Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-01-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
our NEW york LETTER.

| THE WORKING MEN.
New York. jan. 10, 1874
THE WEATHER STREET CLEANING.
Drizzle. drizzle, pour. These four words
express accurately the weather that the
city has been favored with for week. A
steady, soaking, pouring rain IA rain that
Kept the cutters full. aud the streets swim
ming, made New York the mUst uncoin-
fnrlabe place in the world. The fashion
able promenades were deserted. the trade
palaces were empty, and the pretty clerks
who part their hair in the middle, had
nothing to do but To hatten their sweet
noses against the damp panes, looking and
! longing Tor the buyer who came not. But
the fierce rain was u good thing for New
York, for it cleaned the streets. The
streets are only cleaned by the rain. The
city pays an enormous sum every month
fur street cleaning. but none of it is ever
done. The contractors appear promptly
the first ofeach month. draw their money,
aud go their way inyfully, and the city
swims in Nth, till a great rain washes it
out into the rivers. Then the stones i'm the
| payment show their heads, the CUTTERS
smell little less like pest-houses. aud for
a few days. the man who has Il nose finds
life endurable. New York is al waysthank-
fu for IL good rain.
MR.. SHERIFF BRENNAN's LITTLE TRoU.
! BILE.
The Tammanyites are in more serious
frame uf mind than they have beeu since
the beginning OF their troubles. Mr..
Snerilr brennan is the present toad under
! the legal harrow. The escape of Harry
Genet was considered by Tamnany one
of the most exquisite jokes uf the season.
mere mention Of it was sufficient u pro-
ducc loud outlaws. and when a ring striker
met any one connected with The sheritfrs
Office. II was made the occasion OF many
lncOse wiuks and much hilarious rib punch
ing. Brennan was the hero of the rum.
mills, aud was the especial admiration oi
every bruken-nused rutiian in the city.
But Judge Daniels put sudden stop to
all this pleasantly; for behold you, he
pulled Sheriff Brennan-he adjuds sed him
guilty OF culiteinpt of court in permitting
his prisoner 10 escape. aud he lined him
SloO, aud, in addition, sent him u Jail for
thirty days, this being all the penalty he
could put upon him. And more, Mr..
Sheriff Brcnnau was notified that the mo-
n,ent he had served his time out, he would
be subjected to Il criminal prosecution for
cnnniving at Genet escape, which opens
the cheerful prospect Of Sing Sing To him.
Then the jpCuiarity attendant upon this
escape ceased. The thieves did not way
J their heads ami wink their eyes at Mr..
Brennan. In Jail fol allowing a prisoner
! u escape Prepnsteruus Why the thing
had been done thousand times. But
! Judge Daniels was inllexible, and so the
doors of Ludlow street jail closed upon ,lie
| Sheriff, and the ring is quikiIg in its boots.
! The man who has done the most ol the
/ work in breaking down this malisn in
Thence is man almost unknown outside
/ the city.
MR.. II. c. ALLEN,
/ the District Attorney. Allen is n magnifi-
! cent lawyer, who, when he knows a thing
knows that he knows it. He is a man not
only Of much legal learning, but he has the
ie-al mind aud u plucky pugnacious spirit
that delights in Ell, ounters in which hard
blnws ure given aud taken. Consequently
Mr.. John Graham, who has brow beaten
every lawyer at the New York bar, and
who had cunlr.ved p,Inake than oil afraid
oil him. was astonishcd - find in District
Attorney Allen u man who could neither
DC beaten NJ the game of law, or frightened
out of any position he might assume.
Then they tried money On him, but they
found 10 their greater astpnishment an
honest official, who, in such Il matter, had
MIR. XllyTih, yThatever for money.
understand that 1Rhegrs. Reg t. gave the thieves to
that he should stay after thesihn tnem, .1i and
every one of them in the penitenLary. ~ In
/ dIew the indictment against Tweed So care
tully that mosquito could not get through
its meshes, he challenged jurors day after
day TILL he had secured an honest one then
he locked horns with j ,l:u Graham, and
! never let up ill he had John Griham's
client safe on 3lackwrl's Island in strip
ed suit. IL was he who pursued Iugersoil
to the same end, and G.net likewise aud
he IL hunting the others with equal pertina-
! city.
Mr.. Allen is man Of perhaps forty, with
an honest pleasant face, tia. reIniuds one
Ofa ""nd-nlturpd bulldog. lie is y uni.
We sal avOrite all social i, g. He is DOS
sess,d of Il keen Ait, wunuertul p,w,rs of
| analysis, and what he does not know of
law n not worth knowing. lie is almost
bind. His eyes are 30 defective that to
read the c'arsest print he is compelled u
h'd the page within an inch of his eyes.
Imagine The dog Sed pei severance that has
made great lawyer OF IA man with such
eyes.
BUSINESS.
is improving rapidly. All the banking
houses that were not Rotten nave resumed
resolving with something like their old ra-
pidity. IL trans pires that the great linan-
clers VINO went down in the late tinau-
clal storm, are not down as much AS was
Thought. 1t has been published far aud
wide that Vanderbilt had lost S20, ,0GU, 900,
and was crippled. IL is true he would
have lost large sum, probably not as
much as that, but enough IL have hurt him,
had nc not acknowledgement all the stncks
he held. Owning them, iheir going up or
down made nn difference To him. But the
old fox did very brilliant thing. lie not
only held ON t0 all that he had. but when
prices struck bottom (and he knew when
the bottom was struck, he commenced
buying all that offered. Tue rise on the
stncks he bought when they Were at the
lowest. will make goo all MS losses, and
eventually leave him large bilance.
Drew is damaged somewhat, but he mau-
aged. as the old ielL'w always does. to
shoye the loss oil upnA others.
Whenever he is loaded down with stock
that is certain to go down, no immediately
goes tn his nearest frienls. and cOnIiden-
TALLY advises them to buy that particular
stock, assuring them that rise in il Is Ger
llI A ,s.I,s.., At