[Homer_J_Simpson]

Slow news day and lousy print quality keeps today’s post short.

News from Rebeldom: More About the Attack on Baton Rouge – 2
News from Washington: The Release of Col. Corcoran, Col. Wilcox and Other National Officers – 2-3
Recruiting Horse Marines – 3
Editorial: The National Ordeal – 3
The Draft – Its Apportionment Among the Several Counties of the State – 3
Magoffin Aroused – 3

[BroJoeK]

"Editorial: The National Ordeal – 3"

"...The chief evil we have labored under -- and it might be incident to any form of government -- has arisen from too rapid an accumulation of surplus wealth.

Almost the first remark of intelligent Europeans in visiting our country is of the visible and ostentatious extravagance which pervades nearly all classes of society.
Fabrics, food, drink, jewelry -- everything from a hackney coach to a house-front -- is more expensive and showy than convenience or good taste either demand or admit.
Ladies wear materials for walking dresses, which properly belong to the carriage, opera or ball-room.
Their servants wear dresses the cost of which would have kept them half a year in the old country.
The men are scarcely behind the gentler sex in fantastic profusion of personal adornment and get the better of them altogether in the way of expensive decorations..."

Our good editors are of the opinion that the very expensive war will eliminate such extravagances and return our population to more frugal, humble ways.

And as anybody can plainly see, they were right, and nothing like such extravagances exist, even today, right?

;-)