New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-29
CITY ITEMS.

Inc attention BY the Growers themselves, and rung
in our ears until patience and federation are ex-
| hausted. A Bore is creature 10 be dreaded snun-
ned, left TO himself and Solitude where his annoy
| ing presence viii harm no one, unless, Ike Inc
scorpion surrounded by fire. he kills himself with his
own venom. But the Grumbler forces himself upon
| you in print, and always IN connection with some
sacred cause, over which he crawls and glides and
wrggies and goats and everywhere trails his slime
Most especially doe, he delight in such occasions as
the reception Of Kossuth and the spontaneous offer
ings OF The people to the Hungarian cause. Suddenly
afflicted with great concern for the poor Of the City,
he prates Of charity beginning a. home he drags
from old police reports and stale Imagination real
and fictitious cases Of suffering drunken vaga-
bond found in the streets halffrozen is whole ar
! mory for him, from which he draws what he takes
to be bombshels enough to annihllate all sympathy
for foreigners" open all purses 20 home appeals,
and forever Danish wTetchedness from our vicinity.
But this same Grumbler is consumma!e hypocrite.
While he dilates so pathetically upon the SIN and
suffering under his nose, he grasps his puse'srings
with hooks of steel he was never known to give
anything but advice he viii advocate or abuse any
thing for money but his natural instincts are all on
the side of destruction he sees no bright example
Of hberality without one OF his own mercenary mo-
neighbor without seeking to blacken it by susPl-
| con he knows that Hospitals and Asytums are
| only clever contuvances to enable doctors and
nurses to live of the public Churches are objected
to because they sectsran Christianity because
| it is exclusive Education because 1t costs so
much Benevolence because it is partial; PhiIan-
| thropy because it is far. sighted Enthusiasm be
| cause il lacks Judgment and Judgment because it
lacks enthusia SIN in fact serious objection al
ways hangs at the tip OF his tongue, like the drop Of
poison on a rattlesnake's fangs, willing to wound,
and not afraid to strike" The Gumbleris the ver-
| table Old Man OF the Sea who bestrides every
| form Of Philanthropy like an incubus, determin-
ed 10 crush the life out OF it, but he generally emer-
ges from the strife quiet as the serpenshas oeset
| the infant Hercules When YOU see on the heels OF
| some great occasion, whining sentimentalty over
neglect of home charities, hsckneyed rhodomontade
about the sufIerngs of the poor moving appeals to
your sympathies and generosity, coupled with Ill
concealed sneers at enlarged benevolence, you may
be sure that it is all the hypocritcai utterance OF
Grumbler OF one who never did and never means
| TO do good action without immediate and usurous
reward one whose heart is as devoid Of feeling as
his face is Of shame or his soul ofhonor enc whose
tears are those of crocodile whose pety is that O.,
miser, whose whole character is one Of mingled
filed with all unrighteousness, wickedness, COW
etousness righteousness; full of envy debate, de-
ceit, magnity whisperers, backbiters, despiteul,
proud boasters inyenors ofevil things, implacaole
unmerciful."
e We learn by the last steamer that
gossip NJ London afhTmS that gentleman who has
been somewhat notorious in the literary and thea.
rca circles of this City is in prison at Geneva for
undue pertinacy in the pursuit OF wife under olt
fculties. Ii appears that he made proposals OF mar
rage in London TO the niece Of one OF The wealhest
London bankers, largely connected with this coun-
try who had fs0,0O0 In her own right. The propo-
sails were declined, and soon after the lady lett Tor
the Continent She was followed by the enamored
swain 20 Geneva. Here she was one day informed
by letter that some formaty regard to her pass
port required that she snouid go IN person 10 GER
tain place therein designated. She followed the d
recons and upon entering the house she found only
| present her London rejected who Immediately
locked the door, ard producing pair of pistols,
threaened-not TO destroy himself if she continued
cruel but to shoot her unless she either married him
or divided her fortune with him. Neither Of these
reasonable requests being acceptable to the lady, she
temporized with the gentleman until her maid who
| had been alarmed at her absence, sought her with
some of the police, and found her in the above I'M
| unhappy swain, who had loved not wisely nor too
| well, was sent TO cool his ardor in prison.
WINTER TRAVELLING ARRANGEMENTS. -
| The travel between New.YOrk and Philadelphia In
consequence of ice in the Delaware, is almost
wholly by the \. H. and 7. NJ. trains by the
| New-Jersey Railroad, whichperform their uips az
usual without interruption, arriving and departing
! from Kensing,on, as customary In The WINTER
months There Is nov an entire railroad route be-
tween the two great cities. with the exception Of
the ferry at Jersey City which is not likely TO be IN
ierrupted by the ice. Passengers and baggage are
transported to different places IN Philadelphia, and
70 connec, with the Baltimore and Washington lines,
| by omnibus
The freight lines OF the Camden and Amboy Rail-
road are now conveyed by way OF Trenton to Ken
sineton. on accoun, OF the Delaware being closed
with ice, and the p. NJ. line by way OF Camden has
been discontinued
u On Christmas day, the drivers,
agents and other employees OF the various Express
/ COMPANIES in the City, had turnout entirely IN
character They appeared In procession with four
4horse and nine tandem teams, in all thirteen wag-
ons and thirtv-four horses. There were between
seyeptv.fve and eighty men Ill the company, mostly
! from Harnden's Adams's Weiss kinsley's and
! Hoeys The procession up Broadway was pictur-
esoueland attracted grea. attention. In pursuance
Of an invitation the whole party called upon Richard
Wort IN Beachst. They then went 70 the residence
OLA NJ C. Smith, IN tranklin-st, and thence 10 the
Red House at Harlem, where the whole party had
good old fashioned game Of base ball, and then cap
i,a dinner al which A. VI. c. Smith presided. Tney
returned after day Of unaoyed enjoyment, Just N
time 10 participate in the evening festivities IN the
| CITY.
u The Sabbath School connected with
the Broadway Baptist Church, M. \. VI. Tanning,
SUPERINTENDENT, had very interesting Exhibition
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