Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-11

and Just as harmless here as in San Fran
cisco, and follow the same occupations.
They wash, make cigars, and keep street
stands, pay their debts, save some money,
and gamble and smoke the best of their
earnings away. They inhabit Baxter
street, here, as everywhere else, selecting
as their headquarters the most filthy and
squallid portion of the city. They have
only one joss-house as yet, though another
one of larger dimensions and more aristO-
cratic in style, is in contemplation. The
number is increasing very rapidly, and as
the great colony in San Francisco is send
! ing vast colonies Eastward all the time, it
is very probable that in few years the
territory in and about Baxter street will be
something ike Dupont street in San Fran
cisco, and that in New York the religion of
Confucius and the Chinese theatre and
Chinese amusements and customs will have
established themselves firmly in New York.
Well, let them come. They are harmless,
industrious and honest people, who work
and never want offices. There is some
comfort in that.
POLITICAL.
The Democracy are worried because
Tilden and Hendricks can't agree upon
their letter of acceptance, and give
them a show to open the campaign. They
see that while they are delaying for this
opening the dissatisfied Republicans are
rapidly returning to their old resting place,
that as Hayes and his character are becom-
ing better understood the intelligent Dem
Ocracy are growing very cold toward the
mulattO ticket made at St. Louis, and that,
in short, unless Tilden comes to the front
very soon the battle is lost for them before
it is fought. The truth is, half the decent
Democracy don't want Tilden elected in
any event. They know him to be tricky
and unreliable, and they feel confident that
in the case of his election they are sold out.
He processes to be hard-money, resump-
tion man, and why he don't come out and |
say so, instead of paltering with Hendricks |
and fixing up declarations that mean moth !
ing puzzles them and they feel that they |
are sold in them. Everybody knows |
where Hayes stands on these questions, and !
no one will vote in the dark voting for him. |
Tilden is one of those exceedingly acute, !
small men, who overreach themselves. He |
has no honesty himself and does not believe !
that any one else has. He acts upon the
theory that all men are as dishonest as
himself, except the simpletons, and he very
largely overestimates the dimensions of the
latter class. He is foolish enough to sup
pose that the rank and file of the Democ-
racy will accept any qGihble for the sake | |
of success, and he is paltering with them in
that way, Hayes viii carry the State of
New York as sure as fate. Think, my
readers, of man who Is nominated on
platform expressing the views of great
party, on great question, who has to have
two conferences with his associate, and
four sessions of a committee to decide as to
what he does believe, and as to what he is
to do in case of his election! This very
delay is trick that will defeat him, for it
is evidence of dishonesty and insincerity.
The Republicans are very active and are
pushing things delightfully."-.
VANDERBILT,
old as he is, and sick as he is, is rapidly
recovering, and will get out to business
again. The old man is determined not to
die till he has completed his four track
road through to. Chicago, and possibly
farther west, and has demonstrated the
superiority of rall over all other means of
transportation. Even during his illness he
has pushed his warehouses and his other
Improvements in the terminal facilities of
his roads, with view of saving the grain
trade to this city, which is being diverted
to Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.
He has during his illness received builders,
mechanics and railroad officials, every day,
and when he was too weak to speak he
made them understand what he wanted by
writing or sings. He will do business as
long as he has a breath, and will be felt as
long as there is life in him. His vitality is
wonderful, and it would not be singular if
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years yet. He has been a temperate man.
He has worked all his life, but has worked
very Systematically. He will work all the
season till about the lst of July, when he
goes to Saratoga, and stays there till Octo-
Der. He reads exactly one mail every
day while at the Springs, and answers it by
an amanuensis, and then amuses himself
till precisely half-past nine, when he retires
and sleeps. He indulges in stimulants very
sparingly, and is very careful of his diet.
He is fearful card player, always plays
for money, and the stakes must be high
enough to make it worth while to play.
Curious stories are told of his card playing,
some of which are doubtless true. He is
as merciless at poker or point euchre as he
is at business. and woe be to the poor or
careless player who falls into his hands. 1t
is business with him, and he pursues the
game just as eagerly as he pursues his real
business. As the chase was accounted as
miniature war in England, so gentlemanly
gambling with Vanderbilt is the next thing
to business, and he follows it with as much
zest. Now that Drew is gone, Vanderbilt
and Jay Gould are the only railroad mag
mates left, and it is not probable that they
will ever lock horns again. The old vet
eran has got too much to do to perfect the
railroads he now controls, and Jay Gould's
interests and his do not conflict.
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THE oHHDREN's SUMNER HOSPITAL.
Among the charities which benevolent
ingenuity is constantly devising, the Sum-
mer Hospital for Children deserves free
handed support. The excursion of st.
Johns Guild floating hospital boat, which
takes thousands of sick children and their
mothers every day up the river for pure
air, has made a difference at once in the
death rate among children. But ten hours
week of wholesome living out of the stink
ng dens the poor call home, is enough to
keep life in them, but hardly enough to
make sound children of them. The plan
was devised for temporary hospital or
home, in one of the healthiest places on the
river, where sick children could be sent for