Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-05-12
From a Regular Correspondent.
st. Nicholas Hotel, New York,
April 3Oth. 1853.


travelled some. I have been out upon
the Fishing Banks, caught few fish
and more cold. I have dredged for
CLAIMS; raked for oysters; bobbed for
cells; foundered for founders; been son
my muscle" to get mussels, and s'catch-
ed'' crabs promiscuously. Ihave been
safely through the ''Hills," the rare
Raritan river; down to Perth Amboy
a great place for girls: clean around
Staten Island, via dirty Sandy Hook,
back to thegcity have been up the
Hudson by steamboat, through the pal
isades, and the Feline Murder (Cats
kilD mountains-called the Highlands,
to the city of beef sturgeon) Alba
ny; visited Troy, the ancient city, once
captured by wooden horse filled with
men,-since degenerated to men filled
with horses-a la sausage; been to
Waterford, and to Cohoes, where
many Cos. are manufacturing hoes; to
West Troy, where Uncle Sam is pre-
pairing at the Arsenal, decorations for
the opening Mormon ball; and from
thence home, here, by railroad, a real
road, compared to many roads, which
may be appropriately rallied at.
l have been to Hoboken, where
Charlotte's Temple was desecrated
many years ago-the unfortunate new
er heard OF since. 1t is hard place,
where the soft and fashionable folly
much do congregate, and where the
Cyperians and Gamblers much resort.
and unmolested, well their professions
do sustain.
I have been out of the Union (over
in Jersey number of times since
have been here, and have had many
opportunities to observe the manners
and customs Of the people, but will not
speak Of them now, as [ intend to issue
a book shortly, Biographical, Statisti-
cal and Historical of Utah and Polvne-
STA, to which I shall addend New Jer-
sey. 1t is the home of strange race.
and like Japan, should be opened up to
the knowledge Of civilization.
| have had adventures and made oh.
servations of various descriptions du-
ting my sojourn here. have seen the
bulls cowed, and the bears Rugged, in
Wall Street. | have watched the
watch-stuffers empty the s'plants;' seen
M. P.'s drop upon the aropners; and
safely seen safe game operated. Ihave
noted the drunken dissipated receipz
sellers, flush with the money of the sold,
going it on $4,000 year, I have
been i'll the Printing Offices of some Of
those splendid 'ssGold and Diamond
giving away newspapers, and found
only desk and few chairs, the bal
ance of the concern being in the adver.
tisementsso only. l have had my peck
. ethankerchief hooked on the Hook, and
been assaulted On the Battery, and more
times than several have mistaken the
bawds for the virtuous, and virluous
for the bawds. The difference in dress
manner and characteristics between the
upper crust and under-cuss, feminines
of this city, is so slight, that an unprac-
tlced individual is imminently liable to
be led astray.
l have patronized the Museum, the
Theatre, the Concert, the 10 cent roree
show, and the $40 box at the OPERA
have mingled with the indecent of 18th
Avenue and the decent of the Hook.
and with all grades Intermediate
| Here have observed human life in all
its phases, hunriedly, to. be sure, but
yet sufficiently. to be certain sure that
''This world is all heeting show,
For mans delusion given;"
4 And that,
''All worth striving for here below,
Is HIeat, drink, good clothes, pile of dimes
and a dead-head pass to heaven
| 1t is some time since [ wrote poetry
originally, and therefore it is possible
that the rythm, rhyme, and measure,
of the aboveis Incorrect but I'll risk
the sentiment, for am witness tothe
soundness. of the above doctrine. !
am always on hand when the request
to 'scome in and get your meat is made;
drink, when inclined; wear good clothes
when have them; possess small
pile of dimes, and generally enjoy a fair
degree ofhappiness. To be sure, Ihave
not dead head pass to Heaven, never
having joined a church, but were that
essential to happiness in my case, 1
know that mock confession of faith
would quick procure it for me; but /
prefer to work my passage through on
the freight train of individual exertion,
nor wish to travel express on the mer-