New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-18

;,to ito know what ID ooinS aIouhd snStA''
,v i, is done They areto busily engaged in dong
,heir own work or hunting up work TO do To De IN I
!, hurry happens occasionally TO count.ymani
<,be industrious or business classes rarely knows
,,h,t II ia TO be out of hurry What with business
,.si,, n, The urcen. need Of pressing FOR osfiness
h ;s .,,vavs driven by bis necessities The cost Oh
living in any style is high ina great city compared
,,,, III. cos, of such living elsewhere and many
man paws rent for his dwelling which wouio sup
mar, bis family in Vermont or Indiana quite As well
.s ,bev nov, live Only the man who. by strength,
alfi perseverance or scheming. can do two days
,,,k in one. or divert the fruits Of somebody stwo
days work into his OWE pockets, has any chance TO
live comfortably in large City. though some others
do well by accident or favor Let no poor man who
wishes tolive easy, and is not skilled in gathering
into his own garner the fruits Of other mems TOLL
come near great City. There is no chance for him
Even his hafskilled, moderately industrious, we'll
10 do neghbor will, twice in three times, alter look
ing City over and patiently trying 20 wedge him
self into some fat berth thrifty calling have oc-
casion To exclaim; with horror. struck Macbeth at
the royal banquet, The tables full
B ut about New-York more especially 1t has
been too much the fashion among US all TO deny our
noble City Her great natural and acquired advan-
tayes are seen a, glance, and the world recogni-
yes them but the TOO general impression is that her
people are unworthy Of Them Her usually per
verse Politics. the hostility Of those she makes Leg
isla,ors 10 Internal Improvement and Corporate en-
,erprise the apathy and ltteness OF her capitalists
in view of the giant strides made by meons OF Rail
roads from Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and even
Richmond and Charleston, 10 reach the fertile re-
,;ons of the West, while she has not even connect
cd berselfby Railroad with The nearest Coaioeds
or The Capital Of our own state are very s'h"s
e,,,. snd strike the world with force. Her many
ooods points are rarely perceived or commented on
., ma glance at few ofthe more obvious
Thu, New York is deficient in Railroad enter
,.s ia in coed part owing to the superiority of her
steamboat accommodations. 10 DC conveyed lo'
,,;.s in nine or ten hours in elegant floating no.
tel fitted up with superb mirrors sofas, carpets cur
Trims, &c for t,centyfre cents, rarely happens eisc
where than on the Hudson. To be transported
hence to Albany or Troy. during summer night
,broupb scenery which the Rhine can hardly sur
nass for price ranging from one cent 10 INC S'ee1
of o,e cent ner mile eating, reading, sleeping az
quietly and happily as il by your own hresde,
surely surpasses any dream OF old Romance In
other directions The advantage IS not 80 marked
I'm, Tint travellers ere usually carried hence 10 Dos
,,n 4, snmmer over various Sound routes and Hall
,o.da for about cent a mile, more or less, Is worth
. thought. especially in boats like the Oregon and
K,;ckerbocker There is probably no City in the
world which may be reached SO cheaply and expe'
d;,;ooaly from three hundred miles in each direc-
ton as New York can.
Our internal are equal 10 our external facilities
for locomotion. Our Cab and Hack regulations arc
40 bad that we will let them pass but our lines oil
Omnbuses and Stages surpass in cheapncss and gen.
eral convenience any thing else in the world. you
NAV start from the Battery or within All eighth oil
milo or INV steamboat landing, and ride three or
fnr miles through the city in almos! any conceiva-
Ill. direction for nix cent? You may ride from the
fa's - -,...--ager five mes-ior that trtns
\ sun To Harlem, seven iniie"
h.Ichou,,v for ten cents; TO Bloomingdalc and AS
,oria still farther for twelve. Even Boston, win
her civilized Cabmen and capital Hack reGuia''ons'
has no nsra)lel for this. Philadelphia ditto. Z"
or Hotels, there IL eeneetly one dccideoly sooo
one in every City; and there may oe wv " w..
such in Boston and Philadelphia But no A'net.can
civ has class of Hotels TO compare WIN tne
Asior. American, Franklin, Howard New-i orh'
City, &c. in our City. A friend oflarge experience
aud sound Judgment who has Travelled over the best
ma of K rope assures us that nc found no where q
public house land he invariably tried the best 80
perfect in its arrangements so thoroughly comorta-
BILE, ms the Astor. Others have probably ""de The
same remark in favor of their tcsPectiVe iaVortes
among our first Hotcla ihose form Single GLASS;
"a ,,,oro ,re o,i.srs equally good in their way For
L Il. s.1,nrf HICNar a n ~
tort. or who shun the mixed company of large
hotels there are many houses OF less prelension but OF
equal meri, in their line, Temperance men, those
recurring absolute quiet and seclusion and almos,
any other sor, may here find exactly what they
want,-and at prices corresponding 10 their wishes
In Business New. y ork was never more ANNA.
ted and active than now. The Sub Treasury and
proposed Tariff break down have certainly excited
some apprehension and caused some stringency in
the supply of Money but Business has not as yet
been sensiby affected. We are all buying and SELL
ing the same as ever, perhaps little more ac-
co.nmodatng terms than would be given if the
pressure did not exist. If tornado comes, we
shall all cry out Il told you SO and each marvel
why his neishbors did not seasonaby take in sail.
/ At present, none but dabblers in stocks and few
weak houses lcei lue PIcesuic hcSu'S' w hcIi!SE u
shall GO farther or recede, dependsin good degree
the treatment of the Sub Treasury bill by the Senate
LII, passes in the shape given II by the House. will
be high time to stand from under. II il is modified
into the original one-third in specie form, i, will
probably be so managed and evaded as 10 produce
little immediate and palpable effect But this at the
worst affects the capacity of the Country to buy,
not that of the City to SELL Foreign products are
and mus, be cheaper in the average here than else
where for many years at least; and Domestic Goods
would have been so long since if our capitalists had
acted wisely. New-vork ought 10 have invested
Twenty Millions in Manufactures Immediately on
the passage of the Tariff of A. and sold mainly her
own fabrics instead Of those of Boston 1t is not too
late yet to remedy the least SO far as plain
substantial fabrics and all manufactures Of metals
are concerned. New. York is nearer to the produ.
GERS Of Iron, Coal, Lead, &c. than Boston; nearer
to the growers Of Wheat, Corn, Cattle Cotton.