Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-12-10

''PectW Correspondence 0J ne commercial.
New YORK, Dec. 8, 1874.
The demands OF propriety and prudence in
local matters upon the local journals, are sadly
embarrassing and even crlppling. often, to the
newspaper SUCH While correspondents can
represent things as they are, no paper in New
York feels big enough, (unless it is rather smalD
to blunt out the trnth alwaya, as children and
fools are said TO do. In fact, the bigger a paper
| ia by the reigning four cent standard that is
tue standard of daily sales and solicited adver-
| tlhng-the more severe are the consequences
| Of offending any great party running through
| the community. In this triangular Beecher-Tll-
| ton-Moulton struggle in Brooklyn, for which it
has until to- day been left to me and other small
| fry to bring to public notice the desperate
efforts of MIR. Beecher's side TO get Frank
Mollton into the penltentiary, or an nearly there
| Gs possible before allowing any of the causes
| involving MIR. Deecher to come TO trial. The
| counter-strategy INTO which the other side have
| been thus forced, endeavorng by every legal
| shift to prevent the premature condemnation of
| Moulton ON an eXtraneous issue, now giveH the
prudent journalist chance to show up both
sides in the same strategy, 30 neither can COM
| plain.
I mean, of course, this mornings Tribune,
| whose ample opening OF tho case for both sides,
| suppose ev5ry paper in the country will have
| 70 use in some way especially the terrible ar
| ray of witnesses-so much more terrible than
| We thought-who said to be prepared to tes-
WY W mi. D3etutIH bApncib COnibssOnb III
showing up the lease" of both sides, the
strength Of the one and the impotence of the
other are made, evidently without intention,
more impressive than ever. 1t does not look OF
| much importance now, what the Jury can be
made to think of Mouton, or whether bill of
particulars be exacted or not.
The annual dinner Of the New York Press
Club at the Belmont Hotel in Fulton street, al
though the Club is no aristocratic body, has
Significance of locality which goes as far as II
straw to show that up town is not now felt to be
everything, in the future of New York. 1t was
very unpretending hostelry at which the Press
men entertained their guests and themselves,
much below another within stones throw.
Winch Indicates again that the management of
the historic Astor House by the junior Stetson's
now about TO throw it up, had fallen off too far
from the commanding esprit of that prince OF
motel keepers, their father, to secure the most
obvious of the advantages to which the house
IL entitled. Mr. Schenck the incoming lessee,
promises to reuovate and equip the Astor in IA
style second to no other hotel in the city. If his
management should lift it quite out of the pieay-
lne spirit that appears to have seized upon hotel
| keeping generally (or rather that naturally be-
! longs to 1t in the absence of geniuses like Cole
man, StetsOn, or even the coarse Lelands) he
will find an opening for brilliant snccess.
First-class hotels III another sense-countinS
| from the bottom-have become an institution
lere very lately. few years ago, the direc-
, | tors Of the Five Points House of Industry were
induced by their Superintendent, Rev. s. B.
Halliday (now Dir Bcecher's assistaut) to engage
in II long cherised project of his own for work
| ing women's hotel. A large ana valuable building
(for the purpose) was purchased and remedlcd
and then they killed the unborn baby by putting
l on it the class designation, "workng wo-
mems = killed it twice by adding to that the
, charitably associated word Home and killed
it dead, by allowing it to have known connection
with charitable institution Whoever instigated
y the sparton dornitony showed spark of genius
not only, in the name, but faculty of retlcence
and Knowledge of human nature' in the incep-
y
8 qualification for directing grand affairs.
! have been to see, and to hear, and to ask, but
, have no idea that there was ever charitable
motive about it, from anything l could point
| out. Ii commends itself solely al a money
/ making business, in the dryest style, and l may
.. | be mistaken in guessing il il anything else.
can only say that there ID an absence OF the un
: doiinabe flavor o. vulgar great, and something
Of intelligence and carefulness about the whole
which doea not belong to selfish enterprises il
this grade. Well, the dormitory has been crowd
! cd every night since its opening last June; al
10 twenty-five cents odger OF 81. so per week, and
n last week II building opposite was opened as AZ
+ extension, containing l25 more beds, making l9'
in all At the same time, another OF the SAINT
G sort was opened by different parties
o ut 1S5 Rowery, under the name of the
J. "Saem Donntory." All three establishments ar
= much alike and long, unpartitioned and even un
y ceiled, store lofts are neatly whitewashed ant
d filled with IRON single bedsteads, as close as the.
:, can stand and leave passage between them
a. | Abonb HlLN men blttp lOBetAcIf III oho hhNi
room as well ventilated mere windows cal
make it. There are also bath rooms, washstand
and towels, and water closets, etc., sitting room
supplied with papers.
The general strike of the Longshoremen 10
ioter wages has proved success so far az tn
J. reduction they offered WAS concerned, and tn
ID often ridiculous strategy OF the trades-liniol
/, demagogues has this tmo surpassed itself in TIL
result the strikers actually working at twent
/ cents of per hour (whou they work by night
from their former wages, thus cut down by thei
Ia own hands. They failed OF course, utterly, II
le the quixotic attempt to compel their own EN-
D ployors to compel all other mems employers T.
al pay their scale Of prices and there is no sor
h of strike loft but the daily return OF bludgeo
@ and paving stone blows which attend all strike
ct of the so-caled moral order. An indirect result
IL however, which looks probable, is the introdut
e ton OF new system, OF direct employment o
le labprers by steamship companies as permane
to wharf hands by the week. This suits all partei
10 far rs it has been adopted, except the Steve
f. dOres and the whariside liquor dealers who max
a great business out of the standing time OF TIA
hour men.
Some ten years ago Hey. Charles s. Robinson
ID. u. then of Brooklyn, compiled and issued a
n. ilis own cost and risk. the pioneer of music
- hymn books among Presbyterian churches.
u, admirably good was it that doubt if it has bee
os improved on; although the propensity to gratii
ns strong tastes and preferences and the rich hel
ne opened by congregational singing in the grei
Presbyterian denomination, have tempted at lea
all three other compilers to follOw-some of the
ng too closely and terally-in DIR. Robinsons foo
m steps. The trouble is that they are not aware
he how many cases DIR. Robinson, bought copyrigh
for his collection outright (besides taxing hin
by self with heavy toi of copy money for 9TH
in iights) or made additions of his own 30 neat
,er that new compilers have unsuspectingly ''col
sss veyed" the page bodily into their collection
M Quite a war Of publishers and partisans hi
sprung up on the comparative merits OF thei
a, rival collections, in which DR.. Robinson and h
, "a friends have declined to join. His book hi
Ih sold to the number of 25000O copies, and sho'
''' no signs Of giving out yet if his rivals succ e'
. in selling all the future hymn tune books, II mi
the be lust as well for him. There is no legal dou
Iil on the point that their publishers will
Tor liable to the Doctor for infringed copyriSh
on every copy. And III he has given away all
has received, it looks like good way Tor u
money to go at last.
Pa "professor" Judd, the Sunday walkist, WI
its proposes to finish Weston's unaccomplished fe
ven at the Rink of the American Institute, by tao
Iat, ing on half of next Sunday, began his job wi
fu- demonstrated failure, yesterday. He got ov
,till only fifty miles at about half past ten p NJ,
viii not half of Westona first days work.
res Indian summer still prevails on the who
ner with occasional Interruptions, and the Huds
hat River boats are running with no apparent sig
mt Of rtoppng before Christmas. IL ID gre
, il clemency to the poor. DELAWARE
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Civ 'rwo Won Killed by "A Clergyman