The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-27

ceuilers. and laid in checkers, and being glazed
look very agreeable The insides of them am
nsst to admirasicn. The FIRE places have nc
lambs, Gas ours hsve) but the backs run flush
With the walls, and the hearth is Of pyles." So
much for the buildings from Madame X. She
says "their diversions in the winter are riding
sleys about thrce or four miles out of town, to
where they have houses of entertainment called
the B0weIy; and some 60 to friends houses who
handsomely treat them Mr. Burroughs carried
his spouse, and daughter, and myself, out to one
Madam Doves. a gen,lewoman that lived at a
farm house, who gave US u handsome entertain
ment of five or six dishes, and choice beer and
methiglin, cyder, &c; all which, she said, was
the prodace Of her farm believe we met some
% or % slays that day The people are social TO
degree, they'r tables being as free TO their nay
bore as TO themselves" $500 3 t.NftN
New York now contains near one hundred times
as many inhabitants as il did at the time Madam
X. visite d il. The same ratio of increase would
give fifty millions for the city at the end of an
equal term of time from the present-about
the year 1000; this would be about double the pre- .
sent population Of the United States-and as many
ss could be placed upon the Island of Manhattan,
allowing twelve square feet or little more than
square yard for each individual. The suburbs of
New York, for many miles around, will undoubt-
eddy, long ere that, be merged in, reckoned and
called part of the city itself
There were many curious passages in Madam
knights journey, and they are curousy and
quantity depicted in her journal. She frequently
invoked the genius of poetry to her aid, only one
lepcCLHcn VI WHICH Will give. one says,
as she passed along in the night, with the tall
and thick trees at a distance, as the moon glared
light through the branches, they filled my inagi-
nation with the pleasant delusions of sumpteous
City, filled with famous buildings and churches
with their spring steeples and balconies, galleries,
and know not what; granduers which | had heard
of, and which the stories of foreign countries had
given me the idea of.
And here the grand psrade-O, see the people
That famous castle there-wsre but nigh,
To see the mote and bridg, and walls so high
While in your city, was led by my kind host to
the temple of song, where was charmed, and my
spirit was finely touched by the moving, pathetic
and affecting ballads of Mr. Dempster. was also
wrong hit upon by the more tragical and massive
power of the Italian Opera; and finally, was en-
chanted, unclaimed, enraptured, and almost trans
lated BY the warnings of the Swedish Nightingale
at her first concert.
The lovers of music in Boston are on the gni psre
10 catch her first notes there. Mad'le Jenny Lind
will be well appreciated in Boston, We shall labor
under great difficulty in furnishing her suitable
hall in which to display her inimtable, and | may
almost say, inspired genius.
One of my acquaintance on my return from your
city, proposed to enter into yankee speculation
after this wise:-Having learned that had heard
Jenny Lind, his idea was to cage me, and demand
a fee for my exhibition. He is a Barnum, Jr. |
was enabled to escape his grasp only by my most
earnest entreates, at the same time beseeching
him not to make il public, for fear should be dis
cted analysed, search of some stray notes of
the Nightingale. Mad'lle Lind will be received
here with enthusiasm second only to that of the
New Workers. w.R.D.