Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-14
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YoRk, Auausr II, ls47.

New York, AUGUST IL, lS47.
have two three times recently referred to the great
number of strangers present visiting the city, which has
appeared to me remarkable and unusual this Of the
year. HE same strong tide continues daily pour in upon
u.s. and whr through the citys thousand eddies converting
hto heavlns, rolling, mighty maelstroom. Let stranger
stand upon The steps of the Aston House almost any hour
OF the day. and look and down Broadway and the
Park and be could at first hardly be made TO believe he was
presented with only everyday view 1t would appear to
him like some gala day high festival fourth of July
celebration, or something Of that Sort Even 10 US New
Workers. VINO are accustomed to the noise hustle of busy
Gotham seems like the active business season of the
year, instead of the dull heavy ces time Of dog day wea
her Broadway fairly groans with the weight Of life that
presses through it and the hotels 50 thonged that the
feet sometimes sticking of the windows are beginning to
be excused on the Of necessity To back these state
ments with evidence and show that am not drawing on nv
Imagination for any facts, let go little into statistics
have The Express of last evening before me- which contains
list OF the names of persons arriving of the no
tells IN the last centyou hours have had the curiosity
TO count them, and may be undressing item give
the footing up; Astor House, las; City Hotel 46; Ma
tonal Hotel, IS; Howard Hotel 100 United States, rs
Franklin House, 81; Croton Hotel AZ fremont Temper
ance House, 43, New England House, IS Murray Street
House, Is; Clinton Hotel, 81 Barrens Hotel. Man
sion House. Ii Lovejoys Hotel, 30 Pacific Hotel, 30
Rathbun's Hotel SO; TayIors Hotel % Western Hotel,
so American HOTEL So Total, 92l
There large number Of hotels not included in this list
and Of them Of the first class as the New York Hotel
the Carleton House, &c. And must remembered that
this list includes the arrivals these hotels only on single
day. Nor the arrivals that day unusually numerous
for the daily list has appeared much the the aggregate
for time past, though varying the different hotels
On the whole, must conclude that the fall trade is COM
mencng somewhat earlier and with more vgor than usual
In these arrivals Of single day the whole country repre-
sented for they from every State and Territory of the
Union and few hail from the Army and Navy Of the
United States.
The wholesale merchants busy the imports heavy,
and the custom-house has much can attend The
receipts the cusohouse average nearly million of dol
lars week. Last week they amounted one million three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars In the midst Of all this
lest the Gohamites should still be lonesome or idle nice
little r of foreign immigrants continues to flow in upon
at the rate OF about thousand per day. One day this week
they amounted to more than seventeen hundred
New Yok is fast becoming big city, and she already has
to carry big purse The Comptrolers report laid before
the City Council this week. shows the paid city
warrants for three months ending with july be mil
Ion SIX hundred and foyfour thousand dollars The
ceps into the city treasury in the time million
hundred and eshtyone thousand dollars This in round
numbers, without mentioning the odd hundreds.
What the matter with Mr. Folks administration in Cali
torna that cannot get along any smoothly Wehave
here to-day dispatches by way Of Ohio and ST. Louis that
Col FREMONT Is under arrest to be sent home for trial. and
that Commodore STOCKTON and General KEABSr are on
their way home If the Administration has so much trouble
with California what viii it do when it comes TO have do
Mexican provinces to look after