The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-23
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Nrw Yoar May Il, 1855.

The past has been Comparatively duh week in Goth
amthe weather decidedly unfavorbe TO pleasure aud
TO business but the farmers say II Is good for the crops
Jupiter Pluvius rn and has for the last thirty days
With two thrce brilliant exceptions. To-day there is
not cloud in the sky and Broadway is thronged with
pedestrians, mostly females and locomotion is slow
What quantity Of dry goods getting airing to-day
and how brightly the silks and satns CLEAN Ia the soft
sunshnei The street also filled with private cqupages
twenty years ago almost any about town could
every gentleman in tho city who kept carriage, Now
there thousands who have arrived at this stage Of
respectabiIty'' Fifteen years ago !" Dandy Man.
he WAS Familiarity called was the only American gentle
man bold enough to wear moustache in New York
Now there comparatively few who denude themselves
OF this " natural appendage which is both useful and
ornamental The times the manners, the customs, and
the conditions Of the people mavellously changed
wonder our older citizens perpexed with strange
feeling OF Rip Van Winkeism and wake up every
morning scarcely knowing who where they are
DR. Francss recently published volume of "reminiscences
entitled 'OLD New YoRK, " reads like a romance and
history not fifty years DID, sounds like fiction than
fact The age is growing fast and faster and the daily
whiz and wrl of metropolitan life gives sort of So
cal vertigo But are apsing into reflections, when
our readers only looking for the relation Of
AZ What's the news r. g What's going orr? These are
the questions that everybody is asking and these
the questions that newspapers established to
In Washington they ask g WHAT doing in New York o.
in New York, (" What's going on in Washington 7" In
this column and under this head propose to conne
ourselves TO general summing up of the of the
week evolved in the great commercial and social
tropolis of the United States ebia
The readers of the Union limited by no sec
ton Of country, by lines distinctions of party
They scattered all the Iandall over the world
and quite much interested in matters and events
In New York and other large cities in the sayings and
doings OF Congress To make a complete, though i'm
partial independent cosmopolitan newspaper acceptable
to all classes and parties surely the pulsatons, the
throbbiDgs the motions and the emotions Of the great
heart of the nation must have conspicuous place in
every leading journal that aims and claims to rise above
the low level of provinciasm, whether published in
New York in Kansas, 1t is not the place of ISSUE
but the scope of it's columns, that gives newspaper
character and consequence in the estimation of the u
dicious reader. New York is not lacking in narrow
minded illiberal and sectional journals, whose bgoy
and fanaticism would have dsgraced New England vii
lage in the palmest days Of Purtanism when roasting
witches and hanging Quakers INDUCED in of
pious pastme But to the news of the week.
The great libel of Busteed Carr has made good
deal of excitement, both personal and political 1t ter
minated yesterday by the disagreement of the jury who,
after celebrating thirty Six hours, into
court reported tie vote, and declared that they could
never come to unanimous verdict. 1t Is understood
that the six who refused to convict took the ground
that the communication published by Mr.. Carr in the
Herald contained libel Mr. Buseed the counsel to
the corporation 1t certainly reflected upon his official
character and conduct and evidently written for the
purpose of njurng him in the estimation of the public,
both personally and officially. And the Judge charged
this effect The has been conducted with great
vigor and ability both sides John Graham esq,
acting district attorney for the prosecution and exJudge
James r. Whiting for the defence The occupied
five days. and the courtroom densely thronged du
ring the whole time As close, compact, legal logi-
cal argument, MIR. Grahams address to the jury has
rarely been surpassed 1t also interspersed with
passages of pathetic eoquencc that brought mist into
'eyes unused to the melting mood There is
severity in Graham that is exceedingly effective
His weapon is keen Damascus blade wreathed with
flowers Although in this the defendant, Thomas
N, Carr, was formally on trial, yet in the effort to
Iuf fha th.I Nv Rltcfan h.T,t fha
party tried and his personal and political
friends rejoicing the triumphant yindiea-
ton of his official character and conduct The office is
one involving great labor and responsibility The salary
is $l2 600 year, and the Office is elective Mr. Bustecd
originally nominated to the post by Mayor Wood to
fill the nnexpired term Of the late amented Lorenzo b.
Shepard, and confirmed by the common council. He
subsequently elected for the of three years by
forty thousand votes elargest number poled
for city officer. AT the instance of Mayor Wood, Mr..
Bsecd got Mr. Carr ian entire stranger to hm appointed
as commissioner for opening Streets which put
$500 in the pocket Of the commissioner very little
labor After the defeat OF Wood, Mr. B,steed did not
feel called upon TO continue his fayors to Mr. Carr where
upon communication published by him in the Her
aid hose to Buseed which the counsel to the corpo-
ration deemed grossly belous and for which Mr.. Carr
was criminally indicted The result has already been
given. Whether trial will be moved depends we
presume upon the future communications of the de-
tendant Busteed is young man. not thirty four,
of Irish origin, who has risen from obscurty to front
caly and personally he is of the most popular law
yers in the city He is POLITICALLY mpulsive and passion
ately enthusiastica who sticks to his friends closer
than brother" The libel has not hurt him.
Another of libel has occupied another of courts
during the weekthe of DeyO the propIietors of
the New York Express The plaintiff is an advertising
agent who ''run down the Express, and understated
its circulation Whereas the Messrs. Brooks denounced
him impostor, swindler, &c. Mr.. Deyo claims
damages the Brookses Justify, and prove that when
the plaintiff offering bet that the circulation of the
900 The case went to the jury last night and the
verdict has not yet been reported 1t is be hoped that
it will be such to prove caution to those lying ad
vertisng agents Who to suit their purposes,
utterly regardless of the injury they may do to the news
paper publisher.
The tragic topic of the week is the suicide Of Crank
Forester, in whom the dog and the hare have lost
of their best friends We have been badly shocked by
his DEATH and scarcely less by the refusal of .the
Church to read the ritual" at his grave Does any
body suppose that this exhibition of holy contempt for
the corpse of the poor suicide will have the effect to deter
men from selfdestruction Not at all 1t will rather
drive TO the act in order to escape from world in
which bigotry is much Astounding than charity
Jesus of Nazareth would have pitied Judas and
paid sad requescn IN pace his unsghtly remains
But ''thc Church well, must not speak of Ma.
The amusements of the week have not been enliyened
by novelties. The Ravels' close and leave us to-mor
row, after run of nearly quarter of century with
occasional Interruptions making themselv and Nbo rich
lion Of dollars, and has neither wife child to inherit
it. And yet he hasn't got enough Forrest is worth
nearly million and yet he feels the need of earning
more The Marshalls, Of 50 the Broadway have paid
him in the last twenty years the handsome of $780,
D00 Miss Cushnian, who is her way to this city, for