Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-07-01
scENIs IN NEW YoRK cITY.

BROADWAY BY Mrps1oHr, or rather at that period be-
tween midnight and daybreak when silence broods
every thing, and the big columns Of light issuing from
theatres and refectories and from stained glass lamps
over their portals exngushed, should be at
least by every There is nothing then break
the silence that regns, save the Ginning
Of the old Trinity the distant football Of occasional
pedestrian perhaps physician returning from the bed
side of patient tagged out night editor who he
pods his weary homeward way, wonders If he has left
any of information unsearched that hare
furnished qualification to those who will in hour or two
be perusing his journal It is time then for tagging
steps the qualification of curiosity The order Of the
night is closely buttoned coats conspicuous jewelry
or watch chains the gold spsctaces Of the shortest
sighted safer in in inner pocket than
in their usual position supported BY the wearers In
fact to perambuate New York hour like this it is emil
nenty necessary to mind ones affairs and stop
nqustvey should group of suspicious looking personages
be gathered at the street which is necessary pass
The frequent attacks upon midnight pedestrians this city
we attribute in great majority of instances to their inn
prudence we never knew of person being assaulted in
the street provided he carried and the
even tenor Of his way though he entirely bis guard
against aggression.
ways something to be observed at midnight 1t is then
that those huge pacads posted that inform
that the "Specre Dogcar the Bull Of the Pyre-
nees," &C. win be performed the ms-named places Of
amusement and the bscker he scales pile of bricks
may tearing work rival has antici-
pated him with announcement of the virtues of Hoo
ways Pills and Ointment call for anti Nebraska
meeting save the unen The huge gded sign that
daybreak the dry goods OF Mesrs Ketchum
Sknnum found way there the wee hours Of the pre-
cedng night and then busted in taking down
huge picture the walls Of Barnums Museum that
in magned degree the natural curcsities that
may be within. Indeed. if should conjecture
how elephants and rhinocerose &C. introduced
buildings his curiosity could be graed this particular
period have the elephant at least
caon led quietly to the destined place CT exhibition, the
basement of four-sory building ready visitors the fol-
lowing morning The shrewd purveyor and for the
public appetite vending their way Washington
Market purchase the supplies for the day first first
served being the rule there well BARRIERS shops for
the earliest buyer always the mest and the
choicest vegetables II you choose follow them and wend
your the market you will find the business of the day
their contents and plenty Of purchasers are already watt
ing inspect the articles The air is edolent of the per-
fume of strawberries that the has not yet wted and It is
amusing when scarcity Of them special article ex
lists witness the eagcrness of the rival purchasers Thu
fortunate hrckster radiant with pleasure then reaps his
and wish that like fortunate people,
could DO snrgy reposing in his home in the oblivion Of
sleep.
Huge doves Of cattle are now coming various quar-
ters and proceeding on way Bulls Head covering
curb curb with their numbers An hour hence
and the birds viii be werng among the trees in the Park
singing perhaps listen their music, which be-
drowned in short by the din of the omnbuses a-d
hicles that permit still soft to be heard amid their
din The uptown resident who rides down bis counting
room at and at five may pass lifetime without
being aware little BIRDS with their gaddest music
the big shade Of the Park each morning salute the ruddy
glow with which the empurples all the But their
occupation gone unheeded single stage comes
laundering along then another and again Broadway awakens
from sumber and the busy tide of living beings crowd its
bounds, every day succeeding another illustrates.
Journal of Commerce.