The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-20
Correspondence OF the Union.

Correspondence OF the Union.
New YORK, March l6, 1919.
Mrs Frances Kcmbe Buffers readings from Shakespeare
just tho wonder of the day in New York, in the
literary way. She the rosum thrice week, at
the Institute, where average OF 800 persons
go listen her. at the moderate charge of 81 each
Her receipts quite 81 per week This is at the of
SI24 per snug income indeed to be derived
from reading Sha peare Of course is not presumable
that such receipts romths source can be kept
any considerable time But by locturng reading thus
and elsewhere the country this talented lady may
certainly realize income which, il prudenty husbanded
will prove far overgfown estate than that con-
corning which her lord and herself " at law need
hardly assure you that she much in reading from
the book in speaking the play. Among those who
constantly attend her entertainments many ladies
and gentlemen of acknowledged taste and attachments
We're her merits reader not as remarkable as her SUI
perorty actress, such persons after evening
thus spent, would leave the lady be gazed at by
the many who follow her because it is the fashion
This is, indeed, queer city 1t requires but to bo able
any change, furnish food for the fashion OF
the hour, to coin money fast it in upon
the youth in le story who carried the wonderful lamp
Mnscring the fashion OF the haut ton, but little
better in New York than catering for the appetite OF the
ton ba The publisher of tale OF murder, garnsed with
any uany lesser detail hits exactly the lite
rary passion of thousands upon thousands in Gotham
Sunday the Police Gazette containing all the dis
gushing particulars of the very last revolving outrage that
nspred in either of the various descriptions OF New
York of nlamy will sell the rate OF fifty thousand
day Why tho slung shot, the pistol or the knife, with
which late murder has been committed, when hung Tor
exhibition windows Of the places from whence
counts of such thus published, will keep
crowd for weeks blocking the street For days and days
Nassau the great thoroghare OF the city
for those who labor at trades and in the factory shops Kept
passabe the north side opposite the Police Gazette
office, by the exhibition of two three suns shot,
labelled" sungshot such the star police carry secretly
cannot conceve where this city gels this vicious TASTE
unless from the number of dissipated Europeans who
remain within the limits Of the corporation
The commercial and other papers have taken up the
crying evil of the Sunday shops of New York This Is
very well but they had better preach crusade against
the OF licensing grocers to sell liquor by the
glass Almost all the small grocery shops in the city
have bar. where poisonous stuff is oled three
pence the glass There must be than two thousand
such groggeres alone in the city, and they are nearly all
supplied with Croton hydrants which their customers
neghbors nhabiting homes thus supplied, for
for family The consequence is, that in addition
the necessary calls the grocery store by members OF
families whose force them to buy supplies by the
xpence shings worth for every pail OF water required
member OF the family the doggery where
there lack of temptation to drown in the bottle the
dstresses osevere labor and the living from hand
mouth Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters are alike
forced by our present license system into contact with
temptation Were it illegal to sell liquor by the glass,
cept places known Srog shops mvens one-ha the
spirits yearly consumed here would so without purchasers
The available income o useful purposes) of many of
the poor the city would be increased from five TO ten
cent? for thousands who drink in the grocery would
frequent the regular dramshops more especially the
females | opponent OF the project OF shutting the
grog shops Sunday, desire temptation removed
possible from the path of the Ignorant and incon
sderae but the great temperance reform needed in tn
city of half million souls is refuse permit any grocer,
dollars per annum, sell liquor women, girls,
and boys. The corporation authorities sanconing the
present system have much, very much, for
this 1t i, estimated that there full five thousand
Stores shops and other places the city, in which liquors
sold about five times many in proportion to
a.,
New Orleans well, and satisfied that onewentcnth
Of much tpplng is done the,e in this city. Yet
moaists shrug their shoulders in horror OF the de-
moaizalion OF New Orleans. Alas it would be far bet
the city treasury well Tor the health and happi-
of the honghess poor of this region, if their phian
hopc horror could be made operate effectively upon
the evil at their own door foIe
| The Unicorn, of the original British line of sea-
steamers, (Cunards) being filled up for voy-
to San Francisco understand Her nominal deStina
is said be for Intermediate point; but
one, her day OF sailing she will be advertised for
the land of promise. The spirits of Caiornia a. m ad
folks Were beginning TO has, because nothing has
been heard from the Lexngon with her reported rich
freight, positively yet there is no lack OF mining com.
pancs organizing and preparing Half a
dozen are lifting out herc-onc OF which, according
to the programme is embrace five hundred persons.
Among others, the speculation OF piilonthr cpc ladya
Mrs Fanham--to carry cargo of wives for the
tiers Warranted, of course) much attention. A
company Of Is individuals from Rock nghau New Hanp-
shre, departed yesterday IN te Crescent CITY, among he
2l3 passengers whose known They aye under
the direction of Capt John H. Jackson, late of the New
England regiment, Tns company, like most OF those now
preparing for the is under the auspcesof sober and
discreet Indeed, it is certain that those who have
avoided most of the first will ire BEST as in the
hurry get oil very little attention was paid to the char
and fitness OF tho individuals inused with their
management. so, not to be surprised on hearing
bitter complaints of receptions practsed upon the unwary
emf gr ant.
An instant ago l learned a startling fact bearing
upon the subject-mat,er of portion of this letter,
There are now 700 patients in the wards of the Bellevue
hospital whom down with the typhus ship fe-
yer 70, the physicians here regard the latter but type
of the former modified What by the ccum en-
gcnderng Bellevue Is the county ms-housahc last
earthly refuge of the victims of the grocery groggeries
this Of the owing to the pauper character
emigration, the prevailing disease in the Marine hos
pal, where the sick emgraas SENT is debility - or
in other words suffering from want of food raiment
and home. Perhaps ssventy-fve such patients afc admit
ted daily. God help the poor of large city!
Just the attention Of the commercial interest of this
city is more especially directed proposed change
English gation laws, which can hardly fail to revol.