New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-12
VIEWS OF THINGS, Esc., IN NEW YORK

II is almost more difficult than IN Fans, where L
have been looking these past five years to get and
give satisfactory vews Of things, and so forth. For
not only are they 60 many and various, but they so
completely undeIls and overlap each other, lie at
heads and points 90 snarled and tangled end have,
witha such mutually modifying correat;oUs refer
ences, bearings and connections, thatto say nothing
OF the hundred and one different points Of view from
which they nay be regarded and Of the refractng or
even discoo,ipg influence Of the constitutional make
or chance mood of the observing mnd-one must be
extremely cautious of asserting the accuracy of his
sketches One naturally cobfounds he beginning OF
one tlipz with the end of another, mistakes par
for tho whole mere sequence for consequence, juxta
rositsn for association. Then there such tenpta
tor from the genius of invention ofener, lacking
that from his numerous poor relations, the devils
presumption, to apply fanciul system OF comps
alive anatomy and from the singh bone or scale at hand
c, instruct monster Even adagueneoypist gives undue
proportions to the object nearest him. There is no end
of difficulties in the way Of high artists. AL that is
left for one who is not Of that hgih order is to look
straight out before him. and in setting down his dots aud
lines on paper follow the simple style Of the old mis-
tresses as we see displayed in ante pre-Rsphaelan
samplers.
First. however, az general embracing outline or II
YOU ike the figure better, grOundclOth on which the
design is worked lay out this comprehensive statistic
Of New-Yok-that great city wherein are six hundred
thousand persons and also q" much cattle.
As in that Scriptursl survey Of ancient Nneyeb,
90 here IL It fit TO include the cattle with souls biped
For, according TO Bishop Butler John Wesley, and
other distinguished diyines and according to many
laymen. Distinguished and undstingu:shed Ike Rsul-
bach and Granville and you and me, who have given
time end thought to our feowcrestures Of the lever
orders, they, too have souls. Nor is it solely by
reason of that common property, but by many other
smilsrts and analogue. in their lives and deaths that
they do sssert their claim upon our attention.
write By my window, and, for the sake of sugges-
tons to paragraphs that may be passing below pune
tuate nv periods by glsnces into the steeet. How
"hieh this higbt-how low that DEPTH ] will not
here get forth.
There go pranciDg by Timpkius and his spaI, feel
ing their oats, seek-coated MISUNDERSTANDING along
in harmonou. measured fancy gait under Their pol
ished harnese ard Fight ballast. No diTespect to
Tmpkns but really VIII, with the fine animal splrits
Of the whole party and these provocative personal pro
nouns viii run through the sentence all ntertackled
When compare the present high estate OF the steed,
with their shaggy cothood of eight years ago, spent
free and frchc in a bush pasture, and consider the
balerbreaking and harness breaking and docking and
sbearnz and checking and the rest Of the hppogogca
course they must have gone through on their way 10
the penteel stables they occupy and OF arsenic
dosing 70 disguise the of ones broken wind lllmpkios
doe. not know Oft; andhen compare the Tmpkins as
he turns out to-day with the little pedestrian Tlnpkns
whom YOU and just remember coming to our school
| with rudy cheeks and buiterput-dyed h'nespuns-
the three show of their points quite curious resem-
bapce Indeed, they sometimes get 90 mixed TO-
gether IL my train Of thought that can hardly tell
whether be Tppkins tina, i ahead or the sHan that
q ahead.
BE and kept up acquaintance for years after our
| school days when he used 10 come home On clerk
vacation in July He does not know me no~. There
il distance grown between us-a distance OF years aud
Of social spaces He has gone up town and up IN tie
world since then while l. keeping my old purse, have
, gone up an nelegant number Of stairs. Thanks 10
ACQUIRED Paris habtudes don't ind i 80 very hard
"to climb by others Stair, which is Fortunate For
e. to going up reputable pair OF ones own, except
thew lead 10 the balements of some caste N the ar
that is an impossible exercise for any man OF small
means in this city. Timpkns does nor kno" me now.
10 not make the forgetfnlness rePoaeh 70 him.
Nor have doubt that were 10 go 10 No. -, corner
Of the Avenue and til street. this very evening and
tel him that was in s'raitened circumstances, ne
would give me come very kind advice bo" misnt
have kent out Of them OF couIte. be has something
ese 10 DO thsu to be always studyicgthe mnemoncs Of
hfpdsl 10 You would not blame biz horses that hey
20 rot vbrry recognition If they chance % see, IN 'e