Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-16
NEW YORK.

Coming from Washington city to New
York is like passing from a cemetery to
a lager beer saloon. With all its herd
of offee-seekers, with its little army of
ofice-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 a continent. One year
ago l left it rafting and roaring along its
stormy streets, and, returning, the stun
ming refrain is taken up in my ears at
the point where it seemed to cease vet
all this time the multitudinous tramp of
hurried humanity has increasingly con-
tinued. l seem to see the same faces,
eager and dyspeptic, the same equipages,
the same walking advertisements of
female folly and extravaganza, the same
old hats and shrill organs. Yet they
change continually. The broker who
blows off his head, or drops helplessly
paralyzed, or retreats bankrupt and
broken hearted into obscurity-is sue
ceeded 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, another of like sort
occupies his place and runs the same
career. The fierce competition, stimu-
lated by want of bread and greed for
money, seems to mold humanity into
certain shapes that remain the same.
Every thing about as indicates the
great city. Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore are villages in comparison. [
can hear my own beloved town Of Gin
cinnati snore in the distance, while
Chicago is only stacy canvas, crazy i'm
itatiOn. This is not the hub-it is
the heart, and through it pulsates our
world. Stand on Broadway two hours
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 cannot be gratifed within the cor
porate limits of-this sinful place. Its
lost m would make populous towns
If collected to themselves. Its thieves.
pick-pockets 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 degradation;
but in its romance Of real life New York
stands pre-eminent. The strangest
characters come to. the surface, play
their eccentric parts, and disappear to
give place to others equally strange.
The millionaire of to-day who iRhabits a
palace, was an unknown adYenturer yes
terday, and may be a beggar to-morrow.
We have miles on miles Of the most
gorgeous habitations, in which the aver
age duration of residence does not ak
coed five years. 1t is a great caravan
sary. They come, and bloom, and -four
ish, and disappear in such quick success
sion hat one Is dazed.
1t is, however, in its government that
New York holds its most remarkable
~permanenee. 1t is a g9yernment of
thieves. Old we'll known terms have
lost their definitions. Rogues rule and
honest men obey. One set Of ~seoundrels
is only displaced by another set. Judges
are bribed, aldermen shot, The police
murdered, and the entire governmental
structure rots and stinks, and stinks and
rots, until the world holds its nose, and
the enemies Of n republican government
point to it as a siekening example and a
warning.