Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Political MenzIes' Library-TWeed-
FashIOns-BusIness and Money.
POLITICAL.

New York. The certainty Of Hayes cleo
ton has maddened them, for they were
near enough the plunder to smell it, and to
have it taken from their very claws is hit
tie to much for their patience. They do
not propose to give it up, and have already
fixed up their programme. They propose
to deny the legality of the election; The
Democratic house will assert that there
has been no legal expression of the will Of
the people, and that consequently the house
must, as in case of failure to elect, pro-
ceed to the election of President, it will
refuse to join the Senate in counting the
returns, and will go on and elect Tllden
and inaugurate him. They claim that ne
can be inaugurated anywhere, and the house
will recognize him as the President, refuse
to recognize Hayes, and will call upon the
governors of the States to recognize their
government. That this programme has
been determined upon by Tilden, is shown
in the fact that every Democratic paper in
the city that is owned by Tilden had arti-
cles simultaneously, insisting that if the
three doubtful States were counted for
Hayes, it would be al usurpation which no
Democrat could possibly accept, and resist
ance by force was not at all dimly limited
at. And Tilden's editorial bureau, which
he personally directs, is sending off articles
to picked Democratic papers in strong Dem
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character and calculated to fire the Dem
ocratic heart. They reiterate the statement
that Hayes will be counted in by fraud
that Tilden will resist, and they call upon
all good Democrats to be ready to sustain
him. And to this the fact that the rife
clubs in the South, another name for organ
lied militia, are $4,000 strong, and that
arms were sent to them from the Democra-
tic National Committee, and some notion
of their designs may be formed. 1t has
been established beyond a peradventure,
that the National Democratic Committee
did send New York State cannon at a mere
ly nominal price to South Carolina, and
that very large shipments of muskets have
been sent to the same parties from this city.
They either mean business or they are in
dulging in a remarkable game Of bluff.
The Republicans take it all very quietly,
Grant, not Bucl ana9, is President, and he
knows how to stamp out rehellions. He
had one large ne on his hands once, and it
will be very small matter for him to mash
this little one. Despite the brag and blus-
ter of the Democracy, Hayes will be inaug-
urated, if he is declared elected, and he
will serve his four years. tits a significant
fact that while the Republicans here insist
that they will not have the Presidency un-,
less Hayes is fairly elected, the Democratic
leaders say nothing of the kind They
have declared in advance that the count
must necessarily be fraud, and that they
will have the control of the government
whether they are entitled to it or not, and
as nothing is done in Democratic circles
except by the direction of Tilden himself,
all this infammatOry talk may be charged
directly to him, # we have any trouble he
Will be responsible for it.
THE MENZIEs LIBRARY
which was sold at auction, taking five days
OF last week was one of those collections
which give the ordinary reader new ambi-
tlons in the world of books. To give some
ordinarily appreciable idea of its value to
begin with, the library brought nearly $780,
OUO at auction, not one fourth its real
worth Some black letter books brought
over thousand dollars apiece, being mat.
ter OF 300 years old, and among the earliest
specimens of printing in existence; but
these would not compare in the sigbt of en-
thusiastic Americans with the. original
manuscript order book of Valley Forge.
faded and the pages tender with time, and
handling, but preserved in a case of heavy
morocco, There we're many specimens. of
the earliest printing in this country, but in
any eyes save those of book collector, the
prizes OF the library were an abbottsford
edition of Walter Scott, and one of Rusk-
ms works with proof engravings. Such
luxury OF type and delicaeE of illustration
as sent the poor book lovers, who cannot
afford editions at three and four hundred
dollars, away saddened, but glad to have
rejoiced their eyes with such elegant vol
umes.
Mr., Menzies had what had cost him over
5000 in his library, and IN ordinary
times 1t would have realized twice that
AMOUNT, for some of the books were the
'nly ones extant, and were priceless. But
books, like real estate, have felt the effect
# hard times. aud so the whole lot sold for
What collectors would call "a song"
It is understood that the owner was com
'elled by stress Of bad financial weather to
BART with collection that it had taken a
lfe time to get together.
TWEED.