The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-28
of the Philadelphia Times ]

correspondence of the Philadelphia Times.l
New YoRx, July Robustness is not
worse than it was. For the second quarter
OF 1876 there are Gil failures less than last
year, and over LOGO less than in the first
quarter OF the present year. A few days
ago met the Hon. Charles Farwell, one Of
the principal merchants Of Chicago, and he
said:
tsOur people In the Northwest are very
well of indeed. A farmer came to me the
other day and said: well, have had to
give away my WOOL Gave it away, did
you! How much did you get for it?
tTwenty-three cents Well, you are pay.
ing five cents o yard for your wise's cloth
ing-fve cents for prints. What did you
pay when you got dollar a pound for your
wool! Fifty cents for print muslin Yes,
you get twenty-threc per cent. Of the old
war price for your wool and you pay for
your dry goods ten per cent Of the old
prices; so you have net profit in these
times, article for article, of thirteen per
cent. And yet you gave away your WOOL"
JoBBING AND TEA TRADE.
New York city has lost great part OF its
iobbing and nearly all its tea trade. No
other eastern city has captured it; the
West, by her political power, has drawn the
importing business Of the coast to ITSELF
her own importations to her own ware
houses, and is manufacturing for her own
consumers. New York's inalienable in
terests appear to be banking, fashion. beaux
arts, belles-lcttres, and, think, the future
manufacture Of gloves, millinery, and small
wares, upon the scale OF Paris. There
work girls hold the destiny OF the
city in their hands more than the Board OF
Trade. Little shops, little wares, low wages,
personal attractiveness, cheerful spirits,
thrift, and life out OF doors, make Paris.
Here are the elements of another Paris, fast
tending toward the same minute and infinite
DEVELOPMENT. The millionaires have ruined
New York as far as they could 60. We owe
more to Tom Scott than to Vanderbilt in
facilities. We owed nothing to Mr.. Stew
art except the absorption OF our mercantile
talent and the monopoly OF shopkecping.
Jay Gould has disguised mankind with
New York. But here the population sticks
because it loves the city, and here will work
out another destiny for it.
FINISHED CITY.
This city is finished to all intents, and its
great debt will prove some day to have been
wisely incurrcd-at least the honest part OF
it. We have two Broadways instead OF one,
Fifth avenue being opened parallel to old
Broadway. New York and Brooklyn have
large parks. The water front OF both cities
is wide, noble street. The bridge to con-
meet the two cities is all finished except the
cables. We have an abundance OF pub
lie buildings, sufficient for q century,
civic, State, and national-and our thea
tres, halls, public squares, street-railroads,
ETC., are perfected. Our water-seryice is
ample. We have three railroads to the
West and three routes to the coal regions.
l,,. IN bn Iioo LAM
and is nov bounded by the Bronx and not
by the Harlem river. Hell-Gate will be
blasted out in another month, and give us
two harbors and an ocean canal to PrOvl-
dence and Boston.
FIXED GRADES.
The grades OF the whole island have been
fixed and the main boulevards opened Mt
huge cost, but they will last thousand
wears. The only steam railroads which
come to this island pass through tunnel,
itself wonder. The Brooklyn bridge will
finish New York, complete its autonomy,
and, ! think, hasten consolidation. For
myself I heartily wish that the district OF
New York was federal district, admins
tered by the United States, and that our
local politicians were allowed to make laws
on Blackwells Island exclusively. The
great bridge is now the highest object
in the landscape OF New York, and,
I think, the highest construction on
this continent. The Brooklyn bridge,
although built down at the water-level,
dwarfs every spire and bulk Of buildings in
New York. 1t looks like two pair OF
great cathedral windows regarding each
other across a torrent where once the altar
and the choir had lain. Silent, vacant, hol-
low, yawning, longing, towering, they rise
like footstoos for the Almighty. When the
chords shall be spun upon them and trem-
BILE to the music OF a million men, hurrying
there like birds upon rainbow, then will
New York be visible, as from the clouds,
in all her plentitude Of bays and ports, CT
floods and ferries, Of tides and streets.
GATH.