New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-10
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NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE,
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Il hot toddies, lovely woman, and head aches mex
I.day. Down town 1t is equally dull. Everybod,
ii waiting for the message of the President, whci
has been in type twenty yfour hours as hear, ant
| viii be printed in the afternoon papers. As yot
will see we are doing nothing whatever IN the way
of business People are taking in sail, and getting
!, ready for the awful storm that everybody believes
to be impending.
However we didn't do it, and we can't help it
SO there's no occasion for us to cry about ii in ad
= vance. We amuse ourselves as best we may. Wa
Il have nice little divorce suits, comedies in rea
4 life. We are indebted to W. Malligan, Esq, fer
4 pretty scene in the Court Of Oyer and Terminer
the other day, and we have coed deal Of one
4 thing and another going on among the show folks
I Our friends across the wa ter finished up the
Beardsley case, Il gave abstract of it last
weekl and the jury returned sort Of YOU'RE
another 8 h-other-right#erdiet,n which
leaves matters exactly as they were before, SO
far as the question of divorce is concerned. Mrs.
Beardsley has got shade or two Of Black on her
n character, and her husbands reputation has not
+ been materially improved by the evidence of his
own friends The lawyers and lovers of sedas mag.
have had big thing everybody else is out and
injured.
i | mentioned the name of William Nulhgan, Es-
quire, just now. William is gentleman of quiet
habits, of fine talents and probably splendid edu-
cation, but William is also victim. William is
always misunderstood and misrepresented by the
press William was born in this village about
thirty-tWo years ago, Of poor but honest parents,
immigrants from the first gem of the sea. They
we're good people, the Mulligans, and did their duty
! In that station of life to which God had been
pleased to call them. They never probably ex-
Ipected that William, their eurly-headed boy,
would ever become a great historical character.
! When the Mexican war broke out, w. M. was a
wiry, pock.marked, ugly looking Irish boy. He en-
listed for the halls Of the Montezun,as and followed
the wars. What he did before the enemy, this de-
ponent saith not. There are various reports, and
1 after all-weil you remember what Sir John Fall
/ staff says never mind
1 Returning from the tented field, W. M. found
/ New York too thickly populated to suit his book,
and he put out for California where he dipped into
politics, and was on the best terms with that re
markably nice lot Of people who were so far mis-
| understood III San Francisco that the Vigilance
Committee sent them out of the State. AT the
time Of the execution of Casey, Mr.. Mulligan was
keeper of the San Francisco jail, and was con
siderably snubbed by the Committee, who threat
They likewise intimated to the much abused
IsW fiam that he would do well to make tracks,
as the climate Of San Francisco was no longer
tsthe thing for him. Slowly and sadly William de-
parted, and ia month or so afterward he hlnIni-
mated Broadway and eneamped in the bar-reom
Of the Metropolitan Hotel. Ever since that time,
Mr.. MnlIigan has been engaged in making work
for the police, the criminal judges and the law
lance Committee had fight or two at Del
menico,s, whipped an old man in Broadway, had
q little t6te-a.tate with Mr.. Patrick Matthew'S in
which the latter lost tooth SO, while Mr.. Mall
lgan's nose was nearly bitten off, and was latterly
arrested for striking man named McCabe with
the butt of q pistol.
Mr.. sMulligan occasionally relaxes a little, and
,has fightwith the tiger His favorite speculative
haunt was the faro banking house of Mr.. Joha
AIoirissey, the friend Of virtue and of John c.
Heenan. On certain occasion, Mr.. Mulligan lest
some money. at this baak, and not feeling very
pleasantly about it, began TO chatf Mr. Morrissey,
woitiid not see the fun Of the thing, and ordered
W. M. to, take himself off. w. NJ. declined. The
.slerlice e weresent for. One tsperliee came,
s4sen Wssf. drew pistol and threatened to shoot +
lshe t.perliee Z ia case he laid his hand on the
sacred person Of Mulgan. More "perlfee . I
came. ndsW !M. was nipped. The Grand Jury
sook.a sudden prejudice against W. NJ, and in
dioted him for assauting the officer He tried
ard convicted, notwithstanding the most strenuous
efforts Of his COUNSEL Before sentence, W. II. I
made, aneat speech, in which he declared that one
cfhiss counsel, ex-Judge Phillips, had conspired
with other persons to consign him (W. NJ to a I
dungeon SO that he could not testify that the will
AZ. Cano
erty to Wilkes was forgery. Wilkes, Mulligan |
and Rh:llips, have. always been firm friends, and
w MIS- statement took the boys quite by sur
prise fThe Judge gave hulligan four years and six
months. at Sing Sing. James T Brady is to bring
the case before the:supreme Court, general term,
to-day ,.ana William may get new trial. As for
the Judges they are quite as prejndieed as the
Journalists, SO far as w. NJ. il concerned. Will
liam pretty boy, had lots of choice harness,
was well gloyed andswell shod, curled his hair,
segiurned himself and brushed his hat o'mornings.
We used to ,cal him the g Chesterfield of the
Ring;;is and ROW he is to be cropped eribbed,
eabined and confined to the coopering business.
What a. thing issman! To-day he lets out link or
two: tomorrow spreads himself and splurges; the
neEt,dsygoesaan to smash. (phat's from mem
ory-9
Peeuse generally think there is nothing in what
Muliigan said abaHt the will land Phillips has pal,
lishea a oandswhish winds npswith pathetic as.
suranee fAat harder case isgratitude than that
Furnished hy w M. "ioes not stein the page of nm
Colanel il there il only page Of
nnthank fnlnsss let us take heartof grace.
Things opsEatic are SIl in mess again. and Ual-
nsu has zlbit4ated. He is ruiaedegain; this time
he did II all'hy himself He found himself on Mon-
law IN A financial crisis and a panic breaking out