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The city is rapidly filling up with strangers,
and probably never have the signs of Spring
excitement and activity been SO apparent as
now. Never have we, at this early period,
seen so great activity IN the business quarters
and great thoroughtares of the city; and never,
certainly, were the Hotels so early crowded.
Strangers, although they are very apt to have
plenty of business while in New York, yet
often find an hour in the morning that hangs
heavily upon their hands. For mitigation Of
these there are, several excellent remedies, OF
easy acquisition and not at all hard to take
First, there are the splendid shop-windows,
and The excitement of walk up and down
Broadway, which will cure man of the blues
or vapors in an incredible short space Of time,
and set him to frothng and effervescing like
bottle of soda wafer. Then, to cool him of
and restore to quietness and calm appreca-
ton Of the beautiful, there is the New York
Gallery of Fine Arts, where an hour may be
most pleasantly spent. But place combining
both the excitement of actual life with the abb
stractpess and refinement OF Art, is Plumbe'S
world National Gallery, where one
encounters portraits of all the celebrities in the
land, exquistey painted by the pencll-ingers
Of Light itself, and us accurate and liie-lIke as
if the image in mirror had been trans6xed
bv magic and doomed 10 remain for ever
dumb vet speaking, liIeless yet eloquent with
life. There the venerable statesman, the fash
ionable belle, the violet eyed maiden, the
white haired and SCARED hero, the thoughtful
Judge, The hopeful philosopher, the smirking
Sdemagogue, the dashlng dandy, may all be
seen and read at leisure. tits, in fact, gal
lery Of characters as well as of faces; for your
Daguerreo,ype is no fatterer, and lays on the
Iigh,s and shades exactly as Nature and the
habitual play of The passions have disposed
them There is much pondered, much TO be
learned, in visit to the Daguerreotype Gal
lery.-.NeD York Tribune


PIumbe's National Daguerreotype Gallery,
Concert Hall, in this city, will richly repay
visit to the lover Of the Fine Arts