Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-23
The SNOW, Its effects; Fernando w OOd's
Message: Marriage of Fanny Fern;
Newspaper Gossip. t

New YORK, Jan. 10, 1856.
In announcing the late heavy fall of snow the
strongest inducements are held up for running
off into the poetical What theme for an epic
is a snow storm! A snow fake is in itself pocti-
cal, clear and unstained as the first dawning of
the mind Of genius, and delicate as blossom on
a tree of paradise. During its fall the mind is
filed with the realization of the beautiful and
seeks to breathe forth its feelings in the harmo-
ny Of numbers Hence we are deluged not only
with snow, but snow poetry, which resemble
each other in everything but brilliancy and
smoothness. If I were to name new form of
insanity which has made its appearance, would
call it snow mania. Its symptoms differ in df-
ferent constitutions. In some it tends to verse,
in others to run horses to death, while great
number effected by it appear to have an unre-
strainable desire to break the hat, and
heads of every person whose evil genius di-
rccts them in their way. There is no way OF
erasing the disagreeable truth-we have two feet
of snow on the ground, and New York iscrazy.
In the Multiplication Of the messages which
come within the range of our astonished vision
every morning, emanating from the Governors
with one from our most worthy Mayor, Fernan-
do Wood Now such document might b. sup
posed to have reasonable space devoted to city
affairs, but this is too narrow ground for the
far reaching eyesight of Fernando. In the lofti-
ness of his fight he takes bird's-eye view of
the entire Union. reads lesson to the Federal
Government on political economy, and interna-
tional comfy, and finally, before he touches
earth again, promises the citizens of New York
another message in which he will take practi-
calview of things! Fernando Wood is a Napo-
leon, a Nicholas, and Gen. Jackson in nutshell.
If any persons suppose that, his message to the
Common Council, was simply a document in
which the deficiencies of the Presidents Message
it was simple effort to show the world the pro-
found craftsmanship of the individual who hap
pens to be present Mayor of New York. Like
Shakespeare the force of his thoughts skaters the
English language.
Fanny Fcrn-late Mrs. Sarah Payson Eldridge,
was married last week to Mr.. James Parton of
this city. Fanny Fern is too well known to
make description necessary. Parton is the
Biographer of Horace Greeley, and possesses
considerable talent new issue of little
Ferns may be shortly looked for. 1t is ex-
pected they will make more noise in the world
than the first.
As an instance of the success of journalism
in this country | may instance the New York
Weekly Tribune, the regular weekly issue of
which has reached the unprecedented number
of one hundred and Fifty thousand copies; but it
shows also that politics enter largely into the in
gradients flour society, this equals, if it does
not exceed the entire circulations of our purely
literary Journals. Several pictorial works claim
ing to be funny have lately made their appearance
but they are for the most part of the same class
as their defanct predecessors. A very superior
Newspaper has however, made its appearance
among us-Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
which whether we consider the style of the
engravings, the dignity of the literary matter,
appears destinedto take an elevats ID place among
the Periodicals of this country. Its price-four
dollars per annum is only third Of the London
Illustrated News, which it exceeds in style and
artistic finish Appropos of the London Illas-
trated News-not long since that paper sent an
order to one of our most celebrated Broadway
dagnerreo,ypist for the likeness of DR.. Kane and
the companions ofhis Artic expeditions snd any
thing else Of general interest that might from
time to time come within his observation.