Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-27
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
IRON az OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT AT
TIE CITY OF NEW YORK.
NEW YoRK. AUGUST "a, 1853.

This is certainly the Babel of the New World,
and undoubtedly contains more "noise and con-
fusion" than any other city OF the Union
doubt if any city in Europe, not even the great
business metropolis of London, can show any thing
like parallel to Broadway during the business
hours Of the day. The great London thoroughfares,
such as the Strand, Cheapside, &c, exhibit con-
slant and uniform current and countercurrent OF
vehicles Of every kind and description from early
morn until night but then they move IN regular
lines one after the other and from which no one IS
allowed to deyiate in order to get ahead OF his
neighbor A splendid chariot and four, with pos
tions and outriders, will be seen with their leaders
noses close upon mud cart which precedes, and
going at the same slow pace as said cart, until y
may arrive at some cross street by which u may
turn of and whip up an aristocratlc trot Not 50
in Broadway, where the wide street Is hlled IRON
curb TO curb with CARTS wagons, onibuses, carriages
gigs furniture cars and every other description Of things
which 20 on wheels in the admirable confusion
Sometimes the dounUGrG stream has entire possession Of
the street, sometimes the pp. Sometimes the two sides
Of the street have setting down, and the middle
an upward current; then again it is reversed Here
you will the street apparently as full as can stow
yet from cross either side continued stream
OF ether vehicles constantly passing some TO 60 up
cad 60 down, and all manage to edge themselves
int the Of moving MATTER and make their
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Broadway whether omnibus drivers, hackmen, carriers
others, against the mos. expert whips Of all crea
ton " for the mannern which they witake advantage Of
the smallest possible chcnce get ahead and the close
with which they will shave the hubs Of their
vehicles with those of others and yet hit is truly
astonishing Give an omnibus driver only half an inch
TO spare between two other carriages, being quarter Of
inch each side and he viii certainty 60 through
The space at full trot without touching.
Amidst oil this crowd and confusion Of wheels il is
really surprising to witness, what only be called the
insane desire OF New Workers seize every occasion for
making display in Broadway II volunteer company
has turned for parade and is march from one part
Of the city another it only be through the throng
of carriages, smnibuses, and carts in Broadway. If
there is funeral procession instead of going quietly and
unostertatously by one Of the lateral streets they w
the contrary leave it and make the shortest Gu. to
Broadway though they travel out Of their direct
route both get into il and to get out 10 the great in
convenience OF those whose legitimate route and business
is IN that thoroughfare only wonder that SO much re-
spect paid these professions and that their Lines are
constantly broken The omnibus ani other drivers,
think, show great forbearance when, already so ham
Pered and annoyed in making their way along Broadway
they do not give annoyance al PROFESSIONS fune
ones who thus so gratuitousy obtrude themselves
from legitimate in order to make personal
display and show themselves in Broadway.
The business Of New York is truly gigantic, and is
daily increasing The money transactions in Wall street
and in the banks enormous, counting daily not only
by Millions but by tens Of millions II is the money
heart Of the continent No how distant tie place
where money is wanted-be it il Texas Nebraska in
Oregon California matter by whom it is required
whether by State county, city, town, village nc
matter for what obec-a canal or railroad, bridge
turnpike, coal copper ine-Eew York the point
where the negotiation be made and through from
which the money come Her transactions in mer-
chande equally in proportion her imports Of
foreign goods and her interior and eoaswse receipts Of
domestic productions exceed all the widest antcpations
which formed Of her future trade but very few
years since Her sailing and steamboat tonnage and the
operations Of her merchant princes all grand
going to say the 9rGRde scale, but this latter
would not be strictly correct for they daily and
hourly charging.
In all these immense transactions in their loans for
other States or countries in their other financial opera
tons the importation Of foreign merchandise in their
receipts of domestic produce and manufactures in their
carrying and general freghtng business in every
thing they do and almost for every thing they say New York
heavy tribute in the way Of exchange commits
sions, compensation, and profits; the sailors say,
"every finger is fsh-hook" and vast amount sticks
the points remain in the city and swell up its area
dy colossal wealth. And who bsgrudges it to them
ry, present situation, and future prospects by their
ZEAL industry, enterprise, and, will also add, their
iberslity.
see hardly any limits to the prosperity and wealth Of
New York for she has obtained such start that
other city rival oyerake her. To her popglo
DO limit for under the present facilities Of
iocomo;on with every probability Of such facilities being
greatly increased her business men, and her artiIan
mechanics and laborers viii seek for residences around
about the great city rather than in it. Villages, towns
and cities win grow up the neghboriDg shores Of
her waers and on the lines Of the different railroads that
diverge from the city, which wiz be peopled by residents
who really will be New Workers. whose business, pro-
perry and interests generally all lie in the city, and who
will make their daily visit by railroad steamboat to
pass their business hours their counting houses
shops, and return 10 their families in the evening
Brooklyn with its l2oo 900 inhabitants Williamsburg with
its 10000, Newark with its 60000 Staten Island Jersey
City, Hoboken, Astoria and various other similar neigh
boring places, only suburbs Of New York. and irha-
bted great extent by those whose interests and bu
lie in the city 1t is already more convenient for
anew York merchant TO have his residence in Brooklyn
or Williamsburg than in the upper part Of the city at
20h 20h and 10th streets three, four and Eve miles
the Battery, which distance he has ride in an
omnibus whereas in the other case lie has to 20 less
distance, and principally in comfortable ferry
boat, which affords greater facilities and comfort
than the best bridge the Hudson the East river