The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-14
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
NEw YoKK, August 10. 1871.

NEw YORK, August Is, 1917.
The newspaper extras with their biggest caps"
the newsboys with their oudest shouts. all this
morning the Slender OF the city of Mexcooh Cine
raj Scou"-though, from the news published, nothing
appears to be known for certain, though the probabilities
of its increased Doubtless reliable ine
gence in day two will confirm all these interesting
ports until which time, the anxious public contain
itself as best il may
The whis journals growing their oudest the cleo
ton of Neil s. Brown in Tennessee Perhaps they had
better wait while Thus far, they have found the tele
graph rather disappintin" 1t will be TIME enough ioi
them to halloo when they out Of the woods We will
not give up gallant friend Aaron them Just yet
Friend Horace in his Tribune this morning makes a noise
over an inconsistency which he thinks he has dscov cred
between paragraph in recent letter, in which spoke
the great revenue flowing in under the tariff, and
another, in which it observed that the fall prices ha.
somewhat checked the export of provisions This is his
logic
" But with such food of imports, ought according
to free trade to have flood of expectation ALSO and
HANGED prices for produce But no !quite the other
thing; The taH IN prices has soerhd checked the erpofa
ton Of produce I"
1t is mares nest" that you have found, good Horace
Did hear of the fluctuations of trade when
day you sell many thousand Trbunes and the
half so many! If the whole year shows increase of
revenue in our imports and OF the value OF exports
the new tariff and its policy will stand indicated before
the country Notwithstanding occasional fluctuations.
journal in Florida not having before its eyes the fear
of the wing ruin, speculates upon the establishment of
large cotton factory the ST Marks river Newport
there. 1t proceeds with sang froid that is almost
cruel calculate the profits Of the enterprise and expa-
tate glowingly upon the expectations of its rendsrght
in the face of the tariff
The receipts of certain staples Of produce down the Hud
sou, from the opening of navigation the 10th inst are
Wheat -four bbls l,74S 2 Corn bush 2,se5 500
Corn meal - 729l7 Rye 1880
Wheat bush 1877 ,8i5
For the same period nearly (o the 7th of August,) the
aggregate amount received for tolls all the canals of this
State is 81 1877 SD1 IN
Same period in 1916 Q5 days longer) 1854 40
Increase, oper 40 per cent 600, 1858 80
The organs of the factions of the wing party continue
to exchange endeaments with each other The Courier
this morning, describes the Tribune ga press devoted
the propagation OF anti-rents, Fourerism and every
conceivable radical and destructive doctrine which the
mind embrace" 1t will be friend Greely's turn to-
morrow; and the gallant Colonel may well get ready for
ga little grape"
The steamer Bay State on her trip from Fall River yes
terday morning. in the Sound came in collision with a
schooner tc Orana) just built of $751; 900,
with COAL from Philadelphia for New Bedford She struck
her the arboard quarter close to the stern cutting her
down to the waters edge so that she sunk almost nstanta
neousy The captain and hands hree in ally barely saved
their lives-nothins eseon board the steamboat sub
scrpon which reached $780, made up by the passen-
gers and equally divided amongst them but 10 the unfor-
sailor who had invested his all in the lost vessel
lose it her second voyage, without insurance. what
this The officers of the Bay State aege their Defence
the factsthat there dense fog the ne-hat the
boat was kept moving very slowy-and that her engine
reversed possible. But is remarkable
this the second pessei which this has
and sunk-the former with all on board-within n
week. the Sound Either there is singular -fortune
here, or disgraceful negligence.
The official returns down Gen. Wilson's majority in
his district in New Hampshire, to 2S5 Rather slim work
for the ales" 1t is plain that all of the sesyled 'inde
pendents' could not be whipped in Tuck's majority is
l ,i99.
Steanng the weather is, does prevent full houses
at the Park for Madame Bishop. She had last night
OVERLOOKING for old favorite Sonnambula The APP
plause only less overwhelming than the bouquets The
critics. however, not yet agreed to her merits but
while they making up their minds, she is making mo-
ney and reputation fast
They show at the of the American Institute a
piece rock of which the castle of San Juan u
loa is built 1t is beautifully white, of open texture
and is not unapy, lkened to Of Stewards
candy.
We suffer under the genuine August weather just
thick, suy, and enervating With the thermometer
era degrees lower than in July, it is many degrees
oppressive FED.