The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-14

cracked csrthenware and steel pronged forks,
csnnes for the life Of them comprehend how
man like themselves, toiling as they do, should
have earned q set of silver plate.
Others hint that the anonymous present
came from Tammany Hall. At the time Gen.
Pierce was elected President, q strong move
was made among the merchants and mechanics
of Tsmmany Hall to present us with set Of
plate as token Of the recognition by the de-
mocracy Of the value of our support during
the campaign. We have heard nothing of the
matter since. AT the time the idea was first
mooted, we did not think the democracy could
afford to give service of plate to any one; but
since then, they have been fattening on the
spoils Of office, and what with the Custom
House, the Post Office and the Navy Yard, may
have scraped together enough to pay Messrs
Ball, Black 4 Co-the idea being Of course to
purchase our good will for as long period as
the service would pay for. We commend this
idea to the investigators of the mystery.
Again, it is shrewdly suspected that the Know
Nothings are at the bottom of the matter. Sc
crecy is fhe peculiar characteristic of all their
movements; their type is the hand moving to
strike or to reward in the dark. The HERALD
favors the Know Nothings; what more natural
than that they should instruct their grand
questor 10 slip service of plate under our
door on dark night, merely as stimulus to
our zeal? Our cotemporaries are dull not to
have thought of this. Must we set down the
gift as token of admiration from the New
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ton thus sought to testify their gratitude for
our services? Let some one enlighten US.
BLUNDERs OF COUNTRY EDIToRs-A journal
published in Toronto says that the United
States should be IS pat upon" because, he says,
"the HERALD, Times and Tribune, the leading
organs of public opinion, are openly on the
side of the Gear" in the present war. Here
upon another Canadian editor takes his brother
TO task and corrects him by stating that the
HERALD, Times and Tribune are ofno account
in the United States, American opinion being
represented by the Courier and Enquirer,
Journal Of Commerce and Commercial AdUer-
riser. We hope the Canadians won't "spit
upon" us, if we venture to observe in the first
place that no journal in this country that we
have seen has taken the side of the Gear, or
done ything more than see fair play between
the belligerents; and secondly that whether the
HERALD, Times and Tribune, with circula-
ton Of 100000 daily, are "of no account" or
not, the Courier and Journal represent Ameri-
can opinion just as truly as Lloyd's List and
the Shipping Gazette represent that Of Eng
land and the Commercial .Hdrertiser occu
pies the same position here that the venerable
beldame of the Standard does in London. We
charge nothing for the information.
The DENTIsTs.-We publish elsewhere q
made by several dentists of New
York, whose purport is to remove the impress
sion left on the public mind by the meetings
recently held here in connection with DR..
Besle's case, and to restore chloroform to its
former estimation. We fear they will not sue
coed The dentists who met and declared
what they had seen, stated facts which our cor
respondents today do not contradict. All they
say is that in their practice they have seen none
of the evil effects Of chloroform. This does not
prove that those effects are not produced; and
until the veracity Of the professional m.n who
met here some weeks ago is directly assailed,
the presumption will remain that they are, and
that anasthetics of this character had better
be abandoned by the faculty,
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