New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-16
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
from Our Special Correspondent.

| as ~ nctNlt inc tlcCllOU OF james Du-
chanan; and he thought it was saying great deal
to affirm that the campaign-scum Of the City of
New-lOrk was more feculan than that Of Philadel-
phla. Several OF the men most active in the Bu-
cbanan canvass here have been committed 10 prison
since for different crimes The same sort of mate.
rial which the highest bidder for the purple bought
| up when Rome was in her decadence, was q
! fayOrte article with the Buchanan men here.
| The political Democratic club which W.
| b. Reed, when lately Republican and
Attorney General, presented in its true proper
tons as fitting co-laborer with the Empire Club
that is TO say, the Keystone Club-afOrded its dem.
Ocratlc aid TO Mr. Reed when he performed that
superlatiye somerset at the eleventh hour and fifty
| ninth minute, and was rewarded with what is con-
sidered by some the best Office in the gift of the
| GOvernment-the COmmissOnership 10 China A
dinner is to be given to Mr. Reed by his new politi
| cal friends before be goes to China. Intellectually.
Mr. Reed deserves the best dinner that be given
| Had he been born in Boston Massachusetts, not 10
| say all New-England would have made common
cause with the city to advance him to places of su
| perOr distinction. Here, however, it is only ne
cessary to be born in Philadelphia, to be neglected
no, that word is not strong enough = to be pro-
scribed by the State; and the greater the talent,
genius service and integrity Philadelphia exhibits,
the more hopeless the chance of his ever being
elected Governor, Senator Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court, or to cOgnate hOnOrs. Oflate years
however, since the introduction of the schO0-law of
1896, BpOtianism had been declining. when il re-
ceiyed a fresh lift by the Buchanan canvass, and
the detection of those who ought to have remained
steadfast to the cause Oflght and liberty. Mr. Reed
after denOuncing the Kansas nquity, and taking the
lead, in the Wing Convention of 1856, in introducing
q series Of Republican resolutions too strong for the
Wing stOmachs of some Of his cOadiutOrs-indeed
be stood almost alone in his Investigations on
the occasOn-suddenly wheeled around and went
over to the enemy. The Club which he
had presented to the Court as den Of thieves be-
came his affiliated supporters, and the speeches and
writings of twenty-five years were Transmitted into
obsolete ideas. 1t is pity Mr.. Dallas cannot be
present at the Reed festival. That gentleman, along
with Mr.. Rush and Mr.. G.. j. Ingersol were the es-
pecia objects of the attacks of Mr. Reeds steel pens
so much so that the differences ceased to be pOt-
cal and became personal At this festival Mr.. Reed
might make amends for his twenty five years sturdy
labor against "LocOfocOsm" and for his abolition
utterances, and for all his " heresies and for his
being the mumbO: jumbo of the Old-line Wing
party in this State. Mr.. Reed, it may be presumed
will affirm finally that republics are not ungrateiul:
that though he was nationally overlooked long
he sided with liberty and responsibility, yet so soon
as he repened of his error and came out in company
with the Congressional cubdOctOrs of chivalry and
the shOulder-hitters of the Five Points, he was re-
warded AS a high-tarif man, or, in other words,
up TO within few months, an able and consistent
friend of home industry of yariegated emplOyments
on the spot, with the least possible abrasion
through nOn-productve foreign agencies, Mr. Reed
might find come difficulty in adopting the distance
entertainments Of the as Tariff But size, when
there is enough of it, is sublimity; aud so Asiatic
empires and their seas, will answer for dinner table
speeches, whether trade with them pays or not.
When the first difficulty began on the part of En-
gland with China, some fifteen years since, and
Ministers brought the affair before Parliament, ~.
Stephens echoed with oratory on the splendid profits
to be derived from an English predomlnance in
China-frOm her having foothOd there, as she has
at present. 1t is hardly necessary to say that an exact
examination of the trade of England with China,
based on her military and civil expenditures under
the present treaty shows England to be heavily the
loser So too. when the expedition to Japan was
fitted out vast promises of national profits by trad
ing with such a distant and seml-ciylzed people
were held out to this country. OF course, none Of
them have been realized. The first duty of every
nation is to protect its own mines and manufactures
and staples generally aud not believe in foreign con-
quests or their cOgnate deuslons, exchanges with
foreign countries. The last entirely subordinate
and compared with domestic exchanges are so small
that their extinction would in this country only excite
atemporary shock But relations with foreign cOun-
tries are national, and hence grandiose. This Com
missionership to though not as important as
the vegetables brought for single day to the Phlla
delphia markets. a matter Of nstlce or comment
in 1000 newspapers in every political circle Ill the
United States, in England and France; it involves
the colossal parade of leviatban armed steamer and
all its epauletied courage and technology; 1t is, too
nernatiOnala as well as nationals 1t is likewise stun
for history written history Retrospective OF pc-
tical economy or the laws which make a nation the
worthest and strongest in the least possible time it
is in a word great big sham. Fudge and tummery
are its sponsors and hence il is cOnsecrated to the
Pro-Sayery anti-ndustria decisions which are
Democratic tOuchStOnes.
- The city is full of Germans, bearing badges
indicative of their musical brotherhOod-thls beng
the festival of various societies devoted to sweet
sound-making, assembled from this and nelghborng
States and communities. Long hair, cOmbed per-
pendicularly behind-the English and American of
naty tastes brush theirs hOrizontally-is partcu-
lar TeutOnsm. The numbers present at the Ger
man Opera however, are IN the inverse ratio oil
the crowds of Germans who happen to be present.
On Saturday for example, the Academy presenteda
deplorably lean auditorium, though the performance
was that of the most German of operas, Der frel>
schultz and the work fairly rendered. The scenery too,
as regards painting, was Incompatible; and here nay
praises must stop tor the wings, which, owing 10
defective stage arrangements, were painted one-hal
the proper hight or eked out badly with second
part reaching to the stage nights were disgrace
full botch. and such artistic SHORTCOMINGS
sbould be Kissed. The Tormentor curtained
scene placed next the drOp-curtaln for the purpose
of reducing the interior (room) scene within limits
eectualy cut off the breadth of the sylvan wings OF
the other scenes, and completed the ruin OF the
romantic presentations. WI. T.
THE GERMAN MUSICAL JUBILEE.
| Correspopdenee Of The n. Y. Tribsne.
PHILADELPHIA June H. lSG-
Our CITY is alive to-day with Germans from sll pa t.
oftbe country. who have visited our City of Broh ry
Love for the purpose OF joining with the Germa Is
philadelphia in grand musical monster jubilee S