New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-25
VIEWS OF THINGS. ETC, IN NEW YORK.
No. ". TAKEN FROM THE EAST.

No. Nv ..TAkEN FROM HE EAST.
When was at Khsrtoum- :" Pray, where and
what is Kbaitoumi" II is at the junction Of tho
Blue ana White Miles, fourohng commercial
town of 40 600 inhabitants, souls, metaphysical
geogrophsss would say. "Aod when. pray, were you
here" Night before laet, Mrs. j. Now, how the
Sbaytan could you have been in Egypt night before
lat, when is only two weeks ago tina. you walked
down University place with me THIS is Shaytanish
nonsense" Not at all my dear Jen. ms I went 10
Khsroum night before last under the guidance Of that
"genemsnly conductor" Mr.. Bayard Taylor, late q
the African Grand Central, who 10 pushing his
way through the -drits on the Northern Lspland
cd luck TO him.
But do tell US, SIR, what this African town has to
do with Eew.Yoik." My dear Miss j., suppOsisg
even that properly it has nothingto do with NewYork,
yet tropicany a legitimate connection with our me-
ucpois is perfectly feasible. 1t qate remarkable,
TO be cure the facility with whlca modern rhetorical
engineering overcomes the steepes, grades. Did you
notice bow able articles this or that theme are
often started ffom this that otoer seemingly q1its
foreign theBe7 How, in q leader of The London
Times, for instance the bunders begin ru nbHng
amid the ruins Of ancient Rome aud ratio along over
"Jerusalem and Madagascar and North aud South
America, which finally TO burst ward the middle
of The column, upon some parocal abuse In St Mary.
ebODe Bidd,sex County Tns is the effective style.
1t shows suog Learning and breadth Of vie~. II i'm
poses. 1t is very filing" has been said Of effer.
vescent sma-beer But there be ressons in the case
apar. from II ere rhetoric. Distance s,netimes gives
cleaIpess well as lends enchannen ~ the view.
Long intervening spaces Ike long iGtervsnng periods
# tine may erable US TO attain higher stand point,
less clouded BY prejudeia refractory mss thso
Tsl or contemporary observstorics Yon descend into
swe whore truth II SAID 10 lie, - at booudsy the
stsIs Of heaven. You carrot Matilda Heron In
her aitstic completeness from stsge-box. Tinp-
kits his true proportions ja-tly discerned
from my window than they can BE- across his table,
from the collateral cushion Of his carriage At the
interval between No. -, til street, and the
grocery, fatter ourselves that through him
ard his the glests at his lar, evenings bell but
the superficial broadcloth ard satn hkn and skus Of
HIM and his
Wien / was at Khartoum, then, fancy that I
erjoyed peculiar advantages for looking at New.
ioik. Amer all, the distance between the junction
If the East and Nonh Rvers and that Of the
Blue ana White Niles is mably geographical Looked
upon me,aphysically, morally, socially that Egyptian
town, with its wealthy merchants aud poor low
Fellabs its bigh-blOoded Arabian horses AID NANCY,
lean, yellow dogs, its irresponsible mayor, L,ttif
Pasha who seems Lot 10 be u mode, ruiT), and
IL ineffective police TO cay nothing OF is vSy
dniy streets and other sinlaIites. il quite near 70
us; ss near, should cay, come pats of thu tsvs
are TO some other pa-s-as near, l sh.uii say for
ittarce, as No. 10 Orange street is 10 your h,use,
Madam. s, me things are a great way OFF from e.h
other here, Mrs.. I. l had not more than fairly
weabered your uagpi6c' ut fur cape and broad reetof
skn', sbe other cola morning. tsan nearly RAJ down
baI,.oottd girl whose thin itDn fock hung hank and
scsbt 10 her poor form. That all occurred between No.
dj snd No jl3 Broadway bu. the space from Jour out
sknts to here was as great from here ~ KharOar
ain oct greater. II reminded me Of tn immeasurabe
interval gulf that lay between Dives and Lszaus-x
dd indeed, you looked so In tina. fDe far cape
And you, my morslizing Sir. was the gulf 20 Dar.
between you and the por creature, tnat yoo csan
bridge it over with that battered spanish sixpencef"
Let US hurry back to Kharocm. was mach ir'
pressed While there, with the pint, Of Ike
ness il offered 10 city. OF course, proportions asa
circumstances must be regarded Everythieg is rei'-
tive There were contrasts WELL eurious!y mingled
with the reseInblances, and equally provocative q
comparison, ] sn not attempt formally 70 s'A2'V