The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-17 00:00:00

IHE AMERICAN PRESS.

The Nation reminds Americans that they must
bear in mind that the best informed foreigners com-
prehend American politics very imperfectly, at-
taching great importance to utterances at which
Americans only laugh. Foreigners understand
one indication of public sentiment, and that is
majorities :--
"If repudiation be the principal issue in a campaign, and
the Republican party meets it by a large majority, Ameri-
can credit will rise. If they meet it by small majorities in
a largo vote American credit will fall, because the impres-
sion will gain ground that the repudiators aro after all
gaining in strength. Until, therefore, the national finances
aro placed on a sure and lasting foundation there should
be no off-years' in politics. It is not enough for us to
know here that repudiation has no chance ' • the wend has
to be made to know it. The Treasury is dependent now
for the success of its p'an of reducing the public burdens
on steady Republican support. It is not enough to elect
our candidates; wo have to elect them iu such force as to
show that Republican principles are losing none of their
hold on the popular mind."

As American credit is largely, and must continue
to be largely dependent on foreign judgment of
American affairs, it is necessary for the Republican
party to speak out. Mr. Boutwell's policy so far
in its very success is injurious to American inte-
rests, because in raising the credit he has raised the
value of the very bonds he is buying for the nation.
If the Republic is to benefit, it must be in selling
Four or Five.per Cent. Bonds at par, but as it is
improbable that such Bonds would be taken in a
country where money so valuable as in the United
States they must go abroad. It is evident that the
.Nation considers Mr. Boutwell to have been cor-
rect in his speech at Philadelphia in addressing him-
self to the erfect on the credit of the country likely
to result from the majorities in the States of Penn-
sylvania and Ohio The same piper thus discusses
Alaska :

' Our readers may remember—and if not, they could
have predicted it—that Mr. Seward, when he was at Sitka,
made a very contented little speech to the inhabitants, in
which he pitied them for only ono thing—that the weather
was so warm as to make the supply of ice for drinking pur-
poses a very uncertain one. The people were healthy, the
coast- line was 26,000 miles long, the climate had been criti-
cised in outside circles' as wet and cold ; on the contrary,
it was one in which, while the eagle soared, the humming-
bird fluttered, fish were most abundant and most excellent,
and the moonshine surpassed any other in the world.
But if the papers do not misrepresent him, Gen. George
H. Thomas, who is a careful man, takes a view of affairs
there which is not so rosy. There is not business enough
transacted, he says, to do anything like pay the salaries
of the revenue officers who have been sent up there ; grain
will not grow, anJ the small vegetables that can be raised
will keep but a very little time; the territory was always
a burden to Russia, who was &ad to get rid of it ; timber,
fur, and fish are to be had in plenty a great deal nearer
the States than Alaska; no mines have been discovered
which it would pay to work; stock-raising is impossible;
and, in brief, the place is of no value. But then, on the
other hand, Mr. W. II Dall, who probably knows more
about the country than Mr. Seward or General Thomas,
says that Alaska was by no means a burden to Russia, but
paid into the Imperial Treasury between 1811 and 1862
about two millions of our paper dollars in taxes ; that vege-
tables do not rot in a little time, for that he has eaten tur-
nips in March which had been gathered the September
previous; that there is no such timber for ship-building
anywhere else on all the Pacific coast as the abundant
yellow cedar of Alaska ; that the mines of marble and coal
are also the very best on that coast, and so on. in brief,
says Mr. Dell, the place is of great value. When, we won-
der, since the days when one explorer found an El Dorado
up some southern river and cities walled with solid silver,
and another explorer the next season found only ague and
naked savages on the same shore, has a civilized Govern-
ment bought a pig in a poke more decidedly than we seem
to have done in the case of this purchase ? The only thing
that seems certain about it is that there is good shooting
after you get there. As to St. Thomas, meantime, wo aro
still where we were—in a position that the Senate Com-
mittee of Foreign Affairs ought to find embarrassing, and
that certainly is sufficiently humiliating to the rest of us."
The Philadelphia Public Ledger says :.
" The Revised Constitution of New York, about to be
submitted .to the voters of that State at the coming elec-
tion in November, it is asserted, restores to a great extent
the power which was vested iu the Governor uuder the
Constitution of 1823, which was in force for twenty-four
years, that is, until 1847. Previous to 1823 there existed
a Council of Revision, composed of the Chancellor the
Judges of the Supreme Court and the Governor, which
body held a veto paper over the acts of the Legislature,
and virtually vested the control of legislation in the hands
of the Governor. There also existed a Council of Ap-
pointment, composed of the Governors and four Senators,
which was a cumbrous machine, the source of all the pa-
tronage of the State offices. The Constitution of
1823 abolished the two Councils, and placed the
veto power solely in the hands of the Governor, and
vested the power of appointment in the Governor, sub-
ject to the approval of the Senate and in the two houses
of the Legislature. The New York Constitution of 1847
changed this ccndition of affairs, removed nearly every
appointment to office from the Governor, reduced the
term of office of the Senators, and, it is asserted, caused
the Legislature to become either the prey or the ally of a
corrupt lobby. It appears to be generally believed in New
York that the Constitution of 1847, at present in force, has
proved to be a failure in reference to the proper filling of
public offices, and that the powers of appointment, now
scattered over the State, should be placed in responsible
hands. The Constitution of 1869, about to be approved
or disapproved on November 2d, restores to the Governor
and to the Governor and Senate a portion of the authority
possessed by them in early times, and enlarges the term
of the Senators from two to four years, one -half of that
body retiring every two years.
The following article on Bridget and Chang ap-
peared in the I ribune, and produced the touching
tale which Mr. Jones tells below :—" The kitchen
problem is becoming an imminent peril. Whether
Mr. Jones be bull or bear, Bridget's tough beef-
steak lies alike like lead all day on his stomach and
brain. It is riding him to death as surely as the
relentless Old Man did Sinbad. He grows gaunt,
lean, dyspeptic. Mrs. Jones, who for ten squab-
bling years of married life has been cherishing a
dream of grey-haired retainers and faithful servi-
tude drawn from English novels, has wakened to the
reality, cries shrilly against the insolent Irish and
stolid Dutch, and is ready to thrust them out and ac-
cept co-operative housekeeping, a cooking machine
or a Chinaman indifferently. Her inability to train
and control one maid-servant gives her hopes of
her success in the careers of men if her hands were
once free : she has no hold on Biddy because of the
great gulf between them, though their blood ran in
the same channels perhaps a few generations back,
so she introduces Chang as a more accordant ele-
ment into the household, with his little pagan gods
hidden in the pantry, and his home and children in
the Antipodes. There is a fact which Mrs. Jones
must face sooner or later, before comfort can be
restored to the distracted kitchen realm of America,
and that fact is that the fault lies primarily in the
mistress, and not in the maid. The ideal servant
ote Englishrfual
itnueraedfor
most
oohusetsre hopwr ld
probably,
belonged
ka
blyas t troi d a family
e s;she
n s
was
carefully-
by a, housekeeper

or upper servant. Mrs. Jones will not accept
the work of a housekeeper ? Voila ! The alter-
native is before her. Chang brings to his work
a higher civilization than that of the black AO"
Bettys and Chloes, the best cooks we have ever
had in the States ; but a Virginian matron knell
when her biscuits were light, and took off her dia-
monds to inspect her pantries. But for the insolence
of Bridget there is, we are told, no remedy. Nle
Bridget is human. She would have been OP3' r
of respect and servility to the Hon. Miss St. Leg
at home or the lady at the great house.' Theid
had the advantages of long generations of g°°.,,
birth and culture. Mrs. Jones forgets that iu thl;
she is not like them. Bridget never does. 11,e0
American mistress is only raised above her, sus
fancies, by the accident of money. In a few 31,111't
she or her children may have like good luck.
,ag-'7e,„'
•
we insist again Biddy is human. So is
And when women or men stand face to face on t
bare ground of humanity there is a power in know;
ledge, good breeding, and a kind heart that ins,otie
control over every insubordinate element. e,
who fears to meet the working chvses,' says Gcec' ;1111
and try his strength with them, stripped
externals of circumstance and position, is a cow3r(is
because he is inferior to thorn.' If Mrs. Jones fin ~,
the Irishwoman too much for her, she may (-1/3‘

her own conclusions."
MISTRESS V. MAID. A TOUCHING TALE.

To the Editor of e Trib
Sir—My wife, Mrs. Jones isth a
constant reader of Lila
Tribune; moreover she has a most touching faith in
infallibility of the Editor. The other day this wer,L_clL
woman read aloud, with an expression of amazed,ltie:j,
plenty, the following extract from an article eat'
" Bridget and Chang :"
" There is a fact wnich Mrs. Jones must face sooner OA, zae•
before comfort can be restored to the distracted realm 0' -00,
rica, and that fact is tliat the fault lies primarily in the wistr
and not in the maid." ,rite
a Dear me," said Mrs. Jones, " I wish you woufa,
to the Editor, and tell him my experience with hired 5,- to
for the past six months, and ask him where I have bloc,
blame.', With Mrs. Jones's husband, her wish is
although that much can hardly be said of her hired 110ra
We are people in moderate circumstances and caa, ao
a,b
to keep but one servant. We have three children, w"very
immediate prospect of an increase. Mrs. Jones is 5 .00
kind and amiable woman, who never scolds her helP,' are
is a good housekeeper, " knows when. her biscuits wr
" light, but does not " take off her diamonds to inspectpantries," because she has none to take off.
Our first girl rejoiced in the high-sou. °
high-sounding par°,r•elif
Honors. She informed us that her " fayther was very the
in the ould country, but the poor man died, and anger
property descinded to the ouldest son, so the 9°T;,Ds
childer had to go out to sarvico." She remained
five weeks, developing a talent for grease and dirt tr°
extraordinary.
Mrs. Jones discovered strange odours clinging to her Vat
silk dress. They seemed to be a compound of tobacco 4
garlic. She did not know what to make of it. 63,10;
" The next time you go out calling, make a call 4,1',,,te,
next door neighbour's and keep an eye on our front b-
and you may solve the mystery." Wise'
She did so. In half an hour after she left the
Llonora made her appearance at the front gate, arraY`bor
Mrs. Jones's best silk dress and her latest "love ofd a
and
not," holding her new parasol daintily over her re
regal head. I,v 110
When she returned Mrs. Jones said, "Honora,
you wear my dress and bonnet and use my parasol
you want out this afternoon ?"
V 7 ;
" W hat do you mane, ma'am ?" "1 mean .5" I
why did you wear my things this afternoon?" eloped
" Sure, ma'am, may the Lord strike me dead if I ste-,,
me fut out of the house the whole bussed afternooa•ioo
will not prolong the conversation. It ended in
anger on the part of the well-bred HoLora,, and la '-
forming Mrs. Jones that she was a " d—d liar: ~,eiag
Our next girl was named Kate. She was a h°",,-veri,
sylph, with only one fault. She would get drunk. 'lit La
two weeks, and scare Mrs. Jones and the children
°
their wits, beside breaking the crockery. ceasing
Mary Ann was our next. She had three male c sfeelC'
who visited her on three different evenings ever):„ ~re i°
They remained until 11 o'clock at each visit. We
have a festival at our church. Mrs. Jones prides nicli
on a certain peculiar sort of cal-e. She is the enaoattv
in our society who can make it. The Rev. Dr•f;g-Icif°
water, our pastor, often says that he wishes that "- for
could make cake like that. Mrs. Jones's cake for th°
tival was a success. It was to be sent over
Jones's compliments. When she went to do it uP aljoes,
tissue paper, lo ! it was two-thirds eaten. Mrs. Wllel
not being at all strong minded, burst into tears.,, aye
sufficiently recovered, she sent for Mary Ann, a11',,i113,
her if she knew anything about the cake. "Sure "„"-e de
was the reply, "all three uv me cousins came to seov
to wunst last evenin, and I trated them to a bit,,,°f if I
and a drop from one of the bottles of wine. -
knowed ye was so mane as to make a fuss ovair ;11 Fe
thrifle, I would never have lived wid ye, anu„..l
pay me the wages and I'll lave immediately!
leave she did. 1./we t°,
Mr. Editor, we are now without a girl. Wre
get one soon. Mrs. Jones says she wants to do list oat
right by her help, if she only knows how. I belie v° of ,t)
does. Will you not tell her, and earn the gratituderoo
woman, who—although she does not belong to So tto
and would not vote if she could, and is so blind as,t°raot
see that she is a down-trodden and abject slave of '-7,0,1;
man --is 3 et one of the dearest little women in the /11"
egg.
at least such is the opinion of air' 1°
Danbury, Conn., Oct. 12, 1869.

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