Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-12-28
OUR NEW YORKLETTlER.
NEW York. Dec. is Ia7

New YORK, Dec. Is 1871.
1t is pitiable to see how strangers il
New York are every month swallowed
upby the Unsuitable monster whose abid
ing place is "down among the docks
They arrive, register at the hotels
Estroll out at night and disappear for
ever from the scenes of life. A day OF
two afterwards, you read i'll the papers
that the body of an unknown person is
awaiting recognition in the Morgue
Perhaps it hts been rified by the river
thieves and is Scared all over with the
marks of the murderer; perhaps the
death was accidental. Friends come,
identify what is left of the poor human
ity, and the public learn for the first
time the stlry of the corpse found drift
ing among the piers. But yesterday II
was William NJ. Hall, a Massachusetts,
merchant, with his pockets sho wing q
wealth of Sevepty-seyen thousand dol
lars. At night a cry of help was heard
"a splash-a gurgle. All the rest Is
mystery. So others are lost elsewhere
| in the eddying crowds almost every
day. An old man is found wandering
wildly around an uptown depot. a
kind-hearted policeman carries him &c
the hospital. In few hours he is cof-
| fined and ready for burial. The dead
man was q distinguished citizen Of
Vermont, and the compeer Of many oi
her statesmen. Within week Mr..
w. H. Ramsey, a prominent railroad
official and lawyer, left the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel at night, and the next thing
known of him was through the recog-
milton of his body on the -Morgue' On
| ~ to-day, 5. b. Huntington, once can-
didate for Mayor of San Francisco, was
found floating in the East River. How
many Others find their moral death
and are engulphed in the great whirl-
pool of New York crime, God only
knows. But their name is legion.
THE INTERNATIoNALs.
The sensation of the hour, albeit it is
confined to single class, is the contest
between the InternatiOHals of the city
and the police authorities, the question
at issue beng the right of the former
association TO parade in memory OF the
death of Gen. Rossel and other MEM
bers of their order, recently executed
in Paris. A procession last Sunday
was peremptorily forbidden, but since
then exciting meetings have been held
and threats made, which promise to
give trouble. 1t is claimed that one
body of citizens possesses as much right
to engage in public demonstrations as
another and that law and precedent
sustain their demand. Should the
parade take place on Sunday next,
contrary to the order of to the Governor
and of the Commissioners of Police,
there may be bloody riot; but if they
be conceded, the workingmen will win
a moral victory that win ensure greater
cohesiveness than heretofore N all of
their organizations.
SPIRITUALISM
again looms up in public places. Two
brothers are giving curious exhibitions
at one of the theaters, wherein strange
hands and faces are made to appear
from a wardrobe, the only occupant of
which are the brothers afOrsaid secure
ly fastened down, with their limbs in
wooden stocks. Bells and musical in
struments meanwhile play a spiritual
chorus. At Henry Ward Beecher's
church, too, tables, shoes and other OBJ
jects have been moved on the platform
during the sermon, and in the presence
of the congregation. ApropOs of the
subject, it Is grlvely goSsiped that
Stewart 8 magnificent private establish
ment on Fifth avenue is haunted, and
hence that the millionaire refuses to Oc-
cupy it. Mr.. Stewart is, just now, do
ing such good with his money as to be
entitled only to the most exemplary
ghosts, and it is these, ifany, which
are dancing attendance on his ispremiseS.
The political attitude of the city
Journals at the present juncture is cur
iOus one. There is not one of the pa
pers that does not accept President
Grant as the next nominee, cum grdlOl
sails, bat the majority of them show
disposition either to wait upon evensl
or entirely throw him overheard. Thel
Sun makes its .usua antagOniStic tilt5.
EVERYBODY expects it from Charles Dana
The Herald wavers in its allegiance,
but perceptibly.leans against the pres
ent incumbent. The Times is stifily in
his favor, with saving claus |
es sprinkled throughout its editorials,
willis the HorLd and Tribune, so usual
Iy antidipodean in their principles,
unite for the nonce in demanding a !
gigantic reform that shall extend even
to the chair of the chief magistrate.
Judging from the tone of articles EVIL
cry morning published, the idea Of im-
peachment is not entirely sensational,
and, whatever may be his faults or vir-
tues, General Grant may yet be called
upon to answer to the allegations of
Charles Summer and score Of his once
best friends, Nous Ue7T0ns-