The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-12-02
Philadelphia.
[Corresondence Of the Herald

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 80, 1872
Winter has set in rather unhandsomely. While
am writing 1t IS showing hard, and the people begin
to look forward In good earnest to stormy season
II will go hard with some of us during the cold
weather /; tor it cannot be denied that there is a
great deal OF distress among US, though it is chiefly
among such persons as are most anxious to hide IL
from observation. But it is precisely that class of
men whose poverty is most affecting, and whose sui
terings are severe In proportion to the pains they
take to conceal them. knew of many instances
OF persons accustomed to live in affluence being ac-
tualy turned out of doors, and of others who were
in habit of considering themselves rich, being
obliged for the support of themselves and their fami
lies TO recourse TO hard labor. Men are seen on our
wharves who once did business of $50, 600 year,
and people whose houses were wont to be thrown
open to polite and fashionable company, glad to
receive boarders al the rate of four or five dollars
week. The consequence of this move is that
the business of the regular boarding houses is spoil
ed TO degree which scarcely enables the poor ladies
who keep them to make sordd living by them.
Some fashionable ones, though in Chestnut street
and Girard, row are doing pretty well, and you may
expect some account OF their doings pretty soon.
/ am only waiting for the dancing to commence
to give you a synopsis of the pretty hands and
feet that are figuring there, besides something
else.
A story is going the rounds among the tatters
of our, scandal loving city, to the effect that
a blow up" Is soon to come off among
the members of family in high life here
Some of the parties are eminent in law and
the publication of much delicate family history
It's said, will enllghten the wonder-loving world
with the why's and wheretores among our exclu-
sves One OF them, SO the story goes, is either
ter of a rich old Quaker. l shall in.
form myself OF all the facts, as to how the
lassie was wooed and won, and all that sort of
thlng-the cause OF the rumpus, and where it will
probably end &c. &c. &c. | think the details will
be both pquant and refreshing in these dull times
You remember what told you, in the commence
ment OF my correspondence, about the romance"
of our society, and you see now that am assood as
suit the genius Of Buwer; but those of our lawyers
who are generally managing that sort of business,
make 1t interesting in another way.
The trial of Alexander for the murder of Lougee
is continuing to excite the strongest interest
The opinion that the jury will never agree, and
that, in consequence, he will be acquitted, which
expressed to you In yesterdays letter. ls gaining
ground fast and am sorry to say appears to be found
ed on correct estimation of our administra-
ton of justice. There are four Jurors
among them, whose names | could men,
ton, who will oppose any verdict of guilty,
and there are those. among us who do not
consider the murder Of broker offence against
society. There is mawkish feeling too, against
capital punishments, which acts in favor of the
prisoner, and which is a sufficient reason, in the
minds OF some, TOR suffering the criminal to escape
Send your rejected segars by all MEANS and if you
have other use for them, the bottles OF cham
paigne which were miscarried.
The North American" is coming out an aboli-
ton paper and copies, in the most conspicuous
manner, the proceedings of the Legislature of Yer
mont It's all for religion, and the desire of obtain
ing particular set OF subscribers, who cannot be
graIfied just now except in small way.
philadelphia Assurance" is not doing so well al
the Chestnut street theatre might expect. The
people have seen too much OF that already TO pay
twenty-five cents to il acted on the stage. The
beasts of the menagerie are all the GO
One of our pennies compares Biddle's lectures
on honesty to Satan rebuking Sin. This is Just in
keeping with our morallsts Mr. b., if the devils
were TO be driven out of Philadelphia, would not be
the biggest one, except on account of his having
more talent than the whole pandemonium put to.
gether. When the business resolves itself to catching
souls shaving notes, Others have good claims TO
secret conduct Of some Of the most prominent stock
holders, which will settle the matter efiectually
Great efforts are made TO run down Pennsylvania
stocks, in order TO speculate with them. The run
ming it down, and buying 1t up by the State, would
be but another and more cowardly means Of repu.
diation.
A most amusing, though somewhat humiliatine
scene, happened in the Court Of Common Pleas this
morning. Edward Thompson, OF tea case notoriety
who was a few years ago the most extensive East
India merchant in Philadelphia, and who made
brilliant explosion, came in collision with his son.
law Joseph Parker Norris, who, year or two ago,
was expelled from the bar for "sw(t practice" The
poor old man now lives in comparative obscuri-
y, shunned by his family and thore dear friends who
were wont to parlake OF his munfcent iberaiIiy
During an amy coloquy between the father.in-law
and his hopeful son, the terms "beast, rascal, &c
We were applied by the former TO the latter What
a world is ours