Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
OUR NEW FoRk LETTER.
PoIiucs-PeJer. .COSPer-Ehe Water
SuPPIy-Renis-An the Centennt-
aEatsIfe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IRENTS


$3.50 a month in September is S175 now,
and the agents of property-holders make no
secret of advising tenants to wait for lower
prices. The threatened ehsnge has come
in the rate of board, which is the last to
feel the revolution. The expensive suits
on the first floor front in rosewood and satin,
which were the pride of boarding-house
keepers. now stand untenanted; for. as the
experienced in the business say, everybody
is looking for second-rate rooms. The
money which once paid for plain, sparely
furnished rooms on an upper story, in a
tiird-rate house is now the asking price of
really luxurious apartments, unexeeptiOn-
able in position and taste. The old horrors
Of carpets dark and lurid as the horrors of
the pit, or snowy as the flowers of sin, and
furniture that looked as if it had been seized
from debt gradually disappears from city
boarding houses, in place Of which are
charming mottletl and tufted carpets, wall
papers with diapered border and embroid-
cred furniture dear to artists eyes. The
crowd and rush of the closing Centennial
saves more than one hotel and boarding
house keeper from loss this season. All
good Philadelphians viii be able to refur-
nish their; houses with the money from Gem
tenniaI pilgrims, and the overflow reaches
New York. Weare crowded out Of our ell
evators in public Buildings, out Of our pic
ture-gallefies by hordes of strangers, and
made speetaeles in our own dOminions. to
the pilgrims in brown linen with satehelss,
who, grown bold at the big show, are able
to stare creation out Of countenance. AT
Earle's hotel, a popular but not a high
priced hotel. nor vet u cheap one, cots have
been put up in the billiard room to give
people . chance to sleep.
~ AFTER THE CENTENNIAL E.3l .gtE.
Probably hundreds of women all over the
country will die from the effects of their
trim 10 the Centennial. In the first place, a
woman will work herself to the last of her
strength for three weeks before to make
new dresses and to leave her house in oor-
der. so as to go TO Philadelphia- Once
there, she walks miles, from building to
building and through the galleries, stands
on her feet from morning to. night, gets a
hasty, ill-served dinner or lunch or goes
and stays her appetite with pop
corn or, candy, gets heated in suffoeating
crowds, and chilled in damp, freless halls,
lives il. hurry, crowds and excitement, till
the tension of nerve absolutely upsets the
ability Of the brain to hold impressions.
She goes home never so thankful TO reach
it in her life, is spapPish, worn out and
hysterical for week, and while Plunging
into the fall sewing or mince pie making,'
whi,c yet unstrung with oyer-exeitement,
and a pneumonia or typhoid has a good
chance to carry her off if it seizes her.
These great exhibitions are like the trium-
phal staireases, of which after they are
built the steps prove too high for human be-
ings to ascend. The crowds who saunter
through Centennial Halls with dazed va.
cant air, show how the thing falls on COM
mon minds, with its wearisome variety.
POLITICS.
New York was never. so exercised, polit-
ically, as at this time. With the Democra=
cy it is struggle for life; with the Repub=
lioans it is struggle for the life of the ma
ton. The Democracy have been out of
the custom houses and post-ofices SO long
that they are desperately hungry, and this
is their last chance. They have the city to
plunder now, but the field is too small.
Tammany cannot feed all its adherents out
of the spoils of the city, even though it is
New York, and it wants the nation. The
of Demoeratic-place hunters,
the thousands of professional politicians,
who have their left hands in father Knick-
pocket, are keen to slip the right
into Uncle Samuel's, consequently they are
making such fight as was never seen.
professions occur nightly, the
gin mills are all chartered, the thieves have
all been instructed and furnished with the
munitions OF political war, and the, old
time rascality is in full play. 2OOOpaupers,
in Brooklyn, who have no more right to a
ballot than the Sioux Indians were carted
out and registered, and every man of them
will be voted. The repeaters have regis
tered to a degree unheard Of before and
every scoundrelly appliance that Tammany
in its worst days used, is being used again
under the personal direction of Tilden. He
knows all about how to do it, for he has
carried New YQEk before by the same means.
There is but two things to hope for. There
is split in TammanY, which I believe is
too wide to BE bFidgcd, Tildep may notget
all the goods he has purchased, and the bet
ter class Of the Democracy are opposing
him. These two causes may operate to
keep the majority in the city down to some
thing within reach, Then the Republicans
are fighting calamity, when what they have
to contend with is taken into account. I
believe New York will vote for Hayes-If
it does not it may be set DOWN to ths gFos-
sest frauds that were ever peIpetFated.
The reports from eeuhtiss outside are spleR=
lid, and the moment one gets away from
this thieves paradise, the skies are bright.
PETER COOPER
he greenback candidate, is an inoffensive
excellent ald man 9f eighty, who made sew
'ral millions Of dollars BX making max q sqPeri-
or article of glue and isingfass. Naturally
and naturally vain, he built
Cooper Institute, school for instruction in
many things, and free library, and gave
t to the city. It was noble bencfaction,
nd Ia iaHg EaEpt saod,t0-those .tf for
whom It was designed lie FssllS has q no
ion that he will be- elected, and doesn't
Know that he + beng used by the Demo
2raey to divert votes from Hayes. The old
man means we'll, but his candidacy is as
much of an absurdity as though it were
Daniel Pratt or the immortal J. N. 1t is
curious what maggots get into the heads of
'eally good men.s r . e.
THE WATER SUPPLY
5 one Of the present Troubles in New York.
Phe Unprecedented drouth Of last summer
Tried up many Of the sources of supply,
md croton lake is lower than 1t has been
for many years. There are no wells to
lraw from, the water above the city is salt,