The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-29
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.


New YoES, July 2s, 1871
Friend Greeley has come back from his western tour via
The lakes, the copper country, the Chicago convention,
and ''al oyer'-lke giant refreshed and nconiinen,y
falls to demoishins utterly General Taylor tho wing
presidential candidate. Yesterday, he dectredi
"We have never written line indicative OF our wish or
lhe whig party on the contrary hare said before, and
candidate for the presidency"
To-day he puts in ga little more grape" with a good
will, which is almost spite, follows;
Let us have wing candidate concerning whose opin
ions and views there is no ambiguity, and can be mis-.
IKE Then, II the people choose TO be fooled again by
sand, is their own Job"
The ding at the President is matter of course For he
rest II is evident that Horace has got his from the wing
srongoolds in the west put General Taylor of the
way since he cannot be used ga wing and nothing
else"
The land OF steady habits appears be getting behind
hand fate The annual report OF the State comptroller
exhibits the following the receipts and expenditures for
the year ending March 81 ls47:
Expenditures from March 3, 1885, to April LIST,
Receipts SI33. 95I g3
Balance in treasury April L. 1916 li7O4 10 1856 66
and balance from last year OF Sll 500 6S
This will not do; and Yankee friends must mend
their ways and learn TO live within their
The Albany Atlas rather spoils good story which has
been going the rounds of tho wing papers, abont how m
few wing friends learning that Col Worlds farm and
residence were about to be sold for mortgage of $4,000
opened subscription and paid off the debt without his
knowledge. The Atlas expodes the whole statement
though lest Il may have been forth intmaton of
what their swing friends" do it is careful
damp their good intentions in Col WIS behalf, by saying
how good democrat he during the period of Mr
Van Buren's administration, and down 1884, ut which
time he was Withdrawn from this part of the State and
from active politics
Gen Tom Thumb was his way to Saratoga springs,
to grant few levees the gay world of beauty and fashion
there when he heard that the trustees of the had
solved to tax him S2o day for license. Whercupon,
the thing Unprecedented, the General inded de-
spach the rusees informing them that he satisfied
Saratoga already possessed much smaller than him
them and turned aside from their settlement" Very
good indeed, for the little General The certainly
''owe him one2
To-day being of Chinese holyday festival the
swary strangers Of the Junk have been keeping up since
daybeak this morning with all of heathenish goings
on of which the principal part seems to be 10 chin-ch1n
the ships josh doa queer looking wooden monster,
gaudy painted and gilded with any number oflegs and
ruand offer before it cho,o.ehoe, of caabes,
consisting Of cakes sweetmeats rice, including
dog and rat with other decacies of the Crowds
of the outside barbarans down from the city be
present at the ceremonies.
At its lowest point Tuesday last, the thermometer
down 62-beng fall of 80 degrees from the day be-
fore, when it high "a degrees. Allday it
above ~ degrees Such change the calamity of our
climate. i
The movement travel Gibbs and flows like spring-tide
through this huge Gotham. At one hotel yesterday, the
Aston, fewer than hundred and ortyfco strangers
making it like little town, with its gay and busy popua
ton of 800 600 persons Luckily, they go about fast
as they come, should be fairly overrun.
The weather continues cool, bracing, and airy in short,
superb. Pity that it and surely give place
to the fierce ervors of Sirius and August. zED 4