New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-30
SARATOGA.
What the New York Riot Has DOne-The
Presidential Death of Hoffman-The
Viaduct Railroad Swindle Gambling
i'm Saratoga-Your Southern Horse
Observation-Disclosures and Fun-A New
SuriuU

Viaduct Railroad Swindle Gambling
i'm Saratoga-Your Southern Horse
LongfeilOw-Fashion and Fun-A New
Spring.
Special Correspondence of the Republican,
CONGRESS HALL, July "a, 1871.
The few letters which have written for
the REPUBLICAN have been so widely
copied throughout the North, that l find
myself pressed On all sides to write letters
nearer home.
In my last from New York l fore
shadowed the riot, which came as / pre-
dicted, and deluged Eighth avenue in
blood. But the results have been good.
The native Americans begin to see their
danger, and organizations have com
menced which may change the result of
the Presidential election. Kelso and Hall
bowed before the Catholic Irish, Hoffman
saw their failure and came out for free
speech and free procession. The result is,
Hoffman is no longer loved by the Irish in
New York city. Not an Irishman would
vote for him now, and it would be foolish
for the Democratic party to nominate man
who would not carry the city. The riot
killed Hoffman Presidentially-and raised
the chances of Governor Randolph of New
Jersey, who is quite man at present.
The next big swindle which will be de-
veloped in New York, will be the viaduct
railroad humbug. The bottom to this sense
less scheme will soon drop out-as soon as
Sweeney, Tweed, Connolly, and the rest OF
the ring have sold their up town real estate.
SARATOGA.
Here / am, in the whirl of fashion, at the
king watering place of America. Long
Branch, Saratoga and Newport are the
fashionable trinity but Saratoga is more
like Baden-Baden than any of them. Nor
risey's gifted ged helr'-to use the Ian
guage of the new departure" poets one
of the features of Saratoga. The building
is simply gorgeous in its appointments. The
games are trente-qtardltte, rouge ct noir, rou-
lette and faro. Among the stockholders of
the club-room are Leonard Jerome, William
Traverse, August Belmont and John Hun
ter-the four king sports of America.
Your Southern horse LongfellOw, owned
by old John Harper, that hOmespun wizard
of Kentucky, has won his fifth race. 1t was
a terrible race when he met Belmont's
Kingfisher in a tive mile and quarter run
last week, but the old wizard won the race,
and the two giants of the turf are now train
ing for the great four-mile race here on the
sixteenth of August. Harper has refused
$4,000 for Longfellow.
why don't YOU take it e. asked John
Butord
well, reckon l can make more money
by taking old Long Back TO Kentuck," re-
piled Harper. You see l want to get my
woods full of the stock; then I'll be willing
TO part with the hoss.
Twelve thousand guests are now at the
springs. Congress Hall is the best hotel,
and is patronized by the elite. The Grand
Union is filed with the racing crowd, Or as
General Buford calls them, 1.-The id vul-
garians."
DRESSING.
There is not so much dressing here as on
former years. Ladies now dress plainly,
seldom making full dress toilets. The dress
ing is left to the shoddy and demi-mOnde, as
it is in Baden-Baden. Gentlemen wear
light gray slouch hats, with feathers and
wells at the races, and even velvet coats and
red neckties, but the ladies appear in sombre
gray.
A NEW SPRING.
A new spring, the Indian" commenced
spouting twenty feet into the air from the
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