New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-09

generally An Irshnan charges what he please. and
this deponent had 10 pay tso dollars i.'gnt sn''"he
snd iourpence Tor drive OF hess Ihan wv uee' ""'
there was neither redress law tor the grleVtnce
nor anything but subulssi,n. Had q bargain oesh
made before hand one dollar would doubtless nav,
been accepted but has kueycoarh H. at the oest OF
times ana ID all circumstances, such an expeisi'e anu
htglous lu1uryi that few people but the greepet 81
strangers thnk OF using one. The great avenues ma
parallel with broadway re- provided with lines Of
rail, on which numbers of very excellent cars, each
capable Of accommodating with perfect ea-s aud CONF
font, from twenty to Thirty passs bgeys drawn by
horses-an Arrangement which might be introduced
INTO London with much advantage
Broadway II the fashionable promeuade-the Re
gent street and Hyde park well "a the Cheapside
and Fleet sireet-ot N.w.York Let Us take look
AZ the p.ope-a few carriages-sev ,ral Of them with
ducal or baronal 'nronets upon the panels though
on what principle no on" can ,el-nnnge among the
white omnbuseS; and here the negro cVachmen come
INTO competition with the Irish. The ladies' of New
York who go shopping in the Broadway are evidently
fond of cress. Let them not be bla ned, for what
lady is rot Some ot the Journals have bo$n unysl-
Ian; enough 20 attribute the late commercial panic
almost exclusively 10 the eNtraVagance IN personal
adorrmen Of the fair seN; but, without joining in this
.fk assertion or saving word in 'tsrespect OF
disporagemeDt OF that charming AMI better portion Of
humankind truth cOnpels me 10 state that as regards
the mere volume and circumference II crin"lint, the
ladies of London and Paris are to those of Newlork,
but as butterflies compared with canats The carca-
lures Of the crinolinc mania which the world owes 20
ts excellent friend PuHoh, If enaggeratlons of English
;ssa,ions, are no Congregations OF those OF Nv
York; and 20 get along Broadway, where
there is law of the pavement, as III
England, and where every takes the vail
il psases him or her, is no easy matter. We're 1t
rot for cinOnes ii would be difficult for English
man. accustomed to have the wall at biz right hand,
o make any progress, unless by series OF provoking
zigzsgs but hustled by crinones, the beet thing for
the gallant man who is in hurry IL 10 step oil the
pavement into the road. Nor have the fair ladies' sl
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with them the passion, or the sentiment of the hoop
for il must be one oftheSc and initiate their garments
the most ridiculous proportions Little negro girls
of fourteen fifteen yeais OF age, with brig-colored
parssols bright silk dresses of width surprising any
redence but that of the eyes of the behoder, founder
awkwardly TO and fro; and aged negresses, equally
splendid and equally rotund, waddle ike hppopotam
among their Anglo Saxon and Celtic elow-creatures
as If they bad been rugged ont inaclously by some
hater OF crnone and launched into the street 10 con-
vert their farer sisters elegant form Of dress
upon the same principle as the aucients nculcated
sObriety by the spectacle OF their drunken slaves
There not only craze tor cnnolne here, nut crho-
line itself is crazy-huge, unwieldy, preposterous,
and offensive.
Another feature of Broadway is the number OF
Irish and Germans who swarm in it, it, and round
about it. The Irish seem to have The news trade 10
themselves; and the newsb0ys and newsgirs, selling
the cheap daily newspapers, are 70 be met with ut
every corner, and blockade the entrances 10 all the
principal hotels. Ragged, barefooted, aud pertina-
cious, they TO be found i'll the streets from dawn
an past the dark, crying out The glorious news of
the Fall Of Delhi" " The last terrible explosion On
the Oho-lO0 lives lost or The la.t attempted as
sassinaton in lager beer saloon They recall the
memories of the old country by their garb, appear
ance, and accent, if not by their proessoni while
their stad elders. male and female who monopolze
the appc-stalls look far sleeker and more comiorta-
Die than their compeers do Mt home, and show by their
coy appearance that they have prospercd IN the new
land file Germans are more quiet, and drink lager
beer and smoke pipes in cellars day and night.
But the Broadway at night offers more remarkable
scene than the Broadway by day. My impressions OF
4 shall be reserved for my next letter. c. NJ.