, 1873-08-31
NEW YORK..
Return Of tile Absouteos--A Danger
GUS Piece Of Ermine.
GEORGE Sanders Political Reminiscontes...A
Fortune Dependent on Frac'
tisn Of Time.
Newspaper-Profits---The Ballet as
a Scientific School.
Front Our Opn Correspondent.


From. Our 0en Correspondent.
Nrw YonH, Aug. %, 1873.
. Broadway Ia usually barometer Of tho seaHon.
The difference bosweon its present Appearance,
and TINT Of few weeka ago, is very noticeable.
Tho abaontoes hayo returned earlier than they
had intended, on account Of tic rcccnt oxtraor-
luary weather, which belongs rathor to October
thau to August.
THE WANING SUMMER.
Tho mir is full Of malcdictions Of out-of-town
landlords upon the storms and coolnoBa that
have 10 unexpectedly and go unsinely descended
npon this latitude. Thny found it impossible to
koop folks at tho springs and eoa-eido when tho
thermometer ranges botwoon 10 and 80 dogreos,
aud tho skies arc overcast and weeping 1vo dayB
out of seven. Hardly any Of thcse summer
hotols but will sustain heavy losses this season,
nnd not few Of them will, probably, change
propriotors, on account Of tho triatful prospects
of tho future. Tho same report comos from
Capo May, Long Branch. Saratoga and Newport.
"a good business during tho creator part of
July, aud worry poor business before and since.
Broadway is as crowded now aa it genoraliyi8 Ia
a mouth later. Private residences aro beginning
to opcu III tho fashionable tloroughfaros, tho
clubs to show signs OF life, and tho play-houBcs
to put forward their attractions. Tho last fort
night has produced remarkable alteration in
tho outward ao1nblanco Of metropolitan things,
and, Of a sudden, liberal proportion Of every-
body sooms to bo back In town.
JUDICIAL DEAD.s1oT.
Recorder Uackett continues to rocoivemenacing
lntters, tits said, from thioyes and rufnaps, who
complain Of tho rigid Justice they get ut his
hnnds. Thoir threat8 aro OF 1itt1o ayails tor,
whatoyor o!so uackett may or may
not b., le is certainly mao Of grout
nerve. Nobody is moro capable than
ho OF aolf-protoction and, believing that he
may DO attackod ut night lo invariably goca
armed, and Is ono Of tho vesy best shats In tho
country. 1t ia doubtful If there bo q moro SKILL
full 1narks,nan with a piatol from Maino to Cali
for1lin. lie ia m easy cand1e-snuffor At thirty
PAGES. md at that distance can put bullet
through tho same ho1o three timcs out Of four.
James Gordon Donnott, Of tho Herdldt in his
hilarious mo ods, has frequently hold apples in
lis hand for Hackott to shoot ut. and has evon
exprcssod willingness to put ono on his head for
targot,--sucl IL his confidence in tho Record
ers MIN. uaclett Ioeps himself in
superb practice, and is finer
shot to-day than ho Inns eror hoforo
been. Bomc Of his performances with pistol
arc maryelons, md would bo benevolent, If somo
one of the thousands Of tospcradoca infeAting
this community should hayo tho courage to draw
hia fire. uackett Ia very wary after nigAtfNll,
and takes especial painn not. to bo n1nhnacadcd:
Should he bo assaulted Mt h late hour, thero will
certuinly be businsBg for tho Coroner the next
morning.
MoRE POLITICAL nEvEIATIoTB.
It is reported that the late George N. Sanders
left number of manuscripts and memoranda Of
peruons and things with whom and which ho had
como III contact, md that tho papers will be ar-
ranged ind published III duo season. Hardly any
cdgo Of tho political oSenta Of tho last thirty Or
forty yeara, and bis revelations Of Wasll-
ington-lfe, if faithfully made, would certainly
provo sensational. It used to bo said before the
War, that Sanders had larger variety and ntlm"
bcr Of odd experiences than auy resident Of tho
National Capital. He often tllrcatenod, 1t Ia
said, to wrto q book for tho otlltlcetion of fu-
turo generations and report that le has left
materials for such publication ia not at all i'm
probable. IIo was on most intimato terms with
Webster, jackson, Clay, Calhoun, Bonton, Cass,
Van Duron, and nil tho prominent Btntoameu
and politicians North and South. Judicious use
mako an attractive and instructive volume.
This is c1ninently IN age Of book-making and
book -ma1sern, ana NO always read with
nyidty what conccrna famoua characters.
ssr e. % as pS psst q o R,'Gs enoss m0 as 'fs e
French, who seldom feel that they havo dis.
charged their duty to posterty uutil they have
turnol themselves inside out, for tho benefit oi
their contempo1aries, Benton, Greeley, Seward
Weed, and Fornoy havo ect IN example which ii
likely to bo followed by q host OF prominent
journalists and politicians.
PECULIAR w1LL-cAsE.
A New-Yorlser and hia wife, who were childleHs
md who had bcon living abroad for some yeara
were recently capsizcd in Bail-boat IN thu
Mediterranean, md both drowned. They hai
made their villa before quitting this country
oach leaving to tho other, IL tho eVont Of death
their joint property, amounting to nbout 800,
disposal OF their eHtato. OF course thoro art
s,,,idry claimants here, and1awyora have beon om
ployed tolooh aftorther ntcrests. Tho legal poin
IL, Did tho vito or husband die ilrst7 II sho
go to his Immediate relatives. II ho died befor.
hor, then aho would inherit, md the p7opest.
descend to her relatives.
There il no method Of determining actuail