New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-13
THE WITCHES OF NEW-YORK. No. VIII.
MADAME MORROW,
No. n Broome street, nesI Columbia.

daughter Of seventh daughter, comes OF prolihc
family in the north Of England. Her advertisement,
which model of classic English, is fixture IN ne
Herald, and reads as follows:
"AsToyIsHING TO ALL Madame MORROW
elaine 10 be the moot wonderful ss,roosist n the sd or
been an the seventh daueh$ e. the
n.,uIsi sif to tell past present .sd
hSs. I.S s SSS scd how S d vii show
you hiene your ftere husband and will you
be & and usi Trough viii
show the hteness Of absen friends and feisnons ana
b.ips ss,onsheS no charge Not satisfied Gentlemen not
admitted. No. Is Broomest near Columbia"
Our reporter, in the regular course Of his business
has become so accustomed to marvek, wonders and
miraces, that the upheaval OF volcano IN the Park
wouldn't discompose him unless il rnged his whskers
az be determi ed to visit Madame Morrow and try to
realize again the old sensation OF astonishment. lie
thought that the Likeness ai his future husband
wou accomplish that object anything could, aud
the Only obstacle to the qualification OF this sudaole
matrimonial curiosity found in the forbdding SEN
tence: "GeLtlemen not admitted" Heroic Is our
reporter, and, withsl ingenious. He would visit this
Madame Morrow, not by proxy, but in his own proper
person; if not as man, then as woman yes, ne
would petcost himself up to the required dimensions,
if it took week TO tie on the machinery. Oh with the
paptsoons; on with the skirts; down with the broad.
cloth hurah for the cotton and hey for victory and
look at bis future husband The requisite parapher'
MALTA were barganed for and sent home to our amoI-
tious represe NATIVE who at the sight thereof wss
"astorished" in advance and stricken aghast oy the
complicated mysteries Of laces ribbons, strings, bones,
buttons PINE capes collars and other nexplcable arti'
cles that met his gaze. The question instantly oc'
CURED, Gould he get into these things !" Not
bit of it, he would sooner undertake to report IN short
hand he speech Of thunder.coud and with much bet
ter prospects of succes BE felt his own nsgnSc ,nce,
and as he looked out at the window, he regarded
passing female with He felt that he was fact be-
coming imbecle not to say idioc, when he bethought
him of his friends. Two discreet married men, who
knew tee ropes were called to the rescue and begun
the work they piled layer after layer OF the mate
ral and in the course of four or FIVE hours had built
him into pyramid Of the proper sse, when they gave
him their sole mn assurance that he was all night.
He has since discovered that they had tied his under
sleeves round his ankles and that the things ne wore
on his arms must have belonged somewhere else.
However the disguise was completei he looked In the
glass and thought he was his own andady; his best
friends wouldn't have known hum, and the teller OF the
bank would have pronounced him forgery and re-
fused TO certify him. he felt like full rugged clipper
chip and got under sai soon as possible and bore
down upon Madame MoTow's residence. He nearly
capzed he got out Of the stage, but he rghted after
heavy lurch to the northeast, and kept bis course
without further serious disaster. He made speedy
run to Brosme street the voyage being accomplished
in less than the expected time, although heavy sea
in tho shape of a boy with wheelbarrow, struck HIM
amdshps OIL the corner of Sheriff street, doing some
damage to his lower works and carrying away yard
or so of lace from his main skiIt. He finally came
up to the house in splendid style, and cast anchor on
the opposite sidewalk to take an observation.
Madame Morrow lives, as he now discovered,
in a low three-story brick house, which canDot be
called dirty, simply because that mild word ex.
presses an app ro1mation toward cleanliness which
house in this locality has known for years. We can
give our city readers idea Of its condition by stat
ing that it is in the worst part Of "The
Hook" to readers in the country who have luckily
never seen anything fhier than q barn yard,
no information can be given which would meet the
case Sunshine is the only protection for weldIessed
man against the population of this part Of the town.
Ia the twilight or darkness he would be robbed il
not Rarroted and murdered. The bOldest and most
desperate burglars and others OF that staup, have
their homes about here-fathers who teach their chill
dren the thiefs profession, and mothers who carry
pickpockets at the breast. Iu the midst of this
rest of crime the fortuneteller has her home and
tbrves. Our reporter, protected by his fake colors
approached the house. and was admitted by an Irish
girl, whose ncrusted face showed that the de-
post Of art had probably held possession undisturbed
for weeks. They had Just entered the hall door when
two tmal children, who were contendiDg for their
vested rights with big yellow dog that had nterfered
with their dinner, commenced an uneSthly squalng,
which, for the instant, made millinery delegate
fairly believe that Tophet was out for noon. The
woman, with great presence of mind, Immediately at
tempted to quiet the STERN by administering to each
inverted brat sound correction, in the usually
adopted by mothers Particulars are omitted. Then
che resumed her attentions TO the stranger and
voyed him into port in the parOr Securely hGrbored in
this sae retreat reporter took another observation
The room was small and what few things in it
looked shabby, and dirty of course The principal
article OF furniture wss a huge basketull Of soled
linen, which had probably been "taken in to wash,
and from respectable family for every gle article
locked ATTAINED to be caught 10 such company, and
tined to burow down out Of sight Dlsconsolate
shirts elbowed Inundated socks, which in turn kicked
against mortified fannels, hid the nselyes beneath
disconnected sbeets abashed shircears and humbled
dickies tried TO shrink ont Of sight in very shame be-
meath dshonored table CLOTH the wine-stans on
which showed it 10 belong in better society de-
jectsd and cast-down woman was asserting the de-
spairiDg contents of the basket with look Of desc
lation. The L.h girl, vino had disappeared, now re-
turned, and with an air Of mystery slipped into the
hand VI or reporter red card, on which was in
scIibed
No Person allowed to remain in the E.tsblshDent