The New York herald., 1874-08-30

stranger as Threadne edlc street. and ans great
deal more. Like the London financial centre our
at midday, the utter stiffness At night;
Broad streets twnere at noon thousand anxious
people pass you IN one mnute) at midnight and
not see human being Ior half an hour, and then
only solitary policeman or night watchman.
either quite confident OF not being disturbed, for
tnere Is no more s unlikely place Tor thieves ana
Now, no one can possibly discuss Wall street being
the nnanclal quarter. Here are all the bankers
ana oanks. all the STOCK, gold and other brokers,
all the spectators, within sight OF their Elk.
changes ana ready at a moments warning. An
KIND OF branch Wall Street up I,S .own opposite
the the run , Avenue Hotel II was sort OF lazy
going down town. The telegraph was to do all
tgel business h5aN 81 But the panic came and very
room ia the oces toUS aH
iortunate II Providence allowed them to keep any
once at al. Ihere IS some attempt to keep up
street suggests What memories rise up IN the
minds mil OF those who saw the gold speculatols OF
awful anNieties OF the last PANEL Even a lu-
natlc asylum becomes sane beside all this. What
men Where are pow the kings OF Wall street Of
ten, o! seven, OF nve years agoY Yes, where are
those OF one year agof WHAT vortex this place,
wnere fortunes and regulations and lives are
engulphed by the merest rumorl What money,
what ambition Will ray for the deadly an xieties or
these men--men who ride home worth millions in
the evening and next morning rulneds VINO says
this is exaggerationl Not those who have read
the stories OF last IaI's panic. And the men who
now command everything Who can foreteii tneir
fate for even single month? And yet the danger
Is not greatest 10 these, but to tue innocent crea-
lures who. with the spirit OF gambling IN thcir
hearts, try their luck III Wall street. But then
NOBODY should have pity on such FOOLS.
THE CLUB QUARTER.
The quarter OF the clubs IN city is almost too
great TO be called centre. 10 be sure, there Is a.
ST a as F Tna lies
out even now one OF the best OIL the
aoe nsugn ns non and " ns ~G s
no signs of moving elsewhere. The Blossom, a
sort o relct OF iammany, Id also In this quar-
ter. Still, We have nothing here like Pail Mali In
LONDON, Win It's paatlal clubs almost slde by side,
each one surprising the other IN magnlacence:
the style OF It's members and the splendor OF Its
appo,ntments apron I"o or three others are also
a city OF clubs.
TIE FASHIONABLE QUARTER.
late years that at any time 1t Is almost unsde TO
locate It, Yesterday It was below Fourteenth
Il above TSirfy tbs street rneso Changes are
so rapid and DewlldsrinE soat ons almost = loses
fashionable part OF the avenue par excellcnoe, aud
apHyS the stores are maxus suspiGous dead
now % soss.dsssd as lSsatsd ABOUT Forsy:s.conda
sias sne TO Fnsy:s,usn en iSe osusr, aud running
&C oss rom Sixtn to Madison avenue; Wherc u
Fashion q a thing which Is OF itsai such an un.
Fs g H %
SONG them .srLou, injury ia rpssklug Ia this
evidently ~ them completely at sea. And yet, il
sas, q Z sssdsspsopS who tuss. % pusn!9g them
tho isshlonable would hardly De matter Of argu.
mept. But then wc might as well attempt to OK.
ne laugh at Lord Dundreary, as to locate perma.
99sas.y 9sas: and 0''''V'' anything movable In No"
Tnere are certainty other quartars and centres
which demand noticc-the wholesale quarter,
1d now a asS was n 10 o street
the retail quarter, which was limited by Tentn
street and has now gone upto Thrty-.ourth street.
But here arises he same difhcuty as at tempting to
limit the fashionable centre. still there are some
others which are lim.tcd-sUch for instance, as the
leather quarter known as the swamp and where
one meets absolutely nothing but leather, unless
IL be a oaG smell; such as the insurance quarter
winch runs Tom Wall street up Broad way TO Fu
ance company in every buildiug, il not half
dozen OF them all seemingly doing very well,
II one NAV Judge by appearances and the extra
ordinary number Of clerks employed. And then
there IS the italian quarter, on wnich nave not
touched, and which is deserving OF notice. taking
In as 1t Goes some "f the most miserable and DESC
late OF the CITY Streets such as Baxter. Mott Mul-
berry and Crosby. and wnere poverty, misery and
the crime OF the padrOne may he with infinite
Is so the shipplng office quarter in the lower
par o. Broadway and Bowl M Green-the once
lavorle spot OF our lnoneyed people. ALI these
and dozen others might be men ioned and dilatcd
upon but Tor the TACT that lour columns OF matter
cannot be pushed lntotwo columns oi space. 1t is
only necessary @ say that the cannshness OF sets
anu OF trades IN New YORK Is one OF the curl US
features OF its existence.