The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-10
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
From our New York Correspondent.

| New YORK., August y, 1871
The Tribune this morning claims the election of wings
in the LIST and I'd districts of Indiana being gain OF two
members This needs confirmation by the official figures,
before believe IT,
The Tribune and Express have just been holding pro-
tracIed and acrimonious wrane the subject Of friend
Greeieys property" The Express intimated that ii was
larger than Fourerite and philosopher ought have,
and added mtschievous nsnuatons about valuable copper
stocks real estate, &c ii. G." admitted the Stocks but
denied THEN vaue and offered take $4,000 for all the
stocks, real estate. &c, &c., which he in the world
Whereupon the Rochester Daily Advertiser, having turn
for speculation, and taking the &c, &c" mean " H.
Gs share in the Tribune accepts the Offer has the money
ready and desires the documents propo
siton which Horace rejects snappishly possible.
His interest in the Tribune is for SALE he says and if
it were would not be sured '&c., &c., to any
goods and chauels whatever. Such cheapening of his
wares evidently spols his temper.
underestimate considerably the receipts OF duties at
the custom-house last week. Up Saturday,
they reached million of dollars, being the largest
ever paid within the period this port. tits only
now, when the flood OF specie (Which paid duty is
almost stayed, that the tariff begins have fair
| chance to prove its capabilities for revenue.
The fall in prices has somewhat checked the export of
produce The following the amounts of the prime pa
staples shipped last week to best abroad
| Great Bri tain and France:
TO Great BritanFlour, rs Ala bbs bacon, 2S3 81 lbs;
barley, 2i75 bushels; cotton, l7i3 bales corn, 100, l9
bushels wheat u.s. 1872 bushels meal l66S bbls; cheese,
H. 1871 lbs. beet, 1913 tierces pork, liz bbls.
TO FaneFlour, 3,4l9 bbs tallow, Is 100 lbs; whale
bone, 1910 lbs; beeswax 5255 lbs; stave A. 900
| ashes 70 bbls.; cotton, ], ZIG bales.
house in town received per telegraph, yesterday,
message from Montreal answered it, and had receipt of
swe acknowledged all in the short space of 80 minutes.
1t was by of Toronto and Buffalo, and had be
written at the latter place This travelling the of
1000 miles per hour "includng stoppages Puck, Cor
Arielwhich it though he could 'put grdle round
the earth in forty minutes, slow coach compared to
the telegraph.
This morning, the Edridge Street prison, found
a.
cessy Of haboas corpus by taking themselves off,
bodily parts unknown The door locked, and
ryhng apparently untouched. The escape could scarcely
have been effected without aid from the outside.
The new iron steamship Granddaughter comes here to
her fine cabin work done because can be done bet
ter and cheaper than in England.
The gale Of the night of August was or the season)
unusually along the Long Island and New England
coast We have this morning of many disasters,
them quite afcting-the loss off Montauk point Ghe
eastern extremity Long Isand) of the schooner Sarah
Strong, of Greenport, Long Island and five other crew
only having saved himself The Sound boats had a
irving time. The only boats which through were
the Bay State and c. Vanderbilt The Bay State had two
men at wheel nearly all night At time both We're
thrown down with such violence to bruise both, and
break the of one.
American Bible Society," last Thursday and Friday, it
that for the month of July than 900 copies
the Bible Tor testament had been issued in nineteen
different languages. The expenses of the month were
900. The society works up ton of paper day! AT
the meeting fourteen auxiliary societies were
recognised.
The other day. bather in the surf at Long Branch saw
at little distance from him, walowing about in the break
es il in distress, something Every like whale Fur
Their observation satisfied him that it in fact good
sized whale 1t shot with gun, and found to weigh
some 1900 pounds.
1t that Hare accompanied Mary Fox on board the
steamboat at Detroit with the design Of OBTAINING her there
by habea corpus failing in that, of abductng her sec
ond but the good steamer too quick for him. and
while he below, of and going, ploughing twenty
miles an hour through the blue Of Lake Erie Be
fore he reached Buffalo, he persuaded that the fahe
ofthe girl only DESTROYS to procure for him divorce
from his wife, enable him to marry his daughter
With this belief he far as Albany where he was
arrested for bgamy, issued from police
| office.
p s. Friend Greeley, in his afternoon edition. backs wa
| ter on the Indiana election. He says
sOn the whole, we shall be rather saddened than
psed the telegraphic reports of wing gains in Lower In
| diana shall dissolve into moonshne.
"Shouldnt wonder" FED.