Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-02-13
From the Genesee Farmer.
Life ian the City of New York.

-. Lie Akk tA1c SEay OA INCW 4OEAs
Get up as soon as you can see in the morning,
and go into corner grocery; there you will have
the first reading of a morning paper The floor is
already swept and sanded with clean sea-beach
sand Directly in comes female for ready
soaked mackerel, or slice of ham, or cotalette
brogue, you will marvel that she demurs not to the
extreme high price, which is here charged for
each edible, the loaf excepted but your surprise
ceases when you are told that she is only saruan
If you want to hear cheapening of prices says
the host, .come in the evening, when the Irish wo
men are buying for themselves. For the next
half hour, the shop is full of customers buying a
modicum of all sorts for single breakfast, from
pennyworth of salt pepper, to bread, butter and
steak Here are poor windfall apples, sold at 1844
cts the half peck, which cost only ST. 80 the bbl
from the boats. Ohio grease call it not butter, %
cts h., line or leg of mutton, OF chop, at l2a
cts a h. a beef's tongue for So cts, and pair of
chickens for Is cts. There are thousands of fami-
lies here in costly brick houses, constructed with
iron balconies and all the modern ornaments, who
live in this expensive, shiftless manner, without
tub of pork, cheese, crock of butter, or whole
ham in the house, to say nothing of barrel of po-
tatoes or apples. But that which strikes one from
the country most painfully, in city life, is the con-
fined, impure air. Here is no yard room fit either
for child to breathe or play in, and how can a
child acquire physical education without pure air,
room to play, and grass to fall upon, instead of a
T,, tbo, of
the town, the sidewalks are washed every morn
ng in fact half of Biddy's business seems to be
swabbing the side walks or running of errands,
while another female attends to the maenage with
in But such near neighbors are filth and neat
ness, that often in the same street you pass IN a
few moments from clean cutters and well scrubbed
flags, to sidewalks etd and slippery, and cutters
of black alkaline mud, giving off an effluVa in
valuable to vegetable life, it is poisonous to the
genus Homo. One of the comforts of city life is
the ease and cheapness with which you can travel
for miles together in the omnipresent omnibus; on
ly one cent for ferrage, and six cents for ride
! if you please of almost as many miles. IT'S true
that those stage horses do not trot as fast as an un
sophisticated country mare, but then you have the
novelty of seeing constant change of faces at all
stopping places, and the comfort of riding, almost
without exception, with we'll dressed tidy people
more than half of whom are fresh looking females
! in their best attire
The influence of California gold in New York
at this time, is apparent in many business transac
tons and more especially in the increased price.
of many articles of luxury, and the avidity with
which they are sought. have been in Wall st.
in panic times, when almost every other face look
! ed care-worn and anxious-and in jobbing house
when every five minutes after noon till three O.
clock, some agitated, sorrowing man would come il
and put the query, anything over to day' A
this time such needy sentence was never utter
ed in my presence. Instead of thoughtful faces il
Wall street, every visage there looked happy, con
tented, and unintellectual enough, Greeley saic
our farmers faces looked at the State Fair. S,
much for California gold May we never have
cause to exclaim auri sacre fumes!