Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-16
Correspondence of the Spy.

NEW YORK, Jan. Is, 1855.
Ihave several times been in this city before,
but it presents new aspects on every fresh
visit. Never was such location provided by
nature for a great city an island facing
down to the Ocean and swept ON both sides
by navigable rivers. One river through a
city is nothing like it for convenience. For
five miles in length, and averaging two in
breadth, this island is nowcoyerel with thous-
ands of storehouses, and palaces, greater in
number than the world ever saw. Larger cit
les there are, and more costly structures, but
not so many of them together Then, what
methods of conveyance present themselves
You sit down upon velvet cushion, and,
for short Picayune, you are conveyed from
one end of the city to the other.
You hardly know at which most TO wonder,
the magnifcence of the rich, or the extremi-
ties of the poor. You bless the far off prairie
and the distant forest, that give food and fuel
to all their children. Working men, as a
rule, lay up nothing in the city, there are so
many ways of spending money, and so many
around them spend more than they can earn,
that the rainy day commonly finds them
without dry Jacket. This winter finds them
very close handed Some are threatening to
take, with the hand of violence, what the
hand of industry has not earned. But the city
and individuals are dealing out - the hasty
plate of SOUP" so generously, that think they
will eat and growl and lie down. A full belly
is great opiate of the brain.
The New Year has been ushered in by a
nine days drizzle. 1t don't rain nor stop
raining-just such fog, presume, as sug
gested to the writer Of the history of the
Knickerbockers the idea that the Dutch
covered the Island with smoke from the Ger
mon pipes, to keep the British from finding it.
You can find any specimen of the human race
here that you may please to call for. l have
not seen Patagonian nor a Kickapoo, but
presume you might find them, by strict in
quiry. The great show man has exhibited
one man too much. He has turned p. T.
Barnum inside out, and the lockers on are
disguised.
Every five years of the present century are
equal to hundred in bygone ages, in the
many and wonderful Improvements that are
witnessed. The Croton river flows steadily
into all the chambers of this great city. At
twilight, by a magic touch, the gas flashes its
light into every dwelling.
For the art of healing, DIR. Curtis, of this
city. is said to have invented a Hygeana that
cures consumption. One man, who has ex-
perienced its powers upon himself, says CDR.
Curtis is entitled to the profoundest gratitude
of the public for his ingenious and death re-
moving discovery" Many witnesses give
the same testimony from personal experience,
and l am sure suffering humanity will look
up and rejoice. The method of cure is by
inhalation and absorption. The inhaler is
worn on the breast, under the linen, without
the least inconvenience to the daily avocation
OF the patient. The old method of Inhalation
by means of tube, DIR. Curtis has thus SUI.
perseded, as the heat of the body, with his
new invention, is sufficient to evaporate the
fluid, and supply the patient constantly with
an agreeable and healthy vapor. That cures
of this disease are effected, is beyond all con-
troveIsy.
Another fact. l learn here, is that Mr. Paine,
of Worcester, still pursues his theory of decnm-
posing water, 50 as to get light aud heat from
it, and he, or some other man, will succeed
The elements of light and heat are in it, and
the reluctant secret must and will come
forth.
Yesterday, at a meeting in The Park, the
really honest and needy working men shook
off the noisy brawlers, who have under taken
to speak for them,-the agrarians and the lev
oilers To-day, meeting is appointed, for
all who are unemployed to walk in procession
and show themselves to the community. 1t
is expected the procession will be large.
"WANDERER."