New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-28
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4 .rRoxG man IN action stopping % take breath
- race bor.e painting between the heats chip paus
.,y ore il, plupges hesdong down the mountain Of the
.o and leans on her course-sre faint hyures 10 in
acae the abrup, and absolute repOse that overtases
the metropolis every seventh day In other places the
contrast between sunday and weekday is striking
for although the quiet may be as complete, yet
the noise and tumult great and the effect Of
the contrast which here absolutely startles one is
wanting If one fall asleep railroad the stopping
Of the cars will be pretty sure TO wake him 30 the
New. Yorker becomes so accustomed 20 the ceaseess
the incredible din Of Broadwsy-into whose rushing
river bath Of dust and csmor every dips at least
twice day-that the sudden solemn. absolute silence
of the sabbath upon him ike sweet shock
rousng into activity his higher and more contemPa've
faculties and laying, for time, the fierce and remorse
spirit Of Business that during all the week has been
dragging him about by the hair.
IN the narrow streets and alleys down town, where
usually the rattle Of drays browns out consciousness
Itself from your brain, and the sidewalks piled hill
high with boxes bales and bundles the football
echoes snd reechoes loudly on the smooshw flag
and the long lines Of lofty warehouses extend with the
prospect unbroken by drsys merchandise. In Wal
street late so hercely crowded and struggling each
u 4
Dog man has disappeared from the Custom House
steps-the doomed Canary birds no longer draw up
their miniature wheel bsrrows Of seeds-the shaving
Cream man has snoothed himself out of sght-tbe in
Vulnerable shaving shops down cellar have closed their
csvernous avs and the Rotunds Z. empty as Judge
-'s hs, when his head is IN It The whole lower
part of the City where usually would think from
the noise and hubbub that the continent was running
through funnel and this the spout IS now as 81
lent and lonely as city Of the oden time deserted cen
turtles ago by It's inhabitants and left 10 the winds and
sands Of the desert
But in Broadway the sabbath contrast IL perhaps
even greater than in the great msrs of trade and com
merce The pavement is still as If An omnibus had
never ratified it. and the bewdered sunshine goes
stumbling along trying TO ind some accustomed plate
glass window through which TO look in upon pretty
goods and preter ladies' Before the psacestor OF
fashion no hyeried carriages are waiting and on tne
walk nothing is seen but the unbent shadows OF the
ampposts The and crash Of the emniouses Is
hushed and the dust hes unsprinkled by the inevitable
watering pot on wheels or whrls away in little suffo
eating eddies whittier and where 1t will The Large
Roasted Italian Chestnut Man has taken in bis warm
ing pan and furnace and the little girls who sell fancy
wind mills on Stewards steps are we hope, at Sunday
School learning their lessons
In Chatham street and the Bowery there is a little
more life but the change is still very great and crafty
ing an unmstakabe evidence of the general regard
In which Sunday is held by all classes OF our poPua-
ton There are we know, few losiers and ro~dies
who gather about the Five Points and the Hook on the
whsrves and in the grog cellars of the bysreets who
neither know nor whether it is Sunday or not
But they are not apparent Their haunts are for the
most part underground and they do not mar the gene
raj serenity Of NewYerk Sabbath. In the Bowery
and Chatham street too the absence Of the omnbuses
is very grateful and sincerely sorry to hear
that efforts arc making to get OF the lines both in
Broadway and the Bowery, to run on Sunday. We
trust that there is if real morality at least regard
enough for the physical welfare of mankind among
our citizens to promptly rown down any such attempts
as these The omnibus propnetors themselves we are
sure do not wish to run their vehicles the Sabbath
for the increased and of carriages waste OF
horseaesh SC would more than overbslance the gains
Beside it would be cruel and oppressive in no slight
degree to compel the worthy and of them Chris
tan men now engaged in omnibus driving to either
run on Sunday or lose their situations They are most
of them men Of families, and their wives ind no
easy matter to get along with the six dollars week
which their husbands but II they were TO WORK
erery day they would soon break down or die ana
thus leave their families destitute. The seventh day oil
rest indispensable necessity OF all aboring men-
and especially those constantly employed and in al
sorts of weahers as the omnibus driver Let the sab
bath ever be sacred to rest.
IfBrosdwsy is the great artery Of NewYork through
which all the blood and bloods OF town must course,
Nassau street and It's environments may be called It's
brain pulsating with the beating OF printing
engine and throwing OH innumerable nerves, in the
shape OF newsboys to the rest of the system But on
SUNDAY even this is sul. 1t is true that the Sun
and Herald and perhaps some other papers Issue
extras when steamer arrives on sunday even
there be not an item OF news and they are frequent
y cried in the very front Of the churches during di
vine service We OF The Tribune never do this, and
our Office is open Sunday. Early every SAB
bath morning too the voices of sunday paper news
boys are loud and ncesssnt for two three hours
Most of the newspaper Offices however, are, like The
Tribuae closed ON the sabbath and we believe that
public opinion will eventually compel all others to fol-
low the example Indeed this public opinion is rapidly
becoming aware of the great fact that the sabbath is
physical a. well AS spiritual necessity to the world and
that were il not for its blessed intervals of rest and
remuneration thousands OF persons whose occupations
are uncommonly srduous exhaustng would either
die or become insane before the prime OF their years
The united and uneQuvocsl testimony Of physicians,
physioogsts philosophers msgis ates and legislators
has been 90 widely difused over the world by the be
neyolent lsbors of the American Tract Society and
ether religious institutions that all classes OF the com
munity are becoming familiar with them. And should
these lines fall into the hands Of any man woman or
child who has not yet become convinced that life and
health are deeply interested in observing the sabbath
we would earnestly sdvise him her 10 60 to the |
American Tract Soeieys once, 80 Nassau street and
procure The Sabbath Manual by Rev Justin Ed |
wsrds-one of the most perspcuous, complete and
eloquent works on the Sabbath we have ever read
They will also md peculiarly interesting in relation to
this subject tracts $ 70 ll6 1913 2S4 $50, as 40 and
50s
But 10 return to New.York on Sunday. If from what
we have said you conclude that signs OF life and AMI
nation are wanting throughout the Sabbath, you are
srestly mistaken We spoke of the middle OF the day
Blu, in the morning al nine O'Clock, punetusl as an
eclipse of the moon q man 10 whom you have
promised money the Sunday School bells begin TO rins
from thousand steeples-and despite the illnssured
remarks of people who are ashamed OF themselves Tor
hating the Sabbath and its institutions we always ma
i, most delightful music-with heart and soul ana