The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1867, Page 5

THE METROPOLIS. Business as a Motive Power of Civili- zation. How Broadway Crawled Up Town. THE OLD DAYS AND THE NEW. FACTS, FIGURES AND COMMENTS. It te now nearly two and ahalf centuries since a pbiegmatic Hollander, himself but dimly appreciating ‘the commercial value of hie unimproved and swampy mate, bought the island of Manhattan for a sum not emccoding $24, of iis dusky and painted proprietors— haved, could the phiegmatic buyer play “Rip Van “Winkie” in fact, ag Irving’s humoristic hero played the lie, in the fancy of the author, and wake afters @rowee of a century and a half, he would be likely to Dehave bimecif after a more ridiculous faghion than did the ideal “Rip,” who was-certain)y sufficiently stricken with wonder at the alterations im his native village ‘Time works all sorts of metamorphoses, The bewildered “revisitor of the glimpses of the moon,”? to use a phrase which some post puts into the mouth of a mommy—the mummy not being supposed to have lost his powers of articulation by having been dried and Jad away under the shadows of the Pyramids three thousand years since—baring inquired in vain for bis cabin, with its smoky rafters and bie “vrow,”? who perfectly comprehended the length @ time that cabbages ought to rot and ferment to make Pespectable ‘‘sauer kraut,’ would be likely, not finding ‘what he asked for, to coil himself up again in sheer dis- ast, and like “‘Pip’s’’ elder brother, to insist upon being faterred with his hands io his pockets, an example and 8 warning to thoughtless, stupid people of his ilk, who are too conservative to foresee what the world is com- fag to until the world gets there. These are they who might read with obvious advantage the old baliad of — Shidbar, the het, ever youn; Who loosed ‘ihe bridle of his tongue, and who passed once !n a thousand years, noting and commenting upon what had been done in the mean- time, At one journey he found an interminable forest at the mouth of a drowsy river— A thousand years passed by, and then wer He went the seif same road ugain— and a splendid metropolis had sprang up in the mean- time. Tall masts in dense wilderness nodded in the har- bor; there were crowds hurrying to and fro upon paved streets, and intent upon business, and magnificent palaces had taken the place of the tall trees of ten cen- ‘aries before. On the island of Manhattan, however, ithe same metamorphosis bas been carried out im little more than a century, Business, evor thrifty, radical and hard mannered, with no respect for antiquities or antiquarianism, excopt in so far as they aro valuable in the way of articles of trade, has pusbod painted aborigines and tbriftless pipe-smoking Holland. rs, even to the last vestige, out of existence, Business, ‘alike the philosophers of socialism who are engaged in a work of thas HBver progfesses, has built ships, “Tooled MELA Wane streets and bounded them with palatial edifices, created capital and made the most of it tm material progress, and upreared a mart for the world from'the waste of Manhattan, employing a million of people in carrying 11 on and ministering to the vast van- ety of its industries and trade. Business first sottled at Bowling Green. near tothe mouth of the Nuhpa; and out fvom Bowling Green crept Broadway, like a gigantic ser- pent, throsting its head northward, and, like a gigantic serpent, uncolling itself and crawling slowly—spotted all over with basiness spote—along the Heeve Wegh of the ancient burghers. Nearly a century it has taken the werpent to crawl from Bowling Green to the Central Park, and how loug it may be before tt shall have crawled along the Bloomingdale road te the upper end of Manhat- tan, simply depends upon business, Six miles or there- bouts it has crawled during the century past, and has not yet straightened iteclf opt; and there is every probability that it will crawl considerably faster during the century present, until it dips its head im tho waters on the morih and stops, With business, however, rests the decision of that question; business, ‘which wears the ring of Gyges on the finger, and slips adout invisibly, managing, ruling, regulating prices in spite of speculators, and employing a million of persons ef ail conditions in carrying on its projects, Business ‘was always prudent, made money and built wooden Dulldings before it could afford brick; made more money ‘and built palaces, proving that, though prudent and @conomical, there was no lack more money and reared six and Bow, from end to end, Broadway is composed of seven er eight layers of busincss one upon the other, of which the first is underground, consisting mainly of sampie rooms, oysier bouses and restaurants, and the remain- ing six or seven are above ground, the upper one Deing in the attic and working by skylight, Even to the eighth story business ascends by interminable wind- ‘ug stairs in the morning and descends at night, jingling pennies in ite pocket and slipping up town for an hour @f drowse. Business, in fact, having built « city, Ansiete upon making money on the cap'tal invested. THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT. The manner in which Broadway crept up town was Dy seven jumps, as follows:— 1. While New York was New Amsterdam and Broad- Thi guttural Heeve strasse, it was openedas far as 2. Bui the next twenty-five years it had crept = ae up asthe Comimows (now City Hall eer was LJ wi en eee ae street, which was i 8 & i é 2 2 up by year, grew lone and = fo “Ninth street became a sort of a between that which was and that which was not ‘aneguivocally of the bon fon, Five years since Union @quare wasan ideal of the fasbionabie elysium, ite were the gayest of the m ie. Fisn ine nadaory ett mult hr: more room ite THIS HOUSE To LET POR PUBINERS PURPORRA, POCO LEROLELEOCOEELEDOLOLELEID- 18 0000-0t 1 Pott ttt ® Un the other ome more suggestive of the business per- manence and perseverance :— rerenmreveroooseners tess 14 146d FOR A TRRM OF TEARs APPLY TO HOMER MORGAN, 3 eecerercancerececeverereneress: retnte re rece terested Even on Fifth avenue, and especially on the lowér por- tion, business is beginning to make little raide here aud eel business—remaining wherever it ;.nor will it be longere there will be business—very geatecl business—below er POOR LOE LOIOOOIE NE BO OODLE NODE TELE OL TELE Hb bb tt and was know Smnit’s valley; but crawled up to Duane street, and fashion Daring the Revolution many of the most their residences in this quarter, sere, Van Coruands, Staets, Van Zandte and others Englied families the Ad yd ap y berg others of the monde ip SRE Keneration, | Among the noted citizens who hac this time aces on Broad y 0 Green, were the following: "7" °PPONKE Dom ig Minville, | re, Alexand other of | fitiam ler, been Lord Sterling, and ‘ariour members of the Livin, ‘Van Cortiand famiien also occupied tbelauaces ins rier, Even afer the Revolution, nitial nombers on broadway were Miss Loring. No. 3—Jobn Watts. thus oc ' No. 9—Kurabeth ¥ Veo cont No. 11—Widow Mensteid. No. Jou Len eae Elion. next square was, even as a8 1788, occupied ness. No. 37 i" = bf was im} into service wery store; No. 39 was devoted to tinwork; No. kept as a shop; at No. 46 @ jewelry store was No bs enjausin Halebt maqurectered gaddiee "ke: en’ EZ_ggi i. FEEEESELL2 .. JESELEES.£E¢EE5E005 32 E2252. EfE" 209208 FEES E=E SEARED EDD ES SoEDaEEE® BES 057 5709250002509 FT8ETE.5 , SEESEESSEESSBSNOSESEERESEEEEDSN SS EDEESEEEE°E, ESSE 0-0 EE EE2 4072 ER p35 TRSEAMEE am bal Ay 8 Fh Pay NEW — a ‘was an empor'um for candies; No, 67 contained * few | boxes of dry goods; No. 60 was devoted to the tin buri- ‘| No. 65 Jobn Anderson made shoes; at No. 67 was a third tinman; at No. 71 Mrs. Hoffman kept gro- ceries, and No 75 was that miniature bazear denomi- nated a shop, In 1790 the edifice celebrated as Bunker's Mansion was built, the central part of which was after- wards occu, by General Wa ass Presidential mansion, Up to 1840 Bunker's Mansion was reckoned ene of the best hotels tn the city, and yet, aftera lapse of twenty-seven years, it is bardly possible to say where it stood, Business has e bad memory, and buries with- out ever the ceremony of a tone, At early as the beginning of the present century busi- nese necessities had pulied down shabby buildings in which grocers and tipmen wrought for bread or gold and substantial edifices had been put up instead. Broadway, from No. 35 t0 No, 67, was at this time a» centre, some of the beaviest capitaliats and oldest aristo- orate of the day being engaged in trade from mumber to number, The candle maker had taken to his alley; the saddier to his lair in some cross street; the shoemakor had emigrated from Broadway, taking bis awl with bim, and the tinman soldered andcut and modelled elsewhere, where pro) ‘was not so higb. ‘The west si during shia. period was taken up by resi- ces ly. At No. 1 resided George Scriba, and trem No, 16 to No. 84 some of the first families, in the subsequent order :— No. Name. No, Name. 24. Nathan Low. $2, Col. Aquila Jones 28, Alexander Hamilton. 54. Di Ludlow, 20, Jobu Delafield. 66. Herman Leroy. 36. T. Jay Munro, 68. J. Ogden Hofman. 40. Mrs. Livingston. 70. Cadwallader D. Colden. 44. Kobert Troop. 72. Joshua Jones. 46. Dr. Bailey. 74, Dr, Thomas Jones. 60. Jobn Slidell. 84. Dr, Zeliery. 62. Judge Lawrence. In 1827, the Adelphi Hotel, corner of Beaver street end Broadway, was tput up—an odifice of six stones aud a marvei in itaday; and in 1628 among the num: ers meutioned above bad crept boarding houses, and aristocracy had been driven northward a block. In 1794, the bdiock below Cortinndt. street eontained the residences of J. B. Dash, John Jacob Astor, Abrebam Russell, Dr, Benjamin Kissam, E, Kipp, Jacob t and others—all ef the first water, @ may be permitted to apply to social ponding. etaphor usually applied to precious stones, In courses of twenty-five years all these bad been driven northward a couple of blocks. Between Vesey and Barclay streets, at this dato, might Dave been found on door after door quaint knockers which, being eounded, admitted one to the parlors of Jobn Jacob Astor, Alexander L. Stewart, John G. Costar and othera of the ilk; while between Bar. clay street ‘and Park place wore the dwolling places of John C. Vanderheuvel! and Mrs. Star- ter, famous in social circlea in her day; and betweon Park place and Murray street were the residences (Guanes houses) of Samuel Hicks, Daniel Boardman and ‘iMiam Rhinelander, the last of whose names forms a curious matrimonial of pure Teutonic and pure English. At this same date (1820), however, business had put up ite sign on the northwest corner of Broadway and Mur- ray street, and on the sign was painted, in straight black letters— Direrervcereserece rere sereneserevens rorese nd r0teeore > H WILLIAM H. LEVY, + DRUG Oe LOLE LELOLOLE TERE EELOLELEIODELERODODE LELOLE OO tE-@> the name hess Jewish Fing about 1 (the Lovys aro a nomerous femily now and levy on everybody), and most likely the Levy whosold drugs was the father of ali the Levys, whe iatterly taken to selling almost every. thing and everybody. VALUATION OF PROPERTY IN 1820, Not to pursne the topic—how business for a century hag driven fashion before it northward, until the latter ‘at last built palaces on Fifth avenue and abode there— farther than needful for illustrative purposes, the com- parison of valuation and its statistics 1820 may be alluded to. The preetut valuation of th numbers being well known, pre 7 of that valuation with the estimates of 1 oystrating how business, r the creator and regulator of values, hag doubled and trebled and quadrupled and quintupled from 46- cade to docade—-capnot but here prove interesting. In 1820 the following numbers from Cedar street to Fulton meets exhibited the following table of values:— 08, 128, City Hotel 127. Sheldon & 135, J. O. Jn + 8 139. Wiliam Bruce + 18,000 144, William Young. . . 10.509 45, William Dean » ie 147, J, B, Dash.. + 36,000 . Nathan Smith. + 13,000 + 13,000 + 15,000 20,000 14,000 6.000 BSS8as SS RSS. Eeeeeeeeagseeegeea + oe BS. | Es Total valuation of west side, from Cedar street to Fulton street, a 2B ant rome Catan were 500 This valustion—in 1820—in 1866 would hardly have id the rent of the topmost floor, te Be nie the wenty, thirty, forty or fifty thougands demanded for the first story—demanded and paid by business as mat- tors of business aud brought back im enormous profits in trade en gros et en deail. A similar metamorphosis has Deen wrought on the back streets west of Broadway— upon e tract bounded by You sree on the south, b; Canal streot on the north, by way on the cast an: by West Broadway on the west—by the increasing cry of trade for more room at no matter what price; business palaces of splendid Grecian ensemble have arisen as if “8 magic where vice Jurked in lairs aad dens and held hig carnival; and building lots have in this region doubled, tripled and quadra; in value in quick succession, owing partially to the fact that the tract rests upon a @ry, sandy bottom, suitable for storage cellars, but prin- cipally to the great commercial fact that all Manhattan must at leet given up, no matter if at fabulous rices, to the needs of trade, wholesale and retall, ere the comical Burton played Toodles and was in the Tecoipt of Candieian sermonoids trom the commu- nicative Mra Toodles, there will be mo more piaying of Toodies forever; and Ld o'clock im the evening, or at least none who can afford to attend theatrical representations. About 1850 the Broadway theatre emigrated up town, though Castle Garden and Paimo’s Opera House were still popular, and between 1850 and 1860 the hy papers, having amassed fortunes, began to creep out of their semi-literary iairs in Nasgau strect and to erect for thomaelves palaces in Park row; and since then Park row. from cer to ‘Tryon row, bas become the journalistic centre of New York, and aot of New York only, but of America, and not w mag A only, but of the hana bee Here, from three a’ternoon to three at night, sit quiet gentlemen, with « passion i £ 3, ipt ur i j s business collect, collate and sometimes to manufacture facte—facta to them are simply facts without individual bearing or peculiar per- sonal interest, for the true journalist uses feeling only as pepper, besprinkling Lis story therewith for the mere sake of ronderi it how- ever, of Park “ew «ate epee" pussea aa illastrationa of oaress. fe are smmply the private™ secretaries of life and busi. forty foot wader ground and ato the air six an peven and eight stories; and comparative table of Duildings erected from year to year, im as far as statistics are attainable, assumes the phase of an jilastrative necessity. rnow 1834 ro 1867 ‘tis only poesible to collect accurate figures of about nmeleen years of progress, From 1834 to 1947 the fol- lowing table represents with mathematical accuracy the number of odidces of all sorts erected in this city 1884. ....6..5 877 1843. 1,373 1835. .. 1250 1836, so 1,826 1837 40 781 2 are —_ 1 . b+ pt tet sa 17,184 > verage number isa 912 year, vo 127 From 1847 to May 1, 1862, when the act of Apri! 19, 1864, went into e(iect, uo statistical information etists, though, there being mo reason why the principle of genera) average xbould be inoperative, » proximate re- sult may be easily obtained. Multiplying the general average, Manage thirteen the following result or Nutaber of bulldinge erseuad fi Ml r of CT 7 ae Frow 1894 ts 1547 serpent she dey Total {n twenty-seven years... .....4,.83,195 wanelininat oie Mane wasn dass of April 19 be- rn wore in process of construction e\gbty-eigat bai) ge, and thenee to January 1, 1867, rate reporta have beeu made, of which the following table gives the figures — To process of Dullding, May 1, 1862....., Began from May 1, 1862, to January 1, 1860, Begun from Begun from z Be Kegua Total for five years Total for thirty-two years. . The number of buildings Dot comploied aad inrpee cote of construction January 1, 1867, was five hundred and aixty-(our—s larger aumber of —. io 1666 than in any pele year ee Duiidings more than two thousend if ct ha jously have been raised, but rn or v'lige ioe aplarees. singe ey ‘ais of Mey - YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. The mtatistics for the Sve years stand as fol- am pera int mi Enlarged 12 1800... Bote... .0sere-+eer-rseeee Omitting any classification of for the reason that ouly vague date oxist, forthe four years ensuing exhibits some facte upon ich to ruminate; and. if it be admits that supply nd. demand are operative here as elsewhere, a very lucid idea of the competition betweey business, which must bave room, and meu of business, who must aye somewhere to lay their beads, is obtaiued. The gubjomsed table exhibite the statistics of the past four a na 186%, 1864. 1865, 1866. First class brick dwellings 162 908 +00 Second ciags brick dwellings. , 301 167 1s Brick tenement hou 389 il Slé of 5 nz 137 188 _ 4 COMPARATIVE CALCULATION, A comparivon of the progress of Now York in bnild- ing, with ite increase of population for avy wiven period, answers well to elicit a train of reflective calculation having some tendency to illustrate the cause of the rise ip reuis which has taken place withia the past four or five years, and tho justice of that rise when subjected to the test of commercial principles The ulation of New York was in = sis 1666. .... 1,000 TS47....... eee 402,129 ’ 4802 1864 (according to 10,281 Depew)... .... 875,000 21,874 1866 (by calcula- 60,489 tion based upon 123,706 = most —sreliablo 270,088 Ponda +1,200,000 971,223 From 1834 to 1847 an increase of 152,040 is exhibited, the number of buildings erected during that. period hav- ing been 17,184, or an average of one ee every increase of eight persons; and from 1847 to 1367 the in- crease in population has been not less than Los while the number of buildings erected has not exceed 22,000, or an avorage of one new building to every fn- crease of thirty-five persons. Taking into account the fact that twenty-five percent of ti buildings have been erected for business purposes, t! verage will not exceed one dwelling to every dition of forty persons to the population of this metropolis. During pe past year a larger number of tenement houses have begun than in sny previous year, owing to tho excessive rent demanded for second class houses, even, and the necessity of everybody to eat and dmuk an sleep somewhere; in other words, to have a loca! habi- sation and a name. There is room enough as yet in tho suburbs, but, with the present facilities, only @ limited number can get there; and the remainder must, if of small meaus, pay exorbitant prices for lairs and dens in the fifth story of a tenement house, in the lower atory of which the retail vender of groceries diepenses stale ish and decomposing vegetables, in which lurk dysentery ‘and fever and an attendant train of diseases. And 80 jong as there exists this irreprosajble demand for the Worst kind of accommodations at the least expense, 80 Jong small capitalists and large will build tenement houses; and so long as there aro no means of @ except the present organization of herse cars and st: — Doth too slow, utterly inadequate and too expens! for the use of the tenement house ciass—so long the demand will exist and must be supplied; for people cannot gypsy in New York without being deemed common vagrants. Penniless poets, without capital enough for another night’s lodging even in the attic, may sing yomantically— ih. ‘ ~Thave sai in ty garret since four to-day, In a dreaming, fanciful xort of way— In a dream of @ park and # dead man stark And a dripping of rain in the lonesome dark ; In a dream of & boat wigh but one to row, Where the shipe {2 the darx ned to and fro, Tn the dreary dark nod to and fro, And a plunge of the oarsman down under the bay, Where they lodge # man gratia who lias nothing to pay, where he may, having nothing to puy— ing whatever to pay. Penniless poets may sing after this fashion, but people who are not poets would derive very little satisfaction from tho prospect of lodging down under the bay, even though the lodging be afforded gratis, and will generally prefer ee else toa trial of the former, There is danger of drowned in the poet’s suggestion though the danger is by no means greater than that o! Deing suffocated in the worst of New York's mont houses. More inexpensive and more rapid communica- tion from City Hall square to Hariem and fu would obviate the necessity {i should cease to supply a st demand cirea} must exist, For Spel commodation of this class hoase ) it should be thee ta to Ly the Batery in half an hour, atan expense not two cents, and that this possibility will be into fact within the present decade ia very probable. Already invention has the matter under consideration; and when American inventors ‘begin to think seriously, something successful is sure to be the result, Moreover, with the means of transit, (> Dusiness of any company which shoud effect this desideratum would be so large that, upon a tarff of two cents, a handsome profit could be Tealined. Let not invention, therefore, spare its wits, and tene- ment houses of the worst class will soon have an oppor- tunity to rot and mildew, and tumble down of their own decay, while poor people enjoy plenty of pure air, and can, on occasi get a glimpse of the glorious try of nature. The sight of a little 2 grass a wonderfully medicinal on neuralgic tentien- cies or predisposition to general debility, and why should not poor ‘oo og have an opportunity to test a remedy so inexpensive There is nu reason, except in the drowsi- mess and conservatism of invention, why New York at night should be composed of mx oreight layers of humanity corresponding to ite nambers of stories; no Teason, except in this, why the population of the metro- Polig should be limited to a few cubic feet of stale ar Der night when there is plenty of pure air in the sub. that people ought to breathe and would if , could get at it and get back again in time for the labors of the ensuing day. New York has built buildings enough since 1534, allowing an average of forty feet front, to have extended itself, could its tangled plaid of etreeta be unwoven, in one uninter- rupted Broadway from Bowling Green to Albany, with- out even an alley of egress on either side; in short, has built buildings enough of various sorts to yield three hun- dred and one miles of unbroken front, or one hundred making no ailowance for crossings; and yet New York is compelied to permit the poorer of its inbabitants to @rowse on pallets of straw under ground, or in rooms larger than coffins on the sixtn floor. And York might have erected twice as many buildings, and there would still have been the problem, where i poor people sleep at an expenso in fair proportion to incomes? New York cau never solve that problem, e cept by sending half is population ont of town for the might and bringing them back early the next moraing. 1966 45 4 YEAR OF PROGRESS. In PN eo ear 1366 has eclipsed all years i Preceding. last twelve months more pro- ‘(gress has been leap of bail ne can can previous twelve bistory ty, s groster weber of buildings iatended to woberive respect a comparison res for those of 1363, 1864 and 1865 wi ‘poses of There To 1363. In 1864. Of this one hundred and forty-eight stores aod store. houses sixty-six have been located in the Fifth ward bole number commenced exceeding by indred per cent tiatof the year before, Nearly every one of these structures has been of colossal Proportions, composed of the very best materials of every eae of ee marble, fancy os tron 4, aod, in ornament , are edifices of in the neighvdorbood fe enieh te No pains nor expense has been spared by owne: make these buildings both handsome and substan though it ig a matter of surprise that more care bas m been taken to render them fire; by the Pyeng ad secured at a trifling advance upon tho scarene Sree “gheen eee sere vaiaable, wi ion may ve that 4 flees, are of no These buildings the rules of regretted that coafurm in ev respect to the present law; but ete to’ be their builders could not have been prevailed upon to be a little more than legal im putting them up, ‘li talk about stagnation in business is comparatively inopera- tive while men of in and fmeh, siness continue to year atter year, buildings which in ense: are really Paiatial, and to which the of the term (pal- ace) is po r, bat as plaia a matter of fact as ite application to the Tuileries, Business is shrewd and far- cos ee never bate random, and, the wit aving but juring the past twelve months, wil! have no prod moyeny bin ‘use for them, thougt it is to be regretted, perhaps, that some of these should wot have bad a little more solidity. still anusual pro- Ce Ree Sa ee epee ence of juiiding, Pasteboard structures are now utterly tabooed though perbaps pasteboard diamonds are not; and not one building was erected in 1866 which, in id to safety and solidity, was not an advance upon 1865; —_ Vs phage rac gy int ich were, in point of plan, models, by the demands of both science and art as applied to construction. Among those buildings which have been begun within the year and which will long sand as models may be mentioned the following:—Henato Bojiding, Anm street and Broadway; tan Sovings hank, Third avenue and Seventh street; Union Dime Savings Bank, No, 396 Canal street; Bowery Sav- ings Hank, No, 228 Grand street; Sehool of Mines, Co- jombia College; German Hop: Fourth avenue aod Se -minth street; butlding of juway & Sone, Nos Ti and 73 East Fourteenth street; American Jockey Clab, Madison avenue and Twenty-sixth street; New York Museum, Broadway, near Twenty-ninth ; Pike’* Opers Houre, Ei avenue and Twenty-third sireet, and other buildings of lesser note, but of ly lene beauty of design or completeness of execution. The Mansard roof, one of the most | additions ever mede te the art of Paiiadio, bas been an element of nearly allithese buildings, bree remarkable edifices still remain to be ‘com; though not commenced within the year, me tae discction. heed _ —_—— ing Upon progrese re vin: —' news Patrick's Cathedral, which mingles iddie and Javter Gothic with greater felicity than aay editce iy America: the new Court Houge, & Ome jue! ough overloaded with orna- the new dweling house of A. T. Stowari, “ough Wo Leaviy laden with ormavregt, is ive wate residences the year also the old landmark, corner of Broadway and Houston oeled ous of the way by busners-—as ‘aud others im the bosivess quar- the y must be at Commerce, will hove tte will, A dozen yeara ince Garden was an opera house and resounded to the carols of Jenny Lind; earlier weut the old Park thea- tre; later passed away the dela/ of Palmo's Opera House, where sang Malio1 Stefaponi, the elder Paiti, and Others among the pioneers of the opera, to whom New York has liviecet and whom (though buainess has a meoiuory) the weiropotis stilt remembers, Astor piace is no longer stylish and Clinton Hall, ouce the haunt of operatic celeorisies, has been given up to itinerant ped- lers of “snus. ’ Nusiness knocks at the dvor of ail build- street, haw | Trinmtty, St | ter of | crade, Castle ings within ite beat and demands adinittance; knocks year after year, and if not admitted finally begins » work jd brs On aud packs off butld: and occnpant Loze- compete with dry Ful having strayed into z bere pares foe more into Grand street: on’ YY, Brougway will have uo publication houses. - a book atOre th Ni to ‘eha-_-thoogth what with issuing second claas su novels and leaving Amen- can writers to thi ier mercies of the wolf of hunger, publisuers are img tolerable incomes, and keeping them, without literary vouture or iberality, 8 business, with its cry of “more room,"’ is grad- ually forcing ali things out of Broadway from end to end, and will by and by have its will in all things per- taining the mutropolis—busineas, which has a way of taking @ penny in ita hand and inereasing it from iteeif by ® sort of geometrical progression, and which thus makes the capital to build palaces for itself, making even these a source of profit; busineas, bitter elf, which often upsets the culoulations of the shrewdest and leav the grecuborn to win in spite of u experiance of bie opponent; business, which is really the arbiter of the. destiny of nations, AT SIX IN TRE MORNING. Basiness is an early riser, and often gets up and bas a thing dono before Fifta avenue ‘ins even to yawn, having been up late the evening fore, A visit to Wasbingtom Market from five o'clock to seven, before anybody has came down town, would give a New Yorker, who rises late, some new ideas of what is going on before ane * veady for hese. The staid business Who af ning or eleven put in an appearance on Broadway near Fulton trent have not even an ink- ling of the sacre-ing, and jamming, and shouting and general hurly burly which prevailed in the vi- cimity of 8! Paul’s from three to fire hours before, when the sun was peeping over the tops of the houses, and shadows still filled the Street. At the intersection of Fulton street and Broad. way is, prepasiy, the worst point in the vicinity, but at Washington Market the hurly burly is simply un- bearable, Carts of every ensemble, and loaded with evory sort of marketable commodity, line the streets for squares about——carts huddled together, and seeming to be wed; together in every conceivable sort of confusion. Ld York has not manifested a disposition to wake up even bys yawn, aud nobody {s aware that an army of queer people, with caris an ‘cabbages, have come to town in the dusk of dawn, before Morn has lifted her head from her scariet pillow, and put the question, “What time is it?” They are hore, however—quai strange peop! who, with the single excoption of thd fact that oy swear like otuer people, seem to have no affix ity for the army that takes their place at ten. They are every- where—these distributors Deets and cabbages, of cu- cumbers and squashes; and New York would want for many a delicious salad if they kept away for a week. They put down their burdens here and there, and as early as seven and a half o’clock the last cart has been emptied of its freight, and the owner is quite ready to rive out into the country long bofore Fifth avenue has waked up, Thus, an army of benefac- tors, they steal into the city at the dusk of dawn, and ap army of individuals with empty carts and etmptier horses, they stoal out ia; acd nobody sees them, nobod; hears ‘them; nobody 1s aware that they have boon here, except that the vegetables and salads are not wilted at dinner, Thoy flock in and down town from every northward direo- tion—why cannot New York have bie markets located where they should be?—and pho again they posi thyongh péopletess wtreets with from six to eight layers Of humanity drowsing at the right and at the left. Then begins the work of distribution—Washington bejng the real wholevale market—and before nige ip thé morn- ing cabbages just plucked have travelled t6 all parts of the city; while squashes, melons and the like are ex- jn at every corner grocery from the City Hall to the ‘ark, And thus what was brought ¢o silently to town in the morniug bas found its way into every hotel and dwelling house and restaurant at noon. The unloading, distribution and general dissemination of eatables has been a work of only afew hours, and the pict uresque people who wore here i herds this morning will be here ‘| herds to-mttow wit! pepo tod ‘3 The next thing that ought to be rep up townare the New York markets— miserable shanties, with an endless Of decay about them, in the very midat ofa ty ; and yet New York iz its progress bas not driven them northward, though not many years more are allotted to them. Business is gradually expelling vice from ite lairs and dens below Bleecker street; nor will it be long before business pulle down, from sheer di bu! like the gonera! tenor of New York markets, It is busi- ness that works out the problems of civilization and pro- gression, upon which philosophy bas speculated so long. and, left to itself, business will work the destiny of Manhattao. THE ODD FELLOWS. Stzth and Last Day of the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the United States. Punctually at nine o’clock yesterday morning, the RW. Grand Lodge of the United States resumed its session, and after the adoption of numerous reports and resolutions, the report from the Legislative Committee, to whom was referred tho resolution of Representative Woodyatt, of Canada West, in relation to changing the name of the Grand Lodge of the United States to that of the ‘Grand Lodge of America,” was taken up and considered, and after considerable debate it was resolved to sustain the recommendation of the committes that it ‘was deemed inexpedient to legislate thervupon, In accordance with the resolution of the representa- tive from Canada West, and the report of the Legislative Committee, tho name of the Grand Lodge of Canada Wost was changed to that of ‘The Grand Lodge of On- tario,”” Numerous amendments to the constitutions of jurisdic- tional Grand Lodges and Grand Encampments were ap- Proved, as recommended by the Logisiative Commitiee, to whom all these matters bad been referred, The Committee on the State of the Order, to whom had been referred the several decisions of law, made by the Most Worthy Grand Sire during tho recess, mato a report by sections, each of which was separately acted upon and Mnally approved. The ninth, that one recom- ed by the Commitiee on the State of the Order to left to the local and subordinate lodges to decide for themselves in special cases of physical deformity,” whether they will prohibit the initiation into the order of ail persons who are unable to comply with the re- quirements of the order, was duly and dei'berately con- sidered, and finally decided that such persons as are n- and the signs cannot be admitted ited at the last session of tinis » With Instructions to report at this ses. 4 * prouibiting expulsions for non-payment of dues and regulating suspensions for the same cause.’ considered the matter, and present the following ax what seems to them’ the only feasibie jan of adjuating this vexed question in such @ manner as, hile such privileges a delinquent members may have or can juatly claim from their connection with the order may be secured to them, the more promptly paying portion of the fraternity shall be in no wise prejud ced tn their rights and imrounii The sabject matter of this report having been fully treated in the report of the Legislative Committee at the last semsion (Journal, 3,993), your committee deem it un- necessary to add anything here heyond the resolutions hereto attached, which are respectful) approval. vig. — heaolved, That it shall not be legal toe: members of this erder for non-payment of a Resolved. Phat any member of a subordinate Lodge or Encampment of this order failing pay nie regular dues, as required by the by-laws of such subordinate, until the arrears thereof, exclusive of Bags and assessments, are equal in amount to one year's dues, aball be held to have volt iy his ‘nembersiip in such subordinate hall ve dropped from the roll thereof. and he shail tak ik in the order, nd after such dropping frow the roll, as an Ancieot Odd Fellow; Provided, however, that no member aball be thus dropped while under charges for ee thas dropped may be readmit: ; m ted to membership, elther in his former aul auer of the Jurladietious of thie order, may wired of w eandidate faa admission {ee in n0 case fee provi The R. W. sion & “ uniform aubmiiied for your or suspend bor ‘dinate or in lon, in the eame mar rr fovation:; and he j A eh yd wan AA the vlaws which such may be made; an shall take such rank ony ta au Ds ordinate as be led Ay Prove en’ wo. Kewolved, That Provisions of these resolutions WI ly to all persons heretotore suspended. expeiied or ropped from membership for non-payment of dues, and no other caus, aud to members ot ‘unct eubordinate lodges or encampments, Keaolved. That the fe Ing resolutions shail have the full force and of itive law, and shall go into opern nd alter thereof by this Grand State Bodies are hereby dirested to promuiga:e the same for the instruction of their subordinates, wiibe 1: un~ necessary delay; and further, te make ail looal leg «lavion, Beorssary to effect Im their several juriedictiooss Resolved, G. ©, and R ‘secretary io int the K. W. hereby inatrucied to yf there resolutions ts copies 0: the several State hy tothe mbordinaee Bhder the immediate ju nf the ‘rand Lodge of ih: ry as B00 catle alver Jourament of thle body, 1. nad. De Pract J. GRISWOLD, JouN GO Detiz, | Committes, Tho Committee on Finance submitted a report recom. Mending & very material reduction in the price of “guppies,” whictt wag The Committees on the of the Order, to whom was referred the resolutions of Representative Hodges Feoommending the 26th of April as # day for general my ince by the order, submitted a favorabie report, Which was ntative }, Of Tennenses, from the special committee appoin' resolutions expressive of the thanks of the of to ion Committee of New York for 1867.—TRIPLB SHEET. I THE FASHIONS, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Werldef Fashion at Baden—Comuwmes at the Wate Ems and Homburg—Patcerns Satio—What May be Ace Beuds and Alpaen—The Flower Trimming fom Winter—Risers Toltets for Maric An-~ je Dressed tu the for Crinoline. Pars, Sept. 6, 1667. The great obstacle which Parisian tourists coraplain of is the bridge at Kehl, between France and Baden. It aot only impedes their view of the free running Rhine, but it bas to be opened before them at German bidding, a thing particulariy galling to the French. These among them who annually try their hand at roulette on the other side of the frontier notice the complacent smile of the Custom House officers when their countrymen return with collapsed carpet bags, which are scarcely looked into, and no other more useful article of apparel im their hands than agibuz, To be plucked just when jere nigh soaring isan uncomfortable pre- dicament; but to be smiled at complacently afterwards adds bitterness to inward commune. Notwithstanding the bridge and the Custom House, and in deflance of smiles, the bea mond has invaded Baden; the Duchess de Mouchy, Mme. Pilte, Baroness du Port d’Alis, Comtesse de Sagne, and other lesser Planets, are shiping at the races which have opened tho seasou. Already have peremptory. telegrams, shortly worded, expressed a want common to mankind, ‘send money.” The expression varies truly; some adopts Politer form, ‘please, tin;’’ or put the case thus: “Watch pawned.”” The most startling are: ‘A revolver or the needful,”” Meanwhile the usual routine of watering places is gone through. Celebrated singers perform vocal feats at end against each other, martyrized by the applause awarded to their rivals alternately. Excellent music is also heard all over tho Park, where bands are hidden behind shady groves, or displayed in elegant kiosks of carved wood work. Groups of the most tastefully dressed women are seen everywhere, some wandering about alone by twos and twos: these are the poetical, whe choose a companion according to the color of her attire; or by sixes and sevens; these are ever surrounded by a halo of fluttering dandies, with their hair eut 2 la Byron (short and frizzied), very bare neck, white or fawn meck- ties, striped with pink or blue, Female attire is mostly white piqué, white merino looped up over colored silk, or white Algerian challies over delicately tinted foulard underskirts, AtEms and Homburg costumes are more conspicu- ous. The last novelty there is the now ring belt and sash, rather more complicated and elegant than practi- cal, It is made of two large rings in Etruscan gold, bung behind from the waist, supporting a third, through which two wide sash ends flow, Plaid silk and plaid satin are much in vogue at Hom- burg. But the most convivial parties are country ex- cursions and 80 called picnics, for which eteel gray Iswns and muslins are preferred. On these occasions the great effort is to have recherchd toilets without the belp of silk or satin, and nothing is easier, #0 much can be done with crosscuts of alpaca on alpaca and a {ow beads. Thusavery inexpensive dress is made of mize colored goats’ hair, with everything en suite ag to mich, and no other trimmings than a narrow Algerian ribbon sewn down the middie of crogacute placed in dii" rent patterns down thé seams. These croastuts for) forioons, vandykes, stripes, Grecian Squares and ev. es. The flower tr: + will be adopted, too, next winter It ts the game a” artificial flower, only made of material emploved ry the dress, and of velvet or satin. ‘The fuchsia bell i: . \avorite; it is made like fringe; the leaves and stalks ure embroidered. Dablias are the easiost to execute. They are made of silk petals and sewn £0 as to form a perfect flower; each petal is usually bordered round with small black beads, It is a great complication of toil and taste for dresamakers, but very lovely down the sides and front of silk robes, Large china asters are another convenient flower to make in’ to be the great attraction at the Itallan this month, ana has arrived just as Mme. Ristori is leaving Paris, The latter great artiste only remained here long enough to superintend the making of her cos- tumes for the new drama in which she is soiree as Marie Antoinette. Her toilets are exquisite, oa T have been favored with a view of them it was condi- tionally, ee not be described until they have atthe first performance. I may say that they bi ‘been composed with authentic models in hand by a first rate artist. Every garment ts tho faithful reproduction of the youth, elegance, taste and education of the unfortunate Queen before she married, when sho reigned and when a prisoner at the Temple. Royalty reminds me that I did not describe two of the Empress’ toilets when in the North. The one she wore at tho gala theatrical formance was a vaporous while talle and the diamonds of the crown, the brilhancy of which was clouded by a vory large tulle veil, though they sparkled through like constellations fn s mist. Thp ball drose the next day was buttercup trimmings (satin Touleaux) on white tuile. Her headdress, foliage of diamonds and sappbires. Although the season reaily is over Paris is very full of tourists and provincials, and many are doomed to asphalt by the visits of reiatives and friends who manage to come to Paris late, just to prevent one from scouring over moor and forest glade with a gun on one’s shoulder, The worst of it is that they must have ail the sight ree- ing from the top of Colonne, in the centre of the Piace Vendome, to the sewers of the city underground. A clever writer lately described his impression #hen he ascends the said Colonne to be that of an insect crawling up @ corkscrew, and ] fancy the pleasure of visiting the Paris sewers most be comparable to that of creeping throu2h an old meerschaum pipe. hat of the bridegroom that wing been shown some of bi |, asked how the long, whit ich piles were to be disposed of. was future heavy ‘Alice puts on four of these every day,” “Upon my word,” exclaimed Alice's betrothed; “bat whore’s the crinoline ?”’ “Who wears oricolines now’’’ asked the touder parent with disdain. “Aod what ia the cost of one of these frilled moaa- toy? From fifty to eighty frau: ‘And the washing?” \Fiase poems kina Miss Al a aay 1 “Please give my love to Miss Alice, am cannot rot to keep a wife without a crinoline.”” So, ladies, reflect ere you, in New York, cast yours ged with lace,’ away. THE NATIONAL GAME. Atlantle vs. Star. The Stars, with their new nine, appeared yesterday afternoon on the Union Grounde, Brooklyn, E. D., and tried their fortunes wit pi much t to contend at all with the Atlaatics, and they worked hard they were scarcely able to ke ashow. [he Stars rank as first clas feldors, and have gained in match mast vier calibre of the Atiantica =A more gentiemaniy party of bail piayers than the Stars it would be difficult to find, and to see them play where there is amy opportunity for them to exce! is really # pleasure To Messra. Macdiarmid, McCrea, Johnson, Rogers and Thomson especial mention is due for good playing yesterday, and the same to Messrs, Forguson, Keuny and Regen, of the Atiantics, The score of the game is as follow, atLasrte. Lf Macdiarmid, 24 b ad b Sl cmmmwunce’ #1 -- ween 41 awerwanend wb cmownon =? YP: THE BOARD OF EXCISE. Under the direction of Commissioner Benjamin F. Manigrre—who, ae treasurer of the Boards of Police, Health and Excise, is ® most industrious official the clerks in the various departments of the Board of Ex- cise are busily engaged in p 8 the figures and facts af = ESTEE i a 5 a | | ES ees once | revoked and who are relicepsed by paying the regular foes aa if they had mi been licensed, are as one to five of these who are pot allowed to be reiicensed. The forthcoming report wit! be made by Mr. Manierre ali that is devirabio as a clear exposition of the workings and re- sults of the excise Inw in this city and Brooklyn, It wil bring prominently before the public certain things which will not a little ssionish tax payers aad pot house ana Heuce it may be looked for with equal \n- | ny ‘he liquor dealers aud their opponents } MEXICO. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. The Veliow Fever on the Upper Rie Grunde— General Escobede’s Reception ip South— General Berriezabal to be Relie at Ma- tamoros by General Miguel Palaclos. Momwveray, August 21, 1867 By the sage which arrived here ast evening from Matamoros | jearn that a!! communication betwee the ports of Brazos, Santiago and Galveston has beem clored, with a view of preventing the introduction of the yellow fever, which bas assumed a very malignan’ type iu the latter place. This action of the American commandant was prompted ly a petition from ai! the most prominent citizens of Brownsville, and in accord- ance with it the steamer Tartar, plying between Galves- ton and Brazos, was quarantined for twenty days, four miles from the shore, ‘The captain immediately re- tarned, carrying with him passengers and maiis; and there is little expectation of another steamer wail! ihe fever bas abated. The from Ni jow Orleans to Matamoros, arrived off the bar at Bagdad a few days since, and was quaraniined by the Mexican autbori- pony fourteen Sere countl i ting, former piace. I forward though the tims of her arrival in New Orieana is ex: ly problematical, It is currently reported that the fever has broken out in Reynosa, a smal! place on the Rio Grande, twenty-cight leagues e Matamoros, If this is true it will doubtless reach Brownsville in despite, of every precaution. Affairs upon the Northern fron- tier remain in a complete state of quiessence, The mer- chants complain that there leno money in the country, end at no time in the past, though amid revolutions and Fahey eee trade been so completely prostrated. The annual fair, iustituied under the Viceroys, commen- ces on the 8th of September, the anniversary of the mativity of Virgin. But little is expected trom it thie seasom, however, on account of the scarcity of money and ¢! insettied condition of the country. The political condition remains equally quiet with the commercial. Escobedo with from four to five thousand here about the 26th. As stated in a previous bh his headqyarters as Commandant of the Military division, inciudibg the States ‘the North. ern frontier, is established by the decree of appointment at San Luis; but he proposes to pass some time here at his residence. Great preparations are beiag made for his reception. He is to be crowned as the Savior of the Republic, end reworks, balls, fandangos and all the im of @ Mexican celebration are in progress. Canales remains quiet, and present appearances indi- cate that little if any further trouble need bo antici- pated from this refractory chieftain. I have it froin authority that a considerable force of cavalry has sent against bim from San Lufs, and that, if ne cessary, another will be sent out from here soon after the arrival of the troops. The officer in immediate command of the troops ex- to arrive here is General Miguel Palacios, a gen- tleman not known to fame, but who served with some distinction during the war of the intervention. 1 leary from headquarters here that he has been appointed to relieve Genoral Berriozébal at Matamoros, who !f ex- tremely anxious to return to his own State (Mexico), of which he was governor up to the time of the arrival of theFrench. General Palacios is a pure Mexican, with all the prejudices of his ciass. He is simply a soldier, me wing occupied any civil position, and shou'c the change be consummated it can but be a source of re- jt, a fe ral Berriozibal is a gentleman of long re- Rone in the States, He speake English with much fluency, and is peculiarly well adapted to the position be ids, considering its close proximity to the United States and the jous questions which are constantly arising between the two representatives of authority op the lines of the Rio Grande, Letter from President Juarez on the Presi- sidency—fle Consents to be a Candidate at the Request of General Porfirio Dinz—Im- migrat' te be Fostered—An Idea Bor- rowed from MaximiHan—Move ot Canales, Cortiva, Carbajal and Negrete. ‘Misr, Mexico, August 23, 1967. Senor Don Aatonio Flores, first constitutional judge of this city, or Alcada, recently received # characteristic letter from President Juarea, which we translate for the benefit of the readers of the Hzratp:— Mexico, August 11, 1567 My Itxvsraiovs Frraxp—Peace seems at last to be dawning over our distracted country, and I shall indeed be glad when the elections are nd all discordant ele! ta subdued, I forwarded y copy of my letter resigning all claim to the presideno: ut so importunaie have been the persuasions of my friends, and especially of General Diaz and the army, that I have reluctantly consented to the use of my name in the coming elections. It would have been more desirable to me to have retired from & tion the duties of which I bave end: red faithfully to perform throughout those long dark years of oppression and misfortune, My only object in con- senting to be a candidate ta for the purpose of frusirat- ing the wicked designs of men who care very little for the welfare and happiness of our poor country, By the hands of Senor Don Guerra, I send you several documents which will show you what course I bave been pursuing in regard to the enemies and traitors of Mexico. My sole ambition i peace for Mexico and prosperity for her people. It matters not to mo to what patriot bands its destinies are confided so that our beloved and un- fortunate nation is happy. Extremely anxious as J am to retur® to private life, 1 shall shrink from no duty con- fided to me by a brave and suffering people * * * * J still hear of dissensions on the northern frontier. Advise our friends to abide by the decision of the popu- lar will, to avoid lawlessness and return to the business pursuits of life, for therein prosperity lies. Above ali, assure citizeos from the States who are abiding with you that the supreme goverument of Mexico bolds in bigh esteem the services of the great republic of the north in their beliaif in the recent crisis, aud that ive citizens shall be well protected. ¢ ® ° Now farewell, My fread Senor Guerra will convey to you my high appreciation of your irlendahip BENITO JUAREZ Accompanying this loiter were several circulars re lative to the elections, aud one concerning the imm- gration scheme of the late Maximilian, Of one thing be areured, that great inducements will in due time be held out to immigrants by the government The leading of Mexico are fully eat the resovrces of their country ever become fall: veloped. Americans will bo heartily welcomed, and we believe that if our countrymen could only be convinced of the stabil ty of any one form of Mexican government there would bea steady stream of settiors. from the Northern States of (he Union. No country ts #0 rich in wineral weaitih—goid and sti copper, lead and iron-~ while on the bigh table land none se productive. Yankee jugeniuity, enterprise and devélopment are gone wanting to make Mezico one of the fuest nations of the world, commercially and politically. There ere Dright prospects yet store for this country, but only when it becomes Ang)icized. With the exception of oalawry on the part of Canales disorganized bandit, the northern frontier is quiet. Cortina bas retired to the in side of the Rio Grande at Cortina ranche, Hrnaty yet remember bis celevrated raid commencement of oor rebellion, when the Sheriff ot Brownsville was ki! Cortina for murd: nevorthelens, he goes whore Le will, ta I money, and commits outrages on either side of the river with tmpunity, while our officers feast and toady to him; at toast they bave done it, There bas been too much of the “tickle me, i'l) tckle you" policy on this frontier by the United Staves officials. Carvajal is resting in quiet at his hacienda, while Ne grete at last Syrouets was inirigaing against Juares fo ‘ A Bowever, ‘Citizen President’ wil eke sare anette lotier abel! act be in his way fer another Presidential term, The end will probably ve fat Ortega may find himself by October in prinon, in elead of & successful candidate for the bighert office in the gift of the Mexicans. This is what Juarez will resors to to put a check to al! opposition, The condivion of the frontier towns i really deplors bie, The elections once over, confidence wiil be remored and businers will go abead, The lengthened a for national life by tue two great powers porth roulh of the Rio Graude has proved disastrous to the towns contigaous to that river. je#, the appearance of the Yellow fever at Matamoros and w!jacent towns, aod re mombrances of fatal scourge ten years ago aloug the river, assist the genera! laaguor of trade, War and then pestilonce—wuat could be more disastrous to bus! meas? AF LONION, Yesterday we bad startling ore of Indian max sacres on thia of the Kio Grat about sixy miles from this city; but party of ranchers who went ir Pursuit revurned here thie a and state that the rumor was faise end that the Indians were only “Jadrones,” or Mexican bandit! Io disguise, who robbed @everal ranches on both mdes of the river, The nearest United States troops bere are at the Ring goid Barracks, near Rancho Davis, or Kio Geande city Toe old barracks were partially destroyed durity reneliion, but are being put in good What wits the readers of the Hewaty say when ¥@ inform them that the wives of oMicors ride through ‘fe streets of Rie Sask natiey.douh rea tae ee en Sees ee such ant at even JOWEr / ciasges jexican women A By fe shamet A oaiter a the morning early we leo tosio, farting to go across the cor Pisdyd--% 5 ol ow risks of Yellow Jack on the iit Const Aerie, —The yw Fecently wont to ea gent a Alen aremquen on will bere ‘auyounh not iarane,and therefore dis- sFom the asylum. 2 ood teh. The of Lie Berne, A 7