The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
[FRolr OUR REaUIAR coRREsPONDENT

/ The belief seems 10 be gaining ground
/ in New York that the report OF Tilden's
Withdrawal from the Presidential race
is based upon solid ground. The refusal
Of Tilden himself TO contradict the re-
port has induced a great many to credi,
il. The anti-Tjlden workers are making
I use Of the report and all corroborating
circumstances to weaken the old man.
John Kelly has his agents at work
throughout the State. IL is evident
that TilIen has on hand the hardest
fight OF his life. His enemies are un-
relouting aud mere numerous than ever
before. II they get him down, they will
no. show him any mercy. OF the many
Democratic papers in New York, scarce
ly a dozen openly advocate Tilden, while
scores of them oppose him bitterly.
SIN, even at this disadvantage, he
seems 20 bold his own pretty we'll.
Nearly all the heavy operators in
wheat at New York are said to have
formed a ring FOR the purpose Of with
holding shipments from Europe until
prices improve. They believe a decided
advance is certain to take place soon,
and that il the supplies are shut of for
a time it will be bastened. There are
now about 1850, OCO bushels Of wheat
at the metropolis, and, although bun
dred vessels are here seeking caTgoes,
few are to be had. Since the exact
stale OF affairs was discovered by the
ship brokers, five vessels have sailed in
ballast for New Orleans TO load with
wheat there. The chartering Of a vessel
40 New York to load at New Orleans ia
unprecedented.
Great efforts are now being made
toward systematic and economical
management Of public charities. When
90 Is considered that the sum OF $780,
600 is 10 be spent on the dependent aud
criminal classes cf this city during l5SO,
the Importance OF the question is mani
fest. At meeting Of the State Board
of Charities, recently held in. this city,
tie question Of reducing the expenses Of
charities was considered, and a commit
tee, consisting Of one member from each
of tie twelve institutions Of the city
represented at the meeting, was ap-
pointed to consider the abuses Of the
per capita system The amount appro-
priated was in 1860 at the rate of about
Sl50, but in 1850 Of about s. 30 for each
inhabitaut Of the city. The New York
Medical Record observes that "chsrity,
which was once thought 10 be the divin-
est of virtues, seems 10 De becoming the
genius Of municipal pauperizilion."
Spring gayeiy has thus far developed
itself chiefly in the direction Of we'd
dings, though musical parties and small
dinners have varied the monolony. The
parties follow each other with such rap
idity that one has not time TO keep ac-
count OF them. The evenings begin
with a large dinner, which you leave to
go TO a large concert, from which you
escape 10 flee 10 a large ball. People
pass all their time la taking Off and
putting on their wraps. Women take
Off their swansdown- lined cloaks, and
their oyersh0es, two or three times an
evening, and then they stay for an hour
ia the line before reaching a concert,
where they stay for another hour before
reaching ball. Conversation is com
posed Of an interrupted babble during
these frighlful moments Of solitude, or
with an obligatory tctca tctc with a
bad -humored husband, who says you
are horribly dressed; or with an aunt
with cold in her head, who shows her
c1mplacency toward you by saying to
you in sour tone: az hope, my dear,
you are not going to stay at this bail
till six o'clock in the morningT My
dear! Women never use this charming
phrase except to say disagreeab!e things
70 each other
Most Of the rich men here have min
ing interests, a good proportion Of which
are profitable. Many have gone to the
western El Dorado,a and we have mining
exchange, mining stock brokers, watered
mining stocks, and "saliedn ones. Gilt
tering rocks attract the passer-by in the
windows Of real estate Offices, cobbIers'
workshops, and restaurants showcases.
Companies with many millions Of "cap-
itaI stocku are daily organized aud char
tered, with or without iucorporators. II
YOU miss a familiar face, investigation
shows that he has gone into the mining
country TO prospect a little.
The manner in which the sharps OF
Wall street fleece the fats who trust
them with money for speculative in-
vestments, is very plainly illustrated by
the DEVELOPMENTS Of lawsuit now IN
course OF trial. The victim IN the ease,
a lady, Miss Livingston by name, met
the family Of q broker at Saratoga in
the Summer Of 1870, and, in the course
Of a conversation with its head, stock
operatious were mentioned. The result
vas that she placed 81, 600 in his hands
for the purpose Of speculating in stocks
on her account, the general understand
ing being that the broker was to use bis
own discretion entirely in buying and
selling. she expressing her willingness
] to lose that amount, and agreeing to fur
nish more II necessary, but hoping, OF
course, to double or treble il, "a dupes
always do hope in such cases. The
broker began his operations on the 18th
Of August, and rendered written or oral
statements OF his transactions from time