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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-04

VERY NEARLY A CASE OF GRIM. CoN.-Quite an
interesting case of Grim. con. almost came off at
Lynn few days ago. which has caused much amuse-
ncnt to and CONSERVATION to others inhabitants
Of that peaceful town where. is universally known
they don't do such things." What might
have happened, had one party b.cn willingn
he other. be dimy conectured but it it
that there nothing split but clapboard
We understand that two of the actors in the by-play
brothers, of whom Is married to rather pretty
and interesting wife and in these days Of liberty
equality and fraternity" it seems that tho other
brother thought he might come in! for share Of
brothcrly affection. 1t would appear that he made
certain delicate overtures to the fair wife, who told
them to her husband, but he would not believe her
She offered to convince him. and appointing a time to
meet the gallant Lotharo, hid her husbau under the
bed. She then proceeded to initiate him into one OF
the more advanced degrees of matrimonial free
sonry at the time dsrobng herself part of the
ceremony. When her enamored neophyte had done
tho same, the now thoroughly converted husband
issued forth and spoiled the completion of the in
teresting pcrformanc noes. A complaint entered
before magistrate but as we understand 1t has bee
privately quashed we shall kindly say about
The matter-Bosfon Mail, June 2.
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They also debased with the grossest superstition
that degrade human nature or render detestabc
would call ministers Of the gospel or religious 80
cieties or associations, whose benevoence-bounded
neither by landmarks nor seas-but patriots OF the
word-seek in its most remote corners objects whom
they may teach look up their state Of
and degradation to that Being who nrst taught them
to feel the impulse aud to seek the conversion
aud civilization OF the heathen and would respectfully
ask them whether 1t be not possible to do something to
improve the present degraded condition In which
great part Of the population Of this country unfortu
nately lie 1t Is cmphatically ut present. the reign OF
terror in Hayt The blacks decided upon, and
publicly declare their intention without shame or re-
of discriminating the coored population, without
distinction Of age or sex They wish the country to
be ruled and possessed only by Of pure African
blood. You will think readily agree with me, that
mated from persons of pure African blood Neverthe
less it but too certain that they will accomplish their
hesh intention should not the civilized nations unite
to prevent it, But certainly they look on,
unconcerned spectators, in where the odds are
great and especially upon such q revolving
| am shocked when | think of my own proximity to
these wrctches who could for moment entertain
such an intention. Justice to them, however, compcls
me to say that have always gone and unmolest
cd amongst them although have only remained in the
different parts of their country less than two years.
Murders and assassnations of daily occurrence.
incendiary.
Those among the colored population who possess
money are leaving the country fast as they can.
Those unfortunates who have not sufficient funds to
enable them TO leave, must remain to meet their
fate which must be what these ends wish it, Foreign
interference alone can prevent such calamity.
Tomorrow shall leave the scene Of these atrocities,
but the recollection of them will be obterated
from my memory. Should safely arrive at my desti-
nation, you may expect to hear from me again. z.
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Thus it will be seen, that the spurious article
contains less than one-fourth of the active princi-
pie of the genuine, to say nothing of the indiges-
tible earth, &c.
The amount of drugs, medicines, NC, annually
imported into New York, is about million and a
half of dollars. II was in IS47. Three fourths of
all consumed in the United States are imported
through that custom house.
There can be no doubt that the Senate will
promptly pass the BILL unless an effort be made to
amend it, by adding the Wilmot proviso.
The government has obtained many of It's medi-
cines for our army in Mexico, by contract and it
is probable, that brave men, having escaped death
upon the battle field, have been poisoned in the
hospitals by the administration of cheap physic
We think that amendment ought TO be made to
the bill, requiring the importers of deleterious me-
dicines to swallow it in the presence of the exa-
minors. FELIX
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Foreign Items.

THE RornscuILps.-A Paris correspondent of a
London paper states that the above house has lost
100000 600 francs by the late revolution. The same
correspondent afirms that Of the firm openly
knowledged such to be the fact. When the French
loan contracted. the New York Herald contained
an article commenting with surprise the bodness
Of the Itohschiids. In making such loan II Is said
that all the members Of tho Rohschild family
srmllcd at Paris Mt this moment Some idea may be
formed of the immense this great house
from the fact that such immense losses have not tend
cd in the least to cmbarrass their payments reard
or impede their operations
CLup OF wonwINo WOMEN At PARn-Tho Paris
Presse Of May 18th gives very graphic account Of
the opening Of the Ladies(or rs O. Adams preferred
10 speak-thc Women's) Club at Paris. An immense
and turn the affair into rdculc but there nothing
In the whole proceeding which gave the least ground
for contempt or ridic ule all was conducted with
der and sobrlety The female president stated the
object of the club IL composed entirely of work.
women of Paris. She rcpudated cmpbatically the in
discriminate and absurd doctrine Of Louis Blanc and
the Communists, Fourierites, and Socialists,
and stated that the ladies were to work
and to be paid according to the degree of talent exhibit
discourse regulating the indiscrimnate promiscuous
plan of happfying all men in the same degree good or
bad idle or industrious, Ia described ~ having been
greeted with immense applause and loud cheers by the
assembled crowds which were present at the sitting.
4 workshop is to be given to tho club by the govern
me Mt and work will be given OUT also, large kitchen
Is to be established for the members Of tho club to pro-
vide dinner consisting Of soup meat, vegetables and
bread at four cents each person The lady President
was much appauded. and the project of the club well
received Such kind Of clubs bavc long existed in Lon
don among the arstocracy where they dine sumptu-
ously at cheap rate Why should not similar COM
bination clubbing DO effected among the pcbcian
classes of all countries!
Nlw YoRK AND HAvRE LrSE TRANSATLANTIC
srEAMEnS-The journal du Hare states that the
Hcroult Company has been Dissolved and the four fri
gates given them by the government taken away from
them in consequence of thor failure to carry out the
engagements and compact they had entered into
Great discomfort prevailed in Ilavre against the CON-
pany they paid no one-the crews were kept up with
out pay-thcy did nothing, and the government was
Obliged to interfere and rc.attach the steamers and
their ere ws to the French navy
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-04

YOUNG vorEs.-lt is estimated that 100000 men will
take part in the Presidential election of 1s4s who In
i a 1s4f we're between the ages Of II and 81
Tur LIBERTY LEAcuE.--Ths arm Of the liberty par-
~ were holding n convention at Rochester on the LIST
inst They nominated Charles q. Foot. Of Michigan
for Vice President There IS votes and MIR
Foot got 49, Gerritt Smith is the candidate Of the
league for the Presidency.
ON HOMER CANDIDATE roR GovEaNoR.-It Is said
hat the old hunkers trying to John A. Dix
Governor in order to conciate the barnburners.
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Sporting Intelligence.

TRorrINa-Lady Suffolk Americus and Lady Mos
COW are the entries for the $500 propretors purse at
the Csntreville Course, next Wednesday. Fortune
will follow such field
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Cleared.
Steamship -Norherner Brdd, Charleston spoord eston
,vs .ss @ P 81 sn. IG ND G av Min.
q AGNES @
By S?s ee ns
sS $ S CAL e. Isas,
ss~GiSsrs matsej, Muilsan D,merara Brisand Ward
{ John SB %sSS u.s. SOM Harmony Br Gs.snsy La
Ms "s Bahia if SoSss "'D'l '''' A'e''''t
Be- Bsss B9s~sr wiiHinstos &c; Bessscn No.; do
Hester Green a9 Ann Gardner Hartman Rishond Rus
asy Caroline sas%dder do bopha says1 New
Ss as ssSse esnssn walsh
Y Ees .snsy
Ship Alfred Pendleton Havre 10Th April with mdse and pas.
Ship Camden Sherwood Charleston days with cotton &C.
Steamer Globe, Wright Norenp. 18th May and Key West s
ssisrsnesd very heavy weather Ne,
3 ksy & s B a 10 %
enes; 2a bark Abby Baker Pratt for NYork sstn of the
New With
Goodwin zh a d PSqss Headed Shot Ky BARK sa;
brig 9 i Lamar. hence for Galveston. :,
British brig Gem, Murray, Galway g days with s.
from Essport for WIndies ef0
Dudley Curtis fnncc IL 70 q
w Dcafed, vessel to Nesmith l. Walsh
Schr fremont MITCHELL st Jsgo de Cuba 10th u with
&C. Sid with the bark Panchita Bailey
Msnsanll load for Boston; ba:k Wilhame Jewett for Ii
cnfucgos 70 load for NYork.
Schr ii Hannum, Thomas Port Prince, days. with
Sid in with brig Ida Of and for Philadelphia
Schr G W Davis Briggs Wilmington, (NC) days. to S
Powell
scr Sco Frambes Richmond days. with coal to Tslow
Brothers,
Schr Appleton, Smith, Virginia, with wood
Schr Fair, Lonfeld, Richmond, with mdse Mailer Lord
Schr Togs Collins Wilmington, NC, naval stores Brown u
Brothers.
Schr Rebcca. wolgam Petersburg with Hunter
Schr Sgune Swain Baltimore with four johnson Low.
den
Schr Maria Fleming, Coarsce, Brandywne, with
Buckley
Ship Sarah from Manila which arrived Friday ugh
John OGDEN Sampson Tappan Boston and others
Below.
briggs
Sailed.
Steamship Nortener. Charleston; ships II sheppard Liver
pool De Witt Clinton do Elizabeth Bentley, st Johns
Louisa do bark Jessurun Curacoa Claiming Rio Janeiro
brig Almira, Thomaston.
June wind at Sunrise NV light meridian, sW, do;
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WASHINGTON, June 2, lS4S.

WASHlNGlON. uHc lSfO
-4dmtcrated Drugs-MiSnamcd NIedicines-THc
Passage ola Bill to Exclude them.
Dr. Edwards, from the select committee, con-
slsting Of all the doctors the House, Zones, of
GA, Fries, Eckart, Mes, Lord, Newell, Henry, and
Williams) this morning reported bill to prohibit
the importation Of articles, purporting to be drugs
and medicines. We understand, from the read
ing that they to be examined at the custom
houses analysis is to be made-spurious mporta-
lions are to be Observation-Disclosures of the law to
be visited with penalties, and examiners appoint
ed at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Charleston and New Orleans. The bill was pass
ed, after few words of explanation by DR.. Ed
wards.
The report accompanying it is ably written, and
exposes the vlllanous transactions of individuals.
whose business IT is to adulterate the medicines
sent to this country for consumption. 1t is bad
enough to swallow genuine boluses and draughts
OF apothecarys stuff.
1t appears that on a reference to the custom house
books of New York, il was found that seven thou
sand pounds of rhubarb root had been passed with
IN ninety days, mot one pound OF which was mt,
or even safe, 10 be used tor medicinal purposes"
Some OF II was worm-eaten and decaycd, while
ether portions of It's virtue had been extracted
This article was lnvolced at from two-and-
a-half pence sterling Give cents) TO seven pence
fourteen cents( per pound. The price OF good
Last luuld ihupaio, ~. seNsidi years past, mas
been from thirty-hve to fory-five cents per pound,
according to circumstances The Turkey or Rus
sien is worth, from dollar and twenty-five cents
10 two fifty, exhibiting wide difference in price
between the good and the refuse article. The
genuine Peruvian bark is worth otless than sixty
Or eighty dollars per quintal-the worthless trash
that comes from Europe, principally, is previously
deprived of its virtue, Tor the purpose of making
the extract of Peruvian bark. 1t is invoiced from
two to seven cents per pound. A thousand pounds
passed the New York custom house, and may, the
committee say, be considered dear even at this
rate. Opium is also adulterated two-thirds of the
active principle is taken out for the manufacture
of morphine. Many of the medicines gums, &c,
are adultcrated, or combined with earthy or
other matter. that they not only unsafe but
worthless for medicinal purposes Blue moss,
when pure, contaius thirty three-and-a-thlrd per
cent of mercury combined with conserve of roses
&c. The detenorated article, according to the
correct analysis of Professor Tread, of the New
York College of Pharmacy is made as follows -
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"a Ella Edrsss gSe%.s y liS ss
. Nay Flower autsn Trinidad With part inward
lin Granada May u in port, brig Cabot Lander dg
miscellaneous Hec0rst.
s YuMc-A letter from Capt Garfield to Tapran, Esq
MI an attempt was board her failed account Of
Sna sisSs she
boarding day rudder found adr
s
length ahead Add the Of I r az r MAS ys1
not much injured
.ss ss ton; rs ss
on Monroo Island in slusl on the 3ls nit After getting
rigging were saved The vessel was insured for SO The @e
is supposed to have been insured
% south sssn f., fs rr s M @ with
"iscsset ucy from Bangor for Boston lumber which
ap.ea took of Cap: uey and crew and one lady passenger
Mrs fosset and brought them into Boston The crew saved
valued at about sis06. and insured.
Ship CnAssros Cooper Of and for St John. NIB . days from
London, in ballast hors Shelburne M I'D ult
thick fog and became S total wreck material r says The
Ss s and %as insured 9 5000
which 200 wer in the Marn- Assurance oc ). John ZOO At
Boston.
Bark Psrscrss Of John NIB, from Dublin.
{ l,5oO at the Globe office st John.
Sch CHARLES Henry before reported burnt at the Chop
hnt Her cargo all burnt She wa, about 90 tons year;
old built 81 ts best materials copIcrastcnea ana
Go, ~ - -, 30 ~. -, 49, D., ,,, -
80 i,o.' Va ap ~, .a, ~, a. =. na io
u'.' ''so' anu u'"'eu on 'os"'I e'e'N @ won. " f
ScR MAINE from Bath for Boston. anchored LIST inst after
OH cuatc leaking at night made sa and arriving just
within the harbor sunk.
Sch MARSHALL IIncklcy from Rondout for Boston, with
coal struck on the south ~r Of the Handkerchief
shoa Wednesday in of the buoy being out
90 N after unk in r sthoms water near Montgomery Point
Chatham III expected the vessel and will he total
shin of about 700 tons pa,nd ports and apparently new;
wbs 'hs" ~ I'll ue "soe y" >nls rIo'
srsd and topnssts struck brig from or"uA 'of S'
Nd "As p'eh Tvs. on 'aPe Neero'
LAvNcrpAt sipp.can, 3lss ul ly Capt II Allen, COP,
fastened schooner U She called the Hcpeton aud
built under the direction Of Mr. y iliam Clark.
At Newburypor LIST met by Pickett bark Of about
go tons called built expressly for regular packet
between Boston and Philadelphia In incoin GO va CON-
ncrcia Line aud to be commanded ~ capt henry i"ns
Whnlemons
Arr a, Nu.ars % inst shin Massachusetts, Cash. Pacific
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n A nITIMM INT M L nc n n . Il;
Port Of New York, juno 4, Is4s.
Cleared.

SUN : s. . .SHs s s..: q
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4 briggs
Herald Marine correspondence.

BARBADoEs, May PAR brig nummng Bird, (Br) Godfc
osr dsy d Sg m"d V caons S dsx
s brig SylPh OBJ Masters, Baltimore ~ days sid for Trnida
Olive Augur. Antigua 3d. brig Hennitto Davis, St Thomas
brig May Flower, Ianfan Trinidad with part inward cag
April 49, briggs Amelia Clarke Toago; Henry Woolis Chambe
lin Granada May u in port brig Cabot, lander dig
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-02-26
l'he Danger. OF Power.

The sheep, exposed to be more or less
the prey of every animal, came before Jove,
and representing to him his wretched condi-
ton, prayed him to alleviate it. Joye
seemed propitious, and said to the sheep,
Thou thinkest, then, my poor creature,
that have left thee all too defenceless.
Thou has but to choose thy remedy for this
defect. Wouldst thou have mo to arm thy
mouth with formidable tusks and thy feet
with claws = oh, no 7 said the sheep. 81
will have nothing in common with the raw.
enous beasts Or, continued Jove, shall
| infuse poison into thy saliva!" .Ah,'
said the sheep, the poisonous snake is an
object Of such universal hatred well,
what am ! to dol Say, shall plant
horns upon thy forehead, and impart strength
to thy neck oh, no, no, mighty father
! might be as ready to butt, to strike with
my horns, as the bull. the buck, or the
goat And yet what other way is there
to prevent Others from hurting thee, unless
by giving thee the power to hurt them p
And is this SO = sighed the sheep; then
leave me, mighty father as | am. The
power to injure may awake in me the de-
sire to injure; and far better is it to suffer
wrong than to inAict it, Jove blessed the
good sheep, and from that hour it complain.
ed no more.-Lessing. orb : aH
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Character 81 Akebe-pscrr.-

There was something Of these three rls.
ments in the soul Of the convention mar.
pose which was true and practically attain
able; chimeras, which vanished at the a,
temPts to apply them; fits Of rage, which
sought to exlou by torture the realization of
an order OF things not as Yet in the nature Of
man. Holy hopes, vain Utopias, atfocio1s
neans--ssch were the elements tina, com.
posed the social politics Of this assembly
placed between two civilizations TO exter.
inmate the one, and herald in the oibe,
RobcsPierre Personi6ed these tendencie,
more than any Of his colleagues His plans
religious in their purpose, chimcIicaI in
their details, became sanguinary when they
came in collision with practical impossible
ty. A frenzy Of benevolsnce seized the
Utopian; this frenzy Of benevolence has the
same effects as the frenzy OF mischief. Ro.
bespieue held to his chimeIas as to truths.
Had he been more enlightened, be would
have been more patient His anger arose
from his delusions. He wished to be he
constructor Of social regeneration; society
resisted: he took the sword and thought
it was permitted to man to make himself
the executoner Of God. He communicated
this spirit, half through lanaticism, hall
through terror, to the Jacobins. to the peo-
pie, TO the convention. Hence this contras,
of an assembly resting one hand on the rey.
dictionary tribunal and the instrument Of
death, and with the other writing consul
tuition which recalled the pastoral republics
of Plato or 'Telemachus.' and brealhed in
every page, God. the people. ,ustce, and
humanity. Never was 50 much blood shed
on truth. The task Of history is to wash
out these stains, and not to reject social
justice because delUge Of blood has been
spilled over the doctrines of liberty, OF char
ity, and Of reasOn.-D.
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Good.Natured Rrteuds.

"Has the beloved reader, in his expert
ence in society, never heard similar remarks
by good natured female friends---who al
ways wonder what you can see in Miss
Smith that is so fascinating; or what could
induce Major Jones to propose for that silly,
Insignificant, simpering Miss Thompson,
who has nothing bit her wax-doll face to
recommend her? What are there in pair
Of pink cheeks and blue eyes forsooth! these
dear moralsts ask, and hint wisely that the
gift of genius, the accomplishment of the
mind, the mastery Of Mangnall's Questions,
and lady-lke knowledge Of botany and
geology, the gift of making poetry, the pow
er OF rafting sonatas in the Herr manner,
and so forth, are far more valuable endow-
ments for female, than those fugitive
charms which few years will inevitably
tarnish. 1t is quite edifying to hear women
speculate upon the worthlesness and the du-
ration Of beauty.
"But though virtue is a much finer thing,
and those haples creatures who suffer under
the misfortune Of good looks ought to be
continually put in mind Of the fate which
awaits them; and though, very likely, the
heroic female character which ladies admire
is more glorious and beautiful object than
the kind, fresh. smiling, artless, tender little
domestic goddess, whom men are inclined
to worship-yet the latter and inferior sort
of women must have this consolation-that
the men do admire them after all; and that,
in spite Of all our kind friends warnings
and protests, we 90 on in our desperate err
ror and folly, and shall to the end Of the
chapter. Indeed, for my own part, though
| have been repeatedly told, by persons for
whom have the greatest respect, that Miss
Brown is an Insignificant chit, and Mrs
White has nothing but her petit minois
chifonne, and Mrs. Black has not word
to say for herself, yet ! know that have
the most delightful conversation with Mrs.
Black; (of course, my dear madam, they
are inviolable y see all the men in clus-
ter round Mrs. Whites chair; all the young
fellows battling to dance with Miss Brown;
and 80 am tempted to think that to be
despised by her sex is very great compli-
ment TO woman. - Vanity Fair. ~
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The beauty Of female figure consists in
being gently serpentine. Modes,y and lux
uriance, fullness and buoyancy; rising as
tito meet; falling as if to retire spirit,
softness, apprehensiveness. self possession,
claim on protection, superiority to in
suit, sparkling something enshrined to
gentle proportions and harmonious move.
ment, should all be found in that charming
mixture Of the spiritual and material. Mind
and body are not to be separated where real
beauty exists. Should there be no great
Intellectual instinct grace, an address, a
naturally wise amiableness. Should intel.
lect unite with these, there is nothing on
earth so powerful, except the spirit, whom
it shall call master.
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The Toll. Of Newspaper Kd,,.r.

The editors Of these papers must have a
most enormous task. 1t is not the writing
Of the leading article itself, but the obliga,
ton TO write that article every week, wheth-
er inclined or not, in sickness or in health,
in affection, disease Of mind, winter and
summer, year after year, tied down to the
task, remaining in one spot. have fell
low feeling, for | know how a periodical
will wear down ones existence. In itself,
it appears nothing: the labor is not mani
fest: nor is it the labor, it is the continual
attention which it requires. Your life be-
comes, as it were, the publication. One
paper is no sooner corrected and printed,
than on comes another. 1t is an endless
repetition Of toll. a constant weight upon
the intellect and spirits, demanding all the
exertion Of your faculties, at the same time
that you are compelled to do the severest
drudgery. To write for paper is very
well, but to edit one is to condemn yourself
to slavery.-Marryan.