The New Yorkers have added a new misery to human
life. Their high-level railway is said to be a success. This atrocious contrivance is a railway laid upon iron pillars twenty feet high, -cemented by girders, and driven in upon the track of the tram- way cars. The passengers, therefore, are on a level with the upper windows in the streets, and the train, which moves at fifteen miles an hour, rushes past the upper floors at intervals of ten minutes. As the contrivance costs only 1100,000 a, mile, and carries pas- aengers profitably at a halfpenny a mile, it is sure to supersede tunnel railways in great cities, and to be the most effectual of all contrivances for destroying the small remains of peace. The passengers ascend and descend by spiral iron staircases, fixed at the principal points of traffic.
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