Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-11

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Correspondence Of The star ~ - "R. y
- ..,s ylr NV YORK, Nov. 10, 1857.
MI DEAR STAR: Shall add an occasional ray
or two to your brightly twinkiing beams Per-
haps You may think, in CHANGING towards Gotham
that light cannot come out Of darkness. will
not stop to argue the question. Our city affairs
are just now in 4 somewhat chaotic condition
financially, commercially and politically. The
currents OF society are unusually disturbed, agi
tated, and we know not what the day may bring
ness Is sadly deranged. The terrible ineq ualties
and conditions of social life are being forced into
ugly relief The banks refuse to paw, and the
the w,n1 a. the - Of their
ings institutions of the city, holding SO 900 900
OF poor peoples money, shut their doors In the
faces OF their dePostoIs; Manufacturers fail ;
who earn their daily bread, are suddenly threat
ened with starvation. t. .. .-.
This state of things is exasperating and alarm
ing. What's to be done, Fifty thousand idle
wOrkmen marching through the streets clamor-
ing for "Bread or Blood make up a treble sure
contingency to contend with, led on by Dema-
gogues and stimulated by the robber doctrines
Of Fourierism, Red Republicanism, and Tri-
bunism, they are growing daily more formidable
and ferocious. Mayor Wood put an idea into the
head Of Loaferdom when, In his recent commu-
nication to the Common Council, declared that
"the poor, who earned everything, had nothing
while the rich, who earned nothing, had every
| thing" Ii was like setting match to powder
anu tue tx pIOSlOn is vet 10 come. But
whether the Mayor or the masses are to be "blown
to thunder" remains to be seen.
Our citizens were not little sta rtled on read
Ing the srI newspapers this morning to find that
Cisco had become sufficiently alarmed In regard
to the safety Of the general funds to telegraph to
Washington for power to call on the Government
troops TO protect them. The papers also publish
note from the Mayor in which he asserts his
| perfect ability to keep the peace In the MEAN
time there is feeling of security in the recolec-
| ton that Recorder Talmadge, who made short
but bloody work of Tie Aston Place rioters, is
now at the head of the municipal police
There Is not little excitement brewing in re-
| gard to our approaching city election. Last
Cooley, Esq. for Mavor. Wood, as you know,
| Is already in the deld the regular Tammany
Hall candidate. IL the Republicans and the
| anti-W God men generally unite with the Ameri-
cans, the battle will be hard one, and the VIC
| tory by no means certain. Mr. Cooley was for
merly book auctioneer, made money, retired
and has represented the city az an Adamantine
Democrat in the State Senate. He now owns and
occupies the Fifth avenue palace, formerly the
residence of Belmont, the banker who by the
| way, has just returned from his mission to the
Hague, and was among the notables at the opera
last evening. There has been an effort to induce
| our excellent Mayor Havemeyer to run against
Wood; but he comes out o-day with card posi-
lively declining. EY-Mayor Mickle Wilson G
Hunt and other leading DemocT ats are also talked
of.
see it stated in the paper to-day that " Babie
Furnss," the party of the first part in the in
famous " w Goldman case >" was about receiving
the appointment of Secretary to the Hon Henry
e. Murphy, our Minister at the Hague and that
the recent deHOHsneM occurred just in time to
prevent the national disgrace. This is not exactly
the truth OF the matter. Furniss did apply last
Spring for the situation, and stood good chanc
of getting II; in fact, it was counted sure thing
But on driving his dashng tandem team over TO
Brooklyn one fine Sunday, to make a call on Mrs
Murphy, he so disguised that accomplished and
sensible lady, that she insisted on her husbands
prompt reputation Of the proposed andche. The
thing was done; and the honor of the country
saved.
December is near and with il comes the con.
veninS OF Congress and the rush to the political
capital OF the nation. What will Congress- do !,
Buy Cuba, build the Pacific railroad pass a ma :
tional bankrupt act to wipe out sixteen hundred
millions of mercantile debts and with the bonds
issued for the purchase of the saccharine soil of
Cuba, and to build the road to the Pacific create
the basis OF a bank that will give us a currency
at par all the world over
ln the world Of literature and art there Is little
doing; little to note. The periodical and book
publishers feel blue people must have bread be-
fore books The subscriptions now coming in
from the country for the 50 magazines are mainly
directed to the :" Cosmopolitan Art Association, %
whose peculiar advantages must be known to
your readers. Everybody is anx ous for chance
in the coming ''distributionr to win a "Dussel-
dorf picture" or the beautiful Greek Slave, which
made the freshman exclaim, - BY the PopsrS-
what beauty!n The Journal published by the
Association, Uhe December number of which 1
have before me,) Is in itself work of art worthy
Of the most liberal patronage. II contains time
ly sketch, Biographical and pictorial, Of the late
lamented Crawford. Read it.
The Crystal Palace Fair remains open and is
moderately attractive. One Of the most curious
and useful invention of the year is the patent
rule for cutting coats, invented by Lynban Der
by, Esq. the head cutter in the fashionable and
palatial establishment of Messrs Devlin & Co
will not undertake to describe this Ingenious
rule, but II Is patented in Europe and America
and Will work revolution In talordom, well
as make a fortune for the inventor.