Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-17
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Corresponding Of the Keowee ooprier.
D NEW YonK, Oct. 8. I8J7.

Dear HSalB'Son I drop you another
limo fromStais great Metropolis, tellingyou
ola fow more things / have seen. OF
course L can only glance at a very few of
thom, for something new is presenting it
self every minute, which fills us with Won
der and amazemcnt. have travelled
good deal, and have visited most of our cit
les South n good many West, and some
North; but have never seen anything
that will do to compare with this city be-
fore. thought that Philadelphia was a
considerable city, but it now appccrs to mo
to be quite quiet place. Here YOU may
see every class and nation of people under
the sun. have been around on the Ave
nues ~ town, and have seen the upper
tendo,u." have also been to the Five
Puiuts, and there witnessed such poverty,
depravity, flthiuess aud distress az it has
never been my lot TO witness before. /
have als, been 10 the Toombs fvoluutarily)
and sawthc misery of thGt place.. 1t il
trulySstonishing to thinl; tliat snoll q place
as the Eiyc Points can exist in thehcort of
a Sreltanl p1pulous city like this,and that
, too, within two squares of Broadway.
The gpsat State Fair is. now open at the
Crystal Palace, have visited this twice,
aud it is difficult to say which strikes per-
son the most forcible, the Fair or the Pal
ace itself. 1t is truly a magnificent build
ing, and bcggars all description, aud mauy
49,, 4,
dcrful. ] have been to our State Fair, az
the South Carolina Institute, Charleston
and thought it a great Fair, but it was
nothing to compare to this. One of the
! greatest curiosities | saw there, WAS an or
gan or some kind of II musical instrument,
made by arranging number of whistles.
| (similar to those used on our cars) over ~
steam boiler, commencing mt one end with
small one, and gradually increasing in
| size to the other end. These whistles all
have valves with cOlSls attached to them
! The cords arc all brought together and Mt
tachcd to keys lilFc piano, and is played
the slme way dis Il piano. The music is
very loud--yct sweet and harmonious
The exhibitor performs on it many popular
| airs, and ctn perform the most difficult
pieces. Another curiosity is tho greatper
fection to which 5Sewing' machines arN
brought They are great inyention for
the ladies; tor.whcn they come into sencr-
al family use (as they eventually will do)
there will be no more use for needle and
thimble.
On yesterday morning, met up with
my friends, Mr.. Join MiLLwEE and c.
e. CALENDER. II being Sunday we pro-
posed togo to church, and the subject c;,,iic
up where should we go, so We agreed and
went to Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 20
hear the celebrated HENRY WARD BpEcU-
Ea, the man of Sharp's Rifle notoricty.-
Wnen we arrived, VIC found tho house so
crowded that it was impossible for us to be
seated. We stood in the door fer about an
hour, and finding that he was not going to
give political sermon, we left, La, look
ing over the congregation. wo discovered
that there were a goodly number of negroes
scattered over the assembly, We saw
plenty of black sleek faccs,and woody heads
lifting between two white ladies. And
rfce 0esrso, the doctrine of the people who
worship Mt this church is, that al! men arc
| equal. ana they carry out their doctrine by
all sitting together in church; yet It, is
only the wealthy gentlemen and ladies Of
color that can worship here, for the lowest
pew in the chuch rents for Que. hundred
dollars. This was given us reason thai
we could notbc seatcd--that the people
psid 80 much for their pews, that they
wished to set on them themselves. This
was proclaimed publicly from the pulpit by
BEEcHER himself
From my intercourse with the Northern
people, find that there is avery small mi
nority of the classI have just been speak
ling of. A very large majority of the pco-
| pie care mnch less for the negro than We
lido. Y Yesterday evening we went to Hobo
ken, and had delightful promenade in
this beautiful place. z.
| The other evening [ won't tosee GEoRdR
QHusTIE, the great d6liDeator of negro
character, aud well nc deserves the reputa-
l'tion he has. Sunday nightisno more here
than eny other night. Numbers Of places
OF amusement are open and they arc aock-
ed to by large crowds,
] have seen many moro things which
might be of interest," but have not tins
to write about them, Il have dotted down
a fcwof such things ms have come under
my immediate observation, in a very lIur,
ried manner, without comment; hdifauy.
OF your readers have been nsbsnoftcd there
by Eshall feel myself we'll sp5id.
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toncorrcspondent writes that the Cabinet.
is by no means unit. The Kansas 1,,ies.