Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-17
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1
NFw VOpR oct IN 1891

NEW YORK, Oct, 10, 1881.
We have had convention, delegates
for once having deserted their time-hon-
ored country resorts for the delights of
Gotham, and they have been welcomed
by an eager and a nipping air, akin to
their normal dispositions. Straw hats
and busters proved but slight protection
against tumbling thermometer, and
consequently tumblers of hot punch and
ground and lofty political tumbling, sea-
soned with full-favored language, were
in order. The proceedings of the con-
vention were harmonious, and the lamb
lay down with the lion-inside the lion.
Some say that the lamb has cut its eye
teeth and will prove indigestible. Can
any of your readers judge from the FORE
going remarks what party held a con-
vention, and what your Radix thinks
about it? | trow not, forsooth. Perad-
venture old R. is too wary a politician
to be caught tripping with plenty of
dynamitical CAB.
The French descendants of Washing
toms Gallo assistants in the bottling up
Of CORVALLIS, have arrived, and express
themselves as highly delighted with
their reception and the elegance of their
Accommodations, and the aspect generally
of New York. The life in the streets,
with the elevated and other cars, and
well-dressed crowds, is a novelty to
those visiting from even beautiful Paris,
and, filthy as downtown is. is not filth
Ter than the business districts of the
capital of France, or even dirty old Lon
don. The trouble is that here you can't
move from one section Of the city to an
other, or across the ferries, without pass
ing through some very offensive quar-
tiers, while the aristocratic dwellers in
London or Paris can drive about all day
in handsome streets and never see any.
thing Objectionable. The merchants
who deal in grain, stocks, coal, iron, &c.
&C., in Gracechurch and Fenchurcl
streets, Mark Lane and 80 forth, in lit
tie cobwebby 4x9 Offices can't very vel
turn ap their noses at even the muddies
parts of Water and Front streets.
Every now and then a rather NOR
glaring case than usual occurs to empha
size the objections of sensible men t
the carrying Of pistols by the police
The ill-tempered peripatetic cadies o
the tenement districts behave like veri
table bashaws. and seem to club and pis
toll people at their own sweet will in
wonderful way. No wonder-they ar
made too much of. An ignorant burl
rufian is promoted from laborer's pr
sition to an income of $1,000 yea
dressed in clothes that look to him gol
:, geous enough for Major-General, an
is bowed down and fattered by an entil
population. All the old women 60
the ''cop'' with their troubles. All IL
children take pattern by him and i'm
tate his strut, his oaths, and often h
brutality. If he has cold in the nos
or dislocate his thumb in an encount
with billy goat, the papers recount tt
important circumstance. with all the d
tails of time and place. He is sort
!. court of first instance, and one polio
man in thickly populated neighborho'
will decide more cases with owl-like W
. dom in day than all the paid mag
trates will in week. His power is.
10 some respects, analogous to that Of
," Roman Catholic parish priest in Irelan
be and he thinks he has perfect right
1T admonish and control every one with
az his ken. He orders men sitting
he their front stoops to go inside, enforci
mt his suggestions with gentle taps of
club. If he sees two boys together,