The Nevada journal., 1855-01-19
Hard Times at the East!

Hard times, hard times IS the universal cry
Wherever you go there is the same complaint
Everything except the ncccssaries Of life, had
! tdeprcciated labor is reduced; shoals uncm-
ployed worhmen and servant girls are, like
MIcawber, waiting for something to turn up. -
| Hotels are dubious some threatening to break
up before the end Of cold weather We fud
on enquiry, that the keepers Of the crowded
eating and drinking houses in the lower part oi
our city confess to q reduction Of at least one
half in their business At one OF them, where
IN average Of 81 ,0Go is usually received every
day, the c,erl; remarked that part Of its bust
ness consists Of its dealings with merchants and
drummers who, taking their customers 10 dine,
/ in prosperous times spent four Oh five dollars
apiece, bat that now the receipts from such
customers do not average more than four OF
| Eve shillings.
Credit is contracted, and 10 leans are pro-
durable On what are admitted to be uncxc2p-
| tionab!c securities Real estate has deprecia-
ted on an average from thirty to fifty per cent
It was only the other day that VIC noticed the
sale Of q handsome lreestone house. on fore
closure of mortgage, for $4,000, which not q
| year ago was considered cheap at $4,000, q
! depreciation Of forty per ccAt. Happy tae
man now whose cVffers rUo over With what our
Chatam street friends would call THE only real
original genuine m2aisI.' The jubilee for
I !awnbrokers has cone.
! There IS however, one hilarious feature in
! this gloomy state Of affairs. The theatres aad
! places Of famusemcnt are full in fact they do a
netter business than in times of less depression.
! "Wh hen man gets poor, says Samuel Weller,
"b,cst if he don't 20 10 eating oysters" " hen
a New orher feels desperate be ru:hcs - lie
theatre where he forgets his troubles IL the
world OF the Imagination, and draws a supply
OF happiness which may in some measure, pro
| tect him from tie evils the morrow.
IN reconntng the melancholy signs o. tie
I times, we tnd. after all, that cac O.. the n st
suggestive was omitted, namely, their elects
+ upon the ladies'. co3tcna3-an dg1s
chGrca-goer OF many Yeas stala;Er-tc'.S us
/ that at this pCriod when womet. are arrayiHg
themselves in gay co,oss for the winter, he new
er saw 50 m1ny Old bon .st7t
! II is beautifully chlrae .ris,ic Of the evn?-
pathetic relations cxist..5 -, cu tie sexes
I that this fact should be SO observable. The
popular charge OF hoartlcssncss and unrcnec-
ting extravaganza, made against the ladies OF
our city. is thus disprovel. Ii is shown that
I husbands need only communicate their c.nbar-
rassmentS to their companions, t. receive all
he aid and comfort which conjagal affection
ought to furnish.
| While We are about it, it nav be as we'll 70
mention that the pressure of the money market
"a even invaded the precints Of the grave
/ During the year now nearly past there have
| been fewer expensive monuments erected to
! the memory Of the dead than in any previous
year since the rage for such things tl.rIy CON
lmenctl in tbs coa3try. We have the state
ment Of ouc 0! the largest marble dealers il
the country. that While III former timas he has
! been accustomed to receive annually order, flr
monuments ranging from 81 ,0u0 to 5000 ia
value; during the the last eleven months he
has not had one The demand for nod EST, .n-
! expensive Monuments has greatly increased
has not declined with the m ans TO make an
ostantAtioas display Of it.-E. I E3s Post.