The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-07-02
Letter from, Boston.
looHREsPoxDENoE ARIzosA NGSKR.

A NOTu liDin iihb hel "NN N ! to the variety of the MTSER's contents, es- pecially as 1t is the dull season in your town, and the melting sweltering season here. Were to itemize this city just at this time, it would be about as follows: Biz" rather dull produce on the decline; money plenty; weather hot stampede for the country be- coming general; politics below par; religion large in quantity stimulating Gey.Tsges in demand; water at discount, with little de- mand; women ugly and gay every one for himself and the devil or police, takes the ! hindmost However, this is noble old city, | in many respects. It has the Common" | "Fauuel Hal," and the remembrance of some | such old characters as Cotton MAther,n John | Hancock, John Adams, and the like, to make 1 it glorious. But Boston cannot boast of single great man. that is in any way infu- encing the State or nation Prof Agassis, Of
 Harvard, is great naturalist, but does little for the elevation of the masses. Since the death of Theodore Parker, there remains not a single man in Boston who is felt as power
 in the land. Yet Boston thinks itself the centre of the universe, out from which must
 radate all light and wisdom.
 It has solid buildings and solid men, and $ though reputed to be very sober, moral and Q pious, it has fun and folly enough in it now. The city has grown very much in the last
 ten years, and has taken in Roxbury and Dor
 chester, and is now anxious to swallow up $ Charlestown and Cambridge. 1t is now the O centre of business for more than half mill :, ion of people. More than one half of the e people who do business in the city live in
 the adjoining cities and towns, of which e there are fifteen or twenty within distance f. of fifteen miles. There is no other city on IT the continent that has more delightful sur. d roundings than this. IL is perfectly charm. of ing to ride through the adjacent villages n, made up of elegant houses, gardens and v- grounds In it's schools, societies-charit- a. able and otherwise; it's churches and public ry buildings; hotels and solid blocks, it is not e. surpassed by any other city in the United ds States. The same may be said for it Tn re e. gard to shop-keepers, trinket manufacturer st and peddlers. Everybody is intent on mak Ire ing penny or a fortune, by hook or by crook B. by talk or by work, by selling a tooth-picI n- or steamship.
 1t, One thing that particularly attracts thu ITS attention of strangers in Boston, is the ad Its mirable police regulations, and the gentle 10 manly appearance of the men connected wit
 police affairs. Yesterday was the annual Je
 of the military of the city, and ten thousan
 tta sa. ..-ss
 ness the display-and so admirably was ey
 erythng arranged, that there was not th ,'' least disturbance, and not single arres ."' Everybody was pleased, and many were gal 70" The Governor (who is second or third raj n" "a man) reviewed the troops. Music, in yolun " inous quantities, was blowed out; canno ., were fired, and, most likely, some fire-wat, =. guzzled It is difficult to judge correctly r'' actual moralties of city, but this may 1
 said of this city, it preserves the appearan of decency and morality, quite as well as more primitive days. On the whole jaa; ad- ,h., ,h, c,.,,o. .;.;,;.,, as -. =, -, '"' zion has softened, and spirit of t6leran ou' has taken the place of puritanic narrowne "a" and bigotry. Here, as elsewhere, there .'" manifested an extravaganza and folly " gorgeous hotels and churches that is almo '' unpardonable. Fashion and display are
 where else more conspicuous than in come ', tion with religion, churches and congree .h tions. Extrayagancc and show are blindir ,Lo the eyes of the people to the great intere, .;oh of life; sapping the foundations of real wor .;a and womanly character, and thus maxi the "1"e "' ao. ""PoSSioe' l,. domestic condition of New England W once a matter to boast of; but certain there is cause of serious reflection now, wh a single term of court has seventy spplit |. tions for divorce on its calendar-and Co necticut leads all other States in the prop,
 tional number of diyorees. You will sec
 counts of the doings of q Boston party nke. San Francisco about thoss days. The party rear. l2O purports to be from the Board of Ira sand It is, however made up of everybody a
 anybody, who could raise the required
 hundred dollars. But so far as the Frisco; ieat, are pleased, it is just as well. For whetl pay man sells flour and beens, greenbacks a cold railroad stocks, or gin cocktails, and pea nu ',Voo it will not much affect his gastronomic iylte bbulous capacities. Half the doings of c .ona, ilization are for buncombe and if is not h best often to look behind the curtain. Vac