The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-28
Correspondents.
OUR NEW YORKLETTER.
Tie Extreme Heat-POliticaI-The Centennial
feI-BHrning OF Castle Garden.
NEw YORK, July "a, 1876.
THE EXTrrHI: !EFAT.

THE EXTrI'NE TIFAT.
The Intense heat OF the past two
weeks is now happily over. at least for
time. On Tuesday afternoon the
city was visited by the heaviest storm
OF thunder, lightning and rain known
for years, which lasted from three in
the afternoon, with rare intervals of
cessation, till long after ten at night.
The city was absolutely drenched, and
the air was deliciously cool thereafter,
happy contrast to the sitting heat of
the past three weeks.
The heated season has beenthe most
severe that has been known in the city
for eighty years. The thermometer
has gone to 104, and stayed there for
days, taking occasional excursions
down the scale to SO, and at midnight
or later, down to IS. OF course there
are Gays as hot in every year, but to
have them continue for three weeks,
without cessation, or let up, is some
thing unprecedented. Every morning
there has been a column or more of
casualties, of men falling in the street
of horses lying down and dying, and
Of children perishing in their garrets
If it was terrible for the residents of
rcomy and spacious houses uptown,
what must it have been for those CON-
PEELED to occupy garrets, without air or
ventilation, subjected to the sitting
smells of the tenement houses9 These
people suffered all the tortures of the
damned, and thousands of them died.
The mortality among children has been
dreadful, and its extent will never be
known.
POLITICAL.
No matter how much Democratic
papers howl about it, or how much
they may assert to the contrary, Tilden
will not receive the undivided support
of the Democratic party of this city
and State. He bought the nomination
with money he swindled out of the
people in his railroad schemes, but he
has not enough to buy the election
The leaders of Tammany will give him
a support, for he has already divided
up the offices among them, and has
partitioned out the spoils; but there are
members of Tammany, and Democrats
who are not members of Tammany,
who cannot be bought or driven, and
John Kelly is having trouble with them
There are thousands in open revolt,
and thousands more will follow them.
BY the way, speaking of this "Re-
former" it is a fact that the Brooklyn
ring, a more dangerous one than Tam
many even, went en- mGsse 20 ST. Louis,
and contributed of the money they
had stolen of the people of Brooklyn
to the funds that nominated slippery
Sam" l want this fact remembered,
that the Brooklyn ring-the most I'M
scrupulods, dangerous, and shameless,
and altogether bad set of political
thieves and plunderers the country was
ever cursed with-were, all and singu-
lar, in favor of Tilden's nomination,
and are to-day his chosen and trusted
counsellors in the campaign. This is
a matter that ought to be known, as
showing how much the reform
planks in the Democratic platform
really mean.
Gov. Hayes letter of acceptance
gives the liveliest satisfaction to the
Republicans and the better class of
Democrats. Asa Democrat said to me
the other day, ''It has the ring of the
true metal; and / know him well
enough to know that he means it all,
and will carry out all he says. / shall
vote for him." That letter, with its
manly utterances, and the well known
character of the man Cor doing as he
s.ys, will make Hayes hundreds of
thousands of votes. 1t is an encour-
aging symptom, that in every ward of
New York and Brooklyn Republicans
are organizing into Hayes and Wheeler
clubs, and this without the Interference
of Office holders, or those who are
pleased to consider themselves 'lead-
ers" The people are moving to the
support of the Cincinnati ticket spon
taneously, and they will elect it as sure
as fate.
THE CENTENNIAL,
despite the terrible heat, is attracting
greater crowds than ever. The at
tendance is steadily on the increa, g. and
the interest increases day by day
The departments are now all perfected
all the articles that will be in the show
are there, and you can now. see all that
there will be to see. The verdict of
the people who have attended all the
world expositions is that this is as
much superior to Vienna as Vienna
was superior to Paris-in short, that it
is infinitely beyond nytliins the world
ever saw, or probably will see for a
a hundred years to come.
THE TEA MARKET.
The depreciation in the prices of
goods is shown as much in such arti-
cles as tea as anything. There are
hundreds of hodses in the city that
have made immense fortunes in tea