Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-11-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The -TWeed-VanderbiI
Business-The Weather.
THE ELECTIONS.

AeSelpt Vi nOteS every nOur from your Joe
ular Democratic friends, asking how you
like it Does your Democratic neighbol
slap your back with vigor unknown 10
former years & remark Things have kind
o changed. amt they ?' That is what is
affecting the Republicans of New York
just now. A more hilarious, jolly set oi
men than the Democracy are not in ex-
istence. The enormous majority given to
the Democracy in this city is easily ex-
planned. A vast number of Republicans
the best and hardest working Republi-
cans formerly-voted deliberately and in
cool blood, for Tilden and the Democrat
ic ticket. They did this not because
they have lost their Republicanism and
propose to go into the Democratic party
but because they believe that the leader
ship of the party has fallen into bad
hands, and that rebuke is necessary =
One solid substantial merchant, who has
always given literally of his time and
money to the Republican cause, told me
the day before election, that he should
vote the straight Democratic ticket
"Your reason ?" asked
Because" was his reply, "it is time to
slap somebody in the face. Tho good
old party has gone astray. We promised
civil reform, and we have not done a
thing in that direction. We promised
the settlement of affairs in the South, and
anarchy reigns there. We pledged our
selves TO purity in the administration of
affairs, and 10 Ben. Butler runs the ap-
pointing power Simmons was made
Collector of the Port of Boston against
the protest of every merchant of that city.
Shepherd is in favor in Washington, and,
in short, the buzzards, the camp follow
ers, the brigands of the party are too
close to headquarters. I am goingsto
vote with the Democracy just this once,
as note of warning"
As this man did, so did thousands of
others. The Republicans of the city felt
that change was necessary-that within
the party evils had grown up that re-
quired radical and very severe treatment,
And SO they either voted the Democratic
ticket, or refused to vote at all.
The Democracy are just as jubilant as
men can be. The Manhattan Club,
which is the headquarters of the leaders
of the organization, was, on Friday night
a scene of revelry of the widest possible
kind. Champagne flowed freeleY, and the
more Democratic Acknowledgements as
common as water. Thurman, of Ohio,
made a speech, as did Tilden and the
other magnates.
No wonder they feel jubilant. They
see ahead of them long vista Of good
things. They see in this triumph the
election of Democratic President in
1876, which gives unto them the uncheek-
ed control of the city, the State, the
whole country. Through the minds OF
these men float visions of positions of
trust unhampered, and Of plunder uplim-
tied. They see in the Immediate future a
revival of the glorious days of Tammany,
when the great city bound hand and foot,
was in their hands, bleeding money at
every pore. They see the revival of the
Amerlcus Club, with its gang of jolly
rovsterers of the old Tweed times E; in
brief, when every man who could control
ffty votes had his hands ID the treasury,
elbow deep. And, by the way,
BOSS TWEED
is the most jubilant man living. He ex-
poets an early pardon and quick deliver
ance from his bonds. The old man chates
under his confinement now more than
ever. He wants to be out, Now that the
Democracy have made the world fit for
him to hustle in, he wants to be in po-
sition to hustle. He knows very well
that the Democracy will need him and
that now that they have the power, they
will not permit him to languish in bonds.
Possibly when Tweed gets out, and
gets his hands on the wires once more,
the Republicans y no were so fast to vote
for Tilden may conclude that it would
have been better to have borne the ills
they had than fly to those they knew not
of New York will taste the sweets OF
ring rule once more, sure. What short
memories men have.
soMEFHING ABOUT VANDERBILT.
Gladly, oh how gladly, dol turn my
eyes from the political field in any other
direction. Who is there on this side OF
the water, who has not heard of Wander
bilt the railroad king ? Would you
know something more of him Well,
the old gentleman is now eighty two
years of age and is as strong and vlgor-
GUS as ever, or, at least. he does as much
work as he ever did. He has outliyed all
his contemporaries. The great bulk of
his enormous fortune he has made within
the last ten years. When he bought Har-
lem stock 1t was down-worth nothing
he made it valuable. To make it more
valuable he got control of its only rival,
the Hudson River, and tc make that
Just as profitable as it could be he COB
bled the Central. And then to give the
Central proper Western outlet he took
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.
Having direct line to Chicago the Com
modore adopted one idea, viz that the
only points to be considered were New
York and Chicago, and whoever interfer-
ed with this notion was remorselessly
killed. Erastus Corning made a fightfor
Albany, and he went under Dean
Richmond made fight for Buffalo, and
he was swamped. And what is true of
Richmond tnd Corning is true OF every
body who has ever come in his way.
In the course of nature he cannot long
hold out, and it is some interest to know
of the people who are to inherit his vast
estate and vast power He had thirteen
children. The oldest IS the wife of j. NJ.
Cross, Esq, of this city the next is the
wife ofD B. Allen Ethelinda Eliza mar
ried broker, Osgood, and Emily is the
wife of W. K. Throne. Next after the
four girls came boy, he was named
William. "Billy," as he is famIliarly
known, is his fathers lieutenant in the
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