Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-09-23
OUR NEW YORK CORRESP0SDEsCE.
NEw Yoak. Sept. $. 1881,

NEw YoaK. Sept. 5. 1881. To fse Edfsors cf fAe Banners
 At very tate honr last evening. tcegsaphis dispatch reached this city from New Orleans. an nouncing the arrival of the Cherokee at that poFi with news from Havana to the 3ist alt, which suppose will reach you before this arrives.
 l Those of your readers who have not been n New York for ten ortwelve years would now hard. ly recognize any portion of t above Canal street Commerce is driving every thing beioreit. Whole acres that, bu, few years ago, wefe covered witt dwelling houses, described in advertisements 2: being in quiet and retired nsighborhcod," are now oveuun with stores of all kinds. and are crowesj ffon early dawn to midnight with yehi cles Of every description, and foot passengers Q leveY cline and color
 In St. Marks Place, locality hitherto imprcg nable to all the attacks of commerce, observed last week, huge palatia structure "goiRg up,' and thinking from the location that N must be in tended for sorae milliouare, as pnyaie dwelling to compete with the palace Of ex-governor Fish a. present the most costly residence in the city it having cost. believe, sl50.000.) cnquired O looker-on the name Of ihe fortunate owner o the projected rnansion He informed me that tho building was being erected aS a manGfaetoty foi Rich es Cos salsmander safes; and that although good deal of fuss was made abont it by the fash ioaa5le inhabitants of the neighborhood, inc re- suit would be tat the building would go up, and that the fashionlbles would have to remove far ther up town "to be drivenof again." added he, Gin few years by some other enterprisiDg firm. "
 That's the way the thing works in New York, These salamander safe men are wealthy; employ constantly some two hundred persons; consume annually over t5o and half million pounds o iron and plaster oi Paris; send their safes to all lquarters of he globe, and have all the inf consequent upon tie possession of patent indus try and wealth; so then whenever they clap theil eyes on a location eligible for their purposes !hel buy it and commsnce operations at once. Thf sound of then hammers, the clangor and crash O machinery, the ringing of the factory bells the chatter of horses hoofS and cart wheels, the screech of the steam whistle, the believing o engines and all tie noise and hustle and confu- sion of an imInenie manufactory, soon drive fam flies who live on their incomes. or i'll other words, idlers who live or what their fathers sweated for to some quarter where the sounds of industry De- yer penetrate. My sympathies arc with the work ers-with the men who enrich our country by theil labor, and render it famous by their skill and en- terprize Let an American enter the counting rooms of the merchant-prinees Of Europe and Asa, the studies of monarchs, princes and dlplo- mats of the old world and he will there see Rich eS Co.'S improved saamander safes, holding in theil everlasting keeping, the money and writings oi those who rule the world; while the foppish scions of our tso called) ariStocracy who foolishly na- gne themselves the superiors of these iron nerved nechancs, are never heard of beyond the narrow circle where their follies are committed, except when their names chance to get into the police reports of some city journal.
 One of thestrangest facts which strike an Amer ican reader on perusipg the details of the English census, is the large number of uninhabited houses not only in London, but all over England l can in no way account for this, unless it be that the greater portion of such houses are only just com pleted; for, in spite of the immense amount oi houses untenanted. find a large number returned ! as ." building" This would imply of course, a demand for increased accommodation. The re turns for the London district alone will explain my meaning, and convey some idea of that vasl wilderness of tenemeuts.
 ! Houses inhabited. d............---.. .307, 722 '' uninhabIted. .......-........ 16,6S9 ( hu,l