The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-31
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT


Horace Greeley Erasus Brooks, Joseph Blunt Simeon
Baldwin and James De Peyster Ogden have il is announ
ced signed "a printed call for meeting at the Cooper
Institute the 9th of September of the electors of this
city who opposed to the present national administra
ton and the Lecompton constitution, lwhy not include
thoss opposed to George Ill and the tea tax y and In
favor of submitting naturalzed citizens to term of
of probation in that perfect State before lac vote
of registry laws and of taking legal safeguards against
the deportation by foreign governments of their convics
and paupers our shores Many leading Americans and
republicans ntn not accustomed TO act together -
we boastfuy informed have signed this printed
call and the fusionist seem wild with delight at the
thought that they have hit plan by which the
Syracuse conventions. the 9Th inst, to be
trolIed and the Sewardes and the Jesse G. Danites
made to harmonize
1t is but fair TO concede to Horace Greeley and Eras
tus Brooks good deal Of ingenuity and talent in
their way but still there things which
they cannot do. To make the Seward republicans
who undoubtedly number nine-tenths of the entire
republican party in this State adopt the Bingham
ton platform, and abandon their zone dea to make
the knownothings the other hand abate their
than Orange hostility to the Pope and Popery and their
than Chinese anpathy TO foreigners, eir dstnc
tive dogmas, and be contented with the swillmk pro-
fcsson of political faith which the fusion engineers have
drawn up is of the tasks which the combined inge
nuty of Horace and Erastus will be found utterly nade
quate to perform
1t is quite plain that the movement in this State the
avowed object of which union of the opposition to
the present administration, is really anSeward move
men got and promoted by those who want TO defeat
Mr. Stewards nomination as the republican candidate for
the presidency in 1860 These politicians know that
the Americans in body opposed to Mr. Sew
| ard, and would abate their luminosity to him,
and they are therefore, engineering by every fair and
foul means to shape the republican platform that
sufficient number of Americans may get into the conven
ton to render Mr. Stewards nomination impossible The
fusion is ant-seward conspiracy and nothing
No believe that Horace Greeley and Erastus
Brooks agree honestly any subject and it is
only necessary to read the proceedings of the American
State council TO that the know nothngs have not
the least idea of adopting the republican platform, but
that they quite ready to admit many republicans
choose to adopt their principles provided that they
shall rale the united opposition and that their influence
be dominant Tho call for meeting the 9th of Sep
TENDER, says the Commercial Advertiser is in
party one. 1t is neither American call,
publican call, call Of the two parties combined
For the nonce Greeley and Brooks die, and are born
again in political sense, and their first sign of new
istence is call for public meeting with which the
Commercial says paty has nothing whatever to do The
Commercial declares very eoquenty what the meeting is
to be, but omits entirely to state what it M be- The
fact is that the Commercial is too good natured and not
half sharp enough to get along with Horace Greeley and
Erstus Brooks, and in its efforts to do good service and
seem fat it only exposes the extent of its gubility
Every who is better informed than the Commercial
knows that the proposed meeting at the Cooper nsti-
tute will be the second act of the farce which began at
Kingston, in Ulster county, and in which Of the
leading actors at the American State council will appear in
character. The efforts that being made for
compromise between negro-worship and native Ameri-
canism vigorous and unceasing, but, far
learn from those best informed the result will be, in
stead of love feast uproarious ght the triumph of
Seward and Weed in the republican convention, and
regular republican and regular American ticket in No
vcmber
The committee arrangements for the cable cele-
bation met yesterday, and agreed that the British
val officers shall be received the guests of the city
The New York Chamber of Commerce have also had
meeting at which it resolved that the tesmo
mails of respect to be paid by the merchants of
New York Capt Hudson and the officers of the Mag
be also paid to the officers of her Majesty ships Aga
memnon, Gorgon, and Valorous. The spirit that die
t,ed this resolution and its obcctto render the
ton of the committee international In its character
commendable in the extreme, and evncc berality
worthy Of the occasion and of the city Of New York
There was n great gathering of democratic editors of
the State at Saratoga last week Almost all the demo-
cratic papers in the State represented and the most
cheering and perfect unanimty prevailed in approval of
Mr. Buchanan and his administration in determination
harmony and concert of action in the ranks
of the democracy in dersion of the efforts Of the fusion
sts and in expression of confidence that the democrats
of New York will be victorious in November Good
sense moderation, honest party allegiance, and con
dence of characterized the proceedings their
interesting gathering.
The city inspector reports that there G57 deaths
in this city for the past week. being Increase of 10
compared with the previous week. and of 81 compared
with the corresponding week last year OF the total
number Of deaths 4S0 of children under ten years
of age There death from yellow fever. The
deceased the steward of vessel just arrived from
Cuba The following is the comparative table of the
mortality for the last two weeks
Men Women. Boys Girls Total
Week ending August y 81 es 2 2ss a sSs ss a
The violent rain storm Of yesterday rendered business
duer than usual and caused the money market to
be than ordinarily flat Rates Of discount firm
w sustained at my last quotations but it would seem