The Litchfield County post., 1826-12-19

Spanish, Portuguese, Irish in shoals, samples
of the common people of an the European
nations, Creole, all the intermixfures Of Ne
gro and Indian blood, tho moody and runain-
ating Indians, the inhabitants Of the Spanish
provinces, aud goodly wool to this warp.
oil boatmen, "half horse and half alligator !"
and more languages are spoken here than in
any other town in America. There is 4 SAM
pie, in short, of every thing. In March the
towns most filed; the market shows to the
greatest advantage. The productions Of all
! cilHes find their way hither, and for fruits and
| vegetables it appears to me to be unriyalled.--
In a pheasant March forenoon, you sec, per-,
haps, half the city here. The crowd covers
half a mile in extent. The negroes, mulat-
toes, French, Spanish and Germans, are all
crying their several articles in their several
tongues. They have wonderful faculty Of
twanging the sound through their noses, as
shrill as the notes Of a trumpet.
MOrGts.--Mnch has been said about the
EprQfiigacy of manners and morals here and
the place has more than once been called the
modern Sodom. Amidst such multitude.
composed in great measure of the low peo-
pie of all nations there must Of course Be
much ofdebauchery and low vice. 1t has ex-
cited discussion here, whether 1t is not dis
graceful to the city, to license gambling, and
other houses of i'll fame. have never seen
the interior of the "temple of fortune.n But
have often heard it described. Every thing
that can tempt ayarice or the passions is here
Here is the . roulette, = the wheel Of fortune.
every facility for gambling, and in all quar-
tiers piles of dollars and .doubloons, as nest
eggs, to make new gulls lay to them. Here
is every thing to tempt the eye and inHame
the blood. Here the raw cullies from the
upper country come, lose all, and either hang
themselves, or t3drnnk and perish in the /
streets. A spacious block of buildings was
shown me, which was said to have been
built by gambler from the ayails of Tissue
cess. One night he lost every thing, and the
next morning suspended himself from the
roof Of an upper apartment.
Yeti0sC WOnea.--Much has been said about
certain connexions that are winked at with
the yellow women of this city. know mot
whether this be truth or idle gossiping. The
yellow women are often remarkable for the
perfect symmetry of their forms, and for their
fne expression Of eye. They are universally
curses for the sick, beyond all other women.
When a stranger is brought up by the prevail
ing fever, the first object is to consign him to
the care of one of those tender and faithful
nurses, and then he has all the chance for life,
that the disorder admits. >s
PTgtestGs,ts.-There are many excellent
people here, many who mourn over the pre-
vailing degeneracy. Among the prOtestants.
when was there, there were MANY unions
for religious purposes, female religious socie
ties, efforts made to erect mariners church.
a Bethel flag flying. and apparently much ex-
element of religious feeling. And nothing
can be more desirable than that this place.
whichis the common centre of the West, and
has such an immense bearing upon the FASH
ions, opinions, and morals Of the inhabitants
Of the Mississippi valley, should have salt
thrown into its fountains.
Unhealthiness. With regard to the I'M
healthiness ofthis city, il is undoubtedly csti
mated according to the fact. The hearse is
seen passing the streets at all hours. During
the prevalence of the epidemic,the destroying
angel carries in his hand q besOm. Multi i
tudes Of the poor Catholic Irish, with their
riddy faces, wittoutprope nursing, in crowd
ed apartments, poor strangers Of all nations,
and the northern young men in preference to
all the rest, are swept away with Implying
fury. During the sickly season of the year
in which / arrived there, there hsdbeetl num-
bered more than two thousand deaths, besides
multitudes of cases where the patient died UNI
noticed and unrecorded, Ihave heard details
of misery and sufering, thrilling tales of whole
families, poor, unable to help themselves, or
procure help, falling together, which have
chilled the blood in the relation. The chance
for an unacclinlated young man from the I
North surviving the first summer, is by some
considered only as one to two. NY
Craze Yard.--When the river is full, the
common level of the city is but few feet a.
bove that of the river. OF course the graves
that are dug four feet deep will have one or
two feet water. One Of the circumstances
dreadful to the imagination of sick stranger,
Is the probability ofbeing buried in the water. ;
To prevent this, all that decease, whose es- .
tates are sufficient, have their remains depOsi-
ted 10 tOmbs or vaults above the ground
The old Catholic cemetery is completely c0y-
cred either with graves or monuments. The
monuments are uniformly either Of white !
marble, or plaster, or painted white, and by !;
the brilliant moonlight evenings Of this mild i
climate, this city Of the dead. or as the more
appropriate phrase of the jews is, of the liv- |.
ing, makes an impressive appearance. Here,
in these evenings, have delighted to wander.
Here, where the hearse deposits its contents at
every hour of the day, and sometimes Of the
night, / have considered how transient, how
uncertain is the dream Of life how vain is
that Of wealth, which brings so many adyen-
turers from foreign chimes to die here. A.
'mong the multitudes Of the monuments hers,
n ct,rinue relleetian of inscrinfinns might he