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WASTED SYMPATHY.-Some2 2 or 3 years since,


when the rage of speculation was at it's height,
and property had advanced far beyond its intrinsic
value, z. Slgourney, Esq, we suppose we must
give him the title he claims on account of his
wealth, but with us more on account of his gifted
LADY, sold his residence for $22, 900, probably
four times its real, or before supposed value. The
purchasers advertised it for sale, as the former re-
sldence Of Mrs. Sigourney, unhandsomely draw
ing upon public sympathy for the supposed mis-
fortunes which had reduced her to the necessity
of parting with her beautiful residence, unto which
1t was well known she was very much attached.
The editors of papers generally fell into the trap
SO artully spread for them, and which her hus-
band allowed to go uncontradcted, until at length
his pride of purse becoming offended, he has come
out with attack upon the editors in the indie
cent manner contained in his letter to N. P. Willis,
which we give below in paragraphs, as more con-
venlent for the purposes of comment:


.. From the N. Y. Mirror.


TO N. P. Willis, Esq.


DEAR SRA friend has pointed out to me an
article in late New York Mirror from YOUR
pen, to recognize which, has usually afforded me
pleasure, in which my name is used, and the cir
ofmy family adverted to, in manner
which, not being true, can hardly be agreeable
Unluckily for me, it has been somewhat of a FASH
ion OF late, with some gentlemen of the quill,
whose chief ambition is to pen pungent para
graph, no matter whether true or not, to furnish
the empty head something to wonder at, and whose
wit runs ahead of their judgment, to make frequent
illusions to me and my family, in connection with
the sale Of a certain estate in this place which
formerly owned"


AS to Mr.. Sgourney, we do no not think that
any editor of paper, however obscure, would
have thought him worthy of passing mention,
and it has only been his connexon with lydia
Huntley which elevated him into something like
public notice, as the husband of this talented and
accomplished lady, who honored and conferred
distinction upon him by giving him her hand
His claim to distinction, reminds us of these old
lines;