Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-12-02
NEW YORK CITY INTELLIGENCE.
FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING POST OF TUESDAY.

FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING OF TUESDAY
Hard Ti,aes-Its Effects on Eating Houses Thea
Tres, llilliaers, and Craze Yards
Hard times hard times, is the universal cry. Wher
ever you go there is the complaint Every thing
except the necessares Of life has deprecated labor is
reduced; shoals of unemployed workmen and servant
girls are like MaHber 'swaitng for something to turn
M, Hotels are dubious; some threatening to break
before the end Of cold weather We find inquiry that
the keepers of the crowded eating and drinking houses in
the lower part of city confess to reduction of at
least half IN their business At one OF the where
an average Of 81 900 is usually received every day, the
clerk remarked that large part of its business consisted
of its dealings with merchants and drummers who taking
their customers to dine, in prosperous times spent four
or Ave dollars apiece; but that the receipts from
such customers do not average more than four or five
shillings
Credit is contracted and no loans are procurable
what are admitted TO be unexceptionabe securities
Real estate has deprecated average from thirty
fifty per cent 1t only the other day that noticed
the sale Of handsome freesone house. foreclosure of
mortgage, for ,000 which not year ago was cons
dered cheap $40 000a depreciation OF forty per cent
Happy the whose Golfers run over with what
our Chatham friends would call the only real ORR
gnal genuine moaish The jubilee for pawnbrokers has
come.
There is however one hilarious feature in this gloomy
state Of affairs The theatres and places of amusement
are FULL in fact they do better business than in times
of less depression When man gets poor" says
Samuel Weller s.bes IL he don't 20 to eating oysters ~
theatre where he forges his troubles in the world of the
gnation and draws supply of happiness which may,
in measure, protect him from the evils OF the
morrow
So when the coming storm charges the air with mos
ture in token OF its advent, the anxious and perturbed
fowl of the barnyard unwonted composure,
draws oil from thousand unexpected sources in her
body wherewith smooth and render watertight her
rued pumage, depostes leg safely under her wing,
stands on the other and cooking up eye to the fir
mamept, pacdly defes its rage
fnd after ALL that one of the suggestive omit
ted namely, their effects upon the ladies' gentle
man--an assiduous churchgoer OF many years stand
ing-tells that this period when women array
ing themselves gay coors for the winter he
50 many old 6oanets about!
II is beautifully characteristic of the sympathetic rela-
tions existing between the that this fact should be
so observable The popular charge Of heartessness and
unreecng extravaganza made against the ladies of
city is thus dsprQyed 1t is shown that husbands need
only communicate their embarIaSsments to their COM
pauion to receive III the aid and comfort which copuga
affection ought to furnish
While we are about il ii may be as well to mention
that the u the money has even invaded
the precincts Of the grave During the year now nearly
past there have fewer expensive monuments erected
to the memory Of the dead than in any previous year
the rage such things fairly commenced in this
country We have the statement Of one OF the largest
marble dcaiers the country that while in former times
he has been accustomed TO receive annually orders for
monuments ranging from S 900 to SO 900 value dur
ing the last eleven months be BIAS had one The de
mand, however, for modest inexpensive monuments has
greatly increased showing that the remembrance of the
departed has declined with the means to make an
ostenlatiocs display Of it