The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-22
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS,
From our New York Correspondent.

NEW York, Sept q, 1917.
Mr. Clay has been formally nominated for the pesiden
cy by county convention ofhe wings of Erie county, Pa
which gave Gen. Harrison ISl0 some 300 majority
and Mr. Clay, in 1914 nearly 400 One of the inu
entail wings in this city, and ardent Clay declared
the other daymany other leading wings assentingthat
Harry Clay will in 1913 for the presidency
he is living man." &c. stand back we Gen Tuyors and
Scos ye Judge McIeans and Daniel Websters and all
other lesser lights OF the universal wing party; stand
back for 'the gentleman from Kentucky"
The circulation of the Bank England on July 10th was
flS973475; August 2lst it Els 9a0a contraction,
of fsf6555 the short period of six weeks-suicient Ia
the critical state OF the grain trade for
the commercial embarrassment and distress in England
and Ireland.
The State Temperance Convention assembled at Albany
on the l6th has decided after to forbear
70 renew the eau ior Legislative action repess intemper
ance was decided instead to advocate for present
the repeal OF all license laws leaving dealer in ardent
spirits responsible law any evil effects from
his business the which is the rational conclusion
hough rather one) yet come to by the temperance
folk.
1t is positively asserted by some who ought to know,
(iaving the s) that there is not a single holder of
Prime, Ward, u Co.'S paper who is abundanty able
to bear the oss and consequently, will be compelled
to stop by the suspension of that house very remarka
bic and fortunate state of things certainly, which, as il
be believed in Wall street, gradually restores the
confidence somewhat mdely shaken
The floating off of the Great Britain steamer from her
strand on the Irish coast Is trum phi of mechanical
art almost against all hope and above all praise Who
thought that her gigantic hull would float again Who
but the bold mechanics who planned and executed her
Liberation For my part, the event has given me
more satisfaction than explain One hates to
such enterprise built the vessel did not give her
up even when buried eight feet deep in san its re-
ward. id7 a@
Mr. Francis Hall, Of the Commercial Advertiser lust re-
turned from England in the Britannia gives favorable ac-
count OF the dispositions of the British government enter
into satisfactory postal arrangements with the United States
as well in respect to the Washngtons letters as to all 9TH
ers He it contemplated have letters by an Amer
can packet bear only the those by the
English steamers; and that letters either side NAV be
prepaid Or not--those prepaid be carried at lower
rate Et# f0N
There report in last evening" so current as to
ma Its way into the newspapers THAI Col Burnett had
died OF his wounds received Churubusco but it could
not be traced good source was not credited ia
the quarters most likely to know
Gov Seward is in town, deliver the Grafton on OCon
nell tomorrow at Castle Garden II the weather prove
favorable (of which there is every prospect notwt
standing few clouds checkering Broadway with fitting
light and shade) there will be large turn out Up to this
mornings the various societies had reported the commit
tee members to the number of 5000 Probably many as
TO- 900 men will join in the procession while will be
at least $1,000 in tho spectators
Iii great thing that mans memory should be able to
draw out such demonstration in land which he never
saw, 5000 miles across the
The ship Sweden got to sen on Sunday with about
100 u S troops bound for California under command of
Lieut. Ketcham.
The steamer Washington has nearly her full complement
OF freight and passenger list which filling up very fairly
She will positively leave her dock on 3d. at IL o'clock
Tor Cher friends expcc of the very quickest trips yet
made the Atlantic.
After lowering all day yesterday like spoiled beauty
the weather has cleared up to-day, and as Sep
ember weather possibly can be which is saving not a
little ZED