New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-12
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From tle New Yofa Day Hook, Dee. o.

L
her lstwe published the call Of the meeting for
Geo. Opdyke for Mayor, with the signers attaehcds
TO 1t, and made snch comments upon i 90 WE felt
the facts Of the case warranted. On that call was
the firm Of Alfred Manroe & Co., Of this city The
letters we publish below will explain how it came
there, and also give such other explana sons az VIII
doubtless satisfy their Southern friends. Mr kath-
bnn, II appears, signed the call without knowing
that Mr. Opdyke had supported the Personal Lib
erty bill:
TO The Editors of The Day Book Gents: In the
Day Book Of December /, you made some COM
ments upon the firm Of Alfred Munroe q Co., OF this
city, for appearing among those appended to
call for public meeting Recommending Mr. OPP
dyke 4 suitable candidate for the ofica of
Mayor. The tenor of your remarks, without ssii .
able explanation, might place the above men
toned firm. well as the house in New Orleans,
in false position. Now, the facts Of the case are
az follows Mr.. NJ g. Rathbun, who is member
of the firm in this city, but has interest whatever
in the New Orleans business which IL represented
here BY VIM. D Abbatt u Co., did sign the call In
the name Of the firm, but without the knowledge
or approval of either of the other partners. Mr..
Rathbun did this, as pr0ba bly, many others did,
being personally solicited, not for the purpose Of
helping on Black RepubIieanism. as you seem to
suppose, but in. order 70 defeat Mr.. Wood, who a.
you well know, was not the regular nominee Of
the Democratic party. The strife Of party was iii
measure laid aside at the last municipal election,
in the great desire to elect suitable man for
Mayor. Mi. Rathbnn himself voted for the Demo-
cratic candidate, Mr.. Havemeyer. We shall feel
much gratied if the Southern papers who copied
your remarks OF bDe ISL fHSts W0ulQ also uuAtsA
| this explanation, as our house in New Orleans has
justly felt much aggrieved In the matter. s
Yoars, respectfully.
ALFRED MusRoE & Co.,
WV. d. ABBATr s Co.
| ~ NEW YoRK, Dec 90, 1850.
| Editors Day Book An article in the Day Book
q December !, referring fo The name ef Alfred
/ Munroe Co., No. All Broadway, as being found,
with others, sgners of call for the friends Of
| Mr.. 0pdyke,H to public meeting, and approving
Of him as suitable man for Mayor, does great In
Justice to that firm (of which am member), as
well as to the house in New Orleans, of which
4 am not and never have been partner. did, it Is
true sign the call bnt did 20 without the knowledge
| or consent of either Mr.. Munroe on Mr. Abhatt,
| and solely With the view of supporting one who
| had reason to suppose, would make good Mayor,
without regard to party, not supposing that by SO
| doing was endorsing Black Republcanism. as L
/ do not, and never have, in any way, sympathized
| with Black Republicanism Abolitionsm. Not
\ being politician, do not thoroughly examine all
the doings OF our Legislature. therefore was not
aware of his having supported the bill referred to
| in the Day Book. Myself and every one in the
| establishment, with one or two exceptions, {who
voted for Mr.. WOODY voted for Mr. Hayemeyer.
By inserting the above you will do act of Justice
\ to A. N. ~ Co., Of New Orleans, and much obIigc,
NJ. q. RATnBuS.
/ THE DISTANCE OF THE Str INCREASING. "A Ger
man publication has given the calculations to
prove that the distance between the earth and the
| sun is annually increasing, and attributes to this
fact the increasing humidity OF our summers and
the loss of fertility in the soil OF the formerly most
4 favored regions OF the earth. The vegetable and
4 animal remains found even in the recent strata
within the Arctic circle. show degree of heat for
/ mery prevailed there which eqr aed that of the
equatorial regions at the present time, aud although
many ingenious theories have been started to ac-
1 count for this dcsolation Of once sunny region
none seems 50 rational as the very obvions one Of Il
gradual withdrawal Of the great source OF light and
4 heat Egyptians, Chinese and other nations have
traditions that at very early period OF thsr his
/ tory the apparent diameter OF the sun was double
German sayant, in the course of six thousand years
more tile disc of that inmnary will have diminish
ed 80 that shall receive bit one eighth part OF
4 the solar Influence which we at present enoy the
4 whole earth being covered with eternal ice.
i II is now admitted by the most orthodox school
of science that the earth and other planets were
thrown of from the sun, that globe has con-
i fessedly travelled already one hundred millions of
miles from its birth plce, and no ahsurdty exists
in the supnostion that it has vet ceased reced
ing, though at a constantly diminishing rate which
may or may not reach the point before 1t arrives
4 at such distance as to be uninhabta BILE, when
following the analogy of all other known perturba-
tons and eccentricites among the different bodies
of the universe it will undoubtedly retrace it steps
/ to point much nearer than any II has occupied
II during the historic period, and SO move back and
forth like mighty pendnlnms forever, measuring
OFF perhaps thousands OF ages ut each feat. or
perchance. having run its course, it will fall back
| into the sun--as man. who springs from the dust,
returns to dust again-to be again evolved in the
n habitable globe. [NeWburyport Her lid.