The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-31
new York oorrsspenasnss.


taixers - Depression Of Stocks = The Ohoea-
Hsalthinsss Of NelD York.
NKw YoRK, July 80, 1891
The chsapness of travel this season, as much as
the heat of the weather, has drawn a larger num-
Der of people away from the city into the country
than has been the case before since the first summer
Of the cholera. | certainly never met many peo-
Pile the wing before whom knew by sight as
encountered last week in short iaunt TO some Of
famous watering places. Saratoga, for instance,
is overlooking with crowds of visitors, and even
that immense town of a. hotel, the United States,
with all its dependent cottages, is filed TO its ut
most capacityj and 1t is wonder, for it costs but
a dollar and quarter TO go from Murray street
to this delightful watering place. For the &c ridic
uousy small sum- Of twenty five cents you
can go from New York to Albany in one of the
finest boats that has foated upon our noble
river. This cheapness is owing to opposition
line of course; but then il is just profitable to
the traveller though 1t were the natural state Of
things.
There is "fernainus ad qiiern to summer tray
cling, but everybody contrives to visit Saratoga
in the of the season; and the permanent in
hahitants of that village may the whole world
of fashion unroled before their eyes like piano.
rama during the hot months. II must be dis
NAL enough there when the collapse takes
place, and the whole world flies Off to the
windingup ball at Newport; but now its broad
streets and piney groves, and sandy roads, pal
plating with Astounding life Its sparkling springs
are surrounded from morn till noon, from noon to
dewy eve. with crowds OF gay and laughing people,
who drink their piquant waters Tor the mere fun Of
it, though the fun OF it is not clearly perceptible to
every one. The political reunions which once
gave importance to life at Saratoga are now no
longer held; and the only intrgues which car
red on of very different character from those
for which the place renowned in the palmy
days of Van Burensm in this State.
II has been stated in many Of the papers that the
number of southern visitors at the springs is much
less that II has been in times past but am inclined
to believe that this is not the fact There great
| numbers at Saratoga from Cuba and the whole of
our southern StatesJ there many too at Sharon,
at Lebanon, at West Point, and good many have
| been at the Catsk Mountain House. Niagara is
said to be fuller than il ever was before and New
port, Nahant, Cape May, and Long Branch, are
all reported full. While rambling about in the
country, and seeing 80 many familiar faces abroad
and encountering such iocks of city looking peo-
| pie wherever | stopped, ! expected to find the
streets deserted on my return but missed nobody
| there was the same hustle and animation in
Broadway, the same anxious faces in Wall street,
nearly five thousand fashionable people who had
squeezed themselves together in of the hottest
nights of the summer to hear Bosio and Savi in
La Somnambula. Such seeming excess of in
habtants makes one invoiuntarily exclaim, ''This
is great country!'' And yet, when go into the
country, nothing seems SO much wanting inhab-
| itants for our waste places.
| There are some people who, for the novelty Off,
or because steamboats, too slow for them, in 60
ing up the Hudson, choose the railroad in preference
oawater conveyance; but imagine thatno one, un
less he is trying to escape from the sheriff him
self, would ever think Of doing the second time,
The Hudson River railroad during its entire length
runs along the shore Of the river and directly un
der the bank, which, nearly the whole distance,
rises abruptly from the rails; and owing to these
causes is of the hottest, dustes and most disa
| greeabe roads II have travelled on. There is
opportunity for the dust, smoke, and cinders to
escape, and you have to keep the windows all closed
TO keep out the DUST and, in the afternoon, II is
necessary to darken the windows towards the river
to shut out the sun, which is reflected with
double intensity from the surface of the water
The delightful and novel prospect of the river
which you had calculated on, as you rushed
along its margin, lie thus denied to you, and
you find yourself shut up in crowded, dusty,
hot box with power 10 do any thing but sit still
and stew until you get to the end of your journey
and are permitted to escape from your confine-
ment The Hudson River railroad is now open the
entire length from New York to Albany, excepting
the short distance between Oakhill-6ve miles be-
low Hudson-and Poughkeepsie. In winter and
in wet weather the objections have named of
course will not exist, and travelling in it will be
more endurabe, but the sight seeing from the cars
il more restricted than any other road have
travelled on.
/. The revolutionary news from Cuba has caused a
good deal of excitement here among the parties
who have direct personal interest in the Cuban
movement, and yesterday afternoon a considerable
number ofexiled Cubans, and their friends, march
ed through the streets with band of music, and a
triangular flag, in honor of the recent reports The
Sun, which goes in holly for the of Cuba,
was in an ecstacy, and all day from the upper win
dows of the Sun building the So called Cuban flag
| Haunted in the breeze.
| The absence of SPECTATORS from Wall street, or
the anticipated tightness of the money market, has
had avery marked effect upon the stock market.
Prices OF all the leading stocks have been settling
down alarmingy low since the middle oflast week,
and this morning there was almost panic in
the street. Erie railroad stock, which, but a
short time snce, selling at eighty five, sold
this morning at seventy seven ii fell two per cent
from the opening to the closing Of the board.
There was decline in all other stocks; but in none
so great as in Erie. Canton sold low as sixty
three, Although money is said to be tight, yet il
is only 30 comparatively, for understand that any
amount can readily be obtained, on good securities,
at six to per cent; il is not, therefore,
much the present scarcity of money which has
caused the downward tendency of the stock mar
ket as the anticipation of scarcity from the con
tinued export of specie and the movement among
the banks to call in their loans.
was told yesterday by one of our city physi-
clans that he had two cases of undoubted cholera;
have yet been reported fatal and the city
is healthier than it has been before in many years
at this season. Probably cause of the healthi-
ness of the city is that the number of foreign pas
sengers now arriving is SO small; there were but
5,400 during the past week; another cause is the
| frequent thunder storms which we have had since
| the summer commenced; and another STILL the IA
cilites and cheapness Of travel which enable SO
many of our citizens to reinvigorate themselves by
jaunts into the country. S. X. S.