The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-27
NEW YORKLSMS.

Tammany HaII-Fenian Row IN the
BOwery-A SboaI OF CeIebrities-Lpst
Woek's ImpOrtatiOns-rbe New Stein-
way HaII-ReiO Oicings of the "Advent-
1sts'-A winter Garden Palace Esca-
pade-Briclk POmerOy's "DemOcrat"-
Thirty Years. Confidence Operators
The Rosenberg naturalization Frauds,
Etc. Etc.
From Our OOn Correspondent.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 1868
THB ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
OF the John Street Methodist Episcopal Church
was celebrated on Sunday.
The occasion was interesting because the
church is the frst one established by the
Methodists in this country, the building being
dedicated October 80, 176S, Just 100 years ago.
and called "Wcsley Chapel" "Wesleys clock'
is still in the lectureToom OF the present church,
and is said to keep good time. Sundays services
commenced with love-least at A. NJ, and the
relation of religious experiences and Bishop
James preached the centennial sermon from the
9th and 9Th verses Of the 26th Psalm. The book
from which the Bishop read his text was printed
in 18ll. Everything was antique, solid, time
beaten and the principal speakers showed
enough good Methodist breath to last for hun.
dred years more.
AT GRACE CHURCH
congregation, whose members Mr.. Beecher
stigmatizes as sending their cards to one
another through their footmen, was fuller than
ever.
The divine on whom the act of conservation
was performed is Rev. DR.. Charles Franklin
Robertson, $. I. d., elected Bishop Of tle
Diocese of Missouri last September.
The ceremonies commenced at half-past ten,
and were not over until nearly two SO that
ritualsm had fair show.
PUBLIC POLITICAL DEBATE
took place last night between DR.. Frederick
Schatz and MIR. Oswald Ottcndsrfer, at Tam
many Hall.
schatz, who is a candidate for elector on the
Republican ticket, gave the challenge, and
Ottendorfer, the Democratic candidate for the
same Office, accepted 1t.
Each of them had three quarters OF an hour
allowed him to open his argument in, and half
an hour to close it.
6chstz' points, which he made good were that
th present Democracy is a spurious one; that
its leaders are guilty OF having instigated, aided,
and abetted the Rebellion, and are responsible
for the civil war; and that they have again made
their party tool OF the Southern aristocracy.
Ar.w occurred on Saturday evening at a
FENIAN MEETING
held In Military Hall, in the Bowery.
The supporters of George Francis Train for
member ofCongress from the Fifth district we're
listening to an ad lress by Fenian head-centre.
Walsh by name. In the midst Of an eloquent
peroration the alarm was raised that two British
spies were in the loom.
Two luckless men, who happened to be
pointed at as the spies in question. were seized,
and would probably have been beaten TO death
had
refuge in a store, where they were rescued by
the poa:Ce.
1t is rumored that we are soon to suffer from
an invasion OF
ACTORS, AUTHORS, AND scULPToRs,
among whom are mentioned Charles Rea1e,
Miss Braddon, Charlotte Cushman, Miss Emma
Stebb!ns, Hans Christian ndersen, Anthony
Trollope, Max Muller, and Miss Hosmer These
four couple would pair nicely together, though
whether they are all coming in bunch or not
rumor doth not as yet commit herself by saying.
Last week the
IMPoRTATIoNs
at this port amounted to one and half millions
of dollars.
An Irishman named Kerrigan has been
amusing himself with
SETTING HIS WIFE ON FIRE,
from the effects of which she died on Sunday a
the New York Hospital
For long time they had been leading dis
satisfactory and dlstempered life together, and
so he finally determined to wind up the bushes
on Saturday night while he was drunk and she
not much better.
His business will probably be wound up
soon as he appears before the Grand Jury.
THE RECONSTRUCTED sTEINwAY HALL
was formally opened on Saturday night Theo-
dore Thomas grand orchestra performing toge.
ther with Madame La Grange.
This lady is beginning to be snubbed by the
critics here.
her first appearance after the lapse of bakers
dozen of years, but no W they discover that she
is all culture and no voice.
A delight surprise during the evening was
the FIST appearanceof of
MRS. SCOTT sDDoNs
who had not been expected to debut until las
night. 1t appears, however, that she had yielded
to the solicitations of Mr.. Steinway, and con-
sented to appear in the interval between the two
parts of the concert. She is lovely, poetic
looking lady, with an abundance of dark hail
falling heavily on slender shoulders, and ;
pleasing, gentle intellectual face.
Her voice is bell-clear and piano sweet. Sh
Is q gentle tragedienne rather than great
one, for she was too soft Lady Macbeth (sh
read the sleep-walking scene), and she wa
pretty near perfection in Tennyson's "Ma.
Queen"
She NAV become the fashion here for las