New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-07
IRON PHILADELPHIA.


The EpgEsh jugyle sc i came from .0"s'e''
received BY our citizens with suppressed 'iu'"'
Of adherence. which yesterday sweDed 1870 an
audible growl, before which the enemy qnA!'ed' Aou
Philadelphia stands sgain redeemed fr)m the grasp
Of an army of spoilers. AL shades OF The osPO'''
ton united on single ticket, being cemeh'el 'n'"
solid phalanI, to rebuke and put down tie L.
compton infany. Vau1 wa kno 81 to symPath-ze
with il: and though the low vein in hs character
which has led him TO associate and ffa'erhIe WIN
gang Of infamous creatures who tnronged arouou
him undoubtedly di,gu,ted the miads Of many VIII
him, yet the great and singing rebuke was le'eied
at Lecompton. The Democracy had on MONDAY
made arrangements for celebrating what toey pro-
ftsssd 10 believe the coming victory ou' oy
noon of yesterday their courage had oozed OUT, ana
BY nigha they gave up the contest. The defeat was
evident to their keen perception before the ballots
were counted and the whole corrupt combination
under which the city has been taxed demoiaiiAed
and cheated for three years past, beyond Oil loriner
example is now turned ANONYMOUSLY out OF doprs'
Henceforth We may almost cease 10 deserve cassi-
fcatiCn among the cotton cities Of the Unlon Le'
compton has broken the back of the Democracy
here, and alenated from the party vast body OF
voters who will never coalesce with 1t again.
This signal verdict in favor of Free Soil fore
phadows the extinction of the d0ughfaces VINO nave
so shamefuly misrepresented us at washington
during the whole Of the Kansas contest. Florence,
Phillips. Owen Jones and the entire pack will be
left high and dry at the Fall election high order
of mind will be- selected to occupy the places they
| have SO long dsgraced, and this intelligent commu-
nifty will once BE- found occupying IT'S true po-
| sition before the National Council All these signs
are the significant indications OF the overwhelming
discontinue which awaits the Sham Democracy
Into
now here pronounce the English jugge an abortion
from beginning to end. They say their people VIII
spurn it's seductions and vote il down by heavy ma
| iorities. | hear of numerous distinguished Free
| Soil men who intend pitching into Kansas and
stunping the Territory against IT as soon a. The DAY
for holding the election Is announced Inc result
there any how is certain; but the orators OF the
Opposition would do themselves singular honor by
| anttinp all home employments for bret period
and taking the stump in Kansas for the great and
final contest Such efforts would result IN rouslng
| cheering and encouraging the worn aud weary SET
| tiers of that field of Democratic desposm. The
country at large would gratefully remember and re-
| ward the men who thus show themselves willing to
| labor for and sympathze with them. Among the
incidents of the subject may add that the personal
friends ard adherents Of Gov. Wise are outspoken
| in their rejoicing over the defeat of Lecompton
pure and simple. They pronounce the Admin. tra-
ton to be hopelessly, heplessy aud dlsgraceully
defeated, whereat they fail not to give thanks Oh
| every suitable occasion
The regular and usual Spring business OF our city
il entirely over. 1t has been not only Indifferent
| but even nlesger, and long season OF absolute
stapnation has now begun. The failure Of the West
to pay up old has operated most disastrously
on some suspended houses who obtained extensions
| six months ago. Western men are here Offering to
settle BY giving up some Ut the town lots III paper
cities or quarter sections in once prime locations,
with which many of them are gorged These
properties were bought from the proceeds OF the
goods they had purchased here, thinking that hush
fines were to continue forever. But corner lots
and quarter sections will reach so short distance
toward taking note from bank, that nobody wants
them. Our merchants are already loaded down
with these dead securities, if such they may be
called. Many of them hold properties of this kind
which they had forced upon them in the reyulson
twenty wears ago. Some care 30 little about them
that they have suffered them to be sold for taxes
and have never afterward bestowed thought upon
them Other parties from the West are here seek
ing to borrow meney at ten to twelve per cent on
large bodies of land in the new States. But they
plead in yain though money continues to be piled
M inactive in all the banks Others offer them in
exchange for merchandise real estate here, but
they find no buyers OH any terms except OCCASION
ally to men who are about emigrating thither. we
are and sick with speculation and its results as
developed in the West and reflected back on Us.
Had the people there-the mercantile peOple-kept
ton alone the business community here would be
in far healthier condition than II now is, or can
be for some years to come.
The scarcity of employment and the long season
of ideness before continue To drive out swarns
of people to the new States Apart from what one
learns of this movement among his Immediate ac-
auantance, the transportation returns over the
Pennsylvania Railroad cOncluslvey establish the
fact that the current of emigration from among us
is increasing in volume the season advances Dur
ing the month of April no less than B. go emigrants
passed over this road for the West-2, 500 of whom
went beyond PittsbHrgh-the whole number being
considerably larger than for the corresponding Pc
riod last year. OF these emigrants, 400 came by
way of NewYOrk, showing that this route obtains
the preference with fair proportion OF the whole
travel.
While money accumulates in the banks TO all
tent unknown in the history OF this city, another in-
dicaton of the great falling of i'll general trade Is
seen in the surprising decrease of business at our
Custom House The whole foreign importation
which went into warehouse in April, was only
$50. 600. In April, 1857, it was $226, 900, and the
wear before 1915, 900. Again: the amount entered
for consumption in April, 1856, was 81 $4,000, but
last month il dwindled down to 1874, 600. The du-
ties collected in April 1856, amounted TO 1885,, 900
but last month they were only $ll7 600, while the
amount collected during the first four months of
this wear was only S6l5, 600 against 81 262 600 in
the same period wear ago. While this enormous
reduction appears III the amount of dutiable goods
the free merchandise remains about the same as q
wear ago. II may be added that the falling of 10
lmpOrtatons is most apparent among the luxures.
These facts 20 to prove not only that our people
less able to consume these gewgaws, but thar they
have sufficient sturdiness of character to do without
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