Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-30
vA.HINeroN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

BosroS-NKw ENeLAND's AGRI-
! CULTURAL CAPACITIES AND HER PoLTrIcAL Po-
sIrIoN-BosroJ's IMPROVEMENT SINCE R35- |
WORCESTER BosToS's RAILRoADs |
STEAMBOAT IN THE WORLD, &c. - IN
Editorial Cor,sspondenes Of Tia Star j
(No. IS Bosrox, Mas, August 10, 1859 =
Aswe approaches Boston last evening, of course
we found the Improvements increasing, unit, for
the last ten or twelve miles, the line Of the railroad
was through continuous village almost. The
only town on the line near Boston which has i'm
proved remarkably in the style of its architecture,
as seen from the car windows, Is Summervflle,
not long since cut off from Charlestown. IL Is
evidently the residence Of many persons Of taste,
who doing business In Boston, able to beautify
their premises with foliage planted out, fsh PondA
constructed, and houses designed to please tho
eve. So near Boston, two or three acres ID quite
landed estate, and great pains seem to be taken 10
make ii as attractive to the passer-by as possible
Nevertheless, hardly saw any other than plank
houses between Lowell and Cambridge, from
which latter point we crossed over into New
Eng lands capital. The people of the region thus
do not seem to regard it as worth while to build
more than temporary houses In the country;
singular mistske for persons TO make who are so
remarkabl shrewd In most matters True, when
aiming to do so, they make them lovely to behold
by skillful and elaborate painting and outlying,
and arrangement Of foliage, petite lakes, fine
private roads, &c. But one experienced cannot
avoid the impression on looking at their improve
ments that twenty years will see all their home
steads more or less dilapidated. This should not
be so for Boston, In proportion to population, is
perhaps the wealthiest city in the Union, and
these houses are the homesteads OF it's business
men in almost all callings.
In the course of M iaunt NJ Yesterday and the
day before-from Montreal through Vermont more
than half way down to its southeastern extremity,
up the Connecticut thirty miles and thence down
diagonaly across New Hampshire to its southern
extremity, and thence through Massachusetts, to
New highlands capital was most forcibly
struck with the value Of the continuance of the
Confederacy to New England. IL in that jaunt
saw fair average Of its agricultural resources,
am very sure it is utterly impossible that she
raise food sufficient TO supply onc-fourth Of her
own present population, notwithstanding her ag-
ricultural progress as regards methods and modes
Her people must live by manufacturing or must
starve, If not emigrating. Her manufactures are
profitable only by and through the markets for
them existing in other States Of the Union; which
would not exist were manufactures competing
| with them admitted duty free in the South and
West. She could, without the protection Of the
| tariff, continue TO supply the South with cotton
goods, beyond a doubt But not one in thirty
Of her manufacturing population can ever find en-
plOyment in her cotton mills Every additional
| acre added to the cultivated lands in the South
swels the aggregate of the southern tribute exacted
through our revenue system for the benefit of New
England. Yet the mass Of New England's popu-
latiOn are filled with a deadly hostility to the
whole South-becoming more intense annually. AZ
Is SO evident that well-nformed man will deny
it. There of course exceptions to this general
rule, which, however, only serve to render the
prevalence OF the rule more evident to the close
observer That this state Of things 60 on with
out producing results this side Of the Atlantic
such as similar want Of unity of feeling and COM
mon national brotherhood has produced in the Old
World invariably from the times when history
was first written and preserved, until to-day is a
moral impossi bility. Sooner or later-in a quar-
ter of century-tbis state Of things must co ne to
head. The people Of the United States must
again become one people in fact. or two or more
peoples in laws, government, &c. Should the
latter dread day come, the profitable value o;
nearly the entire property of New England, how
ever invested within her own limits will instantly
be destroyed. What she has that is profitable, il
profitable only because the laws Of the Confeder-
acy of sovereign United States crease the mar
ket value Of everything she makes to sell beyond
her limits; and in SO doing also ncrease the value
of what she raises from the earth with which to
feed her manufacturing population. That she il
doing her best to hasten the day when the South
will obtain all the manufactures she requires of
every description without paying dollar Of Gus
toms duty on any Of them, is evident to lie that
the foolhardiness Of her intense hostility to the
South, her people and institute ons was constantly
present in my mind yesterday aud the day be-
fore journeyed as previously described, through
Vermont, New Hampshire and Massac husetts
had not seen Boston, except in passing rapidly
through it. since lS35, when knew it almost as
well as know w ashington now In that ii me il
has almost trcbled its population, apprehcnd
Yet the only addition to its limits has been by and
through filling up few acres Of the marshes and
ponds of her south end and back bay-perhaps
fifty acres in all have thus been reclaimed and
built over, generally with a class of business
houses and private dwellings that would do infn-
tie credit to any American city. Where the old
city has been altered in that time the alteration
has been made in manner contrasting most IA
vorably with the gingerbread style Of building so
prevalent in her suburbs-substa ntiability being
the universal order Of the Improvements within
her corporate limits. Nevertheless, much vet re-
mains to be done, and doubtless will DE done to
aorc all the accommodation for the transaction of
Boston's so steadily-in Increasing business in all
branches Of manufactures and general commerce
Hundreds II not thousands Of her antiuuatsd and
ili-cons'ructed houses, built fifty wears or more
since, still reman-at the north end for instance
cumoerlng the ground, where the erection of
larger and more convenient structures could not
fail to pay, as in New York. Her business streets
appear quite as lively as those Of New York, the
space occupied by them being by no means greater
In proportion to population than the space occu
pied by New York's business streets State street,
narrow Pavements are as thronged, to-day. in pro-
portion to width and length, as Wall street. and
Washington street as Broadway. Ten can CON-
fortably walk abreast in Broadway New York
while but three can walk abreast in Washinpto,
street, Boston, il will be remembered Hence the
reason why, with its So much smaller population
Boston's thoroughfares literally crowded as
those Of New York.
But my stay in Boston too short, necessarily.
to enable me to observe her present methods and
modes. had time but to glance at a few streets
of the city ere compelled to take the cars on the
way home was familiar with every inch of the