The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-27
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New York.

New York;
The beautiful metropolis of America is by no
means so clean a city as Boston; but many OF its
streets have the same characteristics, except
that the houses are not quite so fresh colored,
the sign. boards are not quite SO gaudy, the
gded letters not quite 80 golden, the bricks not
quite so red, the stone not quite SO white, tue
blinds and area raillngs not quite so green, the
knobs and plates upon the street doors not quite
so bright and tWinkliDg. There are many by
streets, almost as neutral in clean colors, and
positive in dirty ones, as by-streets in Lonoon;
and there is one quarter, commonly called the
Five Points, which, in respect OF filth and
wretchedness, may be safely backed against
Seven Dlals, or any other part OF famed st.
Giles. .s..
The great promenade and thoroughfare, as
most people know, is Broadway-a wide and
buslling street, which, from the Battery Gar
dens to Its opposite termination in a country
road may be four miles long. Shall we SIT
down in an upper floor of the Carlton House
Hotel (situated in the best part OF this main
artery OF New York;, and when we are tired OF
looking down upon the lite below, sally torth
arm in arm and mingle with the stream?
Warm weather The sun strikes upon our
heads at this open window as though its rays
were concentrated through burning glass; but
the day Is in its zenith, and the season an un-
usual one. Was there ever such a sunny street
as this Broadway? The pavement stones are
polished with the tread of feet until they shine
again; the red bricks of the houses might be yet
in the dry, hot kilns; and the roofs of those on
nibuses look as though, II water were poured on
them, they would hiss and smoke, and smell
like halEsquenched fires. No stint of omnl-
buses here! Half dozen have gone by
within as many minutes. Plenty of hack
ney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons,
large-Wheeled tllbUries, and private car
rages-Tather of q clumsy make, and not
very different from the public vehicles bat built
for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement
Negro coachmen and white; in straw hats, black
hats white hats, glazed caps, fur caps; in coats
OF drab, black, brown, green, blue, nankeen,
striped jean, and linen and there, in that one
lOOK
late), in suits of livery. Some Southern repub
lican that, who puts his blacks in uniform, and
sWells with Sultan pomp and power: YOnder,
where that phaeton, with the well-cllpped pair
of grays has stopped-standing at their heads
Row--is q Yorkshire groom, who has not been
very long in these parts, and looks sorrOwfully
round for a companion pair of top boots, which
he may traverse the city half a year without
meeting. Heaven save the ladies, how they dress
We have seen more colors IN these Ten minutes
than we should have seen elsewhere in as
many days. What various parasols what rain
bow silks and satins what pinking of thin
stockings. aud pinching of thin shoes, and hut.
tering OF ribbons and silk tassels and display oil
rich cioaks with gaudy hoods and Innings! The
young gentlemen are fond, you see, of turning
down their sbirt-collars and cultvatng their
whiskers, especially under the chin; but they
cannot approach the ladies in their dress or
bearing, being, to say the truth, humanity OF
quite another sort. Byrons OF the desk and
counter, pass on, and let us see what kind OF
men those are behind ye-those two laborers in
holiday clothes, OF whom one carries in his hand
a crumpled scrap of paper from which he tries
to spell out hard name, while the other looks
about for it on all the doors and windows.
Irishmen both You might know them, II
they were masked, by their long-teiled blue
coats and bright buttons and their drab
trousers, which they wear like men well used to
working dresses, who are easy in no others. 1t
would be hard to keep your model republics
going without the countrymen and country
women OF those two laborefs. For who else
would dig, and delVe, and drudge, and do
dem estic work, and make canals and roads, and
execute great lines of internal Improvement?
Irishmen both, and sorely puzzled, too, to find
out what they seek. Let us go down aud help
them for the love of home and that spirit of
liberty which admits OF honest service TO honest
mep, and honest work for honest bread, no mat
ter what it be.
That's well! We have got at the right
address at last, though It is written in
strange characters truly, and might have been
scrawled with the blunt handle of the spade the
writer better knows the use OF than a pen.
Their way lies yonder, but what business takes
them theTeY They carry savings to hoard up
No. They are brothers, those men. One
crossed the sea alone, and working very hard
ior one halt-year, and living harder, saved
funds enough to bring the other out. That
done, they worked together side by side, cou.
tenteoly sharing hard labor and hard living for
anotner term, and then their sisters came
and then another brother, and lastly their
old mother, And what now2 Why, the poor
old crone Is restless in strange land and
yeaIns to lay her bones, she says aroong Sar
people in the old graveyard at home: and
so they go 10 pay her passage back; aud God
help her and them, and every simple heart and
al'Who turn to the Jerusalem of their yonnger p
days, and have an altsr-hre upon the cold ear III
of their fathers
This marrow thoroughfare, baking and blister.
ing in the sun, is Wall street, the Stock Ex.
change and Lombard street Of New York
Many a rapid fortune has been made in this
street. and many no less rapid rum. Some o.
these very merchants whom you see hanging
about hete now have locked up money in their
strong boxes, like the man in the ''Arabiar
Nights and, opening them again, have founC
but withered leaves. Below, here by the
Water-side, where the boWsprits of sbips stretch
across the footway, and almost thrust them
selves into the windows, lie the noble
American vessels which have made theil
Packet Service the finest IN the world
They have brought hither the foreigners who
abound in the streets; not, perhaps, that there
are more here than in other commercial cities
but elsewhere they have particular haunts, an.
you must find them outi here they perYade the
town,
We must cross Broadway again, gaining somt
fefreshment from the heat in the sight of thi
great blocks of clean ice which are being car
rled INTO shops and btr-rOoms and the pine
apples and watermeions pioiusely displayed TO
sale. Fine streets OF spacious houses mere, yol
seel-Wa STR et has furnished and dismante'
many OF them very otten-and here deep greer
leafy SQUARE. BE sure that is a h0spiiable house
with inmates 10 he aifeciionately re9embere'
always, where they have the open door an
pretty show Of plants within, and where tn
child with laughing eyes IS peeping ou
You wonder what may be the use OF this tai
Flagstaff IN the by.street, with something fk'
Libertyis head-dress on it's top; 90 do /. Bu
there Is passion for tall hagstads hereabout
and you may see ITS twin brother ia about nv
- 10 Iatee W yoIl have MIND.