Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-03-19
From our Special Correspondent.
METROPOLITAN ECHOES.
NEv yopr March 10 1ad

OnS Ol bne more eneltereQ Walks OF zen.
tral Park some few of those small but ad.
venturous flowers which, in this strange
climate, thrust their bold heads up through
the frosted ground aud proclaim the ad,
vent OF spring. And spring is indeed at
hand. we stand just on the threshold of
that fresh, bright season which Is ever
most charming in the city. And from
now until the heats of July shall drive us
seaward and mountainward, the great me-
tropolis will flash and glitter, and attract
and fascinate, as at no other time, and
just as if no anguished human souls or
breaking hearts were hid beneath its tinn
sci cloak.
Speaking of the Park, which we New
Workers regard as sort of earthly para.
disc, recalls the practical and far from com
plimentary estimate placed upon it by an
old Western farmer whom we encounter
ed in one of its grander avenues the other
day. "All very well-sll very WELL " said
he, in dubious admiration; "but it's a
thunderin' pity to waste so much nice
ground just for lot o FOLKS to knock
around in, when IL 'ud make such bully
farm ~
There isa growl in our ears to-day, from
which the city appears now never to be
wholly free, respecting the dullness of
trade; but only to us tireless "news-
mongers," who dive beneath the outward
seemings of metropolitan life, is the cause
apparent. New York has, like Paris, the
happy faculty of presenting always
fair exterior; and, whatever may
be its hidden financial sufterings, the
idler and pleasure seeker within its
walls catches no ecboing wall thereof
To the superficial observer, the great
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brilliant colors of recently displayed
spring fashions lend peculiar descriptive
charm in this hour OF commercial distress,
for who stops TO think of prosy, dull, un-
| pleasant things when Broadway rolls be.
fore us with its drifting tides of gaiety and
beauty, and the grand old thoroughfare
seems transformed into long and lovely
green house, filled with animsted boquetsf
You would hardly think 1t "Lent," and
this city which counts its pretended OBJ
servers thereof by tens OF thousaudsl
Certain mysterious movements on the
part of our metropolitan "Sorosis are
/ reported, the exact purport of which can.
not yet be definitely divulged We shall
direct a sharp look out afCer them, how.
ever, in the interest of our readers, and
keep the public posted.
Trains remarkable "open" letter to
Vanderbilt is much discussed in social
circles about town, but it does not appear
that the severely severe" epistle has ami
hllated our thorough old Commodore, for
we saw him on Broadway yesterday, look.
ing quite as stubbornly alive as ever. One
OF his many fast teams had race with a
velocipede on Harlem lane few days
since, which, though Fquite an impromptu
affair, attracted much attention from
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! other points along the way. One Wander.
bilt steed became unmanageably fright
ened, and as tine other was scarcely lees
alarmed at the novel and peculiar competi
tor brought against them, something very
like runaway resulted and " Locipede
Esq, was easily distanced. Still, the
noVelty-loving world of this metropolis
persists in believing in Velocipedes, and
so the mania continues TO rage in spite Ol
heightened horses, to say nothing of bruis
ed humans in scores, who have been its
willing victims. Central Park is occasion
ally oyerrun with these odd, two wheeled
machines, and accidents of a serious nature
have become so frequent that some officia,
measures must soon be taken to regulate
both the speed of the "go devil (as it il
sometimes called) and the localities where
it may be used. There is great fascina
ton in velOcipede exercise, no doubt bu
poor pedestrians should have some securi
ty against destruction by enthusiastic
riders in the Park, and they will soon dc
Hla1ld it.
The feeling of intense indignation which
was generated here in consequence of tn,
desperate and foOl.hsrdy Ocean race be
tween an Inman and a Cunard steamer
the ".City of Paris . and the n Russia n
has about subsided. We do not have (
chance to linger long over any Onsrexcite
ment in this Gotham of endless sensations
but 1t is pity public opinion would no
in some way reach and chastise such heart
less triflers with human life But how dC
We do itH Why, the steamers Of these
two lines are better patronized than ever
and probably the two identical Captains
who each declared that he would "6eat OF
go TO The bottom" will hereafter be the ia
vorites with European Voyagers. Il 90
New York is TO have tunnel under thu
East river. At what point is not yet de
termined, nor do we know exactly. ,n2ieR
but, though we are not quite so precipi
tStely fast in the matter of public improve
ments as some of your Western cities, WI
do not allow ourselves TO suffer long owe
a want which money can supply, and {
tunnel Is certainly most important neeC
to the crowded island of Manhattan Nov
that Chicago has demonstrated chow no
to do it," Gotham will be warned and pro
ceed with caution and discretion; anC
when you hear, one Of these days, of on
tunnel as an established fact you will no
be panied to hear, ,at the same time tina
1t has been converted into a shower bath
A prominent metropolitan hotel keeper
is already turning speculative ey,
towards. the deep 70 Semitic Valley %
4 California, which he foresees Is destined II
-becomethe fashionable watering place o
this continent. 1t has falls riValing Mag
\ ara and such virtues in the way Of seeuerJ
I and climate that our long headed land
lord saifs great things In the not very dis
tant future.
Horace Greeley whom we met Ia Print
ing House Square the other day, Is said tC
| be developing new and strange traits, II
his old age, which both friends and enc
1 mics will regard with something Of inter
est or sympathy. His growing petuianoC
Is leading him into world Of trouble anC
his bland, tranquil, almost child like FACE
/ Is beginning 20 wrinkle up In Q most IN
becoming manner. Mr. Greeley's life, ever
according 10 his own estimate OF Il, hai
been a grand success and We write thii
in ignoranee OF what the new Administra
tion Is going TO do for him-if anything
but 10 read his features as we recently be
held them, one must come inevitably 4
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