28 DAMASK HAIR-CLOTH MANUFACTORY. 



Corinthian pillars, and the whole fronts and steps consist of 

 marble. The streets are not so clean as the inhabitants wish 

 strangers to believe; but as swine seem, in part, intrusted 

 with the charge of removing the filth, they are in as good 

 order as might be expected. The streets appear to be 

 thronged at all hours, noise and uproar prevailing when I 

 retired for the night ; ladies and gentlemen on horseback, and 

 the industrious on foot, were bustling forth at five in the 

 morning when I arose. Emblems of aristocratic pride and 

 shameless mendicity occasionally met the eye, in the red vests 

 and peculiar cut coats of serving men standing at the back of 

 luxurious carriages, and in the extended hat supplicating cha 

 rity. Like other large commercial and manufacturing towns, 

 activity characterises the inhabitants by clay, dissipation by 

 night. 



At Johnston and Green s manufactory I saw a newly in 

 vented fabric of great beauty damask hair-cloth, consisting 

 of different patterns, the raised figures being sometimes of 

 silk and sometimes of linen. A patent has been obtained for 

 making this stuff, both in the States and in England. It 

 forms a beautiful covering for sofas and chairs, and is said to 

 be durable. I paid one dollar for the linen, and two for the 

 silk damask, per yard, in small quantities. About two hun 

 dred people are employed at the manufactory, and, at the 

 time I saw them, they all appeared happy, healthy, and clean. 

 Young women, when weaving by the piece, earned three dol 

 lars (13s. 8d.) per week ; small boys, six and seven years of 

 age, one dollar; the hours of labour being from six in the 

 morning to seven at night, with intervals of half an hour for 

 breakfast, and an hour for dinner. 



Having forwarded an introductory letter to Dr H , 



who, on my arrival at New York, was at his country-seat, 

 I had intimation of his return to town a week afterwards. 



On calling upon the Doctor at his friend s house in 



Street, I was ushered into the drawingroom by a tawdry- 

 looking girl, without announcing my name. My recep 

 tion was all I could have wished ; and on learning my in 

 tended movements, he expressed regret at not being able to 

 be at by the day mentioned, and expecting General 



