New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-18
Netupork DAILY Grribntte
FROM BOSTON.
From Our Own Correspondents.

From Our Own Correspondent M g
BOsTON, June 10, 1860.
The Legislature has adjourned, after session of
two weeks, costing about $4,000. 1t provided
means Of paying the bills already incurred in the
suppression of the cattle disease, and appropriated
s75, 900 beside ($1CO,OOO in ally, for future ex-
penses. The bills reported by the Committee were
passed without material alteration. They are wei
drawn, and embody the best judgment of our peo-
pie at present BY and by they may seem made
auate OF they may extravagant, but the legis-
latOrs have done as well as they could, with the in
formation before them, and acting as cOolly as
the popular feeling in the farming regions
would let Them 1t was thought best to
err on the side of over action rather than
on the side of inaction, and L believe we
shall have the satisfaction of knowing that the peo
pie of the other States cannot reasonably find fault
with us for not doing our duty. / have no idea
that the pleurO-p pneumonia which exists in New
Jersey. PENNSYLVANIA, and some other States came
from this State and think there is good reason to
doubt whether it came from Europe into Mr..
Chenerys herd at Belmont; but If we have spread
il abroad, we have atOned as well as we could for
our fault Massachusetts, viii not mind the expense,
for these " extraordinary expenses" as they are
called, have got to be quite common. In 1S53-54
we had TO pay nearly $500, 600 for an attempt to
amend the Constitution; in 1896 as much more
for enlargng the State House; In 1860 as much
more for revising the statutes, and now we have
got to pay one or two hundred thousand for the
pleurO-pneurnOna.
Our Democratic delegates are otto Baltimore. The
Douglas men have been very busy trying to get up
popular indignation which should operate upon the
DELEGATES who went 8gaint their fayOrite but they
have not succeeded. In the Berkshire District
Convention was held which passed some resolutions
intended rs an admonitiOn to Mr. Carpenter of
Greenfield, but ! presume he will not pay any at
tention 10 them Mr.. Cayanagh of Minnesota,
after speaking in Faneuil Hall, went up to Lowell
To annibilate Gen. Butler, but came back with an
uncomfortable large flea in his ear. The people not
only would not let Butler be abused, but when
Cayanagh attempted to speak disTespccth1ly OF
Charles Sumner, they Kissed him down, and obliged
him to leave that topic. The Douglas meeting 10
Faneuil Hall was very large one but the enter
tainment was not precisely what was expected.
Reyerdy JohnsOn's essay on Popular Sovereignty
lasted nearly two hours, and was Greek, Choctaw,
or something worse to the assembled Douglas men,
who were not, as a general thing, quite up to an
understanding of the subtleties Of the argument.
When Mr. johnson, having exhausted one Plle OF
manuscript, pulled ont another and proceeded 10
read, the irCnical cries of 30, don't, f" and DRY
up" were inexpressibly ludricOus, but no. more
70 than the speakers occasional perpleMty Wheh nc
paused, looked round, and listened for the applause
which didn't come. The essay was printed IN lie
Courier but even the man who perused the Mont
kns whom / am happy 10 rank among my personai
friends, shrinks appalled, from the tack OF reading
il.
no,ce that Senator Mason of Virginia has de-
ciJed that Gen. Wilson is not gentleman. THIS
means suppose that the General declines to tight
Jnels and pays his debts. The chief ingredient in
,bo character of gentleman according 10 the slave
bolders is the chronic and nyeterate habit Of cheat
inc ther laborers out of their wages. Any man
who does this, whether large scale ike Senator
Hammond, or in a small way like some poor shack
who keeps "nigger" for his own private walop-
ing is a gentleman. The essence Of the thing
is to get your work done without paying for
il. There ia another class of men who are
admitted into gentlemanly society, though not
quite I'D to the Southern standard. This is the
class of volunteer slave-catchers aud apoogists for
Slavery. They show their Willingness to become
when the local law does not forbid,
and so the presumption is, that if they pay their
laborers they do it because they obliged TO- aud
not because they believe in the principle. curious
instance of the Difference paid to this class Of men
occurred six years ago, when Riley, Butman,
Coolidge & Co. visited Richmond for the purpose
of returning Burns to his pretended owner. They
were taken in hand by committee Of citizens, and
a public dinner was given to them, at which the
Mayor presided. The first families opened their
parlors, aud II would seem as il the virtuous But
man and chivalric Coolidge might have their choice
among the wealthy beauties Of the city If they had
been dispOsed TO make a matrimonial venture, or