The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-21

POPULAR ExCirLMi .Nrs-NeW 4 ork cant g6s
on without an exc femens OF soms kind, aAd
at present there Ia. rather too naoh of it. The
city is cro~ded with strangers Broad way
looks like an in lmenss flower garden, blooming
with dry goods. aud pretty women tho weather
is the incest fticle of the kind we have been
favored with. lately, ard there is no earthly
reason why ne should not all thank the gods
for the so I'd We have, I'D not bother our
heads aocu the future. But we are too stupid
TO know v hen we are veil off. and we are all
excited heat something or other. There is
the excl .enent aboUt the extradition of the
British hnisser, which is making great row
IN Wall street, Cverspreading the bulls faces
with = Ne sicRly cast of thought, while the
bears, shrewd fellows are playing their game
thing and know that it cannot last. Stocks
dane up and down like the barometer on an
Apr Il day, and we have heard Of one gentleman
who's was go positive that there would be war
vii b England that he offered his house for
sa lie, fearing that it would be bombarded
B elligerent Britons, formerly in the army, but
TT present " unattached" to anything but beer,
brag loudly about "our" fleet, and give it as
their opinion that the British lion could chew
up the American eagle-tail feathers and all
in ridiculously short space of time-ssy
fortnight. Young New York trembles in its
patent feathers; desires to know if the extra
dition of Champion will involve the necessity
of sending back Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Laura
Keene, Mr.. Burton, Mr.. Wallack, and other
British artists, who for consideration"
amuse, enlighten and refine the theatre going
population OF the land of the free and the
home Of the brave? That would be terrible.
In musical circles there is an excitement
about the opera, Max Maretzek having accom-
plished the tremendous and hitherto consider
ed impossible feat of keeping the Academy
open several weeks, and having some cash on
hand. Vestval was the excitement last week;
"Luisa Miller" is the excitement this week.
Go and see Luisa-
Then there is the Nicaragua excitement
quite fierce since Col. French came to town.
People gaze with admiration, not uEmingled
with fear, at those gallant heroes, covered
| with buttons and beard, who ornament Broad
way, and are thirsting for an opportunity to
chow themselves Lafayettes aud Kosciuskos
Some of the quia nuncs apprehend collision
between Captain Sands, Of the susquehanua,
| and Captain Tarleton, of II. B. MS frigate
| Eurydice. Others think Tarleton will ask
| Sands to dinner and settle everything over
wine and walnuts; that the only balls us ID
viii be the soTtes dansante given by the officers
to each other. 1t is safe to say thet Greytown
will not be bOmbarded this time.
Coming little nearer home we have the
Kansas excitement, which is the shallowest of
all hunbugs and which lie only kept up by
very hard work. 1t will not do, although
the Seward papers cling to it as their last
hope. Nobody cares who shot Jones, or whe-
! Their Reeder escaped or what the Congressional
Committee is about. Such Investigations only
help to muddle an affair about which there
| has been an awful amount Of lying from the
| CONNIE ncement.
| In the shape Of q sanitary turore we have an
excitement on the yellow fever question.
| Some tinid people think that because the
| fever was in Norfolk last year it will be here
| this summer. It is simply absurd, this panic.
| because the fever miasma is engendered from
| swampa, which our island Is happily free from.
We cannot afford such luxuries
There is not much reality in any of these
public excitements That about Nicaragua
has the most vitality, and may entangle our
relations with England; but when Mr.. Pierce
hes got just far enough in fight to smell
powder, he always falls from his horse. So
Wall street may buy, sell, speculate, barter,
corner, the saCe as usual, and our volunteer
militia may rest Satisfied that their duty viii!
be confined to enlivening Broadway, and that
their snowy uniforms will not be sullied with
villanous saltpetre.