Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1872, Page 2

- rsizengle the hours gracefally.- ; NEW YORK. Yarieties of Fashionable Women--- Half-a-Dozen Well Defined Fypes. ' The Assumption of Theclogy, Literature, and Hlusie. Art, Benevolenee, and His:nf.h:opj in Thin ’ Disguite. Pauline Fmcez, and Her Styie. M Our Oun Corvespondent. Xew Yorg, Oct. 3. Al the types of fashioneble women sre now Rairly back in towm, 2nd doing their ntmostto In this city, we have a variety of distinct types, though taey all - ‘belong to the same epeciesof what is considered the characterless cresture, given over io gowns, _gawds, and what she considers gentili TEE FASIION OF THEOLOG A very notable representative of society hers ~—28 wellas elsewhere, no donbi—is the woman who wishes to combire fashion with theology, and who is 2lways uneeriain which one of the two shonld be paramount. * She leads an anzions and somewhat uncomfortable life, on the whole, ‘batween twinges of conscience and disappoint- ments of the dress-maker, between discharge of epiritusl obligstions and socisl duties. She Joves God, sze thirks; but, in her moments of - contrition and pions rapture, ske fears she loves ‘hersalf better. She is conscious, ever and anon, of serious defects; end these she atones for by purchasing view robes and contributing to the conversion of the heathen. What saelecksin inner grace she sfrives to meke up in ontward show. When the Bible reproves her, she goes for comsolation to the ' modiste; and wheén the modiste vexes Ner. Christian spirit, =he looks more closely after the eternal welfars of:her sister-in-law; and so, as she fancies, commends herself to Heaven. Grace Church and the Avenue ere the termini of herlitile world In one she worships, and in the other she is worshiped. Here shé prays dreamily, and thero she pampers her elegant ains. “She dfeads tobe too pions, lest she be . thought unfashionable; znd she dwells in horror of fashion fettering the tions of her sonl. Her religion, like her drawing-room exisience, consists entirely of forms. If not altogathera saint, she is at least well dressed; aud fire Tobes, in her creed, even moze than charity, cover & multitude of gins. ‘When she thinks of the cloging scene, she hopes her disease may not, be ‘prosaic, and that, * though she be not wholly forgiven, she may enjoy the post mwriem compen- sation of looking handsome in her coffin. So she slips through being, and slips ont of it 2t last, regretting the guvetles ehe is about tognit, ‘and resting her hapes of salvstion upoa her reg- alar attendance at church, aud the perfect re- pose of her manners. . THE FASE'ON OF LITZRATURE. The literary woman of. fashion is becoming more.snd more conspicuous. She claims to_bs sn suthority on literary subjects, albeit she has little understanding, and 1o judgment of ker ovn. Eheresds all the books she canbny or _ bomrow, no matter whetaer she un them or not, and then reads criticiems of them inthe spers znd msgazines, and repesis them toher friendsas if they were criginal. She affects to admire men of letters and schol- arship, and bores them immensely, whenevar £he has an ity. Gewing hold of some :nmzy;:lou;gd! S35 for hinta”of tho sum, 2ok han or' of the same, and then claims thorough scquaintsnce with the work. Plotinus, Porphyty, Giordano Brano, Schopen- Taver, Stend! and other black swans of Liter- ature, she delig! to refer to, thongh she has never read a line of anything they have written. Devoted to fashion, she pretends to despise it and often declares shs world rather marry 2 man of genius, stesped in poverty, than a mill'onaire Tty il it iee. Dhesas om0 ‘B 5, 5 men with her Ersnsparent assumptions: _She s usualy sonag, —at Jeast not old,-—as may be imagined ; and she eable, if she only had the ‘would not be disagre: moral e to be genuine. The one thing -on which ehe prides herself most-—intellect—she hesnot 8 o of ; and this is Ler bone. Per- baps if Naturo had favored her with what she so earnestly desires, shé would bave set, 110 stors by &B-;nfl have been a pretender to something ‘We may value what we possess, but we worship ‘what we caunot hare. She is sure ehs wo':xllbl %fife b:dored m.‘])e.;nce or Shakspesre; and yet it eV some T L ouse, the wholesale grocer, and 2s Mrs. Sugar- &he will drop heraffectations, and become the mother of matter-of-fact chiléren. THE FASHIOR OF MUSIO. The mfifi wonde;\; of tge :ul%ltshi: It'l;wn of vast peopestions, Now. fve-teid-twanty, per- chancs, she ical i fon drom- has had musical instraction :&d Iixbo her everflai.l;‘ce ah;nw;.ns 6. &131‘:35 en lessons, not orly here, bat in Paris, Leip- zic, Vienns, and She plays the piano, guitar, and harp correctly, though mcchani- Cally, with no more soul than thers is in an ice- berg. She can read acores as she cen shop- i and is fluent, nfion Beethoven's sonztas, Glaoka , and Mozart's messes; and yet, if she comprehends the least part of their spirit, -she k¢ the secret to herself. _sh:’.%:.im_eommvsh composed o mumber of of music, thongh her intimaf ewdly Depect themm to be tho works of a0 Ancient Gor. Toan, who still gives har instruction, and who is quits willing she should bear the honor of his -work, in consideration of liberal payment. She hias good taste in and 8 ve werd- robe; but ehe attires herself ehabtily, because ehe fancies that to be dowdyish is to give token She bas wn away several fine chances of pumtrimony by her determinstion to talk of octaves, staffs, and_counter points, to young - men bent on the sentimental, who infinitsly pre- ferred negro minstrels to all of Beethoven's eymphonies. Let us leave ber to timeand to her who will not be far ewey when she feels that her daughiers connubial hour is about to strike. i . _ _THE FASHION OF ART. 2 “The art belle is widely prevalent, just now, in our best gociety. A few years ago, whils in Tialy, she caaght the infection of the Old RMas- ters, ially of thie pre-Raphselite school, and she tizs never given any ono any peace on the subject since. Angelico is her specizl weal- mess, and she raves abont his pictures, moring, Doon, and night. The worst of it is, she paints Borscie, and paints 5o badly (atter tho medimyal of conrse,) that her angels look like egian bog-trotters and her nnas like ZFlemish market-women. o I 2m not st all certain that her limnings are such mare grotesque than those of Gictto and i ; but she has had s0 much advantage of them in time that ehe might have improved apon ber - = She has an apartment ic her father's house 4tted up as 2 studio, and all her acquaintances are introduced {o it, with the asseverstion that ghe never admits eny save her most private and confidential friends.” There, one is forced to ad- nire a dozen of ill-drawn and vilely-coiored can- vases, and o listen to her endless theories of art. S & Confound that woman,” eaid World- ling, the other flayy,B “‘?&e talks more rubbish ‘than the humorons writers print. I I were her father, I wonld burn down the house'io get rid of thoss inferns) daubs which he calls pre- Raphselite studies.” THE PARHION OF KEREVOLENCE. The benevolent woman is arother animated fnfliction of fashionable circles. Benevolence with her means driving sbout in the poar dis- tricts, sud making'a grest ado over it, - She hss Jittle generosity and less delicacy; bmg, -Eg!_oma Teans, e ‘the has become inspired With ¥ not very original—that whal the -world wants most is charity. So she has Farmed & combination with a ecore of old dowa- gery, and se) 3 ‘women of her own eet, o muke pariodic visits to- the House of Indus- the Five Points Mission, tho Newsboys’ Home, and other similsr institutions, and to ride in state through the Fonrth -and -Bixth ‘Wards, to dispense food and raiment to the indigent. 3 ¥ i) This gort of thing gratifies her vanity, and ensbles her to tell what wonders of philen- thropy she has accomplished. - She takes par- Heular pains with her toiletis hefore che goes wpon these expeditions, and imagines hergelf ‘e 1,8y Bountiful whed ebe is only Miss Lagka- E. £ , Ngo pxityy DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1872, daisical Jmj inence. She does rot negle society in the lesst on account of ber devoiion to the poor, for socisty yields her the coveted opportanity to unfold the sacrifices she daily makes of her timse, her comfort, and her pin- money. £he dees vary litile good, since those on whom she bestows alms aro nsmally professional beg- gars and impostors. _Her faiher, s practical merchant, perceives the sham of his daughter's nature. but says her ‘enevolent missions will keep her ont of mis- chief until she is merried, then she will find eomething more to do. THE FASHION OF MISANTHEOPT. The misanthropic belles—rather a new variety —is ususlly quite’ pretty, as sbo onght to be %o prevent setiristd from eaying tbat her pre- tenced dislike for men is only & refiox of their indifferenca o her. She is exceedingly senti- mental and romantic ai heart, and is moved by - t speech made to her. For this very reason she may wish to cloak her genuine nature by a Gomino of crnicism. She treasures up 2il the gharp and bitter ‘bes she discovers in newspapers, novels, and plays, and hurls them 2t the nice young men who pay court to her. She has also 2 _steck of her own fo draw upon, for she is rather bright than ofh- erwice,—and she really wounds the self-lova of her adwirers more than {hey cars to show. Our pretty Timon in petticoats is vsually most Timorian'in the last of her teens; for, soon af- ter getticg out of them, temperement and youth are 80 strong that thoy tesr off her mask, and she finds herself smiling and wosping in the arms of one of the borrid men she has £0 bifter-. 1y denounced. PAULINE LUCCA. ATl these representzlive belles, and many oth- ers, ware ab Lucee's dobut at the Academy, last Monday evening, and the music of Meverbeer, and the intoxication of 3 briliizn$ audience, 80 melted their distinciions thet one coald not have been told from anothar. Laeca’s voice has ot 8s much compass as was sugposed, ‘but her notes are e:c?:ficm‘_ly clear, =nd her manner of acting, as well as singmg, i§ extremely engeging. She israther winning: striking, and grows upon you insensibly. {have heard her eeveral times 2broad, and I rerember that the last impression wzs mach more favora- hla than the first.- You can well believe she is- of Italizn blood; for she is intense and fervid to | 3 remarkable degres, aud sesms to have acer- tain magnetism which, scarcely perceptible in the beginning, inspires and holds ber audience at the end. She is not 2t il han 8, 2D still, sfter yeu have heard her, and gone ewey, youwill elways think of her, not only as a fia- ished arist, but a8 o beantiful woman. CoLsToUN. S - Gooil Fomes as a Czrefor Intempers ance. 3 E To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune s SmR: No donbt the bad results of the preva- lence of intemperacce sre meinly due to the Ppressing want of decent and good homes, in which tho people generally may te houssd inas- cordance with the reqrirements of correct and just sanitary conditions. Xi is' ihe absence of such conditions whick contributes so largely to the physical and spperent mor=] descension of the most of our ickebitants. Perhaps 800,000 of the inhabitants of Chicagolive in wooden houses, ‘with emell rooms and poor ventilztion ; the larger ‘portion a% inconvenient distances from the busi- ness centre, and too often situsied in muddy ved districts on the prairie. Thos are the bodies of €0 many sens: and their ;o;l: degraded by contact with bodily discom- orts. The manner of living. in its relation to intem- perance, is this: Out of the ignorance of sani- iary mesns on the part of those who donot ‘have them, come restiveand feverish conditions; and such conditions are morally in to_crop out in the extremes of sppetite. or drink ing is merely sn effect of & Slnesacl 1 caused by the conditions indicated. Legialation will not care the wardering of the desire; nor will edncation do this, as esperience shows it the history of educzted men, as a whole. ‘The humen body is the residence or temple of ods, or of the prinviple of power. As clearliness is next to godliness, 20 are czpacions and magnificent honsee, with 211 the modem im- ‘provemerts, of first importance as the zbodes of ‘troe nobili I have airexdy. in 2 former leiter to TEE Taisuxe, ehown bow fit rasidences for the com- mon geaple meay be erected and maintained by adoplion of the combination plan. The people unite and contribute money for gereral pur- Eflm such a8 buildicg a Court Honse or Cham- ar of Commerce, or constrnciing a lako tunnel, street paving, efc. Why noi, inconvenient companies, unite and contribute for the eake of better houses tolivein? By united asction all mey abide in edifices. 5 Tt seems puerlely absurd to attempt the ‘mental aud moral elesation of men in this con- dition of life while their physical well-being is neglected. A sound mind and steady nerve dwellin 2 cleanand well-preserved body. the young mer snd women of Chicago who stay in the wi ‘boarding-honses, with not much more than room to tum eround, and who Imow little of the Iluxrmry of social rooms in which there is a due proportion of heat and pure air,—do they expect toretain their youl vigor, 2nd give character fo their day and generstion by virtua of the highestnse of their !y:n.lgie&, from the etsndpoint of such sur- xo] g8 2 It was°P5'mxgcns, ore of the ancient philos- opbers, who dug » cavern under bis house, a0d oistered Limself in if for a year. On comin ont. ke presented the appearance of 8 sick ans fe: Iy emscizted cresture. As compensation for thus sinning against the Holy Ghost, he went out among the people and procured the, reputa~ tion of & god by reporting that he bad been in the infernal regions. The wreicked places most peoplo live in, in such cities as Chicazo, kave 3 similar effect on the person; but the dignity of being raised to a god does not come in as com- peasation for their egregions experiences. E ‘OGDEN WHITLOCE, Caicaco, Oct. 5,167 _— Apes at Gibralzar. . A correspondent of the London Telegraph, writing from .Gibraltar under date of Scpt. 16» says: “The Governor, Sir Fenwick Williams, of Tars, is popular, and makes an excellent com- mander. He and his predecessors have main- g_devnm themselves to defending the apes 2t are to be found on the rock againet hostile attacks from the garrison or town. Thess 3] are the only ml% monkeys in Enrope. ‘have been here from time immemorial, and they are reverenced a8 much as their brothers in the sacred groves of Benares. The most stringest orders 2re_issued agzinst injuring there. From the_ signal battery on the f/oz of the rock soldiers are alweys on the look-out with teles- | copes for them, and the number seen every day is registered in a book. A few months 2goa young gentlemsn amived hers, fresh from Echool, 25 en Ensign in a regimen?, Wanderin over the rock with a gun he espied 2n ape, an: a8 be thought it~ would be_ interesting to send home a2 stuffed mounkey, shot it. Tmagine the - homor of _the townznd garrison when ke led came back Mfih the streets bearing with him trium- phantly the result of his days shooting. An oficer—even an Ensign—is 2 very grest mar here. Tho inhsbitants did not dere rush upon 1he sacrilegions wretch who had slanghtered a cresture 2imost as holy as an officer. Some sat at their door steps in silent Lorror, and veded their countenances. Otkers followed the corpse of the dead 2pe to see what would Lappen toits marderer. Gibraltar was in—for it—a state of wild excitement. Wher the Ersign reached his ‘barracks, bis Colonel and .brother officers ex- lunagi;uiln himsthe ‘wfl?&a of lel'\f:b 11; had een . So great, in was the offence that it wn? felt (hgnrt the Governor =lone could deal with it. Sir Fenwick Williems is a man of 2 kindly nature; but_even bhe, I understand, thought for some time of nothing Iess than- iering the unfortunste Ensign ; while one ar two of the permanent authorities, who, on hear- ing what immediately went to the Government House o tender their advice, were strongly in favor of the ez falionis, and the En- £ign being slain, to avenge the manes of the elaughtered epe. Afier 2 lengthy discussion, he was consigued to csptivity. 1o has since been released, but he has left his own name in prison, and is now celled by every one ‘Du Chaillu.” —The cage of the Tlinois ard St. Louis Rail- road & Conl Company !fifinflb the City of St. Tonis and the Pacific Eleavator Company, was before the United Stetes Circuit Conrt, yester- dey, upon & motion for preliminary injunction. Judge Dillon, while hol ling that tho ciey ordi- io invzlid, for the reason that it substantially gave up to the .Elavaiar Company, for the term of fifty years, such ex- tensive 1ight of contract over s portion of the wherves 2s the city had no authority under the Iaw to delegete, denicd the motion, chiefly upon the ground that pleintiff would noi be injured by thie proposed construction, since the ploin- Hiff's right to use the wharf was held, subject to the figfilfi of regulstion and control, vested in the ciby, and the city might essign another por- tion of the wharf for, tifl’s use. Thisde- cision, importent as it is, is only o point, the case ig retained for ex Pro- FROW OC VCEAN. The Miimitable Wheat-Fields of California. A Game on the €ars-~-Baggaze-Smash~ ing at Counneil Biufs, The Besarreetion of Chicago Philadelphiz--Hoases for Workingmen--The Public Parke-* Stacherary.” Washingion---A Queer &Goldfish--ilore ¢ Stacherary. Frem Our Oun Correspondent. Nrw Yopx, Oct. 4. I have tired once more of the dull deily rou- tine of office-drudgery in' the Golden City; the | ol Indian spirit of restlessness and restiveness i upon me agair in irresistiblo force, and onco again T am off Zor along pasacebeyond the sees. As this is the first of whatmay bealong geries of letters from various places ard paris of the world seldom visiied by the tourist, or, indeed, by civilized man, 12t me commence at the beginring, start ont from San Fraccisco, and tell you & little of the story of my trip. FROX OCEAN TO OCEAN. I left San Francisco on the moming of Sun- dsy, Sept. 15. The sky was, a8 jt is over at this season in God’s thrice-favored lacd, clear and unclonded, snd, as I looked down on the City and Bay of San Franeisco, from the stmmit of Ressian Hill, the view was 2 glorions one,—one that I shall long remember. When shell I look upon it again? Tho white fleecy mist was rolling in through the Golden Gate, filling ihe channel which leads up to the broad Bay of San Francisco; and the mournal tolling of tke fog-bell of Alcatraz, like the deep pulsations of some great Leartin its lonely agons, produced on me, ot such & mo- ment, s strange and saddening effect. But be- foremo was the magnificent landscape of Ala- meda and Contrs Costa, and the city at my feet, becutified znd glorificd by the golden sunshine of antumn; 2nd right before me, coming down, &s it were, on e pathway of flowers stretching ont from. the farther shore, across the blus waves of the Bay, was the steamer which was coming to bear me 2way from home and friends, on a journey into foreign lsnds, and regions sirange and new. Boyond the mountains X could not see; backwards I dared rot look; God Enows what is before us =li! For nifles and miles, throngh hour after hour, our train bore us onwzrd through ike ALMOST ILLIMYTABLE WHEAT FICLDS of the Golden State. 1lilliors upon millions of bushels of ike yeilow grain lie piled in eacks on either hand along the zoad as far as {ke eye can see. pwaiting iransportation to the seaboard and e. Wln:g ‘wondrous fature has this grest State before her! Her gold has already unectiled the markets of the world; the millions of Europa are fed her ieeming granaries; her fruits ard flowers are famons in every land; and her hillsides are purple with promise of tho viztags, ‘whose generous wine skall, in every clime, mako glad the hoart of man. And yet eko is but & child in years {o-day. Who shall predict tho wonders which our chil- dren's children shall see in the ripe perfection of Der after-yeass ? The sun of California, passionate and fervid 25 tne hearts of her children, poured down upon us with overpowering intensity a8 we journeyed ' on through the Valiess of the San Jorquin and Sacramento, and, from the Sower-embowered City of the Plaing, turned towsd fhe snow- crowned Sierra in whose white peaks the Span- ish-American natives of the Coast fordly drcem- ed they £aw, brt & few years since, The snowy tents, In everlasting battleents, Against the march of Ssx0a mind. Kight found us far up among the forests of the Nerra, and the momicg davmed ou usin the dreary 'DESEBT-WASTES OF NEVADA. Oar palace-cars aro clean and comfortable, and, txgmfl the ;i::dl:l ‘;i;inv;s, tv_rhe looked uu; upon the dust; inding by the rivers; an: over the u:::imsh-eomed ‘Plains, 2long which our friends,—strong men, tired women, =nd ‘weary litile children,—toiled painfuily, month arter month, on their way to the shores of the Pacifie, twenty-three years azo. Contrast, if Tightly arrmang hices a plensing efect, And in this case it was decidedly in our favor. ‘Throngh the Valley of the Grest Salt Lake,— ho home of the Saints, God's pecaliar pooglo, and, God knows, a very peoplo they are—up though the, wild canons of the Wa- satch Aountains, and out upon the vast grassy lains of Wyaming, Col o, 2nd_Nebraska. e Rocky Xountsina, enow-cepped and lofty thongh they are, mede but a gorry show from the car-windows on the Union Pacific; and, 25 for game, wo saw onlya few dozen antelope and a few prairie-degs; nary & buffalo, nor & wild red Indizn, did we see, and our carefaily- ;o:&ind rifies and revolvers waore uscless. We £ EONE GANE [SSIE, THOUGE. — was s good game in its way; butmy er, 2 aimple yonth, with a ballet-head, hailing from Boston, or New Jersey, or some other out-of-the- Yeay foreign place, didn't know the strength of it.” No.one can tell whet I suffered ono day. Over 2nd over sgain, I told the misguided young man alweys to tzke In his jack when hehad a chance, and never trust it to the last trick; and et every time he despised the wiedom which Comes with length of days, and I saw it captured, and faze Witk it, by our encmies’ queen. Ho will learn better when his hair is silvered o'er with grey, 83 mine is; but meentime, blame him! I have had to pay for his infernal folly and wrongheadedness. Oh, innocent days of our confiding youth! how gied I am that you come not again! - Jowa is a noblo State, and presents wonderfal evidences of steady improvement ; bat they do SUASH BAGGAGE HOBRIBLY . 2nd necdlessly at Council Blaffs. I will makeit the one object of my existence {0 acquire un- ‘bounded wezlth, and come back to indulgein the luxury of revenge. I willbring a trunk con- taining nathing but 2 well-charged torpsdo, 2#d at Council Blufts I will sit mo downin the dis- tance, and watch the operations of the baggage- fiends, in_silent ex; ticn. When the big trunk is nicely poised on the edge of tho car, and then sent,like s bomb from a mortar, to the plntform below, to strike esactly upon the cormer, and burst in a thousand fragments, how will T Jaugh to gee the would-be destroyers of my property fiying in shreds through tbe air,— here aleg, and there ahead, and noé so much left of_any one a8 would enable his mother to Fecognize bis remaing 2t th inguest! Gentle youths, yon have your fun to-dey; but beware! it is my next deal, and, aa saon a8 I 2m sble to pay for s jury, you will hear from me. Hance- forth, politics, and the dollars sou bave wrung from unfortunats travellers for cording up their Ehattered trunks, will be nothing to you. From Council Bla%s to Chicazo, by the Chi- cago, Purlington & Quincy Railroad, was really the pleaeartest part of our trip. The cars are clean and comfortable; the country rickand at- tractive, if the scenery is & trifle tames and ihe Pullman dining-car 3 decided sddition to the comforts of the traveller. What splendid prog- Tess Illingis has mede as a State within tha last decsde! Next to California, I wonld surely chaose the Preirie State for my residence. rising from her ashes, fallg justy and g from her ashes, grown, lusty en beantifal ns Venus spreng fros the. Soe,—words fail o express our jon for her. It took centuries to build Imperial Rome, and ages on ages paesed while the mighty chesm of the Yo- semite wezs forming in the ite mountains; but berois a greater wonder: eitber,which has perished, and sprang up again, with new beaaty, and life, aad vigor, within_ single vear! friend in Sea isco,—1 823 Gsberger, the grest champagre-menafacturer of the Pacific Cosst,—returning from = visit to the Atlantic States, the other day, £aid to me: *I have frav- elled over most of the civilized world, and I as- sure you thaf nothing in art or rature which I bave ever bekeld so astoniehed me as the spec- tacle of Chicago rising from her ashes, 48 it were, in o 8ingle day.” I add my tes his, and repest his remark as the highest som- pliment I could vay to the indomiteble pluck, energy, and perseverancs of her people. F¥rom Chicago to Piitsburgh we travclled nearly sll the way by night, and consequently saw litile of the wmtryurthflmpk. From Pittsburgh to Alioons, over the Allegheny Moun- taing. webad ‘a .deljzhtful sfterago The trip is slways delizhtfal, tke scenery l;'efng only second o that of the Sierma Nevada: bub it has Beer. deseribed a Landred thousaod fimes, sed I will not repeat the story. . 2 PHILADELPHIA— quiet and Quaker-like as ever, bub growing Fonderfally, 2nd exhibiting everymhero oa: takable evidence of a solid and lasting procperity —pleased me more thsn ever before. The long Tows of nect, comfortable brick two-story cot- tages, baili by asscciations, for sale, on long ‘terms and esSy payments, to young mechanics, aro among the most pleasing objects one can 620 in & journey over the entize Centinent. The number of those alrendy occupied. or going up everywhere in tte suburbs of Philadolphiz, i3 almgs beyond computation, and in them I seo a Letter promise for the ameliomation of tho condition of her workingmen = and their families, and for a prosperous futore for the city itself, than I have ever scen.in any other city on 'the globe. New York is building acres on scres of great, unsight- I, showily-constructed brick and brown-stone- front barracks for cecupation by families who can Teally poorly afford to pay the rent of them, end can never hope to own them, being always com- pelled to strain themselves beyond their legiti- mete means to keep up appearances and make @ ehow which & Forld, tmd is Kuow fo be eceives the outside asham and s trans- porent deceit by their mext-door neighbors; while the sccommodations Jor those honestly Geeiring to live within their means are missra- Lly scarce and inedequste. Philadelphiz. is pur- suing a more prudent and aliogether a far wiser course, and will gain_incalcalably in the agare- gate wealth, prosperity, and morality of her ‘people in consequence. THEE GREAT PUILIC PAZR of Philadelphia is one of the greatest of the at- tractions of thecity. I am indebted to my friend, Mr. MoKean, of the Public Ledger, for a ‘most pleasant visit to this lovely placo of resort. It seems fo mo imposaiblo to add much to the quiet, but varied, beauty of the scencry of the park ; and I canuiot sey enough in praise of the ood taste of the Board of Park Commissioners, or the good taste they have displayed in aiding and assisting Neture, not endeavoring to suj plant and eXtorminate her. In mere “1orl of ext,” we cznnot hope to rival Europe for cen- taries to come, if ever, 2ad the introduction of tlorid bronzes a2nd unsalabla staiuary from Paris and_Vierna would only mar the gereral effect, and not improve the sppearatce, of this noble park, whils it would but provoke the mirth of really eaucated art-critics from abroad, and disgust those of refined taste and sympa- thics to the manner born. Which remicda me,—as our late lamented President wouid have said,— ¥ OF A LIITLE STORY. 4 On the corner of tho Zedger ofice building, fronting tho old Hall of Congress. theyr bave pleced at the second fioor o Jarge statuc of that excellont-old ;mom’ficnfian of frugality closely trenching on downright meanne2s and peruri- ousness, the late B. Franklin. The rage is re- presentcd standing erect, in the cestume of the pericd of which ho wes sk orpament and 3 shin- ing light, and Loldirg in his band 3 small bundle of ready-mado gnd very solid and cast-iron-look- ing lightning. Asit was being hoisted into its Pplice, a son of the £od, standicg on the ugpouite gide of tha strcet, harangued the crowd after this wise: *Arrah, an’isu't it a d—-a siame to seo them putfing up 8 stachy of that ould thaif oy tho worrald, Ben. Butles, 23 sn ox- am; mfmr {s sisia’ gineration, with Jis hand Full of spoon: ympa wi in Lia ninost indignation, thongh 3t was the result of e eli insist mprehonsion of fects, I mast stl taclicrary ™ is not likaly to be op- 8t ¢ preciatod by the mass of our people for some- time to ccmo; por will the so-cailed works of art with which every ambitious city on the Atlantic Coast is pow baing profucely acomed tend in any appreciable degoee to tio elevation and re- quirement of the tazie of the * riain’ ginera- tion.™ * From Philadelphia I went *through Balti- mora ™ 0 . WASEINGTON. Did anvtody ever ses or hear of sach a mis- crable, Ged-foreaken, lonely, contempiibio place 25 Washingior when Congress isnot i session 2 If snybedy knows of sucther sach, let him koep it all to himself ; I want cone of it. Wentdown and took a look a¢ that great, ugly, balf-finished factory chimney which they call th Monament. 3 it was not finished and prooab! Then I wect op to the gt Came awey thanking Heaven that I7 never will be. a‘{:itol building, whers and dell, snd deserzed. o re’ saedding their hing was dripping irom tho last night's raie. In lhcnfll—f;c:\d up mear the reer entrancs to the Capitol. I saw about a balf- dezen monstor goldfisl, closely resembling i size x0d color o mauy California rock cod, svimming delefully aboui, =ad looking liko overythinz clse, danp, ous of epirite, and un- comfortadle. One of them afected a pocciisri- ty. He pensisted in swimming ell the fime O 1S RACE. . I watcked him for half an hour, and e never tarned over onea during the whols time. Now, @c you Lnow that circumstance ka3 worried ma ana given e no rest of mind from flat ime to ihie. What did he do that for? Canit be possi- ble thet the prevailing rottenncss and corrnp- tion everywhere manifested in Washington bave extended to the dumb brates, snd that even the fishes aro becoming alizod? Is it poesible thal wes spectzble, honeet 1ish, an advocate of Civl a res; Service Reform, ond common daceacy in the mansgement of public_adairs, bat, in za evil ‘moment, had succurbed, as meny anoticr scaly customer had done, and 80ld Limself ous to tho Administration? If such is the case, Idon’t blame him for not wanting to show his face; there iRt be & good many people_alter clection who will feel intho same way, and comato tke conclusion that they kave exhibited themsclves to an admiring congtituency in much the samo position. From the mill-pond I went sround to *ho main entrance of the Capitol, and stopped to look at the two wonderfal GBOUPS OF STACAERARY which flank the doors of the Ro:uada. Onsof these gronps repreents Herr Ecckbiemer, of Day & Martin's Celabrated Circus, doing his Wonderful Cannon-Ball Feat, whilsons of the female oquestrians of tho company IS stripping for the ring, beside him, looking up meentize in anxions apprehension lost ke should accidentl; riscuo and let the ball fall from his outstretche band znd b her foetinto pancales. Tho effect ia s 5. but it would bo more so if he ehould Iax his gripon thebell. The other group reprosents Afr. John McCullotgh, the eminent tragedian, in his great character of The Jibbe- nainoeay, or Nick of the Woods, going for en Indian's ecalp, whils a very &gaor ly-clad fe- mals sits quictly by, with a naked babyin her arms, evidently interding to ask his opinion as to whether the childis threatened with hydro- cophalus, 3s s00n 28 the little nnpleasantnoss betwecn hira and the Indian is over. Then I went and lIooked in at the great bronze- doors at the batton-holing room kmown as the Botunds. and then turned zround and walked awsy. If some fature Rebel General, Lee or Jackson, skonld reid it into Washington, and, in holy iconoclastic fervor, smash those groups of o erary ” into ten thousand fragments, and raze to its foundations that squatéy sbortion and architectural abomination, the Capitol building, I could find it in my heart to forgive them bol Since I left Weshingion, I have been clear ort to tho end of the lend in New England, where the sun rises, and Iwill tell you whatTIeaw there, and by the way, in my nast. 4dios! ALTAMONTE. —The Benk of Califc msade regular 1 per cent monthly dividends uring the year, amount~ ing to 8600,000. —We lcarn that the Milwankoe & St. Paul Railroad Company are driving piles over the Black River, and slougas opposite the old smoke- stack on_the Minnesota sgg;-s,r_mi will lay = track and run their cars there, and do their trensferring at thet point. Thisisinterded as a winter bridgoe to the road on the west side of the Llissiseippi River, and is where that Company asied for the bridge to be located.—Za Crosse Leader. — Biddeford (Me.) local editor writes: “A 1ady of this city was surprised tho other dey to find a bird's nest conningly wronght in hzir on tho window-£ill of her chamber, the material of which the littlo warblor hed siolen from the dressing-ichle of this lady.” How did he know sho kept her falee hair on the dressing-tsble? —Ti 16 gaid that the Ieland of Si. Helenn is gredually ceasing to ba a rendezvous for ehip- Ping, and_that the English Government docs Dot ragard it now as of much importance. The falling off in the number of vessels calling 3t the islard is dne to the & divergic of the East- ern irade Zrom the old roaie o the new one, zia tie Snez Canal. —The 1essage of Governor Converse to the Vermont Legisfature shows thas only $113,000 of tho public debt is unprovided fors recom- ‘mends legislation to equalizo the burden of tax- ation, now distributed in the various counties ith ‘gross inequality; suggests prblicnid to schools and colleges where military dsill is taught; advises better sanitary and humanereg- ulations inthe State Asylam’ for the Insane ab Braitleborough, hints at the cnsctment of & Siste constabulary law. and declares that the tste should have a better measure of protec- tion against foreign and perheps worikless in- sorence companies. At tho eamo time he sag- gests, in conclusion, that there is more dunger 1rora-£00 mych thap Trom too litile lezislation. l , THE SOUTH., Speech of Governor Walker, . of Virginia, at Phila- delphia. FeLLow CITIZENS : 1f is 8 source of profound gratification to e that the peoplo of Pennsyl- venia, the old Ecystone State of the Union, are raliving £0 heartily end earnestiy to tho suppork of Liberalism and the Liberal ticket. The peo- ploof this city, f2mous as “ tha City of Broth- erly Love,” shonld atand shoulder to shonlder in 10 groat stzuggle in which we are now engage —a strnggla which lins for its object tho rostora. tion of real peace, purc government and frater- n:\:ll{elxfionis :oiui\':'wl.m_lu co&nttry ” 8 peoplo of inia,—that is, the real sub- stantial. pgogla,—thlraa who pay the taxes and havo an sbiding interest in the well-teing and gmsparity of the Stete, wore never more united, armorious, and determined in any catse than they now ore in the snvpaxt of Greeley and Brown. And this remarkable unanimity of sentiment canrnob be aseribed to the efforts of our leading men. It is rather o spontaneous welling up from the great massof tho people, And what is true of Virginia is substentially truo of the entire South. In fact, it has been asserted that Mr. Grecley was. indebted for his nomination,and will be indebted for his election, in a Jarge mecsure to the peopls of the Sonth. He belioved the sasertion to be_substantially trae. Do yonask the canses and the signifii- cance of this unanimity of sentiment at the South forhl[!. Greexoy; D; ylan wm.llder et the siranga phenomenon of a whole people rising up 22, Wth slmost unaaimous volee, proclelns ““wo will bavenone other but this man to over ns, albeit ho was our ancient political foo 2” It meay, indeed, scem strange to the uninformed ; but, correctly und and eppreciated, in- stead of being suspected or sf:dmnd by the people of the North, it would be hailed with joy and welcomed with the hearticst enthusiasm. And this fact is as well known 2s it is thoronghly feared the lesders of tkhe Administration forces. Hence the tremendous efforts which they are making to mislead and deceive the people as to the real significance of the enthusi- asm ol the South for Liberalism and the Liberal ticket. For this reason tho dying embars_of the late civil war are being ed over and fanned into.life, and the most absurd _ desires and impossible intentions escrived to the Somthern peoplo. They evem heve the hardihood to sssert that, by the clec- tion of KIr. Grecley, the South hopes nnd- ex- pects to achiove what it failed to accomplish by the war. Butit is a bold assertion, wmitkout a scintilla of procf to sustain it. Seven years 2go, when the Southern cross went down on tBe plains of Appomattox, the original cause of the struggle went down and was entombed with it. The advocates and sdhercnts of the doc- trine of secession appesled to the sword forits’ finel arbitrament, and, though the docisions went_ageinst them, no verdict was ever ren- dered which met with more tnivereal acquies~ cence. This subject, which hed sgitated the publio mind at times with threatening violence from the foundation of the Govarnment, was finally and forever eettled, and the people who expended_their blood and ' treasure in its ‘main- tenance will be the very last toattempt its resus- citation. Ifsecession ever raises its threatening front azain, it will not be on the sunny plaing of the Soutk. It is nlso charged by some of these mandecions peoplo that by the election of Mr. Greeloy the South hopes to secure the pay- ment of the Confederate war debt, pensions to Coniederzte soldiera, and compensation for the proporty in eleves lost by emancipation. PBut whers i8 the evidence? IS it to bo found in the Liberal platform, or the utterznces of our can- didstos, or any of their supporters? Does nob every Sonthern State Constitution, which the people have adopted, as weil as the Fourteenth Article of the Federal Constitution, which the Soathern g‘goplo Lava ratified absolulely and in terma robivit the nszamption or peyment of any and all such claims. Yo aocomplish this ob- ject would requira- the amencment nol only of the Federal Constitution, bat also the Constitu- tion of nemly every Stato in tho South. He would undertske to eay that if to-morrow euch ar amendment were submitted to a vote of tke people of the several Soothern States, i weald be voted down by = largo majority. Tho people of these States are alreedy straggling under 3 weight of taxa- tion,—both Siete and National,—which utterly grgzhdcs any Gasite for any inercase of it, Tho Stitos waich adhered to the Confedorney ere less thsu one-third of tho whole number of Sictes, 2nd contain less shan onc-third of tha popula- ion of the Neticn, and yetit reqnires the con- <emrrence of three-fourths of all thd Stetes to zmend the Federal Constitution. Horw, then, woald is be possible, under these cireumstances, Lo sccomplish such o parposs, evenif it were entertained? Bct thero is no evidence *hat-such 2 desite ever had any exisienco_ationg the Southern peczle. and their enikusiesm for Mr. Grecloy ke no sach inpiretion. < Another reeson asmgred by your opponerts for the marvellous unsnimity of sentimeni which prevails among {hoe Southern people in beaelf of the Liberslcause, is the hopo that, through its irumph, thoy may be froed frem tho burders of Federal debt and Federal tax- ation. And agzain I call for ths evidsrce. ‘Where can it be Zonad, and of what does'it con- eist? The fourteenth ariicle of the Federal Constitytion esiablishes the inviolability of the public debt end Thevo saorm what &a impossi- lo ucdortaking it wonld be o cloar away this insapcrablo obstruction to ropudistion. Tke Liberal platform declares that the public credit must b eacredly maintamed, and demonnces “ repudiaticn in evory form and gniso;” and Mr. Greolor, in his Ieitex"accepting the nomination, puts it ovea more emphatically, when he svows * that tho public faith muss, atall hazards, b maintsined 2nd the national eredit proserved.” Now, the Fourteenth Article of the Constitation bas been colemnly ratified by every Souihern State, and te Liberal platform and 3fr. Gree- ley’s Jetier of accoptance havo keen cnthusiasti- cally indorsed by all their Southern supporters. Can there bo fonnd in these zcts of the South- ern Liberals any justification that tiey are hops ing or leboring ~ for repudiation in any respect?. Scarch through the Southern press and or- geos of public sentiment, the declarations of Ber public men and the resolutions of her pub- lic mestings and conventions, and'I dofy vou to find any utterances not in strict harmony with theeo ‘their volun! acts. Not only has the charge no foundation in fact, and no posaible excuse can be fourd for it ex- mgot in the consciousness of thoss who make it that repudistion, State and national, cught to be the natural and legitimata result of their treatment of the South. The supporters of this Administration plame tham- sclves Tpon its magnificent financial policy. With pride and cxultstion they point yon to premizm which our bonds command, the annuel reduction of thonational debtand the prospesity which novertheless seems to provail. and with spparent confidenco agsert that all this is evi- dence of the wise menagement and comprelien- give statesmanship of the present Administra- tion, and consequently that 'a furthor lease of porwer is absolutely eszential to the longer con- tinuzzce of thesoinestimable blessings. ~ An un- tarnished public credit_and uai ‘prosperity &ro nssuredly great national blessings, and it is the duty of every patriot to maintzin the one and labor to eacure tha other. Bat the preser- ~ation of iho former is to a largo extent depend- ent upon the prevalonss of the atter. In fact, the ability and disposition of the people to re- epond to taxation form the very basisgf public crodit. Therefore, while truo #atesmon- ip with jealous care the nstional honor, it 15 equally mind- ful of the mecens by which that honor is to be maintained. While enltivating a high tone of national sentiment and a*lofty patriotism, it sodulously fosters all those agen- cies by which the Prnsperity of the people is enhanced, their wealth increased, and {heir hop- sineus secared. Tested by these plain and fun- inmental principlep, how stends the much- vaunted policy of our adversarics—n policy whick they have not only maintained in the past, but are now neeking by all the means and sppli- ances ip their power to perpetuate ? , = stead of securing the happiness of the peopls, it hasbut added to their distresses; instead of udmg in the incrazse of their prosperity and wealth, it has interposed numerous and mnmec- esqaary obstacles to their sdvaucament; and in- Btcad of establisking the national finances npon 2 firm and enduring basis it has besn sx}fl)mg the very foundstions of public credit? Theso ara bold, it may be startling, assertions, but he :gpafled with confdence to the history of the e past_ seven years 8o vindicate their truth. At the boginning we kehold a great nation emerging from ono of the most gigantic inter- necine warstho world bad ever witnessed—a a les bound tegether by a common lineage ommon _languege, com- mon interests, 8 common history 2nd s common destiny—a war in wkich ono gection had trinmphed over another, and Ieaving as a commor heritage t0 both sections an enormous public debt nn‘:‘.’ = vasl volume of irredecmablo and deprociated psser carrencr. Tho indusiry of tho Nozth Lad, to a considerable extent, boer: 'warpad into charoals peculiar to a state of war, and bogotten by its necossitios, whilo many of the industries ce hed been dwerfed ‘into Littlegess or _destroyed -altogether. Qur mer- war waged botween . zod leg dis[ranchissment of the wiites was the essence |- chiznt marine has been swept from the ocean and our rt trade almost anuihilated. - The unstable cl ter of our currency, and the reckless spirit of speculation ent’ therato, unsettled yalnos and “begot confusion and un- certainty in_all branches of business, While this chaotic condition of affsirs provailed throughout the North'at the clese of the \war, what was the condition of the surrecdered Souti:? What was the result to the people of that portion of tho conntry within whose borders the four years' ierriblg contest had beon al- most wholly waged? Almost universal bank- raptey. wholo social system hed teen ghottored, and their labor = system utterly destroyad. The freedom of tho slaves had enslaved their masters, During the four years of supreme effort and 2goty ilieir country was t isolated from the outer world and then rav- 2ged and destroyed by the incursions of a victo- rioas foe. Their labor sysiem was firel organ- ized ard destroyed altogether; their plantations fell oug of caltivation ; their railroads were de- stroyed, their banks ruined, towns destro; their currency and bonds and stocks in which their all wds invesied rendered worthless; and together with all was engulfed in this same com- 2 £ | mon riin their investment in mines, mills and other.industrial and commercizl estsbliskmgnts. Sucli uniyersal fuin, perbaps, nover bafore pre- vailed in'any conntry. In tbis great metropolis, drawing your sustenance and wealth from un- numbered sources; reaching out your arms zot only to this but to o‘her coutinents, and gather- ‘ing in tho mnumbered prodiits of | the world. for yoar happiness and prosperity, Jittlo appreciste the fesrr;gl exluusfiar;:, tgglzerflhle woe and suf- fering of the South at the close of the war. With these conditions of utter exhaustion, suffering and want provailing at tho Sontk, and the disor- ganization of indusirinl, commercial, and finan~ cisl _affsirs of the North, was the supreme need of the hour? To what should those con- trolling the Governmiont have addressed them- selves with earnest, honest, and patriotic dovo- tion? Why, to the prompt, complete and pe:- manent pacification of tke country and the ad- justment of the burdens of taxation so asto meot the absolute necessizizs of the Govern- ment, and 2t the samo time permit and even en? cournge the restorstian of our commercial mar- ine and lost commerce, and crippled industries and disordered currency, as well as the resusci- tation apd recuperstion of the desolated and im- poverished South. Tho condition of public sen- timent both North and South was favorable—yes, ripe—for the inauguration of this broed an stetesmanlike policy. At th ing, ruined by the terrib carnoge, wes heard high nbove the wails of an- uish and distress, the cry for peace end restera- tion. Satisfied with the utter failure of the fearfal experiment she had made, she was ready to accept any reasonable terms which might be prescribed; whilo the North, in the plentitude of her j? over the victory won and the Union preserved, was disposed $0 bo magnenimous &3 well a3 just. Hore was.prescnted omo of those rare opportunities for the exhibition of lofty patriotism and profound siatesmanship Tarely vouchsafed to any man or set of men. Had the Government 2uthorities of this nation been equal to the occasion, the legitimate ro- sults of the war might have been permanently & and the whole country restored to peace, and started fresh upon a new career of rity in & few brief months. Wise, pru- Ew, and patriotic_councile, however, did not prevail. e President, without, a8 it was con- tonded, competent authority, tndertook the ‘business of roconstruction on his own account. And, although his plan wes radically defestive, the South were compelled to acept and_adopt it under pein of heing donounced a8 still To- bellious. Congress overthrew the Presideniial plan, impeached and tred the President, and substituted in its n{:llwa ‘military governments, which were eventually superceded by civil gov- ernments, organized upon terms and accord- ing to conditions prescribed by itself. Near- v six years elepsed from the surrender a% Apporamitox before all the Stetes wero fully ~ represented in Congress, and thst wnole period was one of doubt, distrust, confusion and uncertainty in the South. Its cople were the residnary legatees of =il the Bate wnd animosity. sogaidor by the long and bitter straggle botween the President and Con- ss. The President denounced them if they | not promptly dopt his plan of reconstzuc- tion, an Cnnfin punished them becavse they did adopt it. The President ignored negro sui- frage, bt Congress imposed it 38 2 condition precedent 1o restoration, and, while enfranchis- ing ell the blacks, disfrenchised il the leading whites. The President confided ikLe recorstruc- tion of these States to the whito peaple, Lut Congress sought its accomplishmens through the instramantality- of . the - uegroes, the white scalaws and carpet-baggers from the Norih. Keithor plan cf reconstruction was wholly icht, nor was either entircly wrong. The en- franchisement of tho negro was the inevitaole timate resuls of emarcipation; but the of Late, folly, and wrong. The same policy which diclated disfranchize- ment withheld ampesty, and to-dcy protests sginst “anoking hands scross -iho bloody b ™ concoived in buto and selfish amkition, end nurtared solely for the perpetnation of par- tian power, its results to the material interests of the South have been rore disestrous than gren, tho four sears of actual war. m{vhuivegf e Congressional policy completely triumpl Wherave States wre radicaized, and tho Gov: ernment organized and controlicd by the igno- rant negroes and their corrupt alifes, wrong, an- zrehy, end corruption followed as inevitably as night follows day. Taxation, in some instances, was incrcesed to such gn extentas o almost pro- ‘hibit production, and State debts were contracted beyond the possibility of peyment. And what have these States to show for this enormozs in- cresse of tho burdems of the peoplo? Have they any great public improyements? Any or- ganized systcm of public sciools, or institutions of learning founded? Anything conducive to tho happiness, tho_advancement, or prosperity of tho peoplo? Heve theso advastzges mc- eruod to thess people which alono Justilyiho in- crease of the public bardens and warrint the expenditure of the public trecsure? have the Carolina® Georgia. Florid, or any of these States to exhibit for their doubled, trebled sndquandupled texation,but bankrupt treasuries 22d dishonored and ruined credit. Tha talo of Wwrong and suffbring, of robbery, peculation end crime, which theea people hsve endured, finds no parallel in-history. Their industries havo beex paralyzed, their prosperity stitled.the trea- suries robled, thoir rights of property and per- sonal liberty invaded, and yet the vampires who fattened by their distresses e tho zealons ad- vocates of this Administration, and the recipi- ents of its sympethy and supporf. Bui_not alono by robbery and corruption have these Rad- ical State Governments, these foster children of - the Administration, earned the contempt and detestation of the people. They have failed to faith{ally administer the laws and preservo the public peace. They have not only bronght them- selves and public suthority into contempt, but they bhavo permitted, if nob emcouraged, lawlessness and crime. Disordar and violence aro tho legitimate fruits of weak snd corrupt government, and whetever they hava occurred -In the Soutll they are tracenble directly or indi- rectly to the inefiiciency or connivance of tho Tocal State authoritics, and yot there is not one of these Radical Stete Governments, though rooking with corruption, end contemptible for its_irediciency, which has not received the aid and countenance of this Administration. Toyalty to the Administration is the eovereij test, the sole requircment, exacted. No matier how much the peoplo are oppressed; no matter how mach thelr hopes are blighted and their ‘prospects withered, if thoy aro only loval to the party of the Administration they receive its countenance and support. The milliczs of State debts that have been piled up since the war, and the consequent enormous increase of taxztion, Thave 8o crippled the people and prevented. the influx of population 2nd capital as {o render ‘prosperityand advancement, 60 essential to them and to tho nation, next to impossible. Tho States of Virginia, Tennesree, and His- souri cacceeded in wrenching their State Gov- ernments from the hands of theso peopls, and in exch of these States you hear of neither cor- ruption or frauds, neither wrong nor disorder, but everywhere low is supreme, orderis main- tained, and crime is punished. These threo State Governments are administered in the in- terests of tho people, and not of party. Thay wero organized by the ple themselves, and sgeinst the active opposition of the Administra- tion. Tnstead of bLeing aided, countenanced, and sustained by the Agminismfion, as was its Agg, they have been frowned upon and treated with coldiness and reserve. No fostering hand has been held out to them, but, on the contrary, embarrassments have been interposed to the gwpe! administration of Stato Iay In these States you hear of no frandulent increase of the State debts, no migappropriation of public funds, no Ku-Klux disorder. These exist only in thoso States loval to tho Administration and sus- tained by it. Are not these facts the highest svidence that the attempt to reconstract these States in tho interest ef party and for party purposes was not only s wrors and outrage upon the people themselves, but un in- calenlable injury to the nation itself. These Statos constitufe, as I bave said, noarly one- third of the Union, and their prosperity and re- cuperation was 28 necessary, if nof more neces- 62ry, to the prosperity of the wholo Union than of any othor scction. True policy would have dictated their prompt pacification, restoration, and regupergtion, thus enlargiog rather than re= siTicting the source of public revenue. - Here lies the great error of the policy which has bee . pursnod_ towards these gex}cle. It sought, 1 entagonism of racos, to tuld up the powerof, party, even though it wers done’ =t the expen of fbo bess interests of the peoploandof-£. nation.. Am I no: right, therefors, i theso facts, in agserting that the policy of tb Administration, metesd of placimg the Hnsnci Fairsupens Srm aad enfinr&nfibsm, 2as roth cd io sap the very foundations of pubi ? Pob noi alone in its reconsirucic, hssits tondency been this wise. I Ko -the cxbansted condition States &% the close of the wn these I kave indicated the pelicy which sheuld hay been purened towerds them, bub there is of othier clement of this Adruinistration polis * which deserves note and consideration. Itprid itself upox tho annusl rednction of thenatioa . debt. Now.in the eshansted condition of it Sautlern-Stafes znd the ‘confusion which mo: - or less obtaincd in the fivencial and commerci affairs of the Narth ef the close of the war, tru policy would have dictated tho reduction of ia ation to the lowest degree consistent with th-- maintenarce af the public credit. Public ered tors are satisfed whan their obligations are ms - at maturity, and their faithin our socurities: ; not increased by exhaustivo atiempts to pa them earlier. Public croiit is baved not oot upon the honor of the peoplo ard the premp: ness with which they meet their obligations, bt also mpon their ability to meet them, and b E:licy which should have been establisied shonl w7e been snch as to increase rathor than dimit ish their sbility to psy. The keevy nation:’ taxation has unnecessasily dwarfed the indur tries and commerco of tho South. The Stat. of Virginic alone- annmally pays into th public treasury double tho amount neceesary t mee? her correct State liabilities, Suppase tha the proportion of this sum which i8 used aricg the national debt beforo meturing wer eft with the people,how much more rapid woub: be their recuperaiion snd the consequent er largoment of the basis of credit. And what & true of the South is to gome extent true of ih:%: North. While prosperity - prevails in_somsi brenchcs of bupiness, it is utier dwarfed in others. ¥our years ago I stood uj on tho Liverpool docks, those monamsnis o commercisl eniorprise ard forosight, snd sn ok | erchant eaid to me, “* Look upon that forpst 03 masfs whick Gl te=t herbor, and tell me if yong .can aeo thy Americen- fiog floating anywhere. T took his glass and made the survey. lowherd was seen the “ stars and siripes” floating in shef ‘reeze ; aud he eaid to me ** You may come here; every day for months, and you will never see it; aad vet ten years ago vou conld searcely see nny, other flag on & morchant ship in this harbor buy the Americon.” What was irue in 1868 is kma to-day. Oturimmonse carrying trsde, which in former yeurs cnriched” our people, by the oppression of tawice laws, was 5 destroyed, 2nd has mever been sbis tq revive. Does this Iook like a wise policy 2 It ie 8aid that the people &ro preeperous ; and, if this, bo true, why Is it that our eatire labor eystem i€, in constant disordar through tho trikes -off workmen end artisans ? I tell you that the pal-} icy of coninzing to pay our debt in advance of; ith matarity compels tho mainterdnce of 2 £ve- tem of taxition oppressive to our people, acd! destructive of our test interests. Especiaily is this iruo of ihe desolated amd impoveriske South. Those people zre willing to meet the just roquirements of tke_Government, sad they have no disposition to shiz: the just responsi- i/ bilities imposed upon thom ; they have no de-: T sira to repudiate the pablic debt, er free them- selves from necessary texation; but thoy do prox . test against unnccessary burdens, ageinst the - policy which hes dishonicred their State crodit, hem into Lreirieyable debt. robbed ihec -of their substance, -und- provented either teis . andfiafion or resuscitation. The for Liberalism and the -Liberal ticketis notbe- gotten of any desire to secure_tko peymsnt’ of ' any debt prohibited by ‘Lo fundamental lar, nor. is it inspired by any hope Of rolease fromime- cessary Federal tazation. If rather comes from their earnest and longing desira for real % peace, honest government, and restoration of fraternal relnzions cf the whole people cf ths nation. There bas nover been a day or en konr since ths war elosed, whep the people of the: South wvere-not earzesily alixious for pesce axd ! the restoration of the Union, They aze caxiona 4 to resume their places i the Union cf fathers, and to comprise and msinin t2e rg- complished changes in the fundamental Iaw. Aag, above all things, do they deeire tiie Lealing Tp of the terrible wounds_of waz, the pacifos- tion of the conntry, and the complats restcza tion of ity and concord througi:oct the xia The upaximity. of .sentimeni 2dr BLr. Greeloy | srizich prevails ihronghoat tho Sonth springm -from these sconrcag, 2ud none other. zetor and conduct towards them sinc wary kis known ldndness of heart and heresiy of zod- the Liberal : purzess, his public pledses D e ttonm of principlen to which ho kes srbozs ot ok tratilonte and vuppest. interests of peace, and with ike £opo of pw ing, harmomizing ‘eud uniting the peopls and tko Government of this counwry, they you tho rignt hond of feilowship, 28d = 3sith conidencs in tue Sincerityof facir mc i “ ghzke. Lands zeross the Dioody | . Congroing Workingmen’s Vorcs. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc: A Sm: Tss Tereose's timély article, *“Irsnee~ tors of Elections,”in a lste Bunday issue, calls to0.my mind the necessity of gomething cise to .ba dona, and for the accomplishment of which L. * already long 2go, turned it vain 6 cuo of the city-papers now sesking its sheze of glory, &c., among the pertissn worshippers of _straight- jacket ‘“Republicecism.” How workingmen's votes are controlled, is au old story; snd, esloag as things romaix: o3 they are, it cannot ba hessd toojofton. Hera it is a3ein: 7T, as & Ropubiicen, end my nest-dooy neight 2 Democrat, kavo often, in years padt, had & on politics; and, in our dizcussions coacer the merits and demerits of our respcctive ties, we nover could heip sgreeing Tpon thing, namely: that thero is 2sot of anprine men in both perties, who cuglt to lose * franchise forover, or be shut up within tae pra on-wails. I happens 50, you see, thet I am emnloved b o Democratic firm:, and my neighbor by & leprb lican; and, whenever an elestion comes round, our rospective employer, or our boss, oreomeond . elso,—accidentally, of course,—lats us know his meaaing a3 to the personages or measures to by ~oted for; and. if—a3 I havo sometimss done— 1 bave said tint I don't know {ht, I have more ] 2d such answer 8s, ““DBut you G0 yoa undarstand? You must!™ And so my noighbor about the sams. . Now, &it, 23 wa aze both of us depondext .on onr employar for the support of oar frulics, and Iabor I's3 not_always been, end may not z2lways bo, 20 eesily gof as st presont, you may ‘e sure taf sometimes w6 havo, not been very slow.to inkb the hint, thus forsed to trespass n our consciencas, sad submit to tho tyzanny of our mesters. Bub what right, moral, Togal, or otherwige, bavo such fellow-citizent to de- prive v3 of oar political, any more .than of our Teligious freedom; or to crush our Somse, What- ever it be, of political right or. wrong, and thus make us political slsves and hypocrites, or in- different to our political duiy, immoral, de~ ed ? - But this isnot sll. For, as.they-naturally doubt such forced political promises, on elec— tion day anyone may seo from the early hotr tili Iete, 5 host of loaferssuch mer's hired help- crs and helper’s helpers—around 2nd in’ the vi< cirity of each poll, not only offering. tocir mas- ter®or their master’s master’s ticket to their poor and dependent acquaintances smopg the ~oters, but thrusting it upon them, and drag- ssing ue,—for I talk from porsonal experience, 33 well as from many observations,—dragging TS hurridly to the polls, meanwhils steadily watch- ing that we do not have s chance to axchan; the ticket on the way, and closely glancing at ticket as wa cast it, and that with a boldness impudence, as if they feel that they themselves: are the voters, votiig by proxy; and—off they loaf in search of another victim. : ust we tolerate How long—oh! how long—mt and bear sn%h an ouf mgflns land of boasted freedom? There is much falk of ‘‘fres country,” “freo citizen,” “free balloh” &e.; but where, on election days, for instancs, all thag freedom comes ir, we do not see; perhaps be- cauge theso election-honnds have absorbed the whole element of freedom, and, by.virtue of its contact with their basely-gelfish natures, per- vorted that blcafl;nisvintn a curse, freedom nto oppression and sldvery, and thus the funds- ‘mental principle.of our Government into a sham. Are lt}nergfl;:t, bcfoxx': the flé‘h{« of eliiin;, 5:51 enough, weeks enough, m enough, to “ad- vamug” vulifim! nghonflmmd chase political gamo? Must the “free citizen,” even on tha olitical Sabbath-dzy.—that of _election,—bs Jounded and chased gven up to that very altsr where ho is to give his mite, that ‘freetallot,” for. the eake audin the namo of his couniry; and that without any protection, or even pro= testation ? Lift up your voice, oh yo TRIBUNES, for the peopls’s rights, and sgainst .guch’outrageous wrong, until the evil 18 remedied and justice done; and, as sure as God lives, faat, people shnll keep your effort fresh in memory, and honoritsdebt. - . S €scago, Oct, 7, 1873