Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-23
FROM NEW YORK.
Hottie Liquor and Lager Question
-P,srsOuRI-Summer TraVeI-EaFly
FruIfs-HeaIth OF the City.

HONDIhe Liquor ana Lager QuGblAOu
-P,srsOuRI-Summer TrRVeI-EaFly
FruIts-HeaIth of the City.
Especial Correspondence Of the Cleveland L~EADKR.I
NEW YORK. July II, 1866.
Sunday, % degrees; Monday, 70; Tues
day, 20; Wednesday, so; Thursday, 90;
Friday, 80; Saturday 80; Sunday sc;
yesterday, IS; at midnight last night,
90. What do you think Of that for a nine
days wonder2 Such has been life in
New York during this hesoed term. Sun
strokes have been more frequent than
cholera cases, and omnibus horses have
died by the score. Along the line of the
street railway yesterday relays of horses
we're kept standing in reserve to take the
place Of those who succumbed. You have
heard of the Snowman who taughthi his ami
mails 10 dance by putting them into IRON
1oored cages and building fires under
meath. We shall ali be finished dancers
in another week of this weather. Clothes
are a nuisance and umbrellas a necessity.
As the f~ashionables are out Of town, those
who are left care nanght for the reputa-
ton they may bring upon their t%ailors,
and appear v~estless, beneath the slouchiest
of linen busters. Looks are nothing and
the shady side of the street everything.
Lager flows in foaming streams and the
proprietors of soda fountains are happy in
unprecedented gains. No day for ten
years has been so fearfully hot as was yes
terday, and in that fact is my warrant for
employing thus much space in dilsting
upon ii.
A new phase has been given TO the
liquor question. Since Judge Cardoza
decided that the Excise law was uncon-
stitutional, arrests for its violation have
been discontinued. Yesterday the Kings
county Supreme Court decided the law
TO be constitutional and its violation pun
ishable. Tho police, however, it is under
stood do not intend to recommence ar
rests but to await the final decision OF the
Court of Appeals, meanwhile making
note of the violations of the law, for future
use, should the decision be in favor of
the law. Since the decision of Cardoza,
of which / wrote you at the time, was
promulgated, the bars have been doing .
tremendous business, although the greater
part of the more respectable class of deal
ers have confined their Sunday trade to
lager beer. Some of the German gardens
are tremendously ~patronized. Paul Folks
garden, on Eighth avenue, is densely
thronged each Sunday, it being estima-
ted that sixteen Thousand persons visited
it last Sandsy, and twenty thousand the
week before. 1t is one thing to the credit
Of the PLACE that With Eli these vast crowds
there is hardly ever the smallest distur-
banee of the peace, so well regulated is the
institution. Still, it is = Sunday desecra-
ton, where redeeming features only miti-
gate, but do not excuse.
Gen. Grant was in the city yesterday, |
en- route from West Point TO Washington.
Gen. Butler was also here, and so, too, |
was Col. Anson Stager, of your city.
How many thousand have left the city
for country shades, it would be hard to es-
innate. Every steamboat and railway |
route has been thronged. The Erie road, |
with the Atlantic and Great Western
Connection has been a favorable route to
Cleveland, and thence to the upper lakes.
1t cannot be denied that this route pre-
sents very great inducements to travellers, |
and especially to those having ladies or
children. The cars are in excellent re-
pair and keeping, and are broad and
roomy, while there is no change between
New York and Meadyille. The scenery
upon the eastern portion of the route is
especially fine. There is one bit of deli |
cious beauty which ninety-nine out of
one hundred passengers will miss, if not
especially looking for it. 1t is Just east
of Susquehana, on the southern side of the
track. Just as the train crosses the mag
niicent stone bridge over a deep ravine, |
the locker out sees a charming little cas-
cade where a silver stream fails away
down from the rocky brink into a shady
pool, where you would give many stamps
to be during these heated days, bathing
your feet in the waters, and ~feasting your
eyes with the many beauties of the sur
roundings. The scene reminds one So
strongly of the "Pool" at the White
Mountains, that it is doubly exasperating
to. turn from it 10 the glare of the sun
and realize that you have many a mile be-
tween you and ouch luxuries as baths or
cool sieStds
1 notice in many of the papers through
out the country, this paragraph "Peach-
es at IL cts. each in Broadway" Now, this
statement was started at least one month
ago, when it had no semblance of truth
about il. To keep it going the rounds of
the press week after week, is as appropri-
ate as it would be to quote an item about
the first fall of man, in an issue of Febru-
airy 29th. Peaches are now comparatively
plenty, although as yet they are held at a
high price. l have seen very fair ones
offered at sc each. Apples at a penny a
piece are upon the stands, and Fifteen
cents adozen y shouts the itinerant dealer
in lemnnS-IGyAI4-a- paying &C n Sc
a piece for this last fruit, think of our pro-
fusion and weep atthe cost of your lemon
AIDES compared with ours.
The number Of deaths last week greatly
exceeded those of the week before, but the |
increase is not attributable to cholera, |
there having been but a small increase of
the victims of that disease. The long con-
tinued hest is the main cause of the in
crease in the death rate.
Among other personal items, your
readers will be interested in the fact that
George Alfred Townsend has entered into
an agreement 10 go to Europe to CORE
spond with the World. He was to sail
tomorrow. Possibly the news of prob
able peace msy change the plan, but prob
ably not. DEP.