New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-12
New York Letter.
Correspondents of tbs srrsrfnt.


Nrw York, Dec. 81, 1858.
1t appears that after all not to have any rail
road 6meute Broadway tonight. For some days past
nearly all the papers in this city have been begging the
quiet citizens to keep quiet and not take part in the riot
which it expected was to meet the Manhattan en-
gfneers when they commenced tear up the pavement
in Broadway; at the time that they were pouring
out all sorts abuse upon the Council for purposng to
grant the Charter and the Company, collectively and
individually determining to make their fortune if
they could just as Mr. Tracey Tupman begged his friend
snodoras not On any account to Inform the police that
he intended fighting duel. The company has been
enioined and there's enc to the Don't pull up
Broadway, say the papers. Don't destroy only
horoughfare, say the property that street.
where stores of them rent for seventy thousand
dollars year. Don't put railroad In the middle of
the street. say the we want to be among the
fashionabtes once in while. DON'T drive many men
out OF employment you would, if railroad cars are to
take the place Of omnbuses say the and en-
poyees of those beatesloeking vehicles, In short,
don't have railroad in Broadway, say all those who
interested in shop windows in begging in high rents,
and who don't how much the people in need OF
it. We have done without it this long aud get along
comfortably enough-leaye well enough alone What OF
it, if carriages afraid to go below Stewards because
their object to having their panels smashed
What of 1t if rainy days the omnbuses don't afford
half accommodation enough for travellers? What of 1t,
if women and decrepit with mpsnity,
and cursed for being in the way by this prospecvey
injured class of labcrers2 Does not every body 60
there notwithstanding Is it not luxury to
main waiting in the rain for sent in one of those
delightful conveyances Have not the crowd something
to look at and something to laugh at when they
person carelessy over? To be Then keep up
the excitement Let the street be blocked every Eve
minutes in the dayet people be delayed in going to and
coming from their businesset ladies have to stand and
wait for slim chance to from side to the
other. A railroad well conducted, would obyiate this
aud render the street pleasant and comfortabeto
say nothing Of the safety of travellers but that is not
the question The thing is to keep the rails from being
laid, and let the people take of themselves.
heard large property in that street say that
railroad built there the street would be deserted
heard anything like such argument that but
before, and that in louisiana in barber shop
in village where had gone to be shaved While was
undergoing the operation (aud Causaran operation il
was Frenchman in and entered into conversation
with my surgeon who also Frenchman. After
preimnaries the barber asked the stranger how long
had been in this country?t
"Not longn he replied, "about two months"
Chow do you like il %
well don't know not very much not half so well
as France, of coursen 7.. a5
"What made you leave France then ~
tWhy yeu see,n he replied, g I am 4 shoemaker by
trade and do nothing else and since they have
tabished railroads in France nobody ever walks SO had
to leave''
thought the two about on par To plain people ii
would really that the you facilitate travel the
greater the travel will be- and that it is idle talk Of
streets being deserted when there place for the
deserters to go to- Railroads generally said to in
crease diminish the value of property And the idea
too, of few roofing up street where there mill
ions and millions of dollars to oppose it, the thing is
stupendously ridiculous.
There is grand all through the city now Every
man. woman and child who has sixpence to spend is in
seigh-omnibus sliding at fast pace horses
drag them. From every you hear the ngling
of thousand bells and from under every you see
red nose and laughing eye For two days without in
Permission almost we had storm, and it lie:
in heaps along the sidewalks and deep streets
1t is the first time in years since the people here
have had such chance and they improving it, Boys
in crowds slip along the pavement for mischief old gen
emen slide along to let the friends they walking with
see how much of the activity of youth they still possess
while sober persons annoyed though they be at their
slipping in the tracks those sporve young old peo
pie have made only laugh when they the crowd
merry makers by which they surrounded 1t is gay
and beautiful scene The old year is being jiuged
date and the year will be ushered in by thousand
happy chimes, Sprer.Top