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foremost to DO numbered as yot amongst o1.r
colintrymon, aaeenlp to hi1 ranlf. Our land.
aohNe .Rchool haa only to coa8e to rdfnt nRttro,

which :: hpdda; no pbhtinS, ,@slasIhg, its
owt e'S :E9oa skin,.:to 10, in tho eestima::
t. vice. nSo HhS s2 ss nS}ogE E 'f ~ rs aoo 81
landscape In the country. Perhaps, aftor oil,
tho Centennial: Exhibition will not lind ua ,ln-
prepared tor thoro nte foss ohnngeg 70 atattit,'g
ana y, encouraging IA 1 hnve mat n phladelrhta.
9ne Of tfs urgent piucts Of statiary oxtant and
4 WRs 6a6t IN nfocog, and hollow, Of coutao, by
those fow imported workmton, co~opol atlng With
machinery. WAS told that Tho cost w9s not
Brdatbr than for work OF Ito Bhnlo olaes abroad,
added to trnnshpmcnt.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Public spirit, not tanoly quioHcont, but with
the inBtrnmentalitlos Of organization, 10 what
philadelphia laa long NODDED. Tho aroa Of tho
hong quite divoreo, l,avo retarded the unity Of
tho place !, but tho prospect Is encouraging,
though tho ovont not imu,lnont, Of a rogashorimg
aud terminating of tho intellectual forces. Tho
aa n sign Of promise. Ono Of these clubs is q
dny-club, like tho Pacific Club Of San Francisco,
for merchants and mon to meet at tho business
rcceaa. Tho otlor IL oallod tho Reform Club,
ind is pivoted upon tl!o idoa Of non-partisnn
ind moro Responsible city government. Ths
letter idea is dofoated, as q geuoral thing, BY tho
Wholesale purchase ot tho tnoans Of publicity by
tho politIc1ans. smalnoss is tho Woo Of cities
seldom .rofroshenoa by nov influences.
iae4ossap Which, 3es is 'naf Tin
GUS, and ehowo tito want Of roinvigoration from
without. Moro Yankeoa Now blood That
Is What we want" aatd Philadelphia gentlo-
man once to mo. Tho new blood is now como,
attracted by tho mnterial advantages Of tho
placo and, when tho Pennsylvania Road laid
hold upon Now York, and enlarged tho pulse Of
COMMUNICATION, New York, and New England
too, nnswored back with inforcemonts. Tho old
local chickering's nro less tunlultuous, and tho
fight over tho location Of the best now pump is
felt to be Bpmowhat beneath the dignity of load
ors Of opinion. Generous expenditure, healthy
onconium, o hospitality which docs not back
confirmed to neod to retort to every wttticism
from tho passing traveller --thoso arc tho bottor
indices Of philadelphia. But the politics Is no
bottor. Horribly basc oanloronlanism rules tho
State; tho city is ruled from underneath
Tho looming industry Of tho place, which every
evening discharges into tho Btreota BluiceB OF
contented mon and women; tho lordly park, md
tho rising arclltcctures arc underlaid by q broed
OF place-gettors who rot in each others COM
pany, md feed in tho trough Of taxation. Now
York wns not worse, but not go depressing.
ontorod the constitutional Convention, in d
large church. and WAS pleased with tho aaBon-
blagc. Gonorally good-looiing, serious men,
William Pom, abovo tho Presidents ohair, up
proved Of tho Bcone..
"They havo appropriated 100000 to pny for
ust4 tht1 ts tj@D Sns r ny Rsg 9ae NV n,,,;on
to good mon to nuke Q Constitution than
S5o,000 to guttor-BnipoB OF diBagrcers."
"Thcro'a regular school-boy amongst 'em, y
s;d,i esta + ;Rth'lade1phian No. 2. "what prosamp-
Tutl tutl a young faoo is light, lfo, and
postority, amongst cllartor-masors. Presump-
tion is moro often tho guilt of tho old and lnetli-
cent than OF tho young who arc willing to servo
on such task.
"They ought to have takon up tho old Consti-
tuition and amondod it, inatead of bringing in q
now thing all limp and unchallengod!
Challenge it then, and destroy Il iu pnrtB. ill.,
stead Of whitening 1t with slight.
"And there arc all tho monopoliee ropresont-
cd. There's Theodore Cuylor,-th attorney,
the familiar, tho oatl-bought, Of the PonnByl-
vnnfA Road. There's dowan himself, Of the
tuition thcirsl"
Well Ono hundred and thirty millions might
have two representatives In 80 great q body. Do
they scare nnybotly7
Saying thus much with e1ceHs Of charity, 1
stopped mentnlly and wondered whethor my
oxcuse was sufficient. Mr.. Theodore Cuylor is
ono OF tho bcst-read lawyers In Philadelphia, and
ho Ia a Conservative, q Democrat. Yet tB ho
]aboring to mako tho great charter of the stato
q document for his children's liberties ? Or is
he not IN appendogo OF that fec for which Faust
sacrificed Marguerite, aud Judas abandoned tho
Twelve They seom to choose Democrats aB
the last resort Of corporations. Tie majority
beinC nlreadv a"t,nrr,o tho minority must 1slf
nish the best spectncleH of what cau bo nnlo
marketable, as tho Spanish 1nquiaition always
bnr1.od 1ow after tho stock Of piedmontoso Ind
boen.ised up. GATH. >