New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-25
TIE WITCHES OFNEH- YORK. ;. No. XIV
N Il \. r l. T. l. X Y ,
No. 80 Broons strre,

| taken Iuuo~SiHtr q ltt Cltk time, tnA you
make whistle Of a pigs tail" The philosopher
died, but hls saying Wa accepted by the world -
an axionl-a bit Of incontrovertb,e truth eternal
god!ike, fully up to par worth a hundred per cent,
with no possibility Of discount. Time, however.
which often demonstrates the fallibilhy Of human
wisdom has not spared this OF quoted adage:
and cow there II not o collection Of curio.uies in
the land which lacks pig.tal whistle to proclaim
in the -hrlest tones the fslsty of the wise mans
proposition and the triumph of Yankee ingenuity.
| Had this saine philosopher been nterroga;ed on
the subject, he would undoubtedly have announced.
and with an equal show of probability his side Of
| the Argument that You cant make star-eading
| prophecies out of a snufy old woman; but had he
lived to the present day, reporter would have
taken great pleasure in exhibiting to lin these two
apparently rr-concisble characters combined in a
single person and that person Mr. Fleury, who pay,
for the daily in-erton Of the following advertisement
| in The Herald
"AsTRoLOGY-M FLEuRY, from Paris is tho
c.ebra,ed LADY Of the present in telling future
and certain she questions on business marriage
.bsent iricnds 10, BY magnetism Office No 30 Broome
Our reporter resolved to visit this most celebrated
lady of the age" who had come all the way from
Paris to tel his future events true and certain
nothing daun,ed by the circumstance that she lives in
The uUHlert pan OI hHCH nus
been swept clean since it was very Broome n-
deed II our fancy farmers. who expend much money
upon the various foreign and fcrtilzing COM
pounds would but turn their eyes in the direction Of
BrooIne street single glance would convince them Of
tie inexhaustible resources Of their country,
while guano would instantly dsprccstc in value, and
the Irlard Of Ichabo not be worth quarrel. This
prolific and valuable deposit bears perennial crops: in
the Spring aud Summer, dirty-faced children and
mean looking dogs to spring from it spontane-
ously; they are succeeded during the colder weather
bv crop Of tumblc-down barrels, and cast-away
broken carts while the humber and more insignif-
cant things the uncared for weeds to speak, Of the
abundant harvest, such potato parings and fish
heads and shreds of ragged dshclohs, and bits of
broken crockery and old bones in all the
year round In the midst Of this filth, with policy
chops adjacent, and pawnbroker offices close at hand,
and rum shops convenient in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the reekng streets and sagnant cutters and the heaps
Of decomposing garbage, send up stencil so thick
and heavy that it beslimes everything it touches, and
makes Ii man feel as if be were far past the saving
powers of soap and soft water and WAS fast dssolvng
into rancid lard oil-in this congenlal atmosphere
iourishes the prophecies, and here is found the
mansion of Mrs. Fleury, % the most celebrated
lady Of the age in telling future events"
The house, threestory brick originally intended to
be something above the common, has been for many
years missed and badly treated by reckless tenants,
that has completely lost ia good temper, as well as
lis good looks, and is in a perpetual state
of aggravated sulkiness. 1t resents the presence
of stranger impeltinent intrusion, and
ayenges the personality in various disagreeable ways
II twtches its rckey stairways mpatiently under his
feet, as if TO shake him off and damage him by the
falit vciousy attempts to pinch and jam his fingers
with moody dogged doOrs which hold back as long as
they can and then close with sudden snap, exceed
ingy dangerous to the unwary-t tears his clothes
with ambushed rusty nails, and unsuspected hooks and
sharp and Jagged spnters-t creaks its floors under
his tread with a doeful whine, and complains of his
cruel treatment in sharppoined many tears OF
plaster which drops from the ceiling upon his head the
instant he takes his hat Oft yawns it, wide cellar
doors open ike greedy mouth, evidently hoping that
an unlucky step will pitch him headlong down-and it
conduct. Itself in thousand ill-natured ways like
,uky child that has been walked up too early in the
morning, and not properly whipped into good behavior
Our reporter however entered the doors, unabashed
by the malignant scowl which visible all over
the face of the unamablc mansion, and stumbled
through narrow, dirty hall, up two flights of groan-
ing stairs before he discovered any sign of the where
about of Madame At last he encountered little tin
,io, upon which were these words Madame fleury,
Re m No. g." He pulled the knob and the door was
instantly opened by the lady herself quickly that
the bell had no time to ring until al necessity for it WAS
oversize had evidently heard the advancing foot
step. of her customer and had stood ready to
pounce upon him. She ushered him into the apart
mept where he soon recovered his selfpossession,
and took nm observation. The room was a small
square one shabbiy furnished with very few articles
OF furniture and these werc dmy visible through the
! snufry mist which filed the apartment there was
| snuff everywhere; there snuffy dust on the
chairs there precipitae OF snuff on the foor,
and if snuff was capable of capitalization, there would
undoubtedly have been staactitc formations OF snutf
depending from the ceiling the Madame herself was
snuff-coored as if she had been boiled in decoction
| Of tobacco She is a French woman, and has had
about half century, experience Of her present eshy
tabernacle, which is somewhat the for wear,
although from the fossl remains Of bygone beauty
st visible in her ancient countenance reporter
incnes to the belief that in remote age she was
comey and pleasant to the eve. He founds this by
pothesis upon the brown hair and hazel eyes which
tine has spared. In respect to personal cleanliness,
our delegate regrets to say that the Madame was not
in every respect what critical observer would wish
| 10 -ee her hands and ARM in a condition which
would naturally lead to the belief that the Croton Cor
poraon had off the water; AID under each of her
fnger-nals was a dark-colored deposit. which may
have been snuff but looked ike something drtier.
She was dressed il light striped calico dress, over
| which was black velvet Giantlc trimmed with fur
and on her head was portentous head-dress which
was eariuy and wonderfully made of shabby black
lace; her face was in the same condition as her hands
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