Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-12-29
Our New FORK Letter.
POLITICAL CHRISTMAS SHOPPING = "RAh
THISos"-MovKNKNrsI In MORALS.
NEw YoRK, Dec &c, 1876.
In Pdsfar If tbs Fra D. and Timna.


The feeling has almost entirely subsidized
in the city. Either people are too busy buy
ing Christmas presents. and in arranging
for the holiday festivities, ,or they have grown
tired of the agitation. 1t has settled down
to this, Hayes is elected, and is going to be
inaugurated, and almost everybody is glad of
it. The row was raised principally by re-
spectacle Democrats who expected foreign
missions under Tilden, and by the profess
sional rats who wanted sinecures in the Gus
tom-house and postoffce. They found 1t to
their interest to raise rumpus, and de-
mand "Tilden or blood"-the blood being
always understood as somebody else's-but
the steady going citizen who voted for Ill
den don't see any use in keeping up an ever
lasting clatter for the benefit of these insects.
They have their own business to attend TO,
all the bowling now being done don't affect
them The politicians meet with very little
announcement, and the frantic appeals OF
Hewitt, and his paid gang fall on deaf ears
l believe that half the Democracy OF the
city, ind the half that is worth listening to,
are glad in their hearts that Hayes is elected,
and if they fought at all, would fight to place
him at the head of the government. 1t IS
fact that the expressions in Indiana were IN
spired from New York, and that the expenses
of the meetings were paid out of the Demo
cratic treasury here. But it will fail. Livery
business man knows and feels that what the
country wants now is peace, and lasting
one. And they know that it is rot safe to
entrust the government to party controlled
by Southern rebels, especially when 1t IL
loaded with the corruptionists OF New York
city, They will not countenanee anything
OF the kind, and as for blood-the South
won't fight, the offices seekers never did fight
and tue people who did, and those who paid
for it, got quite enough of it twelve years
ago. There is no occasion for fear
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
One would say there was no lack OF money
judging from the goods and the money thai
Is passing. But ii is seen that people buy
the trinkets that cost least, and more match
safes. and ash trays, and such miserable little
traps will be sent this season than ever. The
best choice OF toys TO really please children
has been found out of doors in the hands Of
the cheap vendors, and not in the highpriced
stores What use is fifty dollar elephant
that Will wag his trunk to child the day
they can use and take some part IN with then
own ingenuity, a trait which the toy -inaker'
steadily ignore | noticed in one store al
assortment of toys, the lowest OF which weIC
thirty dollars, and they run up IN price &c
$3.50 And, singular as 1t may seem, there
are people who buy ana pay for such things
The streets present 4 splendid appearance,
however, and the poor people have Jast as
much enjoyment out OF the shop windows rs
the wealthy who buy.
HARE IHISGs.
An enormous trade, and a veIy prohtabi'
one too, IS driven here III " rare" articles
Pictures on metal. taken nom Pompeii az
ticles Of use, taken out of tombs in Egypt
and antiquities of all kinds, bring very higt
prices and il seems that the ugher they are
the higher the price to be gotten for them.
know u man uptown, who took great pride
in exhibiting 10 his friends d collection Of an
cient pottery, taken from the excavations IL
pompeu. for which he paid $1,000 OF a "col
II eel. ID OF l.
ling upon AL establishment III Grand street
where such Pompeiau pottery Is made IL
just such Quantities as to supply enthusias
tic buyers, and more disguised when he
found tina; the collector of whom lie bought
his lot Was tie proprietor thereof. His work
men could turn out more " rare pottery IL
year than was ever used in Pompeii. An
tique coins are made in the same way, and
when postage stamp collecting was the rage
there was factory here that manufactured
cancelled stamps of ali tie governments il
the world.
IDE TROUBLES n business.
Contrary to all expectation business has
not, as yet picked up very much, and for a
time there Was a trouble to know Why. why
don't You buy more = wrote the New York
obber to the retail customer. Our people
axe not buying anything nor are they paying
for the goods they bought last spring. comes
back as IN answer. why 2" Because
they spent al the loose money they had last
summer at the blasted Centennial, and they
are scrimring to make up the expenditure.
There Is doubtless, great deal Of truth in
this. The farmer who took lis wife and two
daughters to Philadelphia. did not get home
without an expenditure of from $3.50 to $500.
Some did it for less. but tina, may be set
down as about the regular thing. Now, the
moment they got home, the question was,
" How can We make up this expenditure ??
The new dress that Maria was to have had,
she did not get the new coat that the old
gentleman intended TO get, lie put of and
every pair of boots in the family were made
to do duty month or so longer. And when
ed they we.e not paid very promptly-the
money had gone TO the Centennial trip. And
so the retailer does not buy. and, of course,
tile iobber does not sell. All this is non
sense but so it is and it is felt from Maine
TO Texas. Millions Of people went to the
| Centennial, and the millions of money that
were spent would otherwise have gone into
the regular channels of trade In one re-
spect the Centennial was curse but, in
others. it was good thing 1t will pinch
trade for WHILE but the people are infinite
ly richer in knowledge and experience.
MOVEMENTS IN MORALS.
We are not to have any Moody and Sankey
excitement, this wear, but temperance
movement on a very large scale is being in
augurated. the effort being directed especial
ly to saving young men. Mr.. Vim. L. Dodge
and others have issued an address TO ladies,
urging them not to provide wines or liquors
of any kind for their New Year callers, and
Immediately after the holidays an effort will
be made to hold series of enormous meet.
ings. The hard times will be help to the
temperance agitators, for there is not hall
the liquor used that there WAS three years
| ago. One bar near the Postoflice, the daily
receipts of which used to be 5000 per day,
does not average $40, and they are all growl-
ing Then the consumption OF lager beer
has increased enormously. and largely fol
the same reason. Whisky is ten and fifteen
cents drink-beer is five cents. The stimu-
lator takes the five cent drink, which, as
there is not as much alcohol in it, is an i'm
provement. But there is plenty of room for
reform. In many quarters of tine city there
are dozen Ium mills TO every block, and
the poor people support them.
The weather is delightful for the season.
Sleighing is good, and it is not severely cold.
Yours, ALTON.
EARLY PRINIINo.-The first book printed
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