New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-14
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Ps.a Oar Own Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Dee. q, 1850.
This city has big heart, big enoug a TO ympa-
maze with anything and everything evil as wen Is
ssod. Ar this was made apr aren't by great
gathering at Jayne's Hall, on Wednesday evening"
AZ persons willing to save me Union, but ANXIOUS
n eel goods To one + Anihar with the political
fs,sas Of this locality the gathering was seen 70 DC
made up Of Just 50 eh elements az one might nave
sworp would be 4ppermest 1t was called rrespec'
tive Of party. snd therefore old Democrats grown
hcary in dee and rich withal, while shouting ior
Hlavery under successive administrations appeared
prop.ment among the officers and speakers. ooing
IN for the Union was sop they could well anord'
q, Il sobeap as dirt They had shouted Tor
slavery all their lives, why should they cease now
In SGT. the Presidents organ here the very next
1.v claimed the whole as a Democratic anair'
...n,t;po that the prominent men not Democrats,
nort;cipated in IT, " were forced into 1t by the
D.nocratic party" The snubbing 10 all other
IIr;an.sayers was even worse than this, and they
lsseyve all they have got. With these magnates of
Democracy, hacks Of thirty years standing at the
nrhEc crib came the great guns of the defunet
vsars ago. thought the Union could be saved only
T. ESllmore or buchanan Yet it must be admitted,
Ale neople were there in large numbers, tor the
vraat Hall which contains 1900, was filled, and
there was surplus enough to be worth talking 10 Oh
the pavement NIL,
nhia did not mean to dissolve the Union. If 1t
x0euld do our Southern brethren any good, they
1noht be assured of it. Incidentally we could ac-
eommOdate them with a few more goods OF the
same sOrt-in fact, we are never entirely sold out;
and lust now our assOrtments are particularly iuli,
but viii be even more complete LOT the Sprlpg Iade;
A To our newspapers, if any of them sympathlzed
with Brown or laughed at the Virginia fright, they
didn't mean anythug-indeed they didn't. Such OF
their readers as expressed kindred sympathy were
ander d deusOn, temporary In Its nature, wmch
would disappear when they found their different
wares were of dull sale. Resolutions being cheap,
seainR that they are now machine-made, there was
the usual abundance of them, affirming truths which
Routbern insolence alone has ever denied, and with
Illuminating alacrity covering to the plantation
lash.
The whole proceeding evinced q lamentable want
Of pluek What sin has Philadelphia committed
that she should thus timdly hasten " beseech the
South to believe that she rs loyal to that Union 70
which the South alone is VIGOROUSLY disloyal
While the South has held hundreds of disunion
meetings the whole North has never held one Let
the South first purge herself of her own chronic
treason before she impudenty calls on US TO dlsa-
vow intentions we never entertained. Let her re-
buke her own traitors before she presumes to re-
buke us-choke of her treason preaching Governors
and Senator'S and cOnine her bullying 10 her slaves.
This demonstration would show weakness IN
Northern knees if it had been called spontaneously
by the masses. But il was the creation OF the Pro-
slavery Democracy, aided by their time and office
bonorcd allies from among the doughiaces Their
organs proclaim and boast OF it as being so. Yet 1t
will perform its Office of making goods SELL 1t Will
ring through the South capital advertisement OF
all our various notions, for II is the first OF the new
series of Unon-saving cOnyocahons In which North
ern dOughiaces will again bow down ana eat art
before their Southern masters. Other cities, nav
ing goods TO sell as we, will advertise in the same
way Ii the South can be made to hold still and
bleed freely under such mlk-and-water manliesta-
tons as this, the triumph OF that conservatism
which is the mere synonym for arrant cowardice
will be complete.
No less than 100000 of the new cent were
coined at our Mint in November last. The Min
receives the Spanish coin in exchange for cents,
rates which afford u large gain TO the former. Bu
the cents are produced in such immense quanuty
aud so little pains are taken to push the on lnl'
the interior, where they are really wanted, tnat ou
channels Of circulation are choked win theln
They have, in fact, become perfect nuisance II
Philadelphia. Our butchers bakers, grocers anC
retailers generally are Overrun with them ina
thew can only get rid OF them at loss. Ih'
brokers deal in them at a discount so large as Z
tempt employers TO buy and pay them away TO thei
hands by the pocketfull. These, in turn pay then
again to the same retailers who got rid of them on.
week before at loss, and who are now com
PEELED to suffer another discount to get rid of then
second time. Thus they circulate, just like incur
rent notes. within very barrow limits, all classes bu
the brokers and those who buy from them making
loss. While the coinage goes on ut the rate o
&.s3 Coz per month, We, III the immediate neighbOr
hood of the Mint, must expect thus state OF thing
60 continue
The homeopathic physicians Of this city ar,
making efforts 10 have that system of medicine in
PRODUCED into our charitable institutions and prisons
Their address, just issued, charges that the old sys
tenn is deficient in scientific basis while It drugs
with posons which often result in positive injury 4
those who swallow them. There in this city
some Seyenty-hye homeopathic physicians, witt
100000 patients, whom the former claim as tn,
most respectable and intelligent members Of til,
community Yet our Aims House, Prisons LunatiC
Asylums and other public institutions are in The
hands of the old school doctors whose patients ar
thus cut of from the benefit Of the modern prsc
tice. The professors of the latter alege that the
common dictates Of Christian charity call loudly for
admitting these numerous patients TO share the
blessings of their system of medicine.
Our neighbOrs OF New-JerSey becoming wild
on new railroads. Some twelve charters for entire
~ no. roads viii be applied for atthe next Legisa
tnre, besides supplements to I'd extensions of
istng roads Several of the new roads are intended
to open new routes between New York aud Pha-
delPhia, and receive their impetus in your city.
These applications viii to some extent revive the
old contest between special privileges and free trav-
al and an animated session Is looked TO- if the ap-
pic atoms shall be seriously urged. New-Jersey
that ia for her, is now deeply in debt owing some
goo, 000, while her Constitution limits the State