Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-19
BOSTON CORRESPONDENCE. :.
RosroN, April 18th. 1854.


BOSTON CORRESPONDENTS.
BosroN, April 18th, 1854.
about Snotc .Stoynas-Ihe Anti-Ns5raska
Agitation IN Ne,c England dying out
Massachusetts Lsgisiature-:SasPensfo SION Of
q Bank.
The telegraph announces snow storm at
Washington and New York yesterday. In the
latter city, it is said to have been one of the
most severe which has occurred during the last
three months. Here it commenced showing
this morning, and has continued throughout
the forenoon, melting almost as fast rs it falls.
There has been only about a week of good
sleighing here during the past winter, while
1t has been almost uninterrupted twenty or
thirty miles in the interior for two months or
more. In many parts of Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, the snow is said to be still
deep, and the sleighing good. We have had
an unusually cold and severe winter-a shard
winter hard for the poor, in view of an aG-
vance of some twenty or thirty per cent on
fuel, provisions, and house rents, over past
seasons, and hard for the sick and consump-
tive. The heaviest snow Of the winter and
spring of 1881 and so, fell April 5, 1852 1t is
recorded that on the 18th of April, 1772, there
Wdo d SCSOIO oLoW SlOTIl III Now England.
when the snow, in many places in the country,
drifted from eight to fifteen feet in depth. The
walls of an old mill in one of the back towns
of New Hampshire still bear the following
inscription, minus the date of the year and
the writer's name
&c On the tenth day of May,
came to mill in d sleigh -
The Free-soilers in this vicinity having pref
ty efectually succeeded in thoroughly demon
alizing the Wing party, and killing off their
favorite candidate for the next presidency,
Senator Everett) by raising hue and cry
against the mind-yOur- own business doctrine
OF nOn-intervention, as laid down in Senator
Douglass Nebraska-kansas BILL seem to ave
Temporarily at leasD Gained down in their
agitating operations. A few weeks ago, every
whig, free soil and neutral press in New Eng
land was loud in denouncing this bill None
was more so than the Boston Courier Mr.. Ev-
erett's organ. A day or two since, that paper
came out in an article denouncing Rev. H. M.
Dexter, the free-soil editor of the Boston Con.
gregationalist This gentleman is said to have
got up the famous clerical remonstrance against
the Nebraska measure, in connection with
Rev. Theodore Parker. Mr. Dexter having
borne his bantling to Washington, gave a par
ticular account of his journey thither recep-
ton, &c, on his return, in the columns of the
- COngregatiOnalist," in which he INDUCED in
a thrust at the % peculiar condition. of Sena-
tor Everett as candidate for the presidency.
The Boston Mail, neutral penny paper with
Wing tendencies, also publishes an article
under the head of 20 Reaction in which it
denounces the Interference of the clergy In
political affairs, and intimates that the aboli-
ton Pronunciation, and burning in efigy of
Senator Douglas may some day or ether make
him President. 1t is now generally believed
here that the bill will pass. The free-soilers
having attained their object in narrowing down
the choice of the anti administration factions
in the northern States to General Scott or Sem
ator Seward for the next presidency, really
have little desire to see it defeated The New
York Herald having recently declared for en-.
Scott, he is thought to be at present the most
available candidate among these factions
The Legislature are principally engaged in
g backing and filing" on proposition to
modify the seizure feature of the Massachu-
sets Maine law, in relation to liquor SELL
ing. This law. for a year or two past, has
proved stumbling block to political aspirants,
and will continue to be SO for some time to
come.
The failure ofthe President of the Cochituate
Bank, caused a run on that institution, and
considerable excitement on Saturday The
bank refused to redeem its bills By law of
the State, stockholders in our banks are held
to twice the amount of their stock for the re-
demption of bills. There can be little doubt
that those of the Cochituate will eventually be
redeemed at par. 1t is reported that a large
proportion of its circulation is at the West. A
bank failure In New England has become so
rare an occurrence, that this case has excited
an unusual degree of interest in our financial
circles.
L cut the following from a late number eff
the Star:
"Raisimg Salaries In consequence of the
rise in rents, board &C., in Boston, here has
been, says the Courier, general increase in
the wages of nearly all classes in that city.
The advance of salaries to the clerks and
other officers Of the banks, insurance Offices,
Nc, has been from ten to twenty per cent. on
former rates"
The above is not true of persons in the en-
pioyment of Uncle Sam a large number Of
his hardest working men being still in suffer
ing condition on account Of insufficient remu-
neratIon. Add from twenty to thirty per &C Mt
to the prices paid at Washington for house
rents, fuel, and provisions, and you can form
some idea of the expenses of living in this
(New York, perhaps excepted the dearest city
OF the Union. A decent house canuss be
rented within the limits of Boston, much short
OF $500. Beet sells in our market houses at
10 cents per pound, -four has been up to Sll
per barrel, coal 50 per ton, potatoes 81 so per
bushel &c. O