St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-06
Our New York Letter,
New YORK, March 30.

DellnOnlcO ;, ana unls evening Mexico
is being honored in the person of her
representative by dinner at the Union
League club, at the exclusive expense
of their own eX-president. The latter
is chaperOning his friend and guest
with that bulldog pertinacity which
characterizes all of the old warriors
dOings. He did not go to the railroad
depot to meet Diaz, but hardly had the
latter taken off his overcoat at the
Windsor, when Grant called, took pos
session of the Mexican and all of his
movements, laid out programme for
him, which did not give a living soul
chance to patrOniZe the newcomer dur
ing his stay in New York, and ever
since Grant has stuck to him with that
same perseverance with which he hung
on to Lees TANKS in 1863. And no
wonder, If all is true of what | hear
about the Mexican commercial pros
poets which Grant has in view, he, in
deed, has a bonanza which he does not
care to share with any other fellow in
the street. One thing is sure, of
which one can convince himself by
going to Pier No. 3, whenever Vera
Cruz steamer is loading; never before
III our history have so many wheelbar-
rows, carts, trucks, axes, spades and
other implements been shipped from
this port to one single point as are now
leaving here steadily for Mexico. In
deed, | begin to believe that Grant will
yet live to be the real conQuerOr of
Mexico, so far as opening il grand mar
ket for our manufactured products is
concerned.
The biggest man in New York to-
day, according to his own notions, at
least, is Salmi Morse, the Passion play
man. 1t has been brought at last in
small, dingy, half-tinished theatre with
out being stopped by the police, and
everybody was satisfied and Salmi is
happy. If it had never before been
stopped, the world at large would not
have known that such a man as Salmi
Morse existed. Now he is the best add
vertised manager i'll New York, and |
really begin to think that he himself
was the author of the previous inter
ferences by the police He is very
shrewd fellow, and he knows as well
as any one that the ''blood of the mar
tyr is the seed of the church" | am
told by good critics that, dramatically
good theOlOgian would have preferred
to use the actual Scripture text than the
twaddle which he puts in the mouths
of his actors.
The next sensation for which all
New York, the whole of Brooklyn, and
in fact the entire suburbs, is preparing
is the prospective opening of the great
bridge. Now that this great engineer
ing work is nearly completed, we all
acknowledge it to he IA big thing. 1t is
intended to open the connecting link
between the two largest cities on this
continent with all the pomp and cir
cumstances which New York knows so
well how to manage. The veterans
composing the Grand Army of the Re
public are endeavOring to have the
great celebration postponed till May
30, Decoration day, when the process
sion will move across the bridge to the
various cemeteries, but really the
bridge can be got ready for travel and
traffic in two or three weeks, and the
trustees are anxious to throw it open
to the public. There will he no toll for
foot passengerS, but beasts of burden.
of which there are gOOdly number
round about here, will he compelled to
pay their tribute in the shape of a few
coppers.
Our Hibernian fellOw-citizens, who
fight (amOng one anOther) for their
cOuntry'S freedom on this side of the
Atlantic, are making great preparation
for the reception of Mr.. Parnell, who is
expected to arrive here in week or
two. What, however, is not generally
EnnNx-D IL thnt hnN-a nlraa1,-
been engaged by the British consul for
the accommodation of half Il dozen
cOckney detectives who will precede
Mr.. Parnell and report to the home of
flee, through Scotland yard, all the
private sayings of the Parnell party,
during their sOjOurn in this country.
There has been quite "shake-upn
in the editorial rooms of various prom
inent newspapers of late. Mr.. FOord,
for a long time the managing editor of
the Times, has severed his connection
with that paper and now edits the
Brooklyn Union. A. Oakley Hall, eX-
mayor, eX-lawyer, eX-dramatist, has
left the World, and become the editor
of Truth. While Dana pere is off in
Florida, Paul Dana is the responsible
editor of the Sun, with John SwintOn
doing the actual work and trotting
himself out whenever he has an OppOr-
tunity to sign his name under an article
that, he thinks, will make people talk
about him. The kilograms nine
o'clock in the-mOrning enterprise is
failure. This is not London, where
people open their eyes only about ten
O'Clock. We are too busy here to read
newspapers at that hour, as Mr.. Ben
nett, with all his good Judgment. will
ascertain ere long.
There is a rumor that JAY Gould
cOntemplates abandoning his two
years trip around the world and that
he actually talks of selling his immense
yacht, which is going to be launched
next month. This wiry little fellow
has Just come back from Florida and
Charleston, after intending to stay
away a whole month, while really. af-
ter eating green peas and Strawberries
for ten days, he comes back suddenly
to his Wall-street haunts. leaving his
son George to eat the remainder of the
southern delicacies. The truth is Mr..
Gould is not hit to take a long vaca-
ton he has too many irons in the fire
and besides Wall street and its sur
rOundings, its tricks and devices are to
him greater sources of amusement than
all the beauties of the Orient and all
the attractions of the European CAPT
tails.
Southern Strawberries are selling in
the New York market at twenty-five
cents basket. They are plentiful at
that. RADIx.
The time for the Vermont conference
has been definitely changed to April
%. Bishop Harris of New York pre-
sides.