The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-07-10
Albany.
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ALBANY, 7th July, 1872.
The late Fcte- -Business--O Old TIMES
Common Council-Pretty Gnns-Ratiroad, &c.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.,,
SIR -
The ladies' were in a great commotion when your
'aper, containing an account of the festival, arrived
some felt sighted for not being mentioned, Others
ior having been. Thus il is, the world over tn.
more we strive, the more Discontinued they become
Our friend L. Sprague p was pleased, but dis
liked that the Herald had been selected as the organ
Times are awfuly dull, and so warm An apple
ooy Tell down In State street and spilled his load ;
out every one was so lazy, that no one, not even H.
W or L. + would stoop to pick them up and
pocket hall adozen. We dare not say how the ther
mometer stood Ours boiled Henry purchased a
fan, and G--s did not swear for whole after
noon.
The only business consists in forwarding emf
grants and their baggage. They arrive with plenty
of money and responsibilities" taking their wa,
for the west and southern counties Most are far
mers, well off in the world, with wives and daugh-
ers. We need such people among us. England
may emigrate and SET her isle in our far west Even
there, large as her population is, she would be lost
in our prairies.
People have made up their minds that fortune is
not to be made in single year, we are all going
10 return TO the good old times OF 1900, and work
The last twenty years has been passed in Dreams
Speculations, town lots water privileges, U. States
bank stock &c, have occupied every mind.
Albany is remarkable for one thing, the selfish
ness and parsimony OF our wealthy inhabitants
There are honorable exceptions, but most OF then,
are too afraid to venture farther than the end o.
their nose. There is immense wealth among our
old Dutch families, and great good could be done
by using 1t Judclousy; but they, good souls prefer
stocks and bonds to loaning it to needy persons,
who thus would not only benefit the city but their
own selves. Thus we go ''penny wise, pound
foolish"
every respect. Being, equally divided, they rails,
quite a breeze, and when an unruly member is de-
sirous of avoiding division, he raises window
and Jumps out, to the great satisfaction of himself
and the party IN the majority as Col T. B. will
testify to- Our Mayor pleases all. He is an active
and resOlute person. Justice L. also deserve
the thanks of every honest and good citizen fol
his endsavor TO suppress vice In its various shapes
girls we have here. Albany ever has been noted fol-
it. We have mineral spring good, if not better
than even Saratoga. Our Museum opens witt
great attraction every evening.
This is a hard world, but Col. Greene says h.
thinks very few will get out of it alive and we havc
concluded so also 1t is the duty of all good citizens
to make the best of bad bargain, and all that il
left for lis is TO do our best.
The works at the termination of Albany anC
West Stockbridge Railroad are attracting observa.
ton They have purchased portion of Van Rens.
selaers Island, and intend raising space of twenty
acres, some fifteen or twenty feet above the river
II will be an immense job, and cost half million
canal is to be cut through the island, running BY
the side OF an immense warehouse, which we sup
pose will hold all the produce the Erie canal car
fetch alongleting the village Of New York trust t.
some other resource. A splendid bridge is being
built across the creek on the opposite side of the
island 1t is to be single arch.
Albany will be a wonderful place in its time, SC
you had better come here and establish your paper
Ours are all stupid-democratic and federal When
ever Thurow gets present of woodcock or pickle.
rel, preserved in ice he wakes up, but soon sub.
sides. Very truly, Ky.