The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-06-23

body polite. At least, have heard this
axiom attributed to him, and l suppose
no other statesman would be more likely
to utter this sen.iment.-Some other less
distinguished, but probably more piousiy
inclined philosopher has said, that
'God made the County, ..
And man made the Town"
And to my mind both declarations are
true to their fullest extent. Let citizen
of the South-for example, ofa Southern
plantation, or a Southern village, or interior
town, whose life has been spent in the
South, whose traditions, associations, ideas,
attachments and recollect;ons are all Of the
"Suony South"--let Southern lady espec-
tally, thus wholly, identified with the
South, comb and reside here for sever
al months as your friend has done, and
the wish to leave this boisterous Babylon,
and to return homeward again, will become
the fixed and ruling thought, notwithstan-
ding the approach of the fashionable sea-
son, and the health, gayety, and Southern
society which will soon be attracting the
beau monde to the Northern springs.
New York is great caravanserai, n
sort OF San Francisco on a grand and
permanent scale 1t is not Southern city
nor Northern city, it is hardly an Ameri-
can city,-it Is cosmopoliton city--a
city Of all nations living together, by COM
mon consent, under the Constitution and
laws Of the United States, the State and
the corporation, and protected by a body
OF nine hundred policemen. Walking
along Broadway, and the multitudes Of
French, Irish, German, Italians and jews
from every nation under the sun, that
throng the sidewalks, are calculated to
excite your apprehensions of our political
safety. And when you hear of from three
TO five. thousand emigrants day, and
r meet dctachments Of them daily upon the
streets in all the roughness of semibar-
harianism andEuropean poverty,you cannot
help feeling some alarm lest the capacity
of our institutions 10 regencrate and assim
ilate these crude materials with our people,
should be tested beyond their strength.
And It is enough to make the heart bleed
TO SOC the numbers OF distressed creatures,
men women and children, Of all imaginable
types and shades and combinations, that
haunt, like ghostly spectres, the most con-
specuous places Of the principal street.
They are the deJris from over-populated
Europe, resuming the old vocation under
the better auspices Of this new field of
enterprise. ... 20 ,..,.. ia ,.,'
.. In a word, this crowded Babel Of, FIVE
hunded thousand people, of all nations, in
which the American appears only as the
leaving elements ofthe mass-in this thick
iy swarming hive where all Individuality,
all society, all fixed associations Of home,
and friends, and neighbors, and life itself,
are swallowed up in n confusion of tongues,
and in such desparte scramble fur money,
as is seen--this crowded Babe is no place
for such as you and l. Witlfthe' opening
summer II may be agreeable enough to
leave the quite of TIE Southern country,
ard spend a few days in New York, shop
ping, and seeing the sights OF the town
and suburbs, and the amusements of the
theatres, ON the way to Sartoga or Niagara;
but to come here, to reside here, and to
attempt to identify yourself with New
York, as New Yorker, is solitude more
dreadful to contemplate than the solitude
Of the black veil. New York is q place
10 make money IN, a charming place for
n few days sojourn, place for the splen-
dor of these merchant princes, in these
superb places Of Union square, and Fifth
avenue; and for the exercise OF charity in
the relief Of endless destitution and wretch
edness; a place abounding in good people
and good institutions and swarming with
crime and degredation; but it is no place
G. l.
erable out of Paris; but we can be hap
pier out Of New York. see it stated IN
the newspapers that while the average
population of London is seven people to
each house, the average Of New York is
thirteen, and the pressure for room Is so
great that tho rent Of a cellar for a year,
am told is equal to tho price of q nice
little hou % in any Of the interior towns OF
the South. But enough Of all this. Let
ns turn TO the brighter side of the picture.
Breadway--but for the dust when the
sun shines, and the mud when it rains,
and but for the danger Of the omnibusses,
and the crowd Of all nations, many Of them
smoking the most odious pipes and cigars
but for these things-Broadway is still
the paramount attraction TO stranger in
New York. We must do our shopping,
and Broadway is the place Of all places
Eor that. Stewart's Ss Beck's for dry goods
proverbial; and when a. IL appears, in the
single article Of gloves, the sales at Stew
arts. last year amounted to 5000, 900,
you may form some idea Of the amount of
their sales Of all other goods, wholesale
and retail. Then there IL Bulfn's man
lila emporium, and variety Of other
stores, devoted 10 particular glasses Of
goods and at most of which there is a
very fair margin left for o little jewing
But competitionis great and such Is, II b
said, the quantity OF gools in the city Of
all kinds, and the desire of the merchants
70 sell of, that there was never d better
opportunity for profitable purchases by
Wholesale. BY retail, ] know that good