Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-03-30
Letter from Joe.
NEW York, Feb. 20, 1869.


ery of bolitionists-Boston, scribbled you
some sort OF an account OF my observations
there. and promised something from this
place. Speaking Of Abolitionlsts, &c., re-
calls little story in connection with Boston,
etc In the early days Of the Hub, y and |
when AboIitionists were at discount every |
where elsa literary society in Massa- |
chusetts town not far from Boston, tele
araphed for a lecturer, and added that
the society preferred some one who was
mot an Abolitionistn The gist Of The an
swer was. that they would either have to &C
rept an Abolitionls, or a id fool
Well, as to New York. hardly know
what TO do about It; it Is 50 big and unwieldy
that its best friends are in sweat as 10 what
they'll do with it, The big papers each have
from one TO three columns daily, on the ay-
GRACE of suggestions, plans &c, for keeping
the conveniences and facilities for living and
getting about in such place as far advanced
ar the city itself All manner Of railroads
over and under ground-are talked OF and
urged upon the interested, hut as yet no
particular scheme has been adopted. New
York proper has grown 50 rapidly, and con
finues TO absorb Manhattan Island to such an
extent that thousands Of the people who do
business IN the city. and who are not able 10
secure a homestead in the city, have been
going out Of the county and even out Of the
state: and all real estate within thirty miles
of the city has been in greater demand in
proportion than in the actual suburbs Of New
York. The present street-car and omnibus
accommodations make getting tn the suburbs
about as costly as going over to Brooklyn or
ten or fifteen miles into Jersey. The latter
fact annoys New Workers, and hence the
anxiety TO corral all on this side Of the Hud-
yon. Jersey - is a sort OF word oi con
ternpt ANYHOW, the world over; and 1t VIII
ne remembered that Nasty made ii his head
quarters lor a long time. Jersey " Is also
called " forcign country" and It's nhabit-
ants foreigners" though ! never could
learn why, and ] have asked and ben asked
many times about the origin Of the thing
took little run out round Newark, aud
from what could see and hear of the soli,
uis abmt As barren and sandy as Connect
cut is rocky. Both States are as good as
democratic all the year round, owing 10 tue
MANY "grcasy mechanics continually
coming IN from the ovcrione workshops oil
Europe. while most Abolitionists soon learn
that those two states are only att emigrate
fruln. and they do 20 as fast a. they are
weaned San Frapciscans viii tell yon in
every other breath that their city us the
New York or the Pacific Coast, IA very
safe assertion, truly; for it's not th'
NeW York Of this coast - mere PTS
mire's nest IN comparison And uaklanu
delights in telling you nothing else but ina
il =. l. 20 san rancisco what Brooklyn Is Y
New York SC ilud that Brooklyn con
taips some four hundred thousand inhahit
ants--almost twice rs laany as san Francisco
aud Oakland combined Brooklyn has
rraye- yard-Greenwood Cemetery-that con
Tins nor, than as many more actual resi-
dents. Did you ever hear of Newark, \
! "a little place Of one hundred and tort
thonsand inhabitants, who boast Of eleVe
hundred MANUFACTURES OF various kinds, ye
tcn and twenty miles from there real esta'
is in demand at over one thousand dollar
per acre; yol there are some fotAs that INN
real estate is already high at that tsure riSt
IN The snhnrbs II the Golden City. raihe
iLins | think well Of the future OF San fraI
cisco. comparatively; aud as a place to liV'
I'D prefer II. earthquakes, tidal waves an
MI n any Mace i've discovered since leaviu
il But Fin DEPRESSING New YORK Ci'
rrnner contains over one million Of pop
j.tiun; jersey City, forty or nfiy thousan'
and With Hoboken. Williamsburg, Brookiy
kc--there are At least eighteen hundr'
thousand people who prefer 10 he known
residents of New York And yet II gro"
and grows. and grows; and there is more
eltemeut about read estate than in any ON
MACE know Of Men We knew in O"yh'
ar those who sent twenty 10 hity thousa
out there 10 expend on mines, tell rne WI
sigh that they had better mines r'gh'
der their noses-pointiug 70 such and sa
"A ple,,c OF property adjoining OF n'
hy as having doubled and quadrnpled
,',lne within the last Two years You do
want any detailed statistical information II
letter Of this kind, so Wen ak about son
thihg else.
"a far as can judge, from what ! Ia
rc,d and heard from people who ought