New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-25
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
iepeciai Correspondence Of the Republican
.tE New YORK, September IL, 1865.

lspecial Correspondence Of the Republican,
ss4 NEW YoRE, September II, 1865,
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
A trip to Newark, New Jersey, during
the past week has enabled me to observe
the increasing prosperity and enterprise
Of its Inhabitants. Within few years it
has grown from small town to a city of
100000 inhabitants. Its manufactures OF
woolen and cotton goods and other COM
modities are extensive. Its parks, public
buildings and private residences exhibit
much taste and refinement. The throng OF
pedestrians through its principal thorough
fares remind one Of New York city, though
on smaller scale. 8
Trains of Cars to and from New York
are constantly arriving and departing,
sometimes two or three per hour, and per-
form the trip to Jersey City in less than
half an hour-distance ten miles. Life
and activity are visible at every
with our Southern towns and cities.
But we hope the contrast will
not continue long, and that after the COM
ing election, when peace and order shall
be restored, and safety of life and property
established, the capitalists and enterprising
men of the North will rush in and find new
channels for their surplus wealth and ener-
| gies, and the now desert South will once
more begin to bud and bloom as the rose,
and a new era be opened in her history.
This must sooner or later be the case, and
nothing has SO much retarded the COM
mencement of that era as the madness OF
her Hotspurs and the ambition of her poll
ticians, who would see the whole country
laid in ruins rather than yield the power
and influence they have so long welded,
and see it pass into the hands of others, or
even permit them to participate with them
on equal terms. But, g,tern Deus r,th per-
dere, prints deme1atot seems to be feartuliy
realized in them, and those who follow
their behests.
The dry goods season has set in in good
earnest; the large houses in this city are
; overwhelmed with business, chiefly, how
ever, with the West, as the South is over
looked in the race. The arrivals at the
; hotels, which in former times had a pre-
ponderence of Southerners, are now
chiefly from the great and growing West,
and the hotels are filled to overiowing.
A visit to the gold and stock exchange is
> novelty to a stranger, though just al
present there is not the usual excitement
manifested which sometimes prevails
e Until year OF so these boards were con-
X Quoted in private and all strangers ex-
e oluded, but now they are open TO visitors
and beholders. A perfect jargon Of uuin
telligible bawling prevails number O
buyers ahd sellers all calling at the sam'
time at the top of their voice, so that one &
short distance off might suppose himself in
I in the nighborhood Of a school Of disorder
ly boys during recess.
o 1t is impossible for the uninitiated TO un
I derstand what is said. In the gold ex
!. change an index similar to the face of ;
clock, shows the rate OF the last sale, whicl
~ is made to change as the price changes
Yesterday it stood at 144l, where it hs
o been, with slight variations, for seVerr
: days.
The people here seem to be settlin
down iHto the convection that Grant is to b
,f the coming man, and that his election by
- large majority is an inevitable conclusion
'9 The real conservatives regard it as the onl
: safe course to heal divisions and give peaC
to the country. "Let us have peace
d the great desire and wish. $50 mote il be
AMIGO.