New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-23
CITY ITEMS.


N.vYoRK NUIsASCE.-One of the greatest nui
snpces that the people Of this city are condemned to
suffer unnecessarily, too, we denonina'e the peddler
nuisance. Il Is worse than the beggar nuisance, be-
causc we can get nd of them generally by little Wig
,rous effort though not without being cursed most BIT
trlv f,r refusing to be charable-to vagabonds and
syv;rders But the pedders-their name IL legion and
their perseverance only equaled by fly that has made
~, he mind TO satisfy his appetite upon Your nose
P,,sb hin, of. he whisks round your hand and lights
ocen Hi him another lick, and he goes round your
head md darts down on your nose. Kill him, and two
of ii. .rseverinp friends that have been sitting on your
In, d,ri,c ,he frht come down and take possession
pe,bops third chap discovers an opportunity while
Won are fighting these two to creep INTO your left ear
Excessively ANNOYING, is MT it? But it is nothingcom-
pored TO the peddlers We left street at the last
cret moving day because we thought it more infected
with these worse than Egyptian locusts than any other
street in the city. ard moved to another as we had
moved twice before in pursuit of spot where family
riobt live in New-Yori without constantly realizing
tbe condition Of the toad under the harrow. We did
M, escone the ocuss or whatever other vile epthet
ia anrIcoble 10 these durbers of the peace of peace
fuI reonle Look at the record of one day. Of
which nil other DAYS are cOunterparts. About
boIs INST five in the morning, started into con-
scouspess. out of a very uneasy dream in
which we thought it was general muster day.
of regiment of horse, and that the trumpeers
calling out the men; but came to the conclusion
,bo, Il WINS none of these when we heard n loud
knocking at the basement and strong Milesian voice
rerlying from the inside" No; get away win YOU,
Won and your sinking fish, coming here with your old
tin horn waking up folks that want to sleep So twas
only fish peddler who being driven away from our
door went to the ne 1t and bowed up the nmates and
then went on blowing up the next and the next
He WAS followed by three other blowing pedders
two of which, in company with the mlkman-
whose voice beats any fish horn-were in front
of the house Changing away at the same tme We
suppose the milkman is necessary EVIL, hut ~ we
I've there are different ones through our street
every morning, each with voice that has no
affinity to the fellow the opposite side OF the street
Mt the same time, except in oudness and harshness
In the nume Of a suffering people we ask If milk ped
dlers cannot be licensed not to have over five OF
them yelling at one time at the block Of houses
We knew any attempt at further sleep out Of
the question and 20 got mp and listened to the ques-
ton, repeated with startling distncness, down every
basement area" 80 fat SO fat so fat! He fol-
lowed by fellow who rng very door-be and inquired
for "the ontlemon of the house thinking to catch him
at home at an early hour so that he could impa to him
the very valuable information that he had pine wood
to sell. He was followed By voice and big
black wagon, that locks like oyergrown hogshcad
on wheels, crying at high pitch, C-h-a-r-c-o-a-l
Fortunately he kept straight along without stopping to
zee if anybody wanted any c-i-ar-c-o-a. or not, or
even giving them a chance to get it if they did. While
we were at breakfast the most outrageous din OF bells
of oil sorts ard sounds made by portable sizes,
came down the street, drawn by anediluyian-ook-
ing specmen Of u horse. and fellow thrust his head
into the breaGkfastroom window and cried out most
stcntorially ANY rags or bottles The suddenRess
Of such n voice, coming with such n bedlam din OF
bells startled the baby out IF quiet sleep, and then
we lad an addition to the music. just rs Kate had
Quoted the baby she was called to the front door by
an authoritative ring of the bell, in imitation Of the
postum, and in further imitation Of that per
sonege when letter already paid for; TITS one thrust
package into the gr hand and was off to the next
house. The said package on being examined, proved
to be a card Of steel pens, at fixed price, which we
were informed that the would call for tomorrow,
which lac did ard was told that his steel pens had been
pitched into the street soon as it was discovered
what they were And then didn't he roundly, and
call every body in the house thieves During the fore
noon, while We trying to write an article
that required some composure, the door-bell
ring FIVE times, and the family were offered
IAN illgant assortment Of China ware IN
hand bafke,-"a great variety of sewing silk OF all
''colors, in a small brown paper-"a beautiful as.
" sortmon. of sewing needlcs"-to which was added
when the servant said there a sewing-machme IN
the houso- to the diy wild the seDng-machine, that
lis taking the bread out Of me childers mouths
Then came mysterious stranger who could not speak
our language, but he managed, however, to make
everybody understand that he had Struggled goods that
he would sell @. q wonderful low price, which proved
to he fact for the goods almost as low as they
were in the Bowery or Chatham street, where they
were struggled from. The fifth man was partner,
probably, of the steel pen man, for he left general
assortment of fancy stationery which lost its character
and became locomotive before he got down the steps,
for it flew at his head in manner that probably salts
fed him that would be necessary call tO-mor-
row for his pay. During the time of these interesting
calls, an equal number equally interesting were made
at tie basement door, and other equal numbers went
through the street crying, Brooms brooms! ?" Any
Z" tin TO mend 30 " Backing want any blacking?
Here's your nice appes.' "Corn, twelve cars fox
shilling" Any small clams-shiling a hundred =
and on through the catalogue; all Of which We
can stand except the Williams who generally bur-
glars the lockout for chance who force themselves
into peoples houses to such IN extent that the NUS
ance has become intOl~abe and requires the active
interference Of police il W had any to arrest every
pcddler that Offers to ring bell force his wares into
any house by words gestures asks any person TO
buy his her goods for both sexes are engaged In
this piraticol employment.
And, by the way it may be worth while to mention
the fact that all these peddng nuisances are in viola
tion of wel-known law Of the State, and the ordi'
nanees Of tho city which Mayor Wood and one thous-
and confederate policemen have sworn to uphold and