Daily American telegraph., 1852-02-14
Editors correspondence.

[Rrom our New York Correspondent
Grand Temperance Denomination, and
Alarm OF Liquor on's
saloon - Canal and Coal Companies
stocks Insurance Companies OPP
eras-Primary Elections.
New York, February IL, 1852.
The temperance people made grand demon
stration, night before last, at Metropolitan Hall !;
but the weather prevented as full an attendance
as was expected So large is that edifce that
nothing short of three or four thousand persons
make an impression. DR.. Tying DR.. Peck, DR..
Cox, and other distinguished men, addressed the
audience, favoring the extreme or Maine liquor
law, and contendng that the enforcement of it
would not be SO very difficult thing, after it
was once fairly put in operation, and people had
become accustomed to it. The agitation of the
subject is creating no little alarm amongst the
dealers in wines and liquors, and remonstrances
are becoming quite numerous.
Thompson, the famous ice-cream-saloon man.
has recently erected new building in Broadway,
with brown-stone 'front.' at a cost Of over forty
thousand dollars for building and ground In
addition to the great variety of comfts and con-
lcCtloHCIlcS, u iahy VI HSh'iohA"i Sah hoW obIdil
dinner precisely as in the restaurants, with the
difference that the soups, roast-beef, and game,
which are served up on the tables of statuary
marble, are not only of the best quality, and at
the most moderate prices, but served in the most
recherche style. Many ladies who are out shop
ping and whose husbands are unable to come
to dinner, make lunch at Thompson's substi-
for regular dinner at home. This, and the sim
liar establishment of Taylor, which is nearly
equal, will hereafter be lions" of as much inter
est to strangers as Stewards.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's
stock has advanced p per cent. Up to within
few months this stock was at SO high rate as
not to be purchased at all. Among other rea-
sons for the sudden check upon the company's
long period of unexampled prosperity, | have
heard it said that recent surveys have brought to
light the fact that their coal-ields not as ex
tensive as had been supposed, and that the veins
will be exhausted in few years The high price
of coal, consequent upon the very cold weather,
accounts for the present advance. number OF
the Cumberland coal companies are here, by their
agents and presidents, striving to put off their
stock but suspicion has been awakened that
some of them are mere stock jobbing concerns,
which interferes materially with those that are
really intended bona ide to carry the coal to mar
ket. The opening of the Baltimore railroad ex
tension has brought on one or two western post
companies-the Llangallen for instance--but not
as yet believe with much success.
New insurance companies are constantly being
started under the general law, and there is room
for many more; for many of the merchants are
obliged to send to other cities for insurance.
No foreign company, you know, can have an
agency here without depositing with the Compt-
roller security to the amount of 100000.
The two operas-one at the Astor place. the
other at Niblo's-are succeeding well, since the
prices were reduced to fifty cents.
A project is on foot for legislative action re-
ative to primary elections to prevent the abuses
which have heretofore prevailed CIvIs.