Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-10-13
Items from New York.

The arrival of emf grants is immense. No
less than "a, 453 arrived within the four days
preceding the 2sth ult. Some of these emf
grants are to be pi,ied. The Times states that
the Board of Health last summer closed the
immigrant lodging houses, without providing
any substitute for them. and the result is hun
dreds, if not thousands of the poor creatures,
who have just arrived in the country, shiver
and suffer the live long night, or hudde to-
gether in gr cups and take unquet sleep,under
stoops, in new buildings, or under the piles of
lumber. Even the bare sidewalks on Canal
street nightly furnishes the only resting place
which many of them have, and they hail the
morning with joy, because the sun will warm
thercod and benumbed limbs. What wonder
is it that these poor creatures get sick?
The number of deaths in the city for the
week ending the 25th, was 424, of which IA
died of cholera.
The Tribune of the 2sth says
There Is les activity in the money market
to-day, and the supply among the leading
houses is larger. The current rates is per
cent, although some loans are making at per
cent. First class two name paper goes at
per cent. for short, and per cent, for long
The supply of paper is NOR free. The banks
in the present pethoric state of the money
market not disposed to do much except
ing in their regular dealers. -
The Herald says
We have ascertained by recent accurate in
guiry. that the value of the new buildings cree.
ted during the last twelve months, i'm the Eigh-
teenth ward alone, is equal to four millions OF
dollars, and that the aggregate amount of the
same period, throughout the city, may be es-
timaed at ten millions of dollars, more or less
This is movement truly astonishing. The
vast improvements going on in New York as
simulate the present era, in many respects, to
the prosperity Of 1885 and &c. previous to the
great financial revuIsion of 1887. In every
part of the city, whole blocks of good old hou
| ses, which might have stood for half century
longer, are pulled down without the slightest
remorse. and splendid new buildings in, every
variety OF taste and magnficence, soon oc
cupy their sites. Railroads are projected
throughout every street-Broadway and Fifth
avenue included-and it is possible that a.
such projects, springing from spectators and
! speculation, may succeed in spite of all the eff
forts of sober sense to prevent or control them
Great Improvements are just now beginning
to be made in Greenwich street, and the pros
pect is that the beautiful street, which has
just been raised and repaved, will soon be fill
| led with new and splendid buildings and stores
the German and Irish boarding houses with
which the lower part of it is now almost ex
clusively occupied being driven some out Of
the way quarter. Whole blocks of the the mosl
>splendid buildings, each house worth from
thirty to forty thousand dollars. are being cree
ted in the upper regions Of the city; but small
tenements, adapted to the wants Of the mddl.
and poorer classes, are never thought Of ant
never needed. The fashionable quarters o
twenty years ago have been long since aban
doned by their wealthy occupants. and givel
over to the more humble classes. Extravaganc,
in living. extravagance in style, extravaganza,
in habitations. extravaganza in everything
prevail in New York to even greater exten
than, in 1885, The vacant lots of the cit,
are filling up fast and in short time, it will
be quite compact, in its leading avenues an,
cross streets to distance far beyond the reset
voir on hurry hill.