Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-22
DIR NEW YORK LETTER.

the respective combatants in this struggle
have INDUCED in. Moulton has been on
the stand, but nothing new was drawn
from him. The public know already
what he gave the court. The only i'm
portance that can be attached to his tes-
timony is that tits testimony in court,
under legal forms, with the solemnihes
OF oath, and with the penalties attached
to perjury. Before, what he said was
merely the talk of an individual-nowi it
is the solemn statement of an individual
under oath.
Plymouth Church remains true and
steadfast to Beecher. The recent sale of
pews in the church was the best express
sion of confidence the church has yet
given. The permiums ran up largely in
excess of any previous year, placing the
on better financial basis
than ever before EIr. Beecher expressed
himself highly gratified at this result, as
well he might For the enemies of
Beecher have predicted tha. the TiltOn
charges would break down and ruin the
church, and that the great body would
break up and dissolve. The sale of
peWs demonstrates that the croakers
were not prophets. Whether Beecher
is gully or not, one thing is evident
his people believe him to be innocent
and propose to stand by him. 1t is a
great thing 10 have so many fast friends.
THE COLD SNAP.
1t has been terrible cold in New York
for week, that is, cold for New York.
The thermometer has touched as low a
point as 10 deg. below zero, which is very
rare here. Cold in New York means
more than it does with you. You have
very few people in your midst who are
without the means Of getting fuel enough
to keep them warm, and if yCu have such,
they can be found and supplied. But in
the great Babel there are thousands and
tens ofthousands of unfortunate wretches
who have not The wherewith to buy fuel
at all and who get what little is necessary
to cook their wretched food by picking
up bits of coal aud wood where they can
find il. 1t is too precious to he wasted
in heat. Then as they have no clothing,
and their wreiched rooms are as open as
all out doors, their condition may be I'M
agined when the thermometer touches
the zero point Men and women have
been found frozen on the streets, and
several cases have been reported to the
of families found frozen to
death in their horrible apologies for beds,
At points on the Hudson, above New
York, the thermometer has gone as low
astwenty deg. below. Ships arriving
have come in in bad plight. The crews
of a number haYe been nearly disabled
by cold.
A sHREwD DODGE.
For number of years A. T. Stewart,
the merchant prince, has had in course
of erection, an enormous building on 4th
avenue corner of 34th, which he gave
out, or permitted it TO be given out, was
for q Home for Working Wo-
men. The whole city threw up its hat
at this municifcent gift to Humanity,
and from Maine TO Texas the trumpet of
the philanthropist was sounded. The.
building progress d very slowly, and is
now far from finished. Now the story
is current that il was never intended for
Working WOmen's Home, at all, but that
it was to be finished for a hOtel-a man.
moth and BrobIndignagian HOtel-One
that will eclipse ali those farther down
town. If this be true Stewart is dOdg-
or of the shrewdest kind. That building
has given HIM advertising to a full half
of its cost, and guess ii all that has been
said of it-all of which drew trade to his
great stores-was counted at ordinary
charges it would cover its entire COST
The old gentleman is very comfortably
fixed in this world. He is worth not
less than So, 100000 now. his real estate
Increases in value 25 pei cent. per annum,
and the profits of his business are too
enormous to be calculated. He will have
enough for his declining years.
POLITICAL
Let no Republican be deceived by the
recent manifestations in this city on the
louisiana question. The Times went off
half cooked against the President, but it
look the back track Immediately when it
got its second breath and had received
,ome facts. The big meeting of the 11th,
over which SO much fuss has been made,
was engineered entirely by Democrats,
who got enough sore-headed and imprac-
Iicable Republicans into their traces TO
give the thing color. The Republicans
VI City VI 4NCn I Vi ouothAu kHO 4 AG6-
Ident in his action, and so do thousands |
Of the decent Democracy. Remember,
please. the Tribune is not a Republican
paper, and remember, also, that the Times,
though generally right, is very likely to
90 into spasms on exceedingly thin pro-
vocation. And remember, above all that |
3 man does not necessarily become Sol |
omen the moment he assumes the man.
agement of newspaper. The Tribune is |
as virulent in its opposition to, the Ad-
and Republicanlsm as the |
World, and even more unfair, and its ut |
Ierances on any question of this kind |
should be taken with this knowledge |
The message of the President has settled |
this question. The few Republicans who
allowed themselves to be carried away |
by the clamor of the papers have come
back 10 their senses, and are giving the |
most hearty support in !
This matter, and the Democracy have |
iound that the capital they made is as
worthless as North Pacific bonds. In |
ZEN days from date all the cry of "usur-
pation," OF military force" and Cesar
SIN" will be heard no more, and the peo-
pie will applaud the man who had the |
nerve and wisdom to use the power at |
MS command to check the lawless and |
preserve peace in louisiana. Depend up
IN what say, the Republicans of New |
York are to-day in full accord with the
on this question, and |
thousands of the best Democrats agree |
with them.
PUBLIC BALLS.
The Infant Asylum ball, as it is called,
or the benefit of one of the finest chari-
les in the city, opens the gay season ais
Usual this week. 1t is the occasion for |
displaying more elegant toilets than are
Ieen at any other public ball excepting |
hose given by clubs like the Union
League receptions, which have much of |
he selectness of private parties, with a |
,plendor ofentertainment not possible in |
private houses. The Twentieth annual |
Charity Ball comes off on the 4th ofFeb- |
ruary, at the Academy of Music, which
mas Just now room enough for the CAV /
lnd mixed Assembly. This favorite old |
charity attracts the largest number of |
people, and all grades of New York socl-
ETY. meet there once year, from the ele-
CANT and marriageable lady managers in |
their private rooms the brilliant foreigners |
Of the legations, TO the popular actresses
from the coming opera. and all the thea |
tres who make TIA point that their at
tendants should present them at the
Charity, on footing with the most re-
spectable society of the town. In short, |
everybody who has silk gown and a |
taste for fashionable life, and can spare |
five dollars for ticket goes to the Char
ity. The liberality of admission which |
some of the more fastidious turn up their |
noses at, results very happily for the
benefit of the charity itself, for its list of |