The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-04
Correspondence of the Ashland Union.
FROM NEW YORK.

1CCCUOF0. JO obCdJCCI-lUCI OCCtttGGOIc
of the Observation-Disclosures sentenced
Verdict against the Mercantile Agen-
cy-DeaM Of DR.. Saoett-StockhoM-
ers acknowledgement Treaty, &c.
New York, Sept. %, 1854.
The cool weather has driven into
camp the latest lingerers at the ummef
resorts, and the whole army of fashion
being now withdrawn from the prov
i%nces," is preparing for a brilliant fall
and winter campaign at home. People
talk of hard times, and the fancies in
Wall street have just received a small
shock from the New York and New Ha-
ven expose; but, nevertheless, the thea
tiers and other places of amusement are
drawing, in the aggregate, about $12,-
600 per night, from the pockets of our
li%ght-hearted population thousands are
won and lost, daily, on the National race
course, and if commercial disaster is re-
ally staring us in the face, we meet its
frowns like laughing philosophers
A great loss has been sustained by
the Protestant Episcopal Church, in this
diocess, in the death of Bishop VAIN
WRIGHT, who expired at A, P. NJ, on
the 21st inst, after about a months i'll
ness. He was, in the first instance, at
tackled with bilious remittant fever,
which subsequently assumed a typhoid
character. Bishop w. was an English
man. He was born in Liverpool, in
1898 and was, therefore, in his sixty
second year at the time of his disease.
By this event the ~Episcopalians of the
diocess are again left without a Bishop,
and another provisional appointment be-
comes necessary. 1t is not unlikely that
the vacant mitre will fall to the lot of
the Rev. d. VINToN, of Brooklyn
Death has claimed a victim from the
Press, as we'll as from the Church, du-
ring the present week. Mr.. SAMUEL
NICHOLS, editor and Tin part) proprietor
of the Sunday Mercury, was fatally in
jured on Monday night in consequence
of missing his footing while attempting
to get into a city railroad car. The We
-hicle was in motion and poor Nichols
falling under the grooved wheel, was so
fearfully mangled that he dIed in about
nine hours after the accident. His re-
mains we're inferred on Thursday in
Greenwood. .A-large number of his fell
low citizens, of all classes and professions,
attending the body to the grave. Mr..
N. was, perhaps, the best theatrical crit
ic in New York-a man of high integ-
rity and of the most kindly and benev-
client disposition. Only the day before
the catastrophe, he was talking of writing
a strong article against the folly and
madness of attempting to mount the for
ward platform of a car while under way !;
and yet, strange to say, this very act of
temerity was the cause of his death =
Mr. N. was in his 44th year.
Our harbor presents quite a gay ap-
p~earance just now in Consequence of the
presence of three French Frigates-the
Acher0n, Sphegindc and enelope.-
They are allfrom st. Pierre, Ne~found-
land, and have been cruising off the
banks for the protection of the French
fisheries, it is said. It is quite as like
ly, however, that they are OIL the look
out for Russian prizes. The Acheron
is a steam frigate-the Penelope and the
SpAeginie are sailing vessels, carrying,
respectively, sixty and forty guns. Com
modore MAYEREs commands the squad
ron which has put into this port for pro-
visions and repairs. They will proba-
bly, remain here two or three we ks.
The political leaders of every stripe
are industriously stirring the political
cauldron. The nomination of CLARK
and RAYMOND, as the Wing candidates
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
is considered a Free Soil triumph. 1t
is said the Know Nothings will support
the Wing ticket, but of this I "Know
Nothing" The confusion of tongues in
the Tower of Babel was not a finer sam
pie of discord than is the conflict of po-
litical factions and opinions in the State
of New York. There are at least ten
distinct organizations in the field, and
there is but n subject upon which they
agree, viz: that the possession of Office
is the most blessed of all political con
sunations.
There are six murder cases on the
calendar of the Court of Assessions for
the October term. DR.. GRAHAM of
New Orleans, who killed Col. LoRMG,
at the St. Nicholas Hotel, about two
months ago, will be tried some time du-
ring the term for that offence. His
counsel will attempt to show that Col.
LoRING was the assailant and hope to OBJ
tain a verdict of"justifable homicide +"
but if the testimony addueed on the trial
should be identical with that given on
the Coroner's inquest, such a result is
impossible. DIR. GRAHAM is said to be
very wealthy and if justice were a COM
modify to be bought and sold might pos
sibly escape punishment.
A tempting. sum has just been offered
by the stockholders of the N. Y. and N.
II. railroad company, for the apprehen-
sion of the arch-swindler ROBERT SHUY-
LER: Thief-takers, anxious of securing
$4,000 and doing the State a service,