The Portland daily press., 1867-03-20
THE PRESS.
Wednesday, Morn ng. March 20, 1867,
Matters Ina New York


Wednesday, Morn ng. March 20, 1867,
Matters Ina New York. - t.,4t III
A Snooo Storm and 81. Pdtrick's DayaNeto
York aid Brooklyn to be untted-Wdu street
a, Finance-Rents, Landlords and May 1st-
The Drama-Short Paragraphs
NEW YORK, Mar. IS, 1867.
To the Editor Of the Press:
Another snow-storm ushers in st. Patrick
Day, that great day that moves and warns 'ne
Irish heart The snow-storm commenced on
Saturday. not only in New York, but III
adelphia, Baltimore, w ashlngtoh an an. foot
The depth of the snow here is aDou. 1o,,hs
and the streets being full OF ~ -
snow-shovels and snow-paii'
the day ST. Patrick s Dsy 40 VINO A''i NV .A"'
being sunday, the celebration coheso n .o-oay.
The streets are full OF enthusiastic rishmen'
where zeal is proof against snow OF any depth,
or cold of any intensity. A very large process
sion is being formed on East Broadway, which
IS to consist of military display and about if
ty of the various societies existing among the
Irish citizens. The Father Matthew temper
ance organizations will constitute large ele-
ment in the procession. st. Patrick was the
patron saint of Erin, and every Irishman loves
and reveres his memory. He lived some four
teen hundred years ago, and according to pop
ular tradition died at the age of 121 years. aiIer
having by his Jealous labors converted the Is
land to Christianity and reared on almost ev-
cry hilltop and valley of Ireland churon W
the living God. Many stories are eA'a" y. -
the romantic incidents of his life Inc oei"0
is a warm hearted and enthusiastic raoo' """
ever their faults. Meet them any whefe anu
they never forget the green land Oh sheir pirtn
-they never allow ST. Patricks DAY 10 pass
unobseryed. but testify the depth OF their love
Inv some fitting evidence, if it be but the "wet-
tine Of the Shamrock" or the wearing of the
green" 80. a ...t.,f IT,.
A bill is now before the Legislature to unite
in one city the cities of New York, Brooklyn,
Williamsburg and several small villages Of
Long Island Williamsburg is part of Brook
1yn, under the name Of the Eastern District
The police Of Brooklyn is part of the Metro
politan Police of New York, and the two cities
are SO united by location and the interests of
business and social intercourse that a union
would seem to be desirable If the plan sue
ceeds, as it will be v to eventually,
if not this year, the city of New York will have
an accession to its population that will make it
number about 100000 people-an immense
city that no other locality on the continent can
hope to rival for years and years to come. Be
fore this union is effected, a bridge is wanted
across East River, and the present miserable
docks and piers of New York exchanged for a
perfect system of spacious docks and durable
piers somewhat more in correspondence with
the commercial importance of the city.
Wall street is dull. There is spirit of ur-
easiness apparent in commercial circles. There
have been many losses in financial opera
'tions, and new ventures" are unpopular
The recent heavy failures in Providence and
in other parts of the country following the Bos-
ton crash, seem to prognosticate further results
of Ike character, and W all street is the pulse
that tells in a mement the physical condition
of finance. A "break down. in Boston or
Chicago or st. Louis is felt in moment here,
or as soon as the elective spark can convey the
news. 1t is becoming pretty generally under
stood that business has been conducted on ex-
travagant and ruinous principles, and rein
ing-in" must come and come soon. A reduced
scale of values is prophesied by shrewd CAPT.
talists as near at hand-at any rate things can
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wisdom for any man in danger, to get out of
the way before the storm comes. An impor-
tant real estate sale in Wall street was made
last week. Nos. 3 and 5, lot 80 feet inches
by So feet 2 inches, sold for $165,000 le9 co.
The annual rent feuer which RACES here dur
ing the two months subsequent to the list of
May, is now approaching its height. The
whole population of New York and Brooklyn
is in ferment. Landlords are rapaeious and
conscienceless They are as inexorably oppos-
ed to children this year as ever, not oonceiving
it proper to have children housed and taken
care of blouse to Let to family without
children" is the popular style of post
ers to be seen on the streets. But very few
houses seem to be in the market to "let,"
while one would judge from the posters on ev
cry block that near one half the real es-
tate in the two cities is offered for "sale."-.
There is a great scarcity of tenements for the
middhng classes, and prices are up even notch
higher for ronts than last year. Mothers, maids
aunts, and sisters are now searching the streets
for new habitations for the coming year; and
the indications are that many of them will be
unsuccessful, and stay where they are at an
increased rent. The landlords here have two
leading characteristics; one is want of con-
science, and the other, cruelty to children
But all this business, thank fortune, is to have
an end-everything eliminates before that
great day, May LIST, when the hegira. like that
of the Eastern Prophet, takes place suddenly
Everybody and everything then steps out 0
doors. The streets are blocked with bureaus
bedsteads, boxes, sofas, mirrors, chairs, tables,
stoves, teakettles and tin pans. The popular
and oft-repeated remark, "move your boots,'
has striking fulfilment New lYork-im-
mense, running over. yet never full, tumultu-
GUS, noisy and observation-disclosures in one
day the throes of domestic dissolution, and on
the morning of May I'd the population wake
up-provided they slept the night before-to
the interesting labor of putting things to
rights" in new home. -Te5lf afuasoas.
In New York the drama never loses its in |
terest. People will be amused in some way |
and where the legitimate drama exists, there |
is no loss in paying some attention to it. At
Winter Garden Edwin Booth appears this
week in Hamlet. Probably the most uncxcep-
tionable theatre in New York is Wallack's-
Miss Cannon is star at this establishment.
The Black Crook, rather a questionable affair
to our mind, still runs at Niblo's Lady Dore
Shines at the New York Theatre, and to- might
appears in So. Patrick's EUe. At the Broad
way Theatre Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams
are just closing a very successful engagement,
and are to be followed by Maggie Mitchell At
Barnums Museum Our Tenement Houses has |
been very successful. Lucille Weston is now |
the star at ithe Walnut-street Theatre, Phila-
delphia, where the people seem to regard |
East Lynne as a favorite. Laura Keene is the |
attraction at Louisville, Ken. Dan Bryant is
in Chicago. John f. Owens is at present on
his farm near Baltimore Md
The Great Eastern is said to be actually on
her passage to New York .1a .5a.
The wife of wealthy resident of Hoboken
was committed to the county Jail the other
day, for assault and battery On her husband
The post-office in Brooklyn is to be removed
from Montague street to Washington street,
near johnson street. The sum of 81 900 is to
De pad for the rent of a new building to be
erected. N IfnHt - .,II
The project of removing the post-office in
New York to the City Hall Park is getting un
popular. a'Dr1 =,
Two OF the smartest editors in New York
are the most ordinary looking-Greeley of the
Tribune and Bennett Of the Herald 4 vr;tor
in one of the New York weekles, saws. how
ever, they are scrupulously neat in their linen
A fba foil