New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-26


more pair Of cuous eyes performing the p grnase Of
The shep windOvs-one more head tortured With temp
asots-ors more Hale hs.d sstonishsd with the gre..
toise rush AID hustle, and almost asking, ike he
child at Eisgas, "Does this 20 on all the time
Let me add, ore mole hotel bill regretfuy paid,
more hackney coach engaged and discharged, ole
more pair OF pockets efectusly emptied and turned
nside cut, ana shall have sveo you tolerab'y COM
pietersive view Of my visit to NewYork
Not az exhaustive one, however, and as sketches
cfltn leave too much 10 the Imagination, | wi en-
6ssVor TO f il little the very slender outline have
juss thrown rpon paper.
Some writer's expatate with delight upon the i.ola-
tion feels in a crowd ard obviously enjoy solitude
chiefly in this form. confess that with those have
little symps.by OIs would like to undergo IBIS
ton once, in common with those Of hanging and
drowning, to Erow lew /. !ees but ore would ike to
emerge from such forlonre;s a, speedily possible
IhaD uthesi'apgly sst do the advantages Of being
alote in a crowd as only available to pickpOckets and
other savage beasts. could Willingly be alone 10 St.
Peters, the Roman Forum, the Coliseum, bit in
Bros dwsy or Paris, give me companion, and, # pos
tibIe, jolly one.
So much for the compsnionshp Of the sreets-as for
lbe shops they are social enough, certainly. When
a strait wsscost, ard is constantly a. your elbow to
srpy it, losipg sight of you only when you gladly lose
sight of him ard his wares together. 10 all the larger
establishments an official Of this description takes you
in charge 60 that walk through the domain s not SO
very unlike the perau bulsion Of the Insane Asylum
with s nedcus ss your lesder. On the right you see
these who are afflicted with the mania of Aouoces;
tkful practitioner ministers TO their ament; they are
deuded with the sight of fifty s'1ty fe.s of these
st &c, and made quite TO forget that they can ooy
possess one, and will find it difficult, perhsps to pay
for any. Yonder are the wretches who make rush
on the glove counter with what calm self possess,
ion the head of that department receives them.
There are the cases of chesp calico, and
even the Siddonian question, "Will Il wash?' is
panied by smiling and disarmpg expression Of coun-
tenaDce, which puts such insane doubts out Of the
eson. In the heart of the establishment there is
generally a loom devoted TO those ncursbles who buy
the ussad-dollar Cashmeres and point lacss WHOSE
price your humble servant knoweth rot Here you
sball sec knot Of female patients the sufferers are
usually Ct this SEX gathered about an ohec. whic1the
cunning attendant cleverly displays and exal.s; they
regard with eyes devout enough for the Transhsua-
ton Of Rapi ael, while he declams in heroic tsrns,
upon its priceless beauty. What ii A piece OF
lace nire feet long, perhaps by three in breadth l'ee
AZ II at this is curious case OF MANIA my coun-
tensnce perbaps expresses as much, Tor the pnrA;e
"real point passes from mouth to mouth with all the
soer,nty of church response, and then understand
that tits scarf is sort of Fetish and that the lace
,rorskip is religious delrsioD.
But my attendant i, by this time curious to aacer-
tain the ratuYe OF my malady. "What! not Aounces,
not calcos rot aces not velve. cloaks-what then y
inform him, TO his great disgust, tina. am, or be-
leve myself tobe, eourd upon all those points, and
Il at my object is simply invesga'ion-with view TO
shopliftirg, be thinks but latch lifting being more to
my purpose accomplish it to my great satisfaction,
and take my leave with al uuheeded bow, and an
internal vote of thanks to the protecting pc Eers.
But / csue, after this, into region where my own
special temptations begin, aud where the msduess
might gain upon me, it not for the good Goddess
Of Poverty who walks the streets with me. She isrny
Virgil. in this brilliant Inferno; her hand is ever
pn1n nv cloak; size has taken my slender
nurse into her keeping, and when the snare of
bargain il spread FIR my feet, her plain, unfirchlng
features frishten the very shopnen out of their
impudence I am no n lin wocderful bookstores, whose
huge pate glasses reveal all bs. possible Of their
i'm or tire a.ures-Ieerve in shops and IN women hav-
jpg gore oat Of fashion together. could have now
for so Whist would have cost so but six months ago.
"But YOU have not got those $50 suggests the Sybl
a. my side. "We but al least this wonderful Hum
mated Fosssyt, worth twice the money asked for ii
10! Tren this volume Of Lsibntz, go l1nsed Tor,
ard 40 iurottsnt 10 my studies" The Sybh mlr
mus il my ear something about sAoe-eshtr, sc1oo!-
bi'ls. AID barrel Of flour, aGd before hnoY 1t, AN
cut OF tire shop where my rigorous comp 'nio' boasts
that RE has SLOWED me good hours amu'e nenf,
without the expenditure of cent house rent and fuel
beirg thrown into the bargain.
Out of the fryirgpsn into the fire. There i'tae
brorze-sbop with wonderful porcesins and crystals,
Dardesps t mcrclt. l. displays endless varistes OF
figures vases and epergnes, in the first nanei i'e
,s AID in the second the marves Of Ssvres aud Dfes-
den-n,t the China Juggernsu.s worshiped by the
fools of our =, andmothers tme-but beautiful wares
that counterfeit shells, flowers, butterflies and fir
human faces. With these appear many Of oar olo
favortes TRANSPORTED in Paiian. Toe S?oh t"itc'e'
NE away from these delights and calls my attention to
patened cofiee-m aker, which, out Of spite, DO not
buy.
Bat tle first Carlo Of my wanderI gs must end here
Preserve your attention for my second, "hich VIII
follow in due time, ard bel eve ice
DevOuily yours Ac,
tn THE PRESIDENT OF THE CMTEO