"I receive your 'Notes' regularly. The story about Katy Hayes in your
November Number, p. 88, is somewhat embellished by '_your New York
Special Reporter_.' I regret to tell you that she, poor girl, has quite
_put her foot in it_ here, and I am afraid will return poorer than
when she came. She or her agent or agents, pursued a silly course by,
_it is said_, keeping almost open house to her countrymen at the Astor
house, a very expensive hotel, where she ran up an enormous bill, and
being unable to pay, the sheriff's officers carried off the receipts
at some of her concerts--particularly that which she gave for that
humbug hypocrite Father Mathew. There has been a great deal about it in
our papers. Doctor Joy returned to England some time ago in disgust.
Mathew absolutely had the temerity to make it appear that he could work
miracles, _publicly_, in the face of a large Catholic congregation, by
restoring the sick and lame to health!"
ETHNOLOGY.--"G.W.'s New York Special Reporter," whose embellished style
has been questioned in the preceding paragraph, states, that he has
forwarded a pamphlet, for which he will be duly thanked when it is
received, "giving an account of a _pretended_ journey to the city of
Eximaya, in Central America, by an Englishman and two Spaniards, who
are all 'gone dead.'" Observing that, "It is a good Arabian Night's
hoax. You will see," he remarks, "the pamphlet is dated 1850, but the
children have only been exhibited here this week. There is _no mistake_
about them, they are evidently children of a distinct and unknown
race, come from whence they will. The recession of their foreheads
is extraordinary. Their heads are wonderfully small, and in exact
proportion to their bodies and limbs. They are not dwarfs but pigmies;
about twelve years of age, lively and playful. They are not at Barnum's
Museum, but at the rooms of the Society Library, and are exciting very
great attention."