Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Crop PrOsPecT-The Labor Trouble
POIItIcaI-Jay Gould POunded-The
Charter Oak-Beer-The Weather.
THE CROP PROSPECT.

1t is curious, but the mercantile report
ers know more about the wheat crop than
do the men who grow them. Dun
Barlow, & Co. report that the wheat crop
in the West will make an average of twen-
ty-five bushels to the acre, and that
the other crops promise an equally large
yield. If this be the case, and they
knew, the yield will be simply enormous,
and there is no reason why the West should
not be enormously rich this season, and it
will 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 producing, is this season,
practically barred out. The Turkish war
has shut that off, and America has this
year to feed the world. Hense there can
not be that diminution in price that other
wise would follow a crop so immense; we
have our twenty-five bushels to the acre
with the price the same that it would be
were it only the average of nine or ten.
The West will be made rich this year, and
there cannot be but general prosperity.
THE LABOR TROUBLE
Is entirely over. The demagogues who at
tempted 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 the mayor and the po-
lice. Twenty-six hundred men, thorough
ly armed, were on duty all of last week, as
policemen, all the MALTA regiments in the
city were at their posts. At the first init
nation of riot the mob would have had
this enormous force to meet, and every
rifle and revolver was loaded with ball and
cartridge. The instructions were definite
to shoot at the rioters first and over their
heads the second volley. There was to be
killing if a riot was provoked. The COM
munists understood this, and they were
very careful to give no occasion to militia
ry interference. The communists 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 had their preparations
all made. They expected the railroad peO-
pie to strike, and then all the commun-
lists would join them, and the thieves and
tramps falling in, there would be force
enough to take possession of the city.
Then buildings would have been fired, and
the city would have been plundered. But
no mob dare face an organized military
force, and as soon as the conspiratOrs knew
that the authorities were prepared for them
it all died out. Mayor Ely is entitled to
great deal of credit for nipping in the
bud what was intended to be very dan
gerous affair.
POLITICAL.
The action of the Ohio State Convention
in giving an honest and decent indorse-
ment to the President meets with hearty
approval here. No one can know how
much the money and business centre
of the country is interested in the settle
ment of the troubles that have so long
Frustrated business. Hayes policy, as it is
called, has certainly given the South peace
and has restored confidence in the future
of the South. Southern merchants are
here buying goods, which is enough for
the business man. He comes with a smil-
ing face and a look of confidence that he
has not had since the war. Speak to him
about his affairs and he says: Il know
now what We are going to get, and he buys
and trades accordingly, Hence the bust
ness men are all enthusiastic supporters of
the Presidents Policy, for they see in it an
escape from the terrors of the past four
years.
THE EXODUS
If you read the daily papers you will sup
pose that everybody is out of town during
the summer months. Nominally every
bOdyis, practically great many are not.
You shall see In the society papers great
many names reported as at SwampscOtt, at
the White Mountains, and all over the cool
spots, who are safely ensconced in their
own houses. To keep up the impression
that they have followed the fashion and
gone to summer resort, they keep their
front blinds closed, and go in and out at
the area door. The fact is, the moderate
ly wealthy hayn't had the money to go
away for three years, and many of them
haYe discovered that the air is about as
good in well-appointed house in the city
as it is anywhere. The summer resorts
are all loosing money this year. The farm
ers down on Long Island, who can set a
/ fairly good table are making a great deal
, Of money by taking summer PpaFdeFs 81
seyeh dollars Week, the same people who
| used to live at Long BRANCH and Saratoga
at ten dollars day, The hard times has
I | bl;,btad the summer resorts