Washington telegraph., 1852-08-04
New YoKE, July 7, 1852.


New York has the sick headache or the hor-
rcrs, Or the blues, or whatever may be the proper
word or phrase to express the condition of an in
divilual or a community that has been on a spree
and pretty hard spree. at that. The Fourth
of July was celebrated ION Monday, the 5th,)
with enthusiastic and universal Joy which the
day never fails to inspire among the brave sons of
freedom. But the eager spirits of the boys could
not be controlled until Monday the jth They
knew thai Sunday the Fourth. and they
spurned the idea OF waiting till Monday. So we
had any quantity OF sqmbs, cracking and fZZlng
away III all directions on Sunday, from morning
till night:
But not only the boys allowed their patriotism
to get the better of their reverence for the day;
the men also, and, if | must tell the truth, even
the ladies' erred Likewise. In short; there were
great times on last Sunday well as on Monday.
We had, in fact tTso days, instead of one days
iotcation. and the consequence is, as have Just
remarked. that the women and children are all
tatigued. and that the are in addition to that,
in semisstupid condition. Soda water and sars
sapafilla are in great demand A dryness of the
inside Innings is pretty generally complained of;
and there is general desire to put off engage
ments to next week some time" Politics have,
by common consent, been dropped for the week,
by the Whig party. The democrats have gone
into them little; but speakers and audiences
were all too drunk to do anything but raise a
soundest man of the democratic party in this city,
who is temperate man, went out of town, l be-
lieve..
You will have heard of course before this letter
reaches you, of the sad accident that happened at
Staten Island, on Monday, whereby over twenty
persons, all women and children, lost their lives.
There is no doubt in my mind that this was all
owing to the parsimony of Vanderbilt, who owns
the steamers that run between here and there. and
who owns or leases the wharves at which they
land their passengers. 1t is the opinion of COM
peent Judges that additional outlay of ten dol
lars by Vanderbilt, in the construction of the
species of suspension bridge on which the passen-
gers land, would have prevented this awful loss
of life Besides, the vessel, which should have
carried only 500 passengers, had on board over
1900! This is the great difficulty with him. in
everything. He is stingy in fitting out his yes
sells to California, that no one ever travels twice
by the Nicaragua route a single vessel of his
has lost more passengers IN one voyage by disease
occasioned by bad provisions and hard treatment,
than all of the U. S. Mail Steamship Company's
vessels, put together have done since they first
started
The steamship, Canada, arrived at Halifax on
Tuesday morning, with SO passengers and weeks
later news, which contains several features OF In
terest
Another Arctic Expedition has been organized
by the persevering Lady Franklin, assisted by the
Geographical Society. The new screw vesse!,
Isabel, has been fitted out, and in a few days will
sail on another search for Sir John Franklin
through Joness and Smiths sound Bafin's Bay.
new transatlantic steamship, called the fra
6ta, has been launched. She is 2.4O2 tons burden
with engines of the side-lever class, of $50 horse
power, but working up to 900. She will soon
commence running between Liverpool and this
port
F. NJ Osborne, Esq, the protector of the New
foundand Telegraph. says that his enterprise meets
with the best encouragement from the English
between Newfoundland and Cape North, Nova
Scotia. has been concluded.
Negotiations between England, France, and the
United States for the reduction of Atlantic post
age are still pending; answer having yet been
received from the Government at Washington.
The American Bishops now on visit to Eng
land, have accepted splendid gold salvor present.
ed to them by the University of Oxford.
The most interesting and all-absorbing topic, in
England, during the week previous to the sailing
OF the Canada was the trial of libel SUIT brought
by the notorious DR. Achili against the no less
celebrated DR.. Newman. The former is an apos-
tate from Roman Catholicism, and the latter from
Protestantism. Achilli charged with many
brutal acts of rape, seduction and debauchery;
umes and places being sworn to by fourteen OF his
victims, five of whom married ladies moving
IN the first circles of English Arstocracy Achill,
on the other hand, swore that he never saw any
OF the women in his life. A remarkable feature