, 1861-06-19

+ 20 much that tells Of the close, mad c.!cuta.
ting Tor little money so many cuts Of
tib in the styles Of dress and manners, !; 90
many Embellishments Of horse and mule, and
even Of the yoked COW, IS well a. the or go
many snatches aud catches Of conversation
heard between the wagons and stalls, giv1nga
clue to the excitement Of the hour these,
the" "Agora' Of tho Greeks, q theatre Of the
life ofany people, .. ::
Of things, tho Washington market is very In
viting. would not make fun of1t, for bless
me- It Is ny LIFE; and daily am m memasktng ny
But such funny looking wagons. and go many
Of them such outlines Of horses Or mules,
OF cattle suggesting like Mitchell's outline
maps-the very different original, and in some
cases, vs5e barely suggesting i!-sqd more sng;
gesting Cromwnlls Pralse GOD odre bones"
do Ma1yhndcr, or a specimen Of the poor
white trash, Or IN ebony Ahfean, fas aud
shiuey, or cross between the latter, whe1s
eolors dispute the ground or go into . dissolv-
ing riew These all have such queer things to
eell and they dispose Of them in such odd places
dialects; ind talk to you SO about sips aud
leyies," It is es good as going to.the theatre,
and the circus too. Here Is man who Is
dressed up q little, but his clothes camo from
JEWS stock Of two-y -year.ago styles; and they
are thrown On In an agony Of attempt. Hers
one Of the morning gales you sec In the pine
woods Of Northern Alabama-one of your
"nip and tuck" women who see-saw In their
bashfulness, and both fear and hope that you
are looking at them. Here is an old darkey
lifting the whitasside OF his CREST cal1oused
hand to bis gfa hair apd bowing to yoa as to
Of bis spea11ni6fssor thyme, eage, @ W sweet-@aT. mar
ehal, ssEsatras, eafsaparilla, or may apple root.
Nice onions, nassa," ," Baya IN old ne9ress.
ewaying to and fro, stItor' eakes what chickens.
maste-ahev, you there! fighting are ye'-
and then abe would shake Up her basket of
chickens, covered with net.
Here Was IN old woman and her Young
"ea1teE," With coarse flowers tied up to XII,
and dying or half dead; and beside the flow
ezs, would be stack of cabbaga that would
make the soul Of cano1ized Dutch saint de-
sire to come bek to this mortal scene, if
:sdIti :sGe sgRa ifEgt i asrs sat f;am
"kentIy playing tita With long up-piece
to It, and be neither asked nor cared for anv-
thing be5cnd his "oaten pipe" And now 1T
us walk Into the market proper, and thero
meets usIyes, meats u, is the word-a long
arms Of women, arc handling the quarters, o.
me huge cuts, the purchaser meanwhile paY-
ing for the beet, urae fps pound, and f5r
the rest, whether pork, mutton, or Teai,
blatant no longer, and not long blatant
eVer-not more than two or three weeks
l 1alI dawsys 9ney-tor such, levy OK cents) 4
th1pg except meat; and even there, saussges
as Large as your wrist, and dried beef tong9ea
as long as some peoples We know of. are
crowded In. Hers Is small fancy store of
iankee l Notions, but not the genuine Yankee
TO 6eIl them. Here is soda fouutain-here
table Of butter, the color Of which would
suggest white cows; and here are soma % flne
large rels that came from Pennsylvauia, vel
low as the gold It commands at forty cents
pound. Here Is your fine gfngarbfead.'' -
#1tn little extra touches on the smaller cards,
designed to make them into horses, and il,
fact about as good limitations as tie horses
standing around. Here Is q man Nv who ss has
cfept n t1om the margin, bearing dozen
dressed mud Turtles from the Potomac, all lat
On their backs, with each 4 half dozen thin.
eeeAed eggs rePosing on their unconscious
oams-at Lens: they were presumed to be un-
conscious, Tor their heads were minus, and
they had " Right s,na,t time ardying,', as tbe
dealer eaid to me. On The next Table are e
"EtraWb'rees, y" yes, ,strawb'rees," }" Is the girls
used to cry them; but the poetry of that song
and the singer are gone nov, and nothing re-.
mains but the luscious berries themselves. I
eau them berries, but for size they might
twice as large as large strawberry was when
they began to ontgroW those we picked on The
mossy i1any M9Qs, when We were boys. These are
good, and with sugar and cream, nav well
make man ask blessing, but Il took the
kind which nature used to grow to make old
Doctor Backus, Of Hamilton College, cry for
icy; "Tothink ouE Heavenly Father gave such
fruits to tho hell deserving" AL along, We
came upon vegetables, much more plenty
than when Virginia first undertook to starye
US ont. New heets, new onions, lettuce, as
paIagus, peas, radsehes, old potatoes-at three
sslhillings peck rhubarh and cabbages; and
then more cabbages and then ca5bages so
many and large that q tailor might think
something personal was intended-these
abound. Near by is tha range ofthe fish mar.
Eet, overlooking the great canal, aud there
are nice shad, herrings bass, and last, not
least, but ugliest Of Al fab except the toad
fsh, are the hard ahell sturgeone- called q Al
hany beef" This fish might pass for pro-
duct Of the shores Of Lake Ponchartratn of
New Orleans, where everything has sheH
nke the crocodile: Igh! to think Of citing
Q piece Of yellow meat-grisley Sturgeon
never more shall essay It. j. ". r.