New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-03
CITY ITEMS.
NEw-IoRK City INDUSTRIAL

Newly ORR CITY INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS.
Tuesday EraqRg, sept. 30, ls5l.-The President
being absent, MIR. J. l. Kingsley was elected
President, pro- ttnl, and john White Secretary,
pro- ten.
Mr. BHckman, of the Committee of Conference,
from the Temperance Alliance, requested the dp-
pOntmsnt of Committee of the Industrial Con-
gresS 10 meet the Alliance Committee at National
Hall, Canal ST., on Wednesday evening, al = o'clock
for the purpose Of forming united action between
the two bodies IN the cause OF reform.
An interesting discussion arose, IN which the mea-
SuIes OF the Temperance Alliance were represented
being too narrew to enlist the hearty cooperation
OF liberal minds, inaSmuch aS they were confined 10
the legal suppression of the sale OF intoxicating
drink as beverage, and therefore nothing moro
than warfare upon the vendors, 10 drive them INTO
better worse occupation. IL was stated thar no
vender OF spirits would continue ms calling IL ne
could make is much money III any more hohoIaO4e
pur>Vi. that from the present degraded condition
OF industrial occupations they were deserted, ana
other and less dgIlied means were reSoTted 10 Tor
procuring a subsistence that thlS was also prime
cause OF drunkenness, because the current contempt
of industry excludes It's followers nom a parlclpa-
ton the natural stimulus of llfe namely the ac-
tive good Will of the whole social body that being
CepINed of tins natural Stlmulant essential TO the
health Of every individual mlpd and body, men
would resort to artificial ones and that. therefore,
II we would eifec,uallv destroy drunkenness, We
must first deSuoy the causes OF II. II, then, the
Temperance Alliance VIII unite with the industrial
Congress IN laying the AK 10 the root OF the EVIL!
they viii ioin them in cutting up lis branches
Committee was appointed 10 confer with me
Temperance Alliance, consisting OF Me>Srs CLARK
Sharrot White. Webster, Clonv, and kingsley.
Mir J. G.. Havlland, OF a Committee from the IA
ulotc Alliance of the Eighth Ward, read = circular
OF the Alliance stating lis plan and ooject>, and SAID
that he was Instructed To ask the appointment OF
Committee of the Industrial Congress, 10 confer win
them on Monday evening next. al place 10 DC
agreed upon
MI Wedgwood. Of the Fin Ward Alliance, on
leave. spoke IN favor of the motion, referring VITA
great force and eoQuence 10 the necessity OF united
action checking the growing evils otvlce and CRIME
Tie Alliance, OF which he was member, were urged
oScuon IN OF the fearful number Of arrests Tor
criminal oaenseS curing the last year beng 5000
ana whatever might be the causes Of TINS he wished
10 engage N searching them out and working for
their removal
After considerable discussion. the Committee was
appointed to CONSIST of Me>Srs Croley, Rowe. Rogers,
Mellcn. and Sharrot.
Mr.. ShaTrot, nom the Committee 10 whom was re-
ierr.d resolution IN relation to a State Mechanical
and Agricultural college, asked for further time 10
prepare report. which was granted. and tie meet
ing accounted
BOARD OF EDUCATIoN-The President
IN the Chair.
observation-disclosures V. Rich Inspector OF Com
mon Schools in -1fth Ward Patrick Doan, Trustee
IN the Fourteenth Ward Joel I Benedict, Tutor IN
Mathematics III Free Academy
Netc Schools The Schoo. 0hcers IN the Twelfth