Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-06-08
For The Spectator.
New York correspondence.
New YoRK. June 1853

New York Correspondence.
New YoRK, June 1853.
Gentlemen Every day shows some advance
made in this great metropolis The new street.
which are opened and built up as ifby magic
the crowds of people filling all the thoroughfires
and places of business and amusement, show con-
clusively that New York is the great City of the
Continent. 1t is astonishing to see the vast DIFF
ference in the life and activity of Philadelphia ant
New York. With the population Of the two pla-
ces so nearly eqnal, ono would suppose there would
be equal hustle and activity, but 1t is no exaggera
ton to say the difference between the places is
that between New York on Sunday and New
York on week day. This of course makes Phil
adelphia much the most preferable place to live
In
The Crystal Palace is very nearly finished and
is attracting visitors from all parts OF the world
Those who saw the Crystal Palace in London
will be much disappointed if they expect to see a.
ny thing like it in New York. Our palace" IS
about one tenth as large as the English one and
instead OF being in Pack, it is placed on half a
block of land in the rear ofthe Croon reservoir and
is already surrounded by an array of grog shops.
enough to make the heart ofa Main-Law man
sink within him. have head that more packa-
ges have been received from France alone than
the "Palace" can well accommodate. The Stock
holders will make an immense amount Of money
from the great crowds who will visit it.,and no
doubt the stock will reach one or two hundred per
cent advance before the summer is over, but as to
the little thing being great National Concern
it is al humbug.
Not less SO is the famous Hppodrome Of Fran
coma big tent with brick wall instead of can
vass sides as circuses usually have. The course
or ring is oval shaped and very large. The tent
will hold about five thousand spectators, and it is
filled every day. Franconi, or whoever owns it,
(some say Barnum is the Frauconi of New York;
makes fortune every week. The performances
consist Of races in chariots by women dressed Ia
Minerva-driving four in hand at break neck
speed round the course. TO one who loves excite
ment this particular act affords it, for every min
ute he expects to the poor creature overthrown
and her brains dashed about on the tan walk
Then comes Tournament!!! which the city pa
pers say recalls wildly the Tournament descrb-
ed in Ivenhoe. Two or three i'll looking fellows
dressed in mail make dashes at one another on
lean badly broken jades and as they pass each 9TH
er,. GROSS their lances and give little taps which
shows they are trying their best not to hurt each
other rather than the deadly assault of the knight
of yore' Then there is a race on horseback by
the same women who drove the go-carts-quite a
pleasant affair. Then two brothers come out in a
buggy, trot round the course and perform on 4
swing way up in the air to the terror of the fe-
male part of the audience and the danger of their
skulls. The IIippodrome is a dead hit-every-
body goes, everybody laughs and sends the next
person he meets and enjoys the fun Of seeing 9TH
ers ''sold" as he has been.
The rush to Europe this year exceeds that Of
all others. Every steamer goes crowded to suf1o-
cation almost, and every packet runs full Amer
leans in England at present. who are not OF the
Uncle Tom" school, fare 9adly--Mrs. Stowe
and ''Mrs. Stoves husband" as the papers desig-
nate him-wl not allow poor American not OF
the Horace Greely caste to fare very well. DIR.
Prime, Of the New York Observer. seems to have
been to the English like spark in a cotton-b bale.
He had the audacity TO review Mrs Stoves book,
and the gross audacty too to show up the grit Of
the eminent family to which she belongs. Hence
| the peculiarhatred of the English. "Nlrs Stoves
husband" acts as fugcman and denounces the
country and d1es what he can to injureit, but il
will not do-"Mrs. SIS hubby" must be smart
er Yankee than he is to do much harm.
Every body in this part Of the country seems &c
be on broad grin whenever the articles justiyng
Mr.. Pierce's course, now appearing in the Union
are spoken Of The organ as played by Francis
p. Blair, carried a force and power which has
never yet been equalled. Father Richie played
a monotonous tune but with some sweetness and
effect. but the man now at work, takes the wind
out of his hearers at every paragraph. One thinks
he is reading Fourth ofJuly Speech all through
He vaults and dives and floats and creeps and
scars with solemn earnestness which whatever
else it may do plainly shows that he is perfectly
unconscious of the lndicrous in his own perform,
ances. Take away from man a sense of th. ri
dicuous and he becomes ready to have his head
shaved. Mr. Pierce requires better defenders than
such braying writer's to prevent the odlum conse-
gueDt upon giving all the spells to the Southern
and Northern fanatics.
Yours, '.SAlITH."