New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-17
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, aug. 10, I1o"''
II bath been said of old time that there 10 no
peace for the wicked. Not 10 speak with irreyer.
ence o, rur political opponents, one turns instinct
vely 10 them whenever this sublime dogma crosses
the mind. Yet, IL must be admitted that 10 The
Ia eight Yeas they have been convicted OF com
hitting all manner Of political 'in'. Evil has IN
fret bee NE chronic with DEMONSTRATIONS, we
usy say, ibe absorbing element OF their whole
nature. and now they are having their reward, the
reward If domestic ahtae onism IN which there
i, no present o, future peace. The pulverizst'ou
l,reis so complete, that most Of the old Demo
cratic hacks mu.t Of necessity become iossis'
They sre even now ruupirg each other INTO tbe
round so deeply that history viii seorn 10 uheAr'h
hem. Ii is time that they were submerged. i%
people are SICK Of their presence-they nave o's"
/, hove ground long enough. A new generation
pust arise and occupy their places In dong 60,
we may be sure that the regenerated Democracy
viii no longer lag; that il will be compelled 70 Keep
step with the quick progress OF rapidly advancing
moral and religious public sentiment until
by LAPSE Of time chronic aptitude lor eVh II re-
lanses INTO the same heresies which have now made
Il go rotten that decomposition can be no longer
prevented. The two wings have again failed to CO.
ajesre ON a common electoral ticket at Cress0n.
The Administration was in the majority there, and
40 crammed down the Douglas men resolutions
agreeing 10 fusion. But the examining was too
much for the latter. Their st0machs reject the
dose, and have thrown il up. There will be no fl-
sion between Douglas and Breckenridge in Pennsyl-
yania Ii is true that one or two Democratic
County papers seem inclined to sanction it, but the
Of tb. hp
with hearty bitterness, demanding ticket of their
own, a clean victory or clean defeat. To make
sure of one or the other, they are now in convcn-
ton nj Harrisburg, where the most defiant resolu-
tons have been adopted, 10 be followed by pure
Douglas electoral ticket We shall thus have the
choice between four candidates. 20 alter your table
of Presidential votes, and put down Pennsylvania
in the Lincoln column.
In thus standing up with such defiant pluck, the
Douglas men are strengthened by Brecklnrldge's
Illuminating overthrow in Kentucky. The feeling OF
gatifed revenge they experience thereat is not only
rich. but especially consOling They even intimate
that Breck. must now back down, and leave the
world for Douglas to hustle in, seeing that he is
unable TO carry his own State. But, on the other
hand, our Douglas men are threatened with Wise
The ginia Governor is going to stump Pennsyl-
vania for Breckenridge. Mr.. Yancey has been IN
yted TO come and do likewise and, as both are the
very men for fuss and feathers, the probability is
we shall have them both If poor Douglas ever has
done with that iDterminabe pilgrimage to see bis
mother or even without he might take Pennsylva-
MIA in his route and unhOrse these two sturdy dis
unonists. Though likely, in this campaign, to be
talked to death, our people would nevertheless go
% this show az eagerly as they do to witness any
other bufoonery as there is quite curiosity among
them to see what manner Of man it is who seeks
to precipitate the Cotton States into revolution
and the remOrseless functiOnary who hung John
Brown.
volume might be written on the curioslties Of
the census. ii turns up phenomena Of all descrp-
tons-old women of 100, still making patchwork
bedqults, OF sewing astonishing quantity of car
petrags daily, all of whom knew Gen. Washington
intm stely, while the number of Revolutionary PEN
sioners would seem to be increaslng-bad luck tO
Mr.. Cobb and his Treasury balance, if he has any
worth naming. Our State has its share of these
oddities. The Marshal in Lebanon County makes
this return for Cold Spring township: Population,
141; no deaths, no farms, no grain raised in the
township; no churches; one school with 30 schOl-
ars, and l44 unOccupied houses More empty
houses than population This extraordinary return
has puzzled almost everybody. The press ridicules
it as showing how little dependence can be placed
on the returns, while some insnuate that the Mar
shall must have been either drunk or Dutchman.
But the fact s the return is correct strange though
therefore no farms nor crops. Some years ago
there coal mines opened within its limits, and
a railroad was built to them. All this made work,
and the workers built themselves shanties all over
this most bleak location. But an unexpected ca
lamty overlook both railroad and coal-mine-the
supply of coal gave out and the railroad burst up.
These Joint caamities drove all the new corners
away, and hence the l44 unoccupied houses that
now figure so strangely in the returns. Without ex.
planation, the fact thus reported would be good
cause for doubling the accuracy OF the census. But
the fact is significant of the almost ruinOus vicssi-
tudes by which the early coal business in this State
has been attended.
Up to Monday last the scOrchiDg drOuth con-
tinued all over this region. The Schuylkill was
lower than for many years: the mills at Manayunk
stopped half their time for lack of water, and
running over the Paramount Dam. Corn was be-
ginning TO wilt and the whole crop of late potatoes
were generally dead at the top. The heat had been
overpOwering the streets dusty to sufocation, and
we were almost despairing. But on Monday the
windows of heaven were opened in a dehge almost
letting down in few hours nearly FIVE
inches Of water cleaning the city, saving the perish
ing crops and cooling us off from the latitude of
dog days. The present will figure in history the
hot Summer.
In spite of long. continued and intense sultriness
strangers continue to pour into Philadelphia from
South and West. Even business, i'll some branches,
begins to move, and dealers with the West have
already made heavy sales, and expect large trade
from every State in which full crops have been Sc
cured. The South ia not looked to as likely to buy
freely during the last three years. as her crops
cotton excepted have all failed this season, and, in
addition to her ordinary wants, she must pay the
Moth and West for years supply of food Though
money is no scarcer, yet the rates for paper are
higher, and long notes are not 80 quickly sold.
These things show that movement in business is
going on, which cooler weather and the return Of
absentees will stimulate into general activity
One of our morning papers has taken The TRIB-
INF IN task Int not i'm vav likely IN do uucb