New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-27

what they have been while here Is kno"h W DIV
erb. Governor Wise bas much TO answer lot "a
stimulating these hot-hcaded young men 10 leave
these admirable schools TO take up with the 'rnper,
feet teachings Of Southern colleges. lie shonid
have advised them 10 stay where they were, keep
from melting TO riots and obey the laws oi the ety
that sheltered them. They viii heartily regret
their inpetuosity, and another year viii witness
their retum-at least we fear as much.
Those who closely study railroad values are re-
marking that though traffic has been increasing yet
prices of stock have not enhanced. They iorset
that exactly the same condition OF things existed
three Years ago. Tie new crop has yielded an IN
conc ia excess OF last year. yet stock prices do nO
rally. Some have even declined, whe Others that
held Up during the crisis, now begin TO stagger ana
decline under the influence OF a new set ol Gauss
] be fact is becoming more and more evident that
American railroads cannot prosper while the Gov
eminent is hostile to the industry OF the country
COnpetti,n Of company against company may do
much 10 invite ruin, but ruin from this cause would
be difficult if the public industry were properly pro-
tected BY the public law. Pennsy ylvana Central has
sunk fem 50 10 Sc, within lew months, though
height and travel have been increasing, a.d dIy.-
deuds regularly paid. But a loose Idea preValis
tlat the Company is deeply mixed up with the de-
faultiug Fort Wayne and Chicago road, and people
are now become so touchy ID regard to all railroad
stocks that merely indefinite suspicion knoeAs
tLem fat. o this doubt is added the revival OF an
old company, chartered in loi7, but whose name
Was subsequently charged to the Atlantic ana o.
Louis road, which sill connect Win the New-i0rk
and Erie at Little Valley, cross the SunDerry aud
Erie. 80 miles from Erie and thence pass on tn
Dayton. Ohio where it viii connect with roads
reaching TO ST. Louis. John Bull is said to have
The norey ready to lend for building this ROAD as
some 2CO miles are already graded An idea Is
abroad that this scheme is going to lnJure some oil
our prominent lines; SO that other causes Tor de-
clining prices beside bad crops, are continually
turning up. If the Government were not 50 cruelty
bent on sitting the industry of the nation the roads
would fnd all other drawbacks comparatively harm
less.
II is strongly suspected here that worse system
Of tamperng with the mails than mercy refusing To
deliver InE TRIBUHE, has been practsed for some
time in certain quarters at the South. Letters
from this city 10 Southern friends have Oeen re-
peatedly and strangely kept back, some of them
bearing very plain indications OF having been open
ed and reseaed. Other letters received here irum
the South have borne such evidence of having been
Cpoued that the very boys who took them from the
Fost-oflice box observed it and called their employ
eIs attention to the fact Where this espionage Is
practised, LO one can positively say. But taking
into consideration hr. Hollis illegal Instructions to
Southern posmasters to suppress incendary docu-
menis, the presumption is that it has been done in
quarters where his circulars have been sent. This
violation OF private correspondence viii soon be
fastened Oh tie real cuprits, when you snail hear
uOIe about IT.
1t cost this city 1886, 600 to keep its streets in
order during the year 1896, and 2J6l,OOO III 1909.
Yet within the latter year i2O miles OF railroads
have been built, the owners of which were to be at
oil the cost of street repairs; SO that though the
city had 20 miles less 70 take care of IN 1859 its
expenses were nearly as great as tie year before,
THIS curious condition of things has exSeu s'fo1s
ion Of either bribery favoritism in the high
way department TO add force to this suspicion,
responsible parties have sent in proposals 10 C0gn
ellis to do the entire work for the city for $500 900;
andas the estimates for this year run up to $780,
zoe, the city will make clear saving OF SlUO,OOO
by contracting out the job. But partisanship has SO
taken possession Of every public body, that from
present appearances this capital oter Will be re-
ected for The sole reason that the party accepting
II yyI be likely to lose control Of certain number
OF votes, Our taxpayers, however, will assuredly
mark every nlan who aids in defeating o saving ot
this wholesale character
ghat call Of the Republican Convention at Chi
caeo is admirably worded, and will not-cannot-
ought not, to he gansayed. IL touches the right
Sung in Pennsylyania and Eew-Jersey, and falls
gratefully on our ears. 1t extends the olive branch
SO cordially in language Identical with our own
organizations as to be entirely satisfactory to all
WHO are willing to be pleased. There is merce-
nary faction here OweTless for harm, yet clamor-
Gus TO he bought. Outside OF Phll9.sa 9.saripnla they
meet with 10 response whatever and here with
nothing but l0eth.ng aud contempt Their game,
both here and in New-Jersey, has been eifectually
PLAYED cut, and they are at liberty TO go and hang
tbemselyes-without the thirty pieces.
/ heard prominent Unon-saver relate, the
other day, an incident, which, in his opinion,
afforded an affecting testimony in favor OF the sou
cementng tenOenc of the patriarchal institution.
Governor Wise own, the woman Charlotte, who
nursed, sucked, and occasionally spanked him--On
the sly, of course. This faithful creature il now
venerable old woman, aud being past sucking or
spanking, in fact having no more work IN her, IS
allowed to 80 to and fro when and where she
pleases, sort OF privileged character, doing and
saying what she pleases barring the iusolence She
even comes up to Philadelphia among the family of
Mr.. John Sergeant, whose daughter was Mr.
Wise's first wife, and here she stays and pOttcrs
about until she gets tired of liberty, and then goes
back 10 old Virginia. there to get tired in turn and
then to her visitation here to the family.
good many jokes are let off on her, but she has all
the spurk of a privileged character. Just now
We happen TO be favored with her company. One
of the family coming into the parlor, aud finding
Charlotte there, inquired of her in sportive way
who she belonged to now-if she still belonged to
Governor Wise. 'No, Sir" was the old womans
answer, 81 belongs to nobody; Henry A. Wise
" belongs to mel"