, 1872-10-31
NEW YORK.
The Horse Finds Ekegf---
New York Politics.
Grant 1Ien and the New Cabinet--
Talks with Washburne and
Wilson.

talks With MaShburne and
Wilson.
From Or 0.on Correspondent.
New YoRK, Oct. q, 1872.
1carne over from Washington to New York last
Thursday, and found four days of rain, and no
horses abroad. That is, the few horses On duty
nade the absence Of the species manifest. The
haekman was now a lonely creature, and the
probability OF also losing the beast which had
been spared to him made him nearly gentle
man, and he stroled the poor quadruped with
that unwanted compassion, born Of interest,
which the negro-trader sometimes showed as his
ehattel plned, approaching the market.
TIE HoRsE RESIGNS.
The horse Was on strike, all over tho great
city. Nature had permitted him to preach ser
mon to man, and attest the blank in human atfairs
which his extinction would produce. He Was
dumb and he opened not his mouth, but there
Was no need of speech to tell his
loss. The crowded lanes in the business
part Of the city we're like Venitian
alleys, teeming with men, but barren OF wheels
or the CHEEKY cry Of drivers. Man, instead, was
pushing in the shafts Of the barrow thinking,
perhaps, that, in the common need Of draught-
animals, he might be compelled to submit to
dogging, as the horse's substitute. At the
Broadway corners, tile people waited in groups
an1iouEly and with disappointment, counting
the infrequent omnibuses. The cab-stands Tere
vacant; the blacksmiths were idle; the veteri-
n1ry quack became an important parsonage As
much space Was given in the prints to the Eor-
rows OF the stables, as if human plague had
apread over society and the hospitals we're full
80 unforeseen, SO awkward, so calamitous an af-
diction, the great hive Of the busiest Of man
k,nd had not known. And many who were per-
picked BY this unwonted deprivation perhaps
reflected upon the dependence of man, and tie
uncertainties OF the commoneBt sources of help.
With dogs mad, horses laid up, COWS diseased,
and hens refusing, after the prevailing fashion,
to assume the duties Of maternity, what would
become of mai? When the horse abdicales,
man is an ass, and the shoemaker an architect.
Such is lifei
BELMONT.
society-that pudding where the rlums are
changed every day--is in state Of owlish III
great horse-fancier, August Belmont, is about
his family.
al=s. Smith tells it to Mrs. Jones, who starts
an unpremeditated Whopper on the face Of it,
because gossip and lying are to each other like
bud and blossom. Given confidential social
talk Of this kind, and a third person for
the object, and the devil at once sharpens his
QG4~+4 W AdaC ILL., 0AuA1 14tAALlu4S& Ak
the club, talks it over to lIr. Jones, and sauces
the incident with sour philosophy. Says
Smith:
SIZE leaves New York because he is Disguised
ards Of reference in finance, politics. and patriot
isrn: Belmont quits us because he don't want to
get blue by looking at the thing"
Its hoEse,' says Jones. - He has spent q
tugf, Ike Baron Rotbschi1d. ali is vanity.
saith the preacher and, when one weariea Of
the horse as recreation, there is no more Of
life to live"
Mr. Belmont probably goes abroad because the
ladies' of the household are weary of housekeep-
ing end the drrdgery it entails; because the So
cial life Of Europe is less race than with us;
because the banker is growing old, and the
breaking up OF daily associations is in itself re-
Lief and rest; and, lastly, because nobody has
earned better right, by application, success,
and the nee Of money for hospitable aad ele-
Eafea purposes. He has been agenerous patron
Of the a4d Rda Na II &fea pa created M the
"syndicated," nor covered Washington with lob |
by--unnerg. In politics, he did his best to keep
the Democratic party out OF the River Tweed.
Two years ago, Bill Tweed, supported by ma
tezial part Of the New York Democracy, tried to
tion2. Committee. The effort failed, but Tweed I
had already injected the whole body of the party
il New York with poison. The period OF AIr. |
E:lmonfs departure is that Of chaos, with all
bccods on the face Of the deep. He is to be ab- |
sent three years. All! in three years what may
not be?
TEE DRIFT OF PUBLIC LIFE. I
The Indications seem to be in this city that !
EavemeFer: ex.1faror, viii be elected, it Mur- |
phy,> Weed, and Tweed together can do it. This |
will be one Of elf-defence and gen |
eral public spirit in Grants interest," to prevent
The Democratic candidate, Abraham r. Law
1ence would be generally voted for, if it Was not
feared that the Irish vote WAS being spirited
away from him to O'Brien. The latter is accus-
1n$ TIE era2f people OF playing fast and loose
OBrien better than from Tweed He ia Tweed,
with the rufian element added.
Roscoe Conkling says that the late elections
prove that the newspaper-press has been COM
pletely put down in this country. This, We are
10 suppose. is one Of Grants victories. He has
overcome the decencies Of Ife Like grizzly
bear eating up an inhabited beehive. But the
bees will sting their way out. # not, We sympa-
CHANGES At wAsuEoToS
General Bristow will tender his resignation
zfter the election, and will take q financial and
legal place IN association with the Texas rail
1eys.
Simon Cameron has "gone back" on J. 4. J.
Creswell, and, in the event Of Grants re-elec-
hon, Will press another person for Postmaster
i c1esTen re vas originally appointed by
ne request OF Ben Wade, Cameron consenting.
- "3A1A1t43G Ap NhtA4S LIZ fo13i A431 atA- |
In-la|, to succeed himself in the Senate
The small-talk about change in the New
York IEzbxne appears to hare arisen from some
desire Of the pin-maker, Aver, to get into Con-
gress on the regular nomination "lay." To
NEEDLE with newspapers is the latest Of Ayers
remedies.
War has been declared By the politicians
against General Belknap, because he would not
prostitute his elvated position to take the stump
and perambulate for Grant. Fish is also de-
,laimed against. Williams, it is thought, must
Hide. 50 well. Here is the latest slate for tho
aew Cabinet, if Grant be his own repeater:
State Department-Edward Pierrepoiut or
Daniel E. Sckles, New York.
Postal Department-Jake Harlan, Iowa.
va, Department -Ellihu Washbu1ne. Illinois.
Navy Department-George N. Robeson, New
Jersey.
Interior Department George q. Stuart. Penn
'ylvania.
Attorney General Thomas Settle, North Car
,lina
Solicitor General-John A. Harlan, Kentucky.
Treasury Department-Geozge F. Boutwell,,
Foreign missions are thus distributed BY the
siseacres at the Fifth Avenue Hotel: England,
!. G. schenk France, Andrew White Russia, |
Wayne McVeigh; Sweden, Chicagoite. There
ppeaIa to be good deal Of New York in the
boye List. Amongst noted points Of policy are
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