The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-19
Invasion Of Fifth Avenue.

aristocracy has, at last, been invaded by
tradesmen and artixans. One Of its finest
mansions has been seized by a fashionable
tailor, and converted into q magazine of gar.
ments. The lords and ladies Of the grand
avenue are accordingly retreating in dismay,
aud preferring to entrench themselves at
still higher point on the island The sights
and sounds which remind them Of their origi-
nal condition, cannot be endured with COM
placency. Consequently, they are obliged to
fly, as they are at least every decade. In this
world Of change, the city of New York is the
most changeable Of ALL 1t is more variable
Fhan its own beautiful bay; it is mores rest
less than the tides which wash its docks. The
children who played on the delightful green
sward of its Battery forty years ago, saw the
same beautiful water view which now de-
lights the eye, but all else is changed. The
Battery is no longer pleasure resort; the pa
latial residences of the old aristocracy, which
surrounded it, have disappeared, aud that
which was once the crowned head Of fashion,
has become the piebeian tail.
The Bible tells us that there is NO rest to the
wicked, and it may be said with equal truth,
there is no rest to the New York aristocracy.
The English cavalier and the solid Amsterdam
families have long ago been engulphed by the
tide OF time and change. and the places which
once knew them now know them no more
Real estate was once considered the most per-
manent Of earthly possessions. In New York,
it Is the most transftory. New York changes
her dress of brick and mortar rs rapidly az
Miss ELLEN STANLEY her wardrobe Whole
battalions Of houses move OF like infantry,
and hotels and churches like flying artillery.
Al first the neighborhood Of the Battery was
the fashionable quarter; then it migrated ten
squares higher; then higher still, hotels and
churches keeping pace with the fashionable
migration, and tIadesmen and artizans follow.
tng In hot pursuit. often oyertaking, socially
intermtngling. aud finally predomina in
the retreating crowd. Then another move.
twenty squares higher, then another, more
tradesmen aud more shops still pursuing, I'M
til .. last the Fifth Avenue was reached, and
the Upper Tendon exulted In the idea that
1t was entrenched In y SebastopOl, whic no
aspiring mechanic could ever enter. The no.
tells now prepared fOr permanent lodgment,
and the churches. which. with the exception
Of Oid Trinisy, have been travelling about since
the foundation Of New York, like the children
of Israei through the wilderness, At last found
rest for tho solo Of their feet. 1t was indis.
pensabie that the churches should Invariably
accompany the fashionable exodus, for though
It may BE- easy for rich man to move from
the Southern end Of New York to the North.
ern end, IL 10 easier for q camel to 20 through
the eye Of needle than for q rich man ~
enter int, the kingdom Of heaven Conse-
qaentiy. they need every facility in the way
Ut churches and clergy to put them through
the very narrow aperture which In their
oniy chance for the next world. whilst the
poor, having NO iatsresu aud no abiding place
mere, may b safely trusted 70 make their own
way " bsttsr condition hereafter.
what - 70 b The Anal move Of New York
Upper Tendon Il IL dificult 70 coniecture.
Tes Fifth Avenue y about 70 DO converted
iato retail ssores and shops, And, it 10 predict.
"a. viii b ~ Rsosat street Of New York.
casting H. London shop-ksepsrs tnto the
shade. nsighboThooa Of the new aud spa.
cions Cenxsi Pask WIN b he next resting
piaes. bat who caa promise that this viii b
mor1 permaaeAt than tts predscessors1 A lev
moss migrattons viii drive them ~ New
ferk leland. The necessities Of CONN stce and
Haas IN ths commercial capital Of surh = m.
uoa - America, nation which. In Il, infan.
cy. hAs produced such . city q New York.
viii, u smother quartet Of csntury. daman1
every loot ef 1aahattan Island for ,ns NAP.
poses OF useful tadustry and On tsYpYfse. Thers
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