Carroll Free Press

A PICTURE OF NEW YORK

The following complimentary notice of New York is quoted from an English writer in the Liverpool Albion:

"I am often amused, and at the same time instructed, by what Englishmen, who have visited America, say concerning it. The voyage to and from our country from England can now be made in such a short space of time, that vast numbers of well-informed Englishmen make the trip there and back in about three months, and contrive to see and hear a great deal in that time. I have been much pleased by some letters which have recently appeared in the Liverpool Albion, (which, by the by, is among the very best papers published in this country.) They are headed 'Reminiscences of Travel in the United States,' and the writer thus speaks of New York: If you have been in the Bay of Naples don't go into ecstacies about it till you have seen that of New York. You will view it under the same blue sky and balmy air, but your eye will take in other charms than those of scenery—the bustle of traffic and the sounds of industry. Nor, when you land, will you be pained by the unwelcome sight of swarms of beggars, and ragged and idle population. New York is the monetary centre of the States, and its Wall street is the Threadneedle street of the West. The whole avenue is a great temple for money changers; banking houses and exchange offices occupy every dwelling. The stranger who visits this crowded mart to arrange his European funds, hears a hundred technicalities which completely puzzle him.—New York is a true metropolis in wealth and refinement, in character and associations. All this comes new and delightfully to those who so generally forget that many parts of the new world are very little behind the old—that the great picture of social civilization has not required time to fill up."