The Richmond palladium., 1860-07-26
Correspondence Of the Palladium
PENNsr LvANIA House. Pittsburg. }
JuIv Goth. 1850.


EDIToRs PALLADruM:-On the morning
of the 10th inst. l took the cars of the H.
diana Central At Cambridge City. aud after
ride Of II hours, which was rendered
somewhat unpleasant on account of dust
and heat. landed safely in the Iron City.
In the summer Of 1S40--about the time
when the excitement of the memorable
campaign of that year, ran highest-I came
ere and worked during several mouths
There was then not a railroad within 100
miles Of it. 1t was then Pittsburg wrapped
in the gloom and solitude OF its own orig
inali.y." 1t is Pittsburg stiIl,--"graad.
gloomy aud peculiar" And though her
streets are cut up with street aud other rail.
roads, ani her borders have been enlarged;
yet one feature Of the Pittsburg Of other
days remains unchan yed-tAe quiet, pati>nt
smdustry Of her aoaole people. Her a,mos-
phere does no, seem suited to the growth of
the genus loaer. You look in vain for him
among her teeminy thousands. There is
another class also. more hated and more
despicable. and certainly more in urious to
community than the loafer. who have new
er found a breathing place within her iron
precincts. 1t is a aoasiian " neither. in this
respect. she has her equal on the gioaes
Her iron Golfers are swelling with the accu
heaves with healthfui. active life and the
great iron heart OF her ponderous manufac-
turing interests throbs with sound akin
to that Of tie thunder and the hurricane
combined 10 this great hive Of Industry
and enterprise. the character above alluded
to-.he mushroom aristocrat-has never
dared to show his head; though hundreds
ot her citizens have raised themselves
from poverty .lweslth and honor. by industry
and economy; but they are not like unto
the swollen, braialess fungi, we could point
to. whom we have seen crawling up from
the purlieus oil beggary, and gradually swell
ing themselves until their eyes would stick
out with fatness, and their greasy skin come
nigh bursting from the pompous Increase OF
The carcass Within, and seek to grind money
less manhood and womanhood od-rnoneyless
worth and virtue into the dust. becaus. they
will not say "It is the voice of God"
The two rivers forming the Ohio being
very low. navig gation Is at a dead halt be-
tween here aud the ports below; making
business at the landing like the stock market
of the Democracy.
Talking about the Democracy. l learn
tha. the people of this State, formerly sd
herring to the unterri6ed, are awaiting the
issue Of the contest now goinx on among the
leaders as to throwing the electoral vote to
either of the two, Douglas or Breckinridge,
having the best prospect of election, and
should that arrangement be perfected. the
| rank and file Of the party will issue call
for convention to be held at Harrisburg.
when they will let the leaders, know that they
are not yet fallen SO low as to abandon all
the cherished principles of the party, TO en-
gage in a contest for men merely. This
learn from an intelligent democrat. foreman
in large rolling mill in this city. who has
ssen the call for the proposed convention
But il the intestine war RACES. it will soon eat
out the ie-blood Of the party, and the great
| Democratic party will fall. For it there
will be no resurrec.ion; for they tha: harden
their hearts and stlffeD their necks shall be
! destroyed ani that ucithoAt re".edy.
/ Would there seem anything strange IN 1t
| if when, IN this country upon which the
| Author of all goodness has showered such .
profusion Of blessings. q powerful party be-
comes guilty OF every imaginable euormity
! teniing 20 oppress and demoralIze the pso-
pl--when "God Is not all their thoughts.
the Judgment Of Heaven should descend
upon them in blightiag and withering curses
tn scatter them like ehsff to the four windsl
Cersxinly not. Sodom aud Gomorrah are q
perpetual warning To the nations; and since
the destruction of that st'f necked people
1t has again been announced that the wicked
shall be turned 10 he'll with all the nations
that forgot God Is il trusl L,-ok Nj the
history OF mankind. Who were destroyed
and ~ho were preserved ANON.