Year: 1869

NEW YORK, May I, 1862


No New York institution is so bad that it will not
find defenders Even those who suffer most from
May-day moving quickest in crying it up. But
can any state Of affairs be imagined worse? You
have two alternatives placed before you. One Of
these is to remain where you are and pay so many
hundred dollars more. The other is TO move wther-
soever you choose and submit to the eXtortons of
the carmen. The landlord pricks you on one side; ;
the truckman goads you on the other. You must
choose between paying three hundred dollars out OF
your pocket in rent, or losing quite much in
cart hire and ruined furniture. On NOV
ing-day ten times as much is charged for
moving load as at any other time; and while you
are vaguely making up your mind that next day you
will drag up the before the Marshal's officer
swash goes your crockery, and crash goes your obe
de Uertu. Your mirrors are shattered your carpets
lacerated your pianos put beyond the tuners resto
rative art While you are moving out another party
is moving in, and when you approach your new tene
ment, and are about TO move in, you discover that
another party is moving ont. IT, when the shades Of
evening close around the dreary scene YOU find YOU
are surrounded by your own possessions, and none
but yours, yours Is an exceptional case and you
ought to go down on your marrow-bones in speech
less gratitude. If you discover not only that you
are in possession Of all your own but that all is
in state OF perfect preservatonbut no that is not
possible When the first of May is over, and pdter
and ndteItdnitids lay their bothered heads side by
side, probably more deep oaths bTeathed than on
any other night in all the year. This time, however,
the tramped-on tenants have been in part avenged
Many would not or could not or at any rate dill not
yield TO the landlords rapacOus demands. and pro-
bably more houses and suits of rooms remain vacant
than ever before.


There very little that is new to say in regard to
the circumstances to which Mr.. Dana's Hbeous
article in Tuesdays Sun had reference. The two
articles that have been published in reply to that
libel a noble letter from Mr. Young published in
the New York Erening Post of Tuesday and an
equally noble editorial written by Mr. Stockton, and
published in the Philadelphia Morning Post Neither
of these articles, however, has done anything to-
wards stopping the tide Of ''virtuous Indignation"
which set in with the publication OF the sun libel
breasts Of young New York journalists. There
are two things in Mr.. Young which they
being Philadelphan, and they cannot for
give his having over-topped all of them. No words
are more true than Mr. Youngs own, in the letter in
the Post where he characteriZes the Sun article as
the elimination OF lOng-contnued attempt to drive
few exceptions the younger New York journalists do
not like him. and that is very mild way of putting
it; They hate him for his success and
He still retains his old place upon the
Tribune and in Mr.. Greeleys esteem, and when
the proper times comes will make such reply to the
aspersons of the Sun shall cOnsign his detractors
to perpetual loathing and contempt. believe in
Mr.. Young believe that he remembers old friends
long the slightest hope OF their deserving conf
dence remains. believe that he thinks tendery OF
old ties, and that he would not sunder cherished
friendships unless compelled by sense of personal
honor Even If all that is alleged against him
be true, however, would not exchange his
place for that OF the man who made a
trade of private correspondence, hawked
secret condolences about the Bohemian
market and gratied despicable spite by the barter
of memories that should have been sacred. Mr..
Young retains the esteem of many whose esteem Is
worth more Jnan money. Ills IaDle Is lauen WIN
written assurances Of the confidence yet placed in
him by old friends some of whom are influential,
and some of whom are obscure His reply in the
EUeHilg Post was characterized by brave candor.
Some of the letters he remembers to have written,
others he does not. Those who have known him in
tmately for years content to pin their faith to
this assurance, and await the revealments OF time


Why don't they dispose OF the photOgraph-phan-
toms at once? Because, suppose people ENJOY
being humbugged, and it is pleasant to sit in jurs-
diCtion upon affairs in the invisible world. Judge
Darling has seen a good many curious things in
court, but few scenes quite so curious as those
connected with the Mumler transactions have often
been enacted even before his eyes. Barnum was
one of the latest witnesses up and Seth JOice, and
the WOOlly Horse, and the genuine Mermaid and
other Barnumisms came up during the cross-eX-
did and communicative. The only way he hum
bugged the public, he said, was in his advertise
ments for when inside the building they got more
than their moneys worth


very pretty thing in parasols is out 1t is fan
parasO uniting the advantages of both these art-
Cles by a very neat and tasty mechanism. They are
very "cunningn That is the general criticism pro-
nOunced upon them, and surely that should be
The i'Messe Solennelle" was produced for the
second time last night at the Academy of Music and
was not a success. Everybody wished that Parepa
mad undertaken the principal part and everybody


amented that Kellogg had done so, for the American


rilnd donna did not seem at all at home in ROssinis
nosthumOus work The only encore demanded was
her execution of the "Confucius" towards the close
| of the mass. The entertainment is 10 be repeated
| tomorrow evening at Steinway Hall.


SehOO Is TO be superseded at Walacks by Caste on
| Monday night, Upon that evening" also, Robinson
| Cyi,SOe will be produced at Woods Museum, which,
so far as dramatic performances are concerned, has
| been closed all the week. The Tempest at Fsh's
Opera House. is TO be succeeded by Victoren Sar-
dou's new play OF Pdtrie and Hunpty- Dumpty will
| close the season at the Olympic with number of
benefits. ALI BABA.