The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-08
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.


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Frsa oar Vow YssA Correspondent.
81 ag5r FQfsl l Nrw Yoxx, January 6, 1871.
The message of Governor Young received in
last evening by Telegraph great feat 1t sent in
Albany yesterday hafpas IL o'clock New York time)
and by halfpas O'Clock given complete the
paper Offices this city. There 5000 words (abou
900 ettcrs) and written from instruments in the
Albany office of the telegraph and takon o in the office
here AZ the rate OF about - letters minute Though the
message of length accommodating for trans
mission by telegraph yet long enough make this
most extraordinary teaAs hks of sOioh has bern dons
before 1t is rum plant Of the capabilities
the telegraph The message itself Is not half interesting
the circumstances Of its transmission. 1t thoroughly
common place document bearing strong OF haste and
crudeness without vgor point OF thought STYLE and
adds another the instances OF men distinguished
debaers who commit themselves paper, only
themselves in fact, and expose their of solid talent
1t has merts,s brevy and its abstinence from inter
meddng with national politics.
Crossing the river Albany appears be prccarious
business When the train for New York; last Saturday
night arrived at Greenbush, (oppose tho ice just in
that uncertain state that there conveyance The
passengers including many Legislators their way
their arcnous Duties obliged foot boards
being laid the wider assures and bad in the ice
This at halfpast at night Three hours afterwards
the river down with swell and swept OFF the ice
leaving n vestige behind few such hairs
breadth crossings this will Il fear) from the egs
ature bridge across the Hudson at Albany The Tro-
than the asses bridge. Once built its appropriate inscrip
| ton should be, "Nians tuit'-Troy
In article in the Herald Of this city, the other day
(Which has been extensively copied it urged among
other things against tho gun cotton. that not of uni
strength and therefore could be generally used Tor
blasting &c. This probably mistake, for has been
appears by the ncwspapers) much used in Vermont for
heavy blasting and found to and two or three IN
given in which it is used successfully sub
stitute for drive machinery, which, one would
think, a sufficient proof of its reliability expo-
sive for all ordinary purposes.
The board of aldermen of this city about
riaze Congress for the passage of law limiting the
Der passengers be taken by any vessel for
ry onscompellng owners to give in every VESSEL suf
fcient space for health and ventilation and to have attach
ed surgeon Doubtless reform OF the dreadful evils oil
the present system is loudly called for Every month,
and go out most nhumany crowded. producing
disease and death. Why should this go on 7
portion Numbering many distinguished and influential
czens) Epscopaans of this city, again moving
to induce the legislature divide the immense property
(valued several mons) held by the Trinity church
poraton among the other Protestant Epscopalan congre
cations of the city, They made the aemptast win
ter and failed. They repeat il now, hoping apparently,
for better from Legislature federal in of its
branches.
After all his furry of wind and rain and snow to fulfil
his mission, winter has slipped back again, and the thra
dom Of his enchaness is than To-day yes
terday have been superativey beautiful Such days and
nghts-sucl sun, and moon and stars-clear, bright and
serencthese attitudes have known the like. And
how the good citizens enjoy 1.-THE ladies especially
Broadway during the promenade hours, with its endless
sca and shawls, and coaks, and feathers and rbands
and bonnets of every brilliant hue and shapeo say moth
ing Of the wcarers-a living parterre. FED.
/ New YoRK, Jan. Z, 1s47.
Canada has her croakers like the United States and
like them, be ruined surely by the changes in the
policy Of her trade and commerce. introduced by her gov
eminent. The following remarks from the close of
Gle reviewing the of things the province for the past
year, in the Montreal Transcrpan intelligent Journal OF
moderate viewsappear show that ruin by free trade
is yet distant that this side OF the lines
"Thus il happens that at the end of the year. find
the COLONY relieved from OF the which bcsc
the commencement; and that there is left talk
of copious in minng and actually make
mencenent Of railroads. necessary welfare md
interests In Short the latter ii the year has
business done with less risk and better footing than
many former years and that we trust laid the fonnda
ton for wholesome reliance ourselves without
which, hope to obtain anything like PENN
nent greatness"
The foreign arrivals this port during the year 1915
were 2,2s9, of which there were
s stssmer' s,1 G et'fS 90
| Banks 40 Schooncrs 362
| Of which there were
| Ships. Banks. Brigs. schrs
American A76 III 584 24
British ~ % l9S ~
comparative table for the last six years, shows sgh
increase in tho number Of ship arrivals, and very large
one in number of passengers arrived any other
those years. Here is the table.