Year: 1860

Nrw YoRK, Aug. Is, 1850


DEAR EDIroRs IL hail you from the metro
polisoi America. / have been in New York
long enough to look around and hunt up old
landmarks, and I find great changes have
been made since my last visit some six years
ago. The most notable are on Broadway
and streets west towards the North River,
reaching very far up town. To see the
great number of long avenues of palaces Of
business one cannot but be astonished at the
wonderful tide Of wealth that sets IN towards
this great centre of commerce from every
part of our common country, and indeed l
may say the whole world. New York is
making strides towards the position she is
one day to occupy, that Of the monied and
commercial center of the globe, The nature
Of our inland traffic has so changed, since the
railroad train has become the great trans
porter, thSt every interior towns made an
involuntary contributor to the creation of
the wonderful wealth, the evidence Of which
is so apparent wherever you turn your eyes.
Provincial towns, as the Herald calls them,
have lost in wealth and New York has
gained what they have lost The whole ten
dency of railroad transportation is to central
ize capital and business, and that center will
be this great city, and she viii speedily be-
come the most pOpulOus, as she already is
the most wonderful city in existence.


visited Central Park yesterday in com
pany with friend, and rambled for several
hours through its immense extent. 1t is by
no means finished, but enough has been
done to indicate that it will one day be the
most splendid pleasure ground that any city
can boast The upper part, in the vicinity
Of the reservoir, is nearly completed, and is
very beautiful. Nicely rolled walks wind
through little thickets of shrubbery, around
bare, bald rocks, over gentle swells, across
rocky ravines, over rustic bridges and along
the shores of miniature lakes, and at almost
every step taken one encounters a new and
pleasant surprise. Three Of the twelve swans
sent from the city of Hamburger are living,
and adorn the waters, and l also noticed
large flock Of white ducks and number of
outlandish looking geese. There are a great
number Of elegant stone bridges, some of
them of great cost, crossing drives and span
ming ravines in many picturesque point Of
view. About three thousand men are at
present employed, and from present appear
ances this great force must continue their la
bors for long time before the work is com
pleted. The two basins for containing res
ervoir of CrOton water in case of accident to
the water works, are Titanic in their magni-
tude, and well worth visit.


Like hundred and odd thousand other
Americans, I paid a visit to-day to that stu
penduous specimen of marine architecture,
the Great Eastern. She came in from her
trip to Chesapeake Bay on Sunday afternoon,
and since then has been anchored in the
middle of the North River. off Hammond
street. At first sight from the shore she
looked large, but nothing Ike what had
imagined. 1t was only after had clam
bered to her deck that she appeared what
she really is. started from aft and walked
forward one hundred steps, and still she
heightened out ahead, seemingly, as far as
when 1 was clear astern. A gale of wind
was blowing, yet she exhibited no movement
in her vast hull-and the wind whistted
through her miles Of rigging tilI all other
noises were drowned. Below decks she is
very plainly finished, and there is nothing
to excite special attention but her Ponderous
engines. She is certainly well worthy a
visit, and is really one of the great wonders
of the age. .,.a $3.50 .s.a.l. lsae--5