Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-13
CORRESPONDENCE,
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence of the Daily Commercial
Fenian TroaJies-Hapcachment of Offce,s-Hnst,
Consumption Of the Brothcrhood-Literayy kens-
An Ambitions Book-A Mistaken Amhor-Fh.
fashionable Scason-Hoc tie Money Goes-On,
No'tonot Finonces-A Deserving CHarity-THe
Weather-A "Srong' C,sc-Street Acci3cnts-A
Brutal MTder-Tlrlo,o Weed
New YORK, Dec. - 1865.
The Fair Fenian Fight for Freedom, (which NAV
be seen in all its alliterative absurdity any evening
at wood MlnsrelsD seems fast degenerating into a
Kilkenny squabbe over the spoils. When the Fenian
brotherhood were few in number and their income
could be counted by a very modest number of hun
dreds the members were secret and honest; but now
| that the Society has increased to mammoth dmen-
slons and the root of all evil" fills its Golfers to
overoWng, the Demon of Strife appears to have en-
teredits councils and to be proving far more for
midable foe than British policemen. 1t would seem
| that portion of the Fenian Senate to the number
orten) has been in session in this city during the
past week over the misdeeds of the President John
| OMahoney the founder of the organization) and B.
D. killian, the Secretrry of the Treasury which cul
| minated, on Saturday in their impeachment and
| the election Of new President. A national Con-
| gress has been called to meet on the I'd proximo
| when the entire subject will submitted to its action
Meantime, the F. B. is divided into O'Mahoney and
| anti-O' Mahoney factions-the former being in the
majority IN this section; and altogether it is "a very
| pretty quarrel it stands" In addition to the
charges against the President and the Secretary of
the Treasury it is alleged that Irish editor of this
| city, who was sent a mission to ireland with
draft for $500, and important dispatches in his DOS
session. his arrival there induced to lose the
| latter by the persuasive power of British gold
In this state of affairs the further existence of the
Fenian organization depends simply on the problem
whether either Senate or President command a
in 10 pbi
crush the other. Should the two factions however
prove equally matched in strength or nearly So the
and the very slender hope of freedom for the Irish
through the efforts of their countrymen this side
the water, out in utter darkness. The single pain
full reflection connected with this subject is that many
hard working and deserving persons must have part
ed with money they gould ill spare: to minister to the
ambition and love of display of few. If we mistake
not, the Fenian Brotherhood will hereafter be re-
membered by It's many victims as veritable South
There is but little novelty in the literary world at
present. Publishers are issuing handsomely illustra-
ted editions of standard authors and will not enter
upon new enterprises until after Christmas: mean
while, several OF our popular authors are at work
books, which will be ready for the spring trade
Among them may be mentioned Bayard Taylor who
has novel about half completed. He has deserted
his rural home in Pennsylvania and taken rooms in
Aldrich recently led to the alter Miss Lille Wood
man, the Rev. DR.. Bellows, officiating. new edi-
tiOn of Mr. AS poems has recently been issued and
his merits generously acknowledged by the critics
Mrs. Stoddarts 1,cO Men has also been well spoken
Of-Deter IN fact we thlnk, than 1t deserved Even
The Pound Table took it up tenderly, but. that is
probably owing to the fact that the husband of the
author, Richard Stoddart, is one of the ferceSt re-
viewers on that journal and the velvet paw" treat
ment Of his wites ambitiOusly bad book was doubt
less adopted in Difference to his feelings Your readers
will understand that we make no assertions but SIM
ply suggest that when The RoSnd Table CLOSES over
the defects Of book peculiarly open to criticism
as Iioo Men, there is probably reason for it. Mrs.
s. undoubtedly the possessor of talent of no mean
order, but it lies not in the direction in which she
seems to suppose. The DESCRIPTIONS Of nature in
the reader is that there few of thcm-the
author wasting her strength in a vain attempt to
throw the halo of romance over impossible charac-
tiers and very ordinary case of seduction. If some
one could succeed in convincing Mrs. Stoddart that
she is not second Charlotte Bronte, and that her
intellect is incapable Of creating an American Jane
Eyre, they would do both that lady and the public
real kindness.
Our city is in the full tide of the Season., although
balls and parties have scarcely yet been inaugurated
As the Opera leaves Us this week there will be album
fFa: = tsad sSerya srtiaIe, used in NJ daily E
best or, any other society. Although everything is
dear" every thing is bought and not by the afluent
only but by John NGakes, whose wife spends each
merly earned in fortnight When this is to end Is
ali the portents forete It is to be hoped hoWeVer
that the contraction of the currency and the return
to specie payments will be SO gradual to be prac-
ticay imperceptble, and that thousands of our
chants may not be ruined and the industry of the
country paralized by wide spread pecunary con-
vulsion. The problem to be solved is whether even
able Secretary of the Treasury will be potent to
control the forces his predecessors and the march of
events have set in motion: and whether he can pur-
sue such policy shall ensure a gradual and safe
return to a nominal financial condition.
Shouldany of your be in the city Thursday
evening next, they should not if at all muscally or
chartably inclined fail to attend thememora concert
forhe benefit ofthe widow and orphans ofthe late Vim
cent Wallace, at the Academy of Music Mr.. Wallace
although foreigner, lived long enough among us to
claim the amenities ifnOt the rights, ofctizenship and
his untrng industry while here in adding to our stock
ofgood piano-forte music deserves the gratitude Of
all lovers of the divine art, which be manifested
by uniting in the present effort to place his family
beyond the reach of want. Contributions from those
who cannot personally be present at the concert may
be sent to Mr.. Henry c. Watson one of the commit
tee having the matter in CHARGE at the office of the
Tribune.
The weather here continues unusually mild for the
season. and with coal at present prices it must be
considered provdential blessing of no trifing mag
nitude Should the entire winter prove of this char
acter, the wise in such matters predict the differ
ence in the consumption of fuel and the less amount
of suffering among the poor will be cause for devou
Thanksgiving to the christian philanthropist.
You may well congratulate yourself and your
readers that the very Strong divorce case-which
with its disgusting details, is duly paraded in our
iounas-did not occur in your city. Seduction and,
in fact ewd crime in various phases spread before
the public and the ac 'ountS doubtless read by per
sons who would feel indignant if accused of perusing
the ver class of French novels. But few French
novels however equal it in obscenity while the
fact that the parties implicated well-known
thatthemOst lcentious factions seek in vain to initiate
Whether respectable journal is justified in such
publications is question do not care at present to
membered that daily press first of all nelcs
papers, and thus compelled from their character to
be accurate maps of busy life"
In the street-car collision case mentioned in my last
the cOroners jury brought in verdict censuring the
two drivers and the conductor of the passenger car
and they were held to await the action of the grand
jury. So far good but we have faint hopes that
indictment and criminal prosecution will follow
Mean time, street accidents are multiplying with
frightful rapidity. On Saturday evening Mr.. Has
sam o. Lowell a merchant, who had been dining at
Demonico's downtown restaurant while attempting
broadway Rcaue
down by the pole of stage driven at furious pace
and almost instantly killed, his head being crushed
by the wheels. A friend of mine, who followed the
unfortunate gentleman out Of the restaurant.
the murder and assures me Of the details The
ners jury brought in verdict of accidental death!
believe only casually referred last week to the
accession of Thurlow Weed to the ranks of our Me-
ropolitan Journalists editorwith Mr.. Raymond
of the Times. Mr.. Weed seems destined to become
another example of the force Of routine, and the ne
when all pleasure, save that negative of compuI
occupation must have ceased, until exhausted
nature refuses to further exercise her functions and
the slave of habit falls dead at his post The King of
the Lobby has surely attained both that age and
competency which regenerally held sufhc cient
rant for escaping from the iron yoke of business Ife
to spend the last years of existence in weearned
tirement. For no inconsiderable part of century
has Thurow Weed labored at the political oar and,
from the humblest beginnings, risen to be power in
his State and party.
An immense influence has been his to wield and
after so many years OF intense thought, successful
schemlng and restless personal activity, his busy
brain seems to disdain repose as much to-day as
The present announcement of his connection with
the Times is only the public notification of long
accomplished fact. The copartnership between
Messrs. Weed and Raymond is in reality, an affair
of months and our State politics have already given
evidence of its existence. Indeed consider that
Mr.. Raymond has already proved himself an apt
disciple of his aSute preceptor, and the Veteran
cannot but be gratifed at the progress of proms
| ing pupil. GLAUCUs.
DARING AND EXTENSIVE BURGLARY-FRoM SIX TO
Ten THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF JEwELRY STo-
LEN.-0ne of the most daring and successful robbie
ries which has taken place in city for several
years occurred on Saturday night last, when the
manufacturing jewelry establishment of Messrs.
| Baldwin Co., on Franklin street, entered by
burglars, the safe forced open, and from six to ten
thousand dollars, in gold silver and precious stones,
carried away. Having gained to the store the
burglars at once commenced operations upon the
safe and succeeded in taking it entirely apart with
out using powder, and made good their escape with
their plunder, including great variety of articles
used in the business together with large amount of
finished jewelry, necklaces, bracelets &c. Some of
the jewelry had been ordered for England. guam
tity of refined gold and silver was stolen with sew
| eral watches.-Ne,cark (N J.) Advertiser, llth.
| New STAMPED ENvELoPEs.-Tho postal laws for
bid, under heavy penalties, the carrying of letters
| outside the mails unless enclosed in Government
| stamped envelopes of denomination sufficient to
| cover the amount of postage chargeable thereon
Heretofore parties desirous of sending valuable and
other letters by express have found some difficulty in
complying with the law, the envelopes supplied
| hy the pOstafice off ins Yin