New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-29

/ as if by magic, With crowd "HoHe t ~ I,s
yyeu accord in poetry Of motion with the eyes
leoroing 80 satisfedly above. What thus iafBc
foothDicking crowd escaped from the ordinary iu9t
! Ien WHY not? Very true, there are 9otlo Nv
and forty eating houses Just ABOUT anu oa' u. q
restaurant, and plch YOU 'oO''' ~ -
Or is It a winters evening, and in the ladies'
drawing room fash beams OF beauty, and gas, ind
Jewels ,,.,
we have seen the bachelor dodgers in then
eating and drinking, and toothpickinS ways OF
life behold now the ladies with their husbands,
brothers. lovers and atcw friends rom tue OUTSIDE
CITY Marvellous collection The bloade from
| New England and the southern planter son the
! brunette from Georgia or Alabama, or interior
parish of Louisiana and the male representative
of Western trade, or Eastern manufactures or
| British mercantile suobbishness, dancing amicapiy
| Wis avis in the monotonous untlrih9 guaufG!e' oL
now whirling in the waltz-the gddy waltz, OF
course, after the usual phraseoogy or IN that
n2ysteriously born dance, the Polka, OF which an
American bard long since despondlngly asked
on Polka Polka pray how come you So
I'VE asked ten dandies and the ten don't know
Here too is modest beauty from Ohio papa IN
the pork trade ! there a dashing belle, whose al.
tars at Saratoga and the Sulphur Springs are yet
warm with sacrifices OF her last Summer admirers
| lher third Winter at New Orleans, and no nus
band YETI Ia yonder corner red checked, blue
eyed miss from New England her grand parents
snugly in bed the while, in the old homestead
and little dreaming OF the-to them-degenerate
conduct OF their descendant Or here 4 proud
Edith Dombey, from Louisville It's city oil
| proud women no wv a.days, shade OF Daniel B0one,l
fascinating hirt from B altmore or the Devil
dered milliner martyred daughter OF an interior
planter Every State with its peculiar beauty IN
the room And the shears and needles OF your
Boston Manhattan, Philadei phia Charleston and
country tailor recognizable In the dress coats
sprinkied all about the room ;-back dots that
thew are on snow white gauZe and satin land
scape.
There will be music, dancing nonsense, eating,
and flirting, until three O'Clock IN the morning,
and--the same things for three or four months
thereafter but the July sun will shine unrebuked
through the window shades, and find this cham
Der Of beauty-this audience.room OF hotel arlsto-
cracy-as tenantless the bar below.
{ Although this same hotel was chlseed, and
troweled and painted and decorated. and peo-
pied by the genii OF Yankee utllltaranlsm, there
fingers about it deal of romantic interest," and
would it could interest in its behalf the pen OF
Leigh Hunt, think of the St. Charles figuring In
8 the Indicator, new series OF " Men, women
and Books or a second Lamar Blanchard Wor-
thily to embody, in eoquenCe OF essay, truthful
ness of sketch, and beauty of dicton, confessions
G of life and character, startling and Instructive
n For with the latter its every room and vestoQle
is rife. The very left behind forgotten trunks,
: piled in a storerOOm to the bar hard by, could
J. tell thousand wondrous tales. From yonder
IS window has cast many stranger his last look
upon busy life, and lain down on his pillow to
10 die; thoughts of his far of home and expecting
friends making doubly painful the last bitter hour
In this or that room the gambler ledger has lad
his plots or woven his web of cunning, which
S. were to ruin and ensnare those for whom paren-
s. tai socitude were vainiy expended These halls
|. and corridors are full OF echoes, and thronged
;. with shadows echoes of mrth echoes of sorrow
shadows OF human life their original essence and
II substance, part Of the past, and perhaps an IN
II junction for the present, to remember
d Here is another picture, whose sharp, clear out
. lines vouch for its fidelity.
t PEEP INTO THE EXCHANGE.
l. Let us stroll to the Exchange, some evening,
0 where oddly enough but in strict accordance with
the iron sway of utility, Change time is at early
candle light for daylight is too precious IN New
! Orleans to be wasted i'll lounglng talk
|. Above the bar and Post Office the former out OF
sight, you'd think but no, looked down upon
d through wide cut-out in the hoor are the talk
4. ing smoking, reading rooms OF the merchants
lg By twilight they begin to ill. The dozen chess
Ii tables in o small recess early taken up--a
ed crowd stand round for observation and remark :;
w and calculations are begun and checking done by
or who have calculated and checked all day to
some purpose By.andbye the sand upon the
re floor is scraped about like the strings OF violin
i'll when innocent thirteen is learning Paddy Ca
lie rev. X nots OF readers stand around the bulletin
r boards and BY the tables where the gazettes Of
?, all the States are lying. But everywhere talk
r. ing, money nightmared crowd. Yonder is the cot.
i ton broker, with the fluctuations of the market
for ten years past all penccd on his face; his
brain divided into sections like the columns OF q
balance sheet, Tor dollars and cents, tarthlngs
a rise and arhngs fall whose life is only nursed
on from year to year, and saved irons shipWrecl
ON the grinding sands OF anxious by the Sum
L mer trip he makes to England or to France, or to
7 4 Northern State Near HIM is sugar broker,
lat with perpetual tasting oil the sweets OF life,
i whose jolly phZ, and merry laugh, and careless
d talk are fine offsets for the troubled look of his
II neghbor IN the cotton line In one corner the
/ banking agent, whose principles i'll London
II Paris their correspondence nightmare in the
}, dreams of lazy Postmasters,) chatting tamilary
l. with the Jolly planter Who has Just dotted his hat
S III return to the obsequous bow of passing fac.
y tor, In another corner saow faced man. versed
. III the tobacco mysteries you may tell it by the
$ nervous twitChns of his face is figuring estimates
for the London market. His neighbur In the flour
d line has his thoughts in Boston, and on memory's
Il wings is doing around its up COW paths for
h a sale Some nre English-you can tell them by
: their rosy look, the oddty of their hat the starch
t OF their collar and the hang of the coat The
u French you know by their voubility and gesture
/, Others are Germans-as they read or talk no
sparkle OF the eye change of features indicates
. their thoughts Some Yankees; there is
sharpness in their eye like the feel of Bostonian
e east wind on Cambridge Bridge. Some are from
J Gotham; they carry themselves with unmis
r taxable air Of superiority and independence and
although merchants now, and family men, they
? feed on the important feelings of their cerkship
1 days and the SAVIOR OF the old Pine and Wall-st.
times hangs around them still. Some from Phila
delPha; their gestures all right angles, and
invisible paralleograms are on the floor wherever
they walk. And you could work out algebracally
Il the number OF pins in their well adjusted neck.
+ cloth. Some frons---evcrywhere
: II there is ever to be Congress of Nations, let
/ 1t be held in New Orleans there will be no mile
o age for Delegates. OF all the crowd perhaps not
= one calls the city his home, from birth or choice
: Faces are here upon whom the Exchange gas.
r lights have shone Tor many Winter; faces, too,
u that next year you will look in vain to find All
intent on speculation and accumulation working