Year: 1877

! Prom our Special Correspondent.


NEW YORK, May, 18th, 1877.


The sudden departure of William VI
Vanderbilt for Europe, on Saturday, has
given rise to all kinds of wild speculation
upon the subject. No one seems to
know anything about it. neither rela-
tons, nor business acquaintance, but he
went off as suddenly as if he had been
Tweed's most intimate and nearest-to-
the city-treasury friend in those halcyon
days when the Boss" ruled in New
York. The connection of Tennie C
Clafinis name with his departure is odd.
That she should have made a claim
against the old Commodoreis estate is by
no means surprising to people here. 1t
was generally understood thing that
Vanderbilt was their hacker when they
went into Wall Street, and also when
they started their peculiar paper. Still
if Tennie did claim S1OO. 0OO lit is a little
strange that William NJ Vanderbilt
should have been frightened off by that.
Law suits are looming up around him,
however, more than he anticipated.
Some of the gilt edging has been rub
bed off of Central with the general mang-
ling of other stocks, and altogether since
his fathers death the Railway Kings
successors head has lain as uneasy as anv
others that wears a crown.


There is a breaking of the command
ments at the Hippodrome, unless one
insist that the Jewish Sabbath was in
tended when it was ordained that no
manner of work should be done on that
day. They prepared for Barnum's show
on Sunday, they prepared for the dogs
on Sunday, and last Sunday they were
busy getting ready for the Carnival Ball
There had been over 1900 dogs there the
week previous, more or less infested with
that infnitesimal insect, that with hop,
skip and jump tends to produce gen.
eral uncomfortableness both in dogs and
human beings. Wether that assisted in
the slightest degree in making the
dancing lively | cannot say, but there
was sort Of tarantula like vivacity in
some of the movements of the grotesque
assemhlage that could not be ascribed
even to the fact that the dyspeptic and
melancholy American was trying toim
itate the mad but natural folly of the
sunny Italian. He did it as gracefully
for the most part. but with less ease
than dancing jack, and as the clown is
to the circus with his practical awkward
ness, so was the genuine, American to
the Carnival, naturally, and because he
couldn't help it. Will write YOU more
about it next time.


1t is very fortunate that the slow driy-
ing enforced, the presence Of many pol
icemen, and the general care taken pre-


vents any frequency Of run Always in
Central Park. The loss of life OCCASION
ed by the fright, the throwing off and
injuring the driver, the breaking Of the
pole of the carriage, and the final fatal
injury of two of the ladies who were
driving. while very sad, may still be
looked upon as wonderful that more
we're not involved in the catastrophe.
| The Park is always 30 full of vehicles
that a runaway there is more likely to
result in the frightening of other horses
than even in our public streets. Fortu-
J nateIy- no other vehicles were run into,
and other horses were kept well in hand,
so that with the exception Of the occu-
pants of the one that met with the acci-
dent, no one was hurt. Nor would these
ladies have been had they remained
quietly within; but, wild with terror,
they sprang out, one Of them being kill
ed at once, and the other fatally injured.
The other, young girl, remained per-
fectly quiet, being paralyzed with fear
and unable, fortunately for her, to follow
the example of the older women. The