New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-11
NEW-YoRR IN SLICES.
Slice Nil. .THF SUNDAY ExcURsr

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ANY man who disputes the Divine origin of that most
beautiful and benehcent institution must be insane
But the ko il ia best observedthst is the question
which we think viii bear great deal more of charta-
be liberal discussion than ii has ever yet received
Let consider Sunday in great City.
There are in the City of New-York twenty-five or
thirty thousand virtuous young women who live BY
daily labor, either as domestcs or workers with the
needle and hngers-sempstresses, capmakeTs, book
folders, type.rubbers hygirs, &c. &c. In order TO
earn from two 10 three dollars and shaf week-whch
il the range Of the wages Of the better class, while
there are many hundreds who do not receive half as
much as the lower sum-they must work from ten to
fourteen hours day according to their quickness Of
hand and the hardness Of their taskmasters The do
mestics must do than this they must be up at
FIVE o'clock in the morning and their toll
and that too Of the hardest kind such washing iron
ing cooking house and chamberwork, nursing &C. &c.
until ten or at night; and if they should step
round the corner during the evening TO chat bit with
Paddy, on the sidewalk there is grumbing enough
about it In addition to these there thirty thou
sand families among the mechanic and lsboring classes
each Of whose members work constantly at about,
the same rate While the husband is at his shop or I'M
der his hod the wife must do al the cooking washing
nursing her children and being ready to do little odd
Job for a neighbor whenever she can make a shilling
by it, There are also about the number Of young
men as of young women employed constantly in their
various occupations From Monday morning to sstur-
day night these people do nothing but work work work
They cannot afford to lose day nor an hour for it s
only by the stric,est economy and by living in the
and cheapest way that they make both ends
meet on Saturday night and lay by the weekly allow
ance for the rent let them do the best they can
Well-sunday morning comes bright and glorious
The brown.baked City lies gsspng and painting for
very life beneath the vivid sunshine Every heart
members patch Of whispering forest, some glade
of cleaning verdure some brookdivided meadow
through which strayed the feet Of happy childhood
or if born and reared amid the brick walls and thick
ened atmosphere Of the City has at least dreamed OF
such little paradise spots-here is nothing to do, for
whole day and how natural it is that the fret desire Of
the human being thus cramped and worn down with
work should be for mere physical relaxation Itcoud
Lot and would be otherwise with any class or race
Of men and women that ever existed.
So of they fy by railroad and ferry boat and pretty
little steamer or By Yorkvie omnibus, or By whatever
Of locomoton (evenif nothing better than shanks
iorse) that they can make accessible The unmarried
people dressed in the Sunday best pair of in natural
divisions the married, with children tagging behind
and Growing baby in fathers rush by hundreds
70 the Harlem cars which quickly filed with mel
ancholy looking men, (or your animal takes pow
ery much harder than the women) wives and mothers
rigged out in clean frock and neat bonnet and
noisy, crazy children happy as General Scott when
be took Mexico. We said the car full-yes cram
ming, choking full-and here comes another battalion
Of pleasure seekers scrambng and tumblng over each
o'her 10 get on board Jump on-there's plenty Of
room Make way there for the ladies-take my seat
matchmaking "A ling. ding and of go-ptching the
fat lady who hasn't got her new sis skirt fairly adjusted
wrinkle headlong into the lap OF the gen.
tleman opposite, and setting the tall gentleman who
volunteered 10 stand up-if he could-vibrating be-
tween the sides of the like patent sort of pendu
lum But general smile goes round the car, in which
the sufferers Join and everybody is good natured-ex
cept the fat lady whose hat rolled outward
at the edges to resemble those abomnaby expensive
and aristocrac Leghon scoop shovels which iashiona
Die ladies will wear if mock at the goddess they
worship got smashed at making her debit There goes
the bell again and live by bread land hot rols)
here another batch OF ardent travellers painting for
the sylvan shades of Weschester Surely they will be
hidden wait for the next carl Not bit of it Plenty
of room-tumble up-squeeze in-hang on-go ahead
-tngle-ing fling and go we 60
The three ferries to Hoboken are busy sas.
msnders, putting and blowing and rsmplng through
the Kissing waves all day long beneath the hot and
glowing stopping to rest or feed, save now
and then TO swallow hasty wheelbarrowload Of wood
and jog on again Squadron after squadron Of
soners, men. women and children as usual hurry down
in long and unbroken procession until the brave little
fsrryboai afraid of being sunk with its overload Of
humanity, gives little hem to clear its throat and
leaps away from the wharf
The Staten Island boats take of, hslfhourly, other
companies innumerabe Of expecani people gaspng or
breath of untainted air, and expanding their nostns
with intense delight, as they meet the broad. msgnih.
cent breeze from the glorious Coney Island also
has its numerous voares but they form species OF
themselves and must be dealt with separately.
Under the head of "Sc" which you perceive we
have cunningly taken to our title. we will pro
coed to speak little of the other excursions for which
New-York is famous. The delicious and cheap sail TO
Greenwood that lovely spot of all the lovely env
ronments of New York-the abomnabe and never
to be thong without, going thestomaoh
petition to the Fishing Banks, where you to
catch fit Of sea sickness besides running reasonable
chance OF being sunstruck the free ndeasy voyage to
Coney Island to discover the of the clam-dsease
plchnoht NHoit7'Ht Ilp ~ NtuoA ptOftf nun
Ferry, Fort Hamilton, (Kingy seatenace fit for Nep
tunes breezy sister to Report and Middetown, 10
glorious New Brighton, and scores of other haunis OF
GOODNESS and delight the enumeration OF which is not
to be thought OF this stage of lengthenng col
umn--what fields for poetca description, for romantic
dreaming for human fun II must have gres,
cities GROWING the free and debating their path
to the white winged ships that glide over the blue
deeps untrampled hoor let them be ike own mag
nifcent New York surrounded by cool and beautiful
retreats open the weary and daughters Of
roi-so that in the hot and choking when the
hinges of the body grow rusty with heat and the lungs
corrode with they for their sixpenee as well
the nsbob with his ostentatous thousands may bic
away and breathe for while the free air of Heaven
look up far into the depths Of pure blue sky. and
hold unconscious communings with the sweet spirit Of
the Earth that whispers in the treetops-or, pre-
cous still plunge into the cool ocean and wreste with
the surf, whose very embrace mparts strength and
vigor to every limb.
II would not be proper TO dismiss the subject Of
cursions without passing slluson 10 Of the dis
graceful scenes which and then enacted on
moonlight and other trips. by rowdies and Their mpro
per chsracters who come on board without bene