The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-31
Journal correspondence.
New YORK, June, 81. 1850.

and being the commercial and
financial metropolis of this continent, it is
very considerable town. The flags ofall ma
tons float in its harbor, and the sailors of all
seas swear in its streets. Not Macedonian
Phalanx nor Napoeon's Old Guard, could
face more ways at the same time than does
the city Of New York, which may have sug-
gested the idea imbibed by highly respect
able class Of New York politicians, of facing
both ways. This city faces the Bay, ihe
Hudson, the East River, but more than any
other way it faces that avenue called Broad
way. On Broadway are the Hotel palaces,
from the Washington, {" once the headquar-
tiers of the Father OF bis country, on the
Battery, up to the stately "a New York in
the upper regions of the high aristpcracy.-
Here, too, stand the American models of sacred
architecture. Here Trinity, rising amidst
a wilderness of cypress and sepulchural
marble, in Gothic grandeur, at the cost of
half a million, points metropolitan sinners
the way TO Heaven. And here. too is the
more classic structure of Old ST. Pauls, after
the fashion of the Partisan Madeline Cat least
so once ready and under the shadow Of this
church arc the tombs and tire monuments Of
Montgomery, the hero of Quebec and Of
Thomas Adds Emmett, the banishcd Irish
patriot, whose tall shaft rising close by Broad
way side, tells his virtues to posterity, and
points to that better land where the exile
finds home and The weary are at rest
Here too, though far removed from either Of
the others. stands Grace Church in all the
splendor Of medieval architecture. On this
street, too, are other churches displaying
wealth and taste, but of less note than those
named.
Here are some Of the theatres, too, but OF
these theatres is Barnum's American Muse
um. as it is called, at whose windows he dis
plays night and day near hundred flags
and between whose windows are painted in
large size all manner OF beasts and birds and
creeping things, and when man has seer
these Tinted varmints. he may just as vel
~, ~, md saw, quarter. The numerous
wax figures inside are Ibels on the image o
God and the stuffed i2onkeys :" ma o'her nary
and scaly and fossil remains, are 'o'''
There arc some panoramic views OF ltai,
and other lands which if kept in order might
be worth to the untrave.led spectator the two
York shillings, but you will probably find the
| aC thau, inx-f..Lfa- sbot
find them at all. To be- sure there is Mex
lean stage coach, erhaps the one which
Gen. Scott did not give Santa Anna time tc
take hasty plate of soup in, on the day o
Cerro Gordo-but you will see fifty better
coaches, full vf pretty women. too, any hour
of the afternoon, on Broadway. But tn.
greatest bore OF all is the Lecture ROOM
Be it remembered, it is caiit7 lecture
ROOM" Unlike "iecture room" perlec
theatre, stage, pit, boxes and gallery, all bu
tie name, and the lectures, miserable low
comedy; a temperance piece too, but badl,
written and badly played, judging Of the few
moments that witnessed ia good audi
cnce, respectable looking and apparently
pleased with the lecture many Them VIII,
doubtless would not 90 10 theatre by tina
name. And this is the way that Barnun
grcases the drama and Plus tsears back, am
makes religious and scrupuious Y orker
swallow it whole.
On Broadway, too: is the Park, containing
a fountain and water jet, the city Hall an,
other public buildlngs,an likewise general,
Il large and motley assortment of foreign anr
domestic humanity. On this street too, i
the old oblong enclosure called the Bowling
tgreen, still enclosed by a heavy iron railing
said to have been brought from the mothe
country when New York was a colony bu
the railing is not as it as when John Blu
made it and sent it over, for then every pos
, OF the palisades was surmonnted with a
iron bali, which balls bearing great re
semblance to cannon balls, it is.sail that Joi
athan, on one occasion during the re 20 ution
E airy war. finding himself short of that article
e broke all these balls off except one, and sen
= them back to John Bull, with his compli
men.s and a charge of gun-powder benin,
each of them. Business and beautyand fash
ion are ON this street, and ''from morn I'll
noon and noon till dewy evc," the noise ant
confusion is such as to prevent anything els
Il being heard.
Next to this street, perhaps Wal street i
the most remarkable ihoroughfte in thi
great city. Ga this street are congregate,
that class Of men whom the Saviour Of me-
turned out Of the temple of God, when h
complained that they had turned the hous,
If nr,ver into n don of fhieves That cla :