Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-07

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the New York and st. Louis people trust
the most important mail leaving any city in
the world excepting that from London, with
out guard We have
paid five hundred dollars for escorting the
United States mail to Salt Lake. 1t is a
high price, but the privilege might be worth
the cost, if we had mind to use the facili-
ties which fall about our feet and court us to
sec them. The mail is wholly at our mer-
cy......ln one place bag falls out of the
wagon and would certainly be left behind
on the plain, but that we call to the driver
to stop and pick it up"
And such is ourl Overland Mail! Reader
do you post by it your letters to Western
America?
With all his previous scholarship, and his
new acquisition of information concerning
us, Mr.. Dixon has still an English trait in his
deficient knowledge of our geography. Thus
he refers to Governor-elect Gilpin of Colo
RADIO, as coming from "the frontier which
unites Quaker Pennsylvania with Catholic
DetdWdre;;" and elsewhere speaks of por-
tion Of the OLD tribe of Delaware Indians
"scnt out from these Atlantic forests now
occupied by the Qudys and palaces OF
Dover, Baltimore and Philadelphia
Just honor is generally done throughout
the book to the softer sex, and surely no
clearer evidence of their civilizing influence
could be found than the change their coming
has produced on the style of life at Denver
"a lady is power in this country. From
the day when silk dress and lace shawl
were seen in Main street, that thoroughtare
became passably clean and quiet; oaths were
less frequently heard; knives were less fire.
quently drawn; pistols were less frequently
fired" Nor does the book speak sightingly
of American women in comparison with
those of England. 1t acknowledges, very
franl lj:-
'' In my own country, the peasant girl is
not everything that poets and artists paint
her. In spite Of our Mayday games, oui
harvest homes, and many other country pas
times, relics Of an older and merrier age,
the English peasant is little loutisl, not q
little dull. AS a rule, she is not very tidy in
her person, not very neat in her drass, moi
very quick with her fingers, not very calmly
ON her feet. The American girl Of the SAINT
rank Of life, is in every respect, save one, hci
superior"
This exception is personal beauty, bul
with 1t "comes the balance of accounts
With her gifts of nature, our English rustic
must close her book, in presence of hei
keen and natty American sister," OF the
broad question which we have come to clas
sify under the name of "Woman's Rights,
Mr.. Dixon says :-" the great reform com
ing forward in the United States is mora
and social change; reform of thought
even more than of society; a change in tht
relations Of men to women, which is no
| unlikely to write the story of its progress
on every aspect of domestic life. Compared
with such revolution, all ather issues o
right and wrong-bases of representation
negro suffrage, reconstruction, State rights
reputation, and the like--are but the topic
of day."
But space forbids us to extract farther
and we can hardly condense or generaliz'
the already compact observations of "Nev
America. Our readers should peruse it
pages for themselves and see what notes
tair-minded "chiel' has taken of us, wha
| rents there are in our coats, and what we
may conclude when we see ourselves as
others see us.