The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25
New York Correspondence Of the
Register.
Nrw Yonk, Feb 10, 1852.
En,r,p.


1t was the great festival Of the Ma
tional Temperance League, called by
the mslignanls, The holy Alliance OF
| Temperance.
The tickets To the banquet, in the
main body of the hall, were 80, for each
person. but so cents apiece for those
kwh" were content to pariake only of
p The feast OF reason and the flow of
soul" as auditors in the gallery.
| Having a dlstasie fer public supper
tables, | repaired with some friends To
The Dress Circle,' as it is denomna-
fed 10 distinguish it from another gallery
above.
Were you ever in 'ripler Hall (now
called metropoluan) when Illuminated
/ tn the iull of It's capacity 1t beats the
world, not only in capacicusness and
/ elegant ornament, bat for lis amount o
gns-light. Every jet Of gas was now
! in full blaze
The ample dais, or platform at the
upper cad of the room, which Jenny
Gold schmidt and her phalanx of mu..
sicians occupied at the Lind advent,
was now covered with tables and seats
4 for orators who were not To discourse
eloquent music" but eloquent arguments
for the cause of Temperance. Below,
six ar seven tables extended the entire
length OF the hall, ailnrding seats for
about 500 people. A fair proportion
Of these were ladies aud a few children
Among these, though evidently OF the
middllng class (Which ! regard as the
besl) quite number were dressed fash
ionably and even gaily.
The "Allcghanians," musical corps.
had place on the dais, and a number
Of ladies'. The presence Of the fair
relieved the supper.scene from the pig
gish aspect common at gander parties.
At the right ol the little man who
presided, sat the tall aud rather corpu-
lent form, General Sam. Houston, whose
white hair aud head partly bald, made
him look To be about 65 He was dres-
sed with exquisite rroprely for his age
aud figure, aud many, suspect, before
they discovered his identity. took him
10 be some COED old sober-sided Qua>
ker. During his speech, subsequently,
the venerable man affirmed tha, he was
exactly what lie seemed" but could
not help thinking Of his many mad
pranks IN younger days.
To the right Of General H. were
Hon. Neal Dow, (Mayor of Portland,
aud author Of The famous Maine Liq-
nr Law Rev. r. l.. Cuyler, OF
Trenton n. j., Rev. Mr. Cheever the
author of Deacon Giles DisliIlery,'
and sundry other distinguished gentle
men unknown To me. At the presi
dents left, sat the Hon Horace Mann,
whose fame obtained in the Secretary
ship Gt the Board of Education in Mass.
achuse,,s, and subsequently furnished
by his bitter assaults upon Daniel Web
sier. has fair prospect of recovering
its former brightness by his fearless and
efficient encounters with the demon of
intemperance.
The Hon. Senator is a tall slim man,
with long grey hair but not bald, though
NC 10 wv lcdiS Olu WI 'Il'fc anu Hdo loSt
some IF lis from, teeth, which impalrs
his utterance. lie has long narrow
head rather full in the frontal region
and he often wears spectacles. Il" his
left was the great Barnum, 1inked on
one side by a huge Orthodox Clergyman
named Howe, (who in virtue Of his
steutorian voice vas Toast MASTER aud
on the other by his ghosily adviser"
the dark complectioned, round faced
and round-belied MIR. Chap'n, the SAM
son Agonis,cs OF the Unlversalisls, a
Jolly good fellow, and one of the best
orators Of modern times. Then, there
was Mr. John Chambers, Of Phlladtl>
phia, formerly from the North Of lre>
and) and snndry other men accustomed
to baule slrongl, for the good cause.
didn't see Greedy or Cough, but
Father Taylnr" the Methods, Mln-
lister and Sailors Preacher -: from
Boston, came in during the evening
1t was " as good as "A play " 10 see
the knife aud fork game which then 800
or Zoo people began simultaneously
as soon as Mr., Howe mad asked an APP
prnpriate blessing. or course, the large
and discriminating audience in The gall
lery were attentive spectators OF this
part of the performance. aud their cri-
liqnes were none the less canstic, be-
cause heing hungry they were sharp
set. Certainly, the Americans can eat
faster Than any nation under the sun,
the ilungarlans not excepted.
The gentlemen who most distinguish
ed themselves in the knife aud fork
mot emen, Il speak as an impartial crit
icy were Gen. Sam, Houston, Rev. Mr..
Chapin. and Rev. Mr.. Howe. Henry
Ward Beecher had not arrived For
a small man, The Author Of Deacon
Giles Dis,illery." did great execution
Our friend, Horace Mann, played lit
lie with a cup Of coffee and around the
edges of slice of ham, but (ihougf
death nn the liquors) did not prove any
great shakes in Furnishing the solids. II
was a sort of an Indian camp meal with
the general on his right, anc the two
Senators soon became playful over The
mottoes extracted from the cookies.
Whether the generals, flow Of ideas
was obslrucied by his hasly but sub
stnn,ial meal, cannol say; but his ope-
ming speech was by no means brilliant
lie minated that ia his own person
he had never used liquor to excess. Q
Sam. o General In vino uerifds. y
aud there should be truth in cold water
too! Or was it you drank enough from
The well during the past ten years ic
come to the truth which is said TO be
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