UNITED STATES.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1143, 20 January 1874, Page 4

UNITED STATES.

The New Yord Herald writos as follows : —" The country is rich and powerful. The sun shines, and corn grows. We make money with ease, and spend it with readiness. Our fathers were old fogies who lived on

corn-bread and sweet potatoes, and never tasted ice or pates. Our mothers knitted and darned stockings, and were content with gowns that did not come from Paris. But now we have gained wealth in petroleum, in army contracts, in railway bonds, in laud, in sugar and cotton, in dividends of 800 per cent, from the Credit Mobilier, in selling unremunerative mining stocks to English widows aud clergymen, in speculations out of the whisky tax, in defrauding the revenue; we have made so much money we are dying to spend it. Wo have laces from Belgium and silks from Paris, costly stuffs and precious stones ; and what remains but a Court or social circle at Washington which will give us some of the comforts of a Court? And so we drift and are drifting into social and political conditions which naturally enough desire the renomination of Grant and the establishment of a system in Washington which may not be a dynasty in name, but will be dynastic in fact, and be the beginning of the end of the liberties of the United States."