New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-18
TEE wsI AND sTs PARADOGEs


TEE WsI And sTs PARADOIEA
Thcrc is something at Fret sight cOmco-
gba.tly, in Che VEN Of Mephistopheles, to find
uttered at this period Of war, when nearly q
million Of our hardest men are engaged IN II,
and the South is temporarily severed from US,
great printed Catalogue Of nearly five humid
red pages, Of some million books, now sell
ing here at auction to the Trade. TIE se-
renest work of life, book-reading, literary study
going on as usual, while soldiers enough to
constitute tie tribes Of all the ancient Greek
Republics are rushing
Into the j,w. ofds.,h.
into "a, mouth OF he'll
Books going, going. gone ard "ss fair
prices" Fi,e hundred pages OF the list ard
90 re Of the FIVE hundred, b. the law, Of I'll.
Book Traders, allowed to represent less .han
tho value Of fifty novels. Imagine the guam
tiy Of volume, ard the cost By this general
zation -" When hugs roge the people mourn. %
Bat would this infer a nation playing Niobe,
blinded by tears. who has eycs for the perusal
We confess, by oil the ordinary standard. OF
causc aud effect, authorship and books ought
10 suffer hugely by tho war. ho number Of
reader. should be vnsily eStenunted. The
means wberewilh 20 purchase costly volumes
ought 70 be largely aborbed By the tax, the
greatest The world ever saw in war. Euglauds
BAL during the closing years OF Napoleon ca.
reer. alone perhaps excepted. 1t j, agreed
even il we have tho soldiers to be sacsiiced.
too contest must be Of limited duration: that
ludt by the sign We have cited, has uot been
reached By q long dcnl yet.
We Ind noae Of The induces of poverty either
in other things. Beggars-those sentimental
metres e Voc and wsnt-havc they increased
Those who have alwaj, the poor With them
say, no. Burglars. iootpld., rogGe,, riotors.-
shows u reduction in their professions.
But the agricultural supplies, how about
them THO heavens this las. warm sea-
son. have been most genial The cereals
have been showcrcd upon rs with o divine
hand OF plenty. Fruits 10 many varieties
are more abundant than they have been for
,ear. The fear j, that they will not bo dried
10 sufficient quanitics iOr the soldiers, because
IN many places they aro 30 plenty a. not 10 be
worth the process. let rs hope not however.
But clolh.ng-as regards that That in some
Thing. Is appreciated. Cotton OF course is not
ia full supply; and woo.ens IRE high. Bui wc
do not perceive as yet my deficiency IN the
nobility and splcndor Of the fashions. Up to
tao other day, those OF tue Summer were
aaLnt,d, aud nov those vi ,hc Au.lr.n
Lavo st il. Bcsdcs, the Americans have 50
many clothes that as a rule, they can VITA
economy stretch their wear safely over hi extra
seaion, wien such sat.orial resource may be
Necessary.
In ali tits We perceive an exception to the
previous history of wars, especially civil ones
The wars OF the Accents attended With sieges,
made rats and shoes objects Of food ct ligh
prices, ani whole states tie abodcs of bats
and owls. AIarcB boast was That where his
horses trod, the grass grew not. During the
French revolutionary war, there Nas the most
terrific distress: the DIRECTORY, On one occa-
SION, voted two commanding generals ten doi-
lara apiece for their brilliant services, and the
soldiers under thsin each phr vi wooden
81 oes. The cptaph OF FIT, on his ability toI
reconcile war wlth prosperity is simply nm an
truth the ghastliest ponury peryaded English
Ion .lif,, giving rise 10 the saddeet Parlianen
tary Commissions and new whole literature
of fiction, where hunger and rags, sorrow nnd
crime, are the grand transformations. For
many years during this century tho records OF
travellers Ia Europe were thoso OF an abound
lug poverty, affecting the denizens Of towns
and tho toilins peasants in the country. From
Italy to Ireland it vns the lay Of tho beggar
while yet the trenchant effects Of tho great
wars ol this century remained. a cauer
world, aud ingenuity rushing into enterprises
of peroe, have improved the condition Of the
uih.Ses, aud upset the terrible doctrines of
Nautilus, who held that there wero more
mouths at tho worlds feast than there WAS
bread to feed them With.
A thousand million artificial hands which
TIE not arc now at work in this country in
tho workshop, the mine, and the field; on the
too river, tho lake, and tho sea. To these we
owo our immunity against the antique Nemesis
Of war-w.nt. Who shall count our indus.
tsill, our productive. possibilities. uudsr those