Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-04-08
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
New York CITY,

iob6 iestoi ous nav ouiJ "a Nv
more than an hour to write this morDil
before the mail closes. My letter can I
therefore be very long. though perhaps
may be long enough. did not arrive
this city until Friday noon, and fou
myself quite engaged with my busine
affairs up to last eve, and SO have n
donc much in the way Of sight seein
i stopped at the Allyn House IN Hartfor
on Thursday night, hoping to run in
some political gathering there that high
but the city was quiet as the grave so fl
as politics was concerned and though
was much disappointed, the host was dc
voutly thanking Heaven for one night Q
peace and quiet. The Allyn House. b
the by. is one Of the best appointed he
tells in the country. The servants in tb
Dining room are colored. and everythiu,
is neat, quiet and orderly to precision
Not word is spoken that can possibly b.
avoided, but the motions of the well
dressed, well looking colored man, whe
stands at the entrance and directs all
are obeyed with cheerful alacrity. The
servants all wear neat white linen jackets,
white aprons, and carry a napkin sus PEN
ded from the girdlc around their wal ST..
You give your order, and in the shortes,
possible time you are served A respect.
full anything else, sir q and the servant
leaves you to enjoy your meal. He is at
your side again, however, in response to
your slightest nod or motion.
One thing cannot fail to strike the
most casual observer. as be passes from
Hyde Park, via the VT Central, and
Springfield. to New York city, and
that is the appearance of Thrift and I'm.
proVement all along the line Of the Rail
= Roads. Everywhere the towns and vii
lagos are groactng. New and elegant
houses, stores, mills and SO on, appear to
you every trip you make. Rail Roads do
not impoverish communities. Let those
who are laboring under such delusion,
itrapsl,
ls But we must not forget that we write
from New York,-tbe "Quecn City" of
the East We have not had time to do
1t yet,--though we have had time TO
Ind out that several of our advertisers
have severely done US But no matter
for its humbugs now. 1t has many real ,
things which one can gee in even birds O
oye view. l 60 up the spire Of old Trim. d
lty. and see miniature world can i
look upon the ships and flags of all ma. I
lions; upon ten solid miles of humanity a
oustlipg and jostling one another, from e
The Battery away to Central Park. Di. u
'ectly down. | look upon the grave Of Il
Alexander Hamilton, and the tombs and p
monuments Of those men ofour heroic age, m
lust opposite Of my hotel-2l Broadway, il
is the Park where once stood leaden al
tatuc Of George II, which our Revolu- CO
ionary mothers melted into bullets TO tn
epper the red coats with. Central Park or
said to be the finest in the world ex. N
ept the Bots de Boulogue. 1t contains ca
early thousand acres, and is beauti. co
ully diversified with pond, stream. hin, be
BOX, plain and slope. 1t is and must be 90
ae great resort for cheap recreation and to-
leasure for hundreds of thousands Of th
eoplc, but yesterday it was the scene Of
sad and painful catastrophe. all
This morning the Herald chronicles it rel
lus: Aga po
FRIaHrrUL ACCIDENT IN CrNrp., IN
four and five o'clock in
's'erday afternoon. as MIR. Henry p, Pr
ownsend, accompanied oy his wife, was lav
tering the Park, at the Fifth avenue q:
trance, with his team, from some cause OA'
present unknown the horses suddenly inc
came frightened and dashed off at full are
eed. MIR. Townsend. it seems, was IN. chs
lie to keep them in the road, and they tos
u against tree, shatteriDg the carriage n
to pieces. Mr. Townsend was thrown nv ~
: with great violence, falling on his 50
I'D, and was picked up insensible. The as
lice conveyed him to St Luke's Hos she
tai, where up to late hour last night e..
still remained unconscious. Mrs. 80
wnsend was also thrown out and yery an'
'iously if not fatally injured. When for
zen to the hospital it was found her Ire
m was broken. The attending pbysi. for
IN IS OF the opinion that Mr.. Townsend 5 J, .
ull is fractured, and that the injury 'ae
u prove fatal. There is some hope Of ticl
70. Townsend's recovery. Mr.. Town. Coz
ID IS a lawyer, and resides at $50 exc
adison avenue. -.
But death in New York / Just as we VIII
nmenccd to write, we heard a frightful or
Scry from an Irish female voice, very den
" ouEown room. We step to our door tina
the vail or lamen. goes on like this fro,
b Gsd what will / io9 Holy Mary | cor,