The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-03


is going to adorn the rest of Mr.. Tyler's Presi-
dency.
The Age we live In.
What is the age we live in! Different people
have different ideas of it. Some think it is the age
of reason, others of religion imagine it to be
one of gold others of iron some declare it neither
metallic nor metaphysical, but that its great charac-
teristc is steam and storms, both Of which apply
very well to the political well the mechanical
and physical world Another party, who seem to
pride themselves upon their superior discernment
into the hidden and unseen, pronounce, cahedra,
this enlightened nineteenth century to be the age
of arrant humbug. Thus the times seem to be out
of joint, and no one appears capable OF reducing the
disocation into any thing like durable complaint.
AS far as this good city of New York is con-
cerned, the times seem to be opening upon us in
aspect, not that the quality of humbug isthere
by lessened deprecated, but that new varieties
and combinations are springing up every day. 1t
seems, indeed, to bear some affinity to those SUBJ
stances in material matter which undergo perpetual
changes and notifications, through the operation
of time and the manipulation of circumstances; and
which educe from chemists, gavanists, biologists,
meteorolegists, biologists, and the whole scien-
tific tribe, u jargon enough to confound the
chief linguist of Babel tower. The present pecu-
liarity of the age with regard 10 New York, is the
appalling quantity of oogics and isn,s and ogra-
phies, and all the other Grecan adoptions in the
English language, which just now difusing
themselves in every part of the city, to the dismay
of our bewildered citizens, many of whom are
wondering in what respect the succeeding genera
ton will he superior to the present For instance,
we avePresbyterianism and Episcopalianism repre-
sentedby the fights between Potts and Wainwright !;
Puseyism and Evangelism represented by the ere
nonsrance, protest and demand" of Bishop Onder-
donk upon his erring brethren of Ohio, Vermont,
and Illinois; Theology and Dogmatism by the bat
ties of Bishop Hughes and Mr.. Cheever; Phreno-
ogy by Fowler; Typography and Photography by
Hardinge Phrono-M nemotechny (the plot evidently
thickens) by Fauvel- Gourard Mesmerism by
Brown and Pike; Physiology by Mannikin Bron-
son and last of all (for the presently the Gospel of
Fourersm by more eminent philosophers, Greeley
and Brisbane. These are not all, nut enough for
the present. We have, however, hard work of it
to keep pace with the rapid developments of the
age butwe will use our best industry and vigilance
Tor that purpose and our readers may expect to
hear of our discoveries from time to time.
GREELEY AND GOVERNOR. Fourerle philo-
sopher is a very ambitious man. Not content with
reorganizing the whole social system of the coun-
try he descends occasionally from that mighty task
in order to attend to the little patry business of Sc
lecting Governor for the trumpery Stale of New
York In his paper of yesterday we find that in re-
aton to the next Governor he gives the go-by to
Thurow Weed because he is otherwise engaged
to w. II. Seward because he must attend to his
potatoe garden in Auburn-and proposes Willis
Hall to be the next Governor Of the State of New
York in place Of the old white horse of Schoharie,
now at Albany Well, we suppose if Greeley says
so it mus, be so; therefore we set down Willis Hall
as Governor of New York next year, pre-haps.
FROM BosToN.-Mr. Maynard. the carrier of the
II. s. Express Mail between this city and Boston,
last night furnished with Boston papers to Thurs
day afternoon We learn from Mr. M. that fifteen
hundred men were engaged in cutting passage
through the ice in Boston harbor; and it was ex-
pected the Britannia would be able to 20 TO sea
yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Abbott, the Wing candidate for Congress
in the third district, is elected by majority of
about CO. We find no other news of importance IN
the Boston papers.
MOVEMENT OF THE WEATHER.-There has been
a decided change in the weather; yesterday a
thaw begun and last night there were signs of rain
We give few extracts below, which show that
the cold has been severer, and that it has at
last reached Charleston, where, a week ago, the
morus multicaulis was in blossom:-
At Whitehall Sunday the thermometer marked %
below On Sunday week, at Plattsburgh, il 20
below On the 2sth at Dover, II il measured 20 be-
At Saratoga Springs, the following range given:
On Saturday morning. at ~ deg below; on Sunday
morning, "a do on Monday morning. ~ do Dr. Clark's
thermometer stood Sunday morning at ~ deg below
o. The mercury sunk to seventeen degrees below
at Saco, Me, on the Goth inst Fiom Windsor locks to
Hartford the best sleghing have IL the Connecticut
river Loaded teams travel the ice with perfect safety.
On Friday morning last, the Thermometer at Augusta,
Me- stood Mt % degrees below The Thermometer
at Montpelier w. the 3st inst at 40 below
which leave Albany 10 O'Clock night now 60 on the
ice far Poughkeepsie This gives travellers smooth
and rapid ride.
From Charleston Is c. Patriot, Jan. 291
we have had, during large portion of our winter the
temperature almost. that belongs to spring but are
paying the full price ofour exemption. The change
from soft atmosphere TO nippng winds has been sud-
den plunge into winters midst ." without note OF
preparation The ice, for the last three days, has
vercd most OF our standing waters and this morning
the edges Of salt streams slightly coated with ice
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Or The latest dates received at New Orleans
from this city, were up to the evening of the 9Th
ultimo.
ELECTIONS IN MAINE. Elm eleven towns in Aroos-
took county Cary has lost ~ votes from the November
trial We think there Ia no choice In the 9th district
there il evidently no choice