New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-30

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-, ., E,,,ooed Review of stepAens, Travels IN
Eor C,sm.ars Story, The AnsTean I"ss'ise &c
see Last Page.
NJ We omitted yesterday to acknowledge our
5,a.b,edoess to Adams g. Co. for the only Boston
,,ner which reached US. We always feel gra'e-
full for such favors although we sometimes neg'ec1
90 make public acknowledgement. But tof taese
pseful Expresses (Which are rot ike 'ns Mail,
confined to any prescribed route Da' GO" ''rA 70.
themselves Of the most expediuous') the puolic
would sometimes be without news from oos'on'
Albany &C., for day or two at least
NJ The passengers who left Boston by the Ston-
;n,to, route on Monday afternoon, only reached
ber. yesterday at 8 P. NJ, having been detained
a, stenng,on unsil 3 A. NJ. of Wednesday by a
violent storm of wind and rain. Passengers tell
rs thai from A. M. until P. M. it rained in
torrents and the quantity OF water which tell ex-
cceded any thing before known in that quarter and
1t is found that much damage has been done BY the
water and melted snsw. The gale was very severe
from the south east trees were prostrated and
several vessels dragged their anchors. The train
when the boat left yesterday morning at 8 clock
The Monday passengers by the Worcester and
Norwich Road. arrived on Tuesday about noon
This road is now under excellent arrangements. and
with three good boats, convenient cars and atten-
tive officers, must attract large portion OF the
travel the coming summer. Arrangements to BRING
the terminus of this road six miles lower dewn
the river have been nearly completed which Will
shorten the time between the two cities and lessen
tho danger of delay on beard the boats.
.r AS will be seen by notice in adverti-
sing columns the question whether Thomas Dorr
is or is not the rghtul Governor of Rhode Island,
will be discussed at the Tabernacle tomorrow
evening. Although as stated, and in view of the
facts attending the Election, the question would
seem to be simple and easily answered, in refer
ence to the principles involved in the Rhode Is
land controversy it is yet one of the most import
ant and vitality interesting that could have been
proposed It touches the essential principles OF
our Government and indeed involves, when rightly
considered, the possibility of any Government 1t
should therefore be discussed with calmness and
in the light of ultimate principles.
~ THE TRIAL OF MERCER, for the murder
Of Heberton, commenced on Tuesday afternoon,
and we have in the Philadelphia papers full
report of the testimony taken that day. jury
was eanpaneled without the slightest difficulty or
DELAY and the trial proceeded. The only witness
we. examined was Mr.. Vandyke, who was in COM
pany with Heberten at the time of his death. HIS
testimony was in relation to the circumstances at
sending it. AS it contains no new facts not al
ready before our readers we do not burden our
columns with it.
SAvAaE.-Mr. Cushing closes reply to some
slander uttered against him by Mr.. Leayitt, an
Abolition journalist and lecturer with the follow
ing paragraph:
.sAs to the loose general charges made by Mr.:
Ieayitt, | have only this to say, that so far as
am concerned, pity and pardon the wild exag-
peration, the bitter unchari,abeness, the olgoted
intolerance of the slightest difference OF opinion,
and the savage atrocity of habitual calumny ana
defamation which characterize the writings ana
speeches Of Mr. Leavtt and his associates, against
rnyself and others whose convictions of duty upon
every public question do not happen to conform
to their own narrow and impracticable standard
NEw-YoRK FIREMEN.-1n allusion to the dis
graceful neglect OF the hhaoeiPuio iiie "
aid in extinguishing FIRE there, through tear OF
iujuring the appearance of their apparatus which
was prepared for parade, as mentioned oy our
Philadelphia correspondent yesterday, the Com
saercial Advertiser pays the following merited
compliment to the fremen of our city -
With all the faults of our New-York FIRE de-
partnent, we never knew them to be guilty OF an
action like tina, recorded above. Neglect of duty,
at least, they cannet be charged with. AT all their
celebrations, their first care to make efficient ar
rangements for the contingency of hre, and we
have seen them upon moro than one occasion leave
ballroom or a procession, with an alacrlty and
cheerfuness which led suppose that the dis.
charge of their duty as fremea was more grateful
so them than the pleasures in which they were en-
gagged
Hy' Yesterday was the Anniversary of the found
ing Of the Parent Temperance Society in this City,
and it was celebrated by procession of the vari-
ous Temperance Societies and by appropriate cere-
monies. In the evening the Office of The Organ
and Washing,oRian, the 6rst Temperance paper es-
sahshed in the country, was brilliantly illumina-
ted in honor of the occasion.
U The Herald yesterday had terrible story of
man in Brooklyn who met his wife in the street,
seized her head and cut her throat-fron jealousy.
The Eagle gives this version of the stery--which
puts different face on the matter:
The true version of the above story is this:
the lady was walkisg in company with her brother,
when her husband, by way of pleasantly, ran be-
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