New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-13

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is small army of learned men who seem to fndin
them much more than the mass imagine
"A rich case of partnership between
Rum and Loco Focoism was developed in the Supe-
Nor Court yesterday, in which the Lieutenant
Of Rhode Island played his fayorte part Of an
opponent of temperance. The case was suit
brought by Joseph H. Howard, the proprietor of
Tammsny Hall, against William B. Lawrence,
Lieutenant Governor Of Rhode Island, and SO 9TH
ers, for SS03 50 rent for certain rooms occu-
pied in ls49 by the defendants, who were the
Democratic General Committee Of the City Of
New York for that year. This suit was defended
by the Governor only-all the others deeming it
clear case that would of course be against them
Mr.. Lawrence first tried to get off the ground that
the Committee was not an incorporated body, but
that wouldn MT do Next he showed that they were
merely agents, and poor ones at that that the pay
mept of the bill devolved upon their principal or
employeI-the great and Untenifed Democratic
Party but the plaintiff decidedly objected to at
tempt to collect the money nom this ever-changing
many-headed monster. Lastly, the jolly Rum. Gov
ernor Of the Providence Plantations and all the
Land OF Dorr brought forward his strongest plea,
which he expected would fix things in time :
that was, that it was always supposed that the pro-
pnetor Of TammsnV Hall would make no charge for
rooms, fuel and lights, it being thought that the ad-
the Committee oould BE- fair equivalent for the rent
Strange to say, this noble and cogent plea was
insufficient, and Judgment entered against Mr..
Lawrence for the amount with interest, in all $751;
Whether the would-be Governor Of Rhode Island
has gained credit by offering at the bar of New
York Court such plea as this, may be merely mat
ter Of opinion but in view of his possible election
which he hopes TO the special champion Of
Rum, perhaps he has gained votes He has proved
70 ,ofh
ones never doubted it) the truth of Mike Washs
axiom, that "TippIing- Houses are the very nurse
RES of Democracy" and has recognized the fact in
the most emphatic manner by proving that wherever
fftyfOur of the party may meet there the extra
profits rum selling should be equal to seven per
cent interest per annum on $4,000
Rev. Gideon Acs, of the Magyar or
Reformed Church of Hungary, will preach in the
Hungarian language, to his couRtrymen, on Sunday
morning. March IA, at IL O'Clock in the Consistory
rooms, in the Of the North Dutch Church, Will
ham.st, cor. Fulton
Theodore Parker, of Boston, is to give
the true and false ideas of gentleman, at the Tab
ernacle, Tuesday evening next.
NEw-JERsEY RAILRoAD.-On and after
Monday, the 18th inst, the Trenton accommodation
train will leave this City at Al M and the New
Brunswick accommodation at At PM.
FERGUSON THE PIPER.--The friends of
Charles Ferguson, the young and accomplished
Irish piper, gave him grand reception party at
Tammany Hall on Wednesday evening last. An
elegant party of ladies and gentlemen were delight
ed with his performances
People are dreadfully addicted to the
Bottle, noW-a.daYs. But it is the wholesome drama
Of the Bottle at Barnums Museum, one OF the most
powerful Temperance arguments ever offered. 1t
will be performed this afternoon. In the evening
have the beautiful spectacle of Cherry and Fair
Star and at both performances the Man Walking
on the Ceiling, Songs, &c.
The new shaft for the steamship At
antic Ito replace the English shaft recently broken)
has been forged at the Novelty Iron Works, and will
be put in next week 1t will be conveyed to the
vessel at the foot of Canalst on a floating derrick
The old shaft has been examined by English engin-
eeTs, who expressed great surprise that it should
have broken.
-Messrs. Westervelt & Mackay will
launch in about ten days the fine steamship Cortez
Tor Davis, Brooks & Co. She will leave for Califor
mia In the latter end of May and will run as consort
of the Winfield Scott She is a handsome ship.
In order that both sides may be heard
in the charge Of carrying away human bodies for
dissection, publish the following article, which
the reader will find not without some very strong
points of argument:
The HoRRoRs OF DIssEcTIoN.-"M MY friend, re-
marked the good DR.. Johnson to a certain one,
clear your mind of can't" A full development of
this blur upon the common of mankind is
shown in the present excitement in reference to the
discovery of a few bodies obtained for dissection.
Indignation mountain high, curses both loud and
deep have awOke against this outrage on humanity,
ara in or two instances the press must end its
aid in reechoing the thunder of popular opinion.
Now, Sir in city whose factories of vice and in-
fanny may be reckoned by the thousand, where
crime, recruited in gYoggeries and gambling houses
stalks forth with fearful boldness, 1t would seBm
that Jupiter ToDans might find more appropriate
subject for his bolts than the anatOmlst and the
scaipel But, Sir, honest indignation should not be
checked, and since pOt-house orators have affirmed
The holy office of the Rum-seller with his train of
blessings and as the public mind must have a vent
for its surplus fre, it is hardly more than fair that
that degraded class, "the Doctors" should come in
for its share. Your Policeman, who winks at the
ive-long Sunday orgies of the Porter house with i1s
greasy dice and its kegs of poison, pounces with
vItuous indignation upon the Student and the Pro-
lessor ana their atrocities are held up in appalling
tabeaux. Now, Sir, is it not WELL while the sub
ect is before us to inquire Of the public mind to
the corTectnessnay the safety OF this sensitiveness
on the subject of dissection! Is it common sense
to say nothing Of justice, that of all professions the
| public opinion or Of the law Does the tender
hearted public imagine that the study of surgery is
the source of SUCH fascination as to be pursued for
this object alone? Does the student risk his life
| from the virus of corrupt humanity, breathing the
chanel exhalatons of the dead house, and endur-
ingsthe repUsive abOrs of anatomy, for sheer plea
suIel Yes just as much as he mingles in the pes
tilential wards of the emigrant hospital where his
life, with those OF Otners, mas SO Oen Deen Sdcrl
| feed. Does the tender and cOnsiderate public be-
think itself of its ungeneIous treatment Of the most
labOliOus and faithful OF its servants, placing the
peer physician between two 6res, whose blaze sell
| dom subsidies? Should he be caught in the awful
crime of dissection, the fierce anger of the multi
tude is armed against him and the mob is ready
to redress the wrong Should errors on the other
hand arise from the denial of such study the statute
for malpractice offers its grim alternative, and an
intelligent Jury is not wanting to visit the want of
| that knowledge, whose acquisition is made penal.
And yet who Of this Jealous public when seized
| by disease, will not send for OF these
bloody men-yea, even crave the service of such an
| one as they may think to have been most enslaved
to this abhorTed practice OF dssecton-and thus he
who is at one time the grave plunderng Ghoul sud-
! denly becomes the angel of mercy Alas for the
want of consistency the subject which, above all
Others needs it And now, though we are prepared
to plead for the full sanctiiy of the grave and to
yield all its proper claims. Yet Il dissection be,