uch in Mephisto, but every one
else is better than before. The house is not gay--it misses many of
its old habitues. Five empty boxes in a row tell of the financial
troubles. It was the fashion to laugh at the Wall street men, but they
gave gayety and life and movement up town as well as down town. Many
of those whose names are recorded on the wrong side of the list were
our most generous givers and most amiable hosts. Their misfortunes
cause nothing but regrets.

The races at first felt the effects of the panic, but the crowd on
Saturday, the 11th of October, was immense. Somebody must get the
money that everybody loses; therefore somebody can still afford to go
to the races, and the last day was also very full. Two drags set the
English example of having the horses taken off and dining on the top
of the coach. The notes of a key-bugle from one of them seemed to
suggest Mr. Bob Sawyer and Mr. Ben Allen; but whether those young
gentlemen were of the party or not I did not hear. With our delicious
sky, and particularly this golden autumn, there seems to be no reason
why we should not adopt the fashions of Chantilly and Ascot. We are,
however, a gregarious people, and the tendency is to gather together
under the protection of the grand stand.

Poor Maretzek is always the first to go, and it is understood that
his opera is among the great unpaid. Every one is sorry for the poor
singers, always excepting Lucca, whose jealousy of Nilsson is so
aggressive that she has declared that she would sing her off the
boards of the Academy of Music. _She_ is driven like a bad angel out
of Paradise, while the starry Nilsson in magnificent triumph sings
on superbly to constantly increasing houses at the Academy, and is
lunched and feted to her heart's content.

The Evangelical Alliance has gone, and left behind it nothing but
animosities. It was really a vast movement of the Presbyterian Church:
Geneva and Calvin were the exclusive proprietors. Episcopalians,
Unitarians and Baptists, Methodists and Universalists, were requested
to stand aside. The communions were always at some Presbyterian
church. Perhaps _they_ thought the Episcopal Church exclusive, as some
one said an Englishman carried his pride into his prayers, and said,
"O Lord, I do most _haughtily_ beseech thee," and that the Unitarians
felt "that any man who had been born in Boston did not see the
necessity of being born again."

Every one is extremely well dressed, in sp