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Show 268 A 1'l'ENDIX TO NOTl~S. b~cn cxplorf'd, :wd to th~ hnmrtnit.y, ~f ll•.~;; )~;·~:~ 0~:t~~~c :i\~.i~~(~u i~s il u;m:d ch:uuLt•t'l', we arc mUeLtcd fo1 .l de~ I I· l" g • and tho dail life of myriads of our R\\:nmm;:; 1?°Fll··' 1011: . , • "'l'ho 'co~rt' of which we write, Clwrlottc-bull\ mgs, oil Glfty ~-l!ml: tne contains 15 ho uses, :tnd these 15 hon~cs gt~c, c:tch f'Oitlam~ng c irri/t rooms, sheller, upon the n•t·y lowest. ca_lculatlon, ton. populn.tton 0r"',·cr nc·uly 1000 persons! ! 'l'hc dcscnplton o ~onc oftl~csc houses is thc~cs~riPti on of nil. Will our rc:tdcrs boa~ wtth us whdc w~ take t hem through its npnrtmcnts, as they n.rc dcscnLcd by an cyc-wJtncss. ' Vc begin with the two rooms upon the ground flo~r: "In -tho front room ' there n.ro no bcdstcadt~~ clr:tll'l'l, or t:l.bles; n. few ragged clothes nrc drying before n.l ittle ~rc m tl_10 grntc; :'l.bovc tho mrwtcl aro n. looking-glass nbout th1·cc mchcs h1gl~, and some torn 1wints of t ho crucifixion, &c. ;_ in tho cupLol\rds, ;'· 1t~tOl~~ doo~fl, l\ro pieces of broken crockery; n. kmcl of bed 111 one COlllCl, '' ~ ~~~ cluldrrn asleep; the f!OOI' rotten in ml\ny ]J:uts, the ~\·all~ and ccdmg sadly cracked. 'J'he rent is ~s. 31.1. per week, ~viHch IS culled for every Mond1~y. :wd must be p:ud on Wednesday. . " ' Vo arc no~ tohl who arc tho inmates of tins chamber, but the room innncdintoly behind _it 'presents a .. ~ad scene of. distress-lite man, !tis u;i}C, and some clttldren, ear1! q. lwmg I.Jy clwppwg fire-1cOf?<l; the mnn hntl been ill, nnd not able to r1sc for two dn.ys; ho wns ly111g on n. quantity of wood-sh:win~s, and wns eovcr~d .'nth an old Linck nnd ragged blanket; his. sltin did 1:ot :t\)p~n,r as 1f 1t hn.d been ':ash.ed for wC'eks; he wn,s ''cry 1ll, nnd evident y 111 n, state of fever; Ius \nfo was almost cqunlly dirty. ' We hat·e 110 1cood to chop,' was the expression of their ultim:-1te distress. This room was much dilapidated, and they had suffered g:re:ttly during tho Jato severo weather, owing to tho broken condition of the windows. The rent was ls. 9d. per week; the window oYorlooks a back yard, tho condition of which was shocking.' "These, it will be remembered, arc not the haunts of the outcasts of socict,y, who llYo by plunder. This wretched back room is the biding-place of a miserable couple who, with their children, attempt to earn the ir bread by an humble, an ill-requited, but an honest industry. 'l'hc expression of their worst distress is, 'We have no wood to'~~~~~: first floor,' continues the writer, ' both back and front, was crowded with inh:\bitants. Tho people acknowleclp;cd that fifteen persons slept in the two little ro0ms l:\st ni ght; thcwallii wcrccrncked and dirty, and t ho ceiling: cont;tnntly falls upon the floor whi le tho inmates arc taking: the ir food . One woman sniJ that a part of the cracked ho:uthstonc from above hn.J fallen amongst tho children. The rent of tho front room is 2s. 3d.; bn.ck, Is. Dd. Continuing our wny up sta irs, we found tho slate of the staircase of the rooms worse nnd worse. l1t the front 1·oom. tu·o pair,"u:ltCil our cycslwd become accustomed to t!te Rembrandtislt gloom, 1cc found jifteCil,7JC1'S0118!! Some had been selling onions, &c., in the strecfs1 some beggmg, one or. hco tcae secmi11gly bricklayer's laborers, nnd others had been workmg at tho ca rr ion hcn,ps in the neighborhood.' "'l 'ho others presented the same dismal picture, with the addition APPEND£X TO NOTES. 260 of hf)h fl i~ tho roof, throug!1 which the wind'l, :md rain~, anti snows, nu~do th~11· way upun the •nmate;i of tlli ,..; wretched tenement. }'ot· these fltl1 cs the l'<'nt wa~ l!u~ ~amo ns fur i.hc lower apartments-an :womaly accounted f,)r by the f:tct that 'the lant.llord 7"CIItOces to lite uppu 1'00ms lltosc 1d1o ~IIO!J be a sltilii11[! o,· so i1t u,.,.car of1"eul.' Tho nunuul sum exto1·tcd from thc:;f! mi~erablc Leings fi) l' t!w hire of this one h~u.se amoun!s to _npw.nd:i of .C I()! !-a rent iu!initcly grenter, in pr?JlOl~JOn_, ~h:lll 1:-l p:ud.for the nublc'it pal:l('('$ or the Wcl'il· l·:nd . '1~ JS ddlu.:u!t to n·a~1zc the appalli ng: tnJth, that in 1me small court of tl11 s g reat ~u~tropul1.~, one th()usauLI humn.n Lein~~ arc at thiti moment thus C'~ l ~tl n~. ..'\l.ultiply thi.i rnuube l· by tlmt of the sim ilar rcceplad~s ol lniluan n11~ery_ that .'"Hlfi'(JUJH\ u~, and we may rcnturo to set agrunst all t/1~ dlffr~ulall'''t oj lwmwt ualare thai prevails Ot'CI" te1, t!wu~aml S?.u~re un~r.v (!I lite nto<.·t .mrayc di<.·trict 11p011. eartli, tfte ulfer a(H~~~mcnf ~1 our_.f(_llou,.cr('o.furcr, 1/'hidt is, at the rcnjlwur when U.'•J }.:;:~~~~~~~ .. uu1cd lnllwt tlw limits ~~ftlw metropolis (1'grc(1t amt Uluiiilia 1t "Let men prate ns they_ "·ill about our pro,c;rcss, wo do not belic,•o that scenes l1kc t_li~"~O Cxi.Sied in tho olden time. Discomfort thoro may ha\·e UePn-diSti"C!'~, and liard aut! pin t"hi ng time~, but we do not helwn.J thn.t_any W'nora.t~on IJL~t our own has CYI'I' witnrs:;C'tl so hid\'0 11~ =~ con;;~egat1un ol squaltJ, :~hJCet, and h upcle~;; r.lcstitution ns is to be fu~md .111 these l?n.lhsnn.JC recc~ta_ch•s to which uur Lm;y ci,ilit.aliou dr1vcs 1ts cast ofl and l.'t'JOCtcJ v11.:tuus to rot." From lite J.owlon 'l'imcs, of Jlfarclt 30, 1853. (3) "'l'u~o:V.'ll!n:Sun::so~·l~:..·ar,A~D. . "What i!'l. sln.vcry? ' .A s\n;·r, ' A:lJ!:! Jk Noah Webl'itrr in his di cli? nar.y published n.t Nf'\1' Y01·k, 'i~ a prr.son wholly s ul;it:et to tho will Ql a~Jot!ter; ono wl1o ha.'l no will or hi-; own, !Jut wl;nHe )erson an(! F.e i"\'Jees are wholly undC"r !he eo1ttrol of' anotll('r.' '!'he 1Lrne11 lc;t:teogmp_hl'l'-;l.lld &urely at .New ~rork men slwu]d be arquaint('(l \\~lh the nghts of tlH·.~u!~ed-proeceds to inf(J\'111 us that, in the early n~e~ uf l}l,~', world, Jll '·"r.Jilers of w:.tr w('r(• ('Ot~~idcr,)d :uul treated a:'! slfi.\C~ .. I. he 8ln.H•s of nHHh•t·n limes,' he add ... , 'nrc g<'nC'rally purch:\' ICJ ld:c,lwr~e~ ~r oxru.' Our own Dr. John.-;on define~ n, ~-;\;u·o :ls bemg one maJH'IjMit•d to a 111aster·-not :t fre('nl:m-n, drprnJantouo who has lmt tlw ptl~l'f'l" of rcsi.-;Lmcc.' M1·. Ch:nlt's Jtiei1ard.son, on t.h~ othe1· hand,. con::mlrrs :t sl:!.,·o as a per:;on 'who is reducf't! to ~~~f~~~~'11~·;·j;;,o 0~";;~~~~;~~:-;;;1~:'th~r1).~~da;;o ; who i:; bound or comptllcU to ":!'hero~-" alwnys som_o litlle trouble a.hont a defin ition, and proJ;a. bly tt l'~(j.lllr·::-; .the c•.JJ,hllng an~\ Jiling of llJOI"C than one generation ltl prod~1 ~c ·lllJ.tli_mg _IJ!u' ~~ prr!cct onr. 'J'hcro a1·r, howeve r, crrtaiu ~ond.1t10ns ol l1f"~ \1 hid1 a11y ll·x i('O~J·nphcr would endr•:wor to include ;~~ lm; drn.z·nct, 1f lie wt•n• aUt'mptin;..:- to ,e;i,·o :1.. (\pfinition of !;Ja\·cry. e nre all fi;!"~"<'NI alJ~111t tile Unt"\(• Toms anJ col,>red popubtion of the ~on them :Slat:~-~ ol the ;_\nll'rican lJ11ion. 'J']I('y are sla\cs-not 0[1,Y 111 n:~me, but II! hct-k~ndly treated, we believe, in tho majority o mstaucea-but stdl csscnttally sla.ref:!. When we endea\'01' to go a x-x· |