The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-12-31

A DEAD LErrEH FRoM LIVE GENRHAL.-A
few days sirce a letter was found n tho Dead
Lcuer Bureau of the Post Onlre Department
which bad been addressed 20 General Shctmau
and had cen deposited in the mail for rcturn TO
the writer, endorsed by the General. The letter
was simply petition tor permission to establish
raper 90 Atlanta, aud Was signed by large
number Of prominent and influential individuals.
Upon receipt Of y, General Sherman endorsed 10
somewhat as follows THE present is not suit
able time for printing newspapers In Atlanta;
therefore, the permission you ask Is hereby re-
iu'td. ] have more applications from men Who
went a. publish newspapers than 1 have from
those who want 90 light"
TUr WrAL1RtE.T MAN-lN ANNUAL Tvcour
OF 10000 uO.-Ai tEuudor T.. Stewart, the dry
Ptous naUOO Of New York, has the largest i'm.
como OF any man IN America, or tprob lhly) In
he world. He has lately paid an income tax Of
A23ONUUl ON net income Of free million dollars
This would be the interest at six per cent, of
over eighty millions. We know OF no cases
an Ong the ", alAy men OF England that sur
passes OF equals thisi and va suppose A. I.
Stewart is The "r.,hest man" living.
Mr Stewards annual business is thirty millions
and his profits, as appears by his tax, are five
millions o. year. He owns fourteen millions In
real estate. Moses Iay lor, who pays taxes on an
income Of ~TNO00O, can scarcely be called
wealthy man in comparison with Mr.. Stewart.
What vast amouNt Of good might be done
with such an income as Stewards !-HavfOyd
Tunes.
A PRETTY MOVER IN SAxoNY.-At Dresden
saw tue Sstiue Madonna with ineXpressible de-
light but saw another sight not quite SO pOeti.
cal and ideal yet still 20 be looked upon with in
| t,rest and pleasure. One day ! was walking
| lhltugh the public square to the picture gallery
| l happened to notice q woman moving
| stoppcd, SIT down, and looked at her for half an
| lOur She was apparently two or three and
| twenty. Her head was finely formed, aud set
| firmly on her shoulders. Her hair was neatly
braided round it her features were regular; com
/ Dl ~,
| vigorous, well-rOuuted like that Of DOrothca in
| CUthes poem. From her ears hung golden car
| rings She wore brighrcOlored .petticoit
reaching little below the knees her legs were
hare, and her feet encaSCd in embroidered shoes.
| She was the picture Of health and robust beauty.
| She swung the sCyth with an inimtabe ease
! and grace and, as she did so, there was placid
expression on her pleasant couneuauce, which
| spoke OF good consc Cnce, cOntented spirit,
and willingness 10 do the work which her des-
! tiny pointed out. l examined the swaths; the
grass WIS cut as smooth as yeyet-yuu could not
| tell where one swath ended and the next began
| An English lawn Looked no smoother. IL was
work Of art, high art; and an American farmer
| might have taken useful lesson. / wish could
| have taken her portrait as she stood before me-
! Professor FELTON,.
| BRAIN WORK AND LoNGEv1TY.-The philoso-
| piers ought TO have length Of days for their por-
| tioD, seeing how their pursuits ought to elevate
| them above the disturbances Of life. And such
| 49, in fact, the operation of life by which their
| lhNullCb are luTUlsueu WlJn constant eQterElln-
ments on subjects which would seem 20 lie out
side the range Of uneasy passions while creating
or exciting the noh st moral emotion. An unu-
sual amount of health and longevity is, in fact,
| found among hilOsOphers-whether mathema-
ticans, naturalists, or speculative students.
such things have been heard Of strife in these
serene fields of thought; such sights have been
seen as faces furrOwed with fretfulncss or
working with passion but the old age Of many
philosophers is, at this moment, IN honor to their
vocation.
Peter Barlow was, when he lately died at 80
the same Peter Barlow that he had oeen TO two
generations of friends and disciples. Sir David
Brewster is still occHpiCd at the same age. The
late Mr.. Tooke did not puzzle his brain about the
currency too much to be still up to the subject at
Sc. Sir RoderiCk MurChson is past 70 and so is
Sir John Herschel Literature ought to have the
same operation as science; but it seems 10 have
more room for agitaliOns and anXieties, except in
the case of authors who live in and with their
works, exempt from self regard Jacob Grimm
was very perfect example Of the phosOphic
serenity which literary career can yield, and he
lived TO rs.
There is something remarkable in the longevity
OF literary women in modern times, even if we
look not beyond our own country. Mrs. PiOzzi
and Mrs. Delaney perhaps scarcely enter within
tie conditions; and the still lamented Jane
Austin was under early doom from consump-
tiun; but Miss EdgewOrth was above so when she
died Joanna and Agnes Baile were older still;
and Mrs. TrOllOpe died the other day at 81 The
artists who have departed lately have been old
Blot, who was 81, and Yernet "A. Our Mulready
was 76, and Cockerell, the architect was b.
OnCe.G- Week.