Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-16

SKETCHES OF SUMNER TRAvKL.
Editorial Coyrespondsses of The Sta,

was in a sail-boat well provided for the day.
standing out towards the blue Atlantic. We 1.-THE
boatman and myself had jolly time ont, until
near p m; reaching Nahant again as night
closed In around US, and bringing back SONS
twenty-seyen pounds Of cod, founders, bass and
perch-a capital days fishing for an amateur
Boston bay, however, is fast being drained of its
cod: gOflate years the Stars Washington read.
ers will remember, Goldfish have been almost as
common In their own Centre Market, az Potomac
perch have been for fifty years. So, too, have
they become common In the markets of all other
cities to be reached by rail from Boston in two
or three days. The fish thus sold are caught in
Boston bay and other New England inlets mot
out upon the banks) by new process. Formerly
they were taken upon the coasts, az on "the
banks, by hand lines. Now, they are taken for
| market by lines Of miles in length, each having
from one to three thousand hooks rugged to them;
| which are visited and inspected by the fisherman
| owning them once in twenty.four hours. The
people Of Nahant plain bitterly that this sys-
| tenn Of fishing has already made 1t difficult to
| catch cod anywhere in Boston harbor; those who
essay it for SPORT AZ did yesterday, often fishing
all day without bringing home a single Goldfish
worth catching, among the multitude Of other fish
| easily to be taken here, but not 30 much priced
AK a. m. this morning babe Nahant good.
bye again, taking up my line Of travel, this time
| homeward. A drive of four miles over the
| s'little" and then the "longn beach Of Nahant
brought me safely to the Lynn depot Of the East
ern Railroad. While riding over the Long
Beach, found the whole face of the country Dor.
dering the salt marshes between Boston and New.
| buryport entirely changed. In 1894 or '35 l ran
the first lines for the Eastern Railroad ever ran
over them for railroad purposes. Then the shore
lines were almost entire wastes. Now they pre-
sent the appearance Of continuous village Of
well-built tasteful cottages filed evidently with
those who swarmed Nahant at this season of the
year, before the lords dukes, princes and earls Of
train oil, ice, Goldfish, and ready-made clothing,
and secret medical specifics, voting Nahant theirs
only by prescription, managed to elbow all others
| off the peninsular. The Boston, and indeed the
| New England, million inhabit I'm the summer
these cottages located In Chelsea, Lynn, Sauyus,
SwamPscott. and Marblehead; all access BILE from
Boston In from half an hour to an hour and half,
by rail- The whole of the different beaches of TIE
| other towns name above are studded with bath.
| Ing houses; and, turn az would, my eyes rested
upon multitude Of bathers of both sexes going
| into the water in It, or coming out Of 1t as far
| in every direction as my vision could penetrate
ride of an hour In the cars brought me to the
depot Of the Eastern Railroad, upon the Charles
river bank, in what, in times past, was the North
end of Boston. So must lay aside the pencil to
| take hack to a hotel -...-....- 3
T. Nj am not disposed to part with the IA
nous town Of Lynn so summarily. Outside OF
Boston, no other Massachusetts town occupies a
larger share Oh the atten tion Of the southern pub
| lie. 1 knew II well, twenty-five wears ago; when
though by no me cans as Populous as at present, it
contained a very "well-to-do' community. That
is to say, its people were independent, wholly, Of
public charity. Though even at that time noted
for its manufacture of shoes for distant American
| market, all who labored at shoemsking then
| received fair wages-wages that not only kent
body and soul together, but allowed the laborer.
| II thrifty as well as industrious, to lay I'D some
| thing for rainy day One Of the operati YES ION
shots) OF these times whom met I'm the Nabant
inn where sojourned for day or two told me
that for the same quality and amount Of work az
that at which she earned IS per week In those
times, she could now earn not more than 81 IN
per week. Hence she has been compelled to aban.
don shoemafiDg In Lynn, for Z" helping, I'm the
Inn OF her native town. The good woman with
tears In her eyes, explained the altered condition
OF things there Admitting that Lynn had be-
come most important New England industrial,
center In the last twenty-five years, she deplored
tine altered condition of its laboring population
in the meanwhile, beyond expression Then. no
one in Lynn willing and able to work failed to
obtain work sufficient to enable them to live well
and save something. Now, according tn he,
story, half the male and female sboems krrs of
Lynn only manage to obtain work at most meapre
wages-at half the rates prevailing twenty.fve
years ago: at wages ranging from four to six dol
lars per week for the very best male workmen
and from 81 So to 81 per week for females skilled
to work machines, laboring from four to sixteen
n 'urs per diem. The shoe manufacturer, Store.
keepers and spectators Of Lynn, most Of them
appear to have gotten quite rich in the mean.
while. But, according to the doubtless trutbfu,
story of this poor but evidently sensible woman
tue banks Of that portion of Massac busetts are
carrying loads OF their paper-growing out of
their rivalry in trade-under which they must
sooner or later succumbi bringing down with
them, when repudiating their issues, the whole
shoe business OF Lynn, "with vim !" as II were
Subsequent inquiries elsewhere lin nv ropte
honey having confirmed this woman's account
CT how shoemaking kiteing has been carried ON
for years past In Massachusetts,, I have faith In
her description Of the state Of things existing
among the Lynn shoemaking operators as well
as operatives do not hesitate to n firm that N
mesness paid laborer in Washington city OF the
age OF ~ years. who works six days In the week
a. any description Of laboring work whatever.
nos only receives more money for his weeks
labor bat obtains his rent and provisions for less
money than the Lynn journeyman shoemaker;
ana, besides, knows no master to dictate TO him
wha' bis political action shall be; which, IL am
rightfullv Informed, is circumstance almost un.
known here; nearly every employer regarding it
as his privilege to intimate to those he EN- plov.
now their votes shall be cast to secure the Door
boon OF such employment lat such wages) as he
has TO accord. w N w II
ARMY fundamentally direction of the
proper authority, Col. George Wright, colonel OF
the 9th infantry, has assumed command Of the
department Of Oregon -
Capt. James A. Hardie, Sd artillery, has been
directed to perform the duties of Assistant Adm.
sant General at the headquarters Of the same
department 80. -5l.sI7
One company Of infantry, and a platoon Of
Dragons, from the department Of West, were
directed to proceed on the 18th to the Pawnee
reserve for the protection Of those Indians .o,,n,
~ l.