The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-09-26
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE Spy


this proposition, hear 5ou with my minds ear repIv
1eS' subscribers and Non-Subscrbers" But, there
upon begging your pardon, allow me to put Won in the
,s"' nose classes are, according TO my edition of
Natural History, Leter-,o,iters and Letter., e,les an
'P"iion 10 "hich beg you will give your unqualified
assent.
once on tIme," when | was little boy, that is to
say aoont--years ago, III the days when B roome
street was out OF town." when Bonfanti kept at .tbree
hundred and fve,' when Dick Riker was Recorder
wneh HaHcck wrote the history of the lady, who
" Was younger once than she is now.
And prettier of course'-
when the Bucktals moved the political OboeIs ., ~,
many Hail.
And there was music once week
In Seudder's Balcony"
In those times, say the class of Leter,yr,ors 49,, =
most as small the class Bi-mana of the naturalis,s
Professor Sillman had been a member of i IN, h.l
tired therefIom 10 his studio and laboratory a, Vale
Dr. G,iscom toowt in his footsteps, and N. H. Carrier
leaving tine char-editora, completed the tr.umv;rato
Furthermore, occasional letter from WASHINGTON IN
the columns of some city paper, gave evidence Of te
existence OF another member of the class in question
and here, the whole history of the fraternity as il then
existed is told.
Ae"tPO'W "tttUfetW '-hdhu QOWn AI0SWOrtl'S Dir
tonary, boy,-thats lan-behold how Wan F,r,o,
Ericsson, and Hutchinson with fire, water and wind
railways, locomotives and steamboats, have united their
energies to increase the erraic well as the stationary
scrbhlers for the dear people, Willis has raised
pretty dust among the editors, with his letters from Enc
land Bryant as he quietly traverses the luxuriant
plains, the teemng meadows and the stored grounds Of
our faherand, gives evidence of his whereabouts bv
the cool, narrative, philoSophcand Thanaopsis like COM
muncatons of the Evening Post and some Young dis
oiPle f Aescuapus while he is nrurati,,c among The
bouevards and gardens Of Paris talks with his country
men through the medium of the Newark Daily Advar.
tser Bamum-bu it would fill my sheet, even to men
ton the authors OF foreign correspondence Ii So save
me from the task OF enumerating those who write from
every nook and corner Of the farm Of Brother Jonathan
Their name is legion Here goes another--yes. nv
GEAR, my very dear MIR Editor, provided you will have
Tue kindness 10 print this, in the Spyhee goes another
TO be added to their number And WHY not Surely in
THIS great city OF Gotham there ought to be- and is
enough TO write about What though Mrs Child has
written Two volumes Of Letters from New York - The
ground is as yet but barely broken Besides the lady
IN question travels IN path unknown to the common
herd, and hence might write forever without renching
upon the limits of ordinary epistozers Hers are the
mounaln-ops of the world of the heart whence tbrouob
an atmosphere devoid of the mists of lower regions
she looks abroad with clear vision upon realms mn
known to the many When Mrs C. dies, her road 10
heaven will be short.
The summer is past, and these cooler DAYS are bring
ing, hom country and watering place the "upper
ten thousand of ~ p Willis 10 their CITY residences
The town above Beecker-street begins to show svmn-
of revival from, tic state of,
The Arstocratc side" of Broadway, is once moro
alive with ranks of promenading beauty, and coaches
vying IN spendor with those that thread the avenues If
Hyde Park aud the Bos de Boulogne are rolling over
the pavement that few weeks SINCE resounded only TO
the heavy pressure Of drays and omubuses
The of John b. Cough has been onine DAYS
wonder" and would now have been forgolten-swa-
lowed in the maestroom Of daily incidens-had il not
been io the hoax of confession which within day or
two has been palmed off upon the public
lfGoug has fallen, greater wonder has been raised
| refer 10 the fossil skeleton OF the Hydrarchos. or
Water Chief recently brought TO the city from Alabama
where il discovered and exhumed by DIR KOCH
The old Mammoths Of the Musuems have dwinded into
pgmies, and Mastodons, Mssouruns and lguanodons,
have been obliged 10 "sep down and make room at the
head for this leyathan of the waters of the world be-
fore the flood.
The animal, Of which these bones are the stupendous
remains, semi-serpent and semi.fsh II evidently
fed upon esh and have been terror 10 the anti
deuyan whales and other small FRY Of the pscatoral
tribe The skeleton is ia feet long, the spinal column,
backbone consisting Of about 100 vertebroe, which
are from "a TO 80 inches in circumference In the days
Of Aud Lang Syne, the Sea-Serpent was certainly no
chimera. Yours, as ever, PLoD.
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