The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-01-27
DONAIDsONyILLE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, 1888.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Effects of the Snow Storm-Rich and Poor
Tile Nobility of the Empire City-The
Great scandal-Church Matters-Immi-
grafton, etc.
New YORK, January 20, 1888.
Tie snow-storm Of Wednesday brought
winter in earnest, and with the conse-
quent suffering inevitable with storm
at this season. Iu the two great cities
of New York and Brooklyn is an army
of 10000 homeless waifs-miserable
wretohes, who have no permanent abid-
ing place, who catch a. meal from chance
charity, and who lodge wherever night
overtakes them; and the only wonder is
that they survive through years of mis-
cry and suffering, while men, strong,
healthy and rich, with every good thing
on earth to live for, are suddenly struck
down. / have in ony minds eye two
cases: one, four years ago, was all hon-
ored merchant of Brooklyn, a man who
stood we'll i'll the community, with splen-
did business prospects, but he was not
lucky. One misfortune after another
overlook him till he failed in business ;
still he struggled on, but it seemed that
he could not retrieve, and last week the
burthen became too heavy to bear, and
to-day he lays in suicides grave. L
have seen Wild Mag. in her fantastic
gear tramping the streets for the last ten
wears, and it seems as if the tattered,
filthy rags 1 first saw her wear are the
same that cover her to-day. Summer
and winter, through storm and sunshine,
she wanders through the streets, the most
pitiful sight that human eyes ever gazed
at, and yet she never asks for pity; hun
CRY and suffering she never solcits aims,
but tramps on, wearily waiting for the
end. But, as said at the beginning, the
storm brought intense suffering to the
unfortunate class which, with all of our
organizations, it seems impossible to re-
lieve. But while poverty cries out with
mighty voice, Crmsus dashes down Har-
lem Lane, through the Park and along
the Fifth Avenue, to the jingle Of silver
bells. Not for years have we had better
sleighing, and our nobility are making
the most of it. Don't start when I say
Nobility" for we have nobility with
!veried coachmen and footmen, and
coats of arms and every thing that goes
to make up a genuine bona Jfas aristo-
cracy. Take for instance tue Honorable
Terence Duffy. Why is he not a noble
man2 1t is true that he is only police
magistrate in New York with q ten
thousand dollar salary, but in Ireland,
where Mr.. Duffy was born, the Dufys
were noble as far back as Brian Boru,
and farther than that, for all know, SO
don't see why scrubby American citi-
zenslip ought to rob him of his Irish
nobility. Then there is the Hon. Barney
Riglin. Barney is Of the same distin-
gushed stock as Duffy, but exceeds him
many times in the amount of his revenue.
Barney is the bag sage-snasher of Castle
Garden, and his income from this source
is from $40, 900 to 100000 per annum; he
too has coatSof arms, four-leaved
shamrock PEASANT with two shilleiahs
rampant, surmounted by u pigs tail and
Il couple of Irish potatoes, so I see no
reason why Barney may net be consid-
cred Il nobleman. All Of these gentlemen
have fine teams and it is an unqualified
pleasure to see them dash down Harlem
Lane fllng:the ignorant, wondering na-
tives with admiration and amazement.
AS l intimated, the Hon. Terence Duffy
has just been appointed for ten years a
Police Justice, and for his valuable ser
vices will receive in that time 100000.
He will receive as much as Il Supreme
Court Judge of the United States, and
though he may lack the law he has that
which is more valuahle-Jhe votes.
With John Kelly and Tammany at his
baek-as Paddy Finnegan said when he
heard of the nomination." That's good
fur the byes; long life to John Kelly, an
tree cheers fur Tirince Duffy"
Mayor Edison has already discovered
that Mayors lot is not happy one.
Elected by combination of the most
dlsreputable elements that ever disgraced
New York, he is forced into making nom-
nations Of which any decent man should
be ashamed. The hungry thieves who
have been watching and waiting outside
the City Hall for the past two years, are
now holding high jinks; the princely
revenues Of this imperial city are COM
pletely at their mercy, and for the next
two years we may reasonably look for
carnival of robbers. One thing is GER
tain already-Mr. Edson will not be his
own successor; his doom was sealed as
soon as his nominations were made
known, and while few of the better sort
expected much of him, considering the
manner of his election, very few expected
that he would he as much of disap-
pointment as lie is. His predecessor,
VIM. H. Grace, was Mayor without a
party; he refused most resolutely to
prostitute his high Office for party pur-