Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 19, Number 2961, 22 September 1860 — [BY PONY EXPRESS.] LETTER FROM NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

[BY PONY EXPRESS. ]

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

BOM OUR OWN CO R RESPONDENT.] New York, September 8, 1860. Dog days over— a clear, crisp wind from the northwest for a week past— th« sky serene and blue, and such a moon at night as takes one back to youth and love f and that glad time when life was all rose-colored dreams and black ey«s and coral lips, the only things worth living for. Helgho ! 'Tis past ! 'tis past ! So the Summer is over and gone, and the city starting off for Full trade and gayety at a pace and with a mad whirl the like of which have not been known since before the financial smash-up of 1357. You would say every man, woman and child in the community had the purse of Fortunatus In their pocket, or that New York was the modern Dan», wooed by Jupiter in a shower of gold. In fact, everything is In such a state, and going at such a tremendous pace, that one can hardly pull up long enough to think. For the last three hours my " den' has been the common stamping ground of a score or politicians, fast men and actors — talking patriotism, life and "horse," till I wished them a'l — Jericho, and, like Dickens' Stephen somebody, am all in a "muddle.'' And, talking of women, Margaret Culley, a Hibernian lady who condescends to do chores in a crack boarding house in Brooklyn, came Into Court last week with the queerest complaint and grievance woman ever had. Miss Rose Galenla boards In the house, which U known and described upon city maps as No. S9 Fulton street, and is the happy possessor not only of a pretty facet but of the neatest ankle, and, " not to speak It profanely," best turned leg in the City of Churches. It is a fact difficult to account for, but still a fact, that everybody at Xo. S9, both male and female, tH9t»y«ri«d theperfection of Miss Rose's understanding. Indeed, it came to such a fearful pass that the persecuted Rose could not go up stairs but some impertinent wretch would lay in wait at the bottom to watch her. Thus her life became wretched and her ankles an abiding thorn In Rose's flesh. Naturally, feelings of resentment grew and rankled in her maiden besom. It was the misfortune of the plaintiff, Margaret Culley, to attract their direst effects upon her devoted head; for Miss Rose, seeing Margaret standing at the bottom of the stairs with what Margaret avers was a pleasant smile upon her face, but Miss Rose charged to have been a fiendish and malignant sneer, the said Rose did accelerate her pace to such a degree that she went up stairs three steps at a time, and finding a bucket of dirty water standing at the top, caught up the same and baptized Margaret with its malodorous and unblessed waters. Dripping like a water nymph, Margaret rushed to Justice Cornwall, and a persuasive M. P., plucking the blushing Rose from her modest bower, forcibly dragged her to the garish light of day and the publicity of a Police Court. The Rhadamanthus of the bench, understanding how a lady" could object to a male human's casting impertinent glances upon her understandings, but not how the eye of female curiosity could outrage her virgin modesty, or warrant the violent punishment of a two-story high showerbath with foul water, condemned the Rose to pay $2 50 for showing the thorns of anger in that way, and bade her either moderate her belligerent modesty for the future, or wear— pantaleU. In point of fact, it is getting dangerous to look at a young woman except in the most bashful and shame-faced way. All our Red Riding Hoods are on the lookout for wolves, and ready to "sick" a big dog on him first jump. The last scene of modesty that won't bear looking at came off Sunday week at the Pavilion, Long Branch, the scene of that last bit of sea-side fun I sent you. Miss Llllle Brown— it ought to be Lily White, but It ain't— sat down to dinner. Right over asainst her sat to fast young gents from the city. Miss Liilie, being fair to look upon, and of comely proportions, the young gents aforesaid sipped their win? and looked at she. The modest Liilie says they looked twii-'l as hard as any young gent ought to look at a female of the unmarried persuasion. So she turned to her brother-in-law, who sat beside her, and said : " That fellow's staring me out of countenance, and doing It on purpose to be saucy." Brother-in-law thereupon politely requested young gent to keep his eyes to himself, which young gent, name unknown, not doing lnstanter, brother-in-law mounted him. Young gent, however, not being ■ well broken, brother-in-law couldn't stay on, but was getting very badly whipped. Hereupon ex-Alderman Tom McSpcddon " firm of McSpeddun £ Baker— money-, frequent moneys, made by the same out of the "Public Record" index and publication swindle— took a hand in on the charming Lillie's side. ■ About this time the table at that famous house, ye Pavilion, kept by Thompson, Thompson the renowned, Thompson with a " p," presented much the same appearance that dinner tables used to did lv tine old Homeric days, or Scandinavian times of Vikings vlld. Much glass flew wildly about ; the tablecloth was rapidly becoming several somebody's winding sheet, Liilie was fainting, shrieks and adjurations, curses and cries prodigious rising from all parts of the hall; also, Tom McSpeddon was having as bad luck as brother-in-law Bob, and getting a holy dressing at the hands of the offending young gent with the gimlet eye. This could Mrs. Tom McSpeddon by no means brook nor bear, but seeing her liege lord go down before a scientific left-hander, she sprang into the melee and turned the tide of war. In fact, by the time Mrs. Me wheeled her heavy artillery into battery and unlimbertd, the neutrals rallied and separated the combatants. It is not thought that Miss Liilie or any of her friend* acted wisely, as the two young men spake never a word, and, in fact, did nothing but look at her In an admiring way. Then, again, my young friend James Gordon Bennett, Jr., has been getting fearfully massacred at the International Hotel, Niagara Falls. The ruction happened on 'ho 24th Instant. You will see a good deal said about it in your exchanges, which will be bosh and penny-a-liuing. Jeems, Jr., is home, lie »nd I have had a quiet talk over It, and tills Is his version of the melancholy and heart-rending affair: Mrs. 8., fatigued with travel, went to bed. James Gordon, Jr., and Billy Craig had a bottle of wine or no in James' room. It was lA. M. They continued thirsty. They rang the bell. Nobody answered. They went out into the hall. They saw a lantern. It was the watchman's. He said put it down. They sn\d" plutot mourir." Watchman was stubborn, anil they punched his head. Watchman was also an " ebony idol," or to say It more delicately, his face wore "the shadowy livery of the burnished sun;" in short, he was a negro. James Gordon, Jr., and Bob, having disposed of the watchman, and not being sleepy, went out 'a walking ! They walked over to " Goat Island," and cooled their fevered brows. But that was not the end on't, for the treacherous watchman had levied a colored army and lay In wait for them at the end of the suspension bridge. Bennett and Craig offered to settle the matter by fighting their two best men then and there at catch weight. The terras were accepted, and the negroes handsomely whipped In the shake of a cow's thumb. Upon this, however, the rest of the treacherous black scoundrels, about thirty in all, set on the two boys with sticks, stones and knives, and would have carbonadoed them in no time, but just then Aurora— rosy-fingered daughter of the — came along, and the noise attracted the attention of the workmen in the great paper mill there, and they came along with Aurora, and the life of Bennett, Jr., was saved, and the piratical bands of Ethiophia put to ignominious fli.ht. Bennett, Jr., Baron of Fulton street, and Prince of Washington Hights, swears he wasn't the least bit drunk — a little happy — which Is, no doubt, true. The next best thing "on Bnyder " Is the way Sally Conkery has been selling the nobs and the tradesmen for ten years past. Sally's mother was a respectable washerwoman In the Third avenue, but Sally had a soul above soapsuds, and early cut, with huge disdain and splendid confidence in her own resources, the washboard and the tub. Sarah was a "dark complected" young woman, not unlike Isabella Secunda in phyhique. She was, in fact, decidedly Spanish in geneial appearance. So, about ISSO or ISSI, she started to play a bold and large-sized confidence game, and she succeeded. She called herself Senora Donna Pedro, daughter of Don Pedro, King of Portugal, but obliged for reasons of State to abandon her native country and dwell incog. for a certain space beneath the stars and stripes. Now this woman was nothing but a miserable procuress, the filthUst kind of wretch, yet by talking of her intimacy with Belmont, the Costar?, Livingstons, John Van Buren, etc. she actually got " tick " for almost everything ; leased fine houses In the upper part and best part of the city, and rode in her carriage, stayed at grand hotels and made a splurge generally. Success, however, drove her a little wild, and she tried a confidence game which brought her within the statute of obtaining money under false pretences ; and although she had been living in that statute for ten years, yet in this case there was a man ill-natured enough to lock the door of it on her. I cite this case not as a strange one, but to show that there are just as many, fools in the world in the nineteenth century as there were when Adam was a little boy. Although the Prince of Wales will not be here till the 11th of October, the main intertst of all the sensation mongers Is centered In him. He won't have Mayor Wood's villa on the Bloomlngdale road, nor Mrs. Parrish's house, nor the Rev. Abbot's " Splngler Institute," with all the darling young lady pupils thrown in for ladles in waiting." Newcastle told Thompson that the Prince would like to go to a hotel, and pay his own way. In fact, he said they would all of them be infinitely obliged to the Americans if they would spare them the 1 fuss and flummery of their Canadian experience ; let them go quietly about, like private gentlemen, and see, Instead of Balls and military parades, schools and factories, and all that sort of real thing. Thompson had a good thing on them whilst he was there. It won't be told unless I tell it. Going into the room of Banks, correspondent of the London Times, he had just received a package of London papers, The package was directed to "N. H. Banks, Quebec, United States." Thompson slyly pocketed the wrapper, and next day the Duke of Newcastle gave him his chance to use it. Apropos to something that was said, Newcastle turned to Thompson, and said, "You've no idea of annexing Canada, I fancy." No," said T. , "that's not necessary, for I see by your highest non-official Information that It Is annexed already. Here, your Lordship will see, is the news fresh from the office of the London Times." And Thompson, with a p, drew out the wrapper and showed the same. There was a great laugh, and Lord Lyons asked 1 to have it, which, of course, could hardly be refused, though Thompson hated to give up that splendid specimen of geographic accurracy en the part of our English cousins. I Thompson says if there ever was anything funny to look at, it la the Canadian militia. He says they look like so many schoolboys playing soldier with broomsticks and paper caps. ' Whilst I write this, as I told you i think once before, 1 am In the condition of a man sitting in a grand orchestra with sixty-four different Instrument playing around him, for Thompson Is doing the Prince over to a gasping audience of professional folk ' and loafers of condition, and, confound their picters ! they choose my office for their rendezvous. Flora Temple and George M. Patchen's last trot over the Franklin Course, near Boston, is the great sporting event. - There was an Immense crowd, a pretty fair trot, and square bet.lng. The little . bay mare won-Ume 5.001/ 2-2 Sir 2 2SV 2:2S#— which isn't up. to the notch. The Boston folk say that the Franklin Course is at least four seconds slower than the Union, Long VtiuJ^: That reminds me, however, that although flora

has had the better of Patchen, the Patchen stock Is all the rage now as trotting stock. Ching Foo has got a Black Hawk and Flying Childers mare that belongs to another man. because Ching Foo can't afford to keep auythlu" that shows 2:83 to a wagon with two fellows in It on the road, and last Sunday the profane rascal took a turn all through th» lower part of Westchester county, visiting the great training stables there and breeding places 'specially Morris*, Monnot's and Buthgate'it. At Bathgate's he nw three of the prettiest Patchen stallions Imaginable, " New Jersey," three year old sorrel, being the loveliest. Bathgate is getting them in prime order to show next month at the Springfield Fair. One thing about his stables interested me more than anything else, and that was Patchen's original owner— once a sporting man of celebrity, now Bathgate's head groom ana trainer. He Is a gray- haired, wiry fellow yet, although he was one of the men who rode Eclipse. In the tlstic branch of sporting we have had a lively fortnight Dan Kerrigan whipped Australian Kelly— or rather, won the fight by a " foul ;" and Jim Kelly says he's ready to fight him over for any amount Inside of #5,000. Two or three more parties have tried it on In this vicinity ; amongst the rest, David and Mike O'Niel, for $300 a side, at Red Hook Point. They went in lively for two or three rounds, but the M. P.'s lighted on them and spoiled the fun. Next month, on or about the L'lst, Johnny Roach and Johnny McGladeare going to hammer one another. Harry Lazarus has also challenged Jimmy Fagan, of St. Louis. It is reported today, also, that Morrls3ey means to fight Heenan. I don't believe it. Morrisey has had a sweet little tiger on exhibition at Saratoga all Summer, and come out about $00,000 better than he began, which is a more lucrative trade than prize fighting. Besides, on Saturday 1 saw Heenan, and he said nothing about it. Did you ever hear of Jim Turner? The same man who flourished in California a Icttle, and had a hand in the Poole murder at Lafayette Hall here. Well, on Thursday he did I.l* best to murder Edward Leonard, and succeeded in putting him in a dangerous state. Jeems is In the Toombs, and nobody has balled him yet— but they will ; that kind of man is too useful about election time to be allowed to rest In Inglorious ease. The real sensation of the hour, however, U the old " Atlantic Garden," opposite the Bowling Green. The Hudson River Railroad having purchased 11 for a freight depot, and began to dig, came suddenly upon a series of subterranean passages and apartments. In the apartments are revolutionary relics; chains, and a skeleton. The underground rooms were evidently used 'by tiie" patriots"" 67 *•*' meeting places, during the British occupation of New York, and the main passage led underground to what was then the bank of the North river. The discovery of this curious place explains Washington's directions to Chassis, with respect to taking Benedict Arnold out of the old Government House (now Washington Hotel), facing the Battery, and adjoining the Gardens, and conveying him across the North river. The Hudson River Railroad people are doing their beet to cover the thing up, and keep the crowd off, as it interferes with their building; but public curiosity is getting up to boiling heal, and I shouldn't wonder If the crowd were to make a spade and pick-ax rush, and rip the whole square up ; 1 wish they would, for we have never had as interesting a discovery In my time In the city, and the railroad people act churlishly about it.

The opening of Chambers street goes ahead In a lively way. Of large buildings, none of importance are under way, trblcb I have Dot noticed, except Tompklns Market, on Third avenue, opposite the Cooper Institute. This It finished — alt iron — one of the Guest buildings in the city, and by special ordinance the upper stories are d'niiled to the Seventh Regiment; alt the boys of which, by the way, are drilling tremendously, In order to show the Prince of Wales what's what. A gentleman at my eibo», who was in Europe five years since, and saw Louis Nap parade sixty -live thousand to welcome U'leen Vie j also aaw Ibc E:i;jiLili, Prussian and Russian crack regiments, .1 a cars tha*. there is not in any of those services ■ regiment that can hold a candle to the Seventh. We are going to do the reaily hospitable, too, to ttraogen, and have a new county jail in place of the old Eld idge street. It is to be about ninety (eet square, standing on Ludlow street and K-se.\ Market place, and handsomely built of PhilHdelphia brick, with forty nine comfortable cells for " foreign debters." Politics are fishy, but come identically to what 1 predicted months since. The coalition iv New York of all the conservative elements against Lincoln ia a fixed fact, and the ciiances that the coalition ticket carries the State by ten thousand. This it is thought by the wise ones, finishes Lincoln, aud, in my opinion, gives Bell aud Everett a big chance for the first innings I shall know better by the 20th, and if I say anything particularly saucy about that time you may bet any kind of h pile on it.

The firemen have got the Zouave fever, and are drilling t • ilardee and gymnastic*. Numerous others are bll with that uiJtrtia' phrenzy. Going up Broadway, on Friday evening, I saw, through the windows, in three different places, a number of insane yuuthsin their shirt sleeves, will, muskets in their hands, dancing about like peas on a grlddta, and plunging wildly at the walls. We'll- :i Ki'eiit people. TliiutrloalH ure gorgeoU3ly lively. Professor Anderson has been doing a good business at the Winter Garden. Five years ago, happening into the Adelphl, London, Pilgarlic heaid the Professor bully-rag this country awlully. He said every third man here was a Spiritualist, and that we were a nation of lunatics; that he was in New York three years before (ISSI-2), and it had got to such v pBM that Mayor Woodhult scut for him and employed him to investigate the subject and try and bring the ckizeus of New York back to reason. The other night he gave a spread in the green-room, and made a speech, in which he reverently thanked God for making lam " one of the greatest men that ever lived" .' .' There is a good theatrical story about Miss Harriet Secor. She is as beautiful as woman well can be, and was the wife of Harry Watkins. Watkins took up with Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Hoe.\'s sister, and has gone to England with her. Mrs. Watkins got n divorce and II now pretty Harriet Se. % or. When she was playinc J#es Tbibodeanx, in the "Octoroon," a wealthy planter, Colonel ('act, but 1 hold it not honest to name him yet), saw her and fell in love with her because she was the i::;;ipe of his son ! The Colonel went to Paris, came back this Summer, saw her again in petticoats, and fell in lotb with her again because she was the image of his dear departed wife. The Colonel has laid no end of plantations and octoroons — red ones — at Harriet's mlgnonne feet, but is not yet accepted. But she can't stand that sort of thing, you know. She must come down. Mrs. Wood has finished at Laura Keene's, and saiN for Europe on the Vith. tu ptajf at the Hayinarket. Dull (Crook A- Duff, HjallllialHllll), Joe Jefferson and Mrs. Wood went into the sHi.l Bummer season just finished and divide 124,000 net profit on a three months' season. Jane Ooombt has been playing the " Wife's Secret" at WaDack'l to a line business. Wallack open* hU regular season about the 16th. George Wood, who married Eliza LogUl, has turned the Old Bowery into one of the handsomest theaters in the city— using the old wallH and setting up the whole interior iv modern style. Tilton is his le iding man ; Kite Denin Ryan, leading lady, and Mrs. Leightm, the wonderful laugher-soubrette. At the New Bowery they have out the "Siege of Palmyra," gorgeously got up to meet the enemy. The Circus han^s on at Nib'.o's a fortnight yet, and then Forrest opens. .le is playing now at Baltimore Jackson — Old Black Jai'ksen of the Bowery, and father of Mrs. Davenport Matthews — and Stewart commence their regular season ;it the Winter Garden next Monday, opening with Mr. and Mrs Barney Williams, to be followed by Kdwin Booth, Charlotte Cushinan, etc. The Academy of Music opens tii-nlght with Patti in " Somnambula." All the troupes have joined, and we have tat prlina donnas, Patti, Cortt.'si, Ooiaon, Fabbri, Frezzolini, and no end of tenors ; also, Formes and Tamberlik. Everything indicates that the season is going to be one of unexampled success and expansion In trade, and of head over heels frantic gaiety and dissipation. By my next I shall be able to tell you all the Inside arrangements about the Prince, etc." CHING FOO.

The Placervillk Kui it. — A correspondent of the Union, writing from Placerville, September 80th, says :

As all matters connected with the route to Washoe must be of interest to your readers, a large portion of whom have, doubtless, interests connected therewith, I beg to inform you that a new und very important road, having the effect of saving eleven miles of travel and of a grade nearly as level as your streets, is now in the course of formation, the greater portion being already finished, and will be opened for pack trains in about six weeks from October 1st — for wagons, by about December Ist. This road, thirteen miles in length, will connect with the old road near the Junction House, about fifteen miles trom Placer vi He, terminating at Dick's Flat. Tiie length of the present road from the samtt point is twenty-five miles of a most difficult character. Eleven miles of travel will thus be saved and a difficult road obviated; and as it is the intention of the proprietor, Mr. Ogilby, to make and keep it in perfect order, so that it bhail be second to no road in the State, it must, when known, be a preferred road by the traveling public.

Passexgebs for California. — The following named passengers sailed from New York in the Ariel, September Ist, bound for California. The correspondent of the Bulletin says the whole number of passengers was 300. The following are in the cabin :

T A White and chill, T A White, 8. G Miller, Mrs L A Thornns, Mrs J B Roberts, J B Roberts, Mrs G SUad, Dr A P lUyne and family, Miss T L Russum and sister, E W McKinstry. II Costevansti, P Morrill and family, H W P.rown.C Harris, J Cenry, Mr* A Woods and child, Col W II F.morv, J Knlcheloe, L Wertheimer, W T Thomas and f.imily, Miss A X MrCrory, Miss 3 McCrory, S M Mills. J Ish and wife, C Stewart and wife, Miss SI Smith, A I Smith, Rev. P I Hyland and child, J E Bouse and wife, Mrs Keed and child, G A Jasper, II Johnson, M HanU, J II Haste and family, Mrs A H Brooks, O Lawton, W II Young, C J Woodward and wife, E Robinson, II J Crampton, J. 8. Bowman, Rev Mr Neri.

Robbert at Alpha. — A young man named Isaac Floyd was robbed at Alpha, soys the Sevada Journal, on Tuesday ni^ht, September ISth, of HIS, all be had. He was under the effect of medicine at the time the money was taken from under his pillow.

Rowdyism at Y.«EA.-WhiU a man named Isaacs was addressing a Republican meeting on the night of September IMh, some rowdies threw stones into the crowd, knocking down Dr. Reins and breaking another man's arm, besides injuring several others.

Lime in Plumas.— The Plumcu Standard, published at yuiuey, saya: "In sight of our door as good Itnie ia made as anywhere in the world, and, if need be, Plumaa can furniah the State with that article."