The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-03-14
BTOadbrimS New York Letter
Special to the Cannon ADvocArr.

hegira from New York, Democratic
presidents have been elected before Mr..
Cleveland; but when the last Democratic
President was elected Mr.. Cleveland was
only country boy, whose services were
we'll requlted by three dollars q week
New York, whose narrow majority turned
the scale in bis favor, resolved to do him
honor, and the Democracy turned out by
thousands. For the time all faction
| fights and bitterness were sunk in the
| triumph of the hour; and Iryiug Hall
TammanS and the County Democracy
| joined in the universal hurrah for Grover
Cleveland, President of the United States.
Hubert o. Thompson did not fall into
the arms of John Kelly, nor did Sheriff
DAWSON embrace General Spinola; new
ertheless the Ratchet was buried and
scalps were safe. The Tammany con.
tingent TO the Inauguration numbered
eight hundred; but / missed the silver.
tongued O'Grady, who had borne aloft
the standard of Democracy for years, in
the darkest hours of disaster aud defeat.
There were other well known faces alb
sent too. could well imagine what a
proud day it would have been for Isaiah
Rynders; how grandly be would have
led the 500 unlerrified down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue. Perhaps he saw it all
from the other side of Jordon, who
knows? To one particular there was the
most delightful harmony among the diff
ferent delegations, and that in providing
against the possible contingency of fam
inc or drought; especially drought. Bar
rels. kegs, demij ij0hns, bottles, baskets,
hampers, boxes and bales attested that
watchful care had been given 20 the com.
missary, and an evident belief in the
Bible d, claration, that "man cannot live
by bread alone" A further wise pre-.
caution was that every brave should have
his name and address sewed on to the
back of his waistcoat, while his ward as
sociation and the name Of the captain of
his company was fastened with safety
Plus in the lining of his hat. The braves.
to prevent accidents carried all spare
bills. and loose change in the legs of their
boots, and all of them carried Waterbury
watches, leaving their own valuable
lickers in charge OF My UNCLE, who had
advanced money > most of them to make
tha excursion to the National Capital,
expecting redemption three days after
convenience. Amid tremendous excite
ment they got off, and for three days all
the great political centres in the city
looked as though cyclone had swept
oV-r them. DarkeeRers hung idly over
their bars, yet sadly L. hactiug that when
the boys came home every one OF them
would be dead broke for couple Of
months at least, They were gay and
gallant body when they departed; but as
they returned in scattered detachmen.s,
it was evident that some of them had en-
countered hard weather; the shiny hats
looked as though they had poen struck
by Mauit1bl blizzard, and the swell
ulsters which were the distinguishing
mark of the Brooklyn contingent looked
like the wrarpings of an Egyptian num-
my, just exhumed at Thebes, after 8 900
years of solid wear. Many of the boys
declared that they We're glad that presi.
dents We're chosen only once in four
years, and one old grey-headed Demo-
crat. ont of whom all enthusiasm had
been knocked by four days bitter expert
ence at the Capital, during two nights Of
which be walked the streets till morning,
swore it was thirty years since he had
attended presid, n ial innuguration, and
ii the Lord spared his life it woul be
tair!y years before he went to another
Art circles are moved to then centres
by the coming sale of the Ssney collec-
ton of pictures. which was taken by
city bank for Mr.. S-Uey's obligation of
1915 000 The collection is vari:usly
's:imated to oe worth from $500.
0U0 to n million. aud il is expected that
notwithstaudins the hard times, they will
fe,ch under the hammer at least SI0O,-
900. The gentleman who preceded Mr..
Seley as President OF the Metropolitan
Bank, Mr.. Williams, was discriminat.
ing lover OF art, and bad small but
beautiful collection in his palatial resi-
dence on the Hudson. He never ven
tured into the lavish outlay which dis
tinguishod his successor Mr.. Seney, nor
did he, during his long and honorable
life ever sanction any of the wild schemes
or questionable methods which lured Mr..
Seney TO ruin. lu few weeks the Seney
collection, which was one of the finest in
the country, will be thing of the past.
1t will be an interesting souvenir of the
evil time when the firm OF Grant and
Ward precipitated the terrible financial
collapse which dragged down headIong
to rum some Of the Oldest houses in the
city. Speaking OF Grant aud Ward, re-
minds me that while the great Comman-
der, whose life is going out in darkness
aud SORROW, stands wayeriug at tbs gates
Of DEATH Ferdinand Ward, the tu hor of
his ruin, smokes his fifty cent Beles in
Ludlow street jail, and enjoys every lux
ury that money can procure, in,t .ad of
working in striped suit in Sing Sing or
| DonnemaTa.
The news Of General Grants deadly
peril has awakened a response deep and
heartfelt, such as oould have been called
forth by no other citizen in this land.
Past enmities are buried and forgotten in
The face Of his terrible sutfrrings and sor.
row. Among the press, save with one
single exception, there has been an un.
qualified outburst Of grief Not even
from his dearest aud lifelong friends has
he received more cordial or heartfelt