Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-12-16
Correspondence OF the Free Press.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Messs. Editors of the Free Press


:. pretty triangular fight as is often seen
L The canvass was as spirited as that of an
p presidential campaign and the result S
: ful that each party was entirely sure ofdOub
, winning, till the votes were counted. Fer
v nando Wood relied (not in vain) on hi
. faithful Irishmen, on the machinery of cor
= rupton and fraud of which he is so thorough
, a master, and on the division of his Oppo
nents. His brother % Ben,' is said to have
1 mOrtgaged all his real estate for funds tC
! "put up on the issue, and his follower;
! generally bet freely and took the stakes.
The Tammany Society. strong in the irregu-
lar nominations, in their fund OF $40, ,000
for electioneering purposes. and the respecta-
bility Of their candidate for mayor, krlelo they
should win. and took all the bets offered
them. The Republicans, to turn in
and help elect man who, personally unob-
jectionable, had rejected the offer of nomin-
alton by a " peoples party of all the oppo
nents of Wood, and had then accepted the
nomination of the Tammany Society. and
whose associate nominees numbered among
them one worthy who had been Just indicted
for murder, and another for brutal assault
on a woman in house of ill fame, declined
to assist in mending up the breaches in the
Democratic party, nomi0atoi q. first rate
man of their own, and conducted the canvass
for him with vigor and spirit which cannot
but have good effect in consolidating and
strengthening their party, here. Their can
didate, Mr.. Opdyke, was undoubtedly gain
ing rapidly, up to tie day Of election, and
they verify believed that they were going to
elect him. But doubtful things are mighty
onsartain, Fernando s triumph Is complete.
People feel dit rently about it, perceive.
His followers are jubilant. The Republicans
are disappointed in not carrying in their
mar but find abundant comfort IN the disor-
ganzation in the democratic ranks caused by
Woods success, and in the reflection that
they did their duty (most of them). They
could not have supported the Tammany
candidate without an utter abandonment Of
party, principle, and self respect, and the
responsibility for Woods election rests
not on them. The adherents Of Tam
many and the true blue Democracy
are the deepest mourners The elongation
of countenance, (Which they do not attempt
to conceal), and the depth of despair and
eipkpaSS Of baarf NUbiAb ~ md raal-
ly pitiabe. The flag on Tammany Hall
has hung at half mast to-day as we'll it may.
The Tammany sachems have "bled" for |
nought; they event their piles on the re- |
snlt and lost eh 7Iu above all, Fernando. the |
arch rebel against their authority, whom |
they shut out from their State Convention, |
whom they went about to crush. takes with |
self complacent smile the seat Of power, and |
will present himself with his delegates at
the Charleston Convention, claiming to rep
resent the party and, backed by his posi-
tion and power as Mayor of the great me-
tropois, he will not be shown the door.
| had the pleasure at the Monthly Meet
ing Of the Historical Society last evening" of
hearing Washington Irving fifty eulogised
by President King of Columbia College,
Rev. DR.. Betbune, Bancroft the historian,
and the vencrabl. Or. Fraucis, who was the
schoolmate of irwin. So years ago, and who
for half an how, or NJ )re delighted the Knick
erbockers present nIth "reminiscences of the
New York of more than half a century
ago. The city has changed some within
DR.. Francis recollection. Mr. Bancroft
expressed the hope that the Merchants of this
city to which Irving belonged and to which
his pen added so much of fame, would erect
a suitable statue to his memory. The His
torical Society voted to celebrate the next
anniversary of Irving's birth and to invite
VIM. Cullen Bryant to deliver the address on
the occasion. The fitness of the selection of
Mr.. BRYANT for that duty must be universally
recognized, and | am sorry to see an intima-
ton in the Post that his other engagements
NAV interfere with his acceptance of the
c aige
talking of historical matters-Iran across
a passage IN an ancient volume, which bears
ulon a question, which has perplexed old and
Young for many a year, and which has en-
Moved the time and pen of as eminent man
as Chancellor Walw nth of this tate-viz
whet her John Rogers. the martyr, had n,ne
or ten children. In book published in Lon
don in I74O and entitled 1.-The Spirit of
Anti Christ displayed, in the History of the
English Martyrs, collected from the most au-
tbentick authors | read that John Rogers,
on his examination before Dr. Gardner, BIsh-
on of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of
England, in one of his replies said:
Ny Lord, We have dealt with me most cruel
ly, for ye have kept me near year and a half
in prison without law. Ye have confined me
SIX months to my own house, and have been
almost year in Newgate, without receiving
penny from my Livings for the support of
myself and wife and ten children
Further on the Chronicle relates that on
his way to the stake, Rogers . met his wife
and ten children. but was not permitted to
speak with her. This satisfies me, for one,
that the 50 one at the breast was in addition
to the 'nlne small children, who accompa-
MED Mrs. Rogers on that distressing occasion
Yours, u
| omitted in my last letter to give little
side colloquy between couple of members
When MIR. Sherman delivered his short, but
effective speech. When he sat down, the