The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-11
(yEw YORK CORRESPONDENCE
INV Youx, February I. lsl3.

NEw YoaK, February z. 1913.
The osalaer.1n incident = The 1ails---ftot'o" % as
Posi- 0Dses-The Nso York Erpres-The co~se'
and Enquirer and the Presidents graosna-Ihs Court
.Naiiai-1he duty fAs Presidents friends, &c. &c
The weather has been fearfully wild and cruelty
severe for the last three days IL blew all day yes
terday, and the whole of last night dreadful gale
and many poor fellow, ii feared, has, within the
last forty hours found watery and untime-
ly grave.
From ten o'clock yesterday, up TO the time that
commenced this letter, the wind has assumed The
frownlng and gloomy aspect OF tornado, unequaiied
in violence by the typhoons Of the Indian ocean and
the last night but the counterpart OF LenoAs de-
scripon of the tempest that supposed to be The
precursor of the murder of Duncan by Macbeth.
"The night has been unruly where we lay,
Our chimnies were blown down and, as they say,
Lamentings were heard j. the air strange screams
Of death,
And prophesyng, with accents terrible,
OF dire combustion, and confused events,
Never Matched in the woful time the obscure
bird
Clsmor'd the live long night; some say the earth
Was feversh and did shake"
A night more fearful has seldom " visited the
glimpses Of the morn and the catalogues of horror
that its ravages may yet unfold may well be dreaded
in gloomy anticipation.
Amid the very fury Of the gale, i, with difficulty,
found my way to the Battery; and, as the aeeting
scud occasionally developed the moon, gazed with
admiration and with awe the wild and magnificent
that the night and the storm presented As far
the eye could penetrate the bay and harbor was
vast abyss of yesty and flashing wave;" and, in
its wdness and grandeur, bespoke the might and ma
jesty of Jehovah.
AS gazcd enraptured even " on a scene so rude, !"
little shallop was gliding the bosom OF
the surge, bearing single mariner who had eloped
from gallant ship that lay in the distance proudly
buffeting the tornado The boat was already within
some fifty yards of the shore, when wild wave
dashed her over and the poor seaman, as supposed,
was hurled into eternity At the critical moment he
appeared on the bosom of the wave, like gull,
and " did buffet it, with lusty snews, throwing it
aside and recalled to my mind, most forcibly,
Eriel's description of Fedinand's swimming to the
shore
81 saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs he trod the water,
Whose enmty he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoln that met him his bold head
Dove contentious waves he kept, and GARD
Himself with his good arms in lustry stroke
To the shore that DER his wave-worn basis how'd
AS STOPPING to relieve him"
In consequence of the violence of the weather, all
the mails due from the North the East and the South
have failed. The consequence is, that have to
depend city tales and bristol gossip, and Caner-
bury scandal" for news. And even those sources
are amazingly deficient of "food and mind" at the
present moment.
The New York Express, since it has ceased to feast
and fatten "blanks paper and twne," is amazing
ly out with the General Post Office Department and
recommends its total abolition and humiliation 1t
would have the whole mail service farmed out to in
dvidual enterprise and coon-skinnng integrity and
then must assuredy have most delectable state
of things especially if the disciple Of the Hartford
Convention, the senior editor of the New York Ex-
press, appointed Postmaster General, under his
proposed "grab and snatch" Post Office system. At
present. the Post Office Department in all probabili-
ty will not BE- abolished
The editor of the New York Courier and Enquir-
er, gentleman who never, in his life, guilty of
the enormty Of writing two consecutive sentences Of
the Kings English correctly and dramatically to-
day, in brief paragraph, called Presiden, Tyler to
an scCouht iot INC gfduiai Vi u iate annual bcS-
sage.
1t is understood that the editor of the Courier and
Enquirer was taught grammar by a machine, and
hence his inability to comprehend President Tyler's
pure Anglo-Saxon English.
No man in this, or any other country, writes purer
better English than the President Of the United
States, and a bellies etve scholar is not whit be-
hind Messrs. Jefferson, Madison and Adams. His
eulogy on Jefferson abundanty proves the assertion
The Naval Court Martial, aboard Of the United
States ship, the North CsroIna, progresses slowly
You will find its proceedings in the newspapers -
Political partisans, all sides, marshalling for
the ARRAY. Every friend Of President Tyler ought to
be the aer-EAcH should be required 10 do his
ADMINISTRATIONS.
Action, action, should be the motto OF all and all
who disposed to labor for the welfare Of the Pre-
sdent should act at once. We should have no other
man in view than President Tyler No "second
choice should be thought Of or discussed. We
should know nothing OF the kind; and every man.
who is in receipt Of the friendship and confidence Of
the Administration, should be made TO understand
that he must strike for the common cause and expose
and risk everything for it, or cease TO hope for pa
,ronage or favor. We want no "half-wayn men
among US.
Yours, very truly,
NrcKiR N New YoRK