New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-04

Broadway Theaer-Charloite cushDan-Guy Mannenns
Tycoon Be%%r, rs. 1aI
Italian Arit Associaton-vocal AMI lns,rumsn,slconcert
Bracket. shipwrssIed Mother and Chubby and ESsans
National Academy of Desisn-Moden anuns,Dy and Evening
satiers Commemorative in Asa Minor-Dy aud Evening
~ The weather last night was most
delightful; the wind had so far subsidized that even
Broadway could be visited without danger Of sufoca-
ton from the dust and the opportunity was improved
by many thousands of promenaders to whom the bland
atmosphere the new-risen moon and the once moro
clearly visible stars possessed all the charms Of novelty
and all the poetry of May the Imagination delights TO
paint her. But shrivel with fear lest the freshen
ing wind of morn" shall to-day all with the dreaded
whirlwnds of dust
The ELEVENTH PLAGUE,-The Dust,
oh the Dust All the plaques of Egypt weghtess
when compared with the terrible condition Of New.
York. The swarms OF flies, of lice, OF locust los.
Loco.Focos grevous, but they had end, and
the stubborn Egyptians enjoyed some moments Of COM
fort while Moses probed the inty heart Of the king
But who groan (when we have the breath to do COY
under the terrible nhiction of the Eleventh Paguehe
Plague of Dust-have relief There Is suspension
of the rack to ask question Dust to redden tho
sun, to eclipse the moon, and to obterate the stars
Dust in all our outgoings and all our incomings;
Dust, in our eyes, ears, nostris, lungs; Dust on our
nantes, but instead of sorrow In hearts;
Dust permeatng pores, as If tho dust Of the primal
Adam were exuding In mural sweat; Dust slowly sitting
into our shops, Offices homes, inner sane
tuaries, and piling little drifts and wreaths such
sees in quaint beauty In the track Of .
storm; Dust in food In drink;
Dust in solemn impapability, like awful
Dweler Of the Threshold, confronting in all places
as If the mournful burden, Earth to Earth, and
Dust to Dust" had been embodied and held up to all
mankind the visible renembrancer of mortal nsty.
Morally, spiritual good nature; physically, our cor.
poreal good health pecunarily, goods and mer.
chandsss debased, outraged ruined, by the omni-
present Demon Of Dust We cry aloud (when not I'd.
fed by DusD for relief but those who hear cannot re-
lieve and those who relieve will not hear. Our
promenades deserted; great thoroughfare 10
silent; along its glorious western boundary, tho
Ocean Of Dust has heaped high m waves, and threatens
it the tomb of desolation that the sands of the
Lbyan Desert preparing for what remains OF Upper
Egypt At long intervals the eyes Of heaven are 90.
yexed with Dust that the opthalmc clouds descend
in grateful tears but this impulsive and Illegal sprink
ling u.s. like other hystercal hts, overdone, and We
find ourselves in the other extreme--Mud, Mud rum.
ming in broad, black streams between the curb.
stones and making of every block grim fertilization
surrounded by Its ditch and equally shutting out the In
imcal and Ina the innocuous And 80, between two
dreadful plaques whose alterations irregular but
instantaneous, and whose regns equally detesee
able, symbolic the mutations Of the active verb
be- do to sufferdwelling with indispensable tor.
lures upon the third condition We who were wont 70
laugh at the approach Of Spring zephyrs now dread
thor coming as the nomad Copt does that Of the 81
moon, and like him shrink into imaginable nonenuty
until the scourge has passed May, that was once held
to be the Eden of the year. Is the dreaded OF all
the twelve Rather the sultry breath Of arid August,
the desolaton of drear December, than the dust OF
May And yet the rulers Of the City regard mot she
cry of the people, but hug the neshpots OF Esype TO-
their breasts and say, with accord-"Lct ~ esss
drink, smoke and be merry let take 1.-THE OF the
shekes which lie In the treasury let us provide rcs
contracts for friends, and reward those whose
sweet voices made US Aldermen In the land let ~
revel in wine and myrrh and the silks Of Damascuss
and let our servants the hewcrs of wood and the dsw-
ers of water, rail they will; We will eat, ddpk and
be merry, for at the polls die" Sol was, u, and
shall be- time without end and the silly people viii voee
and suffer In vain and the dust will blind and destroy
In vain and the mud will reek and splash In vain spe
the blinded and drowning public viii be blinded ana
mired In vain We are under the bondage Oh Du'.
and the chain only be broken perhaps noe tnens
by making the FIRST clean sweep In the Ies'foonp -
the Council Chambers of the Cay Hail. The Dn's' en-
the Dust
rThe Common Council managed 70
49,, 10 The City Hall yesterday sher-
-. -, NJ them just In time for the Tea ana m'A.
~ -. ,hor. were bicl and the business Wa Az ss1
inen - iuportans Some wag Of them pesPeerased
Pr"msy; ote Of ashins for new ordinance regulating
. -, spnuLlers-whieh decidedly refreshing whe.
rsr,eber that the useful class Of citizens referred
70 has been obsoese for nearly year. The Aldermen
.,.o .r.e,ouslv allowed" that the streets may b
.n,i,tIed between 8 L. ~ and P. II Such condo
,esuss, should evoke much grsdtada Tho mos I'M
porssns busissss d tho evening was the passage as
resolution thss he Common Council shoald wrts tasr
resolutions On pieces II Paper not smaller sAaa q.ass
Of shsss of foo,ssspi And thsn he Aldsnse. snoe
dsad With ths htHe of earning tAsr - 49, s9ssnes
tsths tsssoeu - bssa ~ wssk q sssass ssA aFsA'