The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-13
Eastern cerrespondenes.
PHnADELrHIA. Penn, June %

- PHuADELPHA, PKsS., June 30. 1870.
Eprrons IxpEPEsDESr: Since my last, you
see have moved. couldn't stick in one
place any longer The cold weather kept me
within decent bounds, but when the grass
started, the propensity to move.l which
learned by seven years sojourn among the
Piutes, was too much for me.
TNTEEEt THIS TOWN #"ha
Beats all the cities ever was in for some
things-and great many of them. To begin
with, the people are the poorest judges of
'hash" ever struck, and they make you pay
for looking at the dishes right roundly. So
cially, they are a set Of hogs 20 n stranger,
and among themselves they are divided up
into more little cliques and sets than you
could count in n week. not one of which would
speak TO another for the world. stranger
stands no show, and one must live here ten
wears to be q citizen. At about half OF the
churches the stranger is taken in and cared
for; at the other half he is allowed 20 stand
outside just so long as he pleases. know
this, for have "tried them on" i have
never before struck splace where men were
so tied TO, fashions as they are here. Talk
about the vanity of women they can't begin
10 be vain when man lays himself out.
When a man here, who has been moving in
pretty good society, finds his hat slightly out
Of style and his pocket slightly out of cash at
the same time he .'goes into the country for
his health" or, in other words, he sticks To
his shop mighty close and takes particular
pains that he don't meet any of the Misses
McFlimsey Of his set The result Of this is,
that you are constantly imagining that all the
people you zee on the streets are just going to
"a wedding or else TO the poor-house. One
cannot tell the maid from the mistress here,
nor don't much want ~, for neither of them
will ever be likely TO be hung for their beauty.
THE cHURcHEs HOSPITALS, ETC.
This city has the inestuhurches have ever
seen, and the regular attendance at them
would naturally incline one to believe there
were many more followers of the Meek and
LowIy. than really could be found If the hearts
Of the masses could be rightly investigated
the fountain of their thoughts shaken mp that
the bubbles Of the conscience might bc read
In this city are to be- found some uf the best
schools for learning in the whole Union, and
the children Of both sexes have every ndyan'
tue that money and science can bcstow to
enable them to htuuclI out into the tRreni
whirlpool of life aud buffet the waves of For
tunes dceps successfully.
The hoISitals are unsurpassed by anyin th'
world, and tho first medical men in the Uni
ted States are in chRrge of them.
The Aims House IL an honor to the city, 70
acter Of iis medical staff. Here, the poor al
furnished with home and the INDECENT sicj
provided with such attendance as gold canno
buy in most places. There are nearly thre
thousand persons constantly in this grea
house--men, women and children from al
parts of the world, and afflicted with ever
form Of disease that human flesh is heir 10
From top TO bottom, every portion OF tn
building is scrupulously clean, and the In
mates are M happy as 1t Is possible for ther
TO be.
There are several other large hospitals /
the city, all of the very highest character
The city has need Of them.
De- ~ DIRT
Abounds everywhere have boen here no
most sovun weeks and the street In which
live has been cleaned but once. This Is or
OF sho bss. 9or!icrd ce .he city. hut SJ1
about the Delaware river am told II is teri
BILE. r l have nos been there; the sight of son
poor creatures from that quarter, with the r
lapsing fever, is quite enough for me. All IL
slops run for square or two along the quite
before they find ''city inlet" You cn
judge how things smell hereabouts with Il
mercury up 10 90 degrees in the shade.
CUSTOMS.
Tho people have many curious customs til
suppose have been handed down from Il
old father Of all tho broad-brims. A doct
always has his Office in his house, and mo
Of the lawyers also. Here Is n tailor shop
tho left-hand corner Of n three. story brow
stone mansion, and the tailor's family occ
pics the balance Of the house. They 90 ever
thing on "old families" If wished 10 shil
here, would get somebody 20 write me out
pedigree that would run back about eight hu
drod years. II would not make much diff,
ence where II brought up 80 that il was amoi
the dark ages. One must havo had gran
father at any rato; a great grandfather
quite respectable; y great-great grandfath,
very respectable: while one notch furtb
would enti,lo ono 10 reception among 1
very upper, upper teD," even IL the &C
party" were hung for shoop stealing. Que
notions somo folks have, don they
POLITICAL.
You remember what jolly run tho "vi
lantecs" gave old Ned MCGOWAN in lst
and perhaps you have not forgotten wi
awful naughty tricks thoy said Ned had bo
guilty Of; and among tho rest his allcp
sin Of ballot-box stuffing Now, Ned v
many years n policeman In this city, and VIII
he went 10 California no took along with b
some Of his little notions, which had sto
him and his friends In good stead on ma
interesting occasions. He "ftted' here q
graduated" ont In tho Golden state. No