Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-13
"Thc Duke of York one daughter had ;
He gave the Prince Of Orange her
To rhyme with yours of porringerr'


We will not pause to enquire whether or
not the ESQ were punctually paid, but leav
ing that important question to the genius of
the historian of a different sphere, we will
resume the thread of our history.
From a small village New York gradually
crawled up in the scale of incorporated exist
ence until it reached the dignity of a shire
town. the metropolis Of State, and finally
of n continent. According to the census of
1850, the city, including Brooklyn, Flatbush,
and Williamsburg, contains about-well,
about as many inhabitants as it knows what
to do with; the upper classes Of whom are
engaged in driving fast horses in Broadway
and fast swindling machines in Wall street.
and in staring at operate humbugs through
double-barreled telescopes, costing five hun
drcd dollars piece, and purchased with
money which the immediate ancestors of the
owners acquired by driving a one-mule
manure-wagon, or by vending Lucifer match
es. caststeel soap, secondhand clothes. and
all sorts of villainous patent compound
concentrated and-double-d stilled-extracts-of-
the-Heaven-only knows what. The lower
classes spend their time generally MS they
please, ard subsiSt on principally what they
can get. When that fails them, they get up
"bread riot and rushing en- ndSse to the
palaces of men who have made more money
by being less honest, demand, Your loaf or
your life
The governmental machinery of New York
consists of cross-grained board of Mayor
and Aldermen, "a board made, ii is supposed,
of cheat 'em-wood), and police force COM
posed of every Dutch rogue and Irish black
guard in the city who will sell his vote for a
tin star and gutta percha rattle. The board
Of Mayor and Aldermen rob the people of the
city aggregately under cover of municipal
authority, and the police rob them under
cover of night. The former transact this
branch of business in the common council;
the latter in the common street. The former
gain their ends by the abuse of the vote; the
latter formerly gained theirs by the use of
the garrote. The late Mayorfwas an individ-
ual of the name of Woodland a COMPOUNDED
rotten piece of timber he was, too. When he
was first inaugurated the city government
was (and still is) exceedingly corrupt, and he
lost no opportunity TO displacea dishonorable
officer. Before his term expired, he lost no
opportunity TO embrace an offer, sir, no mat
ter how dishonorable. His successor. Mayor
Tieman. is the man who never bought lot
terry ticket, and doesn't intend to- and who
turned the attention of the citizens from the
rasCality of the city government, by making
very large attempt to break down the lot
terry business, not among the Peter Funks OF
the city. but in Georgia.
New York has several attractive public
building them, the Bowery Theatre,
Barnum's Museum, the BrooklIn Ferry-boat
and Horace Greedy. "No. 81 Bond street
used to be one Of 'em, but it's quit. The
principal places Of public amusement ART
Grace and Trinity Churches. where Upperten'
dom holds frequent exhibitions of rare speci
mems of staple aud fancy dry-goods, Will,
the minister, who is paid from live to teu
thousand dollars year for his trouble. diver
sites the entertainment with discourses Ia
vanished rhetoric aud affective orthoepy
about heaven which nine-tenths OF his besl
hearers will never see, and lake Of fire and
birthstone whose flaming terrors be viii ex
perience before one-half his congregation.
At Jersey CITY, Immediately opposite New
York, permanently resides the Retired Ply
stefan whose sands OF life have nearly run
out" Y.