Washington telegraph., 1856-10-22

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gamut of charities, which they ring through
in different years.
The dear interesting objects are general
ly foreigners, for the hOme-bred miserables
are only taken up now and then, when tie
foreign darllngs are scarce OF forgotten
The Hottentot, the Coolie, the Hindoo,
the Italian, the Hungarian, the Pole-all
come, IN due course, for their share of
British speeches and British subscriptions.
But, on the whole, the most telling object
OF our deep regrets, and heavy donations.
Is the American Black, who holds this
place distinctly whenever we get ilto a
particularly bad humor with our brethren
across the Atlantic. Whenever We ge,
spiteful with Jonathan, we bring forward
his nlgger-the skeleton at the American
teast-anG hoot. We know the Yankees
sore place, and hit hard sometimes Mrs.
Beechcr Stowe wrote-or somebody did
Tor her-a story called ''Uncle Tom," all
about niger life and planters cruelty
and it was published in England at mo-
ment when we were in tremendous rage
with Jonathan about something or another.
The story was good story-the best of
the sort ever done, if not an entirely new
thought aitogether-and we bought up
some million copies, made Mrs. Stowe
great parsonage, and ..riled' the South as
the South was seldom ''riled" before Mrs.
Stowe came to see us, and our Wing Ouch
eSses took her up, and society" was as
t0nlshed how so dull woman could have
written so clever book; but the public
L
portrait in every window, and infested the
print shops and music shops with Uncle
Tom illustrations. Mrs. Stowe wrote a
book about Europe when she went home;
and it was awfully foolish-but her repu-
tation sold it, and the lady never found out
the reason. Believing still that our pris-
tine partiality for her remains, she resolves
to make another appeal to the reading
world ; but, fatal error, she goes over the
old ground-the niger plantation
1t turns out that we are weary of Mrs
Stowe, as Mrs. Stowe, and that the nigger
is not just at present up in the market
Her new account of slave life in the States
has fallen dead ON the market--to the dis
may of the publishers, who speculated in a
popularity that was Fictitious, and does
not endure the test. We are in good hu-
NOR with Jonathan now, and are not pre-
pared to applaud the literary art which
makes money by setting great confede-
ration by the ears on 4 topic dependent on
events, and not on logic, for its political
treatment. Let Mrs. Stowe write novels,
by all means, and let them take their
chance with the Whig Duchesses; do not
let her seek to win British favors by de-
nouncing her own cOuntrymen. That this
is the case, we are forced to infer from the
prior publication of her new book in Lon
don, and from her own re-appearance in
England at that moment
In this country, Notwithstanding the
fierce sectional agitation now rife among
Us, the success of the new fiction has been
very far below the anticipations of its wri-
ter and its publishers 1t has failed to
become a subject of comment for the daily
press, is not talked or thought of in pri- |
vate circles, and Is a useless instrument for |
the excitement seekers. The practical |
world, and the world is eminently practi-
cal, though it may sometimes go TO the the
atre of politics or philanthropy to laugh |
with the players at imagined joys, OF to
weep over imaginary woes, is busy now
with other things, and higher purposes
The deeper and more permanent interests,
interests that come home to the daily pur-
suits of mcn, and to their hearts too, en-
gage now their attention, for the present
is the noon of labor, and not the evening |
of relaxation.
commerce is King" and purposes of
profit and material develOpement stir the |
deeper strata of humanity, and quicken its |
instincts to the true and practical intent of
life. However it may have seemed to wa
yer in the past, we have always held per- |
feet confidence that its progress would |
ever be in the path OF practical and utlll-
tartan developement. The recent rejec-
ton of the new mushroom of abolition lit
erature by the whole English public, and
by far the greater portion of that on this
side of the water, we hail to be good |
omen; a truthful and convincing indica-
ton of that mutual appreciation which per-
vades the deepest strata of the hearts of
men in England as well as in America.
NeW Orleans P.cayune.