An Over-dressed People

We are a scandalously over-dressed peoplc - our women especially - but tliis fault is more glaring in any otlier class than in that which is esteemed most túnate. "Walk down Broadway auyunny afternoon, and you will meet perhapa a thousand women who look like locomotive advertisements of Stewart's or Lord & Taylor's, or some other fashionable establishment for the vending of sumptuous dry goods, but uot a hundred of these will belong to any auiorig our wealthy families. We do not menn to say that the ladies of these families have not also oostly apparel and jewolry; but they never think of adorning thercwith the sidewalks and increasiug the pedestrian attraetions of Broadway. - 13ut let a Banker's clerk make a hit in some gold-gambling or stoek-gambling operation, and bis wife or other lady will sweep along Broadway next week undcr silks and laees suffieicnt. to fumish a yacht with sails and streamers; while the suddenly enriched sutler's, or com missary's, or coutractor's wifeand d.'iughters require two carriages apiece to con vey them and their ''trapa" to tlie opera, with a servant to piek up the diamonds that have rather been displayed on their garments than made really coaducive to their personal attraction. In fact, we lave heard that the most costly array of preeious stoues bought in Philadelpliia in 1863, were ordered and paid for by a very common laborer of other days, who nad suddeuly and amply enriched himsAf by following the army of the Potomac, gathering up the animal food :hrown away by the soldiere, and selling it for soap groase. Wishing to advertise lis accession to tho wealthy class, he inew no better way than to cover bis wife with lace and diamonds and send ?orth a walking Di-oclamation of his good