Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-20
A CHAPTER ON ADVERTISEMENTS.
FROM rpE ALBANY ryxsrso youRs.r.

T FROM THE ALBANY EVENING JOURNAL
Most people, when they take sp newspaper thin
they inform themselves Of the current of passing event
they read over carefully all the news and editorial mat
Ter put tnere Is another and faithful chroncl
in it, which they seldom read and never studv An
one who wants to learn human nature thoroughly or
trace the real condition Of society," will ind ample mate
rial for both in the advertising columns Il is depart
conducted by thousands of editors 30 rarely hap
pens that any thing is omitted from it,
The great events that make up the so-called news
the day concern most ofus very remotely many of
not at all Whatever attention they may attract to-day
they are sure to be replaced by other novelties
But the advertisements contain the history Of those re
to the public, which nevertheless make up the sum 81
individual existence.
Let US read over the adyersin1columns of leadiua
New York paper for instance and set down in regular
order, just what find there:
Fifty-eight newcomers have entered the world and
fory-sx people have gone out Of it to make room for
them. Nine advertise that they have taken to them
selves wives and three advertise that their wives have
away Seven people want boarding and thirty
three boarding houses kept by agreeable families in plea
SAINT localities throw open their doors to receive them Sc
venteen highly respectable families in of walters
and chambermaids and seventy highly respectable
chambermads walters looking for just such places
Twenty-Five cooks give the best of recommendations
and eight families won't take them without Sixteen mer
chants selling at cost and five pawnbrokers are buy
ing at considerably less Four men have money to lend
and forty want to borrow it. Five railroads and eleven
steamboats, are running to carry people out of the city,
and fourteen hotels are standing to keep them in it.
Fortyfve thousand of land for SALE and six
are ready to take acknowledgment of the
deeds
Nnetyseven ships and steamers going to all parts
Of the world eighteen have been there and come back
Ten watchmakeYs ask people to keep time, and bill
lard saloons and oyster cellars ask them lose it.
Twelve men have failed but their goods to- be sold at
/ cfinp and a1o
Thirteen partnerships have been formed and five broken
on Eight men say they want partners but never seem
to think of taking each other Six perfumers endea
vorlng to sweeen the air, and two gas companies
endeayorng to counterfeit them Twenty people are
making confectionery for parties and nineteen do not
know where to look for daily bread Twenty seamsresses
wanted to work their fingers to the bone and thirty
four volunteer to do it to keep themselves from starving
One man, however offers to pay literally for mistress
and another for place to keep one Five people want
information, and seven fortuneteers will give it to them
for twenty five cents apiece
There to be four professions and parades and nine
sermons on the vanity Of worldly show There six
theatres in successful operation and four hospitals
ing funds Five concerts to off tonight and
seventeen lawsuits to in the morning There
thirtyve houses for sale and fory to let and
yet six people say they in want of homes There
are eight schools for the instruction of youth and eigh
teen quackmedicines for the deception Of age Six
have discovered inalbe for badness, and yet
eight BARRIERS get their living by making wigs There
seven fast horses for SALE but only people
enough to buy them Seven families have been robbed
but only thief caught Able bodied young anx
ious to serve their country shown the bright side of
dark picture and fourteen drummer boys wanted
to help to keep up the illusion. diamond bracelet
three Irish emgrans two pocket-books black
terrier three casks OF wine gold watch carpet bag
two children and pair of spectacles lost, and
thing has been found but an opera and memoran
dunn book
One hundred and grocers busy providing food
for their fellownhabitants three hundred and eighty
one tailors millners, hatters dressmakers &C. hard
at work at their clothes eight upholsterers furnish
ing their houses, and sixteen coal companies warm
ing them fourteen booksellers providing them with
interesting reading; eight dancing and four
sic-masers attending to their education in the polite
arts twenty three profitable speculaons offer to make
their fortune and thrtytwo lawyers take Of it
afterwards Five dagurreotypsts anxious to obtain
copy of their miniature twenty-seven doctors are
watching socitousy their health nine undertakers
are making their collins, and three marblecuters
waiting to carve their tombstones.
There you have itan abstract not merely of the adj
refreshments Of the New York Tribune but of the daily
life of great cta statistical sliding scale of the wants
and plans hopes and dsappeintment griefs and plea
sure which fill the minds and engross the time of every
one OF its inhabitants-old very old news but news
that will keep coming every day. after all dead
and buried.
These the general results But some of the indi-
vidual announcements funny enough. We have Sc
ected few and give them the benefit of republication
gratis:
SARAHYour dear little your adorng
- viii call on W this day and he shall make us both happy
me forever miserable JAMES.
"The course of true love never did run smooth but
If there is such thing turning the current we pre-
dict James will do it, Besides he has taken the stream
at flood tide for he has published 10000 copies of his
oye-letter. Under these circumstances it will be very
difficult to interceptit it.
The next is in different strain;
You ARE DISHONEST vILLAINi-You discovered at last
aud have just twentyour fulfil
ber-twenty5our hours-thcn exposure
These two advertisements put under the head OF
" Personal" The last is very decidedly so. The |
following may or may not be the answer:
VENGEANCE your letters do not
Your goodwill do not coyet and threats depse defy
Another thus
DEAR FATHER Your sarah in Henry street. and
= anxious TO see you II you forgive him.
We sincerely trust there will be reconciliation and
that the following is from the other side Of the house,
ESRY IL requested 70 return his parents wiz
= b. further considered.
Here is good way to remind ones neglected. corre-
spondents:
II HoNoR got she will reply through the
= at the Broadway Post Office. JAMES.
JOSEPH this should eye above, he will
y find letter at Old Toms.
The following appears in the same paper:
IIE YOUNG WIDOW who left Miniature
the same by calling the Clerk Of whom she bought the Lace
We say nothing but we have our own suspicious in
gard to that Clerk
Here Is manifestation Of honesty that is rare:
GENTLEMAN yesterday, by kept the change out Of
the broadway could
uted would confer favor on the advertiser
And here is q HAT conveyed with equal delicacy:
'HosB GENTLEMEN who have had the Of four overeoa for
Tho