The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-19

4 Cure for BoaTbonisns s-Sunnler Holidays-
about the Courts-Th New Post Office East
and Vest.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 1862
To the Editor Of the Press:
Perhaps ought after the manner of cor
respondents in general, to write you letter
filed with all manner of spicy gossip from the
watering places, and with that personal chit
chat about ones neighbors which we all have
such weakness for. However, as l have
not found time to get out OF the city for sin
Gle day, your readers must be content with
the item or two which / have cleaned from
the streets of the tired and heated town.
l must tell you, though, one little story
which comes from that favorite resort of the
South-White Sulphur Sprir gs. My nara
tor is staunch Democrat who says that he
is charged at home with being coppery. He
avers however, that after coupe of weeks
at the Springs, there isn't much copper lett
in him, and that be wants the Republican
party to rule the country awhile longer. He
found the men talking quite reasonably, but
the women most terribly vindctive and bit
Ter upon everything Yankee. Pennsylvania
an and Democrat as he was, he found him
self upholding Yankee-dom in manner quite
surprising to him. Perhaps it would be worth
your while to give some OF the hard heads ir
Mai le trip to that resort, aud as il is an ex-
ceedingly temperate place, a few OF the Hich-
born men might be persuaded to try it also.
SUMMER HOLIDAY.
One would almost think from the talk
around him that most people in Gotham work
at ievered speed during ilty weeks in the
year to get two weeks vacation at this sea
son,-lucky it they are not cut short of even
so much. | believe that in Stewards and ma
ny of the other large houses ten days is all
that is allowed, and this little rest is drawing
to close, for the fall trade is beginning, as a
look among the jobbers and importers will
show.
ABOUT THE COURTS.
Despite its being vacation in the Courts the
irrepressible Fisk, Jr., manages to make
things pretty lively, and profitable, too, for
the Big fish among the lawyers. The small
ones stand no show In these great railroad
fights. see you have teiegrsphic reports OF
the doing in the Albany and Sesquehanna
imbroglio, with the unseemly spectacle, now
quite too common. of Judges issuing cashing
orders, and setting aside each others DEGREES
with the utmost facility.
Let me caution you, however, that the tel
egraphic and newspaper reports OF the con-
fict are anything but reliable, mainly becaus q
they only tell part of the story-the whole of
it being known to but few, and it not being
for their interest 10 be over-communicative.
You may make one general statement as to
all these great corporation fights; that there
are two grasping and selfish parties contes-
ting for the prize, and the innocent stock
holders and public generally, are the ones
who suffer most. To be railroad director
is getting to be as dubious a position for a
man as to be member OF Congress. 5.
THE NEW POST OFFICE. 7-s.
AT last, after many delays, ground has been
broken upon the site for the new Post Office
and we hope in year or two to have decent
accommodation for the immense business
carried on by that department. There is
talk of changing the site sold by the lot tc
the government for one more suitable, but
what it will result in no one is able to say
Doubtless you have noticed that the first
spadeful in the excavation was dug by an old
employee of the Post Office who more than
forty years az used once a day to convey the
Southern mail across to the Jersey shore in a
wheel barrow! Cen anything mark the
growth of the country since better than that
With the building of the Post Office, will
vanish nearly all sigus of the City Hall Park,
What is left of it will be converted into an
open plaza and starting point for the street
railroads. 7.