The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-09-17

them headIopr into the Hudson or East river.
| We repeat, that ever ything app ears TO be con-
auc,ed in New York upon hasty or magnif-
| cen, scale. Some ofthe hotels have Ave hun
dred boarders--who, at the table, Ego il with
rush." as il wager was pending upon the
foremost. Some Of the merchants have stores
| almost equalling in size our Exchange, swarm.
| ing with busy, bustling clerks--amongst which
the establishment Of the Stewards, on Broad
way, stands conspicuous, where all descrip.
tons of dry goods are sold separately, and by
eparate clerks; 200 souls are ushered 10 and 100
die daily; some Of the printing Offices have 800
hands employed, and some of the newspaper
| Offices as many as 100, and publish as many as
$4,000 papers daily. But Broadway presents
| the most remarkable feature to the stranger
Extending from the Battery and the Brooklyn
Ferry on the East, about three miles in a direct
line to the West, you find it crowded almost TO
| jam with human beings, carriages, onni-
buses, wagons, carts, drays, hand carts, &c,
| from early morn until late at night. Here, too,
is the most common parade ground for all
classes, from the highest to the lowest Here
may be seen the gold-buttonsd millionaire, the
fine linened dandy and the pefumed fop, the
| galy caparisoned lady shining in her fine silks
and glistening with her rich jewels and dia-
monds, and the most ragged, miserable, and
| filthy beggar, all mixed up into one coDglome-
| rated mass. All extremes meet here. Take
your stand upon the stoop the Astor House.
and in one hour you may see thousands of peo-
pie of all nations, kindred and tongues-black
and white spirits, and spirits of oil shades and
| colors, ages, kinds and condilions-the whole
rapidly moving to and fro, and presenting
subject rich for the contemplation of The phio-
sopher. An omnpresent eye. to see whence
they all came and whittier they are all tend
ing, to learn all their multifarious occupations
and pursuits, and to understand the motives
which are governing their movements, and im-
polling them onward SO rapidly and in such
various ways, would have presented picture
curious and interesting.
So great is the vast amount ofmatter, living
and dead, animal and mechanical, which con-
| stantly finds its way into Broadway, that a
crossing of the street is matter ofextreme
difficulty, and frequently of imminent danger.
Some one has remarked that more genius is
required to cross Broadway three times in
safety, than isrequred to make good County
Court lawyer, and during our recent visit we
heard an old gentleman say that he would
rather take his chance in duel than attempt
to cross that street three times. On either side
of that great thoroughfare, there is continual
stream of omnbuses, presenting the appear
| ance of funeral professions constantly going
| each way; and all the intervening space is
| filled up with private carriages and vehicles of
| every sort. ID urng our vsit few days ago,
we witnessed Broadway blocked up from the
Battery to the Park, "a distance of about three
fourths of mile, so that nothing could move
or cross for about fifteen minutes time. The
whole street, for that entire distance, was
jammed and choked up with omnibuses and
carriages of all kinds; and this, we were in~
formed, was daily occurrence, the result of
such great number required for the demands
ofthe business and travelling public. We are
of opinion that it requires more genius to be
an omnibus driver, in New York, than for al.
most any other occupation, and the patience
and temper of Job himself.
But, we must close-our space forbidding us
10 speak of many things which came under our
observation, during two weeks sojourn in
the mammoth city of Gotham, worthy of no.
tice. We will only add, that New York is
great, a very great place-a splendid city of
wealth and poverty, OF pleasure and misery.
With no small amount of the honest and good,
it abounds with the bad, with thieves and with
swindlers. Side by side are crowded together
saints and sinners, parsons and gamblers, the
vrtuous and the debased, the splendid and the
unsightly, the happy and the wretched-in all
presenting place where person should have
at least half dozen eyes, as many ears, be de-
void Of all charitable feelings, and not too
strictly honest, to get along safely and pros-
perously.
We came away from this great, noisy, bust
ling, moral and immoral city, satisfied that for
tune had fixed our local habitaton in other
parts.
MIRACULOUS DEvELoPMENT.-The Louis
vile Democrat tells a story of a little girl on>
ly twenty months old, the daughter of gen.
tleman of German origin, residing in that city,
who possesses a wonderful memory for music,
together with power of acquiring tunes,
| which seems to be indeed miraculous. When
only fifteen months old, she began to exhibit
this extraordinary capacity by Ginning in with
the last words of every line of the German dit
ties sung to her. She learns an air perfectly,
after hearing it three or four times; sings a
variety Of tunes, and never confuses one with
another. Within the last four or five months
she has learned either wholly or in part, says
the Democrat, about thirty German songs,
some drinking ditties with Latin burdens, be-
SIDES yankee Doodle" Dearest ,""Old
Virgnny," and "Uncle Ned"
If this be not romance, this little creature