New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-29
The Temperance Canse,

The Temperance VaHse,
We rejoice in being able to state, IS suli advan-
cling in our City There are now over fifty organ
lied Temperance Societies in our City which hold
-soplsr meetings once week or oftener, and every
week numbers It's accessions TO their ranks by
.cores if not BY hundreds. The interest IN the
Cause is uniasging and in many cases stronger
,bs, ever Some of the apostles of Temperance
attend meetings nearly every night, aad the mum,
her of bab;tual attendants on the various stated
Temperance Meetings in or City cannot, be less
than ten thousand Three small weekly papers
adyocacySot@l emperaMnese 81
arsnow published incur CityGand fourth is soon @
,to,be issued I'VE regret this, multiplicity, Tor we
believe two papers might, be well supported wnefe
-four will be barely able to exist. In addition TO
Ythese,q qthes9W 9Wsshingtonian Daily News "a small
penny sheet-H. A. Fay and Dr.. w. w. Wallace
Editors-has recently been ushered into existence )
and we rejoice 10 hear that it has fair chance OF
receiving support. II is full Of the Temperance
movements of the day.
. In Yesterdays number, in an account OF the
meeting of the Franklin Society on Saturday even
ing, we lind the following notice of the remarks OF
WILLIAM WALLACE of Kentuc!sy-the young Poet
whose writings evince SO much of the true fire OF
Genius. He has been yotary and threatened to
be victim of the Intoxicating poison; but ne has
nobly spurned the shackles that were fast encios-
ing him, and enlisted ardently and actively under
the banner of Temperance. The News says OF
MS Speech:
"Youns Mr.. Wallace covered himself with glory
Manv nersens in the audience said he was bright
star of promise, superior to the celebrated Mar.
shall himself, both in eloquence and gracetulness OF
delivery. Peals upon peals of hearty and unan'.
nous applause testified the high qualification of
the audience IF Washing gtonianism can attract
MANY more such brilliant minds and master splrl's 5
of genius. taste and ora,ory to its sappo;t, 1t Will
not take much longer time to dethrone the tyrant
alcohol reform every drunkard, SHUT up every
rum-hoe on the earth, and extirpate from the Gus
toms of social life the intoxicating cup.
no SANDY WELSH, one Of the most ardent, in
defatigabe, effective and popular apostles OF the
Cause, gives Temperance Concert at National
Hall, Canal-street this erening Tickets only
l2t cents We do hope there will be generous
rally Of the friends Of Temperance this occasion
Mr.. w. deserves well of them, and we doubt not
this evening will show their hearty appreciation OF
his services.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY AssocIATIoN.-Re S.
X. LATHRor, of Boston, distinguished and elo-
quent divine, will lecture at the Tabernacle this
evening. He comes to US with high reputation
| and has chosen for his subject the Progress and
s
room for mo st interesting and valuable discus
sion.
| ANTHONY L. FRoscH.-It will be seen by refer
ence to the proceedings in the United States Court,
| which will be found in another column, that Mr..
| Frosch has forfeited his recognzances. 1t will be
recollected that this is the individual who prac
tsed such frequent and extensive frauds upon oul
Custom House in the importation OF French goods
1t is supposed by some that he has gone to ku
| rope, by Others to Canada
The AMERICAN ECLEcTIc.-lt will be seen by
an advertisement in another column that this ex-
ceent periodical has become united with Littell's
Museum, we'll known and highly popular Maga-
zine, made up of selections from Foreign Litera-
ture. The work will now be issued in monthly
numbers of 144 pages each, and viii, we con-
fident prove one of the best and most acceptable
periodical publications of the day.
10 Mrs FARNHAM, as will be seen by notice
in OUT columns, proposes TO repeat her course OF
Lectures to Women at Concert Hall, commencing
with free Introductory on Friday of this week
bon hoor ttatt tho Iyb m
attended her first effort in city of strangers is
sufficient to justify a repetition.
p Mr.. MOONEY delivers his third Lecture Oh
Irish History this evening at Concert Hail.
Those that have preceded it have been received
with distinguished favor.
U Mr.. Somerville Pinckney, of Annapolis,
Nd. who recently disappeared, has returned to his
residence in a state of deirium; medical treatment,
however, has nearly restored him.
20 The railroad cars between this city and
Philadelphia ran off the track on Sunday evening
near Bordentown. The train was detained but no
injury was done
~A man named jobs Chetister, in Danville
County, Pa. recently committed suicide by hang
ing himself.
70 The Boston Atlas say. that burlesque on
D1cKENs's Notes on America, entitled English
Notes. will soon be published.
W ROBERT SMITH, Esq, respected citizen
of Baltimore, died on Saturday last.
LATE FROM FLoRIDA-The U. S. steamer Col.
Harvey, arrived yesterday from Palatka. We
learn that Gen. Worth had arrived at Tampa Bay,