The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-30
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AVE the pleasure OF informing the public es
kl-in general, that they have Just received III
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ment. There is some mystery cdSannect-
ed with the operations of the Police
Courts and the "Tombs Lawyers :" I
was talking with an Irishman, shut up
for Assault and Battery for thirty days,
in default of $40 fine. He said that if
he had only three Or four doHa's to fee
a "Tombs Lawyer )" he could get out
the next day. I asked him how that
could be, He said that it was done ev-
cry day, and limited that there was an
understanding between the lawyers and
the constables and turkeys. I have no
positive evidence that it is so, except that
persons charged with Burglary, Assault,
etc., are shut up in the Tombs, and come
out the next day with passes for which
they have paid sums of money, to haao-
gers, varying in amount with the nature
| of the crime.
The ~Irishmen with whom [ talked,
seemed to be a good-hearted, honest fell
low, and L was sorry for him. He had
struck a Waterman while jolly with bad
liquor, and was now shut up with a pick
pocket and burglar, a young fellow with
a yillainous, half breed countenance, SEN
fenced to State prison. He seemed to
see very clearly the evils resulting from
the use of liquor, and expressed an earn
est desire that there might be a Maine
Law. Drinking consumed all his wages,
he could lay up nothing. And unless he
would drink himself and treat others, no
freshman would associate with him. 1t
is this practice of treatingS which is
the destruction of the Irish laboring
population. "The Germans }" said this
man, care different Among them, ev-
cry man gets what he wants for himself,
and pays for himself But among us, if
one tries to lay up a little noney,-and
does not treat, they say be is the Geaa-
est Irishman they ever saw, anGIhe
stands a good chance of being killed with
a brickbat. The only way a man can
save money is to keep close and know
nobody till he has saved $50 or $50, and
then run away" 1t is q pity that this
really generous and noble-hearted peo-
pie, cannot be taught a few lessons of
foresight and economy. Till they learn
these, they must always continue to be
. hewers of wood and drawers of water !"
L happened to be a witness to a splen-
did confagration in the lower harbor-
the burning of the May Queen, during
this last week. You have probably seen
a detailed account of the catastrophe be-
fore this time. I was on the Norwalk,
returning from Convey Island, that curl
Gus pile of s~couring-sand, when a red
flame shot up, far out OF the water,
which Immediately attracted universal
attention, and the Captain of the Nor
walk, with praise-worthy promptitude,
Immediately put out for the burning
wreck. 1t was a splendid sight. The
May Queen, a we'll known excursion boat,
had gone out in the morning, accompa-
MED by two barges, carrying out, in all,
a patty of between one and two thousand
persons, from New York and Brooklyn,
on a pleasure excursion. There she lay
now, down upon the Staten Island shore,
and burning nearly to the waters edge.
The whole beach was lined with specta
tors, and a long line of black heads, bob
bing up and down in the water between
the shore and the barges, told what was
going on. 1t was a funny sight, unmlt-
igated by any terrible circumstances, to
see scores of terrified ladies, plunging
frantically into the water and waddling
for the shore. The water was not more
than four feet deep near the barges.
The City Inspector has presented an
immensely long report on the subJect OF
New York Milk, which is enough to turn
the stomach of any man, who is disposed
to consider, with any degree of fastide-
business, the ingredients of his daily food.
There is a very profitable trade driven
by the New York Distillers, who feed
hundreds of lows on the distillery Stops,
and feed half the people of New York
on the milk aceruing from these unsavo-
ry animals. The COWS will not eat still
slops unless they are continually kept in
the stable, and given nothing else to eat.
Hence they become diseased, and die in
a few years.
The action of the Railroad Conven-
ton in increasing all fares twenty per
cent, will, it is thought, have a good eff
feet on the prices of Railroad stock. A
heavy Erie endorser failed yesterday, to
counterbalance this advantage. The ex-
pected advent of Grisi and Mario, the
incompatible pair, excites much interest
in the city, considering that the larger