Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-17
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
SKETCHES or SUMNER Travel.
rEdiforiaI CoyyssDoafsaes of Ths Sfdt

EdnoftdI CorrespoHdeHee V Lhe Stdf
mo. 1sl August Z, 1860.
The CHANGE THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN fHK.
POPULATION OF LYNN AND ITS NRIs HBo iaoop-@
How TEE PEOPLE NOW L1vB-THEIR Bust
NESS DISABILITIES, &c.-TnE IMMENSE TRAvKL
ON THE BosroN RAILRoADs-BosroN has BE-
CONE ANsLIcIzED, &c, ~ At.>
Ere reaching Boston this morning, my atten.
ton was attracted to the great alteration which
the events of the past quarter OF century have
made In the character-prsonasI-of the inhab-
itane OF the now swarming coast Of Boston bay
between Newburyport and Boston. Twenty-Five
years since there was not one foreigner among
them for every ten that are now located there ev-
identity. Then, the labor Of the region was done
except upon the public works In progress-al.
most wholly by native bora persons, and foreign
born journeyman mechanic, IL remember cor
rectly, was rare sight there. Now all the labor
domestic and otherwise 10 apparently in the hands
OF foreigners, as well as much more than half the
Hsdes while from nearly all the houses upon the
railroad side, evidently the abodes Of the labor
ing classes, the physiognomies appearing in the
windows and doorways were unmistaka bly Irish
ana German Natives continue to be the propri-
etory cultivators of the soil there however their
hired help only, being born abroad To this influx
OF foreign born persons do employers In that region
attribute the gradual decrease of the sboemaker,s
wages referred to in my last letter They aIleee
that some years since those making shoes for the
houses In the trade, to increase their own niece
earnings, began the practice Of taking grown an.
P'entices, who obligated themselves to work six
or eight months for the benefit of their teachers
suficiently long to enable them at the end of that
brief period to compete with the latter after
fashion, underwriting them of course. In that
/ of hoo inrr
| mechanical labor in eastern Massachusetts has
evidently become greater than the lepitinatse,.
isting demand for 1t there Its offers 10 w,o,l %,
less than fair price induce undue competition
among the manufacturers; especially those of them
VINO may be In the trade without suficiencv of
oond pde capital Of their own, and are enabled IN
sustain themselves for the time being by resort
10 oahk facilities, such as they could not obtain
| Hom solvent banks III their real circumstances
| were known. The remedy for this state Of thing.
the only effect Of which is to make few OF the
rich richer and all the poor poorer, is the abau.
| comment OF their calling by a considerable pro-
portion of such Massachusetts operatives. who
must turn their attention to other caIlings there
or 90 elsewhere in search Of employment. The
attention ofcaptal there Is now earnestly directed
to the task Of finding profitable employment for
'hem In other manufacturing callings, and 1t is
proposed to ask Congress to give special protec.
uon 70 Whatever new business they may engage
In That is, to some description of manu-.
fcturlng not now practised to any consid.
eiapie extent In this country, in which they
| shall hereafter engage very generally This
proposition Will be equivalent to asking that the
country at large may be taxed to make 10 the de-
nciency In their support from their present bust
ness calling. 1t Is impossible that such scheme
L If
public mind to less rather than greater protec.
tion'' from Government. The annu,llv-,nc,e,,
ing poor rates of Massachusetts already prievop.
burden to all directly taxed by them can never be
thus made up out Of the purse of the peope of the
| other States. The truth Is, the system throuqb
| which population so enormously out of propor.
uon 10 that OF other sections Of the Union has been
| concentrated In Massachusetts and other New
| England manufacturing States, Is essentially a
hoIoed one, and can only be perpetuated by a
| resort 10 further forcing expedients I cannot
perceive inst IT has resulted in permanent benefit
| TO the Masses where 1t exists, who would have
been much better of laboring elsewhere at call
lngs In which there exist a Legitimate natural ds
mand for their labor Their boasted freedom and
extraordinary privileges have no existence in fact
That u.s. they are not SO free from the personal
control OF capital as white laborers everywhere
else In this country are while their privileges
are more for public mischief than for the epioy
ment OF more than the most mcagre means of
keeping oody and soul together They are fast
hpsing into the social and industrial condition Of
labor in England and Scotland the boosted free,t
countries the face Of the globe, in which labo,
Is yet even far worse off than In our own New
England. -.''
But Ito return to my mutton Thousands. ~
not tens OF thousands pass daily into and ont of
boston upon the Eastern railroads as well as On
all the other railroads centering In that CITY: all
dlspGtchlng trains here and there half hourly
tlfty thousand persons. including their families,
doing business In Boston, estimated to reside
outside the citys limits; and nearly that number
lncludlng strangers, are thought to arrive in and
depart from the city daily by rail and steam
boat. The reader can, fon this statement. i'm
agine the constant whirl of hustle and excite
ment surrounding all the city's MANY denots
ffom sun TO sun; which resemble in this mar.
ticular the railroad dspots of 10 other American
city. The order and system with which their
depot business 10 conducted are worthy of all
praise, and from them all other American rail-
road companies may draw useful and economical
lessons. r
Their regulations to relieve the travelling public
from the ordinary disabilities Of the competition
-. onu poiSIo utdcfN6 especial comment.
dalton, and should be closely studied by railroad
managers DESTROYS Of making their routes popu:ar
with The public. AT their depots one begins to
perceive that Boston is especially un- Americ an
Inc manners OF all employed in or hanging about
them resemble those of travelling Englishn,n
rather than Of our own countrymen elsewhere
and even their accent has in the last quarter of
century gradually become English rather than
American, as well as the cut Of their clothes and
the air they wear. Boston sends more of her
people over the Atlantic yearly-far more I'm p,o
portion to professionalism any other American
CITY, They bring back the English manners and
customs which 1t is the fashion to wear here. and
inoculate all below them In wealth and social
position with such idiosyncracies Hence the
intense cockney atmosphere which the stranger
oreafhes In Boston-of which more anon
10 W.D VIZ
The RuNoR OF Mr.. BRKcKiYR1peR,s Dyc1,
NATioN-We did not consider II worth while to
mention this stratagetic rumor yesterday, and