New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-17
THURSDAY. JULY II. 1866.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
From Our spestal Correspondent.

PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, July 16, 1856.
The Republican party here, owing to tie hot
weather and the Absence of many citizens FROM
town, have OF Jet held mas meeting. though the
Ward Committees are active in their operations
and the Central Club in Chestnut street has two
stated meetings each week, where discussions TAX
place. A mass meeting, however, was held on
Monday evening in Camden, n. j., opposite hsrs,
which was as complete success rs can De inn
acined. The large Court room was crowded, not
few ladies being present.
The meeting assembled at 3 o'clock, and did not
bresk mp until III o'clock, notwithstanding the
enormous heat The first speaker was Mr. w. Fl.
Fry ofNew York. and the second Ex- United States
Senator Miller Of New.Jersey The spirit of the
fourshiDg City Of Camden was awakened and the
most eager interest was manifested by the audi
eDce in what the speakers said band of music
was present, and the Philadelphia Gee Club, an
amateur company Of gentlemen who perform for
the sake Of the cause, executed new lyric in
excellent style amid loud applause A deputation
of Philadelphia Republicans entered the court
room in the course of the evening, and were hand.
sOmely received.
note that tho Pennsylvouis Anti-Administra.
tiOn Congressman are medteting plan for a
Union COny enon in this State to be held in Sep
tember, composed of representatives of all oppos-
ton parties for the purpose of forming an Electoral
Ticket Knowing what has 90 far been done by the
Republican party, with reference to an Electoral
Ticket, | must say that the Penosy lvania delega.
ton is acting most unadvsedy, and certainly with
out adequate information in the premises. The
Republican State Executive Committee was
charged by the State Convention which met here
last month with the business of forming
<ba Z at ha
in better hands. and if left with the
Committee, the right men at the right time
will be selected beyond question. But to
confde 50 nice duty as this to mixed heterO-
geneous public assemblage which must do their
work in few hours, with the expectation that a
compromise can be more readily effected than by
the small, deliberative executive body which has
weeks befere it to collect information from all
parts of the State, to compare opinions confiden-
tally and dispassionatey, and to decide advsedy;
to make this change in policy 80 happily deter
mined, is to fly in the face OF all party experience
1t is the earnest hope of every friend of the cause
here, that .dembers of Congress will let the mst-
ter rest as it is. If their proposition is proper
one, there is no necessary hurry about it, 1t will
bear keeping perfectly well for month.
Cape May is now fOurishing. There are some
seven great hotels open there, and one is the
largest in the United States. The beach is the
nDeet III tDc COuuUJS UciHS sOhic tcu hiLcs ioip,
and the hotels are close upon the surf which is
terribly in earnest. Mr.. Charles Sumner is now
there for the restoration of his health. While the
city steams with the Summer solstice, Cape May
is wOOed and Won by soft cool breezcs, which
keep the rampant mercury down to the lower
figures. sunday last, there, was relieved by a
magnificent storm. CLOUDS freighted with wrath
came dssbpg over earth and s5a, like procession
of the furies and lightning of blsterng braucy
AL. (< .-h, ,.l.x
ance was crowned with rsnbOw-equal to
Noah's, for it had clean sweep Of the horizon,
and oil its hues plainly defined as those of
prize dahlias
"A Family Bible is suggestive theme. IL
is a record of religious progress and liberty,
Historically speaking of the happiest day of
ones lite, of the pledges Of domestic bliss,
and the reverse of the medal-the c0nsign-
ments TO the family vault. But where do the
family bibles come from! Who supplies equally
Fifth avenue and the log cabin with them !!
! am told not the American Bible SOciety-thst it
deals in the smaller portable scriptures but the
spectacle obesity of the large quarO bible is due to
private enterprise. These are printed BY twentes
of thousands annually, but it is remarkable fact
not less Indicative of the immense domestic indus
tries which are not detailed in the Treasury report
not lers representative Of the unobrusive but
superlative manufacturing craft of Philadelphia
than Of private enterprise, that more than one
half of the Family Bibles printed in this country
come from one single establishment here-that of
Messrss .Jesper Harding Il Son. | visited it the
other day and it renunerates tor the closest con-
sideraton. The three highest stories of nine
story building overlsp and belong to the Post
Office buildings, and the upperlnost room
is hundred ard ten feet high. In this establish
ment are fifteen pOwer-presseA and everything re-
latiDg tn the immense production OF the Scriptures
is conducted under one single immense roof
Visitors are taken to the top of the house
on platform raised by steam.engine,
and here capital view Of the city is IN additional
reward for having made such an upward fight.
There are no less than fifty different styles Of
family Bibles produced here-from that retailed at
dollar to fancy prices. dictated by coored plates,
medieval bindings and clasps and rich Ornamen-
tations generally. Over million of these Bibles
has been issued from this manufactOry, which does
not print the smaller editions. This certainly is
remarkable fact, that one single house should issue
a majority of the large editions of book a copy
of which every respectable family in the Union is
supposed to require. W. HF.