The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-12-02
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
New YORK, November 20,


OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDING.
New YORK, November 20 hi
The uses Of India rubber are daily multiplying
patent Of Goodyear has made the fortune {! many
and will make the fortune of many more. BY and
gehions discovery kind of goods has been made D, "
Is called hard rubber" 1t can DO moulded to any
1t is as black and smooth as polished ebony is as du
AS granite, ard comes very cheap. 1t is made into n
tough as steel. Mirror cases, opera glasses buttons
ernment boxes, spectaces, &C. are thus made
But no one article compare with the ewy-inys
pen. 1t is called Princes Protean Fountain Pen "
pen is made of pure gold, but the body or oupt
composed of the "hard rubber" This pen ia one
great inventions of the day. 1t is simple as a cou
pen 1t can be charged loaded in a moment; h
not used, the ink remain if in the inkstand L
once filed, it will write from one hour to ten, vE
once putting the pen into ink. The How OF ink is ID
ated to suit the taste of the writer and is always read
use. The handle is no larger than the common pen
die know a clergyman who has written who'd
mon without replenishing his pen. LawyesIl
try entire cause; reporters and editors defy baI
and soed inkstands 1t is the great desideratuu
age. 1t is the open of ready writer and the inv
must take his place among the substantial beneiaca
his race.
Notwithstanding the fair prospects Of Miss Keene II
new theatre, the management of the concern Is NJ
hands. No actress has been more indebted TO the M
press for than Miss Keene In all her strugp
has been cheered by the united press OF New h
But in her new house she has put the press in poi|
that is uncomfortable The man who takes the tick
a captous, uncouth fellow, and all whose names M
the ree list" subject to the indignity OF going
after examination OF the pol-book, and signing
name 10 card, as if II were bill Of lading The
Tribune this morning complains that a gentleman b I
a box at Miss Kcene's, came with party of ladies
storm found it occupied, and the occupant in poss,
of ticket and all explanation was refused Miss "A
must look to her employees well 10 her actors
ility and courtesy cost nothing, and go great
helping good cause along.
Mr.. Banks the Speaker of the House of Represents,
gave lecture in the Universast Church of this civ
night 1t was the same he gave in Boston, which u
revamp of his Wall-street speech. No man eTgA
more damage TO his reputation in one speech o. az
long than did Banks to his in Wall street He was
up to the political surface by the party who formed
well-known "Hiss legislature" Of Massachusetts and
sustained Gardner, of that State, when he disbabdt
regiments of adopted citizens. He was little know
the late contest for Speaker called the attention Of
country to him. He bad great desire TO get some
OF an endorsement from the merchants Of New York.
was quite easy thing to get an invitation to sp
Wall street He attempted to treat of commerce from
abolition standpoint. To say that he was babe M
itical economy-to say that he did not know the ap
Of commercials 10 pay him high compliment I'd
posed himself 10 the rdcule Of the most common merrh
and to the contempt Of the ssgacious He ATTEMPTED
grasp subject he did not comprehend and those
thought most ayoraby Of his abilities from his conm
ing position, could not resist the conclusion that be
one of the many modern instances Of the putting Of
sh men into gigantic places. His lecture last nigh
attended by about three hundred persons most Of VI
we're merchants contributors to the "aid OF Kansas
persons who had grown hoarse with shrieks for freed
There was time when the public men Of Massachr
commanded respect in consequence Of their pre-sm]
ability If the people did not agree with the opnio
these they did not withhold their appreciation Of
talents But what Notifying spectacle do their ID
men now present They are sent to Congress siup
sbotlonsts. On this theme alone for two years
these men spoken. In the Senate and in the Hous
theme but niggerdom has fallen from their lips n
statesmen have yet done nothing but retail their ID
speeches the Congress floor On ell the great them,
the nauon-commerce national industry, arts educaud
they arc sent-they can say nothing; but At abolI
harangues they experts. Poor fallen Massacbuse
her fair fame soiled by demagogues- ancient 4
furnished by sectionaists and radicas-and the pac
power filled by Webster, Choste, Davis, Saltei
and other giants filled by such pigmies as Banks
lingame, md Sumner How are the mighty fallen
litenism, like the crime Of abomnation" mcntione
the Apocalypse ruins all who take the cup and make
tons drunken, but not with wine
An interesting lawsuit is now pending between Rev
Pennington aud the Sixth Avenue Railroad Comps
Dr. Pennington is black mana preacher In the PRO
terrain church. as black as the Of spades He veT
Edinburgh and as the English like anything black
dubbed him ID. ID. The railroad company have
that no black man shall ride 10 the cars Dr. Peuung
one day jumped the platform and insisted upon rid
the conductor stopped tho train and with the sid Of
driver, elected him. The coored gentleman Grought
for damages and that is now pending The beauty Of
transaction s this that tho main prosecutor and esds
this case IL Mr.. Downing, coored man he keeps a
nous oyster saloon in Wall street All the bills
bears and the ton ont thero Rut this same Mr. Down
who prosccutes the railroad company because they will
allow q black to ride in the cars rou not oigrr b
nan 70 eot in his saloon The humbug and hypocrisy
these philanlhropsts are beyond expression.
The Tribune o. to-day corrects your correspondent
says that Fremont did not vote in New York The
olivitos OF the Tribune such as TO make is Oct
of any consequence. MANHATTAN
FALLING or THR RAILROAD BPIpeF own THE SEryAynr