Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13
DIR. MACKAY's DESCRIPTION OF PHIL
ADELPaIA.

DR.. Mackay, the song writer. in one of his let
tiers to the Illustrated London News gives the fol.
lowing description OF Phtadelp hia:
Philadelphia. the second city Of the Union, with
a population of GOO, 900 souls. j. neither attractive
nor imposing. IL stands upun q level with the
waters Of he Delaware, and dues MT contain with
IN it's whole boundaries an eminence one third Of
the height Of Ludgats- hill. 1t contains a very
large number of churches and chapels, but none
of them ia distinguished for architectural beauty
of dome, tower or spire. The whole place is form.
Ak, mean, precise and unattractive, leaving no i'm.
preston upon the mind OF the traveller but that of
u weary sameness and provoking rectangularity
ex cept in Chestnut street, 1.-THE center Of business)
and Walnut street 1.-THE fashionable quarter ali
the streets of the city are built on the same model
The same third rate houses-of the kind which the
Englishman sees in Birmingham and Manchester
seem to rise on every side, all of one color and
of one shape all with green Venetian blinds on
the upper, and with white blinds on the lower sto.
ries-all equally prim. dull and respectable. The
foot pavenents are the same color as the houses,
neither drab nor red, but O mixture of both -sng
gestive of the story of the English Quaker OF the
Old school, to whom, as he sat behind his desk NJ
his warehouse ia Manchester, Was delivered a
packet. with a hill requesting payment.
The old Quaker opened the packet ands found a
coat-a huntipg.coat, red as red could be. "Wha,
is this :" he said TO the messenger. There i.
a mistake here. friend" mo" said the messen,
ger, TITS q coat !or master. Thomas. "Ihomas".
said his father to the young Quaker. who bad he,
come smitten with an unqnakerlv passion for hunt
ing, sis this for thee? 7" Yea. father" replied
the son. "And what is it?" reioined the SIRE
"A coat, replied the son. Yea, Thomas; bu,
what color is it?" Why" said Thomas, some.
what bewildered, and scratching MS head 10 expe
dite the delivery Of the tardy answer, tits kind o.
a 6ery,drab'. Such is the color of Philadelphia
the Quaker city, the city of b~rotherly love. or az
cording to the disparaging assertion of New York
ers, the city Of "brotherly love and riots. IL 10 .
fiery drab wherever you turn--hery drab houses
fery-drab pavements. fery.drab ~cbapels, and fiery
drab churches, One pc %suiiarity OF Philadelphia. IL
addition to the unvarying rectangularity of il
streets, is that the carriage-ways arc always dirty
and the foot, ways always clean. Nobody purife
or cares to purify the carriage road but ever,
body seems to be bent upon cleaning the fiery
drab pavement. Morning, noon and night thu
work Of ablution goes on. Negro men and womer
with a fair admixture of Irish female help, ar
continually squirting water over the pavement
Srom guttspercha tubas, and tyirling the moistur,
from the ever busy mops over the loSer garments
of the wayfarers, till the streets run with water
The passing vehicles continually churn up the mu,
and the road is never allowed to dry. unless undo
the irrssistable eompulsiop OF the thermnms,cr .
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