Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-15
FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence of the Ohio Salesman
New York, Sept. II, 1858

H New YORK, Sept. II, 1858.
What do you think of the thermometer
being up to 81 in this latitude at this season
of the year? 1t climbed up there yester-
day, much to the astonishment and dis
comfort of the good Knickerbockers. And
to-day is as sultry as dog day, and as
much growled at. The meteorological
philosophers are studying the causes OF
this peculiar state of things. The Tribune's
weather prophet says ''the cause of the in
tense sultry and oppressive nature of the
atmosphere during the past As hours, is the
abundance of electricity in the thunder
storms that have prevailed during the
above period in the West, Northwest and
Northeast, near New York" Hasn't that |
theory something of the original? Wen
accept it till better comes, for it is, or may |
be.somewhat soothing. By-the-by, the Trtb-
ane's weather man is a decided character"
a kind of genius in his way. That is, assum-
ing that Prof Thatcher is still the man. He at
least did the weather work of that journal
for long time, and we presume does it
now. Prof. Thatcher would have made
quite show in the hand of Dickens. The
Professor may be found nearly every even
ing with big telescope in front of st.
Paul's church. Here he has been for long,
long time. He sometimes shifts his posi-
tion on the street little, but generally
prefers the shadows of the old historic
church and the monuments of that strange
graveyard-that yard of the dead, right in
the very heart of the city. The Professor
may choose this spot because of some sad
poetic thread running through his exist
ence; there may be memories, romance,
&C., &C., aud again he may choose it be-
cause it is regular eddy in the tide
of travel. Certain it is, however, that, as
we have said, the Professor is generally to
be found near the churchyard. If you
should ever chance to see him there by all
means look through the telescope and have
chat with him. Two minutes talk with
him would reveal to you veritable en-
thusiast His whole being seems to be
given to the study of the stars, the clouds,
the weather. Once in while he gives ut
terance to some strange, dreamy ideas about
spiritual things. He has a theory about
the weather, his faith in which nothing can
shake. By this he makes prophecies about
the weather for several days. These
prophecies, founded as they are upon close
observations of various phenomena, are
sometimes strangely true. These were
sometimes published in the Tribune and at
other times in the Express. So much fun
was made of these predictions by certain OF
the journals that for a time the Tribune
would publish only his record OF what had
been. But this weatherwise insight into
the future has been so often and so won-
derfully good, that some people believe
he has the germs of a science which
should not be neglected. The Professor
talks enthusiastically of day when the
thing shall be so far developed that the
whole country may be notified by tele-
graph of the approach of storm and so be
prepared for it. Professor Thatcher, what
ever his science is, in his boundless enthu-
siasm, his devotion to one idea, well worth
the profound study of those who seek to
know the oddities of human nature. He
comes, we believe, of proud family, who
are very much opposed to his style of liv-
ing-this vagabondism sort OF love of SCI
ence. -r .. av
The political thermometer also registers
high up. To use Brick Pomeroy's favorite
word, things are getting "red hot" There
is no end of political work. The campaign
promises to be memorable in the annals of
politics for long time to come. The agi-
tation is becoming more intense; what will
l. I,o,
You may rest assured that your Demo
cratic friends here are hard at work. 1t
would be useless to attempt to tell you hall
of what they have done or of work planned
for the future. They have organized a
large number of clubs, and these are being
well disciplined. Mass meetings and
speeches, there is no end of them. Demo-
Gratis of all schools-for here in the Empire
City there are Democratic schools, you
know, Tammany, Mozart, Democratic Un-
ion, &c.-are determined to do the utmost
for Seymour, Blair and Hoffman. And as
for the confidence of success-do you know
many Democrats who doubt the success OF
the cause? The Democrats are working
with such vigor and perseverance
G0dI Lue hdulcdlS are SIdTGiuS Iho Olu
cries of fraud, and all that. The Tribune
even asserts that it is reported upon good
authority that upward of 700 illegal natur-
alization papers have been issued under
the sanction of the County Judge and
County Clerk. 1t further states that the
County Republican Committee are about
to appoint a special committee to watch
this matter, who will be instructed to in
diet all who obtain naturalization papers
fraudulently. How complacently these
Radicals always assume that where politi-
cal fraud is committed it is in the interest
of the Democracy. OF course no one ever
heard of Radical committing political
torgeryI Well, we believe the Democrats
remain very good .natured under all these
charges. They are used to being called
names, you know, and then they know that
in any event New York City gives rous-
ing majority for the candidates of the De-
mocracy. . .,
Who is POsterity.
Colonel McCook said In his Fairfield
speech that he would be perfectly willing
to hand down our immense national debt
to posterity, provided "posteri.y was some
other fellow" But, said he, who is poster
itv Nome other than vOur children and