Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-01-27
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
Sr. NICHOLAS, New Yc

NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
ST.. NICHOLAS, New York, Jan. II
MY DEAR COLONEL Confined to the interior Of
the St. Nicholas, and cut of from f.ends and sight
seeing by foods of rain it has occurred to me to in
dte an epistle to the Edg.fsM AdreHiser! In so
doing, xpuld bO prcsumptuous? German prover0'
in great reputc says, "body ventured is half won,
so acting thcreupon and without further ceremonies,
Ibecin-feeng that should these details be not meet
for the public eye, their private circulation among
certain friends will ut least, be not unacceptable.
After stormy and most vlainous passage by Sen
from Charleston, am again safe upon the bosom OF
mother earth, and So -jOurnng in the marble palace
whose name stands above. My first feeling upon
reaching New York was one OF great amazement nj
the mild md beautiful weather-as clear soft and
sunny as beneath the loved sky of old Edseheld anu
so. 7 am told it has been all the fall and winter.
'Tis raining ut this very moment to he sure but still
quite warm Does not this, under present clrcun-
stances, the pressure in the moay market and des-
tuition Of the poor seem like the watchlul care ol
gentle providence? New York is world OF itself,
and truly the most wonderful place in the word-and
the St Nicholas Is yet another world. To spend
night and day within its walls is Of itself grand eX-
percnce! The royal magniGcence OF this Hotel seems
to increase year by year, and in every appurtenance
for convenience pleasure it certainly unparalleled
To see the grand dining hall alone, blazing with gas
crystal and silver, radiant with beautiful and beauli
fully arruyed women and high bred looking men,
animated by the constant stream of white nproned
and Eoved walters all enclosed within walls of mir
rors and pink and silver frescoes, worth trip from
any part of the-Sha say world or Union! And
the viands rest assured dcract in nowise from the
picture-mornins noon, eve and night they are
spread out in infinite variety and glorious available
ness. But how annoying are some of ther resua-
tions For instance, when one doesn't eat fish to be
obliged to sit and nirt with fork and spoon, literally
resting upon ones ours, till othors have consumed
untold quantities. Such rules are positively insult
ing-espccially in free country!
The st. Nicholas seems to be the rendezvous OF
very distinguished pcopc-in the parours and at the
table, one meets individuals famous in politics. letters,
art and fashion. And here too to be seen some,
nay many, Of the most countryfed, backwoods-ook-
ing and unpre:entabe specimens Of the Anslo-SaXon
race 'tis possible to imagine. They keep one con-
stantly in mind of sights seen at n Western Camp
Meeting! Last evening, observing the parluurs and
passages unusually thronged, and the performers Of
a we'll known band running to and fro with their in.
struments, concluded some tremendous hero or dan
Ger or singer or refugee, nothing less than Sumner
Walker, or Puuldng. Fanny Ellsler or Roslt, jenny
Lind or Grisc, Kossuth Martin kosta, was about
to come or 60. BreatheSs with curiosity, and with
eyes wide open, singled out from among the crowd
an unworthy looking individual whom 1 judged
might be safely intc.ragated. DID iaterrasatc him,
and his answer was "a dinner Of the hardware Mer-
chants" Bah to have ones ideas dragged suddenly
down from oratiOns, WHAT'S, grand aras &c, &C., to
pots, kettles, gridrons and CRATES
Ny first achievement in sightseeing (thcre being
no music) was the Ravels. These have beon playing
at Nblos exquisite theatre the longest and most
cessfu engagement ever heard of--were they to stay
in New York from January to January again, verify
belivc they would never luck house ramncd, crammcd
and jsmmed. Strange how people love nonsense,
for these same Ravcls play nothing but utter non-
sense Eut no, beg pardon Of you, enchanting
Revcls, for in thinking of your plays, forget your
monSrous and miraculous agility Tho star Of the
Company Mt present is MILE Marietta Zanfretta,
an old and ugly foreign woman, made young and
beautiful by paints gas light and distance, whose
plots upon the light rope positively pass belief Her
grca, feat, which fills the house every night, is
cenJng the rope from tue rear of the stage to the
very dome of the theatre This Mile. Zanfreta per-
formed in pantomme called the Cyclops wherein
besides herself MS Venus, treated to the sight
of Vulcan, with most modern and ungodlik limp)
D,t On, Ila 1,,,o
$500 or 5000 upturncl faces, and whirwind uf tue,
lace and tinse waving and leaping upon single cord
so feet above them.
Shall call the searching up Of old friends an
achievement in sight seeing? This I undertook on
Thursday which is in New York an almost general
reception day. and consequently met and saw many
SIGHTS during the undertaking. Pouring into and
out of every house at which called throng Of
elegantly bedizencd gentlemen and ladies. And oh
the latter Arraycd in what is here called carriage
Costume-pnk, blue grecn and crimson silks, aouncca
frinred, veveted, buttonel, striped, strsaked and
o,,;ded all at once-such as in land we see
even ut grand balls And velvets, sables, ormines,
cashmcres jewels laces, flowers, feathers and last
hut Jv no means leust-hoops. Oh the mountainous
and gigantic hoops! The space over which Dido
made the bulls aide stretch ut the founding of Car
thage could easily DO covered and hid by the smallest
hoop in New York. These reception day calls never
exceed five minutes and it necessary, or fash
;onobe rather to be in an incessant uttcr, perfect
St. yitus dance, all the time. After good morning"
md introductions those present and those follow
ing upon ones heels, "good- tits morning"
until P. ny is again said and the visit has been
perpetratcd.
Now am going to tell of some one, Of whom al-
most every body knows moro or less Charles Mat
tbews, the star of the English comic boards, the
friend and protege of Lady Blessington, tho husband
of Madame vestus! He is playing Mt Buron's, and
and at present ono OF the lions of the town. But
am much disappointed in him-Old stagers here tell
ma he is no longer what he was In person and voice
too he is thin and weak, and although natural grace
IA, and spirited yet taking into mind his great repu
1aon not striking enough, not sufficiently superior to
.nv comedian one has ever seen before. dare say
,bo, he plays here in productions and in roles and