6 THE DAIL1 EVENING TELEGRAm -FIIILADELFII1A, .WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1607. E07, IN THE UNITED STATES. Charles Dickons' "American ""' Kotos." THE LATEST EDITION. What the Great Novelist Thought or Phi ladclphla, NcwTork, Boston, Tltts burg, Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, Twenty five Tears Ago. Uc, Et., ., " OOWTINUKD. V- ' ; titvr fork. Th beautiful metropolis of America is by no means bo clean a city a Boston; but ninny of its streets have the sarue characteristics, escpt that the houses are not quite so fresh colored, the sign-bonnls are not quite so gaudy, the nii.i.wi u.tt,,rc tint nniiPKO erolden. thn bricks not quite to red, the stono net quite so while, tUo hlinrls and areB ratlin? no quite so green, the kiiob nd plates npon tbe street doors not quite bo bright and twinkling. There are many by streets, almoxt as neutral In clean colors, and positive in dirty ones, as by-slrects in Lonaon ; and there is one quarter, commonly called thj Five Points, which, in respect ot filth and wretchedness, may be safely bucked against heven Dials, or any other part of famed St. Giles'. The pieat promenade and thoroughfare, as roost people snow, is Broadway a wide and bubtling street, which, from the Battery Gar dens to Us opposite termination in a couutry road, may be lour miles Ions;. Shall we sit down in an upper floor of the Carlton House Hotel (situated in the best part ot this rutin artery ot Rew York), and when we are tired ol looking down npon the, lite below, sally lorth arm in arm and mingle with the stream? Warm weather! Tbe sun strikes npon our heads at this open window as though its rays were concentrated through a burning glass; but the day Is in its zenith, and the season an un usual one. Was there ever such a sunny street as this Broadway? The pavement stones are polished with the tread of leet until they shine again.; the red bricks of the houses might be yet in the dry, hot kilns; and the roofs of those om nibuses look as though, 11 water were poured on tlicm, they would hiss and smoke, and smell like half-squenched fires. No stint of omni buses here I Half a dozen have gone by Within as many minutes. Plenty of hack ney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private car riages rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement, Negro coachmen and white; In straw hats, black hats, white huts, glazed caps, fur caps; In coaU of drab, black, brown, green, blue, naukeeu, striped jean, and linen; and there, in that one instance (look while it passes, or it will be too late), in suits of livery. Some Southern repub lican that, who puts his blacks in uniform, and swells with Sultan pomp and power. Youder, where that phaeton, with the well-clipped pair of grays lias stopped standing at their heads ow-"-iu York.hiro groom, wlio baa not been very long in these parts, and looks eornrwfuitv round lor a companion pair of top boots, which be may traverse the city half a year without meet Ing. Heaven save the ladles, bow they dress J We Lave seen mora colors in these ten minutes than we should have seen elsewhere in as many days. What various parasolu 1 what rain bow silks and satins 1 what pinking of thin stockinet), aud Dinchln? of thiu shoes, and flut tering ot ribbons and silk tasseli, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy nooas ana rvningj i xue young gentlemen are fond, you see, of turning down their ebirt-collars and cultivating their whiskers, especially under the chin; but they cannct annroach the ladies In tUeir dress or beaiing, being-, to say the truth, humanity of quite another fort. uyrons oi tne aebK ana counter, pass on, and let ns see what kind of men those are behind ye those two laborers iu holiday clothes, ot whom one carries in his hand a crumpled scrap of paper from which he trl s to spell out a hard name, while the other looks about lor it on an the floors ana winaows. Iribhmen both 1 You might know them, If they were masked, by their long-teVied blue coats .and... -bright button aud their drab trousers, which they wear like men well used to workiniz dresses, who are easy in no others. It would be hard to keep your model republics going without tbe countrymen aud country women ot those two laborers. For who else would dig, and delve, nud drudge, and do domestic work, and make canals and roads, and execute great lines of internal Improvement? Irishmen both, aud sorely puzzled, too, to bud out what they seek. Let us go down aud help them (or the love of home and that spirit of liberty which, admits of honest service to bouest men, and honest work for honest bread, no mat ter what it be. That's well! We have got at the right address at lust, though it ia written in strange churaciers truly, and might have bieu scrawled with the blunt handle of the spade tbe writer better knows the use ot than a pen. Their way lies yonder, but what business takes them there? They carry savings to hourdup? Do. Thpy are brothers, those men. One crossed the sea alone, and working very hard for one htll-year, and living harder, saved funds enough to bring the other out. That done, they worked together side by side, cju tentedly sharing hard labor and hard living for another terra, and then their sisters came, and then another brother, and lastly their Id mother. And what now? Why, the poor old crone is restless jn a strange land, and yeams to lay bet bones, she says, anions her people in the old graveyard at home; and so they go to nay her passage backs aud (Jod help her and tbrm, and every simple heart and all who turn to the Jerusalem of their youuticr days, aud have an altar-tire upon the cold h-uuh of their fathers. This narrow thoroughfare, baking and blister ing in the suu, is Wall stieet, tbe 8 lock Ex change and Lombard street of New York, lluny a mpid fortune has been tnade hi. this ureet, and many a no less rapid ruin. Borne of these ts merchants whom you see hanging about here now have locked up money io tlioir strong boxes, like the man in the "Arabian Mights," aud, opening them again, have found but withered leaves. Below, here by the water-uiile, where the bowsprits of ships stretoii across the footway, and almost thriibt them selves into the wiudows, He the no)le Au.erUan vessels which have made their Packet . Service the lineal lu the world. They have broucht hither the foreigners who abouud in the streets; not, perhapi, tuat th;re are more here than iu other coniUiprciHl cubs, but elsewhere they have particular haunt, an 1 yon must find tbem out; here they pervado the town. We must cross Broadway atruiu, paining some refreshment from tbe beat in the mpht of the great blocks of clean ice which are being car ried into shops and bf-niorus, and the pine apples and watermelons profusely displayed for sale. Fine streets of rpanioun houses here, you ee! Wall str et has tarnished ud dismantled many ot them very often and here a dfep green leafy square. Be surcthit ia a hospitable boire, With inmates to be arrVciionaU ly re-ieuibere i always, where they havo the open door and pretty show of pluiU wftlilu, aud where the child with laughiug eyes U pcepuiif out of the window at the little dog below. You wonder what maybe the use ot. this lull flaistair in the bystreet, with something I ke Liberty's head-die." on its too; so do I. B it there is a passion for tall flagtttalfs hereabout, and you may eve iu twin brother iu about five u. iuJ.i lvni! hive a miff. Again across Broadway, and so passing from the nanny-colored crowd and glittering shops iiito another long main street, tbe Bowery. A railroad 3ondcr, scc.wheie two stout horses trot siting, rliawlng a teorc or two of people and a great wooden ark, with eae. Tba stores are poorer here, the pa.sengcrs less gay. Clothes ready-made and meat ready-cooked are to be bought in these parts: and the lively whirl of carriages Is exchanged for the deep rumble of carts and wagons. These signs which are so plentiful, In bape like river buoys, or small balloons, hoisted by cords to poles, and dauj I'lig there, announce, as you may aee by looking up; "Oysters in every ityle." They tempt the hungry most at night, for then dull candles, glimmering inside, illuminate these dainty words, mid make the mouths of idlers water, as they read and linecr. What is this d'unni fronted pile of bastard Egyptian, like fun enchanter's palace in a melo drama? A famous prison, called the Tombs, fchall wejoiu? Bo. A long narrow lofty buildlug, stove heated as usual, with four galleries, one above tbe other, going round it, and com municatiug by stairs. Between the two sioes of each gallery, and in its centre, a bridge for the greater convenience of ciotsing. On each ot these bridges sits a man, dozing or rending, or talking to an idle com allien. On each tier ara two opposite rows of small iron doors. They look like fur nace floors, but are cold and black, as though the tires within had all gone out. Home two or thico are onen. snd women, with drooping eads bent down, are talking to the inmatei. The whole is lighted by a skylight, but it Is fast closed, and from the roof there duuglc, limp aud drooping, two useless windsails. A nmn with kets appears, to show us round. A good looking fellow, and, in his way, civil ani 0'ipgmg. "Are those black doors the cells ?" "l'es." "Are they all full?" "Well, liiev'ie pretty nii;h full, and that's a fact, and no two wavs about it." 'These at the bottom are unwholesome. surelj ?" "why, we do only put colored people in 'em. That's the truth." 'When do the prisoners take esercise?" "Well, they do without it pretty much." "Do tbey never walk in the yard?" "Considerable seldom." "Sometimes, 1 suppoxc " "Well, it's rare they do. They keen Pretty blight without it." 'But suppose a man were here for a twelve month. I kiiow this Is only a prison for crimi nals who are charged with grave offenses while they nre awaiting their trial, or are nnder remand; but the law here affords criminals many means ot delay. What with motions for now trial, nud in arrest of judument, and what uot. a prUoner mieht be here lor twelve mouths, I take it, might he now "Vt ell, 1 guess he might.77 "Bo you mean to say that In all that time he would never come out at that little iron door for exercise ?'' "He might walk some, perhaps not much." "Will jou open one ol the doors?" "All, it jou like." The fastenings jar and rattle, and one of the doors turns slowly on its hinges. Let us look in. A small bare cell, into which the light enters through a hiah chink In the wall. There is a rude means of washing, a table, and a bedstead. upou the latter sits a man of sixty, reading. He looks up for a moment, gives an impatient, dogged shake, and fixes his eyes upon bis book again. As we withdraw our heads, the door closes on him, and is tautened as before. This man ha murdered his wife, and will probably be hanged. "How long has he been here ?" "A month." "When will ho he tried ?" "Next terra." . "When is flat?" ' Next month." "In England, If a man be under sentence of death even, he has air and excrclso at certain peiiods of the day." "Possible?" With what stupendous and untranslatable coolness he says this! aud how loungingly he leads on to the women's side, making as he goes, a kind ol iron cattauet of the key and the stair-rail I Each cell door on this side has a square aperture in it. Some ol the women peep anxicuhly through it at the Bound of "foot steps; others shrink away in shame. For what offense can that lonely child, of ten or twelve years old; be shut up here? Oh! that boy? He Is the sou of the prisoner we saw just now is a wltncsfc against his father; and b detained here for 6ufe keeping until the trial; that's all. But it is a dreadlul place for the child to pass the long days aud niglits In. This is rather bard treatment or a young witnees, is it not? What Buys our coiiductor? 'Weil, it ain't a very rowdy life, and that's a fact !" Aeain he clinks his metal Castanet, and leads us leisuiely away. I have a question to ask him as we go. pray, why ao they can this place The Tombs 1" "Well, it's the cant name." "I know it is. Why?" "Some suicides happened here when it was fir-t built. I expect it come about from that." "I 6aw. lust now. that that man's clothes were scattered abouV the floor ot his cell. Don't you oblige the prisoners to be ordeily, and put bucu thinuo away ?" " w here should they put 'em ?" "Not on the cround, urely. What do you say to barging them up?" lie stops aud looks round to emphasizo his answer! ' "Why. I say that's just it When ther had hooks, they would hang themselves, so they're taken out of every cell, and there's only the marks left where they used to be I" The prison vara in wmcu he pauses now has beeu the scene of terrible performances. Into this narrow, grave-like place men are brought out to die. Tbe wretched creature stauds beneath the,.' gibbet on the ground, the rope about bis neck; and when the bieu 1b given, a weigui at ui otuer ena comes ruuniug down. and swing him up into the air a corpse. The law requires that there be present at this dismal spectacle the judge, the Jury, and citizens tu tbe amount ol twenty-five. From the couiinuuity it is hidden. To the dissolute ana uaa me mine remains a frightful mystery, lietwrin the criminal and them the prison wall i in'erpoted as a thick gloomy veil. It is tbe curtain to his bed of death, his winding-sheet and (ftave. Prom him it shuts out life and all the iiiotlvts to unrepentiug hardihood in that last hour, which its mere sight and presence is often all-sutlicient to sustain. There are no bo d eyes to make htm bold no ruffians to up Lold a ruffian's name be'ore. All beyond the pi i'ess stone wait 1 nnknown space. Let us go forth again into thn cheerful Btreets. Once more ill Broad Way I Here are the same ladiei iu bright colors walking to and fro iu pairs and singly; youder the very same light blue pora'ol which passed and repassed the hotel wiudow twenty times while we were sitting there. We are gomtr to croes here. Take care of the pies. Two portly sows are trottine up behind ttii carriage, and a select party of halt a-dozeu gentiemeu hogs have just no turned the corner. Here is a solitary sine lounging homewsrd by htmtell. llo. has only ouu ear, having parted with tbe other to vagrant 4oes in th'e course of his city rambles. But he gets, on very well without it, and lead a rovlmr, genttemaul.;, vngaboud kind of life, soiuewhat. ariswenntr to that ot our club ruen at home. He leaves his lodglnes every inomiig ai a certain hour, throws himself upon the town, iretB through his day in some manner quite sutisiuc ory to hiui-elf, and regu larly appears at tne door of his own bouse uuiiin at night like the rnysteriou master of Wil Was. lie in a frre an 1 easy, careless, indif ferent kind of pier, bavin a very large acquain tance miions o.her pics of the same character, whom he rather knows by slht than conver sation, as he seldom troubles himself to stop atirf exchange civil) l-s. but gous gruntlu down tbe kennel, tinning up the news and hiipII talk of the city In tbe shape of cabbaxo ttalks aud offal, fid bearing no tail but hi own, which is a ry short one, f.ir his oil enemies the Jogs have been at that too, and have left biin hardly enough 1 to swear by. He Is in every mpfct a republican P'lT. goine wherever he pleaf es, and mlneling with the best society on an equul li not superior footing, for every one makes way when he p peats, and ihe haughtiest give nlm the wall IT be preler it. He it a gTeat philosopher, and seldom moved nidess by the dogs before men tioned, rjometimee, indacd, you may see his small eye twinkling on a slaughtered friend, whose carcass garnishes a butcher's door post; but he grunis out, "Such is lire; all flesh is pork 1" buries his nose in the mire again, and waddles down the gutter, comfortiua himself with the reflection that there is one snout the less to anticipate trtiy cabbage-Btalke, at any rale. They are the city scavengers, these pur. Uely brutes they are; having for the most part scanty, brown backs, like the lids of old horsehair trunks, spotted with unwholesome bluck blotches. They have, long, gaunt legs too, and such peaked snouts that if one of tin m could be persuaded to sit for his profile, nobody would recognize it for a pig's likeness. They are never attended upon, or fed, or driven, or caught, but are thrown upon their owu reonrces in early life, and become pretcrnatu-. rally knowing in consequence. Every pig knows where be lives much bettor than any body could tell him. At this hour, lust as evening is closing in, jou will see thorn roaming towards bed'toy scores, eating their way to the last. Occasionally some youth among them who has overeaten himself, or has been much wt rried by dogs, trots shrinkinirly homeward, like a prod'gal son; but this is a rare case, peilect aell'-posFCfPlon and self-reliance and Im movable composure being their foiernost attri butes. The streets and shops are lighted now; and as tbe eye travels down tbe long thoroughfare, dotted with bright jets of gas, it is reminded ot Oxford street or Piccadilly. Here and there h flight ol broad stone cellar steps appears, and a painted lamp directs you to the bowling saloon, cr tenpin alley; tenpins being the game of mingled chance and skill invented when the Legislature passed an act foi bidding ninepins. At other downward flights of steps are other lknips marking the whereabouts of oyster cellars pleasunt retreats, say I; not only by icason of tbeir wonderful cookery of oysters, pretty nigh as large as cheese plates (or for thy dear fake, heartiest of Greek professors!) but because of all kinds of eaters of fish, or flesh, or fowl, in these latitudes, tbe swellowers of oyster alone are hot grega rious, but subduing themselves, as it were, to the nature of what they work in, And copying tbe coynes of the thing tbey eat, do sit apart in cut tamed boxes, and consort by twos, not by two hundreds. Bat how eiuiet the streets are!- Are there no itinerant bauds, no wind or etrh.ged instru ments? Ko, not one. By day are there no Punches, Fantoclni, Dancing-doi?s, Juggler. Conjurers, Crchestrlans, or even Birrel-organs ? No, not one. Yes, I remember one. One bar-rel-orean, and a dancing monkey sportive by nature, but fast fading Into a dull, lumpish, monkey of the Utilitarian school. Beyond that, nothing lively; no, not so much as a white mouse in a twilling cage. Are there no amusements? Yes, there is a lecture-room across the way, from which that glare of light proceeds, and there may be evening service lor tne ladies thrice a week, or oftecer. For the young gentlemen there is the counting-house, the store, the bar-room; the latter, as you may t-ee through these, windows, pretty full. Hurk 1 to the clinking sound of lammers breaking lumpsof ice, and to the. cool gurgling of the pounned bits, as. in process of n.ixing, they a; e poured from glass to glass! No amusen ents? What are these suckers of cigaisand sw alio were of strong drinks, whose hats and legs we see in every possible variety of twist, doiiiR but amusing themselves? What are the Pity newspapers, which those preco cious urchins are bawling down tbe street, and which are kept bled within what are they but amusements? Not vapid, watcrlsh amusements, but good strong stuff, dealing in round abute and blackguard names, pulling oil the roois of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain: pimping and panderimr lor all degrees of vicious taste, and gorging with- coined lies the most voracious maw; Imputing to every man in public llf'e-hc coarsest and vilest motive: scarini? iWay from the stabbed and prostifte body-politic every Samaritan of Clear ci u,science aim jiouu - ueeus; suu Euuintr on. with sell and whistle, and tbe clapDincr ot foul bauds, the vilest .vermin and worst birds of prey. No amusements 1 Let us go on strain, an 3 passing this wilder ness of an hotel with stores about its bise, like some Continental theatre or tbe London Opera House shorn ot its colonnade, plunge into the Five Points. But it is needful, brat, that we take as our sscort these two beads of the police, whom jou would know for ubafp and well tiained officers it you met tbem in the Great Desert. Ho true it is, that certain pursuits, wherever carried on, will stamp men with the same character. These two might have been begotten, born, and bred in Bow street. We have seen no bee ears in the streets bv night or day, but ot other kinds of strollers plenty. Poverty, wretchedness, aud vice are rile enough w here we are going now. This is tbe place these narrow ways, diverging to the right and left, and reekiug everywhere with dirt and filth. Such lives as are led here bear the same fruits here as elsewhere. The coarse aud bloated laces at (he doors have counterparts at home aud all the wide woild oyer. Debauchery has made the vety houses prematurely old. See ho at the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken tiajs. alanyor those pis live hero. Do they ever wonder why tbeir master walk upright ia lieu of going on all-fours? and why they talk Instead of gruntins ? So far nearly every house is a low tavern, and on the bar-room walls are colored prims of Washington, and Queen Victoria of England, and the American iagle. Among the pigeon- noies tuat noia tne bottles are pieces ot pi ale glues and colored paper, for there is, in some soit, a taste for decoration, even here. And as seamen frequent these haunts, there are man- tin, e pictures, by ttie dozen, ot partings oei ween sailors and their lady-loves; portraits of William, of the bullau, aud his Ulack-Eved Hufan; of Will Watch, the Bold Smuggler; of Paul Jones Ihe Pirate, aud the l.kc; on which tbe painted ejts of Queen Victoria, and of Washington to boot, rest la a strange cotu pauionsnip as on most of the scenes that are enacted in their wouderinu pre.-encc. - What place is this to which tbe squaliJ street conducts Mil a K'na oi square oi ipioui houses, kome of which are attainable only by crazv wooden stairs without. What lies beyond tbis tottering fluiht ot steps, that creak beneath ourtiead? A mist-ruble room, lighted by one dim caudle, and destitute of all comi'uit, save that which may be bidden in a wretched bed. Beside it sits a mau, h s elbows on his knees, his forehead on his hand. "What ails that man?" asks the loiemo.t officer. "Fever," he kullenly replies, wituout looking up. Conceive the laucicb ot a leveled brain iu such a place as this! Ascend these pitch-durk s'nlrs, heedful of a false looting ou the tremtjliug boards, and grope your way wiih me into this wolristt den, wuere neither ray ot light nor breath of air appears to u ., A nemo lua, 6taitled Iroiu nis sloep by the officer's voice-he knows It well but com- business, Hhcioubly bemirt biniielf to l'ght a canaie. ine match flickers lor a moment, and fchows great raourds of dusky rags upou ihe around: then dies away and leaves a deiiser daikuess than beloie, if there can bd decrees in such extreme?. He stumbles dou the stairs and presently comes back, ihadiug a tlariu iarer wttu his hand. Then the mounds ot rags are seen to be astir, aud rheslowly up. and it. i it u uv iiM HHsiirnnpH t. Hat l a l.ua mnft (lAm.iin mr wiu ui upsoi negro women wttkiiiir from their leu: th.ir ahittt lauih chattering, and their bris-bt eys gliUiilug and inking ou all sides with surpn.e and fear, like me iuuu.nr. jvieuuuii or cue astonished am can face io sone utrange in 'nor. Mount up these other s'alrs with na lem cau tion (there are traps aud pitfalls her for tli who are not so well escorted as ourselves) into (k housetop, where the bare beams aud rafter n eet overhead, and calm nicht looks down tbiot'cb the crevices In the rooi. Open (ho door Of one of these cran ped hutches full of rleeplng negroes. Pah I - They have a charoonl tire within; there is asmenoi smtreing ciotnes or flesh, to close tbey gather round the bracier; and vapors isbue forth that blind aud suffocate. rrom every corner, as yon giance aoout you in tnese a ara retreats, come ngure crawls, half awakened, as if the judgment hour were near at hsnd, and every obscene erave were giving up its dead. Where floes would bowl to lie, women, and men, and boys slink off to sleep, forcing tbe dislodged rats to move away in quest or better lodgings. Here too are lanes and alleys, pAved wl'.h mud knee-deep; underground chambers, where they dance and gne; the walls bedecked with Tough designs ot ships, and forts, and flsgs, and American Fugles out of nnmber; ruined houses o en to the street, whence, through wide gups in the wfllls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as thoueh the world of vie aud misery had noth ing else to show; hideous tenements which take their name lrom robbery and murder; all that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here. (iur leader has his hand upon the latch of "Almack's," and calls to us from the bottom of the steps: for the assembly-room of the Fiye Point fashionables is approached by a descent. Shall we mo In? It Is but a moment. Ilejday ! the landlady of Almack's thrives! A buxom lut mulatto woman, with sparkling ecs, whose head is daintily ornamented with a haridkcrchlef of many colors. Nor is the land lord much behind her in his finery, being attired in a smart blue jacket, like a ship's steward, with a thick gold rinc upon his little finger, and round his neck a gleaming golden watch-guard. How glad he li to see us 1 What will we please to call for ? A dance ? It shall be done directly, sir; ''a regular break-down." The coipulcnt black fiddler, and his iriend who plays tne tambourine,' stamp poo the boardiug of the small taised orchestra In which they sit, and play a lively measure. Five or six couple come upon the floor, marjhallcd by a lively jounsr negro, who Is the wit of the assembly, aud the greatest dancer kuown. He never leaves off making queer laces, and is tbe delight ot all the rest, who grin from ear to ew incessantly. Among the dancers are two young mulatto girls, with large black, drooping eyes, and bend-gear after tbe fashion of the hoBtess, who aie as shy, or feign to be, as though they had never ounce d betore, and so look down belore the visitors, that their partners can se no) hing but heir long fringed lashes. But the dance commences. Every gen tleman tets as long as he likes to the opposite lady, and the opposite lady to him, aud ail are so loug about it, that the sport begins to languish, when suddenly the lively hero dashes in to the rescue. Instantly the tid dler giius, aud goes at it tooth and nail; there is new energy iu the tambouriue; new laughter iu the dancers; new smiles in the landlady ; new confidence in the landlord; new brightness ia the very candles. Single-shuflle, double-shuflle, cut and cress-cut; snapping his fingers, rolling his ejes, turning in his knees, presenting the backB ot his legs in front, spinning about on his toes end heels like nothing but the man's fingers on the tambourine; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs, all so its of legs and no legs, what is this to him ? And in what walk ot life, or dance of life, does man ever get such stimu lating applause as thunders about him, when, bav ng danced bis partner off her feet, and him self too, he finishes by leaping gloriously on the bar counter, and calling lor something to drink, with the chuckle of a million of counterfeit Jim Crows in one inimitable sound. The air, even in these distempered parts, is fresh alter the stiffing atmosphere of the houses; and now, as we emerge into a broader street, it blows upon us with a purer breath, and the stars look brisbt aeain. Here are The Tombs once more. Tbe city watch-house is a part of the building, it loiiows naturally on tne slgnts we have jutt left. Let us see that, and then to bed. Whutl do jou thrust your common of fenders against the police discipline ot tbe town into such holes as these? Do men and women, against whom no crime is proved, lie beic all night in perfect daikuess, sur rounded by the noisome vapors which encircle that flagging lamp you light us with, and bieathing this filthy audoflenoive stench? Why, such indecent and disgusting dungeons as these cells would bring disgrace upon the most desDotic empire in the world! Look at them. man youwbo see them every night and keep the keys, vo you see wnai tney are i jjo you know how drains are made below the streets. and wherein tnese human sewers differ, except in being always stagnant i Well, he don't know. lie has had five-and- twenty joong women locked up in this very cell at one lime, ana you-a naroiyreauze what nana some faces there were among 'em. In God's name! shut the door npon tbe wretched creature who is in it now, and put its screen before a place quite unsurpassed in all the vice, neglect, and devilry ot the worat old tovtn iu Europe. Are people really left all night, untried, in those black sties? Every nieht. The watch is set at seven in the evening. The magistrate opens his court at live in the morning. That is the earliest hour at which tbe first prisoner can be released: and if an officer appear against him. he is not taken out till nine o'clock or ten But it anyone among them die in the interval, as one mau did, not long ago? Then he is half eaten by the rats in an hour's time, as that man was: and there an end. What is that intolerable tolling of great bells, and crashing ot whceU, and thou. lug in the distance? A ore. Ana woat mat deep red light in the opposite direction? Auother hie. And what these charred and blackened walls we staud before? A dwell inii where a fire has been. It was more tban hinted, in an official repoit, not long ago, that some or these conflagrations were not wnouy accidental, and that speculation and enterprise found a field of exertion even in flames; but be that it mav. there was a tire last night, there are two to-night, and jou may lay an even wager there will be at least one to-morrow. So, carry ing that with ns for our comfort, let us say good night, ana cuniD up stairs to oeu. One day, during my stay ia New York, I paid a visit to the didereut public institu tions on Lone Island, or Ruode Ialund, I lorgei which. One ot them is a Lunatic Asvlum. The building is handsome; aud is remarkable for a spacious and elegant stair case. The whole structure is not yet finished, but it Is already one of coubiderable size and extern, and U enpabte of accommodating a very laree number ot patients. I cannot sav that 1 derived much comfort from the inspectionof thiseuarity. Tbutiidereut wares might have been cleaner and better or deiedtlsaw i.othlng of that salutary system which had impressed me so lavotably elsehere; and everything had a louusrmg, listless, mad house air, which w as very painful. The moping idiot, cowerinir down with long dishevelled hair; the gibbering n.amuc, with his hideous latvh and pointed tinecr; tae vacant eye, the tierce wild lace, the gloomy pick'ng of the hands aud Hps, and muuchingof thenails: there they were all, without disguise, in naked ugliness and horror, hi tde dining-room, a blire, dull, dreary place, with nothing lor the eye to rest on but the empty walls, a woman was locked up aloue. She was bent, they tuld me on ctimmittine suicide. If anything could have ktrei gthened her la her resolution, it would eeitainly have been the insupportable moiiotoi y of such an existence. Ihe terrible crowd with which these halls and eallere were tilled so shocked me that I abridwed my stay wi' hiu the sboi teHt limits, and declined to see that portion of the building in which tbe reiructory and violeut were under closer restraint. I have no doubt that the gen tleman who presided over this establishment at tt. .. I write ot was competent to nianaire It. and had dor.e all in his p -wer to promote lis iw,i h.e-s: but will it be believed tout the inWrahies'rife o? party feeling is carried even tuiothi ttd relnyeol atilioiea aud degraded hunmtliv? Will it be believed that the ees wlii'ib are to watch over and contiol the wander us; of minds on which tbe most dread ful visitation to which our nature is exposed has fallen, must wear the glasses of some wietched side in politics? Will it be believed that the governor of such bouse as this U appointed and deposed and chanaed perpctoallj, as parties fluctuate and vary, aud as their des- picnme weHtner-cocK are blown inn way or that? A hundred times In every week some new most paltry exolbltlon of that narrow- n mneu and injurious party spirit wnico is iuo Simoom of America, sickening and bliirhting everything of wholesome lite within iti reach, was forced npon my rot'ee; but I never turned my Dae upon H with feelings ot sucn deep ais gust and measureless contempt as when I crossed the threshold of this madhouse. At a short distance from this building is an other called thn Almshouse that is lo say, the workhouse of New York. This is a larne insti tution also, lodging, 1 believe, when 1 was there, nearly a thousand poor. It was badly venti lated, and badly lighted, was not too clean, aud Impressed me, on the whole, very uncomforta bly. But it must be remembered that New York, as a great empoilum of commerce, and as a place ol general resort, not only from all parts ol tbe States, but from most parts ot the world, has alviajs a lamer pauper population lo pro vide for, and labors, therefore, under peculiar difficulties In 1hl reppect. Nor must it be for gotten that New York is a large town, and that in all large towns a vast amount of good aud evil Is intermixed aud jumbled up together. In the snme neighborhood is the Farm, where young nrj linns are nursed and bred. I did not see It, but I believe it is well conducted; and 1 can the more easily credit it. from knowing how mindful they usually are, iu America, of that beautiful pnssape in tbe Litany which remem bers all eick pers-ens and young children. I was taken to these Institutions by water In a boat belonging to tbe island jail, and rowed by a crew ot prisoners, who were dressed la a striped uniform of black and buff, in which they looked like faded tigets. Ihey took me, by the same conveyance, to the jail itself. It is an old prison, and quite a pioneer establishment, on the plan 1 have already described. I was glad to hear this, tar it Is unquestionably a veiy indifferent one. The most is made, however, of tbe means it possesses, and it is as well regulated as such a place can be. , The women worked in covered sheds erected for that purpose. If 1 remember right, there are no shops for men, but, be that las It may, the greater part of tfcem labor in certain stone quarries ntar at hand. The day being very wet indeed, this labor was suspended, and the pri soners were in their cells. Imagine these cells, tome two or three hundred in number, and in every one a man locked up; this one at his door for air, with hlshands.thrust through the gate; this rne in bed (in the middle of tbe day, re number); and this one flung down in a heap npon tbe ground, with his head against the bars, like a wild beast. r Hake tbe rain pour down, outside, in torrents. Put lie evcrlaMiiifr stove in the midst hot, and suCocatinir, and vapoious as a witch's caldron. Add a collection of gentle odors, such as would arise from a thousand mildewed umbrellas, wet through, ar.d a thousand buck-baskets, full of half-washed linen and there is the prison, as it was that day. The prison for the State at Sing-Sing is, on the other band, a model jail. That and Auburn are, I believe, the largest and best examples of the silent system. In another part of the city Is the Refuge for the Destitute, nn institution whose object is t reclaim youthful offenders, male and female, black and white, without distinction to teach tbem useful ttades, apprentice them respectable masters, and make them wortby members of society. Its design, it will be seen, is similar to that at Boston, and it is a no less meritori ous apd idmirable establishment. A suspicion crossed my mind, during my Inspection of this noble charity, whether the superintendent had quite sufficient knowledge of tbe world and worldly characters; and whether he did not commit a great mistake in treating some young girls, who were, to all' intents and purposes, by their years and tbeir past lives, women, as though tbey were Uttle chi'.dreD, which cer tainly had a ludicrous effect in my eyes, and, or I am much mistaken, in theirs also. As tbe in stitution, however, is always under the vigilant examiuation of a body of gentlemen of great intelligence and experience, it cannot fall to be well conducted; and whether I am right or wrong In this slieht particular is unimportant to its deserts and character, which it would be difficult to estimate too highly. In addition to these establishments, there are In New York excellent hospitals and schools, literary institutions, and libraries; an admirable fire department (as indeed it should be, haying constant practice), and charities of every sort and kind. In the eurbuibs there is a spacious cemetery, unfinished yet, but every day improv ing. The saddest tomb I saw there was, "The ftlrsngers' Grave. Dedicated to the aifferent hotels in this city." There are three principal theatres. Two of them, the Park and the Bowery, are large elegant, and handsome buddings, and are. I grieve lo write it, generally deserted. The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show box for vaudevilles and burlcques. It is singu larly, well conducted by Mr. Mitchell, a comic actor of great quiet humor and origi nality, who is well remembered and esteemed by London play-goers. I am happy to report of this deceiving gentleman, that his benches are usually well filled, and thut bis theatre rings with meriiment every night. I had almost for gotten a email summer theatre, called Ni bio's with gardenB and open-air amusements attached, but I believe it Is not exempt from the genera; depression under which theatrical property, ol what is humorously called by that name, un fortunately labors. Tbe country round New York Is surpassingly and exquisitely picturesque. The climate, as I have already intimated, in somewhat of the warmest. What it would be, without the sea breezes which come from its beautiful Bay ia the evening time, I will not throw myself or my readers into a fever by inquiring. The tone ol the best society iu this city is like that of Boston; here and there, It may be, with a greater intusicn of the mercantile spirit, but generally polished and refined, and always most hospitable. Ihe houses aud tables are eiegaut; tbe hours later and more rakish; and there is, perhaps, a greater spirit of contention ia refer ence to appeaianccs, and the display of wealth and costly Hying. The ladles are singulaily beautiful. Beloie I left New York I made arrangements for securing a passage home in the George Washington packet ship, which was advertised to eall in June; that beiu the month in. which I had determined, if prevented by no acci dent in the course of my rambling, to leave America. I never thought that colng back to Eng land, returning to all who are dear to me, snd to pursuits that have Insensibly grown to be part of my nature, I coutd have felt so much torrow as 1 endured when I parted at Inst, on hoard this hip, with the friends who bad accompanied jne lrom this city. I never thought the name of anyplace, 6o far away, and so lately known, could ever associate Itself inuiymlnd with the crowd of affectionate re membrances thut now cluster about It. There are those in tbis city who would brighten, to me, the darkest winter-day that ever glimmered aud went out in lapland; and before whose presence even home grew dim, when they and I exchanged that painful word which mlogles with our every thought aud deed which baunrs our.cradle hcads in inlancy, and closes up the, vista ol our lives in age. ' To be Continued. REMOVAL. 11 n o v a i it i u v a i- , C. W. A. TKUMPLEH Ff G FJrYClID MS KUdO STCPi UU fcj VE1VU AND C1IEMND t TS. TO A0. 826 CUESM'T STREET, I is top PHILADELPHIA, FINANCIAL. BANKING HOUSE OS' JayCooke&(Q). (12 and 11 So. THIRD ST. PHILAP'A. Detlan in all Government Seouritiev; OLD S-eOsi WANTKD EXCHANGE FOR NDs A I IMKAL VirrEKENCEALMWEOt Compound Intoroet Novas Wanted IMEBm ALLOIVED ON DEPOSIT. Collections mod, blocks bought and told GO Oommisaton. Special business accommodations reserved for ftdtee. Id 248m "W E II A YE FOR SALE THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF THE Central Taclflc Railroad Company AT (95) NINETY-FIVE, AudAccrntd Interest 1 Currency. These Bonds ars payable by law, principal and Inte rest, In gold. Interest payable 1st of January and 1st of July. Wewtll take Governments .In exchange, allowing tbe full market price. We recommend tbem to Investors as a first-olas Security, and will give at all times tbe latest pam pbUts and general Information upon application to us Having a full supply ot these BONJ3 on hand, we are prepared to DELIVER THEit AT OJSCE. DE HAVEN Si BRO Bankers nud Dcalsrs In Governments, 11 S lm NO. 40 HO ITT II IIIIBD NT. ATIOUAL BAM OF THE REPUBLIC, 809 and 811 CHESNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA. CAPITAL. ,..l,OOO,00 DIRECTORS. Joseph T. Bailey, Uttllmn Hllles, BenJ. Hon land. Jr., (Samuel A. Blphm, JulwarU B. Orne, William Krvlen, Osg-oU Welsh. Frederick A. Hoyt, Wm. it. Khawn. WM. H. RHAWN, President, LatM Ouhicr of the Central National Dank JOS. P. UTJMFORD. Cashier, 6 15 lute o th rhUadelpnla MUtonal Sank 7 3-10s, ALL SERXKS, CONVERTED INTO llYE-TWE IN TI ES. BONDS DEUVEBED I MM ED I AT KT, DE HAVEN & BEOTJ ' 10 8 rp . 0 ft, THIRD ITBEET, u. s , s,c c u n ITI A SPECIALTY. . SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO., BANKERS AND BROKERS, NO. 1 S. THIRD S)T.,jNO. 8 NASSAU ST PHILADELPHIA, KKW yOBK, Orders for Stocks and Gold executed in Phila delphia and New York. HI COAL. BMIDDLETON & CO., JJEALKKS IN . HARLKIUH LEHIGH and EAULK VEIN COAL. Kept dry ouder cover, freimred exrrei.l for feinfly aae. Yard, Mo. 12? WAbHJLNWTOj Avenue. Ofllce, Ko. 614 WALNUT fttreefc. TH WILUA&i STILL'S COAL DKPOT, Xosi. inn, 1218,' aua l-0 WAblllNUTON Avenue. Tbe bent qualities ot Coal, for domestic or sUtani use, unilbbedjjsyjiofJ'L- l'.." PAPER HANGINGS, ETC. PAPER HANGINGS. E. tUUNEU OAT TUNTII AND. WALNUT. J. O. FINN SONS Hay opened wltb an extensive Msortmant of DEOO RAT1VK and PLAIN WALL PAPEBa,einbrclni every quality to eiilt all tastee. ; 914 gm OIBABD I.OW, E. r1. NEEDLES & CO., N,V. Eleventh and Cbesnut Streats, Have opened a large lot of very superior TABLE DAMASKS Which they offer at and tfM per yard. Tbeae roods are. frnm rurrarf 1... .1 ' ani.TT, VJJ. Ml. Tmnn f am n 1. . III L. . u..vci, uu win uc luuooBupmior lo quality m aud ttyla to tUeiiimclii8oUuaLuiiiy sold as nuutiuu, " - v. .ai OA4.4LILV IKU,ielucdlrcuii to il-25, aud fruml226 to 1 1'60 pur yard. Also, 40 and 44-Inch PILLOW LINEN, re duced froui 1 to 7e ceuU, and front 11 15 ta 87u Alao.alot of ALL LINEN IICCKABiCKJ iouuucu iruw sv ceuia to ceuls. 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