Year: 1864




says


SIT is quite true that when you received
a remittance from England, and change it
into the United States currency, You feel
for about half an hour as though you were
in the possession of fabulous wealth You
give the waiter at Delmonico's dollar
and think nothing of paying fve-and-
twenty cents TO have your boots blacl1ed.
But there comes very speedily a change
over the spirit Of your dream. When you
discover that a drive in a barouehe in
Central Park coats you six dollars, then
the bootmaker has sent in his little bill
mulcting you in six and twenty dollars for
two pairs of superior calls with elastic
sides; that ladys bonnet of the very
plainest and modes description is consid-
cred cheap at twenty dollars; that the
tailor wants from sixty to seventy for a
frock coat; that a pint bottle of Allsopp
IS fifty cents; plate of lobster salad and
half bottle Of chablis four dollars; and
almost every other article of consumption
at an equally ruinous tariff, your fabulous
riches shrink to q paupers stipend, and
you feel very much as though the United
States currency, into which your brave
English sterling had been changed, were
on par-if greenbacks could ever know
such thing rs par-with the dry leaves
into which the magician in the Arabian
tale turned the reguins and bezauts. A
natural rejOinder to. this complaint would
be: Economic. Don't drive in barOu-
ehes. Dispense with lobster salid and
chablis Turn your backs upon bonnets.
Wear your old,clothes, or have them sent
out to you from EnglandP Yes, it is prac-
ticable to economic. 1t is possible to live
in a first-rate hotel at two dollars and
half day, where you will have a bed
room not much bigger, and certainly not
so comfortable, as cell in the penitentiary
at Blaekwelrs Island; whore you
will be nauseated by perpetual Nj
agras Of tobacco Juice, and be
fed, at stated hours, very much af-
ter the fashion of wild beast. 1t is feast
bic to reside in cheap a boarding house
for gentlemen and their wives-mechanics
preferred'-I copy textually an avertise-
ment in this mornings paper-where you
will be rung up in the morning by an in
fernal gong; where the help if on do
not rise at a. m, will clatter at your door
and guess that you oughtener lie abed all
day; where you live like q dog and are
surrounded by accomplished Chesterdelds,
who, when they are not drinking or smok-
ing are chewing coffee berries to render
the odor Of their morning and afternoons
liquoring up imperceptible to the ladies at
table. Yes; and you may pro-
cure your clothes from England wise
preeaution it would appear, when
for shooting suit of shrunken
tweed, such as you would give
three pounds ten for at home, a Broadway
tailor will demand from eighty TO one
hundred dollars. tried that little de-
vice the other day. 1 wrote home for
some summer trowsers and waistcoats, and
in due time there arrived for me, per City
of Manchester steamer, a symmetrical
packing case containing the desired gar
Inents, the value ofwhich the London tail
or had appraised at nineteen pounds ster-
ling. I had to clear these clothes through
the custom-house. Woe is me in addi-
ton to dock dues, commission, carriage,
and brokerage, ! had to pay sixty-one dol
lars, or twelve pounds four shillings and
twopence to the Tevonue Of the United
States,