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LETTER FROM new YORK;
From an Occasional Correspondent.
SOMETHING ABOUT CENTRAL PARK,
Although This city is famous for its
many summer resorts, both in and around
the city, and where thousands of the in
habitants of New York pass the warm
days of July and August, yet Central
Park is considered headquarters" es-
pecially on Sunday. The average atten-
dance at the Park during the week is
about 16,5oo, except Saturdays, when
the number runs up to $4,000, and even
.as high as $1,000 The writer learned
that two weeks ago Saturday the atten-
dance was $4,000, and the preceding Sat-
,urday $4,000, Sunday, however, is the
most attractive day for'a' stroll in the
Park, if the weather is at9all favorable.
On this day you are surprised to see the
many different grades or classes of man
kind who inhabit this great city, You
meet the ssbrrown stone'' front man and
the inhabitant of the common brick
house,; you meet the elegant distingue
gentleman in his wagon; you then
cast your eyes over the way and take 8
peep in the windows of the coat of arms
carriage, and you are amazed to see such
bespanglea harness and the liveried at
tendaass, (colored), and at the same time
yoa ase bewildered to see 50 many riding
nl8 "Shank's Mare" In fact, at a
tglance you see old men, old women,
young men and young ladies, boys and
girls, infants and wee-wee babies, all out
for their Sunday walk, and what they
consider Indispensable exercise for
health's sake. The figures taken each
week show that about go, 900 people visit
the Park during the week. During the
shot weather" the people begin to flock
to the Park about s a. m. Thousands
60 and spend the day and take their
lunch on the grass, while the "small
boys are sailing their,boats in a neigh
boring lake, and the "suall girls" play
ing at "croauet," (what the Fbig girls"
do it is hard TO- say and the old folks
are contented to amuse themselves the
best way possible. So.
''The stranger in the city" when in
the Park does not realize theF great ex-
tent of the family with which he is SO
closely associated. t7rai g
The Park covers an area of $50 acres
including Manhattan Square, is acres,
and the site of the buildings being erec-
ted for the Museum of Natural History
and there are so many prominent points,
and which are so widely separated, that
the tslooker on in Venice" cannot for
moment believe that he has met up with
so many thousands of people. he is
more astonished, too, when informed that
there are nine and half miles of car
riage drive, six miles of equestrian road
and twenty-five miles of walks, all with
in. the Park enclosure, HeT cannot, be-
lieye, either, that there are twenty
acres in the principal lake, fourteen in
the Harlem, and six in the "Pond"
touching at Fifty-ninth street. !. Not
withstanding one meets the noble,
"greasy" Greek, the pompous Roman,
(not those who manufacture Roman
Candles), the fastidious Italian, the de-
ceptial Arab, the idolatrous and unprin-
cipled Turk, the uneducated African,
land gentlemen and ladies of African
descent), the dextrous Chinaman, Whose
ways are dark, &C., &c.), the quiet and
intelligent japanese, the unreliable and
blood-thirsty Spaniard, (none from the
old Alhambra), the treacherous, black
eyed Cuban, the exquisite tout a fat pre-
sumptuous Frenchman, tho industrious
German, the noble Russian and the wee
wee aat-nosed. Esquimaux, the German
from Elsas with his smiling lass, the
gemuethziche Deutsche von Szchsen, no die
Schocne Maedchen acachsen, the self-con-
ceited Prussian, the agreeable gentleman
from Austria, the sturdy German from
the romantic Alps of Bavaria, the brave
and skilful Swiss from the land of ''Tell," :"
the uncouth Narialgian, the affable little
Danish gentleman, the industrious
Swede, the down-trodden Pole, the Chill
gentleman, the intelligent Brazilian, the
big-fatted John Bull, (not from the land
of Ole Bully, the witty Pat from the land
of the Shamrock the close-fsted Scotch
man from the poetic land of Burns, the
pleasant little Dutchman from Timber
ger land. OF Schiedam, Amsterdam or
Rotterdam, or some other dam town
where we get the best cheese, and, lastly,
many of Judge Hnton's particular
friends. They are, nevertheless, all law
abiding citizens of our great and free Re-
public; and the average arrests of Sun
day reach five, which is fattering re-
cord, and probably cannot be e1celled in
any other city in the world.
While speaking of the different nation
afities, l am reminded of the last beauti-
full verse Of a poem published some years
ago in the Charleston Courier, but the
author of which have never known, and
must therefore omit the name. 1t is
this:
kICL,,& lo boo1-7 Y,,,,et onoD another