Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31
Obs erv tito MS in and Around
Brooklyn and New York.
By DR.. j. CowEs, formerly Editor of the Chronicle.

For one who has spent the most of
his time in the country for the last
twenty years, coming to the city and
living in the city is quite a novelty,
especially such cities as Brook lyn and
New York are-great places these,
abounding in things to stare 1T; the
water and the land afford novelties,
and the many maneuverings Of hu-
manity on the water and on the land
to get along might offer no foolish
theme for philosophy to think on, if
one had time to think; but here no
| one seems to have time to think, it
is all desperate push and rush with
out cessation living tide of human
life hurrying and painting to hurry
faster. Different ages, sizes, sexes,
colors, features and speech gostling
one another in the life struggle; Jews,
Gentiles, Blacks, Browns, Whites, and
every shade between these that any
thing human can be tinged with
beauty and deformity, all co-mingled,
Earring and being Jared, in hot haste
after something. And the types and
shades of character are as various as
the sizes and compilations are. Dam
dyhood strutting in kid dainty, Whit
fng his segaretta from under an ex-
quisite moustache is here; the imp
and the pimp, the bastard and the
poltroon, the snubb and the snifer,
through all wrinkles Of villiany, down
TO the fierce midnight assassin may
be found here in quantities requiring
close watching in all weathers. Of
the gentler sex | am no judge, but
one thing notice, they are very
| plentiful and some of them very gay,
and, judging from the appearance
they exhibit, belonging to very differ
ent circles in the social world, or, Gf
it is any better,) different stratifca-
tions of society. 10 look at the thor
oughfares, the railroads, the steam
boats, and the main streets, one would
imagine that everybody is out-of-
doors; and yet, if you inspect the
houses-biy and little, old and young
are slowed away from cellar to garret,
platform upon platform, from three
to six stories high swarming every
where are human beings; and what
houses, miles upon miles Of houses,
houses everywhere, wood houses, brick
houses, stone houses, and houses still
bigger, reaching up, as 1T seems, some
where towards the moon; plain houses
and houses in many fantastic shapes,
to say nothing of houses without any
definite shape at all and shops and
what they contain, would require
something like an age for one to cal
culate. Of course there are streets,
but the streets only lead to the houses
there are churches too, and play
| houses temples Of God and tenn
Piles Of Dagon, GENERALLY in close
approximation SO that one can wor-
ship Christ Or Delial as he fancies, or
he can blend both worships, which, |
think, is apt to be the case with a
good many. Some of the church
buildings are noble structures, some
are plain enough and there are mu-
sic halls and lecture halls that can
accommodate thousands of people.
As to shades Of opinion, and pecu-
liarity Of creeds, here one can be ac-
oommodated with any possible tinge
Of ISM from the loftiest pinnacle of
| spirit rapping and ETHEREAL spheres, to
the gloomiest matcrialism and chaot-
ic annihilation. Armenianism and
Calyinism struggle side and side, and
Pusyism and Popery are pretty strong.
Amidst it all, there seems to be many
thousands Of people plodding through
their little life-spa without any def
mite creed Of any sort, except it be
the creed Of eyoying ones self by
hook or Jy crook IN any possible
aoay. Upon the whole, however, I
should judge that a considerable av-
erage Of the people are church goers
on Sunday, and amongst them it is
but fair to infer that good deal 0.
honest piety exists-serious believ
} ers in, and worshippers Of the true
: Il God. These are SAVIOR for goot
Il where so much that is bad abounds
and, taking things just as they are
there is as much good order AM
: peaceableness in New York an
: Brooklyn on the Sabbath day as
5 have seen in any large town in N
f life ]. whatever rowdyism there ma
: be-whatever drunkenness there ma
# be, keeps pretty we'll out Of sight
: blaspheny and street broils are M
e common, and though there doub
u less are gambling and kindred vlc'
,r in full blast, they keep pretty clo'
e in their own dens. Great guns
d the way Of preaching I have n
re 4 had any chance to hear yet, and If
Il had don't think that / am got
Judge of what gredt-gun preachll
is for sometimes in nay life ha
n been to hear great gunism, and ha
| been miserably disappointed 10