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Tendencies of the age.

A New York Judge, in resigning his position on the bench of that city, says "it is easy to demonstrate that, in the yet discovered world, there is not such another extravagant people, in proportion to its real wealth, as that which inhabits New York." The one idea is "a frantic determination to get, in some immediate way, the means of appearing to be rich." Both men and women, he says, are selling themselves for money; the passion for the appearance of wealthterrific. The cry of every soul and the clutch of every arm is for money — money to be spent in extravagance. The country is mad for money, money, and all for show, dress, and miserable ostentation and vanity in every shape and form. A terrible picture, but it is true.

The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 3, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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