The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-05-05

ss NEw YoRK, April 20lh. 81.
Next week viii be FHiny, it is generally be
cause the Quakers are comingto town. Tas
anniversaries always bring nsin. Wasn't i
Prof. Espey's theory, that very great con,
Iflagration would SO act upon the atmos
phere as to produce rain9 ! think he was
The savan who made such stir among the
washerwomen. Perhaps the same ingeni,
Gus theofist, should he set about it, nigh,
deduce similar result from the concentra,
ted warmth of people gathered from all part:
Of The country and concentrated in one 70.
Gus, in this city during the anniversary week
Certainly, the fact that there is usually d
heavy rain at such times, would go to cor.
roborate his hypothesis. .' sa Z
II you were never here at these annual
conventions of many very good, and some
very bad, societies, you can have only fee,
bic idea Of how warm they are. The first
day, the supply Of caioric is not alarming;
The 2nd day it burns more brightly; on the
3d the friction Of argument and sentiment
produced glowing heat; on the 4th it is toe
warm for comfort, but still they elbow" up
on it with increasing zeal; on the 9th they
"pile the fuel higher" and on the 9th il is a
perfect Vesuyius: but on the evening Of this
day they disperse, each man thinking to take
his own personal share OF the caloric home
with him in order 10 illuminate his own
village. town or county.
They 20 out and so does their fire. Scat
ter the liveliest Goals, and they will soon
deaden and grow dim.
Last week the second Adventites were in
solemn and anxious conclave. 1t is evident,
that thousands Of these deluded creatures
believe that the millennium is close at hand.
Some months ego heard DR.. Coke, very
able Presby clergyman, OF Brooklyn,
preach sermon in which he showed that
centuries upon centuries would probably
elapse oefore the second coming Of Christ,
and yesterday heard another discourse on
the same subject by the venerable DR.. Spring
The latter holds to the belief that the 1900
years which pre- eceded the birth OF Jesus,
were but as the morning Of the Christian
day which is now opening on the world;and
God did not design that the sun Of righte-
ousEess should arrive at the medium of glo-
ry in one hundred years, or nineteen centu-
ries, but, probably intended that thousands
of years should elapse, after Chrisl's cruci-
fixion, before every science should be per-
fected, every living man regenerdted, all
darkness and pain banished away.
Apropos TO this topic. In the evening,
attended meeting held in the Dutch Re-
formed Church in Lafayette Place, for the
amelioration Of the Jews. The Rev. DR..
HALEY, middle aged, corpulent, rosy-fa-
ced counlryman Of Robert Burns, delivered
a very energetic and eloquent discourse upon
the past snd present social and religious sit
uation of the Israelites.
He quotes from the books of Isaiah, Sam.
uel, Levitcus, &C., TO prove that God had
provided for the conversion Of the Jews, ,and
much as they were opposed to the Gentiles
in the faith of the Jesus now, the time
would come when the descendants OF Abra-
ham and Isaac and Jacob would be the most
Jealous of christian evangelists. Without
assimilating with the people, or batting one
Ejot of their religious notions and predjudi
ces, the Jews have become acclima ted and
accustomed TO every country and people or
the face of the earth. They acquire langua
ges with remarkable facility aud max,
themselves understood AMI valued in al
climes. Hence, (said DR.. Halley,) they will
become the most efficient of missionarie
and evangelists, and they will work grea
things for christianity.
At the conclusion of the discourse. tn
Secretary of the Society for amelioratini
the condition of the Jews" made a repor
of the doings, progress and finances Of tn
institution. The Society now employe
twenty-five missionaries and colporteurs t
dissem among the Jewish people in tn
United States, the truth as it is in Jesus
These eyangelists had been we'll received
and about thirty lsraelites had expressed
disbelief in the errors of Judaism. Nine ha
openly recanted. and three had been bap
tised.
Now the Society wanted thirty more mi:
sionares. but with the exception of abol
800 its treasury was exhausted.
A collection was then taken, and judgin
from the looks Of the boxes it was liber
one. .at
Just as the stea mship Ohio was taking h
departure for New Orleans last Saturday, Jill
Laughlin, an old convict, was seen leavir
the ship with carpet bag in his hand. II
was overhauled and committed for stealth;
In the window of Stimson & Co.'S Ne
Orleans and Mobile Express there is pit
ture of the new steamship Winfield Scot
which Messrs Davis, Brooks & Co. advert
sed to leave for New Orleans on May day:
By means of Pole the U. S. Marsha hi
poked into nest of Cuban conspiraton
Officer Rucklewitz, formerly OF PolaAd, bl
now of the police, getting wind that SON
newly arrived Germans were about to en-
bark on Cuban enterprise, went anon
them disguised as an emigrant and obtaint
information which has led 10 the arrest
DR.. D. H. BURNETT, an old resident, Ped
S. ncho, Spaniard, Major L. Schleisenge
Capt. Lewis, Captain Of The steamboat Cl
opatn, VIM. F. Rogers. jr. and John
O'Sullivan, all charged with preparing Il
means for the expedition against Cuba. Cal
Lewis and Major Scheisenger are in Prisol
but The others were admitted TO bail in Il
sum Of $4,000 each.
The Forged Letter.