Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-01-01
tribes about Town.
Q. Who is this my lord
A. A picker M of unconsidered trifies

A. A picker up oil unconsdered trl1es.
SATURDAY, Dee. 30 We sailed out of our smithy
after swallowing breakfast yesterday ready,
like French Falcener Ito fly at any thing we saw"
Our first visit was to Fulton Market, which as usu-
al was literally crammed with fiat things" beth liv
ing and dead. Here too were cur old friends, Warn
er, Rldabock and the renowned George Halves, as
ruddy and ready to crack Joke, to crack steers
skull "Fine beef, George today"
"Never had finer SIR in this world. But the ire
mendous stock Of poultry keeps down the price and
the demand for it,
Passing through the poultry market, we saw at
,Is GOO or heads Of chickens turkeys
most abundant.
In the fish market, knot Of knowing ones were
gathered round dealer WHO was reading from the
Herald, the celebrated bon mot of Aid. Benson in
| the Board of Aldermen over night and very heavy
te,s were made that the poetry was made ,for the
| Aldermen and not made by them. When we left, two
| fellows were fighting aboutt
| Coming round by way of Coffee House Slip. we
saw q fellow named Francis Fountain (whose abdo
| men looked more like reservoir than a foantain)
perched upon pipe OF aniseed cordial; himself and
fourteen others had drilled fifteen holes in the pipe
and were lifting the cordial far above its natural level
up 10 the level Of their own lips until they smulta-
\ neously lost both their balance and their reason,
and Keeling rolling eff the cask found their level in
| the gutter. Mr.. Fountain and his friends Ia
ken to the police Office where the following dialogue
| ensued -
Mag-well, Fountain, you're an old offender
What did YOU ornk that anseed or
Prisoner.-Judge, you know never act from i'm
| pulse and therefore can't be thief thief is
loafer-a fellow who robs without reasoning and
runs his neck into a Moose, whence nobody can
| release il. (Hiccup) But l. judge-Pn phloso-
pher-l believe that there reason in roasting eggs
believe in the Baconian doctrine, that fact never
should be stated as fact, unless you caa prove that
fact by direct experiment SO ! said TO frsnd
these fine pipe Of anseed," said l. Prove it, :"
| says he. will, says land sultpg the action TO
the word as Hamlet said TO the players, did prove
| it. drilled hole-drsnk my fll-preved the con-
| Of my friends 70 lowed SUIT And here we are Judge,
| Fifteen Ioafers all ola row."
| Mag-Whcredo you all live
| Pnsoner-ve lives no ware at all in particular
we're vat they calls cosmopolies-ve heates hevery
where as We can get any thing to eat, and We sleeps
arin a lamp post and We drinks all round the docks,
in the way as vs vasa doing ven vas walked up be
| fore your vorship-but We amt no thieves.
Mag IF you're not thisves, you're not honest men
and as by your own showing you're vagrants-
You'll have to go up for sixty days
| From the Police Once TO the Aims House was but
| q step; andhere was presented scene OF misery
and destuiion that may almost challenge the world
for aparalel the audience room, entrance nall ioo
bles and stoop were crowded with fetnaesof all ages
of all naons-yeung beautiful, beloved women
the child the maden, the mother, wife and widow /!
aIl-al alike, with Their hopes drowned $50 to speakl
in the deep waters Of peverty-waltlng for aims at
the hands of close fisted commissioned Many were
on the verge of the Qrave-many Just entering HE
many TOO sick and feeble TO essian life much longer
and too, too many had seen brlEhter anu DeueI
DAYS, II was n sad scene. The scading tears oil
| sorrow were trcklinQ fast down many care worn
cheek II was sad scene; and made us curse The
cold booded brutal politician who could sacrifice the
suerings Of the poor upon he shrine OF political am
| bifion.
Passing through the crowd and ascending the stairs
we entered the
| CouRT or SsssioSs.-Here another ludlcrous scene
presented itself Goodnsturcd, funny, learned luds
crous Richard Riker was in his gery. IL was Specis
Sessions day and he had 10 prisoners, male anc
female to try and sentence in two hours and twenty
| minutes.
| A pretty girl was in the prisoners box, namee
Harriet RI atchcold She was a mlliner had worked
for some gentleman, she called him, who was
raw deceiver" He had got her TO work for hls wife
and ne she said taken advantage of that wifes alb
sence 10 rob her OF all that renders woman eshma
bic IN this worlds estimation rideicet, her virtue.
| With the loss Of that IL should seem, came LOST
Of respect for herself and for the laws under which
she lived. She was deserted by her seducer, forsa
ken by her friends; and rather than support hersel
by further abandonment, she was induced 10 steal
She stole several articles Of wearing apparel, both 70
herself and the child of which she was shortly ex
pectcd T. become the mother and for TINS offence she
was now on her trial before the ama5le and honora
bic Richard Rker who could find IN his benevo
lent heart he had the ability the desire 10 cover tn
lvUho he r. mighty mantle