Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-12
Gossip from Gotham.

We received a letter the other day from an
old and intimate friend in New York, from
which we transcribe few passages that are al
together too good to be monopolized by the
lone occupant of tho editorial sanctum. Here
they arc
"The Hutchinsons arc here and will COM
mcnce a series Of concerts at the Tabernacle to-
morrow evening. Judson has not entirely re-
covered from his insanity, though he sings with
the other boys. Sister Abby docs not appear
with thcm-a circumstance which will, pre-
sumo, prove a serious drawback upon their
soccss in this city Thot most debased of all
our city journals--thc Journal of Commercial
Christianity and the New York Observer not
excepted-Tne Day Book, is trying its hand Mt
getting up mob or at least it did make de-
monsttation in that direction yesterday. To-
day the Boys (the Hutchinsons) tried the ex-
pertinent of fifty cent advertisement of their
concerts on that watchful guardian Of the South,
which had the expected effect of silencing its
batteries. Isn't cotton patriotism cheap and
nasty'i
Last Sunday week that faithful preacher of
the true Gospel, Rev. w. H. FuRSEss of
Philadelphia, having been invited to occupy
the pulpit of the Rev. Mr.. osgood Oate DIR.
Dowey's) in Broadway, had the audacity to
question tho morality of merchandising in hu-
man flesh and blood before a congregation of
cotton merchants. He went so far as to iden-
tify the man of Nazareth with Gods poor
even with those in bonds and those escaping
from bonds. This was rather too much for our
piously patriotic and patriotcally pious cotton
lords and fearing lest the audacious preacher
might 60 so far as to place their own august
selves in as slow company (though there
wasn't the slightest danger of such thing) as
that in which he had placed the Neck One, a
large number of them took their hats and es-
capped lin defiance Of the Fugitive law and to
the great peril Of the Union y just in time, as
they supposed, to avoid so terrible shock to
their delicate and sensitive nerves. Surely, after
what Mr. Furncss witnessed at the Tabernacle
on the occasion Of the last Anniversary of the
American A. S. Society he ought to have ap-
preciated New York picty better than to preach
Christianity in the Church Of the Messiah
Did you observe in The Tribune few days
ago the awful whiting which Henry James
gave to that pink of Hunker Orthodoxy, Pro-
fcssor Tayler Lewis, of the n. Y. University
You remember the Professor as the valiant
champion of the gallows and all the other ap-
propriato institutions Of the popular faith. A
short time since he came out in the Literary
World with a sncaking and lying attack upon
Mr.. Jamess work, Moralsm and Christianity,
torturing his language most outragcously to
make him appear as the advocate of impure and
immoral doctrines. James's reply was a per-
feet cxtinguisher. Well, as the story runs the
students in the College in which Lewis is
Professor were SO delighted with James's ami
hilation of the little sour embodiment Of gall
lows orthodoxy as to give vent to their mirth
by ordering an undertaken to measure him for
coffin. You perhaps imagine the conster-
nation of the little Professor when the solemn
faced undertaken (who did not know Lewis
personality stalkcd into the recitation room
and inquired of him where he could find the
body of Tayler Lewis, of which he wished to
take the measure for coffin, adding that he
understood Mr.. Lewis had died of wounds re-
ceivod in an encounter with Henry James. Of
course the conclusion of the sentence let in a
flood of light into the mind of the bewildcrcd
Professor.
You probably saw in the New York papers
an account of thc recent visit of the Legislature
to our city. Well, there is huge joke con-
nccted with that visit. The city authorities are
Silver Gray (Whig Hunkcrs,) and their OBJ
jcct in asking the assembled wisdom to come
down from Albany and pay them visit was, to
! fix some of the representatives from the Rural
Districts on the Senatorial question, by feeding,
campaigning, and toting them about 10 sec
the lions. The Legislature accepted the invita-
tion, but to the horror of the Silver Grays,
elected Senator before the time fixed for visit
ing the metropolis. The leaders here were so
awfully chagrinned at the result that with few
exceptions they kept themselves away from the
ceremonies The Mayor even refused to pre-
side at the feast, and the Woody Heads as the
Hunkers tacetiously term the opponents of the
Fugitive Slave law, had overy thing their own
way, the Hunker authorities taking little part
in the show beyond inviting the guests and foot
ing tho bill"
LrrTELL's LIVING AoI, No. $780, opens with
a review of tho life, character and writings OF
Daniel De Foe, author of Robinson Crusoe,
from ChamberS's papers for the Pnonle and