The Portland daily press., 1867-08-08

ConsnaerceA Monthly Cool Sale Base Ball
/ NeU York Har6or,s He'll Gate and Conans,sni-
/ pdao. s.-.-
7 80 New YORK, August 8, 1867.
To The Editor of the Press F,s.,rs ...,..F .tt1
| A term of lopg-continued and unparalleled
I dampness it is hoped is now coming to a close
I 1t has rained pretty nearly "forty days and
forty nights" The windows of heaven have
been open, and sometimes the rain has come
down in perfect deluge, cleaning out the
streets IN a style Of thorougfness and dispatch
that the City Corporation can never hope to
attain. During this extended wet spell, the
health of the-city has been excellent. 1t is very
rare that the sanitary reports at this season of
the year show so good a condition of the pub
lie health. Is not this demonstrative that in a
/ crowded city o damp climate is better than a
dry one? BUSINESSES depressed. In business
/. circles generally, the common remark is "verv
little DOING" 1t is sad to be Obliged to
say there is not a single ship on the stocks in
New York, but it is said to be fact at this
time. Our steam marine has, it is true. to a
great extent superseded sailing vessels; but
this factin the great centre of commerce and
marine architecture is remarkable. Foreign
'fOeeosS hoNO PiiolhSiy Odhcu UuSlutSS OUT
of our hands; and something mast be done and
that soon, to bring back the hey-day of Amer
lean commerce. Only look at it,: There were
entered at the port of New York for the three
months ending June 80, 1867, the number of
1879 vessels, of which 94S were foreign and on
ly 631 American. Cleared during the same
time, 1888 American to S66 foreign.
The decline in prices of many of. the staple
articles for home consumption is going on, to
the great satisfaction of the middling classes,
and particularly of the poor man who now gets
more for his daily labor than ever before. The
monthly coal sale held last week is in point. -
About 100000 tons were sold at decline of 25
cents per ton from last month, when an addi-
tional sale ofthesame description of1O, 600 tons
attempted, but only $500 were sold with the
following result:
s sss esai brought - ssat AMID AMID SsSf
Chestnut - 2.u23 and 2.l5
Base Ball continues to be the leading matter
in the record ofsports and pastimes. On We'd
nesday afternoon last, 10000 persons assem-
abled at Melrose, Westchester County, to see
the contest between the Atlantics of Brooklyn,
(the champion club of the United States) and
the Unions of the verdant town of Morrisania.
The Western Railroad Company run special
train to accommodate the rush from the city.
The Unions were victorious The Atlantics
feled handsomely, as usual, but the batting
against them was tremendous. The Unions
have been persistently trying to accomplish
this victory tor a number of seasons, and have
at last succeeded. OF course the Atlantics are
disappointed after such q victorious record as
they have accomplished all over the country.
{ The attention of the people of New York
and Brooklyn has recently been directed to
the general neglect of harbor and pier accomo-
dations for the immense commerce that GEN.
tres here. Two recent accidents in He'll Gate
by which two steamers, crowded with passen-
gers, stove holes in their bottoms by touching
the rocks, and were obliged to be beached to
save life, show criminal neglect in not clearing
out that tortuous passage. Then the encroach-
ments on both sides of East and North Rivers
under the old Dutch system of dumping every
thing into the channel to raise foot of land
out OF the water, is rendering the harbor of
New YOrk worse and worse every year. The
fact that Sandy Hook is slowly stretching ont
into the harbor at the rate of mile in sixteen
years, is attributed to the retaining of land
instead of the formation of extensive wet ba-
sins. A point north of Sandy Hook. which.
thirty years ago, according to the soundings of
Capt. Gedney, had 40 feet of water on II. is
now scarcely covered at low water In Brook
Ign the whole water front of East River is COW |
pred with warehouses and buildings of various
kinds, walling out commerce and showing that |
commercial intercourse with the outer world |
was the last thing thought of in building up |
Brooklyn. Recently these Instructions in |
Brooklyn have been declared nuisance, and |
is hoped this magnificent waterfront will 4
ret be reclaimed even if it cost millions of dol
airs. What is wanted here is a system of solid |
md substantial docks like those of Liyernool
md London. The miserable piers that now |
Inc East and North Rivers are a DISGRACE to
ne people of this great comm ercial mart
mere are'in New York at all times about 800
oo tons OF Slipping, at old rotten, crazy piers.
n steps h'led with black, greasy mud, and the
rthy. deoris OF the city. Nobody thinks of
'aliding new spiers Or repairing the old ones.
1ooapiy the corporation supposed if the old
uhBen, rat-hole, Fulton and Washington
markets, will do for keeping the citizens pro-
1sions, the rotten piers will do for the ships.
iswell to mention, however, that private
nterprise is doing something in the right d.
eetion. The NJ. Central Railroad Co. and
ne American Dock Co. hold waterfront on
ne Jersey side of over three miles, including
mat is known as the Communipaw Cove
iere is an excellent location for foreign ship