The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-11
Nnrthern Corresnondence.


z7Js Cresceot-A Sunday morning in the city of New
York and in the heart of summer Let me describe oyou
how is First of ALL the dry, dead-warm ar Is any ing
else than pleasant. From hundred thousand close yards
sinks CUTTERS ETC., up exhaaons a 10 hoI eAacy
remind one of those perfumes Of sweet flowers whch the
5nti,s Mr. Menoe pourrayed as his palace gardens,
''bv the Lake of Como" Comparatively all Is qui@ u
New York we don't consider the rafting OF Ie"
milk wagons and the shl cries fOm the army ID
as of much account in the way Of nose Inc
and the whole list of trading and pleasure 'ecIes'
nv although some of the latter do come out IN Lle dle
moon e. Bowery boys and young caTtmen' are le mOst
reuorseless creatures toward horse flesh in the wod)
During the hours from sunrise to 10 CLOCK ts Ste'
and the elOedness of all the stores, give peculiar app
ance and rather dreary one, to Our city Inc "
vitality seem dried up. 1t is not religious aspect nave
observed that in Protestant countries 1t Impossible 10 give
such an aspect to cities 1t OF constrained anu u
comfortable OOk-One from disposition so mucl a iea'
Still people buy and read the Sunday papers at great Ide
as that during the morning is the only amusement 'ell
them Il singular fact that the best paying newspaper
establishments here those which issue on sunday
Towards 10 O'Clock, more signs OF hyeineSS are
Groups of Young fellows sometimes accompanied Dy e Ie
male members of their families, start out on excursions ~ Tue
country or of the steamboat tnps up the No VI
East Rivers Very many 60 for miles on lool atef
the ferry either to Staten Island HObOSen Brooklyn or
Williamsburg HalfgrOwn lads on these occasions are
death to any fruit trees that stand IN theiT pa-eEeh
green apples disappear before them with wondous ceeiy
and many and the angry disputes tlat ahSe pe
tween these young insurgents and the farmers OF the negh
boring little after TO- people oil plous luli u
mind and many that are moi, begin 10 Wend thelf way
churchward That's the time TO see the New York ladies
BY hundreds and thOusands-aye, by tens oil touSah9
they slowly fill the sidewalks and as conscious Oh ue
charms exc the time between starting from home ana
arriving church, to IFS dimensions II you nave
courage enough (Which many have not who are as brave
as hons OF personal PERIL to stem contuaI tue
of slowly walking welLdressed and cunOusy oOserVahl
human bengs-wakng at them fer square after square
you win behold something, now, worth seeing Nha care
has been evnced in their toilets! How beWtchngiy lDe
ladies bOnnets sit upon their heads How proud look e
very breast pins rCpOng upon their bOsoms After an can
there be work of Nature that will compare with Deau
full tasteuly dressed female whose face the gooa pou'
of the sex are expressed and who has no attectatlon
From hafpast 10 to T. there ull again II you pass
by tie churches you will hear the vocal utteance OF "o-
ship in some of its various omspayer, song or sermon.
Occasionally some powerful brother makes the air vibrate
with his wresings and exhorngs-then, elsewhere the
deep of heavy organ shake the very ground IN
der your feet But why should merely describe Let US
90 forth and enter one of the temples
Here we are in front of Trinity. The brown marble
rises above its elegant and grand prOporions-he cross on
the top of the pire gtes in the Though looks so
little up there it IS in reality, fifteen feet IN length
The spot which stand has been used, from the sl
settlement of the Island for church purposes 1t one OF the
few historical spots yet preserved intact This the iourh
preceding Upon entering it, the eye inst struck Dy
the immense window of beautiful stained glass IN the rear
which the Saviour and several of the Apostles are define
aed of the size of e The cOOE OF the most brilliant
descptOn-amost painfully brilliant, unless ones eyes are
strong The roof with its arches and hOows and sounding
depths is of the solid marble the walls The col
umns with their racery and knottel work also of marble
The floor of polished stone Even the window frames are
of similar lasting material 1t grand place; the mind
feels awed and hushed, and made serene, here-NOw the
organ is touched How reveberates through the arches
and how the sound seems sent back from the roof above
The brilliant cOlOrs of the glass would CANDY under
any other circumstances they prevented from being
by the fact that all the OmbTe brown, the marble
color and no fancy hues gliding anywhere. The pews
of dark oak merely polished by rubbing-no varnish o.
paint.
Trinity free church, too at least it Is to all intent
and purposes Some Of the old pew holders and those whC
own nights there hereditary still remain in possession bu
the large majority of the wOrshpper those who CONF
without money and without price On every successive
Sunday you behold many of the lower orders wor
shipping at Trinity Old Mr. Berran still the rector; bu
the principal talent resides in and most of the work don
BY two or three assistants Rev Mr. Beuian is not onl
aged but his is not gOOda serious defect IN such
! large place
Very much of the interest connected with this church lie
in the grave yard which surrounds it At the left hand
the entrance is the grave of Lawrence the gallant captain
whose memory will ever be idolzed in our Navy Until
couple of years since in old dlapldated corner
the yard Rector street Since the completion OF e pres
ent church it has been removed At the fOu
cannon placed in the ground in perpendicular manner
| and serving as corner posts.
Soon after u o'clock the churches begin pouring out thei
living tides Then the flood is plsnter than before. The
block up the walks and impede each Others passage. Fo
about half an hour, the streets indeed alive. Walk
| ing through them, and beholdng many mynads, a
dressed so we'll and looking WELL might be excused 70
doubling whether there such thing penury
Manhattan IsIand-( He would make great mistake how
! ever, who should so dOubt)
During the afternoon and evening, the city presents NOR
varied aspect than in the morning The more lazy ones VIII
have dawdled through the morning in half dressed an
halfawake condition, forth. Some OF the Eas
ere avenues witness the eas Of eQuestnans, and behold tn
presence not only of three minuters but OF hacks an
drudges whose snes whipped to their utmost eNelon
Shutdown and darkness do not close the scene then tn
churches are filed again; and particularly among tn
Methodsts an additional vgOr infused through the
spiritual tendencies 1t is creditable fact, that thong
groups and parties enjoying themselves as much as the da
and circumstances viii permit, continue in the streets an
public places till late hour there very rarely any dIstnTL
ance that calls for the interference OF the police.
So much for of the features the surface OF Me-
York Sunday. OF course the great volume OF ndIvldu
and family life rolls beneath this, much as elsewhen
Whether on the Rhone the Mississippi Orthe Hudson, til
| principal points Of human nature are the same.
| MANHATTAN.