The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-28
Life IN Now YorlSe

New York Correspond )nce Of the Raleigh
NEW YoHK, Dec.
Contrasts of City Life-ANueace and
Fashion and Fdmims- My Uncle, and
Spout Sufaing Poor The Good
tans-Nstc City Ordinance. III
The most prominent contrasts Of Ill
always observable in large city, and u
trated In them on scsle OF MAGNITUDE II
tible In any other sphere. The imagina1|
reader can easily carry out and completI
when he bears In mind that every cid|
masses of brick and stone, and aceumI|
dust ano dirt, squallor aud splendor, "a red
rem a. the sands of the desert, andwould II
habitable, did not exterior wealth dow Il
iZe and enrich II, and make 10 to thriveI
den, and blossom as the rose. Would thai
allowed me to indulge In further specull
subject such as this, but poetry and phill
interdicted to tho humber pretensions Oh
pondent, which are limited to meagre \
facts.
Ihave, on several occasions, spoken OF
thy English lady who IL known by the 1
Miss COutts. II would hardly bs crediteI
old fashioned North Carolina that it costi
lady thousand dollars per week to live. |
family In the North State docs not spend |
that amount during . whJle year. Cd
and classifi cation, however, are universal
thing Ia 30 rare that it does NOS admit
both of these. Within . month or tw1
English lady has started up % q rival
Coutts. She, too, boards aS one OF the Ord
in Broadway, (the Prescott House al
her tho moderate sum Of ouly Eve hundred
week to obtain living. she d lady OF
tune, and maviied to distinguished ofid
American navy. She Ia reported to be vel
and accomplished. Let ma contrast d
affluent ladies with two others now in this
the same ccuntry--two 0thcru who are mo
ful and equally - worthy, but who are de-
he advantages and comforts Of wealth.
There lived in this city last gear, N En-
tleman Of moderate means, whose niece, {
woman, was his housskeepsr. He die
monfhs tipce, and the little atrimo ~ he
went n two sons who lived abroad. rh,
Immediately thrown upon her own resou
now supports herself By her needle, bat Il
she can make IL thirty cents day. Thi
che suffers from the cold, but lie not al
fuel, a. she can scarcely afford to purb
She occupies . small chamber 10 avenue
rents are compai atively cheap, and q nej
woman permits her to come into her
warm herself when she becomes benumos
winters cold, which has no mercy 90 tne
poor.
Another young English woman arriv,
city, two months since, to join her brother
amar1ied man. On her arrival, she sonnd
brother bad died If cholera, aud that i
bad moved away, she could not find on
Her situation Is an destitute and as help
otb0rs. There are thousancs more Of sin
Last week, when the weather was 30 q
the streets covered with ice and snow, a
man, with an infant in her arms, wAa seel
in Broadway, barefooted, ard begging "a
These examples Of destitotion and sufY
generally confined to strangers, but there
this city married couple who have v
streets niabt after night, aud VINO are II
purchase even Q lodging. The husband wa,
msster, end married young woman ia
against the wishes Of her parents; her fat
take her hack home II she would creaser
don her husband, but love il stronger tina
Of life, and this she refustd TO do.
Within the lase year . new ordinance
passed, requiring AL deaths which tax
bcteis or boarding houses 20 b reported
giAses's Ofice within twanty-fo1r hoofs
occur; end The body OF no decesset pee,
rnoved from the cEy, for iotsrmsas I
without permit.