The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-06-11

slowly. 1t is now very certain that il
will not be completed at the time an
nounced by the stockholders, viz: the
lst Of May, though they still say they
will have it ready for the reception of
goods very near that time. From pre-
sent appearances, however, it is "quien
Sabe." There is beginning to be no lit
tie muttering and growing among the
newspapers, in relation to the matter,
and this may expedite the work little,
fol- if there is any thing fellow about
Gotham breads more than a steamboat
'bust,' it is 'bust-up' from the news
papers.
Very bad taste-I should say shock
ing taste-hss been manifested in the
selection of a site for the Crystal Pal
ace. Would you believe that the stupid
asses have placed it side by side with,
and within few feet of the Croton Re-
servoirl The consequence will be, as
one-eyed man might have seen, that
the 1.-the and delicalely beautiful archi-
lecture of the palace, if not entirely ov-
ershadowed, must, at least, appear to
very great disadvantage alongside of its
ponderous neighbor. The Reservoir is
of such huge proportions and massive
structure, that the palace, in contrast
with it, will appear of pigmy proper
tionS, compared to what it would have
appeared had it been erected upon open
ground. | cannot but be astonished at
the stupidity of this oversight. | do not
purpose in this letter, to give deScrip-
ton of the Crystal Palace, as it is in too
unfinished a state at present, to make a
description interesting.
Tired of being pent up in the noisy,
dusty environs of the city, | gladly ac.
cepted the invitation of merchant
L-friend TO take short excursion to his
private residence at Tarrytown, on the
Hudson river, and twenty eight miles
distant from the city. This is a most
delightful little village in itself, contain
ing many elegant residences, besides a
number of neat little cottages, nesting
among the assures, standing out like
sentinels upon the higher points, or pee
ping modestly out from some little sRa-
dy nook, like a coy maiden listening for
the footstep other lover.
Butthe most interesting reminiScence
of Tarrytown is, that it was here that
Williams, Paulding and Vanwert, cap
tured the unfortunate Andre, bearing
the reasonable papers of the traitor Ar
mold. Yes, Just down there, at the cros-
sing of that little creek, was where the
three men were seated, playing at cards,
when the ill-starred Andre made bis ap-
pearance. Just up there, a few steps
further, upon thathill, is were they strip.
ped him, and found the fatal papers il
: his boot. And just on there little fur.
ther stands the same building, then oc.
cupied as tavern, to which their priS.
+ oner was taken.
3 A short distance below Tarrytown,
passed the mansion of Washington II
g,ng, known to all the Rteratj of Anne
rica, and to almost everybody else
e Tarrytown can boast of the old Dutcl
: Church and the 'sleepy-hollow' whicI
e Irving has immortalised in his sketches
1t is alarming to see what mass o
+, goddess, irredeemable trash is throw
y upon this community every day from it
: hundreds of newspapers. That ther
: are many newspapers mere that exercis
e healthful influence in, and reflect ho
: nor upon the community, there can b
d no question, but there is class of pa
It pers fast springng up, like the 'Picka
r yune,' the 'Pick,' the 'Lantcrn,' ct 4
n omne genus, that sweep the purlieus {
d Billingsgate daily with drag-net, an
dish up the results in their columns fc
It the qualification of the morbid appetite
= of thousands whO aoiA haze no oth(
n kind gtood.
o At Washington the work of appoint
+ ment goes on slowly--too slowly by fa
IS for the tleet-footed desires of the muIt
= tude of hungry ones. There is grei
: difficulty, at present, in getting thrOug
!, with the New York appointmentsin sue
e a manner as to satisfy both the 'har'
6 shells and the 'soft-shells,' or the 'Your
h America (soft-shells) and the regul'
y old hunkers. The Ohio delegation, TO
Is are said to be dissatisfied with the ma
rs ner iu which they have been treated
d The truth is, as might have been for
seen from the beginning, the new al
lie ministration, for reasons 10 be notice