The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-27

Boston, which are fighting like fishermen; but, a
was the case year ago, are DESTROYS OF union 70
the purpose Of putting down the awful ooationists
The persons appointed to carry out tho Maine Law
have resolved not to begin upon tho lesser dealers
but TO strike high The Revere House is to feel thu
weight Of the thunderbolt FIRST. and then Pete
Brigham is to catch it. In this way they expect L
reconcile tho masses to the law and to place il on
an inmovabls basis The mode shows tact, and
| probably will DC found useful to the end proposed
The profits ON the rates Of liquor at the Revere
House are upwards OF five Thousand dollars per an
nLn, and the enforcement Of the lAw against IL
would be n very serious matter iDdood Brigham
Wouio aSo feel IT. especially II sent 70 tho House Of
| Correction
This Is what We call commencement week, be-
cause the young gentlemea at Harvard College bring
their studies to an end The performances were Of
rather inferior character this year. but there WIS
no lack Of snobbing At tho Alumni meeting and
dnncr y IS the custom Of all Boston and its vcini-
ty to codoe itself in fine STYLE and to applaud tho
| manifold virtues Of all who have had tho luck to
be ground out and ground over at Harvard. IL isa
sort OF "kee me, kee thee afair-''royal itch and
royal scratching" Mr.. Winthrop delivered the
Grafton this year, and went ''down among the dead
men" in fire style lie pitched into Rousseau as il
| the ashes OF poor Jean Jacques had not been suii
GENTLY disturbed to be allowed to rest in peace.
| He oornplimented Henry Clay very handsomely,
and then did the same thing by Kossuth, probably
beng under the impression that he, too, is in the
| silent land. After the Grafton came the dinner,
where there was any amount of eating and talking,
about one another, getting immediate payment in
kind, ana with compound interest Altogether, il
wHs quite as amusing as the exercises the pre-
vious day, with Governor Boutwell, listening to La
tin orations, aud endeavorng TO look If he really
Understood them, though they were all Crock TO
him Some complaint was made of several Of tho
Alumni having taken the liberty of d. ing; but as
most Of the delnduents had arrived at wears of in
discretion eighty and upwards-their un6lia con-
quot was overlooked, on condition Of their not do
ing 40 again
The sketch Of the rise and progress of tho
Webster wing party, in this State, and of the
various attempts that have been made to place Mr..
Webster in the Presidential chair, extending over
period OF about thirty years, and which appeared
in the Commcmneohh newspaper Of the 18th inst,
was written by Richard Hildreth, the historian, who
was personally cognzant of most Of the facts which
he relates. He mentions that Mr. Webster burst
into tears when the late Richard Haughton, then
editor Of the atlas, told him that he would not be
for the Presidency with any chance of success.
They were the tears of an Alexander, not because
he had no more worlds to conquer. but because tho
world would not conquer the prejudices' it had
against himself Mr. Hildreth, by the way. is about
to continue his history down to our own time, Civ
ing on account Of the administrations of j. @.
Adams, jackson, Van Buren,, Tyler, Polk, Taylor,
and Fillmcre
The fremont Temple is rising sgain, the work Of
construction going on fast. If it were to be a
theatre, in downright earnest, we would watch its
increase with much complacency; but have MS
much respect for a tripe-shop MS for one of
order, are at least used for composite pur-
poses-tor everything, indeed. from rushing SER
mon against the seven deadly and one thousand
lively sine, down to snigger' concert. The men
who cannot look upon theatre with any kind of
coDpacency. have hesitation in providing a
place for exhibitions, compared with which the
lowest theatre that ever was opened is place of
the highest respectablty. But such is the way of
doing things here; any amount of business is prac
tised that will pay, and is not violently undimmed
by opinion The Liquor law is case in point.
Passed by men, In part, who have made money in
the liquor trade and condemning that trade as an
offence against both God and man, it allows,
rather encourages the manufacture of liquor here,
for expectation, in large quantities. This is very
like the conduct of the pioue English captain, who
always took on his voyages to tho coast of Guinea
great number Of bibles and proyer-books, for the
special use of tho negroes whom he was in the
habit Of transporting to the West Indies.
In Charestown, the authorities show no DISPOSE
ton to enforce the Liquor law, opinion there being
against it.. In Lowell, the law will be enforced,
opinion there being the other way. These two
plans are pictures of the state Of things all over the
commonwealth; but the ''clubs' will see to it that
the law is put through" and will amuse them
selves with the pleasant practice of enamel pating
spirit after the fashion of that renowned Spaniard,
Don Cleopas
The Democratic State Central Committee win
meet here early 10 August for the purpose of taking
preliminary measures, calling a convention, &c.
The experiment Of an early convention, made last
year. dld not work well enough to warrant re-
petition of il, and there will be no conyen-
lion until the middle of September, perhaps later.
The object Of an early convention to give
the hnnkers time to work against the coalition,
by which means they came within of
destroying it. A week of our time, and
they would have fulfilled their agreement with the
wings which was TO restore the State to their hands
AS the county conventions for the nomination of
Senators cannot he held until after the State Con-
veption tball have done its work, and as it is by
acting on the county nominations that the coali-
ton can alone be beaten 1t is obvious that the later
ihD lot tar Jnndn thn lNEs nhu hn
of defeating them AS to the democratic nominal
ton for Governor, the general opinion of the party
is fast settling down in support OF Judge Bishop, Of
Lennoy, in Berkshire county; and have now n let
ter Of his in which he places himself entirely in the
bands Of his friends. lie is " clean candidate,
bavine had nothing to do with any Of the g isms'
that have prevailed of late, with the Maine law,
way or the other. The State Convention will
nominate an electoral ticket, which will receive
fifty thousand votes, The prospect now is,
that the free sellers will nominate Stephen g.
Phillips for Governor, in which case, and the
Legislature not being carried by the wings, he
will be our next Governor He is temperance
man, Of the strictest kind, but is not in
favor of the Maine law, that rock ahead to the
coalition on which alone it can be split As to
Governor Boutwell,, no one dreams Of his re-eec-
ton, or, indeed, of his nomination to any office.
Three months ago, the common opinion among
d,urbards was, that he should be run again,
whether he wished to be rot; but after his con-
duct on the passage Of the Liquor bill, he fell Mt
once. This did not follow from his simply having
given his approval to the law. He might have
done that without materially iDjuripg his charac-
ter or prospects; but IL was the weakness of mind
that his shutting action betrayed that ruined him.
g To be weak is TO be miserable" we are truly
told, and his Excellency knows IL by experience.
A member Of the state government told demo-
crAt, the oiht- day, that the Governor thought
that his second year bad been a series Of mis-
takes to which the democrat replied, "that if
such were his EXcellencys opinion, he was happy
to have it IN his power to him that the
public was unanimously of tho ,aind."
Mr. Webster goes to Mar shield to-day, in com
pany with Mr. CYamptou ltis a delightful place
Is Marshfel, with delicious atmosphere, and
plenty of Gist rate fish 70 bs caught within few
minutes val, Of the farm--iJst the place in fact,
to settle the fishery question over pot Of chowdr
The bricat ny fumes OF which cannot fail to soitcn
even diplomatic noses. Somebody, 70 use the Ian
ruagc Of dioomatic conclusions, will be "done at
Marsh Geld = ALTOONA.