New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-06
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
PUBLIC BUILDING TAx-AID TO BELL-THE FIRST
DISTRICT - OVERFLOW OF FERTIIIzERs-A
QUEER cAsE-AN ERICSSON LoCoMOTIvE-THE

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Wool SALE.
From Cur Own Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 1860.
Our City Loans have fallen u per cent within a
week. This ia owing TO the contemplated expendi-
tur, OF 81 500, COO for the erection Of new public
buildings in place Of the meanest collection of dirty
bunks on Chestnut street that ever disgraced one
horse country town. The crOakers that abound
bereabout have bad spoon in the dish, while those
who own property on Chestnut street, from which
the buildings are 10 be removed, have put IN their
lades. 80 that general stir has followed, The
bop6holders been frightened though none Of them
desire 10 sell, ard down go their bonds. One OF
the men with ladies' says that this fall 10 prlce mas
caused the bOndhOders to lose SSOOO O0 already
Yet these same parties still hold their bonds, don
mean TO sell and never did. How then can they
have lost anythncl The money to build with must
be borrowed. and The loan viii cause new tax OF
$50 Der anDum TO a man worth 100000. Yet this
almost mpalpable tax il made the bugbear WIN
which intensely selfish men seek to brighten the peO
pie of great city from abating one OF the most ~
tOlerable nuisaDces among US. these new Guy
buildings have a hard road to travel. SO far they
have survived the lawyers and nearly all the news
papers and, the contract having been pun through
with surprising speed, it has next to go through
Councils the Mayor, and probably half the Courts,
BE- fore the building can go on. How the matter
will end no one knows, neither can he say When
The greatest card put forth by the Bell men
during tine campaign was their meeting and process
sion of Tuesday evening. The latter numbered
some 900 men all told. But it is not generally
known how extensively this party receives aid and
comfort from the Democracy. The latter lend the
,har nf torches that m he called
for. with men to carry them. Were Bel process
sion. pure and simple TO be gotten up, it would
have lame and impotent conclusion. Hence they
are kept in countenance by the Democracy furnish
ing them with torches equipments, men-iD short,
everything but oil. All this is notorious here and
hence the numerical responsibility OF the late dis
ulay. But while the Democracy make these loans
so literally, they will lend the Bell men no votes.
On that tack they must stand on their own bottom,
or conceal their voting iDsignihcance by playing
second fiddle at the polls to the very Democracy for
whose defeat they nominated Bell and Everett.
II ia now believed that We shall be able TO purge
Tom FlOrences district by eecting Butler. The
public pulse Out,ide the Navy-Yard indicates very
great changes among the old, blind adherents OF the
Democracy In addition to this, Buffers friends
are prOdieiOusy active and then the enemy Is split
mn on two candidates. Now Tom slipped in the last
time by only 33l majority, there being three candi-
dates then az DOW. No one pretends that we have
Lost ground since that election, while Toms party
has had the Presidential prop knocked from under
IL The Old Public Functi nary cares nothing about
how the next Congress may stand, as by that time
the asss skin will be seen hanging from his recreanr
limbs But among all the victories OF the next six
weeks. this coming publication of the lst District
NAV be set down as one of the most remarkable.
The Agricultural Fair at PoweltOn has been
harvest 10 the street railroads. Instead OF twenty
passengers to ear, the standing number mas aver
aged about fifty. Stopping as they do, Wltnln .
block of the exhibition, visit has been so quick!
made that Thousands from the city have thrOngec
the prour ds while the country has contributed ia
usual teeming quota, though other important shows
were going on elseWh here. There was evidence o.
Powelton Of the prodgious impulse which has beer
given TO the manufacture and use Of artificial ma
1ures, There were meat and bone manures, phOs
phatc fertilizers pOudrettes, plaster mixtures, fac
| tory waste, compound phosphate OF lime, cancernt
(being the whole shell and insides of the king crab
dried and ground up, the same being caught In vas
myriads on the New.Jersey COAST, together
with a new fertilizer called phulne. Ihu
is manufactured here, and consists OF two
| thirds of concentrated animal matter, sucl
| as blood. hair hoofs &C., the balance being chem
ica sails necessary to promote and maintain vegeta
bic life As the proof of the pudding Is IN the eat
ing 80 the maker exhibited evidences of It's stimu
lating powers in the shape of three beets weighing
| about twenty-fUur pounds, squashes OF rldculou
rOtundity and carrots, one of which would be NOR,
than any hungry diner-Out would want TO eat. Ih
corn shown rs the product Of phuine was gigantic th
ears being far the largest and best filed ever saw
The makers of all these new fertilizers are doing
great business among the farmers. In other de
partments there was the usual variety without man!
special novelties. Among the latter, were samples
| Of Merrck's new amalgam bells, an article made a
half the ordinary price while the tone is even bette
| and mellower, and the strength equal The hOrs'
track as usual was perhaps the greatest attraction
| TO female as well as male. As general thing, tn
show is believed to have been more meager thai
| formerly, though the attendance appears to hay
| been about equal.
| CrnoIine YOU know, encroaches on us everywhere
| 1t crowds us in the cars, and from the pavement
| drives us into the cutters. Thus much we hav
long endured not without complaining, nor becaus
any other law but that of ciyility obliged us TO d
So But here in this city the law of the land ha
been invoked to make all things clear the track for 1t
| exclusive sweep. One Of our Aldermen, by nam
| Helfrcht has wife, who, like all other wives, in
dulges in crinoine. In passing up Third street tn
other day, her skirt encountered box on the pave
ment in front of Mr.. VIM. N. Christys store
whereupOn the box caught the skirt, the same bein
| of silk and therein tore q hole tiye-and-a-ha
inches long The lady discovering the rent, pre-
ceeded to kick not Mr.. Christy, but the box, an
her husband. the Alderman, proceeded TO sue I'll
unOhepding Christy, claiming damages S25. TIL
hearing was funny. The lady proved that sh
kicked the box. Christy defended the box an
hmself-proved that it stood within - inches
the curb, which space the law gives him. and that
had been there only ali hour and a quarter. Th
| Alderman who heard this momentous case on Tue
day, was so bothered by it as to be unable to max
up his mind until Saturday. He then gave judgmeI
in favor of the plaintiff for - aud costs, thus lega
ly deciding that everything out of doors must stan
clear Of hoped skirts.
A new feature in railroad management Is aboJ