Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-26
Correspondence.

NEW YoRK, May 25, 1855.
As an instance Of post oftice despatch, viii
mention fact Of my own experience. ! wrote 10
gentleman In Washington about month since
making some inquiries In relation to business mat
ters and an answer to which ought TO have been
received by me In three days at farthest. felt
some disappointment In not hearing from my
Washington friend, but supposed the letter mis-
laid or mscarried This morning noticed letter
advertised in the post Office for me, and on sending
foIit found the letter in answer TO mine, and
bearing date Washington, May H. two days later
than our advices received yesterday from the seat
of war in the East. Where the fault lies am at
loss to tell as the letter was plainly directed,
and all previous correspondence has been received
at the time due Such despatch deserves notice.
Il will be recollected that Mr.. Halsey, clergy
man of the Episcopal Church, some few weeks
since, fell out Of a fourth-story window ofa house
up town while examining the building, and almost
instantly expired. II was supposed at the time
that this was an accident but il is now ascertain
ed TO have been selEdestruction, brought on by
pecuniary endorsements The congregation
over which he presided have purchased place In
the country for his family to which they have re-
moved.
The report going the rounds that General Scott
Is rapidly failing is mistake. saw him but few
days since and he never looked better in his life
form erect as man OF forty, and noble figure.
He Is the to take Sebastopol If there is such
man living.
One hundred and forty thousand dollars have
already been raised by the New York Liquor League
for the purpose Of testing the constitutonality Of
the Maine liquor law. The League numbers IA,
600 members. The legal profession will find good
pickings before the matter is finally disposed OF.
The electricity last night played the mischief
with the telegraph wires the consequence Of which
was we received no dispatches from Virginia,
much to the disappointment Of politicians, and
more particularly the American party, who are
sanguine Of the election of their candidate.
Among the notables who daily grace Broadway
by their presence there is not one who attracts
more notice than the beautiful, accomplished, and
talented Fanny Fern" meet her almost every
day, and must say she still retains that fresh and
young appearance and independent spirit which
so distinguished this lady when at Mrs. Beecher's
boarding school in Hartford some twenty-five years
since. Her age at the present time cannot be far
from forty, but to see her in the street you would
not take her to be out OF her teens. After meet
ing her yesterday ! went home and took up Ruth
Hall, (the book written by her, and which is her
own experience without doubt and re-read il,
being more pleased with the production than ever
She uses the most captivating language, and there
is not writer of the present day who can com
pare with her in attracting the attention Of the
| reader.
am happy TO learn that, after experiencing all
the vcissitudes Of fortune, she is now in ndepen-
dent circumstances, and on the high road to for
tune. May she long live to enjoy II is the prayer
of one of her admirers from the time she walked
the streets of Hartford with that noble conscious
ness and spirit Of Independence with which she
has always been noted to the present time. After
having received the treatment she has from those
of whom she had reason to expect better things,
her present position in society must be most graft
flying to herself and her many friends.
The Arctic expedition it is expected will be rea-
dy to sail on the LIST day of june the day fixed for
the departure. The members Of the expedition
request the press throughout the country to send
them newspapers every opportunity they may have.
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