G. W.'s Correspondent adds:—

"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."