Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
POliGfeal-Dusiness On the way TO
the CenIenalAl-The aL4rkHmen-A
suicide.


New York as now. 1t is perfectly wild
dslightfully so. The meetings at Cooper
Institute and at the Academy of music in
Brooklyn, were immense and they were as
enthusiastic as they were large. The meet
ings IN the wards are wonderfully enthusi-
astic and large, and what is better the best
men are taking hold and running them.
The character of the Republican candidates
is such as to bring out the efforts of the
best citizens, who see in the nominations OF
the party the best evidences that its pledge
Of good Government will be carried out.
The Democracy cannot get up enthusi-
asm. There is no Disgusting the fact, Til
den is unpopular among them. The thievs
don't like him because he has been so selfish
as to desert them when danger came, after
afiliating with them in their days Of pros
perity, and honest Democrats dlstrust him
because they know who his associates were
in the days of the Ring, and the influences
that would control him were he elected.
In Albany he is the most unpopular man
who ever occupied the Gubernatorial chair.
His dodging his income tax, his unques-
tiOnsble connection with the Tweed ring,
and his inOrdinate, unserupulous selfish
ness make him as unpromising candidate
as could have been-put up for popular suf-
frage. As q manager in the interests of
other men he is unequaled, but honest men
with whom he has had dealings dread
to see him at the head of affairs. He has
attempted an explanation of mis- dodging
his income tax, but it is lame affair. The
fact is patent, that he is worth millions, all
of which was made during the years this
tax was levied, and he never returned as
much as would have been the income of a
moderately small lawyer. He pettifogs it,
as he does everything.
BUSINESS
Is blooming and everybody feels good. The
merchants are overrun with trade, and tn
complaint now is, that customers cannot
be attended to. Throngs of Western and
Southern people are here, many of them
sight seeing, but more making glad the
heart Of the merchant by purchasing. The
streets are crowded with trucks, as in the
good old days, and the piles of boxes on the
sidewalk is appalling, to all but those who
ale rolling them. The hotels, for the first
time.in three years, are crowded, the daily
arrivals occupying five and six columns in
the papers, run in solid in very small type,
and this only of the leading houses. New
York begins to look like the old city again.
| All this indicates the revival of confidence
we have all been hoping for. Now let the
growing stop in the country, let us all put
our shoulders to'the wheel and go to work
to do something. The hard times are over
just as soon as the people say so, and act as
though they believe it. If you have a
house to build and can afford it, go on and
build it. The sun is going to rise just as
many times this year as ever, and every
thing is going to go on as usual. The
crops are averaging well, there is money
enough and to spare, and all that is needed
is to get rid Of the senseless scare, and with
confidence go on. This is all that is neces-
sary to make good times. There are rea-
sons why we should not let business go by
the board, if it can be avoided. : We have
streets to fill, farms to settle, and popula-
ton to attract. There was steady stream
of emigration flowing into the country, the
most with money, and all with labor, all Of
which ceased the moment the cry of ''hard
times" was raised. This stream we ought
to get flowing again as soon as possible.
The shortest way to do it is to get to doing
something. There are millions Of Ger
mans, French, English, Irish and Scotch
who want to come, and they will come the
moment we can say ''good times" to
them. We can have good times always if
we will. want to see the ships coming in
again, and unloading their caFgoes of hu-
man freight, to go west and fill up the
prairies Of that blessed country. Stop
crosking, and insugurste new era, and
don't waste any time about it.
ON THE WAY TO THE CENTENNIAL.
have received many letters from your
readers inquiring specifically as to what
board can be had for in New York, and
where. In answer let me say that board in
respectable houses can be had for from So |
to $40 week. and if you want better rooms |
from $40 $14. To get these rates go into !
any house that has card up, anywhere on /
Lafayette place, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, !
or Thirteenth streets, Clinton Place, Wav- |
eriy Place, or any street in that locality. |
State that you want rooms for week, and !
possibly for a less time, and make your con-
tract for such time as you stay, at so much |
q day, then you can stay as long as you
choose and only be compelled to pay for
what you have. Be careful to make your |
stipulations. Go on any Of these streets,
not farther east than Second avenue, nor |
west than Sixth avenue. All these run |
east and west. Arrange so ss to get into |
New York or Philadelphia in the morning. |
This viii give you chance to get settled |
with out submitting to e. swindle for one
night. Take train that viii bring you In |
in the morning. All I have said about
New York will apply equally to Philadel-
1LAas AAOOuS nAtl4OuS DOdEu SdA DC AeA III
either city for from 90 to "a per week,
which allows you to get your eating where
you choose, and at such prices as may seem
good to you. At restaurants and eating
houses the price Of each dish is stated, so
that you can eat expensively or eheaply as
you elect. By care and taking time you
may live as eheaply as you Ike, and have
your stay extended. You can by care
make hundred dollars take you twice the
time that It Will by carelessness. And
bear this In mind, you want to make your
stay aS long a. you can. There "a enough
there to keep you probably month II you
can afford It. By all means come. This
Exposition, properly observed, Is a liberal
education. ....
s TIE NARKsxEN.
onoe more the Americans have beaten
the Irish, and the Yankee team may safe
ly claim to be the best In the world. They
have met teams from almost every country
that pays any attention to rife shooting,
and have never yet been beaten The Irish
have crowded them the closest, but they