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Eas when he used to be shovslIing in Spanish dOllarS by the ship load.

 MT. Astor says that it cost him more la- Dor and genius to make his first thousand dollars, than the millions that followed ; and that now, were he a young man, he would rather undertake, at the hazard of losing his life, the task of making 100 thou, \ 9sand dollars on the foundation of one thou sand, than one thousand out of nothing. The labors of MT. Astor's day, at the present writing, are divided somewhat as ; bellows: He rises early, dresses without a ! valet, and smokes half pipe of tobacco At1c then breakfasts, sometimes on milk, but mostly on the most fragrant description of .docha coffee. Another attack on the pipe. Follows. The papers are then called for, : where his still keen eye falls foul of the money articles-but afterwards he goes 9through the editorials and chit chat of the day, and is nightly tickled when he finds any thing better than usual. Pipe again.

 Then, when he's able, saunter about and ' Schat with the neighbors concerning stocks sor the weather. Next, two hours siesta, Hand then to dinner. John does great execu- Siion, for he is wonderful hand at the tren- md a mild glass follow, and then the time

 

 ator his chamber lamp, and takes up his line Ssof march for Blanket Alley.

 MT. Astor has been reputed ignorant, but sSthis is libel, for he is in fact, and always Ahas been, great reader, especially of light 8litcrature. Likewise he is very liberal spatron of literary men, as is partially evil Sdenced by the fact of his warm attachment Sto Washington Irving, and his choice of Fitz AGreene l3alleck for his right hand man.

 Another libel is the charge bro't against 2 MT. Astor, of Atheism, his inclinations nev- Ter lying that way.

 On the whole John Jacob Astor is rather Ia good old man than otherwise, has no par aticular rice about him but his money to dis atinguish him from the rest of us.

 We wrote this sketch, thinking.it might 4gratify the reader to learn something of the habits, manners, &c. of an old gentleman whose daily income is four thousand and < odd dollars.