The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-13 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

The foll Owing is an extract from a letter re.
cetven from Mr. IV. Bunn, who emigrated from
the neighbourhood of Portsmouth to the United
states ' •
" CICINITATA, (STATE OF 011I0,) DEC. 8, 1820.—We
arrived here the end of our journey, (seven men besides my-
self) from Pittsburgh, in our Ark, , after a passage 'of thirteen
days, rowing and sailing. It is a fine lively flourishing place,
principally built of brick, and is supposed to contain about
eight or ten thousand inhabitants ; the streets are spacious, but
very dirty, and every thing has the appearance of uncultivated
rudeness. I have not seen a single article of merchandize at
Cincinnata that has been put out of hand well; at Pittsburgh
they are better, but stand no comparison with the English.'
There is no good crocleeryliere ; we have wooden plates, spoons,
&c. Provisions are cheap, almost beyond belief—beef, mutton,
and pork, l/d., venison, 2d. per lb. • ducks, 6d. ; fowls, Id. ;
geese, ls. 3d. ; turkeys, ls. -Pd. each • eggs, lid. per dozen
whiskey, 2s. 6d. ; bread, sd. per gallon ; beer, not good (I
have tasted none good' in America), 6d. per gallon ; vegetables
cheap and abundant—English - vegetables do not thrive
here well; what come in in Spring are excellent, but
after, the sun is so HOT THEY ARE BURNT VP AND
BLIGHTED ' • fish is cheap. Most of the dealing here is by
barter, very little money passes. There are three degrees of
farmers here : Ist. he who fattens and grows for New Orleans
market, lives in a large log or weather-boarded. house, gene-
rally situated in the -centre of a meadow,
,surrounded and in-
terspersed with trees, for shade and shelter, with a pond in the
middle, their homestead numerous, but have a very slovenly-
appearance; the farmer, his wife and children, all taking an
active part in directing and assisting on his farm, and manag-
ing the house. It is highly necessary here, to do without as-
sistance, as much as possible: indeed, SERVANT MAIDS are
seldom to be got when they are, they FEEL TOO INDE-
PENDENT to be of much service to you. Thesecond class, is a
man very short of means, has part of his land cleared, grows
for his family, and his surplus produce exchanges-for necessary
articles at the NEAREST market—perhaps sixty to one hun-
dred miles distant ; but it is performed with great ease on the
river. The third degree of farmers are almost in a state of na-
ture ; they go and take possession of a spot of Government
land, or perhaps purchase clear a little spot, grow for their own
use, and spend nearly the whole-of their time in hunting, and
clothe themselves mostly with the skins of the beasts they kin.
The Americans in general grow their own flax, spin and weave
their own linen, &c. Paper money is a great curse to Ame-
rica. Indian corn and wheat grow here to great perfection ;
-barley and oats do not answer : cattle may be bred to. any ex-
tent of numbers, but very inferior to the English. Religion is -
here (if it deserves the name) nothing but a compliCatiOn of be-
wildered notions. I could scarcely have believed it possible,
that a human being, endowed with reason,_ could entertain such
romantic notions of the Deity. Their Pastors get hut little
money ; they are generally paid by having their houSes-plen-
tifully stored with provision. A good clever Conjuror would be
adored here ; old women, fortune-tellers, or cunning-men,. as
they call them "here generally take the place of the Surgeon
and Physician, and, generally perform their cures by charm,
which are mostly sold, with directions for use. I consider the'
English settlements in Canada PREFERABLE TO OUR PRO-
SPECTS AT THIS PLACE."—(llampshire Chronicle.)