The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-01-20
New Yolx Correspondence.
New YoRK, Jan. 10, 1851.

After two smoky, warm, rainy, muddy
days, coagenial enough to ducks and pigs.
but not just the thing forhuman pedestrians,
weare again in the enjoyment Of sunshine.
This has not been an inclement season for
the poor of our city, and their expense for
fuel has been small, hut where they don't
find Scyla, they usually catch Charybdis, and
the unreasonable warmth is accompanied by'
a great deal Of sickness. y sas
Speaking oS the poors fuel, deal Of il is
ob.a'ned from the refuse cinders turned into
the streets by the servants of the rich. You
who are surrounded with an abundance Of
wood, would be surprised to see thousands
of poor people every morning, oyerhauling
the ash barrels in the streets, and selecting
the char and cinders with as much care as
if is were SO much gold DUST
Indeed you can have little idea Of the
many shifts which the shirtless part of our
population resort to for living. The beg
gars are very numerous, and they use consiG-
elsble art to move the bowels and coppers
of people. You may see many sitting on
door-steps, head down and hands extended,
in mute appeal. Others stand "bolt upright,
(if more upright, they would boltperiaps) &
with closed eyes, ask help for "the blind"
Their days "work" over, the most Of these
blind folks, look over their gains to sec that
they have taken no bad money, and then
quietly walk home. | have frequently
noticed in Broadway, an old Italian beggar,
whose capital in trade consists Of small
boy and blanket, by which he conceals the
too ruddy face of the lad from observation,
and gives him the appearance of an invalid.
The most aughable of all these humbugs, is
the case Of woman, carrying great lub-
berly boy (about Ia years old) "pig-back,' a
phenomenon for which pair of crutches
are extended in explanation.
"Speaking Of guns" saw few days ago
very handsome and respectable looking,
middle.sged lady, clad in deep mourning,
! walking u9 Broadway, with a towling piecc
4, in her arms You may be sure, thought
this queer substitute for baby.
The case Of Henry Long, the fugitive
slave, has al length been terminated, and he
is at this time with hismaster, in Richmond,
Va. The result ought 10 satisfy our south.
ern brethren of the determination Of the au-
thorities and people Of New York, 10 respect
the federal compact, and the rights OF slave
holders. Long was resolutely and persever-
ingly defended BY able counsel, and every
possible appeal and effort was made to
thwart the law, bu. patient as were our au-
ihorities. they were just also, and determin-
ed to abide by the Constitution. This single
case, must have cost our State and City, no
less than $1,000. 1t is 10 be hoped therefore
that we shall have no more indiscriminat'
abuse, from southern men. 1t is bad enoug|
: 10 "catch il" from the Abolitionists.
) Charles Sumner, the Free Soiler. whom tn
. democratsand A bolitionists, concur in send
ing TO the U. S. Senate, from Suffolk, Mass.
is son OF the late Sheriff Sumner. Heis
great scholar, and large, fine-lookins man
but, as Rufus Choate said of him once, " h
r is hundred years before his ,ime." He j
higbty and impracticable.
) The steam ship Ohio is being copper
ed at the Dry Dock. Steamer Georgi
} leaves tomorrow, for Havana and Chagre:
She takes no way-lrtighl, except the trunk
OF StImson & Co.'S New Orleans and Mobil
expresses, which are transhipped at Havan
: on board the steamer Pacific, at Cuba.
The State Comptroller, represents tn
State revenue from Oct. l, 1850, one yea
: 10 be $672, so, and the ordinary exper
e ses FOR the same time, TO be about 5000
. less than that sum.
S Edward Forrest is out in to-day's Herald
Q Q in reply 10 n. P. Willis.