The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-06
Correspondence OF the Ashland Union.]
FROM NEW YORK.

HGUS JTOH6 CHS
and tie ElephqnEAmericaas Litera-
ry CritictmENeyport-Ihe Eric
Road-Hems.
New YoHK, August Goth, 1854.
With no small degree of pleasure, l
hasten to announce to your readers that
a Troublesome guest, who has long been
entertaining himself on the bones, sinew,
and blood of Gotham, has stated himself
and is preparing to depart. Cholera:
the great burglar, the tormentor of fruit
loving mortals, has drawn in his ugly
horns and is making his adieuS. or more
properly, a d, sbLcs. For the past week
the cholera returns have been at so low
a figure, that the authorities of Brook
llyn and New York have resolved to dis
continue them, as of no further impor-
tance. The deliverance may be partly
owing to the increased ~coolness of the
weather for some time past. And last
night, after a day of whitening tempera-
ture, the prayer of tie farmers, and the
desire of all the people, was answered
and bountifully gratifed. First, the
fresh breeze grew into a young hurricane,
then followed some great pattering drops,
precursors of a binding storm. All
night the food descended and we rose to
lockout on aregenerated city, bright as
a youngster whose face has been washed
,ftar a piobt,s snooza
The Western merchants are coming
in, and business is j looking up cheerfully.
A few important failures have astounded
business people, and will cause, or ought
to cause, a moderation in this coming
winters course of display and fashions
BILE extravaganza. If this is the result
all will be right. Amusements of all
kinds are looking up, also. GRIsI and
MARIO appear soon, and then VIC shall
have a flock of gay birds flying here from
Newport to hear them. The Crystal
Palace remains. stagnant under the new
administration. Curiosity led US, yes
terday, to renew our acquaintance with
the fairy building, which 1 was fond of
visiting in the season of its greatest
prosperity. The most valuable and in
teresting of the goods formerly on exhi-
bition, have taken their departure, but
the beauty and symmetry of the build
ing is more conspicuous than before. 1t
was, before, crowded to bewilderment,
with people and things. At present, the
few articles remaining are spread out at
" magnificent distances J" to occupy the
immense space, while few visitors dis
turb ones meditations, and the general
effect is much better than before. 1t is
said that, although the building cost six
or seven hundred thousand, if it Ear be
sold for two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, it will pay so per cent. so share
holders. Innumerable are the specula-
with reference to the future fate of
the Palace. We are in the condition
of the man with the Elephant drawn by
/; we want to keep the huge arti-
Gle, but don't know where to put it, nor
what do with it when it is put there.
Some say, move it to the foot of the City
Park, and make a Pest Office of it.
Others would have it a huge Poultry
Yard OF a grand Conservatory Your
correspondent would suggest that it would
make a fine Ice Cream Saloon in Sum-
ner, and in Winter a Winter Garden,
where EhaHi might lounge and refresh
tself with inward applications Of palata-
Die things. Since BARNUM has retired
rom the management of the Palace, he
to be afflicted with the same Enu5
or the want of something to do. He
las perfected his Museum by the intro
Iuction of new wonders, and, finding
else to do, he has seated himself
n his Oriental Palace, down East, to
an Autobiography. He will make
money ON that, for what mortal is there
o devoid of curiosity as to miss reading
5ARNUM's Autobiography? Speaking
f literary matters, all the papers are en-
aged in putting a novel by Mrs. STE
HENS, called " Fashion and Famine. )"
t aims at the "spasmodic }" and bears
he impress of a tyro's hand on every
age. 1t is by putting such volumes as
his, that the American press losses its
one and character. This habit of in
iscriminate and causeless praise, is just
J rebuked in a late number of the Lon I;
Atheuexnt. Books flourish here,
-hich, in England, would DO cut off by a
stroke of the Critics Scythe, at
irth.
A few New Workers are struggling
ack from the country, but Fifth Ave :
ne still remains a sombre array of closed !.
oors and Opaque windows. Curiosity
regard to the proceeding of the T
rat ton, led US to take a run to New :
and Boston, lately, by the Fall River :
ne, wherein the world of fashion is l
ant to transfer itself from New York
Newport. There is one rich treat yet Z,
store for the mortal who has never y
lied through Long Island Sound, on !
e Bay State. Newport is such a place 9
a quiet and thankful man likes to pay I
visit to, and pick up matters for future !"
Everyone is travelling that :.
to and fro, and many notabilities "