The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-11-25
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 1877

Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 1875.
More glorious weather than that we are
now enjoying has not been know during
an Indian Summer in many years, and
its beneficial effects are noticeable on all
sides and iu various shapes. 1t has its
influence upon the spirits of people, and
shows its power in their bright looks,
vivacious conversation, and general de-
pertinent; it inspires them with dispo-
sition for enjoyment, which leads to the
opera, theatres, etc., and gives the lesse'es
ofsuch places chance of making good
the losses for some months sustained; {;
and it is responsible to palpable extent
for the revival in trade which. is under
way, and which it is devoutly to be hoped
will continue henceforth to grow rapid
ly; for should there be no further ad-
vancement toward our old standard Of
commercial activity there needs must be
sore and widespread distress in the city
during the coming winter. Matters were
bad enough with the poor eight or ten
months ago, but only rapid progress in
tile path of fimprovementwill put employ
ment within the grasp of such proper
ton of our large population as to stave
off an exaggeration Of last winters ills.
A painful sensation was caused in tine
city by the announcement of the loss Of
the steamship Pacific and all on board
save one, on Nov. 4, whilst running from
San Francisco to Portland, Oregon
Though the loss of life has unquestiona-
bly, been fearful, it is thought it is not 80
near total as Henry L. Jelly, who was
picked up floating on the pilot-house Of
the Pacific in an exhausted condition,
imagines. The Pacific was splendidly
fitted out vessel in every respect. H0r
boats were good and numerous, her
crew we'll trained and disciplined, and
she herself SO strongly built that for her
to have gone down before some OF the
lifeboats aboard could be manned and
lowered is hard to believe. 1t is very
likely that Jelly's report, though honest,
is not full, and that he is not in the pos
session of all the facts. THERE'S yet hope
the calamity is less stupendous than ct
first appeared. If subsequent reports do
not mitigate it, 1t will be one of the sad
dest on record.
Politics is still talked considerably
Citizens have not got over the election
excitement. The defeat Of Kelly's party
in New York AL of McLaughlin's in
Brooklyn is much used topic. 1t is
now well-settled fact that their reverse
was due less to political partizanship
then to growing hostility on the part Of
voters TO be manipulated by one man,
1t was this feeling alone that induced
hundreds Of Democrats to vote the Re-
publican ticket, and that caused thou.
sands of others to divide their fovors. I.
looks rather as though the fate of Bosses"
in New York and Brookly is sealed
Their heyday Of success is over. Party
supporters no longer will accept them as
the incarnation of the principles they
profess. There has been observable year
after year for many yers past a growing
indisposition among voters to be used by
designing men whose profession is poll
tics, and whose nefarious abuses have in
many cases brought them in utter disre-
pute. This aversion took practical shape
at the last election and is wholly respon-
sible for the Democratic failure, as there
is little if any change in the essential
politics of the people of New York and
Brooklyn. 49,:
ga new broom sweeps clean" is an old
adage, and one which holds good in the
case Of the newly-elected guardians of
the. public interests in the two Cities.
There is indeed latitude for vast improve
ment in the administration of our local
affairs but whether or not Gas has been
too often the CASEY the advance towards
this better condition Of things is to pro-
ceed no further than comments or prom
isess remains to be proven. Those who
are to succeed the 'sTammany" men in
New York promise reconstruction of
the city charter and much needed reform
in the Police and Public Works Boards.
Up 10 the present both the latter have
been disgrscefully conducted. Our po-
lice are the best paid and the most inefi-
cient, insolent, and lazy the world can
show; and our streets, except the main
thoroughfares, are paved in way which
would be deemed q disgrace in western
town of five thousand population.
In Brooklyn, if they mean all they say,
they are going in for reform with ven-
geance. They promise to redress the
wrongs against which taxpayers have
been all along resolutely but Intellectually
protesting, and as first step in this di-
rection, propose undertaking q very con-
genial worE-viz., the criminal prosecu"
ton of the rings who have been system"
atically plundering the city. To this end
the Taxpay ers' Association is actively al
work preparing afadavits which will
bring the rogues to justice. What sor-
ry figure they will cut if all be true that
is alleged sgainst them. The termina-:
ton of their career is another proof OF
the uncertainty of politics and another
argument in favor the old saw "honesty
is the best policy" Potentes dc sede de-
positi sunt, and it is to be hoped their
successors will not lay themselves open