Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-02
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

CHANGES In WARREN STREET, NEW YORK Oiff
-CAsrLE GARDEN AS IT WAS AND is-IHk
GROWTH OF THE CITr-RETuRNED CALlfoR-
NIASs-TBB PETER FuNks- OF NEW 1oRk-l
How New YORK CIrr N GovERsEp, &c, &c.
Editorial Correspondsses Of The Star!l 4
mo M New Yoak, July "a, 1859. 4
Warren street illustrates most forcibly the pro-
gress of the commerce and the increase Of the |
wealth of New York, as indeed do all the othsr |
streets below II leading from Broadway to the |
North River take Warren street as an illustra- |
ton, only because having long sojourned In it, /
am even yet familiar with the appearance of nearly
every one of its former buildings. Ten years ago
they were private residences and boarding houses
large and substantial three and four story brick
houses, constructed with all the then modern i'm
provements. subsequently, with but perhaps half
dozen exceptions, they have all disappeared,
giving place to huge five, six and seven story
brown and marble front buildings. each ofwh.ch
would be striking feature in any other American
city. They are occupied almost exclusively by
jobbers in different lines of business. Not single
private family remains upon the street. These
facts also apperain to the history of Murray street.
Park Row, Dey street, Pne street, (west of Broad
way) Courtlandt and the half dozen others inter-
venipg until the lower point of the island-Castle
Gardens reached. a'# -.
There (about Castle Garden) much money has
been spent by the Corporation since my lastvist to
New York, in adding to the city and robbing the
bay Of two or three acres Of water, over which In
times past have often hung loungingly, to catch
the breeze fresh i'm from the Narrows. Its little
park Is no longer the resort of the children Of the
extreme lower part of the city. Emigrants, from
wherever a ship sails to America, have taken the
places the latter. The Castle ITSELF so long dedi
Gated to plcasure-balls, concerts, &c.-where-
In / have often seen seven thousand pleasure
seekers comfortably assembled, Is now used as
reception place for the emigrants first landing
in the United States. In the seasons when they
arrive thick and fast, perhaps a thousand Of them
may be seen there any day. at time. A tax Of
two dollars per head is laid every one enter
ing the harbor from foreign port. The money
is used for the temporary support of such Of them
as without means. Board of Commissioners
| suPerintend the public's provision for them, and
at Castle Garden they apply for the interposition
of that Board. The sight of them-so carc-worn
debilitated, dirty, and abject they appear,
is sickenin2 one-yet. nevertheless, of interest
| to the philosophical observer. A main object
with the Board is to get them out Of the city and
of the bands of their charity as speedily posi-
| BILE Those that are sick are sent to Wards ISL
and, where there are accommodations for from
| Ave to seven thousand; and well ones for whom
| employment cannot be found, are also located
there, if entire paupers. The Board has extensive
correspondence with other quarters the country
| where labor is wanted, and takes pains to send
| them thither orders may be received for such
''help." II is found less expensive to pay their
expenses even as far Chicago, 81. Louis, or
New Orleans, than to quarter them at Wards
Island, where they not unfrequently eat their
| heads off Tin a business point Of view.)
A voyage In little steamer around the city is
matter perhaps of most interest in New York.
Thus, alone realize the extent to which its
commerce has grown of late years--its foreign and
coastwise commerce. For near six miles up the
North river, and / believe four up the East river
little else is visible, more especially the north
side, but tiers and lines of steamers steamships
sailing ships, brigs, schoOners, &c, daily vomit-
| ing forth millions of dollars worth Of manufac-
lures and produce, and gulphing in millions Of
| dollars worth of exports from this port. Thou
| sands on thousands of seamen long shoremen, me-
| chaniCs and laborers connected with this great
trade are delving industrously In sight Of the
voyager the water streets hung with wares
necessary in fitting out vessels and seamen; while
| upon their pavements stand Longing thousands
| ON thousands of dirty dock women and chill
dren, Peter Funks in fifty different callings, and
long -shoremen waiting for jobs. The vessels, as
| before remarked, lay so numerous in and around
the dock as that their masts wear the appearance
of huge forest denuded of foliage. The picture,
very grand one indeed, tells more forcibly than
aught else that New York has already swallowed
up well nigh all the direct importation and ex-
portaton foreign commerce Of the country
An hour ago, as passed the head Of Frankfort
street-whilom a narrow, dirty lane, of miserable,
antiQuate framed shanties, but now a street Of
substantial five and history manufactures for the
most part-ths fire bell on the City Hall tolled for
a fire In that district. The smoke and blaze re-
vealed the fact that it was In that street, half
dozen blocks down from the City Hall. In three
minutes after the first stroke of the bells ella PIPER
there were five thousand persons either choking
up the little street or looking the from its
house tops or windows. In as many more the en-
gines began to arrive and i'm perhaps fifteen min
utes after all was Over-the engines gone, and the
street as quiet almost as though no such thing had
occurred there. In the mean while. the miscelIa-
neOus crowd in the Park and Nassau street seemed
to take no more notice Of the affair than If it had
not occurred almost within stones throw of
them.
This morning a California steamer arrived and
emPtied out her motley cargo Of returned Califor.
mans. was at French's Hotel-their heada uar-
CLING in-pcrhaps a hundred of them in all. In
appearance they ressmbled a returning band of
Potomac river fishermen at the close Of the run of
shad and herring-except that they were if pos
sible more filthy In appearance and far more tat
tered in their habiliments. The Israelite drum
mers for the innumerable slop shops in that neigh
borhood seemed to have scented them from the
instant the ship reached her berth. They followed
close upon their heels, rendering their advice and
congratulations, until they actually outnumbered
their expected customers. Thus they clustered
around them like flies around sugar hogshead.
each dirty voyager having one or more such solic.
itous friend bent on helping him to cb:an COM
Plete ht-out in the shortest possible time and at
the least possible cost. BY night every one Of
them who has money enough at command, will ap-
pear around the doors Of French's Hotel in eab,r-
ate new rigging, with their inevitable display of
Hash jewelry and gaudy colors. The poor fellows
looked quite as squalid as the emigrants saw at
Castle Garden this morning; but most of them
being Americans they know how to take care of
themselves against all having designs on their
piles of gold duSt except tbs cIotb,.