The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-11-09

room for stately warehouses and grea, hotels.
| The great ocean OF human affairs, in calm
or storm, can neither swell nor sink without
producing m ebb or flow in that great lribu,
tary, Broadway. If any great fact, national
or foreign, is to be publically manifested,
! this street is snre to become the medium. -
Thus, here were the grand demonstrations
and professions in celebration OF the open.
ing Of the great Erie Canal in honor of the
visits OF Lafayette, and of all the Presidents
| from Washington to Johnson, in sympathy
with the French Revolution OF 1880, and in
! later days, then to give ecldt to the compile
ton Of the Ocean Telegraph, and welcome
| the Young heir Of the British crown. MUM
| cipal enthusiasm would probably be exposed
| 10 dangerous catastrophy if it did not
lieve itself by an occasional demonstration
in Broadway. Thus the great street has
been made the frequent vent, by means Of
| furry and noisy pnradrs, of the military,
! civic, political, and other humors of the
town corporation, as we'll as Of various other
! fermentiug bodies and etfervescent individ-
uals.
1t is this variety, stir, brightness, cheer
fitness, and the fact that Broadway pulsates
80 quick in sympathy with the beating of
the great heart Of the world, which makes
| it such Il tnvorite not only with Americans,
but with all foreigners. No one once in
New York can keep out Of Broadway, so
great is the force Of its attraction and such
in consequence is the influx Of the people,
| and carriages and conveyances of all kinds,
that facility of movement has become SO
hindercd rs to compel ingenuity TO all sorts
of devices for the relief OF the ovcr.crowded
thoroughfare. The last continuance for this
purpose is q great dryshod iron bridge,
| which passes high over Broadway. allowing
free course for the stream of omnibuses
below. As, however, some hundred steps
are to be assembled and descended before
the transit can be made, few, except those
who may be curious to take coup G9H Of
| the busy scene up and down Broadway, have
the patience TO mount the lofty structure,
Charles Dickens, when he was in New
York, lived at the Carleton House (which
has long since. by the by, given way to Il
great business cstablishmcnt,} and never
lively Broadway before hui, and was much
surprised, as he said, and edited al behold.
ing, for the first time i'll bis life, IriShmen
with whole coats to their backs. Ihack-
cray, too. ho.had nothing to do when in
New York but 10 repeat his lectures, and
had full time 10 indulge IN that life Of in.
dulgeut care for which he confessed IL liking,
declared, great traveller that he was, that
he had never found Il street SO much to his
| taste rs broadway, III which be did not fail
daily to sun himself. Broadway, too, was
always great tavorIte with Irving, and cS.
peciaily with Hallcck, who has, in his Fan,
no. given a permanent setting TO some of
its ancient landmarks.
Foreigners arc apt to suppose that Broad
woy Is Il scene OF violence and disorder
tba. it resoun1s with frequent popping of
the revolver, and flashes with the brandisbcd
steel of the bowie knife. Broadway, i. il
true, has not the well disciplined order OF Il
rgidly.policed European metropolis; but,
although more license may be allowed to the
roughs Of New York than to the rude ap,
preuticcs Of London and the eXcitable ga.
mi'.s OF Parrls go far is the great American
thorough fare from being disturbed by the
uuruly, that its policemen, Us regards their
police duties, enjoy quite siuecure, and
are mostly occupied With galantus tinid
ladies aud unprotected females across the
over crowded streets, through the iutricaclcs
of inn,ued onuibuses aud complicated cart.
wheels