The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-28

most heavily upon the Third ward. The result has
been the rebuilding, in most costly style, whole
streets Of stores Of brown stone and marble fronts of
six stories and upwards in height.
The Fourth ward, on the east side Of the city, is
behind hand; in the Fifth the improvements are
limited; in the Sixth, tire fountain Of Justice and
crime, distinguished for the Five Points and the
Tombs, the Park, the City Hall and its adjunc.s,
the improvements are Of the most important
kind, being public buildings and the New Haven
and Harlem Railroad depot, which covers an entire
square, and is constructed as to appropriate the
three upper stories on each Of the four fronts to
Offices, nkshops, and factories. The improvements
in the Seventh ward are on q small scale, and also
in the Eighth but in the Ninth, they are on an
extensive scale, consisting partially Of first class
houses, and largely Of cheap tenements for the ac
commodation Of those classes who the producers
and the builders Of cities every where In the Tenth
ward, the improvements are mostly stores in the
Eleventh and Twelfth, and Thirteenth and Four
teenth, Of good substantial dwelling houses aud
modest tenements. In the Fifteenth, the s'mer.
chant princes" have taken hold, in very extensive
rar ges Of new houses Of the first order with rich,
imposing brown stone fronts, and beautifully cut
and ornamented. In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
wards some Of the buildings costly, and Others
quite the reverse, though the aggregate is large
The Eighteenth ward, however. takes the first
premium for the improvements Of the year, which
will amount &c nearly five hundred houses, and an
outlay exceeding four millions of dollars The in
provements in the Nineteenth are not SO numerous.
For those Of the Twentieth we refer the reader to
the list, which publish elsewhere in our columns
to-day.
The grand aggregate for the city, az summed up
from the statistics we have published, amounts to
thousand buildings, at total cost exceeding
fourteen millions Of dollars; and yet, we believe
these figures too small. We venture to say that
the entire list Of new buildings, Of all kinds within
this city, erected in course Of completion during
the current year, will rise above feen hundred, at
total cost of at least tcenty millions of dollars, At
this rate Of progress moving onward with an accele-
rated momentum every year, who can estimate the
real estate and population of New York for the year
1900, or even at the next census of 1860!
And to what do we owe all this To the Union,
and the Compromises of the Constitution, which
bind the Union together-to Southern slavery and
Southern commerce-to the acquisition Of Florida
Louisiana, Texas, and last, though not least, to
California, and the gold trade of San Francisco
Thus the policy Of sustaining the constitution, and
of maintaining all its compromises, and the saga
cious policy Of widening its boundaries have made
New York whatit is-the great metropolis Of Ameri-
CO. In abiding by the Union and the constitution,
in giving encourage nent to that liberal and expan
sive policy which has redounded 50 much to our
prosperity, national and local, VIC have the secret of
the continuance of our unexampled progress The
great and glorious destiny of New York only be
arrested by giving coantenance to those abominable
fanatics demagogues and agitators, whose object is
to destroy the Union, that they may rise to some inn
portancs on its ruins The interests Of New York
and of the Union are the same.