New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-08
FROM BOSTON,.
From Our Own Correspondent

BOSTON, may ., 1000
Chief Justice Shaw has been laying down the
law ct Salem in way which astonshes the liquor
sellers A statute passed in 1855 declares intox-
eating liquor kept for sale unswfully to be public
nuisance, and also the buildings used for such un-
Law full traffic Two years ago the women of Rock
port in Essex County, probably not knowing or
caring whether their action was in accordance with
airy but the higher law, visited the shop OF Mr..
James Brown and smashed up his liquor casks,
spilng the liquor and destroying 1t To all lntents
and purposes They afterward visited other shops
and performed the same operation. Brown brought
an action against Stephen Perkins and wife, and In
the trial of the cause Judge Shaw charged the Jury
that the destruction of the liquor was lawful. Any
individual, he said may lawfully destroy lntOIcat-
ing liquors unawfully kept for sale, with the vessels
containing it, wherever he may find 1t; and II any
one person may do this, II is equally lawful Tor
hundred or q thousand to do the same thing. For
this purpose entrance may be obtained into any
building, not dwelling hOure, where the liquor is
kept, and all necessary force may be used. or
course this right is only to be exercised in the most
careful manner, and would result in great danger
unless used under strict sense of responsibility.
The party who undertakes to abate the nuisance
must be cure that liquor is in the building; that 1t
is kept for unlawful sale that he uses force
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are exhausted, and that he touches no other prop
erty than the unlaw full liquor. In the case on trial.
it was shown that the women destroyed barrel OF
vinegar. This article has not yet been declared in
tOxicatiDg. The Jury, however, found verdict tor
the defendants.
The two bridges between Boston and CharlestOwn
were made free on the first Of May, the necessary
fund of 100000 having accumulated, and been
invested for their future repair and preservation.
The avenues out of Boston are now all tOIl-ree ex.
cept the Western, or Mill-Dam, on which tolls will
Iemain two or three years longer.
The proposed public demonstration in honor OF
Orsini and Pierr has been given up. On Thursday
evening meeting was held at the hall OF the Ger
Turner'S, at which several enthusiastic speeches
were made, mostly by gentlemen of foreign birth.
The abest was by DIR. DOnai, German, John w.
Le Barnes, young Anti-Slayery man and Repub-
hcan, black rs we'll as red.
An association called the "Fraternal Union, con-
"nectCd with the Twenty-eghth Congregational
Society,"" has just been formed. The Twenty
eighth Society is the Rev. Theodore Parker's. 1t
has never heretofore had any machinery of assOcat
ed action like other societies. Weekly meetings
during portion of the year at Mr.. Parker's house
have been the only means of bringing the members
within reach and sympathy of each other. Some
thing like hundred and sixty members have already
been obtained and Charles w. Slack has been
chosen President of the organization The plan OF
operations includes the publication of tracts lectures
next Fall and Winter, and social meetings and re-
creations. The radicaism and rationalism in the
city will be likely to be developed and organized by
this movement.
had begun to entertain fears, and / presume
you had begun to cherish hopes, that Mr.. Commits
siOner Ioring would not furnish occasion for
al other paragraph either in letter or editorial art-
cle He certainly seemed to be sufficiently dead to
Justify such expectations. His name has not even
haap in 10 posff orx
perhaps in their advertising columns. But tee-
grem from Washington revlves the recollection OF
him. as it did not long ago TIE recollection of the
Rev. Eleazar Williams. There Is no particular
resemblance however, between the reported
attempt to assassnate the Bourbon, and the tender
ing to LOring an Office worth $4,OOO year. De-
lieye that is the figure. The two attempts to drag
into notice d couple of dead celebrities furnished
coincidence, however, which struck my attention.
We are all glad to hear of LOring's good luck. The
Revolutionary Tories had to betake themselves to
England or Halifax The modern breed are allowed
to fnd sanctuary in Washington or in Govern
ment Office of some sort at home. Those who ale
not pensiOned for their wounds in the service of
Slavery are quietly let alone and become the joys
of many happy family circles, our people being too
knd-hearted to invade the domestic hearth for the
purpose of aveDging political quarrels. Mr..
Winthrop is our most illustriOus exile, in this fash
ion. l cannot, however, understand why he is not
considered as worthy of an Office as Mr.. LOring
He is quite as much Of martyr, very much more
of man, and, have no doubt, better lawyer
For the newy-sppointed Chief Justice of the Court
of Claims is by no means a frst-rate, or even
second. rate lawyer. Nobody here pretends that ne
is. suppose he is even below Nathan CLIFFORD,
though Lorings friends strenuOusy contend that
Clifford is the poorer of the two. In serylhty-
which is the chief qualification required BY the
Admnistration-they are about neck and neck.
When the next vacancy occurs, II Mr. Buchanan
will apply to me, I will give him the name Of q
poorer lawyer and meeker dOughface than either.
He can diaw on Boston Hunkerism good while
longer end the supply Will not be exhausted. No
public interest here will be interrupted by drawing
them to Washington, for they have been we'll exor-
cised from Judicial Office here; and if now and then
one of them creeps into a minor official position.
he soon gets reformed out again.
Gov. Banks, however, in his well-intentioned eff.
fort to ccncillate and combine all branches Of the
opposition TO the Pro-Slavery Democracy, is not
minor Offices. BY careful exercise Of your mem-
DRY, you will call to mind the name Of Alfred Il.
Ely who was q leader in the Know Nothing move
ment, and indeed in the Native American movements
OF previous years. To do him justice will admit
the probability that if he believes in anything it is
Nstivism He was supporter of Gardner in 1854,
and when the Legislature of 1855 met aspired 10
the Senatorshp Gen. Wilson, however, got three
or four times many votes he did, and was cho-
sen. Ely was, however, chosen Director of the
Western Railroad, an Office OF no particular honor,
and of no fixed salary, though presume it brought
him into positions where his services counsel
or lobby member for the railroad interest were made
available. He early quarreled with Gardner aud
each Of them lost confidence IN the other-a crcum
stance creditable TO the discemment Of both But
this 10 not what am getting at. NJ. Ely was the