San Andreas independent., 1857-12-12
Doesticksa In Boston.


paper correspondents, as we find in the col
umns OF the n \. Picayune, has recently been
on bender in Boston. OF that famous
city Of q notions he saws:
II IS crookedcr than nine acres of ram 5
nolhs, ana mas more acute corners than accord
VI cross-cut saws. 1t looks as if
nrst-ratc material for an excellent city had
been melted and poured through seive on a
side-hill and left to COOL
But there is more civility, kindness, and at
tention shown to strangers there than have
experienced in any city have ever visited. |
have been here two days, and have consequent
ly asked about eight hundred questions, to
every one of which have received civil an
swer, and treated as if | were a respectable
homo, and not an inquisitive nuisance. I've
received honest change every time I've bought
anything-Ive met great many little, busy
boys, not one of whom has set dog on me.
or pelted me, or told me to "go in lemons" or
called me an 'sold Buffer" or consigned me to
that place of very warm temperature, with
which the boys of our city appear to be pre-
maturely acquainted. This latter omission
was great relief, for in New York man is
so often told BY youngsters to "go to -" the
place unmentionable, that he might naturally
suppose the Juveniles were all employed by
Satan to recommend his accommodations to
strangers; or that they owned building lots in
that torrid locality, and from interested mo-
tives were anxious to encourage immigration
The houses don't run to seed here as in New
York, few of them grow to be more than four
or five stories high. The principal productions
OF the city are tandem teams, hackney coaches
and brown bread. The drays are a curiosity
being made like the city cars. with a joint in
the middle to turn the sharp corners. Bos-
ton dray is about as long an average Bos-
ton street, and when used at night is lighted
with gas for the accommodation of the driver
Three or four horses, placed tandem, drag
this ponderous machine-they are harnessed
IN this manner that they may pass each other,
the streets being exceedingly narrow.
You know that in Cincinnati they measure
everything by hogs and pigs. For instance !:
they would say that the Pcayune office is
about hundred pigs from the City Hall.
meaning that a hundred pigs placed in line
would extend that distance-in the same way
q Cincinnatan would say, that the Astor
House is about twenty Hogs from the Museum,
or seventy pigs from Stewards. Well, guaging
Boston by Cincinnati measurement, | should
guess that Washington street is about four
hogs wide, fremont street about eight or nine
pigs, and the generality Of the streets where
the drayS are most in use, are nowhere more
than hog and shoat, or three pigs and IA
couple of roasters in width. This is the reason
why the vehicles are so long and narrow, and
the horses are harnesscd one before the other
Nobody is ever in hurry in Boston. but the
people go about as respectfully slow as if the
city was attending its own funeral
The hotel walters here are an anomaly !;
they positively bring you what you ask for,
and are SO modest about suggesting fees, that
really think their wages are paid by the
proprietors of the houses instead of the guests,
as is the fashion in New York. This is really
very comforting For q man to order roast
lamb and green peas, with certainty that he
will not get fried pork and onions or to send
for soup with Il probability of getting it, is a
sensation at once novel and refreshing to an
individual who has ever sojourned at hotel
in Gotham. Goldfish is not so prevalent here
as had been led to suspect saw none in
the Frog Pond on the Common-nor, although
/ was here on Sunday, did every aristocratic
give out the appetzng odor of baked
beans.
Lager beer is comparatively unknown here,
and was compelled to submit to short al
lowance of my Elvorite beverage. | could find
but two kegs of it in Boston; when | had fin
shed these, put my hat on and went to Cam
bridge, thinking of the German predictions
Of my friend Longfellow, and trusting that he
would have a supply, but Hank was just out
put of town and did not see him."