The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-01-17
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
New YoKx, January i6, 1888.

New YoKx, January I6. l846
On Friday last. the New York Herald ANNOUNCED that
day, yesterday at election would held In
he various wards of this city for delegates from de-
nocracy State convention in Albany the 18th inst
To-day has list complete of delegates chosen liz say
uch election. Both its list and its announcement, pre-
iume are equally surprise the democrats Of this
city. BE that ii may, what we complain OF is,
that the Herald persists in representing this election
4 movement of the friends of the observation-disclosures
distinguished from its enemies in the democratic ranks
The democracy of the Empire city utterly deny and
fepudiae any such idea inference not only FALSE
but invdions No real friend of the administration has
conceived or encourages such notion How could he
The elections yesterday Gf any such hed had in
shape the countenance of the party and excited little in
that in all the sixteen districts they
actually attended by hundred The largest meeting
in any one district that have heard of numbered
persons, and in some wards enough present
furnish officers What folly pretend that this the
strength of the administration. Mo- The lion-heared de-
nosracy Of this great city wish it understood that
hoe-and corner meetings that 'ths friends Of the ad-
minsration" need TO assemble in New York but in
open by thousands in the face of their fcowcizens
and the Union OF this they soon to give actual
demonstrations Neither do they know ofany such enemies
of the administration" the Herald paters about The
effect of this extraordinary movement in tho State and
Union, with reference to The presidential election less
easily disposed of though far as this city is concerned
the democratic party most unanimous In favor OF inc uuca
convention and Of going into the great campaign OF the
fall with unbroken front Would that friends through
could the necessity OF coming promptly to
the same sound conclusion!
The great Taylor meeting ION tho z2d OF next
montl) is published in yesterdays Courier. 1t has
ronse list of wing than guess generally
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. H. Grinnel, formerly NJ CD David
b. Ogden, James g. King, Ohe banker) Jonathan Good
hue, Daniel Lord, Hugh Maxwell, Ia semi 'natve,D j.
Prescott Hail. &c. &c. In quarter less decidedly Clay
than this is such demonstration might produce bcne-
fcal result for General Taylor Here, will simply have
the effect of distacting the wings. and embitterng Clay
men and Taylor men rreconcilably
telegraph, this OF the arrival OF the
Washington, Halifax has relieved many heart. An
concerned for the safety OF first
and of painful anxiety on account
friends and relatives on board She appears to have had
tremendous passage against violent head winds all the
way having lost her larboad wheelhonse and guards IN
one very heavy gale is said that she proved herself an
admirable boat which may be true On the score OF
eed too her run to Halifax 81 days, not great deal
behind the last trip the Hibernia2Ot days But why is
il that we never of the Cunarders getting out Of COAL
and suffering such damage to be compelled to put INTO
the nearest port to refit :! -
The amount Of specie entered Tor the Caledonia
1907 4s4; though she probably had much more OF this
sum- 1925 900 put board Just before she sailed by
correspondent of New York house. instead OF
an equal by the mail boat word being sent
on by telegraph do consequence Of the probability
that the mail would fail
In single district Of Mane Oath disrct,) the amount
OF shipping built in l8f7 1928 TONS against 10 SS
tons for the year previous showing increase in this
branch business OF more than 100 cent! very ruin
ous symptom cerainy for which the ship-builders and
of Bath doubtless feel themselves indebted some
what to the destructive tariff of 1876
II seems gave the mercury the thermometer up at
Fanconia more credit discretion than 1t deserved for
by the accounts it actually down to ~ degrees
below zero when oze in the bulb and had be brought
near fire thaw The general opinion was, that
if it could have got down low enough it would have gone
to As degrees below Doubtful.
Yesterday remarkable the darkest oggest closest
January day have had in years-he Thermometer rang
ing from AZ 49, To-day, the pestilentia vapors arc
cleared off, and little welcome they at this time,
with typhus fever in our midst that we should much
prefer the deepest the hardest frosts. ZED