Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-07
New York Correspondence.

. tt New York, Feb, 8, 1855.
Ii is now fixed fact / believe, that We are to
have paper in this city devoted to the interests
Of the Know Nothing party, the first number Of
which is to appear on or about the 10th of this
month. II is said the sum Of 100000 has been
subscribed, and about $4,000 already paid up. A
paper Of this kind properly conducted viii no doubt
be literally supported IN
The United States figate Sabine was launched
ON Saturday as per arrangement and was wit
messed by large number of spectators. AS the
signal was given she slid into the water in beauti
full style. &
The brg-ofwar cambridge win sail this week
on her return to the Brazil squadron and win take
letters and papers to the officers and men of the
American squadron on that station
The bill of mortality in this city for the past week
has been quite large, the total number Of deaths
being five hundred and eleven. The greatest
number by any one disease being sixty-one by con-
SUMPTION there were, also, ffty-ive deaths Of in
ilammation Of the lungs, and thirty-four Of scarlet
fever In Brooklyn, for the same period, there
were sixty-seyen deaths in all
Yesterday being Sunday, everything passed off
as quietly as q Sunday in the country, and il was
the general remark that the liquor shops were all
closed, and rowdies as scarce as blackberries in
January. tA aa
The great snow storm on the prairies some days
SINCE has completely cut off all communication
with st. Louis, and we have not received mail
from that city for some eight or ten days. 1t is
said that snow bank on the Chicago and Misss-
sippi road, where the trains are mostly stuck, is
eighteen miles longand from four to eight feet deep.
The locomotives are completely covered up, with
the exception Of the smoke pipes. Fl
As business is improving, our publishers are e1-
banding in their branch Of trade, and books are
now being issued in rapid succession. d. Apple
ton 4 Co. have just published novel entitled
Heartsease, or the Brothers Wife, /" which bids
fair to have very large sale, some ten thousand
copies having already been sold, and the demand
from the trade still continues. This novel was
originally published anonymously, but, the book
has been received with 80 much favor by the read
ing public, the author is now said to be Miss Char
lotte NJ. Yonge, an English lady, hitherto unknown
as writer Of mark. Any one fond of novel read
ing will be delighted with Heartsease" it being
UC " tAAo AhOos SSoAASp ooVAy
issued from the American press. The same pub
fishers have lately commenced the publication Of a
uniform edition Of the British Poets, some ten or
twelve volumes having already been issued. As
no library is complete without these works, and
being sold at low figure, II is presumed they will
be received by the public with many thanks to the
publishers A 5
Bishop Potter is being severely handled by the
press generally, for the remarks he made at Mon
treal recently, and deservedy 50, for what he said
at that time uncaed for, and certainly in very
bad taste for bishop. fh Fta sg
The concert to be given by the newsboys, mem
toned in previous letter, has been postponed
til st. Valentines Day, when it win positively take
place at the Broadway Tabernacle. The receipts
are to be used for the purpose of improving the
newsboys' clearinghouse.
AT the stock board to-day there is better feel
ing and prices generally improved. Virginia skies
brought 90 "a 95 7-s; Indiana State fves,
SO 1-2; Tennessee skies, 93 Ia a "a; Louisiana
skies, IS; Kentucky SKIES, l03; Erie Railroad,
new bonds, 50 a 80 Ia; Indiana Bank bonds sold
at 70 Ia; Panama Railroad brought 90 Ia; and
Erie shares, Al Ia The sales were very large,
and nearly two hundred thousand dollars worth Of
railroad bonds changed hands, L. s.