The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-02-14
Correspondence Of the Ashland Union.
FROM NEW YORK.
New YoRK, Feb. l2, 1s55.

his variations in New York for the past
week. It has showed and showed, rain
ed and rained, blowed aud blowed, froze
and froze, melted and mudled and pud-
died and spattered and soaked, and in
short played the disagreeable to all but
the boys who have a passion for snow
balling, and boys and girls, younger or
older, smaller or larger, who run mad
for a sleigh-ride over pavements cover
ed with a composition of mud and snow,
many parts of the former to one of the
latter.
Inexpressible is the contempt with
which q real co~untry-bred individual
with his memory well stored with the
merry old times, musical with the ring
ing of merry bells, and merry voices
and the merry laugh of the girls and
boys of yore, all radiant with the shining
of the moon, and the shining of the
stars, and the shining of the frost in
the air and the snow-deep, white and
ubiquitous snow-inexpressible and null
titudinous riders on great scrapes thro'
these streets of Gotham.
Going down Duane ST., yesterday,
I found the street blockaded with wo-
men, trying to gain entrance to a build
ing. It seemed to be full and about
800 were crowding and jaming each 9th
er to get in. Each woman had a basket
and many had babies also. The place
was the Office of the 9th Ward Relief
Association. Many seemed to be COM
planning that they did not receive what
they ought to, and were treated unfairly.
[ looked in vain for the face of an Amer
lean woman All were Irish and Ger
man, looking healthy and hearty. 1t is
to be feared that Soup Houses and Re-
lief Associations are Inducements to the
lazy and thriftless TO expect relief and
depend upon them for support.
Hard times, no work, what shall we
dds still the cry. Notwithstanding
gift balls and gi%ft-concerts, and soup
kitchens, and aid-associations, and indi-
vidual charities of all kinds, in all the
ten thousand ways of being benevolent
from those donations, when the left
hand knows not what the right hand
doeth to those when. the trumpet is
sounded loud and long before. Not
outstanding all that is now done for
the poor in this fashionable time Of Civ
ing, still the cry m up on every side
for more, more Many, not only those
of the poorest sort, but many a family
which have "seen better days." wives
and children of professional men-of re-
spectacle and educated men-haYe been
brought to the very doors of sta rvation,
not knowing how the next morsel of
food could be obtained. Yet, flooded as
we are with the offscouring of European
beggarism ; burdcned as we are by so
many who will not work if they can eVop
m~iserably live without labor, there is
danger that charities SO called for and
given With the best ofmotives, may be
turned from their proper channels so as
to minister to an evil they are designed
to remedy. Therefore, benevolent peo-
pie in the country, to whom such suffer
ing as is observable to such a pitiable
extent around us, in all beyond what
they know of the pressure of poverty,
should be charged, if they are moved to
give of what the Lord hath beautifully
given them to relieve the poor and I'M
fortunate of our city, to give wisely
Give your funds or provisions to those
who viii see that they accomplish the
designed. The society for the
relief of American widows is one that
discriminates carefully, and that finds
out many of the starving who are too
proud to beg. The Children's Aid So
ciety is another agency by which the de-
Door can be reached. If you
know any individual in the city who
has a good name for works among the
poor you can make him your almoner.
We have among US a gentleman late
arrived from England, whose fame is
known in every part of the world. Our
readers will not be taken by surprise
when they.learn that we allude to Pro
lessor Holloway, who has by the most
indomitable perseverance succeeded in
making his name SO widely known that
is scarcely a spot on the globe
where his medicines are not to be found.
He is a great traveller, and a man of
generalinformation, having made an in
fortune, far exceeding any thing
of the kind attained, either in the old
world or the new, by advertising. No
man certainly understands the use of the
printers ink SO we'll as he does. He has
been introduced at almost every co.rt
in Europe, frequently b%anqueting with
the Princes. In England he keeps an
establishment, saperbly fitted up and
equal to many a nobleman's mansion,
although in New York he is living in
very great retirement, icing continual
ly engaged in making extensive arrange
ments with the view to the additional
publicity of his remedies in this coun-
try, although we believe he now adver-
in 1900 papers of the U. S.
The Governors of New York, Con
necticut and New Jersey, have lately