New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-01-06

had any money, while everybody wanted 1t. Tai.
IL together il was q season Of trial, sacrhce q.
desti.atou, .ueh as happily does not ehea oeee
smongus.
But such "reminiscences conylnces US that we,r
vastly better of 81 present. The banks hate en-.
yiyed the crisis, and, finding their losses far lee
than they fesred, have resumed their usual ayi
depds Money. instead of being noghsre, is non
Annareutly every where. demand Tor labor e.
IA and bread mobs sre not heard of, because I.
working population has had time TO adapt itsefs
the emergency by moving of for employmer
elsewhere. The auctions are no logger crowdS
with superfluoUs hneiy, ne..her Is there long IL
of soap.h houses in operation. Operas thesters AZ
lecture. rooms sic packed with audiences at payis
prices. While the newspapers, year ago 30 e.
Gueut on economy and retIencbmen, have appr
enily forgotten tbSt they ever entertained the ids
All these facts are evidences that We are slovb
rising M from our emharrsssmepts. Yet the gree
UNDERLYING fact is hot TO be omitted that the yes
has brought purifying revolution OF opinion o.
all the great political and social issues before ID
peoIle. Ii is true that IN tins coantry Pubhcs
Industry cannot be permanent. destroyed, and
that in time It viii meaSurably revive by the for-s
of its own lstent momentum. But whserer
feeling of hope in the future may now exist
ur ousstionably the offspring of this great polite,
revolution Tue fact hiss svea tone toall our f'cng
and nav be leSitimarely regarded as premonio1
of the better days th,t are TO come. yeara
We were comparatively PROSTATE and wlthog
hope Now We are m a very dliierent posiiic,
pecuniarly ard politically, with the cheens
addition that the cloud by day and the pillar OF ha
by night have sgain become visible. Philadelphia
though sharing largely in the common CALAMITY
will yet do her whole duty 10 secure the coming
dellyerance.
You may remember that a few days aimee I
member OF eur councils started 4 project for u.
erection of monument in Independence SQUARE
comm, moratlye of the Revolution and OF u.
sieners from the thirteen States by which II wu
I achieved the cost to be paid by tue latter. Lib
the project TO purchase Mount Vernon, the Ida
became popular one, and twelve of the thrice
States have passed laws to have IT carried out
South Carolina only beipg delinquent. The Legs
lature of New-Nork limited the cost of the mo1l
ment IL $4,000. Each State will pay sccoriis
10 her represe ntaton in Congress. The law pro
yides that when it had been adopted by nine States
the structure was to be- built 1t VIII consist d
thirteen sides one for each State OF the Conledera
ton. II any State refuse 10 cooperate, the aide
appropriated 10 1t must remain perpetual ana tIg
I uifcait blank, rs the law does not contemPla.e
that the other States stall cause II to be hlled
! The Legislature of South Carolina is now 10
session. and NAV possibly spare time from reauSt
inc revival of the African slave-trade to giving
the finishing touch 10 this comprehensive meulolra
| Of departed patriotism.
| Close tn where il will be erected stands indie
pendence Hall, in which, with halters round then
! nechs the fathers of the republic put forth thai
| immortal Declaration whose "glittering general
ties" nov fall so Extensively on the ears OF theR
degenerated descendants. Some years ago, job
| seeking Democratic Government tore out The
! venerable wainscoting which had listeped to the
/ flashes Of that fiery eloquence from Adams, Lee
! and their compatriots, and destroyed the grave
! identity of the glorious old Hall. A Wing sue.
eession piously restored it to its anc ent Revolt.
tionary condition and t il now the great point.
Of attraction TO which mutitudes OF strangers din
rect their steps when visiting Philadelphia. 4 10
open daily to all visitors, with an obIgng janior
and contains many precious relies OF bygone dsya
! Portraits of most of the Revolutionary worihe,
hang against its wss, all which are undoubtl
originate To these may be- added profuson q
relics, historical and Revolutionary which thou
sands annually gaze on with patriotic reye
renee. A lifcsize statue Of Washinstl
carved in wood by Rush, and quite Q The
ness, arrests the visitors attention the Instant
he enters the Hall. Ii bears that memor,bk
inscription contributed by Gen Henry Lee, |" Frd
"in War, first in Peace, and frs, ia the heartd
Z" his Counirymen." This statute was made il
! Washinetoos lifetime by Rush, u celebrated. ship
carver, whose magnificent figure head, and stasls
embelisbed the bows Of that great 1eet II sbp
which Philadelphia merchants once employed ia
bringing profitable csrgOes Of silks and teas from
India and China, not one of which is now ia exist
eDce. Tranklin's statue 10 front Of the Phadel
phia Library with its face cons :antly looking int
Independence Square, was also the work OF ID,
same artist. Then there IS that celebrated old bill
sent over from England by the King, bearing To,
inscription, Z" Proclaim Liberty throughout al The
- Land and to all the Inhabitants thereof" nov
cracked and out Of use But its iron tongue did
proclaim this Liberty, for it frat announce 70
wondering and impatient PbiladelphiA that ID.
Decla ration pendenee had been adopted by the
Congress of Patriots in the Hall over which il vi
suspended. Surely all this is classic grouad
When the new monument 10 the old Thirteen shall
have been erected few who visit Phlladeiphis vii
fail to visit this attractive collection OF mute me
morals Of the best DAYS Of the Repablc.
The huge, town Ike narket-b houses winch hiv
been so much complained Of in New.York an
about being adopted here Market street will h
cleared in April Of its mile of sheds and slresdI
private enterprise has undertaken to supply the d
ficiency. A company Of spectators have purchnd !
a block Of stores Merchant street, betweei
Fourth and Fifth, 300 feet front by 100 deep, b
| Ranstead court. This site is only 100 feet belw
the present sheds on Market street, add is in tn
very heart of the city. ALI the fine stores aA
workshops viii be pulled down, and ia their plao
will be erected d market-house composed exclut
lively Of granite, glass and iron. A semicirculr
yaulted ceiling Of glass and iron will rise from tho
center, AZ feet wide and A. feet high from the 6Oof
supported by 40 cast-iron columns, and runnnl
go feet from east to west. similar passage %
each side AZ by 300 feet, by % high, will open b.
wide entrances into Merchant street on the noYta-
and into kanstead street on the south. The ces
tral avenue Will be- entered from Fifth strei
through an entrance II feet wide and 80 high Ik
whole structure will have deep cellars for the stef
age Of meats and vegetables completely arcbed sad
fre-proof, by being oyerlaid with stone Aaggiss