The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-22
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

We have Just closed thanksgiving. Inc quiet he
Sabbath has reigned this festival All business va.
suspended. The churches open and crowded in tia
morning The theatres and places of amusement open
and crowded In the evening Military companies cana
to the number Of fifty companies and nine thou
sand members The fremen In their gala dress lined our
streets The democracy took il upon themselves cse
brate their recent glorious victories.
The great point Of attraction In New York is the new
theatre erected for Miss Laura Keene II opened On
tuesday last and the inauguration was most brilliant
The house was densely throDged. The enthusiasm was al
raging point all the while and the fair manageress Was
made centre OF unusual amount Of sympathy and
eneomium.
More year ago MISS Keene conceived the idea Of
opening place of in the upper part Of the city
chat should be unexceponabea place OF entertainment
Foe Metropolitan Theatre at The lowest ebbi Miss
kSene became the lessee she expended the Of
S0o0oall she had she fitted up the place most
fully and made of the arrangement complete success
As the whole thing at the start was an experiment in
which she to lose all she had complete her success
Miss Keene made conditional contract TO hold the house
for of years IL she chose She called the owners
OF the house and made verbal for It for five
years but she made writings she relied the honor
OF Mr. Lafarge Soon alter tue renewal Mr. Burton pro.
posed buy the estate il Sold Miss Keenes hopes
to the ground. She had redress she had relied
on tie honor of rather than his written PROMISE
aud when Miss Keene called her landlord she was told
no
We have in New York of Natures noblemen-a per
son who began life poor-who has been the architect Of
| his fortune and splendid fortune he has made His
is John NJ Trnabe He is a builder and reared tina
B5wery Broadway, and Metropolitan Theatres He came
to Lauras He told her he would build her SPLEEN
did theatre within ninety days. He began on the 9th of
september and the theatre opened the 18th Of No
vember the time consumed 10 days. And the place
elegant 1t exceeds any house in New York
The sympathies of this city with Miss keene They like
her pluck. Herself lady OF and refinement her
company the most talented any stage in New York her
certain The acting Of the first order and
all ended with uproarious applause Laura Keene Thea
tire" will be the fashionable resort OF metropolis
The triumphant democracy of Brooklyn celebrated their
victories and the election OF Mr.. Buchanan by splendid
dinner Brooklyn last night They wisely thought that
people had much be thankful democrat
party We had been borne the edge of precipce a.
nation Mad men, desperate men, sectional men, had done
all they could do sunder bonds of union between
the North and the South. The election of Fremont woun
made the division complete We should have been
divided people. The shedding of brothers blood might
have occurred once but the awful evil would have
come upon long as life should last This Union ia
like clamps of oak, fastened and cenched with wrought
nails and the sunderipg could only be done by leaving
wrecked and pintered remains behind God has ayertd
the design Of ambitious INSCRIPTIONS men, who would
ding away Union this fair heritage of our fathers in
order TO gain temporary exaltation.
So democratic friends Brooklyn made a Jubilee Of
Thanksgiving night Some of the nobest of our democ.
racy live in Brooklyn The keystone Club who gave
the dinner model club They have carried the con-
there most mphantly The dinner was splendid
affair. Mr. Bayard made the opening address Mr. Geo.
Taylor the member elect to Congress- spoke the TO
the Union and the constitution. The in honor Of the
President received with tremendous enthusiasm 1t
responded by Matthew Hale Smith, of New York The
Daily News says IT responded in speech rare eo-
quence" Mr.. Smiths close something like this;
There is" said be- "at the capital OF Washington great
called the Pennsylvania Down this roll
the tide of beauty fashion, and honor Of the country II
leads IRON the Presidents House Capitol Ii has been
odden by the successive Presidents who have
the Inauguration the east front Of the Capitol Bat
yet of Pennsy has trodden that wide way
But the 4th Of March the great State OF Pennsyl
vania for whom the has been called will offer up
her chosen selected TO pace that pathway and be
shall along amid the accamatons Of the crowd from
all parts OF the Union in the full vgor Of ripened
hood among the noblest in personal bearing of all
Presidents and on whose administration many hopes
hang the shouts Of the multitude shall bear the foes Of
democracy home and abroad this verdict Of
Thus shall be done to the whom the people delight
to honor"
The burning ploughshare Of reform Is to be run through
our city. The allies have the State They hate New
York because they cannot control her The black rpub
licans have already sat in conolave on the condition
Of city Mr.. 0akly Hail. local district atior-
nef--a OF ardent hates and small sbilities-has
the matter in charge We TO have city charter
in which the mayor is to be the supreme head and
have half OF the officers elected Independent Of
the mayor. We 10 have a police BILL in which
commission is to DO created that win control the
the appointment Of the policehe trial and their dis
missal. We are TO have a registry law and then
election Of mayor TO be ordered in the spring 10
take the Office from Mr. Wood But much of this pretend.
ed reform will fail these reformers have afnityhey
rope Of sand Public plumber is their bond Of co.
hcsion and to the defeat Of Mayor Wood the thing
out Of the question. He would be elected with most
tremendous majority No sentiment pervades the
politi al party whom have subdued In the country It
made in New York Of Of all shades and
grades IL has within its ranks eelove men, who demand
that the marriage law shall be abolished aud The State
turned into huge brothel An edct against meat and 10
favor Of bran-bread will be called for Modification
law like the personal---very. bn Of Massachusetts, will
be exsoed The Maine law will be revived and enforced
to the great comfort Of those Germans who voted for
Fremont and freedom" No of the legislature can
satisfy these belliHerent and conflicting claimants md
amid the conflict and Of these clans in power the
democracy will gather compactness and strength ard be
ready at the next election sweep these cormoranis rom
power MANHATTAN
THE oREAT AT THREE RIvERs--The Buffalo Com.
meroal of the llh instant says;
Last week. which our Canadian neiehbors passed in
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