seriatim from the leading articles of the New York Herald, of Wednesday, October 12, 1842, which, being

appearances, we shall not be disappointed. We have already described the approaches of Fourierism—but there are other elements beginning to bubble.

"It is now ascertained, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that the end of the world will take place next April, and there is very little doubt but that Joe Smith's end has already come. We have seen extraordinary developments in religion, in philosophy, in finance, in almost every thing of late years; and we now expect to see some most remarkable developments in politics, that shall throw the movements of Mormonism, and Millerism, and Fourierism, completely in the shade.

"It appears that the powerful influence of the independent press is extensively prevailing, and in consequence thereof, the approaching election in this city will be different from any that we have had since the time of the revolution. By the movements now making and to be made, the power and corrupt influence of all cliques, caucuses, secret committees, associations, and clubs of rowdies, loafers, butenders, unionists, and all others, will be gone for ever; and if we could say that the devil and all the joints of his tail had gone with them, we might raise a shout of joy and delight; but, unfortunately, he is here still, and apparently, on a long lease. We go for the stump system, root and branch, we will support all stump candidates, tooth and nail. For nothing can be more demoralizing than the present system. We will advocate the cause of any man who is a stump candidate. We will support Mike Walsh, with all his indictments on his head, if he takes the stump; we will support John M'Keon on the same ground, although we do not like him; we will support J. N. Reynolds—yes, and we will go farther, and even support James Watson Webb if he'll take the stump. If Col. Webb will only start for member of Congress on his own hook, and take the stump in the Wall-street, or any other district, we will go for him; and we now call upon him to come out and do so.

"Let this ball be kept rolling. Let us have stumps in the Wall-street district, the Five Point district, the Butt Enders district, and the Indomitable district, and let stumping be the order of the day till the election is over."

a single copy of that leading journal, obtained casually, may be taken as a fair specimen of its taste and talent As such, they are given without further comment.

"THE BEAUTIFUL AND EXTRAORDINARY RHODE ISLAND SUFFRAGE HEROINE, MRS. PARLIN OF PROVIDENCE.-The beautiful and talented heroine of the suffrage party in Rhode Island, Mrs. Parlin, arrived in the city yesterday. This lady, in conjunction with several other Rhode Island ladies, whose husbands were persecuted by the landholders, was the first to start the great clam bakes, which have created/ such a tremendous sensation, and kept Rhode Island in a stew all the summer. She, acting as Major General of the female suffrage forces, in connection with her aids, were determined that if they could not make havoc of the landholders, they would make havoc of the clams and seaholders. She is the wife of a highly respectable physician of Providence, and is the daughter of a respectable New England family, of the Taunton stock.

"It seems that many of these ladies, whose husbands have been persecuted by the landholders, got up a fourth of July celebration on their own hook, had the declaration of independence read, and went through the ceremonies of the day with great éclat. This was the first great movement of the women; they have since got up all sorts of clam bakes, and are now going to close the summer campaign, and open the winter with a splendid ball at Pawtucket.

"The lady in question is one of the finest specimens of New England, or Rhode Island beauty. [Here follows a minute description of the lady's personal charms.] Altogether she may be considered a perfect beau ideal of Juno, when she set every thing to rights in Olympus, and made all the gods and goddesses mind their p's and q's in the empyrean region. She is here for the purpose of completing the arrangements for the ball, where all the beauty of Rhode Island will be present; and a great number of handsome young democrats from this city, Boston, and all round the country.

"N. B. Tickets for the ball sold at this office; also a ful! and picturesque history of Rhode Island affairs will be given

to-morrow.

"GLORY BY THE OUNCE.-The Pells sold yesterday morning an extensive catalogue of sterling silver plate, including a part of the costly and magnificent service presented to

The following extract from an American newspaper describes a procession at New York, on the anniversary of the day when the British forces quitted the town, called by the Americans “ Evacuation day." It is a ludicrous attempt at the sublime.

Then followed the bold musicians pouring the martial strain from fife and drum and trumpet, giving old winter blast for blast; then came the grim and frowning cannons, two of them, each with its tumbrel charged with the fiery dust that emulates the vollying thunder; and last, though far from least, the sturdy veterans of the ancient corps, disdaining all the foppery of Mars, and breasting the pitiless north wind and driving sleet-in their plain blue coats. And so they marched along unmindful of the storm, while the shrill notes of the trumpet struggled through the snow-encumbered air.” This may pass muster in the columns of an American newspaper, but it would make sad work in the columns of an army. If a commanding officer were to order his men to "charge their grim muskets with the fiery dust that emulates the vollying thunder, and to breast the pitiless north wind in their plain red coats, unmindful of the storm," the soldiers might fancy he was drilling a regiment in the clouds. But prime and load-march -sets the column in motion in a moment. The Duke

Commodore Stephen Decatur by the city of Baltimore, for one of his brilliant naval victories over the English in the last war. This service of plate was valued at three thousand dollars, and the widow of the gallant commodore was compelled to dispose of it, but not without a pang. Congress had promised her relief, but the petty squabbles of that body prevented any from being granted, and the plate had to go for bread and butter."

"COLONEL DICK JOHNSON is in Philadelphia. Come on to this city, old hero, and let us shake you by the same hard but benevolent hand, that wielded the sword in the battle of the Thames, and helped to lick the British. Do."

of Wellington disdained both the foppery of Mars and the foppery of language, and his few and pithy words in the hour of victory at Waterloo were, " Up, guards,

and at them."

It is unnecessary to dwell at any length either on the merits or the abuses of the British periodical press, with which we are so familiar. The principal newspapers of the metropolis are in few hands, and some of them are very valuable property, and are conducted with a high degree of talent. The terse, appropriate, and forcible style in which the leading articles are struck off, from day to day, the accuracy with which the parliamentary debates are reported, the expense and trouble incurred to obtain speedy and correct information from all parts of the globe, the rapidity with which it is arranged, condensed, and published, place the principal journals of London among the most wonderful achievements of modern art and enterprise. Many of our provincial newspapers too are conducted in a style highly creditable to their proprietors and editors.

The low unstamped prints that defraud the revenue, and disseminate sedition and slander, may mislead and corrupt their unwary readers; but they are utterly disregarded by the more respectable part of the community. The rich proprietor of the most extensively circulated Sunday newspaper was rejected as a candidate for the mayoralty of London, in consequence of his connection with a print remarkable for its shameless and indecent disloyalty and profaneness. The better portion of the press use, indeed, great, and sometimes excessive freedom, in animadverting on the conduct of public men; but rarely are they guilty of slandering private character. Neither the verdicts of juries, nor the public voice, would support them in such outrages, the frequent recurrence of which, in any of the principal newspapers, would certainly tend to lessen its repute and its respectable circulation.

While the literary talent employed in the daily press, cultivated as it is by constant practice, is quite remarkable, the habit of discussing every subject on the spur of the moment must often lead to a method of writing which is striking and brilliant rather than just and profound; and mistaken opinions on important questions once adopted may sometimes be defended with ability and ingenuity worthy of a better cause. Yet truth and freedom are on the whole promoted by free discussion; and if those great organs of information and public opinion occasionally excite feelings that had better remain dormant, they also give vent to those which it would be dangerous to suppress; their warnings and suggestions are useful to the government, and their Argus eyes and trumpet tongues constitute an invaluable check to every abuse. Surely the advantages of the British press far preponderate over its incidental evils.

We had need, however, to take care that the periodical writing of newspapers, and of the singularly able and spirited articles which appear in our reviews and magazines, be not allowed to provoke harsh and uncharitable sentiments, nor yet implicitly to guide our opinions on vitally important questions. Those articles must generally be hastily written, they are often highly seasoned, and even where there is no deliberate intention to misrepresent, such a habit of writing is very likely to lead to misrepresentation, not only of the characters and opinions of the parties opposed to the writer, but also of the party whose advocate he is. A periodical writer will generally be found in the van of his party, and we are far too apt to judge of all parties by the extreme views of their accredited public organs. If we dislike the published sentiments, we are inclined to shun all whom we suppose to hold them; and so to regard one another with hostility, like Jews and Sama