The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-03
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW York, January 2, 1857

NEW YoRK, January q 1851.
The great festival Of the New Workers closed last nb
New Years is New York institution. II began at mid
night of the 3lst of December with the caAthumpAu
band and sheetiron drums, carried by fast young
men, who paraded our streets and it closed at midnight
last night with the shouugs Of the jewellers and Ii,
active police leading captyes to the Tombs. The NAV.
or kept open house at the City Hail. but unlike past
seasons refreshments OF any kind provided The
guests of the Astor House invited to sumptu
GUS feast by Mr. Stetson five o'clock The tables wer,
laid in most costly manner, ornamented with con-
fectonary and loaded with the bounues of the seasons
For twenty years Mr. Stetson has been at the head Of this
noble house, for twenty years he has kept up these great
holidays On Thanksgiving day he feasss all the employees
of his house who claim Yankee origin and each en-
ployee takes home good turkey On Christmas day all
the Catholic and foreign employees have their festival
each has a turkey tdomake glad his home. And
then comes the closing festival of New Year. when the As
tor is thrown open all the guests Last night this festival
duly honorsd, and the flowed with good wines
good cheer and genial sentiments
There an of nationality about the Astor that makes
It home for the nation II has been for twenty years the
home for nearly all Of the leading of our land Near
y all the political parties have their committee at
the Astor and hold their festive here The north
and southern associations here Webster room,
still kept in tho order that he left them nor will
Mr. Stetson allow thing to be disturbed On bis way
from Washington to Marshfeld Webster passed his last
night in those that he passed in New York. when he
went home to die Here Woodbury., Atherton, Wright
Seymour Dickinson, Clay and Seward have met at
board Its central location, the comfort of his
rangemens the celebrity of its table and cooking the Or
der Of the house. and the popularity of the proprietor
BILE the Aston lead the hotels of New York 1t was
popular crowded. successful elegant any
Of its existence than it is at the present time
The black-repubcan journals laying to heart the
fact that Professor Hedck late of the University Of North
Carolina deposed from his chair because he would
minge aboonism with his literary lectures and chose
to take the stump for Fremont How would the people of
pleased have of their board Of ed
ucation take the prosavery side Of the question, and
while under pay lecture in favor of the institution of sR
very How long would that State tolerate the officer OF
allow him his pay If the North may have conscience
may not the South If the North will not pay to
lecture against their peculiar institution why should the
South Or conscience and right bounded by Mason
and Dixons line2
few days since the Tribune paraded the assumed sta
tstics of the number of the educated and unoducaed in
the States of the Union estimate of the relative in
tellgence of the States who voted for Buchanan and
Fremont In this estimate New Hampshire took the lead
The following found in the compainbook of the mayor
of Manchester New Hampshire will show the kind Of ed
ucation that constitutes good Fremonter 1t was writ
and signed by prominent member of the board Of ed
"a
al complain Of the side walk from High street Bridg to
Troup Street East sid in dam Bad condishun in hast'
The "Independent" is Congregational journsl-a sort
of guardan-organ for that denomination. This paper
is the only professedy print that out open
ly the political question, and urged the election Of
Fremont The real editor is Rev. Leonard Bacon Of
New Haven. J. P. Thompson, Ward Beecher, Harriet
Beecher Stowe g. B. Cheeveral radicals of the blacklist
dye-are aboard and well paid Si-ce the election,
these have lost much of their occupation But the
begerent spirit of the campaign remains; and for want
of other material these meek and lowly preachers
begun abuse each other Ward Beecher in his column
Of the paper made assertion that certain compiler Of
Connecticut hymn book wrote puff Of his own hymn
book This assault has brought out Mr. Bacon the real
editor He pitches into Beecher in terrible style calls
him mercenary; him of putting his book Ia
the independent" and of conducting his ''morare
form" enterprises to make money out of them ALL All
the world knows this But in reading this castigaon
tempted say these members of the church mil
liant in the words of the primer:
"But, children you should mover let
Your angry passions rise;
! Your little hands," &C., DC.
The great trial is Huntington is convicted He
had his sentence immediately and is now in Sing Sing
prison for four years and ten months This result has
been hailed with great and general satisfaction He will
be known the Napoleon of Forgers He has forged
millions of dollars He has carried on this career Of
crime LOT years. He mas mace WHOLESALE JObbing bus
in forging notes. He has been unusually successful
and disagreement Of the jury the acqual of the
prisoner would have been felt dsastrousy for years to
come Let boy be cruel wicked ungovernable destruc
tiveet the youth be bad and recklesset the man be
dishonest crafty bold, unscrupuous--le him have his
home his horses his plate his women his fast living
let him be criminal of high order, and leave the
stealing of bread and picking pockets to the little thieves
sure to be caught and pul1hedand then he would be
lion among men and women. But the conviction and
the sentence of Huntington peals the deathkne Of
to coundrels in broadcloth and silk well in
Mayor Wood is becoming quite in the estimation
of those papers which did all they could to defeat his
ton and ruin him as He has vetoed one or two
acts of the common council and these prints in rap
lures The very whom these papers attempted show
to be villain and knave of the deepest die has all at
become the Napoleon Of Mayors and the great
of the age Mr. Wood has sent two messages TO the
council that have made the of the officials ting
He deserves of this people all that the papers say But
when lavished praise from such sources is time
make Mr.. Wood look about him for snares. .a
MANHATTAN.
From the Philadelphia Journal
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