Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-14
NEW YORK. Feb. ). 1856.

Banks Election Central Pqrk-Mortali
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New York, Feb. ), 1856
The trouble in the bowels of the Times"
has been at length settled by the expurgation
of Harper. E. b. Wesley. Esq, one of the
original founders of that journal, threatened
to dissolve the unioa If Harper did net sell out
himself, or buy ont the shares of all the 9TH
ers. He offered TO buy, provided Raymond
and the other partners bound themselves not
to start another paper. To fLis they would
not consent Having, therefore, no alterna-
tive, he consented 30 take the $4,000 offered
for his thirty shares of s, Gao each, and with
draw from the concern. This will cause a
considerable draw back to the firm of "Har-
pers," book publishers, as it will now be more
difficult to get favorable notice of their new
publications. The game of employing the
rerson who 'does up the book articles" for
daily paper, is about played out. The late
discussion upon book criticism pricked that
bubble, although the critic of the Tribune re-
mains yet in the ''Ilarper's' employ Apropos
of books John S. G. Abbott, the man who
did Napoleon | up SO handsomely in Harrer's
Magazine, and published it afterwards in book
form, as a veritable history, has received
gold medal from 'the nephew of his uncle, )" as
a token Of the high estimation in which his
Imperial ilighneSs, the present Emperor of
France, holds the work
- Il, sc l., Il.
Craftsmanship of Congress, has given galvan-
ic quickening to the Republicans of our city.
The Tribune Buildings were brilliantly ilumi-
mated, and the members of that party seemed
to be suddenly possessed of a mania for shaking
hands with every person they met. We're it
not for the extreme coldness of the weather,
we should, no doubt, have at least one hun
dred guns fired off in the Park, and any amount
of congratulatory speeches.
Mile Rachel arrived in New York from Ha-
vana, on Saturday, on her way, it is said, to
Europe. Her visit to the tropics has not had
such a favorable effect upon her health as her
medical advisers hoped. As the more bracing
atmosphere Of Northern winter may accom-
| plish what tie balmy breezes of the South did
not, we may be favored with a longer stay of
the g'i'ed IF"Sed'ehhe among US 'han many
now anticipate.
The citizens of New York have been, for
years, en&eavoring to get large park at some
convenient part of the Island, that would act,
at once as a great breathing place. ana pace
"t recreation. Inc 'dea OF great eentraI PARK
was Int upon. IL Is estimated that the lana,
alone will cast between $o,0Oo,OO0 ana So
oOo,ooO. Many OF those VINO hoId lanH upon
the proposed SITE entered objections 10 the
plan, and as 1t was feared That our c'ty judges
might he IN the matter Judge was brought
down from Albany TO near 'i'e case Inc
tatements OF o''h SIDES OF tue question: are
before him. ana II Is confidently expected mat
he VIII give an OPINION III Ie" uay III ia'o'
OF the park.
The number of deaths for the week were
335, being 40 less than the week previous. OF
these, A were men, SO women, lis boys, and
lC4 girls. OF these 81 were of diseases of the
lungs incufing 40 OF consumption. 1t may be
matter of public oongratulation that the
hunter OF deaths from consumption Is gradu-
any decreasing as lhe report "l 'he O''y H.
SPecV"rS SHOWS Ine Ooc'orS Oh our cry are
turning their attention 10 the cause OIL so Ia
Voraoie change'
The total amount for which p. I. Barnum
finds himself liable in his Jerome Clock specu-
lation, is $4,000. He proposes to pay cash
down 100000 to be released from his respon-