Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-13

Inten+S 'COId-TweIVe Persons Frozen TO Death
FOrney aud the Parsons-Forney Daguerreotyped
Circulation Of the Press s-Crime m the City OF
BrOtaerls LoNe--Some ching About Mayors Dis
comforts OR Cnthoiic worship Forthcoming
'Scandar-In>ecurity Of NiEht-wa walkers-Arri'al
CT Polish Exiles. &e., Ae, $40 ..... I.....
... "A
PHILADELrmA, January ., lS66.
~ the Editor Of the Wing ''..'' go q. q" ''.
The thermometer has just been running racewith
aptat fire. aud has left in the rear, to the extent of
sixteen degrees below zero. Sunday night ana all
day Monday have been the eyeres that this section
Of the country has known since 1912 when the NJ
mArkaLle cold snap OF Christmas froze even your
james river from fresh water 10 City Point and be-
yond. with this icy breath OF B9reas comes the
ncyer.iailing suffering of the poor. The records Of
this morning at the Central Police Station, report
twelve persons frozen to death since Sunday noOn
The most interesting topic of general discussion
is the tight shat is being waged between the clergy
men Of all the evangelical denominations in tiis
city aud the notorious John W. Forney, the nominal
editor of the Philadelphia Press. 1t is not FOR me
to decide who is right in this discussion, which has
upon the pant of Mr.. Fomey, provoked the most un
heard of rprelcnsion in the very portion of tile
munity who built up his paper in 1858, and who
throughout the recent war, gave it their uncoppro-
missing support. 1t IS a remarkable fact that the
predictions of the celebrated Dr. Uhler recently de-
ceased have come true in the case of Mr. Forney,-
He said At public meeting held in the western pOr
ton of the city at the time when Mr. FCrney aban
doned tile Democratic party-arter having drawn
all the Juice from that sueculept orange-that
| .s John W FOrpey would build himself upon the im
morality OF the pcople and, after lie had ridden the
Republican horse for short time, lie would BECOME
the goddess deamer of sanetity and Sabbath things
and bury himself, sAnsOn.like, beneath the elifce
before which lie Is Brought to Judgment" .... g.
Rumor ON the street says that the Press has lost
eleven thousand subscrbers,,but you may rest as
sure6 that the entire circulation has been
six thousand three hundred Mr. Foney at one
tine controlled the confidence of respectable menin
this community, hut to-day he could secure the en-
lorsement of but few who care for their own stand
ing. Ever since he has started his Sunday paper he
has taken every means in his power and which an
uneasy conscience can summon, to prove the in-
morality Of considering the sabbath sacred day
His columns haze been filled with diatribes against
Sunday and against the clergy. The Press is now
known as The TgfderS Orgaa." Most OF your
readers viii recoect the letter of the Hon. J.. Minor
Bolts ar your State, to Mr.. Forney asking him
what side of reconstruction he favored whether the
pacific policy Of Mr. Johnson, the radical theory
| of Mr. Summer The ctter remains unanswered, 50
far as the public have learned, and will be unnOticed
| until Congres5 shall decide which is the more ad-
vanta seous 10 both sections. Whichever side tie
majority goes there will go Johni you may rest as
surel of that. give You these views to let the peo-
pie OF the South know what friendship this putty
built politician lrs for them or their interests He
holds the mask before the face, but men here have
seen behind it, ana detected there the lneaments of
the very spirit Of malice
We have another murder TO chronicle to-day
some oI the returned soldiers are doing the devils
work Tor the possession of gold. No one wonders,
when he reads Of the cruel murder OF Saturday last
upon the innocent body OF an old lady OF three score
that the deed was committed by one this Glass;
Indeed, cur laws aud lawyers excuse all crimes on
The plea that the defendant SERVED three years in
the army and the judge either pardons the crim
u4 gives him the mildest sentence Of the law
81 We 20, and thus will we 20 until justice, with
Judge Lynch at the head, or Il vigilance commit
Tee the feet administers that punishment for which
at pIeSeut our statutes seem entirely inadequate
To give NOa an example Uf how our laws are en-
forced let me recite simple instance. We have had
upon the Statntc books Of Pennsylvania for
hundred yeaTS Ccrtain acts which have commanded
the closing ut all liquor saloons upon the sabbath
regret that have not the language here To show
how tOrcibly 1t IS written and yet the recent
| Mayor Ol the city had the singular audacity to dc
clare, ia a letter To the public, that the laws gave
him authority TO close saloons or stop the traf
lie in mere haHdlJ upon that day, the real import o
which Was, that 'fl, Alexander Henry, Mayor OF
PHILADELPHIA, do ny duly faithfully and iearlesSly
| T. the said Alexander Henry, will not he the most
popular candidate before the next city convention.
| Ne now have in the Chair nobody named McMirh
acl, who Is no Improvement upon the Hast seven
years man. All this to show Tou that Philadelphia
with its seven hundred thousand population, i as
corrupt a. New Ork with its one million.
Two ehildTcn froSt.bittcn ut the great cattle
dEIl of this rity, on Sunday afternoon last, ut high
mas The practice which seems 10 De Il general
one ia the magnificent catheGralS of the North that
III introducing JHpaIjs ui warnth, is pertlnly a.
Ieprehensibe one, and cannot he too severely cen
~ured Ii would be dangerous for any person what
ever, with such weather rs we have At present. to
attend divine worship there.
Our courts aud the always eXpectant public are
ltteutd with the prospect of second edtono OF the
Suon" divorce case, the principal parties to which
Lc OT Lave been moving IN high life. II would not
b proper To anticipate for the journals OF this e1ty
mast nnt profit by that which they from the sPe
giIl of the Wig. AsreyOting the circumstances
gcueraliy ale that attend these divorce cases they
| afford pabuum upon which the world at large
Murder cases in the courts the siRg-song work
nt eSety dag. and Rru toe common to awaken public
lltsUtiOn. Downright murders construed by the
| jury and the bench 10 be gentle manSlaughters,
hearing an equal punishment with Il murder of the
second degree and the penitSntiarics are crowded
with culpnts Who are pining away their ten years.
thanking the sickly sentmentaty of the public, or
the yena!ity of the tribunals, that their heads
/ not yiedt to the hecatOmb which stern justice
tuAlly demands. 4 murder is only an accidental
| mansladgh hter. 4" Malice aiOrethOngLt" is always
insanity aud TogperF Is never 10 he proven, never
uug as men OF easy virtue can be found u swear to
tie good character of the accused. lt is danger
| OGs this hour To perambuatc tie streets of Phila-
jrlpha or New York, At midnight as it would be to
rua the guantet before line of pckets who were
| ordered to lire upou the tirst moving object.
/ Mr. G.. Julian Harvey has come out in the public
| prints stating that the Polish omgrahss, for whom
/ the public have far some time been looking, have
been unayOiddbly delayed, only eighty. of whom
have arrived but many may be expected before the
middle Of winter Those who. have come are mostly
IA New York but some are IN this city and Others in
/ Washington. They came last from Germany, and
| received some trilllng aid from the Ravarian Gov
erumcGt which constrained them 10 leave the eOun.
/ try. Among them are Oiticels Ol rank in the hate
| National Polish army, few who We're landed pro-
\ pretors, some twelve or fourteen students, an
| professor, physician aud several laaies. pant
have been kept in Austrian PRISONS aad all are nov
IN indigence aud DISTRESS. Ar. halEeI asks Tor i'm
mediate pccuniagy assistance to provide food, cloth
ing and shelter fOr these unfortunate strangers and
employment by the benevolent. Probably only
minority have i knowledge ui special trades, aud
their ignorance ut our language will L9 q temporary
drawback but only Temporarily since the linguistic
capacity OF this race IS notorious. Mr.. HaIney may
be addrssed at No. O. Van Rensselaer, Place, Boston.
CHlrNAN. .
Further Explanation or the American Industrial
Agency.
By DUFF GREEN.