Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-02-17
Our New York Letter.


New York, Feb llth, 1876.
To tie Editor Of the O5ser-
rer-"How doth the little busy
BIZ" l should be glad to an
swer, Every well, thank you,"
l, 10 DR.. Watts conundrum, but
sooth to say that would hardly
be the truth. The fact is, B is
a good deal bothered, three or
four Of him, by the trials Of
life and law. For instance
there's Beecher laboring to get
a hundred or two of the Con-
gregational Churches through
out the country, to come to
Brooklyn forthwith, and tell
Mrs. Moulton and all the other
carpers, whether he is really
guilty or not. Poor man. He
has already had trouble and
worry enough in his humiliat-
ing affair, to expiatc a good deal
of wrong-doing. And then there
is BOwen,the thin-blooded drag
on, who like his prototype Of
the Apocalypse, has cast out of
his mouth a flood Of water in
the shape Of a long letter, to
swallow up the object of his en-
nifty, and who, after publishing
his column or so Of bitter sneer
sarcasm and inEuendo, settled
back in his chair to receive the
pIadits Of the country for this
convincing delivery, only to see
by thescathing contempt heaped
upon him from all sides, that he
had "opened his mouth and put
his foot in it." Then too there's
Babcock; and his is indeed a
very hard case. Only a few
short weeks ago, this little busy
B was humming peacefully and
obscurely about the flower-gar-
den of Washington society,
carelessIy slipping the honey
from its thousand flowers, and
basking in the full sunlight Of
Presidential favor. Few real
lied the existence Of Babcock,
and even Of this number none
could imagine that the little
bouquet-holder of the execu-
tive mansion was soon to set
the country by the ears. But
truth was ever stranger than
fiction, and to-day the work of
the St. Louis court, as it traces
the trail Of the serpent almost
to the very door Of the White
House, is watched by nearly as
many people,and interest scarce
~ less breathless ard intense
than that given to the proceed
ings Of Judge NELSON'S tribu-
nal in the year gone by. The
best resources Of law, Of rhetC-
ric, Of party and personal influ-
ence are to be exhausted on the
trial, and it is not impossible
that the fate Of this little Is
vainly flying from that big B
ristow may be the fate Of the
next presidential election.
We have had this week a.
warning Ct what may be in
store for us, by the burning Of
Il whole square in the heart Of
the city. Favorable circum-
stances alone prevented Il coz
flagration, which it takes away
ones breath to think Of it. AS
it was, the scene on Broadway
Tuesday evening was Il sutil-
GENTLY forcible reminder Of a
similar one which the writer.
witDessedin Chicago four years
age, to be anything but pleas
ant.
1t may be that this expert
ence will hasten definite action
on the water supply, the made
quacy OF which has long been
urged; but never so forcibIy
demonstrated as on this occa-
sion.
OF course a conflagration of
this magnitude was terrible
for vaults and safes.-
The size Of the buildings and
character Of most of the stocks
burned were Of a kind to pro-
duce a heat, for many hours, e.
quail to that of a blast furnace. +
No wonder the papers report
that many safes, several of them
of new and improved pattern,
failed to protect their contents
in the way Of money and valu-
able papers, which were so
charred as to fall to pieces on
being exposed to the air. But
the severe trial was, as usual,
only the occasion for another
-riumphoof Marvin's Alum and
Dry Plaster Safes. One Of
hem already extracted from its
iery bed and standing in
olackened triumph before the !