Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-02-14

tude and c'owde They I'll tho streets and public VehcseI
lcY crowd lecture rooms, concerts theairee they los!e
earh ohGr on Change In busness places and aooR fashion,
ao!e WalEs; they "nr around in thc ntoxcauon OF lie
dance or exchange insane compliments with hundreds OF
people al ball or party. The remaIrder Of their time Is
spent in almost absolute aoude q! home aod hose VINO
dsHSe ms crushing publicity scarce hnd Heoiun DO
tween That and solitary reading The society alone Oh her
own am!y. ls there not excellent wayf 10 mere
no such thing as Is the common sense which
We claim as our characteristic. 10 have no innusnce In
Mooding The manners o! peopcl Must we forever
senseessy imntc foolish foreign maunesi Must men I'VE
~ me most costly luxury until threa OF every four ai
IN business and then hide their heads in some Obscure place
gs oush still honest men, they had done some shameful
ueot IN word Ia II possible 10 have moderation and COM
mon sense pervadIng our land2
inlcrn1l improvements re of Time and
"ln reasonlhis limits mostly characteristic Rut no one
can e even casually acquainted with the operations oi me
county without seeing extravaganza heeaso. Posteriiy,
we may be assured, vii! look with amozement these
tines The velocity OF railway train may be fearful and
YET by custom forget the immense spec6 At the city Of
Dayton, In Ohio found recently constructed and con.
slructng nearly dozen rail roads, At Indianapolis In u
DIANA the case still moe extreme, and Chicago, In H.
noS lairy wearied OUT we gave up trying understand
the projects Some of these roads hundreds of miles
long, and all in Smtes yet in infancy, In
eme youth But this Is not excitement enough Men are
oilng TO invent plans for business and open
avenues for radc An American, heard has Just taken
contract 10 cut pine spas Ia Oregon Tor the Dutch Navy
The only question touching rail road the Pacific is,
which Of half dozen shall be taken, and two years
more may witness three or four roads thousands OF miles
LONG, running parallel each other commenced almost 81
muanC0usY We nave recently heard tbat 0 thirty
five feet by scvcnyfve rented In Eastern city for
twenty Al fourteen thousand dollars year. The earth
Ia moving at fearful velocity around the sum- and yet
seem 10 be standing sti that to Anglo Saxon
seems slow, TO Of any other mnees sky and
earth together, and turns his brain into diocy
"Te Increases OF unucy In this country Is another fright
fol indication Of the mad extravagance OF the people No
wonder indeed Tint in single State they have built
arc building three unac osylums The whole land will be
r. unac asylum if from quarter, from experience
Observaion from craftsmanship scholarship from The
pulpit the Gbe canGot learn degree OF modera
o The lawyer speaks Unit; he ia exhausted and recruits
perhaps with fiery stimulus OF the kind though called
by foreign name the merchant home too much
out OF night with his family, and lays HIM
self sofa nail he is reused TO 60 into deeper sleep in
his chamber; the young and delicate girl driven through
system oil education Intensely rapid and exciting without
suitable physical exercise and then fades every remain
ing vcsge of in her cheek by ae hours and nceas
ing tisspaon break ot suddenly and SenseesY, short
ly after she Is married. from all society aud labor until she
scarcely able wuk In work that thinga eGula
led in moro reasonable way, might and would be done
mainly by servcu,s the young altepa,es from exhaust
ing business TO eXausng revcy and the muiaier OF the
gospel works ceaseessy and with Intense excitement until
lie destroys his bronchial tubes and hopeessy skaters his
entire syStem; and whoever will work al this
fearful rate thrown aside as behind the times One asks
in terror whether this Is The infancy OF country and 1t
Is, what kind Of nation will tumul;uale this land when
TWO hundred million of people shall be flying 10 and fro from
tho Atlantic the Pacific II these things done n tho
green tree, what shall be done In the dry 2h