The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-09-24
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER
T The Terrible Sirocco-Sights and Seen,
Along the Streets-The Seaside Failu,
Suffering Among the People-The Hie
Temperature and the Suicide Mania,
Several Remarkable Cases-COrners o
I the Stock Exchange-Returning SheT
| herds and their Flocks, Etc, Etc.
New YORK, September II, 1881.
, EDITOR CHIEF:
Roasting, sweating, broiling. boiling
seething, stewing, frying. The memor
of the oldest inhabitant runneth not bacl
to the time when this city has had snc1
, a frizzling before. The bottom droppe.
out of Coney Island several days ago
Rockaway Beach brought no consolatio,
to the mourners. Long Branch was lik.
an oven, and all along the seashore th,
burning, pitiless glare of tie sun turned
the white sand to scorching Goals of fire
from which the visitors were glad to es
cape as from a Gahenna (revised edition
This is an exceedingly rare experience
for, as usual thing, when the weathe,
is unbearable in the city, relief can be
found on the seashore-but the present
week has been an exception to all of our
former experiences, and limp collars and
collapsed shirt-bosoms have been the
rule everywhere. Fat women puffed, and
fat men wheezed as they mopped their
perspiring foreheads, and in faint tones
asked their neigllbors if they had ever
felt any thing like it before. At last it
got to be a mortal offense to say any
thing about the weather, and when
heard that man had his brains knocked
out for remarkins to passer-by, "Is
this hot enough for you!" l felt that
he deserved his fate, and was only sorry
that was not his executioner.
This is not exactly the weather for
calm and deliberate counsel, and yet it
has been chosen by both of the great po-
litical committees as season Of CONFER
ence. The Republicansmade short work
of it. They met and adjourned without
any serious trouble. Not so with the
Democratic. The more respectable men,
bers of the party desired thorough re-
organization and blending of the hitherto
discordant elements into one harmonious
whole. But just as they thought they
had every thing nicely fixed, Mr.. John
Kelly jumps into the ring with war
wl,oop, as if spbiling for fight, crying
who'll thread on the tail av me coats"
As yet no one has accepted the invita-
tion-perhaps on account of the weather,
and perhaps because there is sufficient
time for consideration and negotiation
betwecn issssua the November election.
Notwithstanding the burning sun, our
big bridge, which is to weld the two
great cities together, hurries on towards
massive iron girders al
most meet in the middle of the river,
and stretch away upon either side to-
wards the cable anchorngs. The APP
relationship seems to give New
York the right to read her younger sister
! homily on honesty and good morals. l
fear that the City Of Churches is, after
Ill, but whited sepulchre; such naughty
loings come to light there, that if they
10 not make angels weep, at least it
ought to make them feel very sorry.
If there is one place more than another
where we would look for decent life
md tolerable honesty, it is in our Board
# Education. So far as possible, it is
made non partisan, and the members are
to he patterns of that conduct
which the pupils are expected to initiate.
}ut the Brooklyn Board seems to be
made up of robbers or fools, and from
he horns of this dilemma there is no es-
ape. One Stuart has been Secretary of
he Board for about quarter Of a Gen.
ury; he had grown grey in the service
f the department. Like Turvydrop, he
vas a model Of department; he wore a
vhite cravat, and went to church regu-
arly; he was powerful in exhortation,
nd when he prayed-wLich le frequent
y did-there was sure to he a rattling
mong the dry bones. So confident was
he public that every thing was right,
hat Mr.. Stuart's accounts had not been
verhauled for many years; but he was
llch nice pious man that each succeed
ng Comptroller thought there was no
articular necessity for examining his
ooks, because such q man as Mr. Stuart
ould not do any thing wrong. At last
hey got reprobate into Office who had
cry little faith in pious people; he
,anted facts and figures, and he did not
are a brass button about previous rep
tation or prayers. In short, lie was a
cal old hard-head. So, one day he pro-
osed to take look through the Secre-
ary's books; but that night all the books
f the Board of Education were stolen,
nd they have never been recovered from
hat day to this. Although the pious
ecretary had the key of the safe that
them, and the safe had not {
cen broken open, he knew nothing Of {
ow they went, and was very much hurt
, think that any one could possibly sus-
ect him, and he pointed to his former
nd present religious life as an evidence