Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-23
AN AMUSING CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr.. Kendall Of the New Orleans Picayune furnishes
that paper with the following in late letter from Paris
/ late number Of the Journal pour Rre amuses its
readers with really laughsble correspondence which
may perhaps be worth translatng 1t shows up or is
an attempt to show up, the mutfarous cangs which
people in the United States often resort to gain living
and the readiness with which, one thing failing, they
take up with other branch Of business opposite
painting is from piledrivng The artclein the Jour
nal pour Rire is in the shape of communication and
WIZ give it entire, heading and oil:
Musical Journal IN Nev Yort, or Salt PORK.
MY DEAR PHILrpoN: Allow me to give you little
story which Is no less amenabe than true. 1t may
perhaps, serve as advertisement to our French Bar
banchus who may think Of opening literary connexions
or relations with the Americans
In April last proposition was received by your hum
servant to take charge Of the Partisan
for New York musical paper the Philharmonic Journal
the overture coming through one of our countrymen es
tabishea in that city, nj. Oscar CONNECTICUT awaited
mysen OF the oher. need not now speak of the emolu
ments was to receive but they most fatering and
remunerative. The Office Of the paper was at No 333
Broadway Messrs. Watson Smmonds.
Immediately began my labor of corresponding and
every week sent New York, by way Of Liyerpool
musico Literary letter. well got up and in which was
sown scattered all the theatrical facts and phhar-
monic anecdotes Of the French metropolis.
On the Soth of June received from the ocean
the following letter. give it to you as it was written
without changing syllable:
New York, JUNE 10, 1854
The paper to which you have sent several articles Of
Partisan correspondence since April has lived the life
which roses live and that of many enterprises in the
United States. The Philharmonic Journal only issued
two numbers, the first to that it would come
out the second to that it would come out
any more. ~
endeayored to collect your claim and have search.
ed for the unhappy editor without After his
failure in the musical line he left New York. and his
services were at once engaged in experimenting upon
new system to pickle pork a
Here in the United States every thing is made by ma
chinery They slaughter and salt hogs by machinery
most ingenious machine takes the whole and living
swine and in two hours and q half afterwards he ia
brought you sailed and packed in barrel Our editor
of the Philharmonic thought he had discovered an i'm
provement in the machine by which he could effect the
same end in two hours! Half an hour gained each
hog would have been most magnificent and profitable
saving if it could have succeeded But unhappily tho
hogs pronounced strongly against this invention.
Ii killed them faster is true but they contended that it
only half killed them and they struck The just COM
plant of animals heard and the original machinery
has been given back to them they put out of their
misery more easily by the old plan
But the Americans are not easily discouraged Our
editor, falling in his pork picking operation turned
player, and procured engagement first low come
dian at one Of the California theatres. Will.
stop, then, your correspondence for the Philharmonic
and put on mourning for what is due you from its editor
II the new improvements in the pork making machinery
had succeeded you might have received few hams from
him in the way Of qualifications actor in Califor
MIA ne will only pay your claim in onaaie dc SINCE but
in plain English it is that the executor would an
swer dun by applying his thumb to his nose and per-
forming certain well-known gyratons with his fingers
After giving you this information and shaking hands
with you, | subscribe, truly your friend
.. ,....5. OSCAR CoMMETTEET.
p S. Do not believe that there is single word of
pleasantly in ali this. The Americans never joke. The
orkpicking machinery exists and single house at Gin
cnnat kills and salts 1900 hogs day. e."
You will say my dear Philipon, that singular coun-
try is that of the Yankees, where the individuals
critlclse music kill and pack hogs, and play comedy
j. LoyY.
Whether there was ever any musical paper in the city
Of New York named the Philharmonic Journal is more
than can assert; but safely say that nine out of
ten in Paris who read the above correspondence will be-
lleye every word of it. The Parisians look upon the
Americans as queer set ""