The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-03-20
rom our Special Correspondent.
METROPOLITAN ECHOES.
NEW Ynnr Maroh 18. 1sR

one Of the more sheltered walks of Cen
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 and 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 greatme-
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 Berehid beneath lis tin 4
sci cloak. I'D. ..s.tr....l
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-all very well, said
he, in dubious admiration Shut it's a
thunderin' pity TO waste so much nice
ground just for q, lot O folks to knock
around in, when it'ud make such a bully
farm r. - a u. a a.
There Is Q gFowlin our ears to-day, from
which the city appears now never to be
whelly 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
a fair. exterior; and, whatever may
be its hidden financial sulferingg, the
idler and pleasure-seeker within its
walls catches no echoing wall thereof.
To the superficial observer, the great
city's career Is one long holiday. The
brilliant cOlors of recently displayed
spring fashions lend peculiar descriptive
eharmin this hour of commercial distress,
for who stops to think of prosy, dull, un-
pleasant things when Broadway rolls he
fore us with its drifting tides Of gaiety and
beauty, and the grand old thoroughfare
seems transformed into q long and lovely
greenhouse, filled with animated bOquets2
You would hardly think 1t ;" Len" and
this a city which counts It's pretended OBJ
servers thereof by tensof thousandsl
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 d sharp look out after 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 appeal
that the severely severe" epistle has ami
hilated our thorough old Commodore, fol
mn ooy,y hiv,, ~ Tlror mo - orforf1a,y ioOIr
ing quite as stubbornly alive as ever. Ont
of his many fast teams had a race with {
Yelocipede on Harlem lane q few days
since, which, though Equite an impromptI
affair, attracted. much attention from
loungers at LufFs, the Club House, AMI
other points along theWay. One Wander
bilt .steed became unmanageably fright
ened, and as tbe other was scarcely les
J alarmed at the novel and peculiar competi
, tor brought against them, something yer,
like runaway resulted and ", Locipede
J ESQ, was easily distanced. Still, tn
noYelty-loving world of this netropoli
persists in believing in Velocipedes, AM
SO the mania continues to rage in spite Q
frightened horses, to say nothing Of bruis
! ed humans in scores, who have been it
, willing victims Central Park is occasion
ally oYerrun with these odd, two wheelei
machines, and accidents of q serious natur
have becorneso frequent that some oficis
! measures must soon be taken to regulat
! both the speedfof the 2 go,deYil las It
, sometimes called and the localities wheI
it may be used. There is great fascini
tion In velocipede exercise, no doubt; bJ
!, poor pedestrians should have some secur
) ty against destruction By enthusiast
riders in the Park, and they win soon d
!. asGgG it.. y ~ st
The feeling Of intense indignation whiC
was generated here in consequence Of Il
/ desperate and fool-hardy Ocean race b
tween an Inman and q Cunard steamer
d the City of Paris and the Russia y
6 has about subsidized. We do not have
/, chance TO linger long over any one exeit
ment in this Gotham Of endless sensation
1 but II Is pity public opinion would n
L in some way reach and chastise such heal
e less trifiers with human life. But how I
d we do itH Why, the steamers Of the
d two lines are better patronlzed than evG
|, and probably the two Identical Captain
q who each declared that he would g be6t
30 TO the bottom, viii hereafter bethe
T. yorites with European voyagersy a
q New York is to have q tunnel under {
Z. East river Atswhst point is not yet (
q termined, nor do we know exactly ichei
I. but, though we are not quite Sd precil
Il lately fast In the matter OF public impro1
IN ments as some of your Western cities, ,
a do not allow ourselves 70 suffer long on
q want which money can supply, and
n tunnel is certainly o most important ne
a to the crowded island Of Manhattan. nj
4 that Chicago has demonstrated how /
3. to do II" Gotham will be warned and b
II coed with caution and discretion q
q, when you hear, one Of these days, Of I
es tunnel as an established fact you will j
"a be panied to hear, at the same time, d
it has been converted Into q sh0wer-ba
Il. Al prominent metropolitan hotel keel
- Is already turning speculative
,ia towards the deep 70 Semitic Valley
AZ California, which be foreseesis destined
ns become the fashionable watering place
"a this continent II has falls riyaling Nj
ug ara and such virtues In the way of seen,
IA aud climate that our long-headed la
lord snifIs great things il the not very
/, tant future
~ Horace Greeley, whom we met In Pr
~ ~ ing House Square the other day, is said
IS be developing new and strange traits
MI hla old age, which both friends and !
4 mics will regard with a6mething Of IA
,p cit or sympathy. His growing petula'
- - Is leading him into world Of trouble
his bland, tranquil, almost childlibe
ID beginning to wrinkle up 10 most
Ias becoming n1anneE MI Greeley lie, b
0n according to his own estimate og it
Iae been d grand success; and we write
nal III irnorance of what the neW Admipia
@. tion is going to do ior hinif anythi
sea but to read his features as we recently
.sa held them, one must come inevitably
als thoconclusion chat he wis o aorrOi
lH6. aNd dlrannninted man What hap Wrou