The Republican journal., 1872-10-17
Letter From Boston.
Correspondence of the Journal,

SMALL PON SCARE.
BOSTON, Oct. II, 1872.
| The world has come to recognise Boston as
the crlb OF learning as well as the cradle of ber-
| ty, and the world is about as correct in this
| hardly earned opinion rs one could expect after
| long years of intimacy with the citv and the
| public mind governing it. Boston people do
know a great deal. We only wish there was
something more worth knowing, and candid
| iy believe there are important personages iv-
| ing under benehcent Massachusetts laws who
weep like Alexander for new worlds of science,
OF literature, and notorety. to conquer. But,
dear me, there's little left for half of us, but
| Tarpelan rocks from which we can BE- thrown
as Monsters Of Intelligence. worthy of so ro-
| mantle an ending. The other half refer to
lovely woman-is going to be cultivated, train.
| ed, improved, until you will never recognise
her Education j. the watcf-worl and educat-
ed woman must and shall be, in spite of Mer-
curry. hope | shall be alive fifty wears hence,
to see how it will have worked AT present
we take it out in talk and hearing 4 few bold
| and over-ripc reformiSts harangle. But in all
these admirable theories of educating woman
50 she can he self supporting, awarding her pro-
LESSONS and examining her into a business life.
children of these future hc-lawvers. doctors,
school teachers, ct cetras. The pity of domestic
Chri>cndom Is theirs if Lucina and Minerva
should conspirc together in the imminent future
The latest experiment towards New England
cultiyation-those Free Lectures to woman on
Iiteraturc-havc passed through two success
full trials and The fame Of them rings loudly in
the public ear, while the public ear can listen
without cost A week AGO Saturday, Mrs
Ednah y. Cheney gave the novel readers Il
warm address on that pcrnicious habit, and as
far rs know Inc most remarkable incidents on
that occasion Were made items Of interest for
the daily papers. As these lectures are free
they are Of course crowded, and on this primal
day the hall in the Tcchnological Institute WAS
simply packed Ladies' stood in limp rows.
supported by that inner consciousness of doing
an intellectual duty. and We're comparatively
uncomfortable. In the midst of this enthusiast
tie standing womanhood sat young lady read
ing VERY Hard Cash" as composedly as in her
own apartment This was an insult an injury
not TO be passed by, 50 Charles Reade and his
admirer achieved notoriety in the Transcript
and the public cried "too bad" over the sad
delinquent. Mrs. Cheney said nothing new.
and we wait impatently for Emerson. who is
the King of Literature, and the other promised
lecturers. that it Will pay to stand sixty minutes
to hear.
Suffolk county Bench and Bar. cgged on by
the spectators in comedy sites elsewhere, are
bent on move from Court square to some
where. The temple where the blind goddess
now sits was put up forty years ago nor
did they then build better than they knew The
huge pillars that make the Court street facade
were brought from the hills in the rough. aud
chiselled to their airy shape upon the spot. IN
side the structure is unique in paucity OF in
Venlion. clumSineSS Of construction and stupid
ity Of detail. All that is wanted is light, air
and room. No ancient of the Oldest inhabitants
who most do cherish t--can suggest a further
usefulness in it than dungeon interior for a
Cobb romance. But with the go given. comes
4 where to. a square from School to Brom-
field street. arm-narm with Mr. Parker's hotel
and iacing City Hail. implies too many millions.
\ slice Of fremont street from Winter street to
Temple place, swallowing up Saint Paul's
Governors and things in the Granary burying-
ground is thought a Sacriege. Newton street
has been suggested. That is about one and
half statute miles from anywhere. and about as
attainable for the Suffolk bar as a spot in your
city. considering the ease with which we now
reach you by mail and by WIRE and by down
casting schooner. Evidently land for sale upon
Newton street, Us there is upon the Back Bay
the newly made RelgIavia of BostOn-to winch
Matthews, the rich land-speculator thereon has
>educed twelve out of every bakers dozen of
the city churches, the schools of technology and
natural history, beside making the attempt fell
onous upon our Atheneum and many more of
the staid institutions which yet remain behind,
including this identical courthouse. The Com
mttcc of the city government who have faith
that they can, under Legislative dispcnsation.
move this mountain to a better resting place
have and do now favor the back of Beacon Hill,
opposite the State House. 1t will ever have so
much TO DO with the shop over the way the
price is hundreds of thousands. to another
cipher down on he business level; the retire
mcnt convenience to lawyers and the iail, etc.
Against which is pleaded a selfish contguity 10
property of some III the present municipal
reign, underestimate cost, needless violation
of residents rights, and also an etc. The lot
faces the State House, as I've said, and lis
seizure will consume seven houses of the high
ly respectable class-S4000O was lately paid
for Il corner, and another was sold or bid on
Thursday at S23 000-but the entire rear is filled
by now disuscd and masSivcly built reservoir
the pitV'S wifi oh
largely towards the construction of a new build
Ing. rough estimate OF the cost last year to
nut courthouse here was 800, 900 for the land
to which perhaps $4,000 or 800, 900 should be
added, to get at the actual cost. Gossips in
such matters say IN earnest move will soon be
made in this persuasive season of approaching
elections, to a location here. And it certainly
should he, for is one of the breless wits of the
bar says, by the present state of things suit in
the Boston courts il but a lOng-,lrawr and cruel
torture by Snffoll-ation
The smallpox has reached the soaring point
here and yet the official record of deaths is not
out of its teens, or wasn't last week. People
fret themselves into :; fright about it. 1t has
become the talk of the by-ways and the market
places, and the men go to and fro, up and down.
and get vaccinatel. The Herald, that pads all
its spare columns with Letters from the Peo-
ple,' is suiloclted with it. Saturdays supple
ment to that Journal may be said to have had
the continent sort. The trouble seems to be
that there is more smallpox than hospital to
put it in. There was Il sort of one near the city
hospital, but the newspapers abused it, and it |
was nearer some houses than the owners liked,
and the government abolished it in pet stimu-
lated by their criticism. Nobody else coured |
it for any other neghborhOOd, and the alterna- |
tive was to send the sick to an island in the |
harbor. AS this usually proves certain death. |
the patients object, and conceal the disease
when it overtakes them in their houses. From |
this comes its spread over the city. When it |
reaches the better classes. no family doctor will |
peach for fear of his practice. A new hospital |
must be had, and great has been the contention |
among the authorities as to where it shall be |
mt The enraned populace drove If from a LOT |