The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-27

In Maryland. An attempt was made to convey the
prisoner to Anne Arundel county to answer the
charge but be was brought back by writ Of habeas
corpus, and lodged in prison.
Some very curious proceedings took place at the |
meeting Of the Massachusetts, Anti Slavery Society,"
in Boston, yesterday. Among other things, the
memory OF Webster was Denounced in the most
scandaous language
The trial Of the colored ustn Enoch Reed charged
with having assisted in the rescue of the fugitive
slave jerry, commenced in Albany yesterday
The teegraphs furnish US with various railroad,
steamboat, and ,narsime accidents, accompanied by
loss OF life to 6hicA we have room to refer in do
tail.
Thomas a. Arcy MCGEE delivered lecture last
evening, ut the Tabernacle, in aid OF the Catholic
Institute ofEhis city. His subject was, The Poll
teal CAuses and Effects OF the Reformation" He
spoke at;great length upon the condition Of Europe
| at the commencement Of the Reformation, and coz
tended shat the Reformation the of all the
blood that has been shed in Europe fer the last three
hundred years. and also that 1t has been the means
| ofereating standing armies, high taxes function
I aries and the revolutions which have racked that
| continent for such hong period He maintained
converting single tribe of the Indians of this con-
\ tinent, whereas, the Jesuts had been tolerated,
they, from their bong experience Of Indian habits,
could have easily saved them
Yesterday evening DR.. Antisell delivered his last
lecture geology, at che Stuyvesant Institute
subject, "The origin snd distribution of COAL"
He pointed out that coal beds arose from an exces-
sve vegetable growth in preceding epochs, and thst
this continent possessed the largest number Of coal
mines of any portion of the globe. He alluded to
the of deposit of COAL the revelations of the
condition of the globe as afforded by the mineral
ITSELF and the causes of the difference in btuminous
and anthracite coal, and concluded his address by
remarks on the condition Of the globe when coal was
formed.
| Two medical students, named David E. Bass and
w. II. Irwin, both natives of Virginia, had slight
alteration IN the lecture of the Medical Col
ege, Fourteenth street, in this city, Tuesday night.
In short time, Irwin drew bowie knife and inflicted
several dreadful wounds upon the person of Bass.
He then fed, and has not been arrested. Pass is
still in avery critical state.
A servant woman, named Anne Wolfe in q fit of
temporary insanity, Jumped from the roof Of three
story house. in Eleventh street, to the ground Tues
day evening She medtated selfdestruetion, but
strange to say, not killed. She was IN the City
Hospital last night with but slight hopes of her ut
mate recovery.
| The steam saw mills of Mr.. H. Loveland, situate
at,the corner Of Water street and Rutgers slip, in
this city, entirely destroyed by FIRE last night
with the entire stock and machinery. The loss is
estimated at from $4,000 to $l2 Oe0. There is an
insurance.
We publish to-day full and interesting report of
the anniversary of Robert Burns
The Democratic Review]. s.: Bennett and
the New York Herald-Youag America ana
the F1libusters.
The last issue ofthe Democratic Repie,c q dou-
bic number of some two hundred and nineteen
pages, Of the most exaggerated democracy, is
before US. 1t is an extraordinary pamphlet, in a
literary and political view, and, therefore, chal-
.lenges something more than passing notice of
its contents; the more especially considering it's
probable influence, more or less, in giving
shape, form, and direction, to the general policy
of Young America under the incoming admi-
nistration.
The frontispiece of this crack number is
an excellent portrait of Mr.. JAMES G. BENNETT,
the editor and proprietor of the New YORK
HERALD 1t is the most creditable engraving
that has yet appeared in this Rerie,c or perhaps
in any other, of the lineaments and Intellectual
individuality of the man. The young artist
who did this piece of work is fairly entitled to
this acknowledgment. On the opposite page.
ris-a-ris with the frontispiece, the caption of
lengthy article rather startles us with its point
ed brevity and flashing signifcancy, to witt
" The 'HERALD-Onward! - The first six
pages of this article are devoted to Young
American review of the political and physical
progress of the United States, as contrasted
with the musty politics, traditions and ideas Of
the rotten monarchical systems Of Europe The
writer then. after expatiating somewhat upon
the progress of the democratic party in getting
rid of its "old fogy mortgages" introduces Mr..
BENNETT his "life-like portrait" and the
HERALD, in rapid statement of the merits of
the editor and the superiorities as a newspaper
of this journal over all its cotemporaries in
Guiding even 1.-THE great thunderer" the London
Times. This complimentary notice of Mr. BEN
NETT and his world-renowned HERALD, we can
not exclude from our columns. A sense of JUS
tice due to both sides, forbids its exclusion.
We therefore give it elsewhere in our columns.
to-day, as the cream of the cut and thrust ram
bling, right and left, slap dashng article headed
1.-The HERALD-Onward." The article is finally
wound up with puff of General Pierce, and in
urging him that the time has come, that he is
| the man. that his instruments are at hand.
and that his policy is onward. And to this we
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