New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-17
Labor and Art in Paterson, N. j..


| PATERSON, Monday, May IS.
HORACE GREELEY, Eso-The kindness you did
me, and | hope the citizens Of our town, too, 10
publishing my letter embodens me to write you
another. Since my last, | have visited Newark,
and have seen the art Union" gallery and talked
with some OF its officers. The gallery contains
about seventy pictures, several of which are loan
! ed by amateurs of that city. Mr.. Thos' H. 0'e-
phens, j. J. Mapes, VIM. b. Kinney ana o'nei''
have generously loaned some valuable "o'ASo al
until their places shall be supplied ny 'no Pen''''
| os rv;n, a,,is,s Newark is certainly anead Oh Us
| - ,rbl;c sni,it and and this speak TO our shame
m = 80 rrh.,oed by our railroad company Tor
,rr 70 paterson is too high 1t very much initiates
aa;nst onr town and is the principal cause OF the
| obscure position we occupy among the towns Vi
.ho tree States of the north. No where is more
ton,ifoI scenery 10 be found than on the banks Of
~ yiver-around our Falls and on the lofty hills
which environ a town, too much, 1 am sorry to
saw. stepped in money-making, sensualty, super
stition and contemplate aristocratc pretenslon--
well W altered a hundred fires blazing in our facto-
RES ample room for public institutions and dozen
clergymen every Sunday directing their batteries
against sin and all unceanness, is it not marvel
that we have no institution for the promotion oil
healthful and intellectual exercises. The rising
generation, together with those who have settled
here for thrift have been, and are still the victims
of bad example. The success which few heart
less money makers have met with in shaving notes.
and the sudden good fortune which has happened
TO persons whilom in obscurity, has created spirit
of ignoble emulation; and hence, many who are
no. remiss in their observance OF Christian require
ments, are most eager in the pursuit OF wealth
most insensible to the "weightier matters OF the
law Among the professional men here no public
spirit exists. To keep out Of hell and TO get into
oHn fo ha fha aim N no
prevail on them to consider some plan OF public
amelioration The Temperance Society, II incor.
porated, and in possession OF two or three acres Oh
ground for public garden in the vicinity OF the
town, would soon become an attractive corpora
ton and if the ground extended to hive acres 1t
might be made available for the labor during the
the Spring and Summer Of q vast number OF chill
dren who now 20 into the cotton mills and thus
lower the wages of labor and leave uncutlvated
the fruits, the flowers and vegetables so conducive
to health and cheerfulness. Not family scarcely
tastes bunch Of grapes during the vintage season.
yet we have waste lands bill sides, adapted 10
vineyards. Not one in hundred has rod OF
ground about the house, yet is the land all round
little else than unproductive and most unslghty.
OH that the voters were wise and that they di-
rected their law-give to legislate with view to
small ownershps. 1t is poor dependence for
man OF family ON the price of cotton or tarif on
iron, and only to be relied on in the absence OF the
lana winch line LORD their dOd gave theH'
Soon trust that Trenton, Princeton, Brunswick,
Burlington, Paterson, Orange, Bloomfield, and all
the other towns in our State will make common
cause and give to New.Jersey institutions which
shall render her as illustrioCs as New.York and
Pennsylvania-two members Of glorious trinity
Of States, illustrous already in art and in arms and
in civilization. Let me invite you to behold the
facilities we possess for public baths and wash
houses, to the end that we may be provoked to
work which shall be first in point OF usefulness and
lasting in the benefits which it shall secure CR.