New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-03
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tsrday ahe g'anud rih "pers-st 900 each.

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| KEEPERS and four 10 storeke
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! BALI. BLACK 4 Co s NEwS. .n.~h..;-s a..
the present year Of Grace wbenN ~ -
tialian ,raveer shall Il, upon broke pasr. 10
| Bridge viewing the m .jestic ruins Of st. = 80
VII be lefl OF our great city for The ia .ha.o,
| day to wos der al and mourn Overt If b,
| Time shouh leave one stone upon snoteor o. ~
badly designed and wr,tchediy constructed pub
bu6ipgs there may indeed be great cause TO wonder
at the gnocs and parenony that erected such monn-
rlen's Of the munciral CONDITION Of NewYork In the
pinee4Dth century. Over their decay and ruin there
| can certainly be no reason 20 noun Oar churches,
with rare exceptions stand about little chance Of
CT ing the admiration # a remote posterity Il is only
10 the architecture of our benknghouse and 10 that
of the stores and e Of the residences of our rner
chant princes that the New-Yorker poot with any
degree Of pride 10 ia beauty confidence that win
ouilast the Isvagss Of even quarter-millennium
Charles Macbays enthusiastic assertion, for which
| Re was 90 much derided that Broadway was but Of
msIble palaces for three miles Of It's length, has been
advanced very many degrees nearer truth wi Tin the
few years el4peed rince its utersuce Aud OF all tue
stately structures magnificent 10 their whito beauty
and solid strength which have leaped into Existence
on each side Of our great thoroaghfare at the ~ssiog
of the Money Kings wand, none has equaled 10 either
of the qualities mentioned the diamond and jsS-
elry store, which Meesrs Ball, Back & Co. bsve at
| length fully COM leted, on the corner Of Brohway
and Prince street On Monday it wss opened for pub
lie inspection and trade aud no lover Of the aesthetic
should leave New York without deyoting half SO hour
to personal enjoyment Of its beauties.
The building is Of the wvitest Ea4ehester marble,
and faces 100 feet Prince street by 81 feet on Broad
way Its mean hight from curb TO corncs, is 81 feet,
aud 100 feet from spex bsse Thirteen months haze
been occupied liz its construction, which hs, cos with
ont ittipgs over $4,000. The porch and lover por-
ton Of the building almost purely CoriSthan in
their archtecture tue upper stories are designed IN
composite, Italian style. The blended effect Of tho
whole Is very harmonious aid satisfying. 0a tho
summit of the building il huge, golden eagle-the
ancient symbol of the finn above-nsmed-wbose wings
contrast with the cleaning marble below, as old the
goldnied locks Of one of Phidiss statues with the
snowy brow Of the enscu tuIed god tess Az eagle OF
Lesser sze suunoubts the porch itself This entrance
| is purely classic each Of It's columns is th'g OF
beauty with chiseled piinth abacus pedestal capital,
Az shaft Passing beneath the dome and through the
great ebony door-lght by panes of glass whoe like
in sze and quality NewYork has never before imported
you arrive at the stsoless floor Of the rs story aud
are dazzled once by Of marble counterp glass
CAGES and mirrors massive chandeliers in brouze and
gold with glirterDg pendans; by the CLEAN, glare and
siar-shire which surround you making the scene more
like The interior Of the Arabic Cave of Lusre than the
frststory trading-place OF modern American firu.
From this main floor, devoted TO the display OF
| watches, iewehy diamonds. and siverware, you are
ushored over a fight Of marble 'tairs, whose
"-Lisbt aerial gallery, golden rsiied,
| Burns Ike fringe Of ire,
between colossal bronze sstucs into suites Of
on the second story Here an infinite variety of paint
ines statuetes clocks and msntleoFssmeus in ormou,
music-hoxea aud thousand other articles Of rirtU,
are Systematically displayed 10 meet the buyers eye.
Stl smother marble stsircsse, and you areou tho third
story get aside for the manufacture and display of gas
fixtures of evory pattern and vslue. Three stories
above this are still unviited In those carried on
the operations OF the cohort of workmen employed by
tho establishment, and access TO them 10 obtained by
steam elevators which are constantly in motion be-
tween the basement and the attic Of the store.
Perhaps DO building has been erected in our city,
since the Custom-House was built of solid granite in
every part which 30 well calculated, from the mas
sivenes Of ;s foundations and the thickness Of its
walls, TO resst fire, burglars. and tho rava9es OF
time the magnificent struct1re we here describe.
And yet with all ira depth of vaut and ponder pus
I'M or safes il is so fairly fashioned without aad with
IN that It's great strength and soldy lost sight Of
and the whole effect produced the eye OF the be-
holder s Il at of an airy magical structure the abode
OF the syphs and the goomes which may dissolve Like
| the phan,asma Of q eabali.tc mirror who's the hair
that holds the key stone is snspt in twain.
| Arson CASE on BRoADwAY--It viii be remem-
bered that we published few days ago in Taf
TRlBUsE an account of FIRE that occurred under sus
picous circumstances in the showcard mandatory Of
| Charles Dsyersen, at the corner OF Broadway and
| Fulton street. Daversen was taken in custody on
| Friisy night shortly after the fire extngusbed
but was liberated the following afternoon. In the
course of an investigation, Fire Marshal Baker, on
day, took the evidence of Thomas Noakos,
former partner OF Daverrens. Noakes testiied that
in April 1852 be entered into verbal copartnership
with Dayersep al that be did most Of the work, and
furthermore furnished the capital tbst they started on
80 Since the trst week in May the business fell OF
and Daycrsen proposed to him toe place on Gre
IL order 70 get the insurances9Oo On stock and tx
! t,res, and 5000 or press, &c. in the Hamilton In
suTance Company. Daversen laid it could easily be
| done, or words 70 that effect BE then opened
tho bott Of chest Of drawer and showed hu the
srrirgemen, and preparation be bad made This con-
sisted Of piece OF passebosrd rolled to about inches
in diameter and Il inches high, small table made OF
pine wood, inches square, with hole cut therein to
hole the pasteboaId aud candle. Ills apparatus " as
| 10 be put under the counter and surrounded Wi b
waste pepper Witness told him that he would have
nothing to DO VITA the arrangement and alluded to
the persons sleeping up stairs, and the DAGGER they