Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-03-28
Our New York Correspondence.

New York, March %, 1872.
suppose there is no metropolis in the
world which SO thoroughly represent:
the heterogeneous character of a nation
and absorbs the products of its genius
and industry, as does this sclf-same city
of New York. 1t is. impossible for any
observant man to walk down Broadway
and not be interested first, in the number
of "notorieties" who will bo pointed out
as lions of the town; and secondly
in the curious obstinacy with which ma
turc appears to preserve the peculiarities
Of people from different portions Of the
world. 1t is equally impossible for g
stranger not to feel that while in New
York he is a mere nonentity; that what
ever may be the pomp and circumstance
OF his surroundings al home, he is here
only q mite in mighty. cheese; yet
witlial so independent thathe can explore
where Ire may please, and no man, wo-
man or child will he the wiser. "He
pays his money and he takes his choice" :"
If rcligiously inclined, he may enjoy a
Methodist brotherof the good old school
o., On Tie ether hand, may see the Al
mighty wo.shiped dramatically with all
The aiiiuncs except the foot-liglts, and
preached =! by fashionable parsons who
par; their hair i'll the middle, wear the
latest sa@e.do;;l unilorm, and look as
well satisfied as if they had fat contract
with their aristocratic Pensioners to
drive them to Heaven at The last convc-
nicnt moncnt in coach and four. If a
lawyer, hec;n step into court and OBJ
serve john Graham perform legal gym
na,iirs Goiorc the bar, and now and then
bushwhacll tho judge on the bench. If
IN artist. he may visit the Studio, on
Tenth street, where fifty of his fellows
are working for dear life on every sort OF
picture, from small-sizcd bumble-bee
10 GignouX's last sketch Of the Rocky
Mountains. If he would like to gamble
Il lit;lc. why he has only 10 step around
the corner in Wall street, and be accom-
modatcd by any number of spruce young
gentlemen, fresh from the Fulton-strcct
rraycr-mcetillg, and first-class members
oi the Christian Association, who in fiji
teen minutes will take him / and bring
him out Of a stock speculation that will
Leave him as clcanly picked a canvass
back duck ready for the spit. AS ali
idlcr, he can lounge on Broadway, where
fashion and irailty are the SSiamese twins
Of the sidewalk; and, if his tastes are
not too refined po iccman will show
linn wrctchcdness enough i'll five min.
utcs' walk from his hotel to make a
series of unadulterated nightmares that
will last for a lifetime.
The practical man will be attracted by
other things. He will see in New York
the genius Of his country in nutshell {;
and how, in every department., machine
~ is taking the place of muscle. He
will go to bed in a machine which five
minutes before looked like magnificent
bookcase; he will be gently turned out
in the morniny-by machinery; he goes
down stairs-by machinery; his head
will be brushed in the barber-shop-by
machinery his clothes arc made by ma
cllincry, thlt gives employment to hum
drcd thousand working women; and he
may cook bachelor breakfast on Il stove
that is It's own servant, and times the
condition of the hot rolls by cloclk-work.
He may even make books by machinery,
for the Journeymen Printers of New
York have formed a Cooperative Asso
citation at No. 30 Beekman street, Ill
which every member is a cog wheel in
system that has reduced the price OF
every kind of printing at the same time
that it turns cut with most superb styles
of work. Go where you please, in fact,
and you will find every species Of device
conceivable that can serve useful pur-
pose rs an auxiliary to human comfort,
from Il pocket twinc cutter to cotton
gin or steam engine.
.They arc. even building railroads by
machinery, and under its magic villages
ere springing up with a speed that recalls
the fairy work of Aladdin's lamp. 1t is
ONLY Tie other day that ~. II. Stewart
purchased eight thousand acres Of land
on Long Island, and already twenty-five
or thirty mile. of streets are graded
shade trees arc planted, blocks are fenced
in, and large hotel, six hundred feet
long and six stories high, is i'll process o.
construction, besides many fine brick
cdiiiccs.
Five months ago there was no commu
n;cati"n between the north and soutl
side OF Long Island save hy the old
fashioned dirt road. Yet before the flow
crs bud in May, twenty-five miles o
rail will he laid and no less than twelve
beautiful villages will be brought within
IN hours ride Of New York city. BY
machinery, the work of three years viii
be compressed into about seven months
a portion of tho way lies through aroclly
spine or ridge, which at first seemed {
barrier almost insurmountable. But a
this iuncturc well-known railroad con
tractor, Mr.. Jamcs \. Smith, of Brock
lyn, stepped forward and said, "Gentle
men, that.hill is only n mile and a hal
across; I'll guarantee to go through it il
ninety days" 1t was thought to be al
iinpossibilitys but they let him try. Fl
at once put a'steam excavator at worl
on either side and commenced operations
With ton of coal day, they have per
formed the work Of three hundred men
and arc now within fow rods of eacl
other, putting and blowing while the,
burrow deep into the heart of the noun
tain.
IJrove ont The other day to see thcs
monsters at work, and the first objec
that attracted my attention was the six
, foot millionaire contractor, Mr.. Smith
!; with his broadcloth coat thrown aside
driving drill with twenty-poun
slsdgs. IiasKsd him if he was "takin