The New York herald., 1864-07-01
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have heard great deal Of the ravsges of large
numbers OF loIeS,s..s: modistes and miliners who
have recently descended upon our shores
They are one Of the incidents Of this cruel
war-part of the age OF shoddy. Attracted
hither by the news Of the large amounts o
money that contractors wives and daughters
spend, they have devoted themselves to extor-
tion, and spread terror and dismay In countless
families. They suppose that we are all con-
tractors. France is the glorious land of their
| nativity. In Paris IL is the custom for the
! dressmakers and milliners to make out their
bills for twice the amount that they agree to
take or expect TO Get. But there the custom Is
understood, and merely gives piquancy to the
interviews between Madame and the modiste.
But here the custom 10 not understood, and
therefore has caused trouble. Some Of our
people actually paid these newly imported
persons the full amount Of their first bills.
Astounded at this, they charged, on the next
OCCASION double what they were paid before,
ana SO, increasing in geometricsl ratio, they
have gotten to stupendous figures. A gentleman
from Chicago received bill for four dresses.
The dresses averaged in cost fifteen dollars
each Cut and male and ornamcntcd with a
wilderness Of frippsty, the dressmakers charge
for each d,sse was on, hundred dollars. 1t is
singular what the result may be when, in case
Of this kind man sets out to find the original
Eiil-that Is. to- Gnd OUT what the price Of the
real labor done would hu~e been If the French
fashion monger Mad not, by the liberality OF
her customers been induced to double her bill
so many times We are actually acquainted
with an instance in which miliner sent in a
bill for eight hundred dollars that, upon argyll
ment. WIS reduced to seventy-Sve dollars; and
the millna was glad Is get tho seventy-fve.
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SEcRETlEY STANTON AuANsr GENERAL Nc
CLELLAN-A DlsGRAoEFuL PRocEED,y1.--H ap-
pears that Lieut. Col Bowman, laseSuperiRten-
dent OF the Military Academy at West Point
has been dismissed by the Secretary Of War
for tie objectionable offence Of having invited
General Mcclellan to deliver the address on
the late interesting occasion at the Academy of
the laying Of the corner stone Of q mcnnment
to the West Point soldiers who have fallen or
may fall In thi0 war for the life Of the nation.
General Mcclellan, as West Point soldier,
distfhgu ished for his professional services in
this war and In the Mexican war, Gre scholar,
a Christian gentleman, favorite with the
army, and o favorite among the peopie, was
certainly proper man OF this OCCASION for
orator Of the day. His beautiful and patriotic
address establishes this fact Yet, for this very
natural mark of respect to General Mcclellan,
Lieutenant Colonel Bowman is removed from
West Point, in consequence of the impiacable
hostility Of tho Secretary Of. War to General
Mcclellan. This disgraceful proceeding"Presi
dent Lincoln surely cannot sanction if he can
be made to comprehend it simply as matter
OF policy. He will act wlsely in turning Mr..
Secretary Stanton adrift and in putting Gene
raj Mcclellan in his place. On the other hand,
the endorsement By Mr.. Lincoln Of this dsrepu-
table act of petty tyranny and vindictive-run-
ishment on the par. Of his man Stanton will be
apt to prove in the end. so far as the President
is concerned. one of the most serious of ell the
blunders of his administration.
JOHN McKEoE ON THE RAMPAGE.-JohT. Nc
Eoon with h;e. ,on ittee Ia cattnr innpIlent