New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-31
FROM BOSTON.
Committee.

There has been the devil 10 pay sereseonts since
wrote TO you sst, and with no lack in the market
of the pceous currency, which il the only legal
tender 10 this general creditor Of msasnd and pi-
ping hot into the bargain. Ysu will believe me
when tell you that Governor Gardner has csatsiyed
70 tread on the toes OF al the min sters in Massa-
cbusetts as once, who, you know, are rather ten.
ler.f oted generation. In his proclamation for q
Dsy Of General Humiliation, Fasting add Prayer,
alter epuu Grating many Of the reasons We have for
uniting ashes on our heads and sack cloth on our
lojrs but BY no me ans al Of them,-bis EIeeNen-
ev nrocseds 10 exhort those "whO are cssd TO min.
ster At Gods Altar TO abstain from political discus.
ssious and secular considerations" in thex dis.
courses on that day Now, Fast Day has al.
ways been regarded &c an open day Tor open
questions, when the clergy could relieve thee
bosoms Of any perilous stuff that weighed upon
their hearts, without oheuse 70 me DUNK.
erer saints of their communion I'm tnst
dsy topics-such as Slavery and Rum-usushy
under taboo, may be- sired without offending fhe
most delicate nos rils in the congregation. II was
a GREAT bunder on the Governors part lie ran
before he was sent. Nobody asked hun for any
such service. The necessity Of saiety-vaive 70
minister "A well as 70 a steam boiler is generally
gerous explosion at an incon YEMEN. nne. MS
Excellepcy might as well have couuseIed the plug
ono oftbe nOses of The akettles IN isdomlnlons
The ministers resent this advice as temperament and
as q Convention of them at Springfield SAID Oh
PrOOks's attempt to knock Senator sumner orsins
ont, WHOLLY uncalled for" Many of them declare
that they will not read this Proclamation from tho
pulpit, as the wont is, on the Sunday before Fast
And altogether they ave in a very wholesome etate
of indignation You will be pleased to bear, how
ever that one clergyman, at least, has expressed
his determination ~ acquesce IN this advice. Ino
Rev. Theodore Parker, whose reverence lot tno
Powers that Be is SO widely known, declares that
be will forego on that day all political and secular
discussions, according TO his Excelencys sugges-
ton. and edfy his hearers with Discourse OF ~
ing Ii would be safe 70 predict that the music
Hall will be crammed 10 hear IL
We have had an alarm Of new slave hunt beng
on foot in this part OF the national preserve a. you
have already told your readers. have little doubt
that there was ground for IL though II YOU'D sot %
expedient to lay all the particulars before all your
renders II might expose the workings OF tho
Underground Railway and Of the Underground
Telegraph which runs alongside OF it, IN way
which might lead TO the blocking Of the rails OF the
one and the interruption OF the wires OF IDo otner.
1t ia enough to say that the intelligence came from
more than one distinct source. aud was conclusive
enough TO make il advisable 70 put the man beyond
| the reach Of Marshal Freeman and the Sims
Brigade. And, talking of that, this alarm had 1t
least the good effect OF reducing the vote for briga.
der Andrews by about one-half IN the House OF
Representatives. Before it, think he lacked only
vote or 30 of an election; since then his vote feb
off very nearly If not quite One-half, and no 10
probably shelved for year at least when tho
members had it brought home to their minds that
another Second of June was more than probability,
they felt the danger OF putting the command OF tho
militia into the hands Of creature OF the Slave
Mn hi . nj af|ln
malien conjunction should be prevented BY positvss
statute prohibition There is no need OF oar binding
ourselves hand and foot any more closely than we ara
now at the feet Of the shareholders. And this In
cident has also given slight Clip 70 the legislative
action in the matter Of Judge L0ring. 1t has re-
fresbed mems minds to his dongs, and taken in
connection with the natural resentment Of the legis-
ative mind at the mpertinence Of his letter 10 the
Committee to which his case was referred, may re-
suit in his comfortable excalcitratOn from his office.
Two hearings have been had and another is to
| take place next week. Was it The TRIBUNE that
suggested that Judge Loring held on 10 his Com
pissionership merely as defiance OF the btatet
If so, think you were mstaken-as / rather think
| if compelled to elect between the two, hs would
take that and leave the Judgeshp, as the less lu-
crative of the two A United States Commissioner
with good run Of business, as Mr.. Loring has,
earns more than Probate Judgeship comes to.
So you see the dropping of either Office would be,
an Infinite loss.
One of the Know. Nothing Rostrums for the amend
ment of our Constitution has been made up ready
for administering. / mean tho one requiring
voter to know how TO read and write as qualifca-
ton for the ballot-box. 1t has look Of common
sense about it, but when / consider what sort Of
voters men entirely up TO both these teats make Of
themselves, am not sure that those denied these
bOuntes Of Nature are not the best qualified sffer
al. have long thought that an inability TO read
and write would be tho best Of all recommendations
for candidate for the Presidency, as such ono
would be free from those temptations Of pen and
ink which have been the ruin Of 90 Many hopeful
expectants. Another boEs requiring Q resi-
deIce Of fourteen years before man vote, has
been laid upon the shelf In the Senate BY large
vote. That is, it referred TO Committee,
with the understanding that it was never TO Do
heard Of again. The friends Of the measure In
duged in frghEful threats if the opposition .ois were
not withdrawn. They even went 70 the iengtn
of saying that it would give the Governorsap 70 MI
Gardner for another year menace nrre nAey
to intiDidate nervous Republican coulo nAidiy %
imagined, and you may infer rom itS ocing IN
effecma that the Republicans have PICKED up nj
tie of the pluck they dropped last Autumn, when
thew let Mr. Gardner come in by default. There Is
hope tben, suppose, that this cumulative calamity
msv he spared us. Another amendment 10 the
Constitution now ready TO be submitted TO the peO-
ple provides for the election Of Representatives by
districts instead Of by towns. The object 10 TO d.
min.h our crowd of law makers, and the objection
ia that such diminuion would Increase the power Of
the lobby and facilitate the rolling Of logs. But,
then, We have the example Of your State where
the. dstrctng system prevails, and where, L
understand, no logs roll across the legislative
path, and the lobby is used merely as for The
of ,hara r O..