The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-01

American oysters-a taste despised by old
residents. who like the mineral copper favor
of the Ostend or Armorican. Now and then
there are charming little dinners, when the
old resident astonishes the new corners by
having on exhibition real count with an APP
petite. Our commissioner darkly hints that
some Of our enterprising countrymen really
keep count in reserve for dinner purposes;
but this we hesitate to accept In Sum-
mer the colony has accessions. when
the old residents with the reserved
count come out bravely in the dinner way
These Summer hegiras are sometimes curious
A few years ago we sent delegates from our
highest petroleum and shoddy circles, who
amazed the walters at Bignon's and Velour s
by the quaintness of their customs. Then
came the Tammany emigration. when the
Americas Club heroes swarmed on the boule-
wards with glazing cravats and diamond pins,
and gave the walters gold pieces for fees. This
was, however, in our sunny Tammany days.
There has been Tammany hegira since then,
but mainly to other countries. where, happily,
there remains no treaty of surrender or extra
diion. This Summer we do not know who
will go. unless it be our Committee of Seventy
or the well-satisfed followers of Boss Tom Muir
phys new ring. or the bulls and bears of Wall
street. headed by Henry Smith, jay Gould and
Daniel Drew. The Committee of Seventy
would make q fine impression in Paris, for
Paris has seen before in its history patriots
whose virtue eliminated in place. reformers
who grew rich on their professions Of reform.
and hypocrites who served their country only
as they served themselves. O. w
We trust our beloved and sxiled brethren
viii not quarrel with N. sardou. in the play
which is to tell the world what French
writer thinks of our own dear native.
marquis" says young lady in Fifth ave.
nue-the lady and the Marquis are discussing
an honorable proposition of matrimony-
Marquis, how much are you WORTH"
pardon, Mademoiselle, do not under
stand?" 81 mean. are you very rich?" ooh,
yes, very rich; eighty thousand francs year."
''Well invested?" sIn shares, lands and
vineyards" Bordeaux vineyardsP None of
your Catawba!" 'Yes, but my dear
Sarah -" 'Do you receive your rents
regularity" &C., &c. This is ON extract from
the play that excites "America in Paris" and
is supposed to be the way damsel in Fifth
avenue would consider an offer of marriage
from French nobleman. We really see no
harm in this-no reason why M. Sardou
should not write plays all his life filled with
similar shifts at American society" If he
says nothing more we shall be content; nay,
we should be more than contented if we did
not feel that there were true phases Of Amer
lean society more vexatious than this which
M. Sardou or any satirist would do we'll to
put upon the stage. It is not long since o
character rivalling the Count of Monte Christie
flashed over our New York society-since we
had quack driving six-in-hand to salute the
President the chief of Tammany dis
pensed his wealth like an Oriental magnate in
the buying and selling of Legislatures-si
some Of the first men of the nation were shown
to be merely purchased hirelings of vast
railway CORPORATION who give their votes for
money. Men and brethren, whether here at
home, or far off exiled in dear, seducing
romantic Paris, while these things are So
and we all know them to be true-let us not
grow angry because French dramatic Bo-
hemian puts Uncle Sam into comedy and
plays him on the Partisan stage.