New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-24
THE GREAT PANORAMA.
. Flourish OF TRuMPETs.

-, II vas pleassot, gettemaIiy "ouo VI
r,.ibood, and, we're j. not for the prospect
snrts sts', 10 the background, quite as oomuends'le
d. modem but egsized methods OF cutting
Is ~ We'll. fodiig myself somewhat 10
~ Intellectual depletion, that Is 10 say
49, hard up for subjects; having e1bau'ted every
ps.,r.hIa tonic out of which newspaper writers
-. sy,;cles; the weather the Stree! Commissioner
~. ,ss police, the Atlantic cable, the watering places
~ ;,o,..,s Of crime, with others too numerous to
-, have been forced in my poverty to copy
=. . ,sr.sip extent Messrs. Turpin and Duval, with,
s...v,, ,ome eight difference. 1t would bo useless
1.,. 10 take 10 the road. The only highways
,.r,o.ds and don't thifk thst Mr.. Turpn himseh
-or,s veptare to sttepp. to stop the Eue Express
- S,rv.k engineers are the only people VINO
.,,,ge 10 make such fact Goa hes "stsnd and deliver
ILL.,, M road therefore to betske nyssf TO, from
.beh 10 fll my mental purse, / have taken 70 the
s.rstx
Tire stree.s, argued society with its clothes on
soeis,, With ;,s beet foot fcreuoet. No man, If ne
ran b,jp IT, will betray bis uner self in the streets. II
Socks il on the brink CT ruin, he will ahaby prone
made Broadway and all stree. with cheerful coun-
tetmee; and il is oDly a. home in hs study that he
uil rave ard curse Thimblerg who did not meet bis
gagged TO Algernon Bamme before be went to Europe,
bit who has been deserted by that sprightly young
gentleman for the fascinating Comtesse dEquvoque
Of the Rue de ia Breds, if she performs her mstunal
,,cu,.ion to Stewsrts, Il must be with blooming
,le.ks-ro matter what she bloom costs-and bright
s,s, which no one would ever think left her last
rights pillow wet with tears. Don't sympsthize with
her. Adies Amelias gief was genuine but her senti
tiah ands sha
g.pt fer the establishment" No one to behold the
E,pd ard spoilers Reverend Hsrico Hyssop, as he
dcers our grest city thoroughfsre to inquire about
,cs stocks, in which commodity that gentle shepherd
occuoralJ dsbbles- no one would ever imsgine, l
SAY to behold bis placid snd modest countenancs that
hs hso been visited tina. morning by two OF his dea-
cous And threatened with investigation relative to
o.rsn private transactons Of his owD.
50 fsr tho streets are pretty gala show. Every
bJy IS well dressed they can afford to be, aud as
reu behaved as they know how. This acting makes
TIE spectacle oil the more agreeable to amsn like ms,
shcss business il ia to study human nature, and who,
beside kIowirg good deal about the private histories
Of Sge number of towns-folk, can also 60 far in de-
tery he anguish that corrodes under the snowy am
bic the guilt tina. testers under the spotess lawn.
The external aspect Of the streets themselves is
pleasant study-the continual cseting of its skin
which the city goes tbIougn-the bad architecture
ard the good architecture and the no architecture at
ALL Houses are stories in themselves Ii just strikes
me that there is pun here, but l did not mean it.
What histories does Broadway shop'front tell IN the
eomse Of one year Fnst, the erection. The white
marble front gorg up stone by stone. The sidewalk
Blocked up; the Idsh hOdcarners taking possession
Of that portion as if il their ancestral domain, aud
howppg at any passenger who dsres to trespass
thereon. The msu killed by the falling block. Fl
nay, the completion. All this informs me that Booze
hss made fortune by selling mock brandy and is ln-
vssng in real es'ate Then comes great day for the
shOp4cont 1t is ocean Of plsteglass aud curious
throug gathers round the s.ore Of the Cachucha
Patent Entire. t-of Clothes Company l watch
the progress of this interesting Company with
some anxiety. They advertise enormously. They
keep poet who writes hymns about them 10 the dsl-
Hes. Early brokers (huryipg downtown to osch Tue
voIm behold the great moral advice "try the entire
suit, painted on the sidewalks. The store itself
beautiful to behold. There is profuson Of gentle
manly clerks, who smeu Of Phalon, and who are
dressed in "the very hight of the fashion, as that
orb;fcr eegautiarum Mr.. Gsbo Sc,tt would say. do
no, observe, however, that they wear " entire
sut but finds it open r rather shut TO one terrible
objection. II is so entire that there is no getting
nto it except through the pockets and even that ope
rstion is difficult. SO the Cachuobs Company bursts
al the sesms, and when inset Succotash g few days
sterws,d learn from him that Nimminy, the Presi
dent Of the concern sis swindler and villain, Sir
Succotssh had shares.
So the store has to Co. like most Of us mortals,
through course of sprouts, or Cschuohs Companies
before il sses down into thoroughly respectable es-
Enlistment and then it is leased by the great book
publishing finn Of Fosy X Fogy, and its history loses
Hteest
Perhaps YOU zee by this time what intend to do in
writing about "the streets" shall con6ns mysef to
90 particular line OF business, but as i, were, Loaf
around generally, as Walt. Wntmsn might say. L
shall write Of their architecture ther previous history
If know it, or If dont-ths class Of people that
heuuert them with occasional dashes at snysremsrka-
be or eccentric buildings for which they msy DO dis
treushed This will be spnkled with sketc aes OF such
prominent characters a. are TO be met WITH any ice day
on TIE principal promenadss enlivened by occasional
fsrcy touches of my own, whenever don't thuk the
subject is quite up 10 tue mark. S.orea clubs libra
res, pslsces, hotels, brokers', beggars, men about
own fast men, bellies lawyers, dccors, sctors authors,
managers newspaper men, and writers for tbs Sunday
Press, shall all figure in my panorama. Intend it to
be sI ioIe mirror of the town, and al regret Is
that lave not got gift lady to present to my sub
Sttts. There is Ger sitly aft bachelor to be -
bu, .Asm modesty forbds my proceeding any further
Tue is Up. The bell rings. Dfaw up the cuitain
OF BROADWAY.
II is all nonsense for us to go to Europe and try and
prsusce ourselves tbs. Broadway is as handsome
and wiGe as the grest thoroughfares of Paris aud
LOdoD; because it isnt; nor wii the best Yankee
ingenuity ever make it co. We ougat to be quite