New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-03
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
NEw-YoRK IN SLICES.
Slice IX....CHArHAM.srREET.

s.o have studied humanity in that great highway is
70 have read Oiheo, emitting the third sct-to have
,.en ice cream negecting the last dainty dropping IN
ne gass-to have psrsken OF strawberries leaving the
lu.est and rpest IN the dshin fact an extremely alb
sard and foolish thing To consider Chathamst rght
w. we may take il either by the handle or the bowl Tor
hes like spoon with It's bulge at the square, declin-
hs gently till il to end at Tsrnmany-iIal To
bsgn at the small end ii must be confessed that this
renowned thoroughfare has rather shabby and desert
Cd look in that quarter having but one side to IT, and
hing confronted in its poverty by the stately puohc
Buildings the City Hail. Hall OF Records. &c although II
even here sckes for It's rights and puts forth ITS three
ls under Mr. simpsons patronage, inviting small par
cells umbrellas family jewels, and other nick nacks,
hither in pledge We could tell story reader, that
should bring TO your eyesoi little child, whose
sole wish from infancy to see his grandfather poor
grandfather dead-he had been noted bear in his
,me) and who was instructed to seek him a, Mr.. Smp-
,ons whittier resorting he had shown to him the cane
he cooked hat the brooches rues and other appoint
menis OF his venerable progentor-which had been
only spouted in his life time but matter, the story
,,,her long. and it has been told more than once
BEFORE the reader had better perhaps be spared Not
far from this Just past the Fork, is spot memorable
or is connexion with the late Mexican War. The
.smber OF times that small boy in egimentals have beat
inst drum and the number OF stories that gentleman
"a the belt and sergeants hat has told 10 innocentook
ns young men from uptown, would be hard to calcu-
ss We suppose there s been about many Of the
one az Of the other. And that they might come down
. the rendezvous duly sharpened to warke thoughts
pme special providence has planted just across it
ng range-the largest in the Metropolisof sunshops
ALL
urts brstlng with dirks rampant with cooked pistols
nd elsmorous with great open mouthed muskets,
4 you were asked through what street in NewYork,
"a given time the greatest number of dirty shirts
,s.ed we think the chances are ten to you would
une Chatham and yet strangely enough. this very
greet has been selected as the stronghold and en-
s.Dchment Of the linen diapers. With their great
Hsnpsrent windows, equipped with endless relays OF
NV shirts staring forth with fresh pearlbuttons they
&c perpetual reproach to travellers in that street and
sen TO be saying to them constantly Go home, my
ycor fellow, and put a clean shirt where perhaps
1ere Ia no shirt to be had TO put on But Chathamst
aes Enthusiastically the other side Of the way
r there that Old Clio has pitched his paradise it
i there that to be shorn of their tatters TO have
mail in the back be out Of color is objection
coat (or other garmenD not the least but rather
ommends It, connecting il by secret association with
he antiquity and long descended history of their own
ace You have perhaps not been student of the
cbsihamst Jew You have done yourself great in
usice In our earliest recoections of him, he lived
patnarchal simplicity, in a small burrow at the back
dhis shop, from which he contented to amaze the
world of traffic through glazed window running forth
the shop, from time to time as the calls OF trade re-
CURED him Presently as he grows more corrupt In
tie midst by al advancing civilization, he takes up mis-
saton in the shop Even here he would not be at rest
but shortly seized his stool and sailed forth at the shop
door and planted himself firmly the stoop. These
movements simultaneous through the whole
range SO that you at the sefsame instant heard the
sier of the advancing stools from every shop In the
street Now, many pleasant dialogues ensucd between
he young gentleman of Jersey, OF right witty and
rcnchant character and many friendly appeals address
ediosenemea from the country in which their attention
was solicited TO a 'frstrafe coat them pants, or
noting of this sort neighbour This pleasant game
wa ~ times carried far that these Jersey men did
nke to marching even like the of Gilgal before
lscho up and down the walk and seizing by violence
Il men from the far countries, hauled them, with
sfce within their Businesses, and there impressed
hem whether they would no, in garments OF the
zongest make dimensions and illnesses. This street
Eader, was in the old times of this Island warpath
dMsnhatan Indians the West civilization hath not
s.ected il greatly The old red men scalped their
,ies the Chatham Clio men skin theirs. so little diff
srepce have two hundred years in changing the char
Eier Of mankind
Leaving the clean linen aud faded clothes shops TO
..are each Other out OF countenance long as they
hose let Us 60 up the street little way There seems
10 be wonderful activity in this street. perpetual
movement of mighty streams of people, and 1t would
be curious II we could to ASCERTAIN the springs or
yring which set them agoing All through this
iAoroughfs to whatever part proceed, we dis
cover in great baskets festooned strings piled in tin
measures and spread out great boards, endless sup
Plies of little taberous vegetable, which women
and boys busy dealing out to the passers by, who
partakng thereof go their way rejoicing The pea.
.ut is the motive power of Chatham ST and all Chat
Aanst has of culture. literature, the drama springs
from the pea nut Without the pea nut CHANFRAU had
,ever been the great Nose non-exstent with
Out the peanut trade would decline and civilization
beconne extinct in all that section OF the Metropolis 1t
. the headplsnt OF those Eastsiders their in
the wilderness Watch them closely; if any great
blight has their spirits II there has no, been
enough fires. or too little water if the Chstham Thea
y smut VI 49, "4Aao uas AoAt W DO>ttA VI oAf
other circumstance has happened to affect their light
ness Of heart-noie their conduct They will keep
from the pea nut, with sort OF holy and self imposed
abstinence for many days and only by degrees as mat
ers mend with them "a great IRE is the spoediest re
hef) some take to them such Is in ali ages OF the
world
Bu, listen we are nearing one OF the Praires, with
al the bullbuAaloes Of the West assembled In one
place al roaring 3. once Or is II second Niagara
burst from the earth cAmorng with the voice of fifty
thousand demons Let US climb the hill and learn for
Ogrselves-and now we get for the first time, view
Of the renowned Chatham squsreai the height of It's
glory for il is day. and with the red hsgs flying
and The furniture and utensils OF every name and kind
sewn on every side ii has the look OF lively held o.
battle where the contest is well sustained on every
band But even these almighty lungs al last give out
carts and bsrrows rush in the square is cleared the
sun declines, and with long streams OF bright TN Kettles
making for Bowery Divsionst and the thoroughfsres
Of the Eat side the day draws TO close. compare
tive silence broods the square broken by sailor
getting up from the Ess, side by way Of Oyerst and
making for harbor somewhere in the keys Snd re-
eesses OF Doyer and Pen SITS stray fisherman comes
aft Of Chshamst and with his rickety wagon and long
trumpet for the Points, through Motst breaking the
alence with a dolefGl cry, Oysters ANY good
oy sters >" Midnight strikes from the clock AT the