New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-10
,tice. Human life among us is sinking to low

Justice Human life among is sinking to d low
yslue.
We are all laughing here at the stupid ignorance
promulgated last week by The journal Of Harper's s
Ciritzation in serving up the Office OF the Receiver
Of Taxes rs independence Hall. Ii its other Illus
trstioDs are 10 nearer truth than this what huge
picture book Of carieaures il is bound to be- That
civiziDg journal also Gays that Independence all
is "now used for variety OF vile purposes. Law
"yers gable IN lie courts, and whether 1.-THE Of
our citizens "are aware Of the history Of the spot
"it were difficult TO say" The felloS who fur
nisbed oil this must he little better than an ass.
The hall in which the Declaration of Independence
was debated and signed is kept sacred from the
lawyers and the courts, and is used only for great
receptions Of distinguished guests, and to be exhb-
tied to the crowds Of strangers who come with
pous reverence TO gaze upon its consecrated walls
Even its interior is preserved exactly as when Lee
and Adams thuDdered forth their uuyelding demand
for independence. No people could worship relic
more deyoutly than ours do reverence to this We
are all aware of the history Of the spot" Those
who ignorant of it can be only those who cater
for The journal If Harpers Civilization.
As all American railroads derive large portion
Of their income from immigrants and as the lmInl-
grafton of foreigners has fallen off TO more than
One.balf Of what 1t was year ago, IT Is worth
noticing what roads contrSe 10 suffer least by this
decrease Of travel. In June 1851, our Pennsyl-
Ndnld CtDlfdl CdFIltu %,vVO iuiihSidnts pct"cCH
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Last month the num-
Der carried was only 1,4O6, showing falling of Of
600 for the month, but ouly 259 less for the first
six months Of 1855 Free trade has 40 prOstrated
the labor Of the country that employment for mml-
grants cannot be had, and hence they cease to
come. 1t ever has been and ever will be thus.
Railroad companies who combine together to get
iron free Of duty are losing more money every year,
by diminished travel aOne than all the saving they
can make by process certain in the end to de-
stroy them. The Pennsylvania Railroad must ex-
pect greatly diminished through travel during the
last half Of this year.
1t is said that two or three parties are bidding for
the purchase Ofthe Delaware Division OF the State
Canal, extending from EastOn to Bristol, some ~
miles The price asked by the Sunbury and Erie
Company, who now own it. is 81, 000, 900, and an
offer of 81, 500, 600 is the highest yet made. You
know the State last Winter sold all its canals
to the Sunbury and Erie for $500, 600 The lat
ter subsequently sold the North Branch Canal to
private company for 81, 500, 000 and the Governor
sanctioned the sale. But previous thereto, sec.
ord company offered $500, 900 more, yet the offer
was rejected whcTeupon the latter parties filed
bill in equity asking that the Sunbury and Erie
should be compelled to sell to them as the highest
bidder But this document was filed in the Dis
trct Court, the Supreme Court being carefully
avoided. Ii now turns out that some underlined So
phstication has been submitted to by some of the
parties interested that all contest is abandoned and
the case fully settled. How this has been manpu-
lated is not known to the reporters, but 1t will be,
whether the next Legislature rips open the transac-
ton or not 1t is one of the shocking features OF
the times that so few great monetary transactions
turn out to be honest ones.