New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-07
FROM HIL.fDELPHi.

From Our Special Correspondent
PmLADEIPHIA, Monday Oct. 6, 1856.
Among my fellow-passeugers hther this morn
inp. were Senator Wilson and Mr. }. I. Swift
who are among the political speakers required 10
Eastern Pennsylvania The work done by GU
friends here is immense. Last May the Republican
ticket poled $50 votes here; now it can show many
thousands, and without the advantages of every
where journalism such as the Press Of NewYork
affords our city, The North american, The Bulletin,
The Sun. and The Times are with us here. To-
day the Committees are very busy with mass
meeting to come off at 4 o'clocd, in Independence
square, too late to be reported by the mails. 1t
will be addressed by Mr.. Banks alone.
The editorial in TIE TRIBUNE against the prac-
tice of having from two to six speakers on plat
FORM each one in the others way, and all speaking
illogical pecemeals instead of one orator giving
complete discourse worthy the occasion and the
crisis. has had its effect Already have found
speakers who are capable of addressing meetings
rfIectyely refuse to be advertised raree shows
along with u string of others-the whole producing
little or no aTgumentatiVe effect, gaming no con-
yerts, and leaving Repubhcanism nearly just where
the meeting found il. The subject OF Republican
ism in its positive and comparative relations, re-
oures whole evening for its treatment, and then
much will be left unsaid that the auditors should
hear from one capable orator.
The charge of partisan trick, of fraud unto despe-
ration, is So commonly hurled by one party against
another, that | am 10th TO allnde to such sub
iect but il is very certain that in view OF the COM
inc election here, there has been an accession of
assessed citizens without precedent. What do you
think of from 10 600 to $1,000 being so thrown into
the scale Does that not sound like superb
numerical Interpretation to outweigh the trans
Allegheny thunders-the iron-throated - shrek ior
freedom that has come irOm Pittsburgh Wen,
in view of the fact that Rob Roy has whiSted, so to
speak, and all these hastings warriors have sprung
from shadows into entities, gives our TRENDS here
extra toll to their excessive lab0rs-tOr such appa-
ritons must be looked after, and activity on the
Republican part be- increased to meet the exigency.
have just learned beyond doubt that the NeStor
Of the Philadelphia Bar, man whose magnificent
endowments and resources would have made him
primus inter pdres in the United States Senate, had
he lived in any State hut Pennsylvania which never
will send Phladelphian to that body or elect one
Governor; | have just heard that the venerable
luIist in question has indOrsed entirely Mr.. Josiah
Qmncys Letter-or in other words adopted Re-
pubhcanlsm. This will be IA terrible blow to the
tossihsm OF Philadelphia which, for various reasons
which L recited last Summer in a letter hence
is more mdurated than that of any other
Northern State. The weight of such iu.
dicial and constitutional authority as the
gentichan name III question VIII have force
here, where things move with propriety and GER
tain deberatiOn, not easily estimated in New-York
which Of all ciiles-past OF present, domestic or
foreien-is most freed from the momentum of in
divdusl name and influence, where Gen. Scott
walks the streets unnoticed almost, except for HI
manly hight; and where Gen. Pierce comes uu-
known. save to the jani.saries; where the huge
waves of mass-locomotion and popular majesty
wash out all the great'man-ism oi history and
nobody is anybody
Philadelphia is poor place for undertasers just
now Only two hundred deaths last week out of a
population Of about 100000. The activity OF
building here now surpssses belief In the north
ern and western portions il is more like the hectic
alertness restoring "a burnt district, than the
constitutional growth of a well'ordered CITY, IL Is
Il fever, apparently, Of progress; but when look