Year: 1860

ed Immediately after the arrival of the news
from England announcing the result Of the
fight. | have since learned that the orders
for the Clipper received by the other news
agents here from country dealers are also
more numerous and larger than ever before,
and that the regular receipts at the Office of
that paper from yearly subscribers have
been, for the last few months, more than
twice as large as those received during the
corresponding months Of last year. The
other two or three semi-sporting papers and
the illustrated sheets are also doing consid
eraby better just now than they generally
do; but the Clipper has more Of a circula-
ton than all the others of its class combined,
as it is regarded by devotees to the turf, the


rod, the ''ring,' the "noble game of bill
liards," the ''royal game of chess" and every


other form of recreation, as the leading sport.


ing paper Of America


Let me tell you little story about living


in close quarters in New York, and I'll let


up for to-day, l am tired out, as it is; but


| must tell you this, for fear | forget it.


A gentleman from Ireland who occasion


ally obiges me and few others of his ac-


quaintance by saving and splitting wood,
carrying coal from the sidewalk to the Gel,
lar &c, &C., but invariably for trifing cash
consideration, informed me this morning
that he was about to ''move" his family in
the course of the day, and would therefore
be compelled to deny himself the pleasure
of performing service which had request
ed of him. Upon my asking him why he
was going to change his quarters, he inform
ed me that new arrangements bad been made
where he lived, by which he was deprived
of the space and air necessary to the enjoys
ment of. a healthfdl existence and the com
forts of home by his family and himself.
Upon questioning my friend further, I learn
ed that he lived in large house in Cherry
st., in which there are forty rooms, each
room is occupied by five families. There is
. family in each corner and one in the mid>
die of each room. My friend, it appears,
occupied corner in one room, and as his
family was quite small, consisting of his
wife himself and three children, he got
along very comfortably for long time, un.
til the demon of speculation took possession
If the families residing in the other three
corners, and they all commenced keeping
These money making operations
If his neighbors, it would seem, were not
agreeable to my friend, for the reason that
sufficient pains were not taken to investigate
he characters of their boarders by the fami.
les of which they became inmates, besides
which there was no possibility of his family
il himself enjoying uight of undisturbed
sleep, owing to the constant intrusion into
heir corner OF the legs, arms and heads of
heir neighbors and their boardtrs Being
If Il naturally patient and accomplishing
however, my friend would have
borne all this to the day of the resurrection
Without murmur, had not the fifth family,
which occupied the middle of the room, stim>
Hated by the example of its neighbors, just
aiken to bed and board three men and an
aged woman. My friend could hold out no
onger. He thought it as well to move Il
hough so, too.