The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-27
Correspondence of the Bulletin.l
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
New YORK, September 2

New York has resumed its ordinary appear
ance. As by magic the provinc'aliy dressed
have disappeared and the gaunty self-pos-
sessed cosmopolitan usurp the streets and
places of resort. From dissipated heartless
Saratoga and Long Branch, from the sweet
and solitary woods of Adirondack and Maine,
and from myriads of white villages by sea and
lake, immense crowds now come with eager
faces back to the excitement and ventures &
city life.
Yesterday, chip hats, cheap ribbons and
cotton goods everywhere; to-day, extravagant-
ly overdressed women and children on all the
promenades, suggesting painful thoughts OF
the foolish and oftentimes shameful means re-
sorted to, to crafty the inordinate vanity OF
our American women; emptynS many nus
band and fathers purse, sowing seeds OF dis
sension among otherwise happily married men
and women, driving hundreds of shop girls
to ruin, for the possession of a ribbon or a
brooch.
The expectation of good fall business is
disappointed. The future looks unpromlslnS
The winter months will cause unusual suffer
ing to the needy, and sharp anxiety to all
classes The stores are barren of customers ::
clerks stand listlessly about unemployed.
Stocks are light, and, notwithstanding, large
quantities of goods are left in bond, importers
wishiny to avoid cash advances on goods they
cannot sell this season. Salaries have been
reduced to the minimum, employees dis
charged, rents lowered, and still everybody in
business bitterly complains and looks distract
with trouble vast number OF fine stores
and dwellings are vacant.
Many for the first time are forced to give up
the luxury and privacy of their own homes
and endure the scantiness and publicity OF
boarding houses, while the poor landadies are
engaged daily in q struggle to furnish suf-
fcient comfort and food to retain their guests
and yet obtain enough income to pay for it.
ShOddyism vulgarity and extravaganza have
exhausted themselves. Recklessness and
profigacy have met their Nemesis-and this
class, having been for fifteen years eating them
selves and one another up, are forced to re-
tire from their gilded homes and brown stone
fronts. in many cases into obscure streets and
faded tenements, and by the thousands into
small suburban cottages along the lines of the
numerous railroads
The vital energy of this nervous people still
remains however, and unlike your people
crushed by bad government and plundering
of6cials-will emerge from their financial diff
hculties in some respects better an in many
respects wiser. The bottom must be reached
first, and in reaching it, many must suffer
ruin and many shame.
The Beecher-Tilton scandal still occupies
public attention. Everybody processes to be
surfeited with it, and yet everybody hungrily
runs after fresh morsels.
Any one but Beecher, justly loved as he has
been by the community for his generous and
noble impulses, would have been ruined
weeks ago on half the evidence accumulated
against him. AS Moulton implied had his
friends been less silly and Jealous, he might
have permanently stood, notwithstanding the
facts. MOultOn's statement corrOborates the
worst phase, of Mr.. Beecher's conduct.
Points out the terrible stlaitshe WIS driven to,
to concea his crime, explodes the theo.y OF
blackmail, never credited by anybody except
ing the women and boys over at Plymouth
Church-and leaves him just where he was
when the selected committee met, convicted
by letters, unexplained conduct, inconsistent
with innocent confessions of principals made
to several credible persons, and finally, by the
silence or evasions of his friends. whom the
public realize understand most of the case,
and the fury and garrulity of friends who
know nothing.
During the last week the danger of little
Learning has been illustrated here in the dis
cussion of who wrote Shakespeares plays.
All the wiseacres of the town have been inter-
viewed by the Herald reporters, and have
answered about as intelligenty as ordinary
Sabbath school scholars would to that other
historic conundrum: s'Who was the father
of Zebedee's children? ~
The learned Thebans are of two classes
the Jews and the Gentiles those who
favor Bacon and those who oppose. Your
correspondent is jew fer of all Shakespeares
ria ha a
least likely to have written the plays, as is
well known his Lordship usually wrote in
Latin, and when he did not hissentences were
constructed upon purely Latin model. He
thought the English idiom barbarous and
never employed it, even in his most familiar
letters The result is we have his most bril-
liant thoughts in the worst possible English
Now Shakespeare language is rs ,diomatic
Brinsley Sheridans or Richard Cobbitts, such
language as no man ever used whose style
was formed upon classic models We know no
other evidence that he knew little Latin and
less Greek.
If he did we have it in his constant use of
proverbs and maxms more familiar to the I'M
lettered-those "who feed upon the broken
victuals" of the leaIned-than to scholars
themselves. In his age, rs in ours, quick
man knew something of everything. There
is hardly young man on the New York press
to-day who, without college culture. is not IA
miliar with more LATIN and French phrases
than Shakespeare employs He may be n
'Junius but Lord Bacon did not write his
plays
1t Is no wonder we are disposed to deny
HIM humanity when we see the miserable
trash which emanates from modern dramatists.
The dearth of theatrical interest has been
greatly relieved by Theodore Thomas or
chestral concerts Such music New York
Justly boasts, was never heard on this CONT
nent before.
am one who has faith in the refining and
onnobhng influence of music, notwithstanding
the brutal, besotted crea ures who sometimes
represent its highest culture.
A great river could as easily flow over desert
sands without fertilizing and blessing the soil
As one of Thomass grand executions of a
symphony flow through the soul of man
without quickening his sympathies and en-
nobling his nature.
The theatres are all open again minstrel
trcupes nightly tAumbing the banjo; lectures
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