Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-06
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Diet ana Habits Of the New York Lit.

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The Charleston Mercury having made ar
assault on the men Of LETTERS in New York.
as VagabOuds, rOgaes and thieves, and re-
commended that they abe put at once ON
short commons-nay, put adrift altogether
carries ont the Aerelirg's idea oftheir con-
dition:
alt is not difficult to infer from this ele.
CANT aud refined paragraph what the editor
OF the Mercury inagines the life OF literary
men OF the highest standing in New York
TO be, and sequenIially what his own prob
ably is. As everybody knows, they are
all ragged wrctclIes, living at best ON
board wages, writing leaders for grub.
trading paragraph once in while for :.
notntoi or a biography for biscuit. n.
r. Willis and General Morris can be seen
almost any day selling their own Home
journal 10 tue streets and tradingoff singl ,
copies for "A small stew, in the Fulton
Market. William Cullen Bryant has a
lunch OF pork and onions pretty regular
put even lie hangs around the kitchen of
the Metropolitan Hotel of an evening. for
the sake Of getting feed out of that dish
OF thirty ingredients and seveniy-sevep
sylables, described by Aristophanes, in the
Eeclesiazhusse, anil on which the servants
OF that inn are said to be fed. Briggs is
allowed Connecticut pie per diem, When
Industrious, but then he likes milk on il.
for which he writes poems for n stump
il-twenty-second-wa -purc-orauge-s
establishment.
Eayard Taylor feeds most sumptuousIy
OF all Of them, receiving from GoslinG.
sdHeT krodt and Bologna sausages-yes-as
much rs he can eat inside of fifleeu min
ntes, twice u day, in return for which he
delivers monthly lecture on his Hebrew
beneiactors. Bancroft has weekly sti-
pend of soda crackers and hard boiled
eggs from bis publisher. That is all he
gets. StOddnrd and Aldrich cultivate the
muse on apples aud dOughnuts which we
regret TO state they generally steal from in
firm old Irish women in NASSAU street. in
pilfering which they are aided BY one Fisk
rs cover G. A. Dana exists ny hooking
from the stables handfnls of corn, which
he pnrches on the Tribune Office stove
Fitz Hugh Ludlow lives ON hash, from
which he derives the surname of the
llnshisll Eater. Fred Cozzeus has shan
~, and "A small garden up the river, by
which he is enabled occasionally TO enjoy
Il thin JuLieafHe, aud sometimes a raw tur-
nip. or carrot, or treats his friends to few
fresh stalks If 'sparrowgrass.' Richard
Grant White is doing pretty well at pres
cnt-hnving sold out his Shakespeare and
Inortgaged his labor for life for AN annui
~ OF daily feed for ono year at Butter
cake Bilrs, where he generally takes ii
out in plate Of pork and beans, most all
pork with IA good many beans Stedman
lives on the lager bier and pretzcls which
are supplied grhtis by New York publish
ers to all who work above thirty hours Mt
a stretch for them And this ia all he
ever sees. Park Goodwin rings in to the
supPers ut gambling houses when he can.
SO on with all the rest, of every soul of
whom it may be written as it was of Ran
tagruel Of old, that 'he could not reach
anything ct to eat, but with great pain
stopped now and then little to take with
the fiat of the tongue some wretched lick,
bit OF morseI.'"