The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-04
From our New York Corrsspondsne.
NEW YORK, February 3, 16a7.

NEW YORK, February g. l6H.
The following paragraph is from Boston paper:
MASSACHUSETTS LEGIsrArunE-Among the bills reported
on Saturday in the Senate the foowing To ncorpo
the Rockport Steam Cotton Mills, with capital of
40Oe0o the Briggs Iron Company in Lanesborough, with
capital OF $500 ooo and the Lowell Health Insurance Co.,
The niauaton of these manufacturers deporable Or
ganzng companies and investing their hundreds of thou
sands of doarsa be ruined! Why should this go on.
without warning voice being raised against it? Quo,
rus ctrcs? Why, oh manufacturers, will ye persist In
being ruined 1t is coldblooded cruelty in the federal Cas-
sandas who know all about this ruin," permit their
friends the manufacturers rush bnold their fate
Some of the city journals making poher the
following extract from letter in town from Mexico;
eve determined to carry on the war; General Santa
Anna has already collected San Luis Potos than
twenty-five thousand regular troops Our letters of maroue
operating they will strike in quarters where least ex-
Pected in the Mediterranean and Indian seas, &c. We
shall see how our neighbors will feel them"
"Veu-vot of it Z" When the first American merchant
is taken by your letters of marquee shall fee' sur
prsed. That's all.
The common council of our city will probably agree on
the draught of law enacting that hereafter all alien pas
sengers arriving this port shall pay fixed rate of 81
head, and in addition bonds be given the city
years against the support of the inf, sick mi
nors and in this form will substantially pass the egsa-
ture.
All the indications in city give promise of an early
and heavy spring business Our hotels crowded to
degree almost unexanpled this sea.on-neary much
in the midst of spring summer, and merchants
feel already the quckencd impulses of trade. More run"
of course.
The Express has been shown a specimen of the food
which the Irish emgrans usual bring with them support
life while crossing the Atlantic. In color, II resembles
guano but in form. it presents the appearance of
coarse meal The Express could not learn the name by
which iris known, bn understood that is kind of berry,
which is first dried in the and then ground up for
The flavor quite offensive, and the food is unpalaabe
in the extreme About the only article of food besides
This, which the emigants use, is the biscuit
The first article they call for reaching ans-hose is
the potato which they prefer to the best ofmeats.
CHI In torunI
gratis the so 100 barrels of meal offered for the poor
in the south of Ireland. 1t is L. D. Hurbut IL Co. All
praise TO them for their prompness About lbs barrels
of corn meal ready the This is of
the best modes of sending relief OF money sent, much
goes into the pockets of the provision spectators Eng
land and Ireland.
Some thirty forty of the Rartans Sailors with their
sweethears and wives" had grand break down last
Monday night at dance house in Water Jolly
time they had of it, making the neighborhood ring with
their stormy gee, until far into the small hours
The Hberna took her last trip the largest mail
carried from shores by vessel She had O0O0
letters from the United States, nearly many from Cana
d. and of newspapers there end Her mal-inon-
ey alone must have been small fortune for a man.
The Juror created by the Viennose children really
markabe The manager pays for the little fairies 81 800
week. and in premiums alone has cleared than that
regularly since their engagement The spectacle is,
in fact just such the Bostonians would appreciate
-chaste, elegant, and spiritual.
The great bell of the City Hall has been rng g for fires
several times this morning.
Such floods of rain and gusts of wind rs we have had all
day and as write it is than 1t blows fits
almost tornado, that really hard to avoid being
blown at the Of and the
and then sweeps down in a sheet The storm on the
coast must be tremendous. FED.