The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-01-17

| street; he was surrounded by fenceH-the
slang for receptacles Of stolen goods. Here
came the thieves and crooks after night
of successful plunder. The children grow
| up among thieves; the Fivs Points and
Baxter street are not stones throw AWAY;
Mott street, with ito Chinese opium jpints
! and vile Italian dens, is within pistol shot.
Whatever there is devilish or wicked in
New York life centered about the home Of
these children, SO what wonder that they
grew up drunkards and thieves2 How to
meet this problem we hardly know. Will
our new city fathers help-us? Speaking Of
our new city fathers, it is pretty apparent
that in the deal which made an unknown
politician named Squire Commissioner Of
Public Works, poor Tsmmany gets loft.
Alas for human greatness, but yesterday
and the word Of John Kelly might have
stood againet the world, to-day and :. mono
so poor to do him reverence" Tammany
is routed horse and foot: the cohesion OF
public plunder no longer holds it together.
Squire, who has tho patronage of millions,
has turned his back square on Tammany
and gone right into the camp Of the enemy.
There was fun on the Produce Exchange
few Of the sharpe got caught short on
December corn, and for twenty -four hours
at least there was an awful squeeze. Lame
ducks were everywhere. and by the wayside
we're q few dead geese. One or two impor-
tant firms were forced into liquidation.
Many came out with exceedingly lean bank
accounts, and there was rejoicing nowhere
except among the little clique who sngi-
neered tho deal. That was q week ago.
This week tho bears came back at them,
and can tell you this in advance-that the
chaps who bulled the market on tho day
before tho new year will not buy any
steam yatchs or brown stone houses with
the plunder.
Our new Mayor il fairly in his seat. Be-
fore the election Tammany proposed to
raise the question if Mr.. Grace was a cit
izen of the United States. As high q cit
izen as Judge Donahue called his citizen
ship,in question, but Grace says it was not
till he and tho Judge had had hght about
the appointment Of some Of the Judges
friends 10 some fat ofices, to which Mr.
Grace appointed some friends OF his own.
Mr.. Grace was born in Ireland. He claims
that he came here while yet q minor. He
claims his citizenship under the minor pro-
visions of the naturalization act; and after
being naturalized he spent tho next twen-
y-five years of his life in England and
South America. He certainly vas much
more OF South American than he was of
q North American, but South or North, he
is DOW Mayor Of New York, and it will puz-
zle Tammany to got him out.
We have passed through one cold tidal
wave aud experienced sort of January
thaw. The thaw has not extended to the
purse strings Of the Wall street magnates'
every one OF which 10 ~ tight ~ drum.
No selling, no buying-all chsf and chin.
Ons-half Of Brooklyn is jubilant that
Beecher got slap in the face in having
his pew rents pulled down $500, and the
other half are hinging mp thoir hats to
think it is no worse, considering anything
short Of loss of $9o,o0o . Bescher victory.
It was highly edifyine to nee Brother Olaf
lin and Deacon White walk into the pulpit
together, but the bidding for the psws
lacked the old time vim, so they had to be !
content with what they could get. Many
faces were absent which have been at every |
sale for tbs past twenty or thirty years, but
With ell the losses the Plymouth pastor |
will not have to preach to empty benches
for many years to come.
business Was never datter. f. you ask q
merchant hoy j. business, you get nothing I
back but an angry grovl.
Hoping that We may thaw out soon, and
that fESsy be able to give better report,
] am ess2=s-------s -, r,ps~t-<ll
Yours truly, BRD1DD...A. |
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