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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe — the rebel rams building in France. (search)
ith rich food and getting merry over expensive wines. John Morrissey has a huge gambling den on the most public part of Broadway, where greenbacks are shoveled around by the bushel. The country people swarm into town to get rid of their money and j26th street, called the "St. James," and another of equal magnificence lower down called the "Albemarle." Nearly all of Broadway, below Broome street, is occupied with wholesale stores. The fashionable part of the street now extends as high up as 34th street. A horse railway runs through the upper part of Broadway. Madison Square is becoming the centre of the city. It is faced by several fashionable hotels. A new theatre is projected there, and the local authorities talk of building a new City Hall in the Park. The lower part of Broadway preserves its olden features. There is the same apparently inextricable jam of omnibuses opposite Barbum's Museum, and the Battery clings to its latter day characteristics of dirt and unsavoriness.