The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-03
r. II. GILLET.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS
(From our regular correspondent)
Mint in deiphia-improred machinery---aie beau
fiJid coinage.

Mini in ladetphia-inprored nachineryate bea,i-
tifd coinage
PHILADELPHIA, September g. lS45
| The hotels are crowded with strangers The fall
| business has opened with great spirit, and more
sales bid fair to be made during the present season
than on any former occasion. An old mer-
chant assured me yesterday that he had done a
better business up to this time, than in the same
period in any year of his life. The truth u.s. the
strong foundations Of our prosperity, shattered as
they were some years ago, by revulsions and con-
fractions in the currency, now resuming their
solidity and frmness; and the energies, recently
crippled, are now re-invigorated, and capable of
being used to their utmost This fact, added to
the wisdom and efficiency of the general admins
aon will ss9 Ds,na h Tbs increased by !he
how In most healthy condition, and is not to be
very sensbly benefited or injured by any of the
schemes of the politicians. II is this condition
which is caused by, and which produces, indepead-
ence among the people, and which is destined to
make us the greatest nation on the earth.
| have read portions of "LyePs Travels in North
America with considerable interest II 10 evil
IDENTIFY book Of high character, and differs from
most Of its predecessors in honorably abstainng
from vapd abuse Of the people Of the United States
His remarks upon the manner in which the Girard
estate has been managed by the wing rulers of this
city, are severe. He first gives an account of the
Lowell institute, and its plentiful provision for lee
lures arising cut Of prohibition in the will Of Mr..
Lowell, who endowed it with 100000. Mr.. Lyell
then SAYS "h the present case, the testator pro-
vided that nd single dollar should be spent in
= brick and mortar-in consequence of which provi-
sion spacious room was at once hired, and the
intentions of the donor carried Immediately into
effect IL there be any who imagine that donation
might be so splendid as to render anti-buildng
clause supernuous, let them remember the history
of the Girard bequest in Philadelphia. Half a
million sterling, with the express desire of the esa-
a., Architectural
should be moderate Yet this vast sun is 80 nearly
, consumed. that il is doubtful whether the re-
naming funds viii suffice for the completion OF
5 the palace-spends, indeed, but extremely i'll
IS fitted for a schoophouse!" He then goes on to
r. show how similar projects have been defeated in
u England. and Concludes by saying: IF the same
funds had been devoted TO The securing of teachers
of high acuuiranents, station, character and cele-
bri,y; and if ooms Of moderate dimensions had
been at first hired, while the classes of pupils re-
. NAMED small, a generation would not have been
u lost the oow institutions would have risen more
he rapidly to that high rank which they day
destined to attain, and documentary requests would
I, have A wed in more copiously for buildings we'll
j. adapted to the known and ascertaned wants 9th
" establishment. None would then grudge the luted
,e colupn, the swelling dome, and the stately porlco
and Iernturc and science would continue to be pat-
al ,nsof architecture without being its victims These
IT sensible remarks from observing traveller are
= G,l Of truth and severity and are so Just in them
ed selves, that DO not ee nclneu TO ADD anything of
h my swn.
limited States mnt this place. This splendid in
he stitulion-an ornament alike TO the sty in which il
49, "a located and the country at large-will FORM on
" some future decision, the subject Of more extend
ay ed notice. The extreme order ard neatness that
prevail--h, various processes Of Smelting cutting
coming &ct-the admirable COLLECTION of coins from
the Oldest ntions of which wc have any record and
rs, of coempotneous countries, you'd each form the
of subject of separate and Iegthy comment One
de thing With | saw, while isurrrised me gready,
10 nlessed M much; and thatwas, the machinery in
~; he roor where the gols silver and eopper coins
II are markd-all Of il mad by worAmen engaged in
he the mn Il is also so arefully, SCIENTIFICALLY and
EFF pereeg made that it beautiful appearance gives
in ony4ar idea Of the orrectness the nohelcss ease,
axhltion of the chsummate skill of American
..fac,ures. Ty late coins Of our COUNT, 40
re- Ia q, This exttsive establishments are pre,S
IN .noyed and q now justly pronounced TO IL
nj snrc ipdcativ Of perfection in the art than The
tic nin. az apy other nation Of the world. tn
.ls25aO0O in mes and holfdimes, recently order,d
OF }by lbe Sco<tary of the Treasury have ali bee
be r,,e, andare now ready for such disposition On
vt I'm sac may direct. They were soon made.
cir il evient that the mint here is not az constantly
empIoyd as il can be, ard rs il should be--a state
Il Of thiSs which is not improved, you nav be sure
by nc branch minis in North Carolina Georgia
+ and Louisiana, --three establishments which con.
tjiue to cost the country so much.
The great sale Of the paintings OF the Bonaparte
estate at Bordentown, the 18th and 18th inst i,
1 likely TO be largely attended by the connoisseurs
friend, who takes very commendable interest
in these matters, pronounces the collection to be
very choice. The catalogue mentions several origi-
nal paintings by Rubens, Casper, Poussin Teniers,