The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-19
OUR NEW york CORRESPONDENTS.
Nrw Yonr. March N. ls57.


,I NEW YoRK, March II, 1851.
The telegraph dispatches 10 the Herald Tribune and
Times furnish food for merrment to the friends Of the adj
mnistration in New York. These dispatches made
up In great degree in the offices Of these prints ere anr
made to suit the occasion line two from your
city is sufficient to hang amount OF conjecture
upon One would suppose that Mr. Buchanan made q
daily confession to these gentlemen and unbosomed all
his secrets to these amable waers Providence the
old Purians would call them The confidence is strong
in the good Judgment of the President and that be will
dispose OF the patronage in this section TO promote the
best good OF the government.
Our Brooklyn neighbors in state of great excite
about the running of the city railroad Sun.
day Up the present this has been done No
omnibuses have travesed the of Brooklyn
the Sabbath But attempt has been made 10
remove the restriction and have the in motion the
first all the days of the week Brooklyn is large
place II is celebrated for It's churchs and those who
side distance from the church wish the privilege OF
riding in the cars as they cannot afford coach In New
York this done and persons who live far sup town
far down town" can on Sunday reach sny church they
phase for the price Of sxpence. Clergymen and profess
do scruple ride up and down their way to
church. and think il far better that should drive
twenty families church than that each family should
turn is own coachuan. Indeed the Meropo an rail-
road is of the institutions OF the Sabbath In New York
and is needul the Sound of the church-gong bell
fill up the and elegant houses of worship in the new
and growing parts Of city and to enable families who
have removed far up keep their pew in the old
church and attend tLer ancient ard cherished minis
trations.
Guided by the light Of New York, Brooklyn has at
tempted the thing but the opposition has become in
tense Mayor Powell avors the increment but the citizens
up in arms public meetings are held, the scheme II
denounced the pulpit has lifted up lis voice and the result
remains to be seen
Authorities have never succeeded very well when they
have attempted regulate and promote godlness by law
Some years ago attempt made to compel Con
gress to stop the transportation of the mail on Sunday
the people took up against the interference Tit
friends of the Sabbath then resorted to weapons at
legitimate and irresistible They took the press and
tempted prove that the Sabbath, temporal inst
tuition was great and needed blessing. And what
denied improper interference has been accorded to
ment and in compliance with the wish of this people al
needless running of the mails Sunday has been ended
The good people of Connecticut will not allow the New
York and Boston through their State Sun
day. By ingenious contrivance however, trair
from Boston into the State just before the Connect
cut Sunday begins and train from New York just
ends and the of all parties is kept clean by tb
fact fare is much Sunday on an,
other day in he neck
In Puritan Boston the Sabbath il kept less strictly thar
it is in Dutch New York. The coming in of the three
New York trains Sunday morning into Boston--th,
regular running of Sunday stages to Salem Lynn Dor
CHESTER and other pacssthe regular running 10 of omni
buses from all the suburban townsville rumblrg of ON
nbuses through Washington street--remove all tina
outside stiffness which marks New York Sabbath. Blu
it should be said to the credit Of the Bosonans that
keep people from ndugog too freely they charge lik
their Connecticut neghbor just twice the fare Sunday
that they do on week days
We have had little taste of what law do for the
Sabbath in New York. When Mr. Wood came into powe
two years ago. he found law the ebook forbid
ding the opening of bar and dramshop on the Sab
BATH He resolved to the law shut up the grogge
r and give the New Workers he quiet Sunday they
entitled to- AT his suggestion the principal hotels close,
their bars and by proclamation all other drinking esab
lishmens closed The citizens were well pleased
we had the prospect of being in this matter model city
Within month the legislature passed the so-calle
Maine law they repealed the existing law which wa
dong much for the good order of our city, they CAV
us nothing in its stead hui unconstitutional aud i'm
practicable law that could execute and which CAV
the chief magistrate Of city power to act The
form checked in momenthe doors Of the groggere
at once flew open-men defed the authorities-and ia
very men who, by foolish act of legislation put an EN-
to wholesome REFORM have spent years censurin
the authorities for not doing what these impractcabe
made it impossible to do
The less public authorities have to do with regula
moral questions by law the better it will be for morals
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