The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-08

she Is there the resurrection the easter day of free
dom. Tire la Repubiique
"And far away TO the east and west, to north and
south, writes the black telegraph the blue sky of
February the magic words La RepubHque! and in
hours the cry sounds along the coasts of
the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees and from the At
lantic and the shores of the Rhine comes back the
echo, Tire la RepubHquen'
A FIGHT AMONG Sporting MEN.-That large
and influential class Of about town, known the
sporting gents have been in state of excitement in
consequence of sharp, short but very brilliant battle
between two Of the greatest fighting of the crowd
which came of ON Thursday evening ut the oyster
LOOM on the corner of Park Place and Broadway. The
combatants were Yankee Sullivan and Thomas Hyer.
The immediate Of the fight appears to have been
piece Of buster, the part of Yankee that he
could fight any man that could be found anywhere.
and lick the man toon This sweeping challenge was
taken up by Her who began to divest himself of his
coat and while thus engaged Yankee made blow
arms We're disengaged from his garment, he made
desperate lunge ut Yankee, with his right hand which
took effect upon the nasal organ and would have
duced the braggarts perpe uar horizontal po-
siton had not ysr stepped in and catching his foe
with his left had his head in that peculiar position
which IL termed In chancery In this fix, Yankee had
to take 1t until his opponent chose to listen the bragg
CARTS call for quarter When he dropped his eyes
both closed and his frontispece altered that 1t could
not be recognised by his best friends from silver tea
pot OF course things cannot stay in this unsettled
state any longer than it is necessary for Yankee to
cover, when We presume, regular rOugh-and- tumble
fight will be got up, to test which Is the better man.
Gen. Scott's true character has not been rightly
presented understood He his heart upon his
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it forces its way out when in other of tact
cunning it would be kept within bounds, not be al
lowed to show itself but on proper occasions-when
something was to be gained.
SO with his vanity Scott is a vain man; and here
again the love of truth that is in him shows itself,
giving to the light his weaknesses. All men are
vain or egotistcal but the majority have the art to
keep check upon their vanity and egotism and to do
it the better they decry their existence in others To
show that have not particular vice ourselves
should abuse its existence in those that known to
have or that show it.
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than the fire in his rearhe has fought his countrys
enemies better than he has fought his Yet no
man is evidently too honest to be put down by any
combination of vilany, aided by perjury, or other vile
things.
The Mirror is gravcly of opinion that that mantle of
Powers has not fallen upon Mr. Collins shoulders We
opinc that it may have fallen upon 'cm, but it
worn out by the newspapers long before it reached the
last Of the paddles and the first of vocalists.
The Aston Place Opera House has suspended its
notes. musical and pccuniary it is in debt to every
newspaper in the city. Oh, quite fashionable affair,
very 1t kept up its character to the lastprice 50
to
DAvY CRocxETT AND DADDY RIcE-When Davy
Crockett the tour of the States few years
ago he met Jim Crow Rice, then little past the meri
dian of his fame and became enamored of him that
he took him to his bosom in the shape of huge brooch
about foot in length upon which the figure of
popular colored parsonage doing just so it was 80
large that it looked like shield than breast
pin. OF course Dayy's fame and his remarkable APP
peaance attracted great deal of attention in every city
mature Rice himself ut this time somewhat
eccentric Us to dress wherever he could stick gold
eagle in the form of button, it thar In fact, he
appeared to be gold buttons from the collar of his coat
to the toe of his boots The arrival of these two
trio and utrious personages made some sort of sem
sation in the good city of Boston-such sensation
indeed, to reach Mr. Barry who the manager of
the fremont Theatre. polite invitation instant
y despatched to the hero of the day requesting him
visit that establishment for the benefit of its treasury
To this invitation the following brief sent
To Thomas Barry. Esq. fremont Theatre
Str- MIR Inrn lrnv Ion Ia I'm nnlu
authorized to make any theatrical engagements for
during my tour through these United States
Yours etcrnally, DAVID CROCKETT.
Barry instantly waited upon Rice to know the mean
ing of the joke
.Lookee YAH said Rice IL tell yer it's no joke
The fac is that my fried the Colonel Is dam fond of me-
and he don't about visiting the theatre unless I'm
playing and-and don't care dam about playing
do yer unless have hafthe house-haf the house
After little negotiation. and Barry finding
there help for it, Rice (and Davy Crockett)
were engaged-the former to dance Jim Crow the lat
ter to appear in front of the house with that breastpn
The combined powers drew thousand dollars, Of
which Rice pocketed one-haf OF course Crockett did
not touch cent of it the joke got up for the be-
neht Of his friend Jim Crow.
[From the Sunday Despatch, May7I
Gen. Taylor has written one more letter. He has
not changed his position He is willing to be any bo
dy's candidate, or every bodys caddate and is de-
termined to be some body's Candidate at all events
Whoever else runs for the Presidency he takes hand
and in this game, he expects his bugle will prove
winning trump.
Greeley has written his annual lecture to the young
men who going to vote for the first time He tells
them that party has the most of all the decency,
all the morality, all the intelligence and all the reli-
gon; while the other Is dirty, vicious ignorant and
infdel. And this is /" honest Horace Greeley :"
Honest lago, aye, honest. "
TnE ANNrvEnsARIEs.-This week numbers of excel
lent people from all parts of the Union with delegates
perhaps from California, Upper and Lower, Oregon,
and it may be- from that marvellous region Of the An
thropophagi, where mems
Heads do grow between their shoulders
will meet in this city, for the purpose of pushing for
ward certain moral and religious enterprises which
they have very near to heart. Among them may be
mentioned
The conversion of some three or four hundred mil
lions of so called heathcns to Christianity.
The emancipation of some three four millions of
blacks from called slavery, which requires mode
rate amount of labor requital for bread shelter
and clothing in sickness and protection in
age
These two movements make large draughts on the
sympathies and the purses of the people The first
sends annually hundreds Of thousands of dollars
abroad The second excitcs luminosity between the
two sections of the republictasks the patience equal
ly of the North and the South-keeps In continual
twittcr certain old tabbics of both and
good deal of hard cash
Meanwhile, in own midst. men recognised as the
political equals Of the richest and the most learned
want labor. and bread and Observation-Disclosures
which shall teach them how to live and fit them to die
The proseytsts sent to Ceyon are wanted a. mis-
sionaries in the Five Points. The Hook calls aloud
for the succor dispatch to the Hindoos.
1t Is strange world this, we live in. But more Of
these anniversaries in our next.
New CHURcHWe have to record important
movement In the religious world-the establishment OF
new and independent religious organization
Whether this be the beginning of revolution in theo
ogy, time alone determine.
There is growing class of persons, who with
nest feeling of piety not able to subscribe to any
of the crecds and dogmas of existing churches They
not even sure that they will hold. tomorrow, to
the opinions they entertain to-day. They demand,
therefore, freedom and aspire to progress in religious
knowledge Such persons will not bind Themselves
n let
sity of social worship They would adore God In COM
pany, and have mutual aid in studying his provi-
dcnce.
number Of such persons have engaged the Colise-
UNI, in Broadway as place of worship, and invited
the Rev. T. l.. Harris to become their leader and
teacher, in humanitarian religion Mr. Harris Is
young clergyman Of singular eoquencc, great earnest
ness, and largo humanity. He has been connected
with the Universalist denomination, but when the
cords drawn too tightly for his Independence he
broke loose. and boldly severed himself from all ham
pcring organizations. The New Humanitarian Church
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