The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-01-14

New YORK CoRREspoNDENcE.-A new species
OF literature has recently made its appear.
ance amongst us. We allude TO the curious sort
of gossip published in the National Inteaigener,
and some other papers in the provinces" under
the caption Of "New York Correspondence" at
the rate of five dollars column, payable in the
first month Of the millennium, and rewarded also by
the privilege of putting ad iibifum, half-a-dozen
oyster-cellars every week. These epstles, might
be expected, smell considerably of tobacco-smoke,
gas, and the delectable atmosphere of the green
room. Here is a specimen which we have SUBJ
jected to fumigatory process, and may therefore
possibly be examined without greatly offending the
senses--it is from the National hteligemcer:-
TUESDAY, Jan. 8, 1913.
There is considerable outbreak lately in the way OF
equipsges in New York Several ourhorse vehicles have
made ther appearance driven by the young men who
them. have noticed also q currcie in beauti.
full taste driven with steel bar the horses backs
with his master and another horseback. following
an ourider: We TO have masked ball this evening,
and aseeplechase is to come off the 20th discount
Bertrand Of the riders and each competitor entering
tousanddoar stake for the WINERY shall he at the
legs to frozen pioughed fields and man must
have less use for his life than who would risk TALL up
in England and had some rough
riding after the Arabs in Algers-so would on him
unless there happensdto be foxhnnng rishmsn among
the competitors There are six riders understand and
of them will win six thousand dollars of course and
probably horses Will be ruined
broken fortunately there Is superuty of horses and
young men.
The story goes That thsre is skeleton in every mans
closet" and there is of course Tin country indepen.
dent ours is Of spreses phantom following every
man who Is conspicuous and pointing at his drawback
The drawback to any elaborate novelty Of luxury is at
once read legiby in Broadway. Seeing and very
costly equipage in England you merely know that the
owner had money enough buy it. The continuance of
it, the fitting of the harness, the matching and breaking
in Of the horses are matters attended to by those who
brought perfect to the owners door and he pays simply
money for In this country, the contrary. the pur
contrvance constant thought and almost his entire at
tenton The classes are yet wanting who purvey for
groom whose business Il i to save his master nS from all
thought and trouble as to his turnout The New York
must g. every day for ano1t H. to the coach
He must hurry his breakfast to the stable look
after his irresponsible grooms He spends hours the
pact working for his wheelers and the right pull
his leaders He becomes learned in harness backing
short entirely occupies what philosophers pleased
call ian immortal mind" in the matter of vehicle to
lance each day in omnibus for sixpence-but he does
believe the old satire Of aqs IN omnibus, nihi in
n be- or wS the
and like the masses becomes his own provider-like
man who, to have coat different from other people,
should make il himself and of course be little except
amateur tailor We shall have these supplementary links
of society in time There will be- doubtless the class of
thoughtsavers. But until then. the same amount of
thought that would constituency in Congress will
be employed in keepingIa "slapup turnout" and rich
tween stable knowledge and legislative ambition.
BY the way luxury has become an eai and wants its
cy Of establishing kind of court Journal to be called
1.-THE Aristocrat" thought that, If supercilious and
clever enough. it would sell. The editor, however,
should be strictly anonymous, and the price out of all
reason.
The Masked Ball which is come off tonight, is, am
in conversation hardly fancy any thing easy
than the freedoms of the and am told most Of
number. man block, of course who not open to
improvement.
undry Madame Adolphes. see by morning paper that
Miss Clarendon giving readings and recitaons to the
tress Of that name is at present in New Orleans
The belle Of the Olympic, pretty Miss Taylor could
scarce have better advertisement for attraction than the
paragraph which announces today that she has been
robbed Of six hundred dollars worth Of ewely and that
many heavy articles Of plate rich dresses &C., were left
puff from Mtches geniusfor he is genius and quite
capable ofknowng that every body will to have look
elry and many heavy articles Of plate e undsturbed'
People like pictures, made to stand cut" by we'll
One Of suSsorbera to me that wa:
falling off" by growing less gosspy. so have cram
%eS oseT things the s
balm the hope of pleasing of your patrons, at
least | will leave off before grow grave.
It would not be easy to find, in the same space,
any where else, such quantity of twaddle, nom
sense, pueriy egotism, and bastard wit, as is pre-
sented in hiarrecious epistie Of twaddlers, there
are plenty, and egregious enough, heaven knows,
everywhere, but to this New York twaddler, no
more to be compared than Hyperion to a Satyr.
He is the very prince of twaddlers, being amongst
that brotherhood what Ole Bull is amongst fddlers.
He revels in twaddle-he lives, moves, and has
his being in it, His is perfect diarrh1a Of twad
de- Who is he
Was the prince of twaddlers aware that all at
tending the =" masked ball' were liable 10 be ar
rested for violation of the laws of this Sate This
highly moral and elegant and convenient amuse-
ment was exceedingly fashionable in this city some
years ago, and it was found necessary to nterdct
it by law. The law still remains very properly in
force, and the masks, ladies and all, might have
been trudged off to the Tombs. We doubt, how
| ever, whether that would have saved us from the
| twadder. The event would have given us whole
month of " slip-slopperies.'
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