The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-06-13
Letter From Boston.
Correspondence of the Journal.

deity. The atmosphere has been cold as well
rs damp, and the season still remains backward.
The weaher-wiSe predict Il cool season through
out, and short crops except in hay ami fruits
which promise TO be exceptionally large IN this
vicinity.
THE LABOR STRIKES.
The various trades unions and labor organiZa- |
tons in this city are agtatlng the question of Il |
general strike for eight hours. Meetings are |
holding almost nightly, most Of them in secret |
with a view to perfecting arrangements for the |
contemplated movement. The success which |
has attended the strikes for increased wages ON |
| the part of the barh>mith> and the trunk |
| makers, has had much Ia do with the agitation. |
and doubles The Whole is Il part of the move
ment be4tln III New ork ami led ~ The mem !
bers of the International Soriety there How
the matter will end here, ii brought 10 an is ue
Is uncertain. Although more nc chanja< are |
emp'oyed here in Boston now than ever before |
and at better wages, most OF the trades have Il |
surplus of workmen, and The object of the
eight hour men is hy reducing the hours of
labor to create demand for more workmen, |
thus securing employment for those now de- |
pendent on odd JOBS lor il livelihood,
THE COLISEUM.
| As the time approaches for the opening of the
| Peace Jubilee, the interest in the matter in
rrcaseS. Already little else is talked about. 1t
takes precedence of political topics. which is
SAYING 4 good deal for Boston. The coliseum
Is now nearly completed. The last touches are
being placed Oh The exterior. In IN ar hrctur:d
| point of view cont believe the building W III
bear criticism. ENterioraly it has 81 squat APP
| pearance, which dwarts it dimensions and dis
appoints the eve. 1t does not indeed outward
iy differ in appearance from many of the rail
road ,lepotS of Boston, New York and CHICAGO.
| 1t is only when y0u get within the building that
the immense sue of the structure imprrSseS it,
self upon Won Then You can readily believe il
possible lor hundred thousand people to gather
within lis walls ut one time and this is lis
| capacity, although it il proposed to limit the
number To ninety thousand. In no one thing
has the pre>cenre of Gilmore been more con-
>ricnously illustrated than in this matter of get
ting to the Jubilee the leading military band, of
| music of the leading powers of Europe. WHY
our people have gone fairly wild over the adj
| vent OF the French band Of the (i;irte Rppub.
hcaine. Such an ovation they received here
If these things are done in the green tree What
may not be done with the dry? Ii the French
band can arouse so much enthusiasm. what VIII
our people do when The Kaiser band of Vienna,
led hy the renowned Strauss himself. appears
on our streets. Our German fellow citizens
are laying out to give this band such a recep-
lion" remarked a sturdy reuton to me, "a,
never vas" Why, the Hub will reyolve as
ever before when it reyerherates to the strains
OF the Beautiful Blue Danube and the Thou
sand and One Nights" Then we are to have,
despite the remonStrHnces of the British R1ur-
bons, that famous Gronadier Bun', lei by God-
trey, the author of the "Mal,el Waltz" And also
the Irish Coustahulary Band OF Dublin, whose
arri' Will be hailed with delight by our Irish
citizens. The certainty that ail these bands will
be present ana play during the jubilee turns
the New Workers blue with envy, and they no
longer even affect to dalde the enterprise or its
originator,
POLITICAL MATTERS.
The nomination Of Wilson at Philadelphia is
, vastly pleasing to Rostontna. The 'Natick
Cohber," Say what You may of his office seek
ing and Office holding propen>ite>, has high
r place in the regard Of Massachusetts, without
distinction Of party, ana his name on the ticket
with Grant will give the Republican party many
thousand more votes than it wouiti hay rereiv-
ed with Cofay III h> place. A the west, and
particularly in Indiana, the reverse PROPOSE
ton will doubtless hold true. Nevertheless,
the Convention at Phia teIphia w;!> It failure,
1 and the shelving of Cnltt,y i hlhnder. Grant
, who owes his renammation wholly to the
loyalty OF sotaX ,stlw the latter sacrificed when
i word from him would have saved hmm. He re
he displayed that trait in his character, common
to his class of minds, and with which hi career,
military and viNil il pIenlifuy he~prmhled,
VIZ; Indifference, ii not absolute dislike toward
those to whom he Is most indebted tor his ev-
allied station. HronirY, the able editor of the
Hartford l"st,an independent republican paper,
I who was present, says the convention from
beginning to end was lame, llnenlhli~lslic, life
less AGAIN he ~ays "ihr convention was a
political phenomenon. It, leading rharaceris-
Tie: wcrc mutual ii~tru~t and limidit, of power"
And III goe, on TO Illustrate this by citing m
Stances where prominent men got up in the
convention and shouted for Grant who t few
hours before had, in private eouA rrsaion, SAID
haf>her thihgS Of him than even Senator Sum
ner in his famous speech. There, he remarks.
was Gen. ogle~by, republican candidate for
governor Of Illinois, hot, apparently, for Grant,
md yet, i, learn upon excellent authority. he
ha, heen within 4 year, is ou1,poken Is Sum
nrr. upon the failure Of the administration.
Here, too, was Cullom, from tho same state,
swallowing the same kind OF word, before he
| made the speech in hirh lac re-nominated the
the president. Ana here We're hundreds more
having the same opinion of President Grant
and his administration and the same longing for
something I" happen to smash the State and
break up the programme; and all of them
marched deliberately mp 10 the sacrifice OF their
own honest conN lotions when they voted for
and applaudel the denomination of Grant.
There We're hundreds OF these delegates, APP
pmrntly quite enthusiastic for the denomination
whom You HAD but to scratch the surface of in
casual conversation ID find the outrropping~ of
nbeHef in the candidate and indefinite long
ings ior change. Some of them put on AN APP
pearaure of rheer.ulncs- ana satisfaction and
others voted it with hardly concealed disgust"
he platform Bromley sums up in one eX-
pressiye pll tse, which before the campaign /,
over | predict will become historic: ''Fhat'S
organized lying. FOR, he says IN substance,
''Fhere'S very little sense and no sort of truth
in :; party'S coming out of a congress in which
it has an overwhel ming majority and deliberate
ly.re~olving in convention that they are in favor
of things they secuted ana laughed at and voted
down.
LOCAL MATTERS.
A singular fact in connection with the two
latest bank detalcaions or 10 borrow the
dainty language of Boston editors, ''irregulir-
ty"-in this city, is that tn guilty parties,
leading tenors in church chorS
Our friends in this Congressional Dis
trict should be careful to make no mistake
in choosing delegates TO the conventions
The District Convention at Bangor, on
the 18th, will be~for the choice of dele
gates to the National Convention only.
| The same delegates may be authorized to