New-York tribune., 1842-02-14

HoMF LEAGUES They find in each remedy foi
enormous evils, which threatened 10 reduce then
10 utter wrctchedness The Peoria Register-thG
best paper west of the Wabash-after announcing
tina, every body Whereabouts is joining the lem
perancc League gives the prices of Produce IL
that market as follows Pork So Wheat 6.
l-2c Potatoes CSC &C., and stilltoo high 20 SEND
Oh, as Wheat is but sc. at St Louis; Pork but
cent. ut New Orleans; Lard SC, Butter IT, 20
,atoes 31c.-adds:
"If these prices do no, make the sellers Tariff
men, we know not wha, will Give US Protect
ing Tariff and Pork can never be worth less than
50 per 100 pounds here, less than double this
price in New Orleans. We rejoice to see that a
Inoyemen; is on foot here To this end. a petition
was IN circulation this week, which was signed By
almost every man to whom it was presented. We
will give il with tie names of the signcrs III our
next.
Tg CHARLIE, DicKESs. with his lady, reached
our City on Saturday in the steamboat from New
Haven. and was allowed with very little annoyance
To proceed to his rooms the Carlton House.
4 very miscellaneous but not large asscmb!age had
collected on the wharf where he landed but they
y
We believe he was permitted to spend the evening
and the Sabbath III peace undisturbcd-to 30 TO
Church or stayat home, he chosc-to eat his
dinner undeprcsscd by the breeding horror of u
speech to make at the end of it-and to go out and
in unannoycd by spy standing ready to note down
his words and caricarc his actions. If the iae It's
were otherwise he will at least do our Country the
Justice to satisfy himself that his are
not Americans He will this evening attend the
grand Ball given in honor of his vsit ut the Park
Theatre, and on Friday evening he will be present
at superb Dinner given hmby our foremost csi-
zeas at the City Hotel He will leave the City
on his progress Southwark this day fortnight.
We understand he has already promised to attend
as many Parties, Dinners, Balls, &c, viii
occupy the eu,re interim, leaving him little or no
opportunity for embarrassed observation This Is
10 be regrc,tcd since ii is not III our fashionable
and holiday life lha, he can find materials for f,l-
lure portrature and higher intellectual effort. 1t
was not in bathrooms ana dnncr-ls,rtics that he.
learned to stir the heart of universal Humanity
with the rugged fortunes Of Oliver Twist and
Nicholas Nckleby, the woes of hapless Smike,
and the fortitudc and purity of angelic Nell.
We have heard muymurs that MIR. Dickens has
ventred 10 allude, in his replies to complimentary
addresses, to the gross injustice and spoation 10
which he and all Foreign Authors exposed in
this Country from the absence of an International
Copyright other law protecting the rights of
literary properly. We ,rus, he will not be deter
red from speaking the frank, round truth by any
mistaken courtesy, dthdence, or misapprchenson
of public sentiment He ought TO speak OUT on
this matter for who shall protest against robbery
If those who arc robbed may not Here is man
who writes for living, aad writes nohly and we
of this Country grccdy deyour his writings. ARE
entertained and instructed by them Vet refuse 50
10 protcc. his rights author that he real
Yea single dollar from all their vast Americas
sail, and popuaritv Is this right! Do we looI,
we'll offering him toas,s, compliments and other
Syllabub, while we refuse him naked justice p
while we say that every man may take from him
the fruits Of his labors without rccompcnse or re-
dress I, does very we'll ina dinner speech To
say tina, fame and popularity ard all that, more
than sordia cold but he has wife AVID foul
children, whom his death may very possibly leave
destitu,e-perhaps dependent for their bread,
while publishers who have grown rch on his VIII
tings roll by IN their carriages, and millions who
have been instructed By them contribute not one
farthing to their comfort, Blu, suppose hin, rich,
ifyou please, the justice of the case is unaliered
He is the JUS, owner of his own productions as
much as though he had made or horse-shoes
and the People who refuse 10 protect MS right
ought not to insult him with the .nockerv Of thrift
less praise Let us be Just, and then generous
Good reader il YOU think gucst ought TO be
enabled TO live by and enjoy the fruits of his talents
and toll, Just put Your names to petition for
International Copyright Law, and then YOU can
take his hand heartilvif it comes in your way, and
say. if need be. have done what Is IN MY powc!
10 pro,ec, YOU from robbery The passage OF
this &c, OF lons-defcrred justice will be 2 greater
tribute 10 his worth and achievements than acres
of inflated compliments soaked in hogsheadS OF
champagne
y A large meeting was held in Rochester on
the Sth, at which resolutions decaratory of the
right of petition and in approval Of the course Of
John Quincy Adams in upholding it, We're passed.
" Mr.. Robert Willis, lately Of this city, step
nd ou, of a car on the railroad near Newark,
mon the platform The car Ut the instant ,ar1ed
.. curve threw him against post some fifteen feet
down the bank and injured him 80 severely that