Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-05-16

and in few minutes it is as safe to go in
10 that room as it would be if the occupan
was dead. Science has thus been subor
diuated to crime as well as to Legitimate
purposes,
Their weapons of offense and defencC
are extremely ingenious. The sand bag
is simple bag filled with fine sand, with
which a terrible blow can be given with
out making any noise Then they have
long leather weapon shaped like club,
filled with the same material The jim
my which is the technical neme for a
small steel crowbar, is a terrible weapon,
in addition TO which they have the most
deadly and certain revolyers, and the most
murderous knives.
But enough of these fellows. saw
them in my own bedroom-in immagina-
tion-every night for week, after my in
terview with them.
MEAT.
New York is bothered about meat. The
dairymen for hundreds of miles about the
city, meyer keep calves, for the calf
consumes milk, which is their profit. I'm
scrupulous butchers from the city, go out
and contract them by the thousand, and
kill them when they are week or two
old, and this vile stuff IS exposed for sale
in the markets. There is law regulating
the traffic in meats, and SO much sickness
has been caused by unwholesome meats,
that the health officers have taken the
matter in hand. One day last week, seven
thousand earcasses of calves less than four
weeks old, were brought to this city. Of
course the butcher sufficiently unscTupu-
lous to sell immatured veal, would just as
quickly sell diseased meat of other kinds.
So you see, the poor people, who have to
depend upon the lower grade of butchers
and are compelled to eat cheap meat, have
an exceedingly good chance of living on
meat that will make but short stay to
life. The better class of butchers are as
honest here as they are anywhere, but
heaven help those who are obliged to de-
pend upon the lower grades.
THE FREIGHT QUESTION
is the ghost of the New York business
man, and is once more under discussion.
The trouble is terminal facilities. So long
as the Erie Canal could bring hither all
the produce of the country, it was all love
ly, but the trouble is the production has
outgrown the canal and many millions of
bushels had, per force, to go by rail. And
the railroads have no facilities for putting
it on vessels. In fact, all that comes by
rail has to be carted and handled by hand,
and the cost of this more than eats up the
profits, and is a grevious tax upon the
PRODUCER. Hence, the grain trade of the
city is being diverted to other points
Montreal, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Pennsylvania Company haye already
pushed branch to Toledo, one of the
great grain gathering points, and vast
amount of grain from that point which
formerly went to New York, goes
now to Philadelphia The Baltimore &
Ohio is pushing line TO Chicago, and
another to Toledo, to take Its share, and
he great line of propellers and sail vessels
rom Toledo to Montreal is being increas-
I'd fast as vessels can be built. And now
New York is sweating over the prospect,
and is talking of building railroads to the
water side, and all that sort of thing.
What New York will have to do TO hold
ler commercial supremacy will be to en-
arge the Erie Canal so that lake vessels
;an pass through without breaking bulk
1t Buffalo, and then for the winter traffic
get her railroads down to the docks, where
he export vessels can take grain directly
from the cars. Then, there should be
little infusion of honesty among the Off
,ials, so that the saving in facilities would
not be counterbalanced by stealings. This
would fix New York as the commercial
capital of the country forever, and moth
ng else will.
THE WEATHER.
After the worst winter and spring ever
known, we are at last seeing the sun ev-
,ry day-and it looks good, So far, for
weeks, it has been nothing but rain, rain,
ain. But Old Sol has finally got out and
New York is once more bright and beau
iful.
S dull as it can be, and the merchants
laVe given up all hope of its being any
,etter this spring. They hope for a good
all trade, bu; the spring they consider
lopeless-I guess they are right. The
people are buying just as little as possible
md paying the same way. May the change
oon come. PIETRo.
New York, May 13, 1874
BALED HAY.-The undersigned offers
or sale a quantity of Baled Hay at his
in Ashtabula, in any amount
rom 200 pounds upward.
It. JAMES PHILLIPS,