Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-02
Our Chicago Letter.
From our own Correspondent.
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CHICAGO. Oct. 26th, 1867.
An unusually pleasant and temperate sum
mer has given place to the miidest of autumns.
and brought a bounti!ul harvest Chicago, the
great metropolis of the prairies and the lakes
the city of thirty years-is to-day in her glory
The princely product of ten thousand wheat
fields is flowing into her elevators, and the
scalpers on Change are active. These men are
peculiar specimens OF the genus 0 n ); and We
are cursed wi h eighteen hundred of them, &C.
cOrding TO the roll book of the Board Of trade
They meet in noisy combat every forenoon at
the Chamber Of Commerce, for the express pur-
pose of fleeing and being fleeced. In the even
ing the bar room of the Sherman House enjoys
their presence ard patronage B.tween them
and the transportation companies the producer
gets tNt small share of what is his due and
the consumer pays enormously for what the
necessities of life demand. But thanks to
kind Providence, the harvest of the west is
large this fall, large enough for producers,
scalpers, middlem en- and consumers. Let us
give thanks with glad hearts when Thanksgiv-
ing day comes, and eat our turkey with some
what of the old relish. And then we can enjoy
the ''holly and ms;lrtoe' Of Christmas.
Chicago has a new sensation, and the daily
papers are in clover A few days since the
workmrn at the Washington street tunnel ex-
humed a skel, ton, one of the men cutting off
its ghastly head with his spade, while the skull
rolled down the excavation. The remains were
inn ediately covered up and the police sent for
Afterwards it tran-pired that directly over the
spot, about ten years ago, stood a well-known
house of prostitution, and that murder had
been committed there one night tae victim or
the guilty party to which crime could never be
found. With this foundation for q sensation,
the lovers of the horrible are spreading tie
news from mouth to mouth. The whole affair
is dark mystery ard Will bear investigation.
Referring to the tunncl leads us TO say few
words about it. Your readers are probably
aware that al the completion of the Lake Tun-
nei the city falhers proposed to cut a tunnel
uuder the south branch of the river, at Wash
ingtOn street, for the passage of vehicles and
pedestrians. After several failures, the work is
now progressing rapidly, and will probably be
finished some time next year. About two
hundred men are continually employed on the
excavation, besides about fifty teams. The
clay is used in filing in streets that are being
raised to grade, and thus subservcs double
purpose. Hundreds of visitors may be seen
daily examining this great work-aIdermen
from other cities, engineers from all over the
world, and citizens anxious to post themselves
in the art of modern improvement This work
is second only TO the one just completed so
succcssfully-the great lake tunnel-of which l
shall speak in a future letter.
Max StrakOSh inaugerates a very brilliant
season of Italian opcri at the Crosby Opera
House next week, with Brignoi and LeGrange
in the leading roles Edwin Adams is at Nc
Vickers theatre playing very successful en-
gagement, which, however, soon terminates
At Col Woods Museum will soon appear the
old-time stock company-once so great favor
ites-the members OF which have been induced
to retar1 by the new management. They will
open on Mondhy night in '~The Ticket of Leave
nightly at their cozy little hall on Washington
street. The coming winter promises to be
very gay one in the world of amusements
There will be three covered skating rinks, be-
sides the Central and other oren-air parks
Since sl.e late prize fight between Dorney
and Fitzgerald, the city has been infested by
gang of the ''fancy,' in high top boots jockey
hats, diamond pins, and general contour that
honest men would shrink from at one o'clock
IN the morning. They lounge around the Dear
born Street ''slums," or stand On the steps Of
the fremont and Matteson houses, 10 insult re-
spectacle women, who are so unfortunate as TO
come that way. Strange enough, the police do
not seem anxious to moest them. Perhaps
they fear the seven shooters that lie just beneath
their coats. AS city we are terribly cursed
with this class of vermin-who are known at
the police court as respectable vagrants" o!
when shall we be rid of them! 1 will speak
more of their habits and haunts next week,
subscribing myself meanwhile
Your Ow1 FUGAcEs.
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