The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-30
Boston.
Correspondence of the Herald

II BosroN, May %, 1916.
adnnire'sayy Week-Any Quantity of SCOUTING
Singular Cgp'ian Phenomenon Human Nature
niekgulated-Ihe Disunion Traitors-Ihe Fire
Raisers RetWned-Professor Gouraud in Boston
General Training in Boston-LoW State of the
Mllary-Ihe Custom House Guiilotine-IHe
Removed and Appointed
This is the great anniversary week in Boston,
and the city is filed with black-coated and white
crayated strangers. There are anniversaries OF
every thing-Bible Societies, Abolition Societies,
Mission Societies, Sunday School Societies, and
lots of other societies, Day after day, morning,
noon, and night, they keep it .going--preaching,
praying, singing, spouting, resolving, &c, with a
perfect earnestness. The weather is glorious, and
take it all In ALL the reverned anniversaries seem
to have most capital time of it.
AS to keeping the of all these society meetings.
one might well try to count the rails in Virginia
tence, with the cars going at the rate of 80 miles per
nour l do not attempt 1t, and marvel much at the
details of the vapid nothngs said and done their
columns contain. One thing IS very observable, and
also very ludicrous, in the department of all these
nlversary hunters, and that s, the air of profound
gravity with which they 60 about thebusiness IN
hand They really seem to think that their annual
pergrinatlon to the city, their speeches and resou
tlon are the eectual means Of winding and reguat
ing all human nature for year to Gomez and after hav
ing discharged this ponderous duty they go to their
homes with perfect conviction that the world will run
well for that time.
Of all the gatherings this week. the antslavery meet
ings the most exciting. There they talk very plain
~ about overhrowng the governments, State and Ma
tional breaking up the churches and doing all manner
OF funny things. II there any treason in spoken
words these convencles of fanatics would be hord Of
most rabid Arnolds. But they perfectly harmless
for two reasons. In the first place they non-resst
ants; and in the second place, they fight among them
selves that all chance for acting efficiently upon any sub
ject is lost Poor devils, they only want little noore
ty, and emulate the example of him who fired the Ephc
sian dome.
s4Since wrote you last the ncendaries are at work
again, determined to burn the city Strange is
something rotten in Denmark, and the rottenness is
doubtless in the " native" city government
Professor Gouraud is here now with his work on Ne
motechny, and meets with most cordial reception
among the of Boston. He is whole-soued el-
low, and has tongue that would charm the evil prn-
cplc out of Lucifer himself His recent good fortune OF
handsome legacy in France is the source OF much sa
usfacson to his ad lrersbut good fortune sits
upon his shoulders that change be perceived in
him. He is the frank open-hearted liberal
and will doubtless spend his fortune like prince
This the annual training day in Boston and the var
GUS volunteer companies out, though small in num-
ber 1t is said that the military has been for years
declining in the old Bay State-as the laws stand
one is obliged to do military duty, and advantage
trosmtoo said to be dying with the passing gene
ration, and the young men who now the stage
feel nothing of it. The consequence Of all this is that
the companies are gradually pning away, and will, ere
long, all die off,
The has fallen at the Custom House, and twenty
CORY heads rolling about there, with upturned
eyes, and mouths grinnng horribly CHASTITY smle.'
Most Of those removed locos of appointment
heard very respectable and efficient men, Among them
are s. c. Allen Of Northied, s. l.. White Of Taunton
Lewis Josseyn Of Cambridge, H. G. Baldwin Of the
LoceH Advertiser, F. H. Gourgas, late OF the Senate