New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-22
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.


NEW YORK, September IA, 1853.
Messrs. Editors-We have had sudden change In
tie weather. and 1t is cool to-day that thick cloth
ing is not uncomfortable few days Of such weather
will bring our fashonabes all back TO town. and send
the Southern families to their homes.
Politics are now all the rage In this State. The
Democratic State Convention meets to day at Syra-
for the purpose Of nominating State ticket and
to select thtyfve delegates to go to the Charleston
National Convention next year There is DISPOSE
ton shown to send half Hards and half Softs. 1t
may be done, and notice that Senator Dickinson is
himself at Syracuse, experimenting matters, and
counseling union and harmony. What complexion
the thirtyive delegates will wear cannot venture
to BAY.
The news from Syracuse since commenced is that
the Wood delegates have got possession of the State
Convention, and have turned out the Tammany men.
II it is so, he has the impudence of Satan. We shall
know more in the morning.
Preparations are making in Portland for the recep-
tion Of the Great Eastern. There seems to be no
doubt but that she will go to that port II she does,
ten thousand persons will start from here and go on,
as soon as her arrival is telegraphed.
Judge Forsyth, of the Register, Mobile is in town,
and has been stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Statements have appeared in the newspapers that he
was engaged in advancing the interests Of Mr.. Doug
las in this section. do not think that is 30. He has
ordered new type for his paper, and think he is
making business arrangements for it, The Register
has a New York correspondent who has succeeded in
getting the Herald and News to attack the Judge
personally.
Our city population is killed off by burning fluid
faster than any other cause Every day the journals
record one or accidents. The evil is the in
crease. People cannot be too cautious with the arti-
Gle. Another dangerous article is lucifer matches.
little GIRL three years DID, died yesterday from the
effects Of biting off the ends of few matches. 1
think it would be wise legislation if camphene, gas
or burning fluid was driven out of by statutory
enactments. Until something of that kind is done,
this fearful explosive compound will continue its
deadly work.
Ben Wood, of the firm of Wood, Eddy d Co., lot
terry Dealers leased the Penneman House at $4,000
year. For what purpose is not yet known. TWAS
said that he intended to let his brother Henry Wood
use it for African mnstrels. That is not Twenty
five cent amusements will not pay near Union
Square.
Madam Anna Bishop is singing to twenty-five cent
audiences on Sunday evening, at Palace Garden!
Your readers must remember James W. Barker,
who SO long famous as the President Of the Ma.
| tional Grand Council Of the American Party, until
1856, when he was dropped and a Kentucky gentle.
man was elected in his place? Well, poor Barker
was earnest and honest in his belief that the Amsri.
can Party would succeed. When be engaged in this
movement be was worth 100000. He spent every
bit of it, in aiding Local Councils State Councils
and National Councils. Many of his friends have
lost sight of him for long time. He has turned up
recently dry goods merchant in Pittsburg Penn.
and he is coming money. If there is any man alive
who entertains whitening contempt for parties and
politicians, think it must be James W.
George Wilkes has launched new Spirit of the
Times. Now we have the Old Spirit of the Times,
" Porters ~ do, and now " Wilkes" do. Some en-
terprsing man who can succeed in uniting the three
in one willhave made paying weekly. As it is two
of the "Spirits p" must cave before long.
1t is now quite evident that the johnson contract,
to commence the LIST October next, when the mail
contract with the Pacific Steam Line, the Panama
Railroad and the United States (Atlantic) line of
steamers expires. will be failure. In such case
Government prepared to have the California
mails carried by Vanderbilt. He up at Saratoga
and then an agent from Washington made an arrange
| ment with the old Commodore. It is supposed that
Marshal O. Roberts, who owns the steamers on the
Atlantic George Laws and Sloos contract and ships
will make arrangement with Van derbi,t. I mel
| Col. A. G. Sloo one day this week. He looks very
Feeble walks with cane and does not look as though
he would live many years. His headquarters are at
the St. Denis. By the contract with Mr. Law, (trans.
ferred to Roberts with the ships,) Col Sloo at the
expiration of the ten years mail contract was to be
bona fde owner of onehalf the ships, provided they
had paid their cost and expenses by earnings
Roberts says the steamships have done nothing of the
kind, that the line has sunk money every year. There
| is prospect of litigation after the 1st October
| If anything don't pay, George Law very speedily
drops it. He nine.tenths of the stock of the
the Eighth Avenue Railroad, which alone is an income
for prince, and growing more valuable every day
He also nearly all the stock of the Ninth Avenue
which, when completed, will run from the Battery
through Greenwich street to the Ninth Avenue ant
thence to Harlem rivera nine mile concern. Hal
the ferries belong to LAW He owns the Dry Dock
Bank and the bank owns about forty acres of docks
houses and land almost in the heart Of the CITY, Law
owns the Staten Island ferry boats, and two mile
Of water front, nearest New York, that in few
years will be worth for docks ten Millions He reall,
owns the Flushing Railroad, and Heaven only know
how much more he owns. That immense thiukin,
brain keeps accumulating. l don't think he goe
into large operations now for the purpose of making
| money tnldk He WorkS 10 keep from Stagnating
Though not polit clan, he wiedsa very powerful in
auence upon politics, especially upon local affairs
Most persons have an idea that he is an old man. N
such thing He is only f'ty.one years old, and pos
sesses one of those vigorous constitutions that viii
last him forty-nine years longer.
Of course you have read the elaborate reply to th
Douglas. Harper Manifesto, which appeared in tn
Constitutional. That reply was not written by Judg
Black. 1t was concocted by Mr.. Buchanan, aided b,
Mr. Bennett, of the Herald. Read it carefully, ant
you will Benefits style sticking out all through it
have it from pretty good authority that Buchanan
during Mr.. Benefits sojourn with him at the Sol
dier's Home, rendered him the mission to France
Mr. Mason will return this winter and as soon as th
Senate adourns Mr. Bennett will be appointed, AMI
his rejection will not happen until the session of ls6
and 1861. So that he will have year anyhow. Yo
may rely upon this.
The Democrats North are amazed at the course
the Richmond Enquirer in reference to Douglas
judge from the Enquirer's editorials, Stephen woul
not be quite safe if he was to go to Virginia. H
would be treated as high-cass Abotionist Peopl
will speculate in reference to the next President
will do so. | think there will be two Democrati
candidates Mr. Douglas will run, and think car
didate will be nominated at Charleston, who will nc
be Mr.. Douglas. The out.and.out Republicans will
most assuredly nominate w. H. Seward. Last bu
not least National Union Opposition party, CON
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