The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-04


country Of popular liberty to teach US their
beautiful schemes of political reformation. |
They 90 up like o rocket, making prodigious
fuss. leaving behind them stream Of fire, and
a grand display Of white, red and blue lights
with their explosion but then it is all over,
and they disappear in darkness and are gone.
Kossuth. Kinkel, and Gavazzi were OF this
class, and very striking illustrations; but the
most striking of all is the case of John Mitchell
He went up like rocket, and has come down
like the stick.
THE ERIE WAR.-At length we are told that
a treaty of peace has been signed by the COM
batants at Erie. Governor Bigler, who has
done the rioters yeoman service, has spent
couple OF days in the midst OF feasting and pa
geantry at Erie, and possibly to his interven-
tion do We owe the fact that Mayor King and
his sbirri have consented to tear up no more
tracks. Both tracks are now laid east and
west Of Erie, and the gauge on both Is the
same. But, in order to satisfy the rapacious
Erians, it is agreed that the tracks shall lap,
not connect; and SO all the purposes Of break
Of gauges. involving change of cars and tran
shipment OF freight, are attained. Passengers
and freight, arriving at Erie henceforward,
may either follow the lake shore to Buffalo or
take the Erie Railroad to New York, or finally,
travel on the Sunbury and Erie road, when
the latter is completed. But in no ease can
they travel directly from Cleveland to Baflalo
or New York without transhipment.
Thus victory remains with the Erians. II
now remains to be seen what will be the fate
Of Mr.. Olds' motion Qrom the Post Office Com
mittee), to secure the safe transmission Of the
United States mails on railroads. This motion,
which has been referred to Committee Of the
Whole. will probably provoke discussion on
the extent of the powers Of Congress in relation
to establishing post offices and post roads"
Looking at the question broadly, 1t would seem
clear enough that as railroads are the only
post roads now in use, Congress would
have a right to establish railroad
from Buffalo to Cleveland, and to pre-
scribe whatever gauge or breaks it might
deem suitable. Still this power has never been
exercised, and there is no doubt that its exer-
else at the present day would provoke very
unsatisfactory alteration between Congress
and the States. In no free country, peopled
by an energetic race, can the government un-
dertake railroads or other works Of this nature
with as fair prospects of success as private cor
porations or individuals and it is perhaps
better that the monopoly of such undertakings
should be left to the latter. The debate on Mr.
Olds' motion will teach us what estimate the
country at large have formed of the people 0
| Pennsylvania.
REV. Mn. PsAsE AND HIS MIssIoN-DR. JAR
Wis AND AFFLICTED WoMEN-THE DRoPPNGs OF
CHARTTy.-We have received the sum of twenty
dollars, subject to draft according to the fol.
lowing note =
| As evidence that I, for one, among many others
do not believe in the allegations made against the
| Rev. Mr.. Pcase, a. published in the Express, "a
paper that always appears ready to publish any
thing against anybody on any kind of authority
| beg you will hand over the enclosed $40 to the
1sVsrsnd to be used as he may think
ticular friend of Mr. Pease, by way Of bait to
catch gudgeons, or from some unsuspecting
charitable person, bona .Jide, we know not
We have the money, and if Mr.. Pease will call
ct the HERALD Office and give u.s. in his own
handwriting, o receipt for the same, it is his
If he does not call within reasonable time we
shall, perhaps, turn over the cash to the oppo-
eition Methodist Ladies' Home Mission at the
| Five Points, or to some other charitable insti-
| tuition.
| We have also received the following note
from benevolent and intelligent lady, upon
upon another subject, enclosing fifteen dollars,
which is at the service of DR.. Sims =
Mr. DsAR Mr.. EpIroR =
| read in Sundays edition Of the HERALD the in.
teresting communication Of DR.. George O. Jarvis, OF
Portland, Conn.,, on call for asylum for INDECENT
| women, who have sustained injuries from difficult
labor. A more humane enterprise could not be
suggested TO the public. None but the poor sufferer
| can imagine the discomfort of body and the an.
guish Of ou experienced by the miserable victim Of
! the dreadful acci3ebt mentioned by DR.. Jarvis
For twenty three years belonged to that class and
OF course cam bstter than anybody else, sympathze
with Them bnt shall not pretend to depict their
sufferiDRs. Suffice it 10 say that now relieved
and thank God there Is pr0sp Of relief for others
Something must be done, and / hope, soon.
But some time will necessarily elapse before hos
p.tsl could be got under way, even if funds were
provided. In the meantime, much good may be az
complished by furnishing aid to such cases as may
arise till this could be DONE therefore send you
the enclosed amount, Sl5 subject to the order Of DR..
j. Marion Sine, to be expended for the benefit Of
any poor woman who may be afflicted wi ii any ac-
cident resulting from dfcnlt labor. Yours respect
fully, SALLIE ".
The institution here suggested would, no
doubt prove to be most excellent one. We
commend it to the attention of the Corporation.
Mr.. Pease, on the other hand, is going on swim
mingly. According to the letters and contribu-
tions published in the papers, he is the lion of
the day, and thrives on persecution. viii he
be good enough to call for these twenty dollars?
RELIGIOUS TROUBLE IN COLOMBIA CoILEGE.---
We see that religious excitement has travelled
from the neighborhood Of the Five Points to
the prtcncts OF Columbia College, and that
learned professors and collegiate trustees are
anxious to prove they are as susceptible to its