New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04

Hcxed pett.ces's a din~ns'os ~oco ~"'o'1
hsD. o,,o,, e.vy .pSes red 70 tho secSad coota',
,os, ,hs t,.utat a ymou b. Aost Of the mea
wore short bar and iors eeaId'
TEE Eeuna a clEss pfevs led tor long tune
s,o,.,0 ,b. Puntnot. The VII -borb aud veil bred
were ted 70 be called tenttmel and employ
ID. prf1 Mr.. az a handle to tteir lanes Foe
common folks %ese called Goodms1 and q 'ody.
Honorable was sppied " Governors alter 1861
"E<qulrs" in the eaiy days sPphed 70 PERSONS
CONNECTED witt legal alters 20 aEyers, JUDGES and
JUSTICES Of the Peace. " Ycomna" tos com
mon sppelauon Of perfons we'd O-do 10 the world.
"Mrior" "Corpord," sud al military hsie. we're
held ID gh esteem AID were engraved on ths
! tsnhstooes Deacon" was coveted title Of
| honor 10 the church.
The men were principally ecgaged in farming,
fishing. and bunting The women wcre busted
with househod affairs. Id ene.s was unpopular,
and if persisted in, was q subject Of preseatmout ~
The Grand Jury. The staple crop was Indian corn,
the cultivation Of which they learned from tho ma
tiyer. English gro ms were sOcn INTRODUCED. At
frst the ground was prepared with hoes, for they
had neither plO~s nor cattle Pumpkins, squasiea
melens and beans, which they found in tho country
became great hvores. The mos! sturdy Puritan
wss not without sweet tooth and in 1914 molssses
became common luxury. IL 1864, the fsrmeEs
BEGAN 70 b. greatly troubled BY the blasting Of iher
wheat. They tried In van 10 fad out too cause.
At lat it wss lad to the barbsrry bashos which
had been brought from Europe, and now spread
aloDg every fence aud hedge row. War WAS thus
declared against that beautiful shrub, aud has con-
tnued wi b more or less activity ever since Mills
were not cOpmon. The good housewife pounded
tho Indian corn for family use in a largo mortar.
Potatoes were introduced BY emigrants from Ire
and. They found favor very slowly, and ss late as
1850 q crop Of FIVE bushels would gat tho market
Breakfast, dinner and supper, which were hearty
mt ala, followed the sun. The times for the n wero
came the met ting house bell rang the curfew aud
then most of The pous ancestors OF the Yankee rsce
went to bed. The drink Of the people was water,
beer, VII CD every family brewed from It's Own
barley nalt milk, which their cows and goats
yielded, AID cider, which after a few years wss
ground out Of their apples. Tea appears to have
crypt in about 1920, though it was occasionally
used in the beginning of the century. Before the
Revolution, smuggled tea was in almost every
hou,e. "a Tea Equipage" Of SILVER vas great
object Of ambition. The women We'd with each
other in the beauty Of their " Chany;" and it was
common for them to carry Their own China cup,
saucer, and spoon to visiting parties.
The commencement of ship-bulldIDg was at an
early date. Governor Winthrop's bark, called the
"Blesslpe of the Bay" was launched in 1881. In
l64S, seven ships were trading from New.Engaad
" Virginia. The hunters soon grew into separate
Glars III the primitive colony. They formed bsced
by thenselves-s kind Of crOes between the Puritan
and Indian, with al the "grit" of the one, aud tho
wild freedom of the other. They ut first made good
friends with the savageS, lived with them in their
cabins, and learned from them tho ways and naunts
of The beasts Of the forest Bear, deer, beaver,
wolves, aid foxes, abOuDded In the woods ducks,
geese, and sh In the streams; the hunters tracked,
trapped aud shot in all quarters; there was no dan
ger Of starvation. at is easy t. see, says Mf.
Elliott ''that the eudless free forest developed all
the hunters instincts this class n men, aud that
they ranged wide, regardless of pubic opinion,
Of schools, and Of church privileges. This class
sent SUCH IHcH &c NnP o4uS 0~ho "hu Oi"h~AAt
who were killed by the Indinps; Captain Uoderhill,
who kissed his neighbours wife, and got his reHg-
ion over pipe Of tobacco Thomas Morton tho
registering blade of Merry mount, aiterward the
bush. raj gers, such as Stark and Putnam, and
Allen and Baker"
The banks which stretched along the New. Eng
Land coast abounded in cod, haibut, and mack
No nf thaaa vua n an.
terprise. The fishermen were of the Same stamp
az the huniers-one ranged on the land, the
other over the seas. Rade hufs were clustered
along the coast, smacks and fishing boats were
built in every bay, and when the season came,
rich harvests Of fish we're taken for European mar
kets and domestic use. The fishermen, like those
who stu inhabit the coast ftsm New. Bedford TO
Cape Race were an open. handed, open hearted set
half farmer, half sailor amphibious, often reckless,
but almost always honest. Whales were often found
near the shores, and were attacked and killed by
people IN bosts. The first exports were manly fars
and fish. Free trade was III heard Of IN those days.
The taking Of exorbitant profits was o matter Of
church. discipline Mechanics wages were fixed BY
| the CT moral Court in 1880 at two shlhngs day,
but as it was found that workmen would move
about for better wages, the legal limitation was
afterward removed, and it was left optional with
the tewns to fix their own rates.
But fbw wheelcsrrisges existed tn near the time
| Of the Revolution. The usual way Of ssiag from
place to place, was on foot or On horseback When
John Duntsn, an English Traveller, went out 10
visit the Indians "he carried Madame Brick" the
Tower of BostOn, "behind him On his horse, who,"
o.. b. ssrs Hnrnxed but a beautiful sart of lua