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New YoRK, Nov. n, 1850.
We are blessed this morning with weather rs
bright and warm as day in June; it is what old
people call regular weather BREEDER" aud,
when 1t changes, must, of necessity change for the
worst as it could not be for the better 1t is un-
comfortably warm by anthracite fire, and there
fore the streets all alive with human beings.
who have been attracted by the genial sunshine
from their glowing CRATES and hot stoves. Itts q
long while since we have had any rain, and Broad
way ia free from mud and dust, condition to which
our great thoroughfare is generally stranger.
Our newspapers continually discuss ing plans
for the relief Of Broadway for this great artery of
metropolitan life is in never ceasing state Of suf
fering from too great funess of vitality. But the
only possible way to relieve Broadway is to make
street of equal attractions; for, where there
is most to be seen. and the best opportunities Of
being seen, there will the crowds 60. Broadway
will be relieved by andby of it's multitudinous
carriages and pedestrians when the city shall be-
come sufficiently extended to make one Of the great
avenues above Union Square the centre of popula-
ton, but not sooner.
One of the peculiarities Of New York, which
must strike stranger must forcibly are the cofan
warehouses, which among the most elegant
and dashing Of the shops on Broadway. They are
like the skeleton at an Egyptian feast, but are 30
trcked out with the elegancies and frippery Of the
undertakers resources, that they very far from
being suggestive Of unpleasant thoughts; although
to those not accustomed to the sight it may cause
disagreeable sensation to Gee, through the large
plate glass windows of undertaken, next door to
confectioner or jeweller, "coffins stand round
like open pressess which show if not "the dead in
Al - l. n
to wear. These places are brilliantly Illuminated
at night, as though the customers were TO be in
duced to purchase wardrobe for the grave, before
the time comes for that final dressing, by the
mere elegance and stylish arrangement of the ar
ticles required for laying out. 1t seems to
be the tendency Of the time to rob death Of
its disagreable features if not Of its erorrs and to
render the dead less repusive to the living and the
living less reconciled to die. Graveyards were
once shaded by dark and solemn yews, and an air
of dismal solitude repellcd all visiters but those
whose grief led them to visit the ashes of their bu-
ricd loves. But now the most favorate visiting
places in the neighborhood of our city the rural
cemeteries that have succeeded the old fashioned
burying grounds, So great is the crowd OF gay
visters to Greenwood Cemetery. on Long Island.
that the entrance TO that beautiful graveyard alI
through the week, in fine weather, resembles a
constantly running there. and during the summer
season two email steamboats, find full employment
in conveying passengers from different parts of the
city to the long pier built out in Gowann's Bay
accommodate visiters to Greenwood. Pic-nic par
ties not allowed to take refreshments inside the
cemetery fence, but there half dozen ice
cream gardens, beer houses, and other accommo-
dations near by. The grounds of Greenwood ara
laid out with great taste, and the whole aspect of
the place is cheerful, pleasing, and enlivening
The monuments fanciful and elegant, and the
graves are generally decorated with bright dowers,
or surrounded with neatly-twincd vines and the
names OF the paths and avenues arc all Of pretty
and pleasant character Ne Daisey Mead, !" Holly
Avenue" ."Primrose Path,' " Chestnut Terrace
&c.
The great success Of Greenwood" has led to
the opening Of a good many similar plsces, which
have been nearly all originated by private spscu-
lation. "Cypress Hill" il one Of the largest and
most successful Of these post mortem speculations;
it is, like Greenwood, on Long Island, and il ap-
preached by railroad about five miles beyond sosth
Ferry. few weeks since the proprictoss Of Cy-
press invited party to inspsct the grounds Of heir
cemetery and. after exhibiting to their guests Inc
I" snug lying" places In their cemetery. tosk tham
into Spedecor's Avssa and S~satsd taesr cnnGn-
p&xnc dinner, at which the customary cognph-
mentary speeches were made and patriotic to0sss
drank. The Evergreens" is another large ceme-
terry recently opened on Long Island, in different
direction, to accommodate the residents Of the
part of the city. The Epergreens also "gin
treat" and had merry time at their opening.
There are two or three other cemeteries approach
eble by steamboats,. which have been opened during
the past year, where you be buried pleasantly
and cbeaply, but " Greenwood" is the hevorite and
most fashionable Of them all. If we do not know
how to live and how to die better than our ances-
tors, we certainly know much better than they how
TO be buried
One Of the good effects Of the great burial ground
on Long Island has been TO increase ths daily
travel the East river that the erriage for foot
passengers has been reduced TO cent. am not
yet zone of the oldest inhabitants" Of the city, but
have often paid twenty five cents for being rowed
across the East river to Brooklyn, when had occa-
sion to pay visit there after O'Clock in tho even
ing Now you cross at any hour of the night,
in fine large steamboat, fitted up with weIl-cush-
ioned seats. comfortably warmed and brilliantly
lighted, for one cent. There seven diffcr-
cnt ferries between New York, Brooklyn. and VII
amsburg, and they arc making the necessary ar
rangements for a from the foot Of Wall street
TO Montague street, on the opposite side.
There are almos, as many passengers daily going
since, erossed from New York to Brooklyn. The
Cherokee and Ohio steamers both left yesterday.
carrying nearly five hundred passengers. Among
those in the Ohio were the Hon. II. Butler King and
family; and in the Cherokee were some OF the gen
men who have received appointments in the Gus
tom house at San Francisco.
The Union meeting at Castle Garden has
had iu due influence on the country; and every day
brings reports Of similar gatherings at different
points, which all tend to give strength to the bond
Of Union that seems 10 gain new strength from the
attempts made 20 sever il.
A good deal of satisfaction has been expressed
to-day from tho announcement of the telegraph
that the Republic had out with article advo
eating uniform letter postage Of two cents. as IL
10 regarded indication OF the policy of the Ad
rninistrntion respecting postage reform Every
morning the telegraph announces the character OF
the Republ,c's leader.
Erie stock has continued to rise, and to day IL
sold at So; Il s supposed that Il will be forced np to
nearly par, the operators have il in their power
TO do as they please with it, 8. KS