The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-29

New YoRK, Nov. 23, 1851
|, 1t is evacuation day--and the troops are out i
, snow, hail, and rain storm. celebratingit it. No
much of day for a glorifcation-the BIRTHS
having occupied the city from the beginning h
the end of the war. Under the tre.ty of peac
Of 1888, they evacuated the place. 1t was tn
result Of victories gained elsewhere, for tn
New Workers were the very last people in thu
Union under the surveillance of British gar
rlson. The celebration is a sort of humbug
but everything for the privilege of ilustratin.
our exuberant patriotism. f+f
Wait till kossUTH comes /; and if we do no
have turn out of about 100000 republicans
then we mistake the notes of preparation
1t is stated that the committee upon the re-
ception of KossuTH are gradually completing
their arrangements 1t is intended that Kos
suTH, upon his arrival at Sandy Hook, shall bs
requested to stop at quarantine for day witt
DIR. Doane, the health officer. AT the end Of
that time the steamer Oregon will convey hin
| to the Wallabout, thence short distance up the
| North river, and thence to this city. Salutes
will be fired at various points along the shore
during the steamers progress. Upon the ar
rival Of KossUTH at Castle Garden, he will be
tremendously received by our city authorities
an address will be presented to him and he will
make an appropriate reply. The parties will
then form into procession. The carriage occu-
pied by the patriot will be surrounded by a
guard OF honor composed of Hungarian refugees
In full uniform. After moving in the procession
through Broadway and the Bowery, he will be
hOnored with marching salute at the City
Hall, and thence proceed to the Irving House.
The city authorities will probably give great
dinner at the Irving House to KossUTH and his
companions on the night succeeding their ar
rivai t9 ' efiaa tafi t.1asi-p III
The Tribune says it is thought that the idea
of three trnmphal arches will be modified so as
to make magnificent triple arch Of evergreens
and flowers in the vicinity Of the Park one arch
over the carriage way, and one over each side
walk, the three bearing the names or busts Of
WASHINGTON, LA FAYETTK, KossUTH.
As the winter approaches, restitution and
guant starvation are multiplied on the streets
1t ls not necessary to go to London for pictures
OF misery and distress. Go into the damp cellars,
and fetid attcs of the miserable shantees of the
Points, or the Hook, or into those dismal sub
terranean holes along Water street, and you
will see enough to satisfy you of the wonderful
tenacity with which life clings to the miserable
wretches who inhabit these dens. Amid stencil
and smoke insupportable you will find negroes
and whites, of all ages and both sexes, piled in
together promiscuously. Some dying of Ioath-
some contagion, others perishing from the ship
fever, and still worse, others wasted or bloated
into horrible ug'iness from gin tnctured with
vitrlol.S and from want of food. And, in the
streets, the desperate squabble for the floating
pennies by thousands OF unemployed persons is
absolutely painful There are, perhaps, not
fewer than twenty five thousand people in this
city, in more or less a state of starvation, from
want of tho paria nfi f, WIZ
poor sewing girls, who fit along the streets
towards twilight to their abode? 1t is because
they are starving upon shilling day and let
the weekly report of the deaths from consump.
ton answer for the fatal results of their hard
life. From the windows of the Tribune office,
you may see hundreds of the poor creatures,
from morning till midnight, pursuing their pre-
carious fortunes as street pedars of every i'm
aglnable device, and beggars of all castles and
classes, from the blind black man, to the poor
Irish emigrant woman with her half starved
child in her arms or lying asleep on the side
walk, the better to attract observation A
penny in this city counts up largely--half
dozen of them will get loaf of bread, and
many family has less than half loaf for sup
per after days fast.
And yet, sir, the Tribune is forever prating of
the horrors of Southern slavery What slavery
is comparable to that of poor man, with large
family in this great Babylon, starving before his
eyes. He cannot leave the place-he has no
money--no work-he can get neither bread for
his fam shed children, nor medicines for his sick
wife. They have neither clothing, nor bedding,
nor food, nor fuel. They lie huddled together
In the damp straw, unconscious at one scanty
meal how and where the next is to be obtained
But the details of restitution and crime in this
.,AAa I'll,
The daily reports of the police, efficient as is the
police system of New York, show to some ex-
tent the activity and backened degradation of
the Jail birds that nfest the stews of such locali
ties as Orange and Jackson streets. A negro
from cotton plantation would perish in week
from the wretchedness and misery with which
hundreds of poor whites in this city struggle
through lingering death of a whole winter
IL is the most despicable hypocrisy, in view of
this state OF things, to keep up this atrocious
outcry of the New York Tribune and Iadepend-
ent, &c, against the slavery of the South They
can give aid and comfort to the desperadoes
who encourage misguided slaves to leave their
masters, or steal them away, and resist the law
of reclamation to the shedding of blood but
such is the vast aggregate of actual misery in
New York city, that they have learned to con-
template it with disgust.
The theatres of New York are feature Of
this metropolis worthy of observation, and the
various castles and sections of the population
which attend them, respectively But the Bow
ery--nothing but Mexican fandango can beat
the Bowery. tits large house, dimly lighted,
and very filthy. IL is always crowded, and the
upper tiers and the pit have never-fniling sup
ply of the bhoys" those despicable wreiches
who contribute so largely to the calender of city
crimes. The place has most ancient and
hsh-like SMELL" as if the air were a compound |
from the perspirations of packed audience from
the subterranean cook shops aud rum. cellars of
the neighborhood; and the plays necessary to
please this intelligent assemblage, have to be |
full of cut-throats pirates base women, drums, |
guns, and fireworks. But time is up Some
thing better next time. ~
EmGRATIoS-Europe is pouring her surplus
population upon our shores. Into the port of |
New York alone, for the quarter ending the |
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