The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-28
Haxpcr's Monthly Magaxine aad tAo Maaae

| Harper's Monthly Magazine .ad sAe MsaA,
/ - Law
\ from the Boston Chroaicls, AuxuH l6l
Har2sr's Neto MJathly MlgIxise. which boasts
circul alton menthly Of 100 600 copies and cism
| moro than half . million of readers has broke1
ground in favor Of the Maine ls~, SO called. In the
| July number, among the embellshm ents may be
found two plates, one set over against she ohsr-
the one styled g Maine Law Petitioners" the other
" Anti Maine Law Petitioners f" On one Of tho
plates, which represents the Maine lag petitioners
arc twenty figures, twelve Of whom are WON %
and children. Of them extr .ordinsry 10 thsi,
looks or position, but all rather tame bodies, add
| not particularly incorporate On tue Anti d siue
Law Petitioners" plate twelve old bruisers. look
ing as bad as c0skrmed incompetence and gross
RIGHTEOUSNESS slightly caricatured by tho artist
| make them look. And this is the issue Mr. Harper
chooses to mako, and by it the publisher of this
special moral and religious magazine tells bis slf
million Of readers that all the gentleuen in Maine
and Massachusetts, opposed TO that form Of lcgisla
ton moral questions known Us the Maine law, are
fairly represented by the plato. All those clergy
men who oppose the Law because 1T redeots 90 Jesas
Christ, who procured for tie Communion an article
that can intoxicate, and did iItoxicste, wnen
abused by the church at Coripth, making les men.
bcrs ''drunken"-all who bslieve tina. no man il q
true temperance man, who is sober because he can
not find any thng to be drunk upon, any more than
robber is an honest man because he oan fed no
thing in jail to steal and all who object TO the at
tempt to legislate men into their moral duties all
who are startled at the new principles involved ia
this law; all who that if we may ablto one
trade because certain men deery it, then may we
ebate another, aad all trades that the 4jority may
cordemn as such all who feel that o needless and
yet destructive blow Is aimed at commerce. trade,
real estate, and business il general all honest
y believe that the Maine Law will increase
perance and add TO IL tho sin of Hypocrisy all who
believe it will revive sceal drinking, the side boari
and general family treating, Of old all who feel
that IL will join tho cause Of temperance to the
Of politics, and make it the pl ~ toy Of po,iti
clans; al who fee that the law Will harm the cause
ct temperance beyond cure these and all othors
who oppose the Law, are set down By Mr. Harper
the most abandoned, the most degraded, the mos
worthless in the iaad If he means to send out
such representation as true, lac is public
lgner. iii be simply joke, it Ii Poor joke. and
one that Mr.. Harper can ut any moment have huEg
You laugh, Ills well; the tale applied
Twill make you laugh on tother side.
But lot us como nearer home Mr.. Harper is a
publisher; be has made great fortune by publish.
ing works Of fiction. great many, perhaps the
majority, of those who signod the petition for the
Maine law, regard bad book as greater evil
than bad rum. They regard the books of iction
published by Mr. Harper emphaticaily bad books
books Of immoral tendency. The Legislature
stop one avenue of woe as well as another. Mr..
Harper has filed the land with infsmmstory novels.
He knows what the religious world thinks Of him.
He has been cxpostuatet with by tho religious
press. He has been preached at from the pulpit.
His inconsistencies have been pointed out. He is
member of tho Methodist church. Ho builds up
the walls of salvation with one hand, and with
the other the walls Of Satan's kingdom. lie is
liberal in his donations to the cause Of bonevo-
lence, and gives TO the heather what he earns by
selling his novels at hone. He sends out such
food Of this moral poison as to almost monopolizo
the trade and general ard successful has his trade
been, that moral geformers hold up their hands in
perfect horror at the vast torrent OF immortality that
issues from this source. Suppose, then. petition
be gotten up, ard men be employed to got names TO
stop this tide of woe, hundreds and thousands wsuld
sign it, and a petition big enough for On OK cart
OulA he do md hcoy 20 r1oIr
to hoist it into the House. Let law Of prohibi
t0n DO passed; would Mr. Harper think il just if his
capital WAS all in Boston, and all eb rkod in tho
one enterprise-if persons contending for the free
dom Of the press should ask for repeal of that
law. that print should he engraved and issued to
6 half million Of readers" representing tho pc
titioEers Gil Of them, to be prostitutes, biacklegs,
and the most debaseG of men!
We say to LIZ. Harper, before no attempts to ma
IgE men good himself, to feel about his own
eyes for q certain beam that may be thorein
lodged.
Canoinnatl-Her Supplies and Manufactures.
IFrcm the Cincinnati Commercial Aug 49,
That we are great people, and that Cincinnati
is great city, nc ore can deny. For years and
years, she has exported to England vast quantities
Of harseied pork, and to France incaleulable
amounts Of lard, aud has furnished cur own Eastern
markets with their most delicious hams. and tho
army and navy, and the commercial marine OF tho
country, with their choicest clear and mess p,rk;
yet, by the following extract from the ". l. JJni-
fed with shipping salted aud cured meat, she Lus
determined TO give our Eastern brethren Tie living
entire swine. That paper says:-
Some Of cur friends, in ccinug down town Yesterday
morning delighted with the appearance OF so hogs
eleek fat and handsome which they encountered the
way On inquiry they learned that theee interesting
animals had utt arrived by the Ef;c Railroad in four
days from Ciocinaat Thnk of that flesh pork alive
ard kicking. four days frot1 the great West.
The sugar-growipg States almost entirely
supplied With suger mills manufactured in this
city; andthe farm wagons carts and plougha yearly
shipped from here, Of cur own manufacture, are al
most iLnumcrable.
In the manufacture Of carriages, omnibuses, and
pleasure wagons, she has competitor this side of
the Aileghanies, and fears none the other. Hun
dreds of elegant family carriages. for the South and
West, are annually cent from her shops, even
one being packed at 0viatt & Spery's, on Fifth
street, destined to that city, cash ORDER from
s,.sssS R''Han residing there Its value i about
locomotive engines, and engines for steamboats,.
Of Cincinnati manufac sure, traverse the waters and
prsiries and lands Of every Southern and Western
State south Of the Greet Lakes, wherever scientific
civilization has advanced Close upon the heels Of
the iron-horse, and in his footprints he piunges
into the bosom of the wilderness follows, with their
fleeing roar, magnificent cars made In the Queen
City. TIE clear shrill CT her steam whistles now
breaks the stiffness Of the forest in the echo
Of the red mans rife.
Cincinnati built steamboats,, as they glide along,
divide the waters for 10000 miles of tho mighty
West, and she has ocean vessels now dasning
through the pillows Of Tie Atlantic, and float in the
ha1bors Of San Francisco and Panama, which arc
propelled with canvass, supported by cordage, all
of her own manufacture.
In the amount Of her expectation of lard-oil sho
has not her equal in the known world. From tho
country Immediately Surrounding her she supplies
all the extreme Southwestern States with their
Gnest family and draft horses, and in tho manutac
ture of saddles and elegant harness she is not OK
cel.sd.
The amount Of capital invested in the manufsc-
ture Of candles, SOAP and white lead Is millions Of
dollars. A vast amount Of business is done in her
brooms, carding machines, aud all sorts Of cooper
age and willow ware
Within her limits Gncluding those Of her junior
sstor city, CovDston, which barhos her Feet IN the
same lmpid ssreG m) are extensive rolling mills, Gail
factories, and machine shops OF ali descriptions
She has mills for the manufacture OF cotton cloths,