The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-27
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
From our New York Correspondent.

New York, Aug rs, lS47.
The Tribune and Courier deep in wrangle to the
course be pursued by he wing majority in the House
of Tribune insisting that the admins
uation should be confined to strictly defensive war
and the Courier, the other hand with the Albany
Evening Journal,) maintaining that it is the duty Of
:" the wing majority" to give to the Executive all
the supplies in and money which he may ask to
carry the This Is very well, no,c-better
late than But what commentary it furnishes on
the unprncpled and abandoned character of wing party
tactics The very policy which, while in minority and
opposition they camored for in season and out of
they ready repudate the they think them
selves within reach of power and its responsibilities. The
Tribune has at least the merit of consistency and apparent
attachment principle. The Courier and its allies but
exhibit the and unpatrotic proigacy of ''whig
partsans, who little while ago. for better object than
"o embarass the administration were urging with might
and main national policy, which they branding
as cowardy, traitorous, and everything vile.
Some late financial arrangements of the Secretary of the
Treasury the purpose of placing 49, 900 specie
New Orleans, for the purposes of the war, having been
sailed by of the WING journals, the Tribuneof
all oherhis morning comes the rescue, and thinks sit
good arrangement and one for which there is room
aundng; for by the conis kept where belongs,
and is useful and is received and discussed in New
Orleans where it is idle Mr.. Walkers doings be
particularly unexceptionable when they find volunteer
defender in the Tribune
The condition of things at the quarantine Crosse Isle,
below Quebec appears grow worse daily with fright
full seadiness The total number Of sick in the hospitals
Z,H
deaths are from Is 80 day. AS many $50 patients
could be admitted, and tho number of these
stantly increasing How well 1t becomes British statesmen
in very face of the appalling results Of their internal
policy to pratc about 'the repudating States North
America !" Hypocritcs! let them first pluck the beam
from their eyes
The great fall trade sale of books and stationery, which
every year draws this city the bookdealers from all parts
Of the United States and from the British possessions
opens, Monday next at the auction rooms of Messrs.
Bangs Richards az Patt. The catalogue makes book of
200 pages and comprises many heavy and valuable in
voices from publishers in this city, Philadelphia, Boston,
and elsewhere. ..e
The Mamouk was insured in Wall street, Phil adelpha,
and New Bedford, the extent of 55000 ship and
freight She fine new vessel, on her first trip, finish
ed in the very best New York sye and cost upwards of
$4,000 Her cargo of breadstus large and valuable,
worth $4,000 $4,000, and, is said, mostly
insured ...r.
1t turns out that published in the papers
w. as from Cen Scott Willard Fillmore, about private
Thompson, genuine production, but of old date
six years ago. while Mr.. F. in Congress 1t trans
mi,ted by him Mr. Varan, then mayor of this city but
how it found way into the public prints doth appear
welknown publishing house in Broadway-Wiley IL
Putnamare getting can lumna ted edition of Amer
lean poetry" which is be the most sumptuous book
issued from the press of this country Beyond $4,000 have
already been expended on its embellishments, &C. will
be furnished only to subsc rbers.
Among the latest arrivals exPresdent Tyler, Judge
Burnett of Cincinnati Ohio and Lieut. F. W. May, broth
of " the bold dragoon."
life is sweet indeed" The mornings cool and lit
tie ash" and none the for that; but the days and
nighsthey the very poetry OF climate New York
coming home by degrees and Broadway begins again
be grced by those familiar that always its ce
decas-its pride and pleasure. FED.