The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-04-20
SOME FACTS FOR ALL MRN TO pom
DER.

| In the performance OF ous daily duty Of ex-
aiming large pile of newspaper exchanges.
our attention has frequerily been arresisd bv
paragraphs which, whether intended or not. dis
PLAYED IN arnling terms the spirt OF reckless
1ifA'agancs ~hich - nov 50 prevalent through
OUT Tile country Take the following as speci-
mems hey are from New York papers:
A man builds marble stable IN the rear OF
ms lot, at a cost OF eighty Thousand dol ars and
/ hts up private theatre over IT, Another nav.
4 -ig't thousand dollars for a pair of horses 10
drive Oh the roa1 tor his pleasure; and maay
give from hlteen hundred 10 three thousand dol
iais ior The same object Another provides a
i'nner Tor dozen frlends-rejecting the old
/ superstition OF the unlucky thirteen and thi.
simple dinner costs one thousand dollars A
children party - given, IN an uptown house
Shere every child Is clad entirely in dresses i'm,
ported from Paris. An American citizsn pur-
thsses house for over one hundred thousand
ioliArs. aud tears It DOM, to rebuild upon Us
ste one YET more costly
The sPeculations III real estate the paat wear
nave been the most astonishing Prices hav,.
reached figure that il is impossible for then,
10 maintain a broker in this civ in 1863 hired
4 home OF Fifth avenue, and took lease st
-'ree thousand dollars. This was considered =
n'sh pfice Tor Il. Ia January Ia, he under let
ne mousse al the rate of eight thousand five hun
iIeu dollars year, semi annually Ia advance
lie Is nov travelling IN Europe on the gain.
'ouse that VAS sold last November for thist,
thousand dollars was sold in February for 6in
honsand dollars, aud the owner i prumbline
Ver tie loss OF ten thousand dollars in the sale
$ he has since found man that would have
gwen him sixty thousand dollars wear for IL
)ne man offered a house that cost him sixteen
thousand dollars Tor twenty n We thousand dollars
hls offer was immediately taken When th,
'spers we're drawn, they we're made out to a
nru party, TO whom the second party has sold
At an advance OF ten thousand dolars"
These things are not conf ied TO New York
Wen seem TO be beside themselves everywhere
With this mania for spending money. Thev ar.
iariy drunk with success. aud like men stagger-
ng IN the public street they are oblivjous ahke
Il the past and the future. Iney i've onIy N
the present, aud are determined to Ell " il. re-
,-rdless OF consequences Hence, Ihey bn,
me houses. give expensive enrertainm "a deck
their wives and daughters in silk and ga, in and
fnanents OF gold. stock heir cellars will co,t
vines, and make tools of themselves geuer
ally
At a large meeting of the working women OF
New York, and their friends. at Cooper Institute
IA Monday evening last, the following schedule
j prices paid 10 thousands OF sewing gomet
fhe evidence OF the sewing women themselves
For naking pair OF cotton drilling dra~ers
'iih buckles button holes straps aud string. a
-e~ing woman is paid four and one-sixth CENTS
smart woman. urins sewing machine can
make iocr PAIR m long day-~Orkmg that J.
say. from "a the morning till a. night
rvf such days wor6 the reward is sixteen and
.nfee quarter cents Another seWiLg won,ai
c'crives hve and halt cents for making larg,.
canton hannel drawers, by hand each pair con-
aing t~O thousand III ches, aud having button
n0ies es clet holes buttons, STAYS and strings
put this poor woman has 10 furnish her own
thread. She l. able 10 make Two pairs Of such
da"ers IA a very long day, which includes con
siderable part OF tie night. A woman employed /
'n haverssck pockets receives one aud a onarte. /
cents Tor each IL requires SIX hundred stitches,
t"d has three b tton holrs. She ha- 10 furnish /
lie thread, AID make twelve and a halt
Genus by ten hours work. By making coarse
army shirts the most industrious earn l.ss than
oty cents per week. For making knapsacks. |
~hlch l. uncOmmonly heavy work, a woman Is /
pa'd at a rate which enables her to earn twenty /
40 and half cents in day. For making q /
hae white Gotten shirt with fine linen bosom
fhe pay D. sixteen cents. An active woman can
make two 10 a oay she furnishes the thread. |
and gets thirty tSO cents. Thess shirts are /
sold IN the shops for from three 20 three and a
halt dollars each and they cost the manuiactur-
er-the capitalist that is to say-one dollar aud
htV nine cents each.
All this in christian land, and among peo-
pie who are daily calling upon Providence TO As-
list them in putting down gigantic rebellion
Let US not smut our eyes There are other sins
besides the sin of slavery. There are other
crimes besides that Of rebellion against the best
government 10 the world We will succeed in
this war, but let not be unmndiul OF the
egacy the war may leave us Peace hath her
victories no less renowned than those of var"
and ore Of its victories is that which all men
-houid achieve over their vanity and cuDidity
Without that victory the fate Of other nations
which have declined and fallen may be ours
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