The Nevada Democrat., 1857-12-02
DocsticIxs OH Boston.

"Doesticks," the most eccentric of all news
paper correspondents, as we find in the columns
Of the N Y. Picayune, has recently been on a
'bender'' in Boston. OF that famous city of
'AotiOns" he says:
at is crookeder than nine acres Of rams
horns, and has got more corners than cord of
cross cut saws. 1t looks as if first
rate material for an excellent city had been
melted and poured through q seve on . side
hill and left to COOL
'sBut there is more civility, kindness and at
tention shown to strangers there than have
expere need in any city | have ever visited. /
have been here two days, and have consequently
asked about eight hundred questions to eve
~ one of which have received q civil answer,
ard been treated as Il was respectable homo,
and not an inquisitive nuisance. I've received
honest change every time Pve bought any thing
I've met great many little boys, not one Of
when has set a dog on me, or pelted me, or
teld me to "go in lemons" or called me an
Geld Buffer" or consigned me to that place OF
very warm temperature, with which the boys of
cur city appear to be prematurely acquainted.
This latter omission was a great relief for in
New York man is so often told by Oungsters
to Ego to ~ tho place unmentonable. that he
might naturally suppose the Juveniles were all
employed by Satan to recommend his accommo-
dations to strangers; or that they owned build
ing lots in that torrid locality, and from inter-
ssted motives were anxious to encourage immi-
grafton.
'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 principle productions
Of the city are tandem teams, hackney coaches
and brew1 bread. The drays are curiosity,
being made like the city cars, with joint in
the middle to turn the sharp corners. A Boston
dray ID about as long as an average Boston
street, aud when used at night 1t is lighted with
gas for the accommodation of the driver. Three
or four horses, placed tandem, drag this pom
derous 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 Picayuns Office is about
hundred pigs from the City Hall, meaning
that hundred pigs placed in o line would ex.
tend that distance-in the same way q Cincin-
natian would say, that the Aster House is about
twenty hogs from the museum, or seventy pigs
from Stewards Well, guaging Boston by Gin
clnnati measurement, should guess that Wash
ington street is about four hogs wide, fremont
street about eight or nine pigs, and the gene
rality of the streets where the drays are most
in use are nowhere more than hog and a
shoat, or three pigs and couple Of roasters in
width. This is the reason why the vehicles are
10 long and narrew, and the horses are har-
messed one before the other.
Nobody is ever in hurry in Boston. but the
people 60 about as respeotably slow as if tn e
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 com
forting. Fer man to order roast lamb and
green peas, with certainty that he will net
get fried pork and onens, or to send for soup
with probability of getting it, is a sensation at
once novel and refreshing to an individual who
has ever sojourned at hotel in Gotham. Cod.
fish is not so prevalent here as had been led
to expect saw none in the Frog Pond ON the
Common-ner, although was here on Sunday,
did every aristooratic mansion give out the ap-
petizing oder of baked beans.
Lager Beer is compar atively unknown here,
aud was compelled to submit to a short allow,
ance of my favcrite beverage. could fad bat
two kegs of it in Boston; when had finished
these, put on my hat and went to Cambridge,
thinking of the German predictions of my
friend Longfellow, and trusting that he would
have supply, but Hank was just eut-out of
town aud did not see him."