New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-23
CITY Items.

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and welcome him cheerfully again On Saturday tue
City seemed az # thousand merry gen had been WORK
ing their graceful entertainments upon il. The perpetual
din and clamor OF Broadway was suddenly sunk into
sea OF silence in whose broad unduladons tssed with
the tinkl;rg of innuersbs bells musical the laughter
of brooks toe aching bshed and refreshed
TIE seizhs Of every size and shape-the gigantic onn
buses looking li1e Tammany Hall meeting suddenly
put on runners and s.lding-,he beautiful vehicles
Of the wealthy. embossed With costly skins OF Leopard
and cougsr and laden with precious wealth Of brilliant
eyes AID happy hears-ihe but mere loudly Joy
GUS public eishs usiug and rushing along tie feathers
and ribbons Of the overdrcssed beauties within 5yas
ike little s:resaers in tie wind while the songs and laugh
ter of the f-ocsoue beaux mingled strange and dig
wing perfume with the c;garsnoke and the from
me -eespe sides of the overdrveu seeds-he little cut
tiers Of every imaginable style and grade OF elegance
slancrs and darling about in the ee Ike butterflies at
bird racial sided on smoothly, 40 gracefully so
apparently without the slightest effort that one who
stopped awhile drink in the sight of this vonderiu
transformation could scarcely help thinking that ne vas
in dream, and all this gorgeous panorama extending
on either hand where the bright colovs and swift mo-
tou melted into tie horizon wss but creation OF the
fancy
But the sun Jour most potent OF d;senchantsrs he
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Ing upon the grass aud Covers and exposes renorseess
" the hunbug landscape which Frost paints upon the
psues as ii ne had caush, your unuttered fanta
sizes and ;rsnsixed them the glass The true Pente-
can sparkle OF fields is nothing in his eyes but lit
tie dash unsubstantis brightness and the rose.t msts
OF morning sink weeping into the impenetrabe csverns
OF the air il he but look upon them And beau
f seich.dregm tades away before his searching
the pure and plant soils apece and before another
nghtfall the spell will have gone the enchantnent fail
ed, and the City will again its muddy pavements
horrible claer OF wheels and all its ncessan. jareon
Of common.pace-to which consisn both it and thee
ON reader
THE CITY AND THE STREgTs.-Thousands OF
tons snow garnshed with frozen Stops potato psring
and other kitche.refuse cucumber the entire width of
Morris Rector. Liberty Cedar and Thames streets be-
tween Broadway AID Greenwich, piled up to average
blight of three feet above the level of the curbsones
OF course they strictly impossible TO any Of
vehicle and the families there experience great incon
venences from the trouble of getting bread, milk &c
sc. On the East OF Broadway the whole mercantile
quarter including the Burn; District, is very much OBJ
structed. Pine. Cedar and Liberty streets are almost
entirely blockaded and get about at Nil in
much of the region below Wasreet and West OF Pearl
This immense accumulation of when it mes will
ill hundreds of cellars and do great damage which
should be guarded against in far possible
The inhabitants of these districts ought 10 exercise
usual crcumspection about fire and keep enfold watch
against incendiaries it would be utterly out OF the
question for the engines penetrate into any OF these
streets without great and fatal loss OF time
The upper part of the City is also much encountered
with snow but there is no obstruction of travel above
Csnastrect The seighing The Avenues is this morn
ing very fine although in the City it is greatly cut up
Another warm day will DO much toward settling IL
Meanwhile the walkngis orraher the people are) going
on cm bad worse, from sppssshiness to sposh and
from sposh to mud Nassustreet is only nav!gaoe Tor
express wagons drays and bakers carts and altogether
there are slippery times atloat
= The City Fathers having despatched their
twin children New Police and Amended Charter, to Inc
nurses Albany TO be chrstened and set fairy on their
pins will. we hope now condescend to pay some atten.
ton to the eongs and comnss OF their dear friends the
people, whose vo,es they will DO directly soliciting to
enable them to realize those $1,000 per snnum and -
per day salaries with the other little perquses OF sup
and sus,enance beer and bargains streegrad
ngs and speculaons in lands and places of which no.
thing need be said at present. Perhaps the old lesson
of the Fox and the Flies may apply iorciby In the pre-
sent case Put ut all events if the present worthy IN
cumbens expect nythn. like cordial support from us
they must clean the streets and build them bcnches
around the Fountain. We do not know but 1t would be
good plan present set Of heterogeneous embracing
these objects the candidates for our sufragcs The
matter ought to be we'll considered, and some united
effort made to effect the reforms much needed The
eia abuse about the Benches cannot be borne Nurses
children invads and others who seek in summer heats
the cooling freshness of Fountain will never be able
! TO stand it out another season.
II The I.MAS GALLERY continues to be the
most attractive fashionable resort OF the hour and those
who DO not drop in there are ignorant OF what is going
on in tie inner apartment OF the World. The colec-
ton of Pictures ia itself of most and exquisite inter
est well repeys the careless pains OF the amateur who
merely looks TO be pleased and new OBJ.
jet of superficial enjoyment the better labor OF the
true lover of Art who approaches with reverence tie
canvas where Genius has written its bright conceptions
and ets the raging light from the Beautiful ransx its
image in his soul All kind and gentle and noble inau-
ences blend impe the whole City these apartments
so full of the delicious atmosphere OF elegance and re-
fined luxury which the wand Of Art creates every where
within its magic circle Let these gentle yet potent
spells be resisted.
EY WAsHIN6ToS's BIRTHDAY was yesterday
soemnized in many OF the churches by prayers for Peace
and services directed By the great and fervent
thought Peace would seem at length to have become
national aspiration and the revolving brutsites of War
to be looked upon with just horror In future generations
mankind will be appalled, TO read in the bloody pages OF
toe pas; from what insane barbsrsm they have sprung.
" Rev f. II. CHAPIS will lecture Peace
in the Orchard-st Church this evening part OF the
exercises Of Sacred Music TO be given there
To all who love Peace and revolt the thought OF human
butchery, this lecture will be feast
observation-disclosures Fowler and Wells have
produced quite sensation lately in this city on the sub
ect of Phrcnoogy For lectures, classes &c see adver-
tsement
u We call the attention OF tailOrs TO Mr.. kro-
mers advertisement His system of cutting is highly
spoken Philadelphia and in use in many OF the most
respectable establishments in that city
e a special train left for Boston over the Long
Island Road yesterday morning at clock.
e Look to your cutters, good people. There
is sad heavy shower falling on your front
steps To &c, within and The bell-hande IS worse
than going under the Cataract Nagara-possesns al
;hc disagreabies OF that exploit without OF its re-