Year: 1873

ern Markets--Things in General.

 NEW YORK, May 22.--We have

 had week of good weather here in three months. but yesterday and to- day have dampened 1t all Too much water for the whisky therefore. write you under the influence of sobriety, though anything but in good humor. The umbrella fend in such crowded thoroughfares as these in New York is the veriest devil of them all to contend with. One consolation. I keep an umbrella in the way of other folks. Last night 1 assisted the proprietor of THE CITI- ZEN and others of the family across the ferry, on their way west again. It only required two rows, one with the hackman, and the other with a rufian runner. Talk about the in- security of life ill Arizona--even hell must be 8 paradise to average life in New York, including street car and ferry gauntlets. And that reminds me that the hanging of Nixon last week seems only to have increased the number of great crimes, and your newspaper hounds are bahled and con- fused; they are already taking the back track and will soon be crying, "down with capital punishment" as lustily as ever did Greeley. I always thought Horace was right on that score. The swift and terrible execu- tions incident to vigilance committees have done good in many cases, but they are not the thing either. Be- cause Foster and Nixon had no money they were easily hung by the Herald 6 Co. But why don't they go after Stokes for his more inexcusable crime? There's the rub. Perhaps man ought to be hung-for being poor anyhow. But the problem of hanging generally is too much for one article. I would like to see about sixteen leading editors and two hun dred reporters of the New York press strung to as many lamp posts, heads downwards-it would improve their brains may be, and might benefit the buzzards. The newspaper tyranny of to-day, is the beast described in Reve- lations, and while it prates loudest of corruption it's greatest lights would rob the Holy Sepulcher and sell the body of the Savior to the doctors for dissection.

 I was over at Philadelphia during the meeting of the Centennial Com mission. The City of Bricks or Brotherly Love, so-called, cavorts around about the coming event of the nineteenth century, like 8 woman over her first baby. "Centennial" is the word on every hand, and it is lucky thing for that staid old place, There never was but one event there yet of historic note-the declaration. Its anniversary is expected to be an other, but as old Franklin might say, the Quaker City will have to pay dearly for the whistle. But she can afford it for once and it will do her good to be thoroughly walked up to the balance of the world. Her idiotic newspapers however, unless generally rebuked will soon make the word Centennial as contemptible as Shaks- peare said of the word Captain. By the way there are only two cities in the Union where one can get good newspaper, as the word goes-New York and Chicago. The S. F. Chron- icle is approaching it as we'll as prostitute can. And yet I don't know but a prostitute in any business is the best to invest ill on the average; you know what you are buying-at least the sign is not intended to deceive. A word more as to Philadelphia, etc. That burg and Boston are indulging in the luxury of ship building, and to-day Philadelphia dispatched the first iron-built propeller on large scale in America since the war. She is named the "Pennsylvania;" can- non and champagne popped of course.

 New York with all its theives, great and small, and other business men of note, grows of itself. Boston and

 Philadelphia must use force. So

 much for position. The bay of San Francisco is the only other command