The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-08
NEW YORK.
The Universal Center-HOw It I'm.
presses a Visitor.

presses q V19ItOf'
(F1om aletter Of Don FiatFs)
Coming from Washington City to New
York is like passing from cemetery to
lager beer saloon. With all itS herd
OF office seekers, with its little army OF
Office holders. including Grants fast
horses and slow Cabinet, the. Capital
City becomes Insignificant by the side
of this great metropolis, through which
throbs the commerce of continent.
One year ago left it rafting and roar
ing along its stormy streets, and, re-
turning, the stunning refrain is taken
up in my ears at the point where it
seemed to cease; yet all this time the
multitudinous tramp or hurried hu-
mantty has increasingly continues.
seem to see the same faces, eager ana
dyspeptic, the same equipages, the same
walking advertisements of female Jolly
and extravaganza, the same beggars,
with the same old hats and shrilI or
gans, Yet they change continually
The broker who blows off the top OF MS
head, or drops help1essly paraIyzed, or
retreats bankrupt and broken-hearted
into obscurIty-is succeeded by another
to run a like career. So it is with the
merchant and the mechanic, the lawyer
and the doctor. AS one drops out, an
other OF like sort occupies his place and
runs the same career. The fierce COM
petition, stimulated by want of bread
and greed for money, seems to mold
humanity into certain shapes that re-
main the same.
Every thing about US indicates the
great city. Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore are villages in comparison.
l can hear my own beloved town of
Cincinnati snOre in the distance, while
Chicago is only stngy canvas, crazy
imitation. This is not the hub-it is
the heart, and through it pulsates our
CUn fVryN hNnF1
and you will meet every one you know
in New York; stand there a year, and
you will meet,everybody you know in
the United States. There is no desire,
however wicked, no wish, however
pure, that can not be gratitied within
The corporate limits of this sinful place.
Its lost women would make popu-
lous town if collected to themselves.
Its thieves, pickpockets and burglars
would form an army, if recruited
and organized for that purpose.
Its luxury rivals that OF Europe,
and its poverty swings down to
the lowest depths of human degrada~
ton but in its romance of real life
New York stands prominent. The
StraDgest characters come to the surface,
play their eccentric parts. and disap-
pear TO give place 10 others equally
strange. he millionaire of to-day who
iuhablts palace, was an unknown adj
venturer yesterday, and may be a beg
gar Tomorrow. We have miles on
miles of the most gorgeous habitations,
in which the average duration of resi-
dence does not exceed five years. 1t is
D great caravnusary. They come, and
bloom, and flourish, and disappear in
such quick succession that one is dazed.
1t is. however, N its government that
New York hold it's most remarkable
permRnence. It is a government OF
thieves. Old, well. known-terms have
lost their definitions. ROgues rule and
honest men obey. One set of scoundrels
is only displaced by another set. Judges
are hribed, abdomen shot, the police
murdered, and the entire governmental
structure rots and stinks, and stinks
ana rots, until the world holds its nose,
and the enemies of Il republican gov
eminent point to it as sickenins ex-
ample and a warning.