The republic., 1851-09-10
New York Correspondence.
Too Great Eoents Enlargement of StesDarfs Mar
bIe Store The Great Book SaIe-Foreign Liter
atTe and Foreign Commodities preferred to o'r
OtOn.

Too Great Eoents EIaT cement Of StetcaTFs Mar
bIe Store The Great Book Sale Foreign Liter
GtiTe and Foreign Commodities preferred to o'T
OOn.
NEW YoRK, Sept. 8. 1851.
Two great events have occurred to-day, con-
sidered with refetefiee to the commercial history
of our city, which are the moro significant from
no unusual excitement having been caused by
their occurrence. They chow the wonderful
growth of our business, the abounding wealth
that centres here, and the unequalled activity,
energy, boldness, and enterprise of our citizens.
One Of these events to which alude is the open
ing the new addition to Stewards marble store in
Broadway, which has been looked forward to
with great interest by the whole world Of buy,
ers and sellers of fashionable dry goods the
past month; Mr.. Stewart being regarded
another Aladdin in the business world, he has
the power to collect in his great establishment
all the varieties in the shape of silks, laces,
shawls, brocades, embroideres, carpets, curtains,
velvets, and satins that the industry, wealth, ge
MUS and talent of the earth can produce. He has
agents permanently residing in Paris, London,
Naples, China, Germany, and Switzerland, who
purchase all the choicest productions OF the looms
of those countries and every novelty in textile fa
brcs that art produces in any part Of the world
may be found in Stewards great repository. The
new addition TO his store, which is now completed,
gives superb architectural finish to Broadway; the
white marble facade extends one hundred and fifty
feet on Broadway, and one hundred feet on Cham
bers street opposite the Park; the front Reade
street is of brick, with white marble dressings,
and one hundred feet in depth; there are FIVE full
stories above the sidewalk, and two beneath, and
every floor is crowded with rich and costly goods.
The first basement, which forms an immense hall,
with an outer gallery about fifteen feet wide and
two hundred and fifty feet in length, under the
sidewalk, are appropriated to the display Of car
petings; the first floor has large suits of magni
icent apartments, with superb mirrors OF incredi-
BILE dimensions, the walls elegantly painted and
the floors richly carpeted these apartments are
appropriated to the retail business of the estab
ment; apartment is appropriated for the sale OF
Silks another of shawls, another of aces, another
of rises and mantles, another of woollens, another
of linens, while the grand centre hall, surround
ed by galleries and open to the dome in the roof, is
ased to display all manner of elegancies in up
holsery, porcelain vases, ormolu clocks, FANS rib
bons and tapestries; the assistants in this great
dry goodsery number two hundred and fifty per-
sons, and the amount of goods sold annually is
said to be ten millions of dollars. This morning
it was surrounded by a constantly shifting Gordon
Of splendid private carriages, while elegantly
dressed ladies streaming in and out, not like
grand show, and the husbands whose wives and
daughters went there with carte blanche will proba
bly, think avery costly The other great event
was the commencement of the annual trade sale of
books by Bangs & Brother which opened, in fact, on
Saturday This great fair is held in the upper part
of new brown freestone warehouse opposite the
Park, in Park Row, and has called together book
dealers, publishers, and literary from all
parts of the Union. The sale is of the largest
that has taken place in this country, the cata
logue alone forming u large and closely printed
volume of four hundred and fifty pages, and the
company attending the sales is said to be unusually
numerous II is the custom these great book
fairs to open the sale with grand collation., while
a sumptuous table, furnished with champagne, ,oys-
ters, coffee, cold ham, and other refreshmentsis
stantly spread during the week of its continuance,
free to the contributors and purchasers at the SALE
The booksellers are, generally, sleeker and
shrewder. looking class of men than other mer-
chants, and they sit round in their chairs,
ellis in hand, making notes. while the auctioneer calls
out the titles of books from his little pu pitt they do
notappear like ordinary traders engaged in purely
mercenary transactions. Booksellers are said TO
be the only merchants who deal in articles about
which they know nothing. This is doubtless true
OF the majority of the trade, but il would be libel
many of them, who are as good judges of the in
trinsic merit of the books they publish, they
of their mercantile value. The sales at the great
book-auction this season are not only unu
sually large, but the prices said to range
higher than usual. Some of our leading pub
fishers last year determined to adopt the method
of the London publishers, that they might
save the large commission which they have to
pay the auctioneer But, for some other,
they have fallen into the old plan this
-l-l.-I
nual sale, at which he sells the books published by
himself, and none others. He invites the trade to
grand banquet at the London Tavern or some
other hotel, and after the dinner puts up the books
on his catalogue at a fixed price, when it is doubt
less the that the good cheer has marvellous
effect in increasing the sales.
The two great openings of Stewards, and the
book fair, while they furnish most gratifying evil
dence of the prosperous condition of trade, and
the rapid increase of luxury and education
among us, not wholly calculated to fatter
our national pride. In Stewards magnificent
store you see no American goods, while on
the catalogue of four hundred and fifty pages of
merchantabe literary productions you see but few
American names. Here are, with all our in
telligence, independence, and newspapers, with
our boasted free schools, academies, and colleges,
still dependent upon monarchical England for our
literature; and with all wealth, mines, water
power, genius, and inventive talent, dependent
upon the rest of the world for the clothes put on
our backs. What is the result? We have exported
twenty millions of specie to Europe this year;
other million goes this week; and Notwithstanding
the constant arrival Of dust from Californa-three
millions nearly this month-money continues
eight in Wall street, and our banks are unable
to extend relief to their dealers. S. X. S..
A SPECIAL ENvoY TO EURorE.-The Kingston
(Jamaica) Adoertser, alluding to the arrival of
envoy from Havana, says that among the passen-
gers in the Conway is General Salas, from Havana,
CHARGED with despatches for Cadiz from Conchn.