The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-06
LETTER FROM BOSTON.


M,,kstiaq,- pigrafioa totAs WcstfoEiaeal Mo0msats
Opposition 70 Gen. Pierce &c.
BosroE May 3, 1856.
Fine shad al seven dollars per hundred" and "Poto
mae robins or behring's three dollars per thousand
things we read Of here in Boston, in letters from Washing
~ OuF fish market is said to be Of the finest in th,
world Perhaps Il Is And so, like all the Boston markets
and provision stores il is also the dearest Those who
wear nobby coats must pay nobby prices" said Samue
Weller the younger And those who eat here in Boston
must do the same thing Everything Is "nobbyR-beef
nobby potatoes are hobby squashes nobby and NUT
hon Is hobby 50 are shad and good red behring's NJ
Minds of meat ct be sold for less than IL cents
y uouud During the past year tho poor who have been
abloed 20 purchase part OF barrel Of -four at time
have been compelled TO pay at The rate OF SIS II is lower
now and good article be had for about SILL Thou
,a,ds Of bushels of potatoes have been daily arriving from
Maine Nova Scotia, &c for week two past, but the
price Is sti up paid 81 25 this morning for bushe
al extra quality and 90 cents for "peaoh blows Sweet
potatoes cost about cents per pound Yesterday bought
sayhine but "a fine shad all the way from the wooden
,,moy stateo and gave therefor 81 cents Alewiyes,
which are plenty hereabouts sell for cents apiece They
are amos. the same thing your Potomac herring, ex-
cant in price | priced some salmon, from New Bruins
wick in markethis morning, at 81 80 per pound Aspar-
ags was selling at 70 cents per bunch Ihere ID out III
ne lamb to 10 with it, and did not dare to ask the price
Our market gardeners in this vicinity raise lettuce The year
round in hot beds Small heads sell now for about IL
cents per bunch radshe 20 cents per Dozen Apples
almost the only cheap and at the same time good thing to
be had plenty of fine Russets and Baldwins are selling
for from 50 so to $50 so per barrel
So much for the expenses OF living In this New England
metropolis Is it be wondered at that working
classes who with large families than
81 80 per day at the best-aboers glad to get 81
should emgrae in such large numbers TO the great West
Or that aboItionm, spritualism and the various hum
bups of the day should flourish here better than elsewhere
In spite of all the hue and cry about Kansas however very
few of New England people have emgaed there and
very few will do So the distance is too great and still
greater drawback is the Sharpesrfe party which has
ken the interests Of Kansas into its particular keeping
to make money out Of Il, You won't catch many of oul
New England abolition demagogucs to emigrate them
selves and the frauds and receptions which they have al
ready pacsed to induce honest laboring 60 there
are already preventing hundreds from following who other
wise would have done SO.
1.-THE black republicans should take up COL Fremont
their presidential candidate lit is the general impression
here that they wi the credit Of FIRST bringing out his
must be given to the Boston Chronicle. It's editor
Hon. G. Hazewel is writer of considerable yigor and
has furnished interesting letters for the New York Herald
from this city, the signature of "Algoma for several
years past He is aboitionis of the blacklist stripe
and like that class generally in New England ardent
admre of Great Britain whose side he espoused ardent
ly her late with Russia that it was almost mo-
nomania with him.
The black republicans making arrangements to run
steamboat round to the city of Brotherly Love- on the
occasion of their national convention which meets there
in june Mr.. John Wright will the "fxinsn Fare
for the round trip, Sl2
few Of the members of knownothiug legislature
met together few days since and resolved that they st
l.rar
and tho black republicans is about that between tweede-
DUN and tweedledee" After General Perce's election
there probably three of these Massachusetts straight
wings" candidates for office to democrat They hate
the Henry Wilson party because it deprived them of office
bat still they just good abolitioniss They hate
General Pierce and his administration worse because they
have been recently disappointed in their aspirations
There large class of the old whig party who will vote
with the democrats IN the next presidential election; and
this move OF wing organization the part Of these
disappointed gentlemen is made with view divert
their votes in favor of dsunion and the smatics They
tried 1t last fall for the benefit of the know-nothngs and
thereby secured the reelection of Henry Gardner large
number Of them ii is said will attend the Cincinnati Conven-
ton sfapponed outside delegates So far the democ-
racy OF New England is concerned only due TO truth
say that at least nne,en tbs of them while they will cheer
fully sustain any other distinguished democrat who may
receive the nomination. deeply anxious that present
fearless Chief Magistrate should be his successor No
man. except good old Andrew Jackson whose memory we
revere was ever 80 well abused by the dogs Of faction
who bay for the various ciques which make up our I'M
scupulous common enemy. General Pierce has SO noby
stood up against the tcacherous and reasonable issues
which they have brought into this canvashe is 20 nearly
part aud parcel of the ITSELF ndivduay-that
the euthrost political opposition which now disgraces
New England will fire their end burn their blue
tights again should they hear that he dropped In this
crisis. p