The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-07-21
OUR LETTER FROM BRoADBRIM

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Solar Gyclone-Cooling off the Big
Bridge-A Pernicious Glass of Immi-
grants-sensational Elopement-Gould's
new Yacht, A Duel, etc.
| NEW YORK. July !, 1889.
EDITOR CHIEF:
With the thermometer at 95 degrees in the
shade, and the events which have crowded
around the anniversary of our national in
dependence, we have been kept IN an un-
One of the most touching incidents which
has occurred since the war, took place at
the City Hall when the cadets from the
Military Academy of Virginia brought back
! the old battle flag of the 165th N. Y. regi-
ment which was captured by the rebels at
| Cold Harbor nineteen years ago. Among
| the gallant young men who brought back
the old flag were many who were not born
at the time of its capture; and of the noble
men that rallied aro11nd it when it was lost
in wild hurricane of shot and shell, sea. ce-
I ly a handful renamed. Gen Martin Nc
Mahon was there whose brother planted the
AesSo hpoAA tiS CAASAAiJ tS3 etAAo 1CAi
torn and bleeding by the enemy's shot at
the very foot of the flagstaff. Major Mony-
han, who led the forlorn hope in the last
desperate charge to regain the lost colors,
and Gen. DeLacy, who as Lieutenant Col
onel commanded the regiment when Nc
Mahon fell, were present.
Few men outside of the army can appre-
ciate an old soldiers feelings for the battle
flag of his regiment. AS the flag was pre-
sented, the whole scene of the terrible sac
rifice in which it was lost, seemed to rise up
before them, and tears weifed into the eyes
Of the war worn veterans who felt the dis
grace OF its loss, and who hardly ever ex-
pected to see it again. 1t was graceful
thing in President Arthur to present these
youths, who came on their mission of peace
and amity, their diplomas. Though they
arrived most unexpectedly, Col. Rodney
Ward turned out the fighting 18th, and ac-
corded them most generous and gratifying
reception. Broadway, up which they
marched, vas thronged with people, and the
young Virginian cadets whose fathers fought
under the stars and bars were cheered as
loudly as the war worn veterans of the old
18th.
The heat of the week has been terrible;
we have experienced nothing like it for
years. It is almost impossible to estimate
the suffering which this solar cyclone en-
tails. We can battle with the cs4d; q ton of
coal Or load of wood, will mitigate the
sufferings of freezing family; but when it
comes to roasting we can do little or moth
ing for them. People who live i'll well ven
tilated rooms and have their well filled ice
boxes in their cellars, full of all sorts of cool
good things, can scarcely realize the intense
suffering of the miserable inhabitants of
the tenement houses, in this torrid heat
One would naturally suppose that this kind
of weather, would be calculated to make
people good, but I regret to say that it does
not. No person would care about emigrat-
ing to a permanent location where he was
likely too have much of this sort of thing,
and yet, if bad language is likely to secure
a mortgage on that kind of property, there
has been large investment during the past
week. AS have had occasion to go about
[ think have had Il keener and more beau
tiful conception of the excellent parable of
Dives and Lazarus, and can now see how
grateful Mr.. Dives would have been when
Lazarus handed him down a tin cup full of
sparkling Jordan, with big chunk of Ken
nebec ice iii it. But to go back, the heat
has been dreadful, and although we can
cross the bridge for cent and then get
ride to Coney Island for twenty-five, there
are thousands upon thousands in this city
who can not afford even that small luxury,
reasonable as it may seem. Next to an ex-
cursion to the sea side OR the mountains is
a cents worth of fresh air at evening, on the
big bridge is the thing in which New York
delights. While the huge tenement houses
of New York and Brooklyn are seething,
the bridge seems like another world. No
matter how not it is in the city, every even
ing on the bridge it is delightfully."- COOL and
it is now the most popular promenade in
and about New York. Before the bridge
was completed, it was prognosticated by
the wise ones, that it would only be a nine
days wonder. It is nearly Il mile from ter
minus to terminus, and everybody said that
nobody would care about walking over it
more than once. But now parties are made
up every night of people who go out for a
regular promenade, and there is no place
on the planet where you get so much for
penny. But heat or cold seems to make but
very little difference i'll the volume of the
throng that rolls III upon US like a mighty
flood from the other side OF the water.
Castle Garden is one of the busiest places
on the island. This week brought another
delegation of Mormons, and an exceedingly
unsavory crowd A new feature has been
introduced in the Mormon ritual, which
partially accounts for the success of their
prosely yting--that is the converts are taught
to believe that at Salt Lake, which is PIC
tured rs perfect paradise. every fellow can
do exactly as he likes. Now if q man can
have any where from SIX to two dozen wives
to work for him, and do Just rs he likes,
Salt Lake would not he such a bad place if
all his wives were young and pretty and not
too expensive in their tastes: but a fellow
can not DO as he likes at Salt Lake. n or any
where else. and that these emigralts will
find, unless they pay the piper. Here We are
demonstrating with the governments of
E.urc,e against sending Mormon emiorants
and we are receiving at our principal port
hundreds and thousands of them, who come