Litchfield enquirer., 1847-04-08
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LIFE IN THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK.

Evangelist Has any one among us an idea of life like this within hundred miles of usl Reud it. It is too natural to be farcr. The article is entitled Ireland in America.
 Between the Fourth and Eighth Avenues, and above Twenty-third street, lies vast section of the city occupied mostly by Ger mans and Irish. The market signs that greet oae going up the Sixth Avenue are very significant First we come 10 the "Con- tinental Market" which intimales to us that the OM World has sent us here the Representatives of its various tongues and people. But higher up we come to '" All Nations Market;" and a walk about the neishhorhood soon satisfies that il certainly is so, if it is marke, at all We seem to be ia the rear of the worlds camp; among the hangels-on oc every tribe in the great muS,er-:oll of lhe race, but they arc as we have said principally GeIma and Irish IL. is my business, Ntr. Editor, 10 preach the gospel in lAS section of the city-and the observations of last fall and winter satisfy me that no higher duty devolveS upon the cureh of Cod in this city, than to sustain ,l. g,<p.l there. To narra,e wat have en of misfortune, sickness, trial, poverty, :gnoranrc, derravity, misery, and animal ism, would Dc like filling your columns week after week, with the details of battle field after bloody 6gh,-for kereabout every wheie lie lhe SGin and wounS in the grea, battle flife.
 There is much said in general terms of the necessities and evils existing in ,hi& great city - bu, after all, very lilIle is knowr 1.-the variety of what may be ternea grounl life in ,he outskirts here. Will our readers arcompapy us in a morning visit to the shamlies where cur sence is just now eX pc"led. In this first one which is unplaS tered, and terrilly open to the wind, and Iain, and snow, the family of peor Prot eslalt lrishman have been battling with co.l, hunger, aMl Sc"hcss.the whole winter through. We found tAem in extreme deS- ttulol at time when least qualified to dispense with comfort. Last winler" the snow came upon the bed so that the child died with coll,' and this winter il was we'll nigh the same history over again. Snow aud rain have visited them freely, but by the timely mini>,ralions of our Society, the children have been kept alive. But how dveaIFu!ly the cough! This little girl has been so sick as 10 refuse food, for day or more al time, every week since December, and the babe "secms going with the cold the same way IS the other"
 "No thrift about ihem," do you say1
 Bul what have they to be thrifty with? Poor JChn was thrown out Of work in the fall, by having his hand crushed by some stones in building sewer, and all this winter scarce a days work could be had John now hopes for better times by waiting upon God in the sanctuary-and since relieved by us has not failed to be at meet twice each Sabbath.
 In this shan,y, liule further on, lies a poor man who has teen unable to stand on his feet for seventeen months. You will find nothing more distressing in the hosPi- tai than his case. Yet he speaks resigned ly, and thinks God is very merciful. In some way, he cannot tell how, his six de. pendant children have been kept alive. The mother gathers coal ashes, the boys pick rags in the street and beg. The three youn gest have no outer garments you see-ho shoes or stockiugs-have had none this winter. There is no hope of the mans be. ing better. The poor woman wears an amiable eounienance, and thanks US for ta- king the boys into the Sabbath School.- Here, then, little girl of six years old is Jeff 10 take care of her helpless fatheI and three children younger than herself while the rest of the family are scraping the gu,ters and begging for subsistence c Incorporate fJmily!' No. Not soul in the neigh borhood has . word agains ,hem. The sickness ot the Pcor man is the great drawback. Inc boy. do mol appear to be vicious, but well behaved and are very ieachable in the Sabbath 'e school.
 In the shaliy close by we can do nc good. The pigs and hens make dreadful work ,here-but liquor makes worsc.-- Tho poor boy who has such dcPrave' mother, has, nevertheless been very steady attendant on the saboa'h sch"o since November. We have t.ied to keeI him decent. but ve should have had bet ter lu:k with the pig. at half of the ex penSe.