The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-08-25
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

Correspondence of the journal.

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New YORK, Aug. 21
DEAR Journal | doubt not that all the
men, woman and children in this city feel in
their hearts a sense of neutrality-suspicious.
for little air that is not "red hot,' like
Brick Pomeroy's democracy. For four long
months it has seemed rs though the air was
breathed upon Us from an immense furnace.
Scalding, burning, stcaming, it has seemed
rs if all humanity must melt away | re-
member Of reading, when n boy, of Il certain
animal called a salamander, which was said
to live in the fire, and my young imagination
tried to picture what kind of a thing it could
below it could thus live and not feel too
warm for its personal comfort. | came al
length to doubt the whole salamander story.
But then had not lived through such a sum
mer rs this in New York, for if had there
would never have been lingering doubt as
to the heat enduring powers OF the salaman-
der-or any other man.
Could you see the way in which many OF
the people in this city live, you would be sur
prised-not that they die, but that they live
at all. For instance, the large Numbers who
live in tenement houses. These are long
large brick buildings, five, six and seven
stories high, looking like immense factories,
They are great human hives, filled from base
ment to garret-with often enough under one
roof to make a population for n town, res
peetable so far as numbers go Here they
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family cooking, eating and sleeping in the
same roonl-breathing an atmosphere tainted
with II thousand stenchcs, all mingled to-
gcther And the moral surroundings are no
that these tenement houses are nurseries of
disease and vice, of death and crime They
are a blot upon onr American civilization
and the man who shall remove this evil from
us will deserve to have hi, name stand high
on the roll Of usefulness and honor. The
owners OF these houses live upon Fifth
Avenue and other fashionable streets, i'm
Crown stone houses, keep their carriages and
llvcricd servants, and roll in luxury Steep
Ell in aVarlce, what care they for the miscries
they nilict upon the bodies ana souls Of men
and women. On Sundays they make great
parade of piety in the fashionable churches,
their sanctimonious souls breathing unctuous
prayers. On the subscription list their names
are set against large sums for benevolent
and Christian purposes, which will give them
notoriety These men give literally for the
heather in Africa, or the freedmen in the
South. But this money is only The price of
making heather and worse than Africans of
their own near neighbors These things,
and others like them, are apt to make Ils lose
faith in lto1tS human nature.
THE NATHAN MURDER
has almost come to be II nine days won der
No tangible clue has yet been found to this
strange and terrible crime, As to the perpe-
traitor. 1t would hardly seem possible that
this murder could be committed, under the
circumstances, without detection Mr. Ma
than was murdered in his own house, near
the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twentv-third
street one Of the most fashionable and
crowded localities in the city, with his two
sons and two servants in the house ut the
time. A terrible struggle between the
murdered man and his assassin takes place
the safe is opened and rohbed-thc muir
derer and robber cscapcs-and none of the
other inmates of the house are awakened.
The greatest efforts on the part of the city
authorities and others have been made to
unravel this crime, but so far without avail
Forty seven thousand dollars in rewards
have been offered by the city, by the Brokers
Board, and by the family. Every imagin-
able theory has been formed. Investigated
and exploded. And, so far as is now known
the awful secret of this crime is locked up in
the breast of the murderer.
The PRussIAN AND FRENCH WAR
is now the great excitement in New York.
Everybody takes I'M interest in the great
struggle, which by means of the ocean telc-
graph is brought very near to Us. People
stand in crowds about the bulletin boards, to
catch the latest news, and give expression
to their feelings. rs it is for on against their
side. | say 'their side" for everybody has
taken sides, either for the French or Prus-
SLAMS, and very strongly, too-although but
few except the Germans and French them