Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-07
NEW YORK RRESPONDENCE.
New YORK, AUG. 5, 1917.


full beezes and cooling shades of the country and many others
sill leaving for the Objects But their numbers
seemfly replaced by the thongs of strangers constantly
visiting the city. Broadway oyerfows like mighty swollen
river and the principal hotels full of life and buse The
daily arrivals the hotels to be unusually numerous
the Aston one day this week there hundred and forty
arrivals and several other of the leading hotels seem to
be equally hronged The quiet vacation that New
York used to enjoy longer known Her increasing po
pulaion and expanding business leave for
quiet in the whole circle of the year. While yet
closing up their spring business Others making active de-
Onstraons for commencing the fall trade In two or three
weeks the tall in many branches Of business will be
fairly open.
As 1t is with business also is it with amusemens and
pursuits Of pleasure They hold on late and commence early
see the old Park Theatre has its large show bill to-day
announcing that the fall campaign will We'd
nesday evening next with fresh constellation from Europe
and Madame Anna Bishop the bright particular STAR"
Theatrical and Musical entertainments have been the
crease IN New York for two three years past and bid fair
the coming greatly oexceed those previous period
The old establishments brushing up preparing to put
The best side out and several new and powerful rivals will
soon be in the field large and elegant theatre is in pro-
gress of erection Broadway which said will much sur
pass any now In the country 1t the Of Anthony
street and Broadway, not quite half mile above the Asor
Rouse the walls are nearly up, and the establishment is in
such of forwardness as to promise its being opened
some time in September 1t will have accommodations to
seat four five thousand persons The in the first tier
will consist OF about seventy large and elegant sofas and the
whole establishment it is said will be fitted up on scale Of
magnifcence not attempted before in any theatre in the
country.
and elegant Opera House also in progress of eec
ton, in Lafayette Place, about mile and half above the
City Hail. which will be open early the season. perhaps in
september 80 that with eight theatres two or three
opera houses numerous halls and hundreds of minor
places OF amusement the votaes of such establishments and
such pursuits will have occasion to call New York dull
place.
Every week affords new indication of the vigorous
growth Of the city and the general of business The
great press OF shipping longer find accommodation at
the numerous piers and wharves that skirt the city on both
sides, and the City Council has had pass ordinance for
extending eight of the piers the East three hundred
feet further into the stream, and similar extension several
OF the piers on the Hudson And besides this Atlantic Dock
on the Brooklyn shore, gathering quite forest Of mass
around it, and rapidly become great place of business
The Executive Committee appointed by the Chicago Con-
venon to present the objects of that Convention the ate
ton of Congress- have been notified by their Chairman Hon.
ABBorT LAWRENCE of Boston, the Asto House.
in this city, on the 18th of September
The Farmers CLUE of the American Institute be
determined to give new spur to agriculture Long Island
They yesterday made second trip by railroad the eastern
end of the Island intending to visit Sag Harbo and other
places for examining the SOIL &c. and returning to-day AT
meeting Of the Club, Tuesday last the agriculture and
capabilities OF Long Island considerably discussed II
was stated by one Of the MEMBERS Mr. Hail. that there
yet on the Island two hundred and ninety thousand of
primitive wilderness and yet the land is all valuable for cu
n'aon and many of the farms worth hundred dollars
nor
tages OF Long Island properly appreciated. Mr. Hall
stated that the best fruit in the market from the Island
that has more fair days and fewer hurricanes and
than the interior districts that the apples and pears of
superior flavor to any in the world that the culinary vegeta
bes from the Island the best brought market and that
It's grass hay, and grains of excellent quality. He
urged The appointment of committee make tho
rough and minute investigation of the OF the Island
and that measures should be adopted appropriate thou
sand acres OF the wild lands the purposes an agricultural
college
think have before seen SO much life and hustle in
the city at this time of year present The
full Of strangers and the hotels unusually hronged Il is
quite remarkable, and hardly account for it. If is
only the ordinary effect of the growth the city and country
1t must indicate very rapid growth.
Madame ANNA BIsHoP made her first appearance in the
opera the Park Theatre evening to crowded audiences
and met the high expectations which had raised by her
musical reputation.
Mr. BARRErT who has been to England for the purpose
OF raising company for the Broadway Theatre has
turned and is said to have with good success
ed in Boston paper that Mr. Barrett offered Jenny Lind five
hundred pounds per night for forty nights about hun
bred thousand dollars for forty nights acting The system
of starring in the theatres and places Of amusement gene
rally ridiculous enough but this offer of Mr. Barrett true
would think, show disposition push the height of
the ridiculous.
COL MANN wishes for great and permanent success in
the spacious and elegant theatre he erecting on Broadway
let him impress upon american character let him look
TO American talent for its attractions, and to American feeling
for its support
have been looking the August number Of the Mer
chants Magazine which usual contains large amount Of
various and valuable statistical The first article
Banking having special reference to the Bank Of England
and the commercial crisis of ls47, strikes being very
able paper The subject is handled with such force and clear
ness ha the general reader becomes interested in its details
and can hardly fail TO yield to its arguments. The
writer comes TO the conclusion, that in Banking free compe
ton the only true regulator and that system which is the
most free from legal restraints is the saes the most stable
and the best for the public In proof Of his theory he in
stances the banking system Of Rhode island which he says is