines,
Ulysses General Scott, Colonel Johnson, Jim Crow,
&c" BY and by we shall the following added TO
the hist Of these great names-Ma tn Van Buren,,
Amos Kendall, James Watson Webb, nj. N. Noah,
james Gordon Bennett, &c. The latter breed will
fetch high price.