The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-11
Our New York Letter.
The Crop PrOspect-The Labor
Strikcs-POIitica Gould
EsOunded-The Charter Oak
Beer, etc.
New YORK, August 4, 1877.

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NEW YORK, August 4, 1877.
EDITOR CHIEF
It is curious, but the mercantile
reporters know more about the crops
than the men who grow them. Dun,
Barlow & Co. report that the wheat
crop in the West will make an average
of twenty-f five bushels to the acre,
and that the other crops promise an
equally large yield. If this be the
case, and they know. the yield will
be simply enormous, and there is no
reason why the West should not be
enormously rich this season. And 1T
viii not be big crop with no price
to it. The granaries in this country
are bare, and the Crimea, the great
competitor of America in grain pro-
dqcing, is this season practically
barred out The Turkish war has
shut that off, and America has this
year to feed the world. Hence there
can not be that diminution i'll price
that otherwise would follow a crop
SO immense.
The labor trouble is entirely over.
The demagogues who attempted to
excite the tramps and thieves to a
riot failed signally, and the city is as
quiet as mill pond. The credit for
this is due entirely TO tie mayor and
the police. Twenty-six hundred men,
thoroughly armed, were on duty all
of last week as policemen, and all the
militia regiments of the city were at
their posts. At the first intimation of
riot the mob would have had this
enormous force 70 meet, and every
: rifle and revolver was loaded with
, ball cartridge. There was to be kill
ing if riot was provoked. The Com
munists are very shady now, and
claim that they did not intend any
trouble. But it is well known that
they did intend to raise riot and
) sack the city. They expected the
railroad people to strike, and then all
the Communists would join them, and
| the thieves and tramps falling in,
there would be force enough to take
possession of the city. Then build
ings would have been fired, and the
l city would have been plundered. But
no mob dare face an organized mill
tary force, and as soon as the con-
spirators knew that the authorities
were prepared for them, it all died
out. Mayor Ely is entitled to great
! credit for nipping in the bud what
was intended to be very dangerous
= affair.
:, The action of the Ohio State con-
!, ventton in giving an honest and decent
endorsement to the President meets
$ with decided approval here. No one
l can know how much the money and
business centre of the country is in
: terested in the settlement Of the
troubles that have so long Frustrated
business. Hayes policy, as it is called,
: has certainly given the South peace,
h and has restored confidence in the
II future of the South. The Southern
y merchant is here buying goods, which
t is enough for business men. He comes
c with smiling face and IL look of con-
u u fidence that he has not worn since the
war; Speak to him about his affairs
and he says, i" know what we arc
c, going to get" and lie buys and trades
n accordingly. Hence the business mel
l. are all enthusiastic supporters OF The
6 Presidents policy, for they see in il
! ar escape from the terrors of the pas
J. four years.
+ The summer resorts are all losing
: money this year. The fact is, th'
le moderately wealthy haven't had th
5e money to go away for three years
= !, and many of them have discovers
II that the air is about as good in we'll
It, appointed house in the city as it j
3S anywhere. The farmers down o
II Long Island who can set fairly goo
re table arc making great deal OF none
by taking as summer boarders, a
~ seven dollars IA week, the same pee
in pie who used to live at Long Branc
IN and Saratoga at ten dollars day.
Le m The city was astonished, and dt
IS. lighted as we'll, on Thursday, by IL
'r. intelligence thata stock-broker name
Seloyer had beaten Jay Gould.
So appeared that Gould was carrying