The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-08


NV friend and neighbor--a medical man-has an
Irish nervsntgir, called Mary, who has only been
in the country about four months. She is hard
working and kind-hearted creature. She called on
me Yesterday TO ask a favor, which was conducted
something after the following fashion:
"Good morning TO your honor"
"Good morning, Mary; how are all at home ~
GAN well, give your honor thanks; but I've Just
called after asking favor, If I'm not intrudng upon
your honor"
.Not at all, Mary What is it can do for
your"
swell the doctor says you sometimes write to
the old country, and wish 10 know if your honor
cannot put me in the way jst after sending little
money TO my poor little brothers in Ireland Z"
"Cer,ainly can. How much do you want to
send, Maryr'
"May il please your honor, by hard work, have
jist saved f3 or SIS. have two poor little broth
ers in the poor house in Ireland, between the ages
of and 8 years. The living is very poor for the
poor boys, who've no neither or father. hear po
tatoes will be very in the old country this
winter; am afraid they'll suffer for something
to eat and to warm them, when the weather gets 80
cold. wish to send them this money, to take them
from the poor-house, and make them comforta-
bleo
81 shall be most happy, Mary, TO get draft on
good house in Liverpool, who will see that the
money you nrust to me shall be honestly and faith
fully applied you wish. And more than this,
though am poor myself, will add small trihe
to the amount, which may help the boys to be more
comfortable"
oh your honor is very good, and don't know
how to thank you enough know your honor
means all right; but what is dratf?"
at is this; we pay good man in New York our
money, who is an agent for or partner in, a good
house in Liverpool. He then gives us an order on
his house in England, payable to your friends in
ireland. When it is received, your friends are in
formed of it by mail. They then tell the Liverpool
house to remit to them, or their mercantile friends
in Ireland, when they duly receive it This il safer
than sending the gold because, if draft is lost,
we can get another; when, if the money should be
lost, il would be gone forever"
ooh bless your honor, jst see how il is. A
thousand thanks to you. Here's the <3, and I'D
jist wish you to do with it as you would for your
own relations"
"Cerlain,y will, Mary"
"a thousand blessings on your honor. must
be away after my work Good morning, sir"
"Good morning, Mary"
This poor woman had worked hard ever since
she landed in New York, in servile situation;
stinting herself in everything not absolutely
ry for her comfort, in order to lay by this small
sum of money, TO be sent out to her poor orphan
brothers, confined in a work-house or poor-house
Her simple story was very affecting.
have no doubt there many such thus toll
ing and struggling in New York to earn pittance,
which they freely divide with their poor friends left
in Ireland.
Out of such vast numbers of these unhappy peo-
pie who come to the United States it is reasonable
to suppose that some among them will be found riot
Gus, incorporate, and disorderly But so misera-
BILE is their condition in Ireland before many of
them emigrae, that the wonder is, how, under such
| a sudden change, they conduct themselves as well
as they do. With all the faul-fnding ofthe naiire
american party, and others, it cannot be denied but
that Irish labor has been of the greatest service in
the northern States. Everywhere on our canals,
railroads. and public works. their services have been
in requisition. new house cannot be built, new
street graded paved, or swept new dock sewer
erected in New York, without supply Of Irish Ia
.borers. While in all the hotels, most boarding
houses, and in many private families, Irish men,
servants porters, and Irish servant-grls are found
And considering the temptations to which they are
exposed their virtue, morality, honesty, and fdeli-
ty, will compare most fayorably with any other
Of people in the world. And, above all, who ever
doubled an Irishmans patriotism and love of liber
tyr None who ever knew them, and was willing to
do them justice.
Governor Wright has set apart the 4th of Decem-
Der next, by proclamation, as day of thanksgiv-
ing for the good citizens of New York.
little boy, about four years old, fell from the
third story of window in Brooklyn, on Tuesday
evening last on to the pavement and strange to say
not bone was broken! The little fellow IL said 10
have been much bruised, but is doing very well.
He was probably buoyed up by his clothes, as
safety from the caves of very high church in Eng
land. II seems some rocks had built nest under
the caves of the edfce just over window. Two
small boys undertook to rob it of some young rocks
They had no way to reach the nest but by putting
plank with one end outside of the window, on
which one Of the boys walked out, which enabled
him to reach the nest. The other boy sat on the
end of the plank to make il secure. When the boy
outside succeeded in reaching the nest he found il
contained three young rocks. The boy inside,
al. u.
ono, said the outside boy, "as have come out to
get them, two of them shall be mine, and one
yours" To which the inside boy replied, 'sif he
did not give him two he would lethimg CO." 'Then let
me CO." said the boy outside. No was the in
side boy de6ed, than he let go the plank and away
went the boy, sailing to the ground, holding the
young rocks in his extended hands. He was
buoyed up by his clothing, and reached the earth in
safety, when he archly looked up at his companion,
and said, "Now you shan't have either of them"
So saying, he took to his heels.
City, haB:past four, p. n,.--Stocks to-day are
feversh.
There is some panc-making going on by those
who feel it to be their interest to have prices de-
cline. The materials on which they work at pres
ent, are such as they can gather from discussions
on the Oregon question, combined with their prog
nostcaons in reference to the Presidents message
on this subject.
Flour is firm at from Sc 49, to &c %.
Cotton continues dull The transactions being
chiefly confined to purchases made by spinners,
who buy sparingly under The apprehension that fur
Their news of favorable crop, with accounts of bad
harvest in England, may enable them to secure sup
plies ere long on better terms. Sales to-day about
COO bales
The whole amount of canal tolls received in this
State during the last week in October, amounted to
about S157 900
With the exception of the Great Western and In
dependence, which cleared for Liverpool TO- day. we
have no clearances to notice ofimportance
No foreign arrivals to-day of consequence. Below,
three briggs.
remain yours, very truly,
MORGAN.
sALr,.--Norem5er Q, ls45.-Frsi Board--Io000 Penn.
sy1vana 6s, 7I 1000 Ohio 6s $780, a7t 900 Ohio 6s
lse6 e6l 1900 Ohio SIS, 1870, a6s 500 Ohio rs 1U0i
1000 ndanas, 3g; 1000 do SO; 10 Morris Canal %; 80
do a24 50 Reading r., 52i; 1000 Reading r. r. bonds
67,; 100 Vicksburg. 81.
Second Boord.-So Morris Canal, 22. 90