Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-11
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

- The Maine Liquor Law received its
quietus in the Assembly en- Friday, by a vote of
nays 60, yeas As. So the obnoxious and tyran-
nical bill which few enthusiasts and great
many bigots sought to foist upon the people is
theoretically and practically dead, for this ses-
sion at least. That we are opposed to the abuse
of stimulants all those who have ever perused
our columns know; but our opposition to the
dictation Of the "new Lights of the day is
greater. We do not believe, much as we may
laugh at the "blue laws" Of New England, that
there is a single enactment in that code so often
Sive, ridiculous and tyrannical as this same
"Maine Liquor Law" Forced compliance to
an unseemly law is not temperance. We are
morally certain that when reaction comes on
in the State Of Maine, it will be found that
temperate as the people are now forced to be,
they will, when permitted, run to the other ex-
treme, and become the most debauched commu-
nifty in the republic. The woman who talks
loudest Of her virtue, Is the first to yield to
tempta ion, and the man who prateS longest of
his abstemiousnesS on principle, is the first to
get &C Goughed" when opportunity serves. A
truly pious man is careful to reserve his good
ness to himself; but your hypocrite, who makes
living out of his religion, prays longest and
lCudest in the Tabernacle, and is most heard of
by men. The Maine Law is dead carcase in
this State, and it stinks in the nostrils Of the
people.
%x* There is considerable music ahOat
nowadays, ground out of the Democratic Or
gans. In the last Democratic Reriesc, in paper
entitled "COngress, the Presidency, and the Re-
view" the writer gives the "old fogies" at
Washington, including their brave defender,
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, particular jsssy."
The new editor of this delectable monthly is a
perfect trump, and since January he has con-
tinued to stir up the dry bones and cold settlers
and ''suckers" at the capital in way they don't
like, with pole not particularly short. General
Butler is the subject of several sarcastic para
graphs, and in conjunction with Breckenridge, he
is made 'smince-meat Of, as Johny Amarillo, of
glorious memory, was won't to exclaim, on the
Franklin boards. As the quarrel stands, Old
Fogv-dom stands but poor chance aga nst the
bright lance Of g Young America" who has
thrown down the gauntle', and has deGed Fogy
to come ont Of his hole and take bout in the
ring. Hurrah for the side that wins. AS the
learned Professor Ships gravsly calculates when
he wishes to be particularly emphatic, we "dcn't
keer much'' which side that is.
#xz The Herald Office is certainly one
of the greatest newspaper concerns on this side
Of the Atlantic. There does not seem to be any
limit to the enterprise of Bennett Byinvitation
We visited the Herald Press Rooms one morning
last week, where we were equally delighted and
surprised with the superior arrangements, and
the extent of the vaults used for printing that
paper. The cost Of this underground room alone
could not have been less than 100000. Two Of
Hoes celebrated Rotary Printing machines are
in daily operation, and we are told that two more
are now building. These cellars and vaults are
divided up into Paper Rooms, Preqs Room, En-
CINE Room, Job Room, Sales Rooms and Car
riers' Room. Whstever may be said of Bennett
and his paper, we must give him credit for being
one Of the most enterprising men in the newspa-
per business, and one who gives employment to
vast number of writer's and workmen in the DIFF
ferent departments of the Herald establishment
If his paper is not the greatest neOs paper in The
world. il will not be for the want Of liberal ex-
penditure of the enormous receipts of the con-
Germ. to make it what has 80 often been claimed
for it,
- Webster stock is said to be rising in
the political market. But we caution all who
don't want to get their fingers badly burnt to
keep clear OF It, It is one of the fancy stocks
of the day, and never can be made to pay a di-
vidend.