Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-07-31
Correspondence.
OUR NETWORK CORRESPONDENCE
NUMBER VI.

reference to tie New Br@ns'''cS an"
Nora Scotia Observation-Disclosures
tcrs-.- The Metropolitan Hotel, Sr'---
Massachusetts &akerS," acw
mOvcmeat-.. The 'ccathcr and hedith
IN tie city--..Maso@ic fraternity IN
tie State Corrupt Municipal gor-
ernmcat--ArrestaH and aJsquat"1atio@
ofa City Police officer,
NEW YORK, July 90, 1852.
Mr.. Editor:
tits not a very easy task
to give political news to a neutral pa
per, or 10 n paper that is, or processes
to be indifferent to the contest for the
Presidency, going on between the two
great political parties Of tho country.
Apart from the bias of the writer's
mind, which he cannot always control,
he also labors under the difficulty Of
writing to an editor whose feelings
are none the less intense on political
matters, because his business happens
to be of such n nature as TO preclude
him from INDUCING in tho luxury Of
taking a vcry strong position on GER
tain questions. But this is not ALL
The readers of neutral papers arc not
necessarily Indifferent on political
questions. They are, generally, Of
all parties. Under such circumstan-
ccs, some verdant friends have often
advised me, in the innocence of their
hearts, merely to state facts, without
any comment whatever. God bless
their dear souls where are fuas to
be obtained ? Facts, my dear, guile
loss babes, are now sold ready-made,
or manufactured to order, just as COM
monty as any other article ofmcrchan.
disc. mean, of course, political
facts for the political market. There
are hundreds of men in this city,
whose word would take for thous-
ands of dollars, for whose veracity in
private, and even in business life, l
would most willingly vouch, but whom
I mou7d not 6clicus 9aeler oath IN poI't'
icaz matters.
/ know that the above is pretty
strong language; but it is true. |
have yet to see the party paper, that,
during campaign, publishes unvar.
nished facts. l have yet to see the
political orator, however otherwise
moral and religious, who tells the
who1c truth about his opponent. The
best thing for me is to say us little as
possible on political mat,ers-in your
paper, ut any rate.
A Geographic dispatch fiom Boston
informs US, in reference to the exist
ing difficulties between this country
and Great Britain, upon the subject oil
the Fisheries, that crisis has just &C.
CURED which may lead to war
Mr.. Webster is said to have sent dis
patches to Washington on the sub
liect. You know, course, that there
has been, for some time, an unpleas.
ant feeling at the Fisheries, in conse-
qucncc of an alleged invasion, by A
merican boats, Of waters reserved by
treaty to the English. How far this
charge is true, remains to be seem
The authorities of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia arc prepared vigor.
ously to repel the least intrusion, and
a collision may have taken place; but
| think there is no reason to appre-
hcnd anything more serious than a
mere diplomatic contest between the
two nations.
The old frigate Macedoniaa, which
was captured i'll the last war with
Great Britain, has been raced into a
corvette, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
and is now called tho Raleigh. 1t
may not be generally known, that it
has become the established rule in the
Navy Department to call slips after
States, f.igates after American rivers,
sloops and corvettcs after towns, briggs
after Naval commanders, and tenders
ut discretion. The names Of captur-
cd vessels are generally preserved,
and new vessel will therefore be
christcned the Macedonian.
The Metropolitan Hotel, which is
to be opened some time next month,
by the brothers Leland, will be the
most costly and convenient hotel in
the world, and tho largest by all odds.
1t contains two hundred moro rooms
than tho Aslor House. 1t has moro
talent in its administration than most
of the kingdoms of Europe can boast
of, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that its heads of departments
will bring their labors to a more sue
cessful termination than the gotters up
of the japan Expedition, which seems
to have been wiltod by Fillmorc's
failure to get tho Baltimore nomina-
ton. Tho expedition is thought to
have been gotten up for political Of:
feet. There being now no other rca'
son for going on. with it, it has been
abandoned. Pierce orScott will have
to put the Emperor of Japan through,
after all.
l see that the Shakers Of Massachu-