The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-25
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 20, 1851.

tastfophe IN Nsw York-Freqse.eY Of similar occur
rsness-Conkiin. the inesndiary, &c
The anlmadyssion Of the Republic upon our remarks
IN regard 10 the decision OF Judge Nelson in the great
Methodist case never met eye until day or two
since. That paper has very limited circulation ia
this REGION that 1t is somewhat hard find and after
the notice you have already taken of the matter would
hardly to call for further attention. unless to pre-
vent msapprehension. II is simply instance of what
in peevsh child or queruous old woman would be
called peruersensss-a perversion OF the meaning of
language which. in lis ordinary acceptance any one not
disposed be capous and hypecrtca could not misun
derstand What is more customary IN common paTlance
than to speak OF bank other corporate body, civil or
religious, in terms of the strongest reprobaon,
count OF the mafeasance Of its official representatives or
managers And whoever supposes that the innocent
stockholders or private members OF the body corporate
included in the denunciaon' Wear in the habit of
considering and speaking OF England covery the most
nveerae and nsdious foe OF this country and its free
institutions; but in doing have in eye, and refer
to, the close ally of European despotsmthe all grasp
ing power which, not satisfied with having subugated
the feeble and semi barbarous countries OF the East where
she could lay her hands upon them stretches out her
powerful towards the West and seeks to gain such
fashold upon the islands and salient points of this con
tnen as will enable her, when The opportunity offers, 10
cripple our commerce. cut off resources and circum
scribe the progress of liberal opinions and the ex
tension OF our sway. The people OF England, apart
our friends and brethren bound by the cost ties
those OF community, of origin, Of language, and OF
sentiment. Nor. when denouncing the tyranny and
pacity OF the government which at the same time op-
presses them and rules by the sword the aest portion of
the globe, do we intend word of reproach for the
gallant through whose veins, through own
courses the pure and free blood of the Anglo Saxon
So when, in terms which seemed TO us fitting and we'll
deserved we endeavored to portray the conduct OF the
financial agents and managers who under the name Of
the Methodist Church North. cndeavored to withhold
from their brethren OF the South their just rights under
the preext that they guilty Of the newly
sin OF slaveholdg we had not the slightest idea OF cast
ing reflection upon the Mehodiss a sect; nor could
any faminded person, acquainted with the customary
usage of terms in the English language believe that such
was intent.
Our city shrouded in gloom by the lamen,abIe
trophe which befe the pupils of the free school in Green
witch Avenue on Thursday. The particulars will have
reached you through dozen chanpels this but what
pen portray, what medium convey any adequate
idea of the horrors OF the scene the anguish of the
parents and relatives OF the poor little sufferers magi
nation shrnks aghast at the thought OF hundreds upon
hundreds Of young children precpitated down from
fearful height upon granite floor until the mass of
mangled, tortured, sufocaing and dying humanity
cred the space OF goodszed room, and to twice
the ordinary altitude of 1t of those dark
and inscrutabe dspensations OF Providence which the
human intellect in vain attempts to scan. The blow has
fallen as suddenly and Unexpectedly the lighnings
flash its mission is executed; but il has left behind hun
dreds OF sered hearts and scores OF families Borrowing
and bereavcd.
New York is acquiring very uncnvabe notoriety for
the occurrence OF wholesale loss of life, whether by
cden design. by culpabe negligence, or by unfore
seen and unavoidable mischance. Within the last egh-
teen months four instances can be cited, in each OF
which the actual mortality has been equal to that suffered
in many severe skirmish smart engagement. First
came the Opera House riot, in which one hundred men,
women and children killed and wounded by the
military, in the execution OF sad but necessary duty.
The most remarkable circumstance attending this unfor
unae piece of business was that the greatest mischief
was done by those who actuated by the strongest
motives of humanity Many OF the troops. when ordered
to fire upon the mob, who pressing upon them, ee-
waited their pieces that the balls might pass the
heads OF their assalans, rejecting that in so doing
they liable to shoot down Gas in several instances
they dd) innocent persons standing in their own DOORS
or passing through the streets at the distance of two
three hundred yards. The Hague street calamity, be-
lieve, was the next in succession, when large
featuring establishment blown up by the explosion
of boiler, and from eighty to hundred OF the
operatives burned scaded, buried in the ruins This
was caused supposed, by the negligence of engi.
neer, who in this instance was almost literally hosted
on his own peard" for scarcely recognizable vesigc
of his remains were found. Then startled by
the fall OF large and lofty block Of brick buildings in
Twenty first street-caryng with them to the ground
some fifty or sixty of the workmen employed in erect
ing them This misfortune the result OF negligence,
and want of care in the construction OF the walls and
selection OF the materials employed in constructing them
And now comes the last and perhaps the most distressing
of all-wha we had almost called the massacre OF the
innocen,s in Greenwich Avenue As the coronefs inquest
ia now sitting upon the bodies OF the little victims, il would
hardly seem worth while to hazard opinion as TO whom
the blame should upon il upon any one until the
result of the investigation is made public though the
he ihor nF
the school building cenursble for no, securing The bal
listers OF the winding stairway more efectuay. When,
in connexion with these caamlies large SCALE we
take into consideration the constant succession OF fatal
accidents OF lesser magnitnde-wbich. on an average,
carry of at least victim per dNm-and add to them
the number OF those who perish by the hand OF The assas
sin or fall in sudden ARRAY surely have enough 10 re-
mind us tina, in the midst OF life are in death.
Conkln, the incendiary, was executed Tor arson on
Friday las, at Ucathe governor refusing, as be very
properIy has done in number OF capital cases which
have sley been brought before him, to interfere with
the verde, found and sentence pronounced according 10
law Crime OF every description is becoming so rife in
this quarter that IL il absolutely indispensable that
the p.nal,v of the law should be exacted with entire
certainty.
| We have little or no OF general interest to
communicate Public attention is either engrossed with
the details OF the lamentable of the goth, or
taken up with the great events which arc TO come of
in the next ten days-,he ARRIVAL OF Kossuth and the
meeting Of Congress. a.
| From Baltimore Correspondent.
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