New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-21
,r, vopK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 81, 1859

speut. The annual nfux from the country oi
those who come to make holiday investments, shows
itself in cT ded streets every pleasant day lbe
shop windows are filed with gorgeous hncFies OF
foreign manufacture, equal 40 anything seen IN Hush
times. Why should they not be filled Three
hundred millions of dollars in foreign goods, i'm
norted in sii gle year. will Gil the shop windows Of
naIy other ciiies and empty the pockets of other
ron munties than this. Truly, we are "A strange
people Here is one class complaining that trade
Is dull. another that there is no margin IN stocks,
and third that money maintains high price IN
The market Yet all these complaining classes have
tteir piles Of money TO lay out in some anniversary
folly Tor which neither has any actual want. The
iact is. We practice no voluntary economy. Amer-
cans econon.;ze only by c0upulsion. The theory Of
eut of foreign fabrics may almost be doubted. IL
is true we mIy have more than we ought 10, yet IT
cur people ale goTged II lasts only for the moment.
Though iieh poor or panic stricken, they seem TO
luy and consume the same, just as the poorest
countries in The world yield the largest amount OF
tie precious metals. ii the disposition to spend
WeIc only exercised on fairies made at home, no
matter Low gorgeous, OF even useless they might
be- money would rule low enough, stocks would
rarle over satisfactory margin, and as to the
complaining classes, il would be difficult to discover
them.
Nr. II. c. Carey has recently published brie
letter calling attention TO tie fact that party ha
ever elected President without the AID OF Penn
Eyyania Better counsels than are now ruling in
certain quarters must be adopted II the presen.
lcpeiul harmony among us is TO be maintained
Tie Administration party is helplessly prostrate in
tie tate, and can be kept there if ordinary com
uoI.seuse conduct is practiced. Even in their
amcus hey. stone Club, sort of counterpart OF
the Empire, the Administration ofiice-hoders were
outyoed tie other day, two TO one, aud Douglas
men put u their places. In the Custom House, the
Mint and the Navy ard, the Administration party
rule, because there the thing pays; but they rule
nowhere else. With all there evidences OF the
Raue being within our reach, II we choose TO bag IT,
What utter folly is for restless spirits to get up
feparate organization such as never yet ach eyed a
single victory in Penny lvania.
Ii has been said that Ten FlOrence's seat in the
House is not TO be contested by Ar. Ryan, that
matter having been " arranged" But assurance
is given that such s not the case that it is one of
these little things that cannot be arranged, and
that 80 soon as Hr. Ryan is afforded an opportunity
be will present such an exhibition as will make the
Administration Lowl, beside causing Florence TO
fall hack on bis magazine with energy than
ever, and ofOrding him capital text for leading
article in that powerful Journal.
The daughter of late distinguished physician has
gone into n convent here taken the vail, and given
to Tie institution her whole properly, amounting to
SC0,CCC.
The uew water gas of Professor Saunders is not
extireuishcd. The Northern Liberties Gas Com
pany have secured the right to manufacture under
lie patent and will light their dstrc; rs soon as the
retorts can be made ready. There are said TO be
poweriul interests to whose the rue ,ess Of
lie wuter gas would be great Iecuniary ioss and
that some of these interests have been steadily work
inp TO keep it under cloud. few weeks will be
likely to set all doubts at rest.