Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-20
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
.y New YoRK, SEPTEMBER IL, 1851.
The me has arrived when it is again reputable
TO date res self in the city of New York. The
door-plates which had lately gathered the rust Of
three summer months, while the occupants Of the
house were idling at the Springs, or msyhap kept
themselves ensconced in the basement have been
Furnished up anew. The Wall street broker has
returned from his pastoral episode to mingle again
with renewed zest in the strife of abulIs and
bears )" the merchant, with his brow "sicklied Ger
with the pale cast Of thought is once more on
Change; while ever and anon may be seen dash
ing through Broadway the blaxoned equipage and
livery of an elegante. fresh from the scenes Of her
glory and conquests at Saratoga or Newport AS
Paris is annually emptied Of its wealth and beauty
to swell the throngs that flock to the neighboring
springs OF Passy, the sulphur baths Of Enghein or
the more remote and fashionable resorts Of Schlanp-
enbad or Seidschutz, Of Wiesbaden, Yichy, or
Ems, SO New Work sends forth its annual Quota TO
increase the number of votares that worship at the
shrine of Fasbionand Folly, with perhaps an occa-
sional valetudnarian who still clings wthsunfash-
ionssSe pertnscity to the obsolete fancy that the
springs possess medicinal vixtaes and sra here.
fore to be visited fountains OF health not re1acm-
bering that we moderns, like the Dossor in The
French play, have changed all that" Fashion and Plea
sure soddesses that have succeeded Euphroype and
Terpschore, reign supreme where Escuspus whlom
mingle his chaybeate poons and compound his
sulphur baths.
Sensible people, however, who resort to the country,
because 10 fashionable but because is both profitable and
agreeable have not yet returned To all such the country
reveals superior charms in autumn when TO mention the
bcng air and the penng fruits peculiar to this season. the
-.
ture Of green which constitutes Dame Natures summer
attire Commend me, least, to the country when autumn
paints upon the foliage in its sere and yellow leaf" the
many tinted dies by Natures cunning hand laid on"
and when the nights deserve old Christopher Ncrhs appel
lation Of aps5rosians" But sooner or later tho who
still nger in the country will desert its quiet shades and
flowing springs betake themselves the shady
side Of Broadway and the eseau of the Park Union
Square An irresistible longing for that excitement ab exra
which composes large part Of city life will recall them
by from each rural haunt to the "gaudy babbng
and remorseul scenes Of metropolitan life and did
New Yorker from his transient rusticaon, and not
feel his heart leap up when he found himself again ebowDg
bis way through the crowded horoughfare seated
more in the familiar omnibus !
Ia business, the interesting item of the week is the
annual New York trade sale Of books stationery, engravng
&C. the present being the fifty sale held by the firm Of
Bangs, Brother Co., who do the largest business in this
line Besides the sale, however, under their direction,
ther is going simultaneously the Of Lyman &
Rawdon which, though frm has also received large
invoices from the principal publishers These important and
interesting sales formed from the contribution by Amer
well by few English publishers Of such Issues
they may wish dispose Of in this way The Of sale,
and the general regulations connected with the same
ranged by what is styled committee Of the trade
select the auconees by whom the sale shall be conducted
and who draw up the rules to be mutually observed by the
contributors and the auconeers connected with the sae
The trade sales are therefore immense book auctions which
attended by booksellers from all parts Of the Unon and
exert powerful influence toward the dissemination of Anne
can publications Occasionally however, unsaleable
work 10 this way disposed Of by publisher who would
otherwise be incumbered by much worthless paper remain
ing his hands at dead loss Some idea may be formed
Of number Of volumes which pass under the hammer in
these sales when it is stated that each catalogue Of the books
to sold contains between four and five hundred pages and
that each contributor obligated TO furnish at least spua
ted quantity Of every book he enters for sale thus stated
among the general regulations of the sales conducted this
by Bangs, Brother Co. that contributions shall consist
Of quantities not less than four copies of work in quaro,
copies work octave unless exceeding five volumes
and twenty copies of duodecimo unless exceeding eight
volumes In fact however the number Of copies generally
exceeds this minimum, amounting sometimes to many hum
dreds.
In city like this there is Of course large class who
anxious like their Athenan predecessors both to hear
and thing For all such, besides the ordinary
provisions furnished for their qualification by several theatres
and the operas both Italian and Ethiopian Professor Ande
son. styled also the Wizard Of the North holding
his sorees nagiqucs" at Tipler Hall. where he repeats
before wefled house the feas Of magic and egedtmain
which he has had the honor display before the crowned
heads of Europe" Judging from the immense showbis
posted every corner, is compelled to conclude that
the Professor is present the individual who fills the
largest space before the public eye the phrase banae
appropriated to such personages. In country where
the people are the sovereigns, it was, suppose, to
expected that should be regaed with the precise d
veri.ements enacted by the Wizard before the crowned
heads of Euope but the fact that republicans are so
much charmed with any thing that raises into sort of
equality with royalty of petty vanity than Of
national Independence Even Snakosch, the splendid pian-
lei. must be heralded &c the pianist to his majesty the En-
peror Nicholas" in order for him American po
puary. We do learn heweve that the crowned
heads Of Europe have been very industrious TO return the
compliment by the patronage they have extended to such
have been favortes among their cousins the muudnous
.overeigns this side the Atlantic. had intended add
few words concerning the Chinese msgcans aud the Faks
Of India (of whom Prof. A. learned the a and also al
ude in this connexon to the amount of scientific knowledge
which, as il was required perform their feats must have
been actually possessed by the conuers OF whom read in
biblical story Science however. in those tines was limited