Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-04-04
From GU, New York Correspondent

NEW YORK, March Both, 1875.
AIEssRs. EpIroRs: We have now an open sea-
son upon us, and the spring business has had
fair beginning. he winter has been long and
sharp, and no season for many years has wit
messed So much suffering mono many devices
10 relieve the poor and afford aid to restitution.
But the worst is passed. The revival Of bust
ness and trade gives employment to many hands.
and the sorrows of the winter will soon be for
gotten.
We are drawing near the time when all n. York
will be ON tho move. All who move their dwell
ings Mt all, do the first day of May. In
passing through New York and looking upon the
thousands of houses placarded with ITO Let
on them, it would appear that all the people of
Now York were about to step out. But all houses
not rented on Lease are rented from the first
day of May; and soon after the first of January
land lords ascertain who intend to remove and
who rcmnin-and soon as n tenant decides to
loave in May, large hand bill placed on the
house indicates the resolution to all the city who
take any interest therein. The hotels of New
York changeable AS private dwellings.
The Irving House changed hands this spring. A
part Of the vast pile now known the Irving
House is to be rented hotel, and II part of it
is to he separated and rented AS n first class res
taurnnt. The Prescott House has been sold and
is to be conducted as n German house, on the Eu-
ropean plan. The Astor House has been taken,
for a number of years, by Messrs. Coleman &
Stctson, n lease. and has just been put in most
elegant repair and will be for years to come, as
it has been in years past, the leading business
hotel of New York.
The tragedy of Bill Poole, who was shot at
| Stanwix Hall, in Broadway, promises to have
some influence in political affairs. Bill Poole
was n Native American, and member of the or
der of United Americans. lie was hated by men
of his trade who took the Irish side of the ques-
ton 1t is affirmed by his friends, that his life
WAS threatened by foreigners long before he was
shot, Ills funeral and the great display was on
account of his being, in the estimation of his
friends, political martyr His countenance has
been lithographed-his dying words, II die n
true American," placed beneath his picture.
His biography has Just been written and will
! have an immense sale, aud among the masses he
! will have great political influence in his death.
J And rs the great writ of habeas corpus grew ont
of the unjust confinement of one of the vilest
men in England, perhaps the death of this black
leg, bully and rowdy may tell upon tho next
presidential election
The hangers-en of Geo. Law, and they are
many and hungry, are doing their best to BAN
boozle him into the belief that he has n fair
chance for the Presidency With all his shrewd-
ness he seems To have a keen appetite for flat
terry, and he is surrounded by satellites who are
willing to lay it on with trowel, if desired.
The prohbtory liquor law still fingers in the
Senate. and opinions divided on the subject
| R its final passage. If money can stop it, the
| liquor dealers will not spare that persuasive
! | know that $4,000 now in the hands of
certain parties at Albany, TO be used as occa-
si, " may require. 1t is said however, that the
Temp orance party have raised large sum TO be
used in quitting the bill through, and are ready
to meet thei, antagonists with pecuniary as we'll
as moral Arguments. when Greek meets
! Greek, then comes the tug of war
John Bulls project of raising food for pow
, DER in this city is blown to the winds. The re
cruiting agents the British government, find.
ing that they rendering themselves amen
able to the pains and penalties of our neutrality
laws, suddenly dsbanded their ragged reg-
mcnt" pulled up stakes and departed for parts
| unknown.
| Ethereal mdness"-the genuine article
, made its first demonstration this season, to-day.
! The temperature, rs | write, is bland enough for
June, and eminently soporifc.
Business is really waking up among the re-
tallers, especially those who control the domain
| OF lasnloh. broadway Is crowded with ladies',
and the miineries and dress makers are in a
state of siege. Money may be scarce in Wall
| street, but the shopping season must be improved
and tho fair danes and demoiselles of upper-ten-
dom must be supplied with the wherewithal for
! French bonuets, laces, embroideries and the
| like, whatever may be the relative condition of
the "bees" and "beaux" on change.
Our theatres and other places of amusement
are reaping the benefit of the influence of country
visitors Apropos of thcatrioas. who that car
rios heart behind his wastcoat, but has had
it stirred and melted by the wondr us creation of
! Dickens Well, last evening Manager Burton
| presented TO his crowded theatre, in Chambers
street, dramatized form of his Dombev and
Son, himself personating Edward Cutie, mariner
He perfectly fills the conception one has of the
! rough, simple and tender hearted old tar from
reading the story Especially in the first scene
| whore he breaks the news of Walters safe re-
turn to the weeping Florence, he impresses the
| iooker-on with sense of the naturalness
| OF the character Dickens has portrayed. The
| startled and uncouth confusion with which he re-
ceives the unexpected kiss of the grateful Flor
ence, and the determined expression with which
he enters upon the execution of n hornpipe To
express his joy at the happy denouement are mora
than acting. they are reality. Forest is PLAYING
his round Of characters ut the Broadway md %
regularly dished up next morning by the critic
of the Tribune. who ransaeks all histories of all
languages to prove that he is tragedian.-
When the learned critic succeeds in CONVINCING
as, the public, that he is only humbug, Of
course, we shall drop him, but not till then