Washington telegraph., 1851-10-29
correspondence OF the Telegraph

New YuRK, Sept. 90, 1851.
This IS lovely morning TO US who are free TO
| enjoy il, but whai must it be to the men who are
lying in the ''toinbs' under sentence of death
pronounced upon them Saturday last? Hung
ing is done here the wholesale. The three
murderers were not confederates, nor acquaint-
ances, but each homicide has its respective cir
cumstances of atrocty. Juseph Clark is the
murderer Of policeman Gillespie. On sentence
being rendered, he said with affected Indifference,
that he "rather be- hung than eat a.bad breakfast!
Michael Muvey shot bar-keeper in the neck
for turning him out Of his place for riotous be-
Iaviour. James Sullivan, with the assistance Of
his wife, killed poor fellow who interlered for
the protection of the woman whom the husband
was beating.
The new circular Of instructions 10 the col
lectors of customs is perhaps well intended but it
strikes blow at our steamer trade with California,
| and if enforced will destroy it. Had the honorable
Secretary of the Treasury been well advised of the
practical operation Of trade with California,
he would never have pat his name TO the instruc-
tOns alluded TO. 1t must be rescinded.
If you have read it, you will bear in mind that
before person can ship thing on beard a steam
| ship or sailing vessel for California (via Chagres
or San Juan) he must give the New York collector
48 hours notice, in order that that unctonary and
his assistants may examine it and put on 1t the
Government seals. 1t is well known that most
of the goods that arrive at New York TO be shipped
10 California, sodered up in tin cases 10 pre-
serve them from the water, by which they would
else be ruined in the transportation across the
Isthmus Of Panama. But agreeaby TO the new
circular. these tin cases must be ripped open, in
order that an inventory or INVOICE may be made
Of their contents. AT San Francisco they are TO
be overhaped again, and compared with the in
voice made here, to discover if any thiag shall
have been smugged inside of the alter
NaU he Of all hiS S he
delay of Is days which it will almost occasion
here, and another week in San Francisco, TO say
nothing of the injury 10 ths goods in having their
waterproof packing destroyed by the collectors.
had the pleasure of seeing q. I. Weisse, Esq,
| the accomplished editor and proprietor of the
English and French daily New Orleans Bee, in
this city last week. He has just returned from a
visi. to the Continent, and after short soourn at
Washington, will sail for Havana, where he will
remain few days before resnming his ardaous
duties in the "Crescent city,"
DIR. Hardy, his tactorum, "a man who for Is
years past has had the local politics of every
county in the country at his tongues end.) has
filled the editor ia chair in his ABSENCE
believe told you in previous letter Of the
very interesting trial Of the much-talked-abou
machine for extingushing a conhagration instan
taneously, Of which l was spectator, week or
two since in this city2 A much more formidable
exhibition of this fire annha.or is to be had IN
the course Of the next tep days. The company
owning the pateut in this country, are going 10
purchase an old three story frame building either
at hoboken Oh the Bloomingdals road, upon
which TO test the machine in the presence OF
thousands. If they cannot buy an old building,
they will erect new one TO I'LL with combustbles
and set on fire in every part, in order to show the
people how instanlaneopsly it may be extiugushed
| by of their wonderful annhilators Every
house Certainly every large abiishment) ought
| to be supplied with one.
| Our .'isle' was Enlightened from its propriety
| yesterday, Sunday, morning. by the firing of,
| should think, not less than 100 guns. Had il
beer the 4th of July it might have been excusable
but to outrage quiet Sabbath morning in this
manner ought to have subjected the perpetrators
to a months Imprisonment at Blackwe's island
| | was bothered entirely to know what could be
the occasion of so extraordinary proceeding
until learnt it was in honor Of the arrival oil Mr.
| Stevens, the late owner of the yacht America
| | am an American 10 the backbone, but do re-
| gard this demonstration on Sunday last not only
as all offence against God aud religion, but OBJ
noxious to good taste. We Yankees are apt to
spoil all our trinmphs by too much "crowng.
The English were fairly beaten in the yacht race
| and acknowledged in the handsomest possible
! manner in all their prominent newspapers, ant
| the genteel way for US to have acted would hav'
| been to let them blow the horn for US. But here
are set Of fellows who must blaze away dozei
cansters Of powder, and that, too, OF Sunday
morning. Ii must have made MIR. Stevens fee
like crawling into the nearest knot-hole.
The "explanation" offered by the American
Consul at Havana for his conduct in regard to tn
American PRISONERS, is sneered at.
In these days Of changing" the musical critic
| have a most unfortunate habit of speaking G
"the execution of Miss Hayes" Seriously, he
execution Of the most difficult music is said to b.
| exquisite.