The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-18
NEW YORK, July %, 1876.
DRY WEATHER.


It has been fearfnlly dry in the city
all the summer, SO much SO that seri-
that the water supply OF the city might
fail. New York is supplied from one
source, Croton River, and the water
pipe. Imagine the distress that would
be occasioned if, by any accident, that
pipe should be destroyed! Imagine
million of people without.wauer? But,
as dry as It has been in the city, it is
nothing to what our neighbors in New
Jersey have suffered. The whole State
is as dry as powder horn, and the
loss of the farmers and gardeners will
be immense. The vegetable crop is
nearly total loss, the berries dried up
on the bushes, and the apples are fall
ing from the trees. In parts water has
been procured for house purposes with
difficulty, aud stock has suffered terri
bly,. So hot and dry season has not
been known for eight years.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK
Business is as duh SIS ever, but some
of the merchants are hoping that with
the fall there will come a revival.
They argue that prices having got
down to something near the bottom,
merchants from the interior will come
to New York and buy, and that they
will buy more literally. Then they
count on the low cost of passage and
freight to attract buyers to this market.
insist that they are wrong. The job
bing trade is lost to New York forever
The merchants of Chicago, Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Toledo, and the other " hole
sailing points in the west can buy of
the manufacturers Just as cheaply as
can the New York merchants, and they
can do business at half the cost. They
can undcrsell the New York jobber in
all American goods, and thank heaven,
! n AhStaCda SoOOS S2lO ttic SOOdS
Americans are mostly using now. Be.
sides it costs less to go to any~of these
/ points than it docs to New York, and
| freights are less. New York will al
ways be the financial and importing
centre of the continent, but nothing
else. The great city has seen its best
days, and if it holds its own it is more
than | expect for it. There are fhous-
ands of empty stores IN the city, aid
tens of thousands of empty dwellings.
And the end is not yet. Rents have
shrunk two thirds, and there has been
depreciation in real estate such as
this country never saw. l do not
count much on New York. The West
holds the key ofthe position, and it al
ways will.
| SAMUEL j. TILDEN.
Tllden, the Democratic nominee fol
President, is probably the most unfit
man for that position that could have
been selected. He is born aristocrat
and ~ in sympathy with no human
being but Sam. Tilden. He lives il
one OF the most gorgeous mansions il
New York, and, more than any nj
man in the city, keeps up the style o;
| the European nabob. His associates
are the kid-gloved Dem ocracy of the
Manhattan Club, and he never would
have been a Democrat, only for the
reason that through his money he could
control the lower classes, whom he de-
spises as heartily as a man can. He
has two qualities greed for money
and ambition for political prominence
And there is nothing under heaven that
he will not do to attain these ends.
He was the trusted counsellor of Tweed
SO long as he could share his fobberies,
/ and he only turned against him when
further association would have danag-
ed his other aspirations He did not
preserve faith with that gang even.
He took their money, and then deserted
them when they were in danger. He
was the hired retainer and partner IN
the most gigantic railroad swindle oil
this age, and having made some six OF
seven millions by these operations, be
was strong enough financially to bay up
3 Democratic Convention. and he il
working his campaign by the same
agency. He is buying up his opponents,
with money he is siiencing those who
are dangerous to him, and with money
he is organizing that vast mass of dan.
gerons voters, the purely vsnal. There
are men at work for Tilder in this city
handling thousands, who never saw
gen dollars Of their own money-there
are thousands of small Democratic pa.
pers paying off their little mortgages
and tho starving s'ii,dependent" press
all over the country, are supofting Til
| den, and their editors, for the first
time in their lives are wearing decent