Middletown transcript., 1876-08-12
Correspondence Of the TRANSCRIPT.
A Conntryman's Views Of City Life

: Correspondence of the TRANSCRIPT
. A Conntryman's Views Of City lii
PHiLADrLpHlA, Aue. 9th, 1876
Dear Transcript: The knoWlede
! of people or county is not gained b
cursory glance or rapid transit the SC
;; journ must be long enough to see iii
and things shorn Of novelty and excite
ment, to study character 10 its varieu
phrases, and become fused in The gene
raj mass to know the intricacies Of it
workings. This Centennial City is
large one. covering an area greater il
extent Of territory than any Of ou
Union. &
Europe has poured its refuse popula
tion for years into our northern seaboart
cities, leavening the mass with mon
archial ideas, and now can plainly b,
seen and felt the outcroppings Of thei1
brewing in the servility Of subordinates
the Haunting livery which adorns EN-.
ployes in municipal branches, and in
some cases the menials who futter about
would-be aristocrats. Capital holds la
Dor here by the throat, debating its own
terms, gripping the stomach with want
as punishment, forcing it to accede to
terms more lordly in its arrogance and
absolutism than the southron ever was
10 the palmiest days of human owner
ship. Where the agriculturist feels his
impotency, there the contractor and
manufacturer holds high revel. for all
seasons are his, and the power Of his
money is as patent to him as the know
ledge to the employe that be must work
or starve.
The efforts Of the Centennial commits
sioners have been Herculean No pains
or expense have been spared to render
the Expose success as it is so far as
the concentration Of everything rich and
rare beneath the sun is concerned, vet
the nation does not seem to be conscious
Of the grandeur and Importance of the
affair. Every man, woman and child,
should travel hither and SEQ the splen-
dor and usefulness SO cheaply exposed
to gaze, before which the fabled stories
Of Aladdin's palace pales, and the most
vivid imagination fails to conjure up.
The Orient has given her most pre-
,ious gems and costly fabrics, while the
ropics are here with gaudy splendor,
ind enlightened and barbaric nations
ne the one with the other in presenting
he richness of loom, rareness of harvest
nd vintage.
Dom Pedro has learned much, we
imagine. during his visit. He has ten
cred free passage to any man disposed
0 emigrate to Brazil, and offers to do
ate two or three hundred acres of land.
low, fellow countrymen, is your chance;
9 to Brazil and become subjects of the
'mperor, kneel down and kiss the toe
the Pope.
The fact is patent to the most casual
oserver that to-day Philadelphia is the
eanest city in the world Money has
't been spared in renovating repaving
Is been the order, and scavenper and d
Veeper are never idle. Well has it Il
ZEN so. for during the protracted heat
term the death angel never slept r.
harvest was enormous One almost Fl
agined that be could hear the cry
,ich prevailed in the city of London c
ring the plague, Bring out your S
ad J" shifting the air with vocal dis
lctness. so common was the sight of II
funeral coach on the thoroughfare. =
valids and infants were swept of as
we, while men and women, strong
d in their prime, fell also. The NOR 81 81
isy among horses has been great, u
ing in great measure to want Of
igment in their management. A gen. nj
man informed me that while riding p'
m Broad down Market street to the
er front one day. be counted six dead to
'ses, and we were informed by one OF
o ought to know. that the Market
eet railroad company lost fifty in one sy
Dk. ~ ~
What an institution those horse cars
. There, if any place. is the one to t;e
life; all ride in them-the diamond g.
ked millionaire's lady and the street lie liz
rant. We fell in with the English
smen. who were in heroics over the
uty and elegance Of our American 1a.. me
men. Well may they be! ~ -,
he advance guard of Hale's Early, VIZ
ether with Troths, have arrived look .
weary with travel and withered with vii
Poor fellows! they denote Tyler ocr
P and Cholera Morbus. A huckster 70
wonderful affair; he goes along the
rf. buys his produce BY the basket fro
" tomatoes at fifty cents, peaches at tim
dollar and alf--and retails them etc
he pint and quart at one hundred !
cent. profit The worst part Of the for
r is that he is so impudent about it ing
n selling to you, not caring whether blaI
insults you before or after the pur- 6
e. Now is the time to come to the f,o-
if one wishes to see sights, for the do
osities are here. Come and take It ~ -.
e have done amid the surge and r
Of toll. jostled and crowded; aye, ,os; )
b it, and then view it in the silence Pos'
le small hours. when the limning nls
e masters hand is manifest in ali nal'
infinite beauty; with the stars all N
md nature yelling up praise, silent elec
ieeper far and more effectual than thin
ed sanctuary. whose air is heavy bacl
frankincense and myrrh. and dew OF f
ping more eficacious than holy G
+ sprinkling before an Illuminated for
Z; and if you don't say you have that
the elephant, we'll forfeit hat. with
MORE ANON. Cha
Mos
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