The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-31
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Rhs Cninsae Embassy-Ths Trials OF
Corrsspondsnt-Emig


NEW YORK, July l.
Mr.: Burlingsme and the Chinese Embassy
have again taken up their quarters at the West
minister Hotel, where they will remain quiet
until Monday next, when they will leave the
city for Auburn, by invitation Of Secretary sew
ard The gentlemen of the embassy are mucn
fatipued from constant travel and excitement
and propose taking a rest between TINS SUI
Monday. On their departure for Auburn they
will take the day boat up the Hudson rivef' III
order to obtain view of the splendid scenery
They will 90 to Niagara Falls from Auourn' auu
from thence to Saratoga and Lake Seorge'
They will then proceed to Boston, Where ,ne
distinguished visitors will pay quite leng'nF
visit. From Boston they will return again 10
4his citv. and remsin until they take their ue-
porture for Europe, which will be about the ISL
OF September. IT.,
sinoular instance of the trials to which
Now york correspondents are sometimes SUD-
iecs, came before the Fifty-seventh street Police
Court Yesterday, where merchant doing busr
ness in South street was held to bail to answer
10 n charge of assault and battery preferred
against him by young uptown physician. IL
seems that the Doctor, in his correspondence
for Boston paper, had alluded 10 several MEM
bers of the late Athen@um Club. The defendant
took umbrage at certain expressions used In the
Doctors letter, and especially to an Imaginary
dialogue which mentioned one Angelica.
Thinking the paragraph had reference to his own
affairs, and ascertainng who the author was, he
proceeded to the Doctors office, and without
either making or demanding q satisfactory ex
plapation, assaulted him. Before the commits
sion of the assault, according to the Doctors
account, the other man had been assured by
gentleman authorized to make the statement,
that the letter in question had not the most
distant reference to him. The plaintiff denies
that e had ever known of the existence of such
parties as the defendant or Angelica" The
Judicial tribunals will now be called upon to
determine whether the word "Angelica," used
as q synonym for "Dulcinea'' or sweetheart
is 10 be barred henceforth, in American ltera-
ture, except by special permit of an individual
The Commissioners of Emigration have given
TO the public the following interesting state
ment, showing the remarkably effective charac-
1er of the new institution-the Labor Elk.
change. The report is for the half year ending
July l:-From January l to July the Labor
Exchange procured employment for IL, 95l eml-
grants, to wit: I'LL males, 5S40 females. OF the
males, 1850 were mechanics; 593l agricultural
and common laborers; of the females, 294 were
skilled laborers, (seamstresses, cooks,
laundresses, etc), and 5546 were COM
mon house servants. OF the emigrauts
employed by the instrumentality of this lnstitu-
tion, 9425 could read and write; to wit: $685.
males, 1890 females; 1926 could not read or
write to wit: 1476 males, 2O5O females. Among
these emlgrants provided with employment were
254 entire families, comprising I'll persons.
These emigrants found EN- 3loyment in the fol-
lowing States Territories, and Dominions:-