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MERCHANTS TEMPERANCE SocIETY.--This
philanthropic association held meeting last
ne at the Brick Church of DR.. Spring. L, was
Inito fully attended and good degree of interest
vas manifested in the designs and measures of the
society. Having been but recently organized, it
oas net as yet done much directly toward the ac-
,ompli,hmcnt of their main parposes but
ersland tkey are about to commence a series of
meetings, and Of more ethcien, action
The meeting last evening was called for the
purpose Of listening TO Address from Hon.
HENRY w. DWIGHT, of Stockbridge, Mass
many years since q somewhat prominent and inlu-
initial Member Of Congress 1t was while is
Washington, we believe, that he acquired those
habits of dissipation which led to the most degrad
ng drunkenness, and for some time past he has
bSen completely under the thrall OF the foul fand
doing only his bidding, and listening to his be-
l+sts alone But he has recently felt the power of
the reform which is sweeping vice and wretched-
ness from the land, and has become an able and
fcient advocate of total abstinence from all that
AN intoxicaie. His address last evening was
mainly an exposition of the delusons which drive
he drunkard to his fate the character and effect
IF his disease, and the nature of the remedy.
He commenced by opposite quotation from Vir
5s .fncid of the passage in which the hero, in
reply to Queen Ddo's request that he would relate
o her the history ef the siege of Troy, tells her
that she is only bidding him renew his woes, and
q recount scenes of horror and misery in which
nc, alas had borae TOO large part" The only
rcaiment which could reform the drunkard, Mr.
Dwight maintained, was kind, sympathetic
orotherly treatment. Force, frowRs or harshness
any kind only drive him to still deeper despair
while frieLdly Offices, which should evince an :
tercst in MS welfare and show him that he was
till man. might win him back to the ways of
virtue


Mr.. Dwight's eocution i, pleasing and grace
ul he speaks with ease and from full heart, oc-
,asionally cvincng powers Of high and effective
.loqueuce. We irus, that his newly assumed la
7ors in this good work will be crowned with abun-
liant success.


~ RICHARD H. DAsA the distinguished Poet
Is TO lecture this evening before the Brooklyn Ly-
;eum, on the Importance Of right Life 10 the
appreciation OF Literature and the influence Of
Literature upon Life. twill be worth going a long
way 10 hear.


q The total Debt of the City of Albany en- the
ls' of May last was sl73,76O II. To meet this
The ci'y has assets considered good to the amour,
Of 1924 80, leaving balance in favor Of the
City Of sl5l,SO6 O5.


- DR.. Collier publishes Card in the Boston
Mail with reference to his recent unsuccessful at
,eupt TO convince the Baltimvreans of the truth OF
Animal Magnetism He speaks of those TO whom
ne ectur d as . clique of Baltimore rOwdie. :: and
assigns his i'll health as sufficient excuse for
any discrepancies in the result of his expert
ments


~ Counterfeit, thress OF the Brunswick Bank.
Me-. are in circulation in Boston.