New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-01

Western chap on an Eastern tour has been writing
beme TO The Davenport Gazette Qowa) the following
condensed view Of mercantile and fashionable life in
the Quaker City We beg leave to mention that like
the astronomical calculations in the Almanac though
calculated for the meridian of Philadelphia it will an
swer for this and the adjacent cities:
PHILADELPHIA, March a. 1851
To The EDITOR OF The GAzETTE-Dcar Sir: Here am
in the City Of Brothery Love- and notwithstanding
they frequently get up not here and more frequently cI
snothers throas the mass OF the citizens appear TO be
quite as orderly and intelligent the citizens of Daven
rort But II Is evident that the wealthy portion Of the pOpu
lation, well majority Of the middlecass consider
their principle mission on earth 10 be to dress tine and
promenade before each other in order TO exhibit their good
looks and the merchandise they carry their backs in
the shape of silks sans velvets broadso.s aad various
articles Of siy er gold and stone ware.
have taken considerable trouble to collect statisticlil
formation respecting the actions Of and the in
which these people live their ability to keep their families
and the preparations they making for old age, &c |
have ascertain that the children OF the wealthy are most
generally brought up in extravaganza and dlene5s that
they receive but little instruction that tends 70 their future
usefulness and the example Of the parents OF majority OF
the families is rather Encouragement than advantage
10 their offspring These children taught 70 consider
that music, dancing and dressing according u the fshon
Of the day. are the most essential portion Of their educ
tius the consequence is, that the third generation
through with their grandfathers estate-tha IS provided
their fathers did not spend il all before them-and now
end the fourth and 9Th generations Of the wealthy
families boating oysters from The bag and stitching broal
Ib for their now more wealthy neghbrrs who ara de-
II NAV not be unintcrestug to you to know how that
numerous class the shopkeeperi-bg and lit'ls-YOrk
their way through the w0dd Dress md extravaganza Il
tue support Of many Of this cl2shey eat q duak they
dress ard die they began with stock of goods pur
chased on time and renewed from year year
their lives But you may say are there not lev OF this
class, no surr0urd with their neat fancy shops
one hundred squares Of this great city who better their
condition by their business Yes there few, and but
few have, after much nqu ry ascert ned that in tn.
Wholesale department seventeen ont Of each hundred fail
without paying their debts that twenty one out Of one
hundred fail but pay their debts that thirty eight out o.
hundred are able 10 keep their families and square
with the world but nothing more nineteen out OF oas
bundled retire and are clased with the upper three
cut Of hundred cased with the hundred thou
sand ard upward two ont Of one hundred class with the
hafmion and upward In the retail department twenty
two in hundred fail eighteen 10 hundred after paying
rent cannot with every exeron and sic, economy pro-
cure suiciency of proper food but subsst by deprynS
themselves of certain articles such as butter fruits grOce
res &c nineteen IN hundrd are enabled 70 keep tber
families respectable and pay their debts fourteen IN ahun
bred dress exavaganty vstthe watering places hv-
their income seventeen IN hunored leave stock
OF goods paid for and home for their chldren nine in
hundred retire with the upper TEN in hundred rates
with the half million and upward Yours, Sc AcF.
LANE SUPERIOR TROUT FIsHNG IN Wrsrzn-Ta
Lakc superior Journal says;
Angling through the ice depth Of thirty ath)m Of
water novel mode Of fishing somewhat peculiar this
peculiar egiCn of the world. is carrying the into
fshdom with vengeance aud denounced doubt in
the communities on the bottoms Of these northern lakes as
sealy Iisce Of warfare The large and splendid salmon
trout Of these waters have peace in the summer they
ere entced into the deceiiu msshe5 Of the snst aud in
the winter when they hide tbemsey in the deep
Of The Lakes with fifty fahoms OF water above their he vs
END defense Of Ice two three feet in thickness tho
top that they are tempted 10 destruction by the fatal
heck.
Large numbers of these trout are caught every winter
in this way Lake Superior the lHdal, always skilled
in the fishing business knows exactly where to find them
and how 10 kl them. The whites make excursions out
n lake in pleasant weather 10 enjoy this sport There IS
fayorie for both fish aid fishermen rOs Cap
At the OF Lake Superior through the rocky gate
way between eros Cap and Point lroquo' about miles
above the Saut and many large trout a. this point is
pulled up from lis bed at the bottom Of the lake in
winter and made TO bite tie cold ice in this upper world
To SEE one these fine sh four FIVE feet ia length and
weighing half much y laundering the
and ice We,teug and freezing to death in is bool,
ceimes moves the heart Of the fisherman to expressions
1e mo1p, opcrqn2i in this kind Of great trout shinrs
noy el il the extreme and could stranger the business
overlook Al distance party engaged IN the spot, hs
We uld certainly think they mad each making
foot races against time hole is made through the
smooth and und snd the fisherman drops down his large
hook bSited with small herring pork other meat and
whn he asceriains the right depth, he was-gh fisher
mans luck sometime for bite. which in this
mil alto ytihfr the fisherman throws the his
shoulder and walks from the hole st tbs top Of bis speed
I'm the h bounds ont on the ice We have known Of az
many fifty OF these splendid trout caught in this way by
single fisherman Ia single day; i thus great sources
cfteasure aud valuable resource Of food especially in
Lent and the scrupu!ous anti pork believers night
here down pork and up hsh without any any osnse ID
conscience
"a Tn Ckcrokee A3rocQte gives gloomy account
he financial condition Of the Cherokee Nation and ha
some go,mer anicpatous Of their future fate unless
r. nm takes place IN tie administration OF their affairs
The Nation HIS been INDUCING IN u luxury OF cyiza
ton large pubic Debt The Government supported by
the annues which theyrsceye annually from the Cate
States under the provisions Of treaties. These insult
Gent the current expenses Of the Goyernnn mt anil
accordI ely the debt continues 10 increase takes thu
form Of warrants upon the treasury, Issued 70 citizens OF
the Nation but in the OF trade these have plsso
into the hands Of white traders and merchants within the
States, in payment for goods They secured by ns
pledged faith Of the Cherokee Treasury but the Only