The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-13
NEW YORKLSMS.
Prom o,~ own Correspondent.

NBy YORK, Oct. 13, 1868.
An unfortunate gentleman, who has been so
assiduously employed in teaching the young
idea how to shoot that he seems to have had
very few shafts of intelligence left in his own
quiver has just been swindled by that old, old
operation known as the confidence game. The
unfortunate gentleman is Michigan school
master, and though there is no objection to the
schoolmaster being abroad lis that not supposed
TO be his social condition at presently, yet it
would be convenient if he were always to carry
his wits abroad with him. The prairie
Tedagogue in question, finding his health gone,
was on route for California in quest of it. On
his way he stopped in this city. and while
securing passage in the Ocean Queen, at the
foot of Canal street, accepted acquaintsnceship
with confidence man, whose mug IS well
known to students OF the Rogues gallery at the
Central Station. The school teacher has In his
possession several hundreds of dollars, nearly
$500 of which he was persuaded to lend to the
confidence operator and friend, until they found
time to repair to bank and get cashed $1,000
Government bond they held That even
Western schoolmaster could be found so credu-
lous seems an anomaly. One of the swindlers
has since been caught and entombed in that
Egyptian.lke edi6ce presided over by Justice
Bowling, and such friends as the moneyless
Mentor has here are getting up subscription
to prevent his falling into the hands of the
Ishmaelites, and to further him ou his voyage
TO Calit ornia.
Sunday afternoons along Fifth avenue are
like Arch and Pine andWalnut streets, in Pha-
dephia, emptied into one, and full of church
goers. At sight of the innumerable toilets and
equipages, the first question one would ask
might be, Is Religion the fashion, or is Fashion
the religion? Yes, these churchgoing dresses
are as costly and magnificent in their way as
those of the ballroom and the opera, and as
much tinesse is shown in the toilet of the pew as
in that of the party. If the Virgin Mary were a
sort of apotheosized Eugene, she could not
snuff up more bewildering incense of fashion
than that offered to her in many Catholic and
Episcopal church here. / love the sight of
these exquisitely dressed deuotees. They are
constant to one thing and that is the religion
of dress. On the single commandment of
''Dress as well as thy neighbor and as much bet
ter as thou canst," hang all the law and the
prophets. They have nothing to be forgiven,
because, in the whole course of their lives, 1t
has not happened that they were addressed.
The hands were perfectly gloved where with
they raised the cup OF communion to their lips,
and at the hour of confirmation their hair elabo-
rately enough dressed 10 feel the consecrating
touch of any bishop in the world. Taking
them altogether then, like the aspect of these
elegantly-dressed sinners, articularly since the
Grecian Bend is the mode in which the Miss
Hardcastles" of the present day stoop to
conquer.
Apropos of church going, there is no truth in
the rumor that Grace Church, whose spire is
visible from the southern extremity of Broad
way is to be sold for 5000, 900. 1t is not to be
sold al all, though If it were the lots on which
it stands would easily bring that price. Though
rather too low down to ful y maintain its past
prestige of being The fashionable church of the
city, its location is not Unsatisfactory to its pre-
sent congregation. Some of the best singing in
New York is to be heard and some of the most
sumptuous toilettes are to be seen within its
walls, and many a time and Oft is the immortal
Bro wn-who has become historical as a sexton
to seen be summing himself on the front stoop.
When Brown dies, / hope he will be buried In one
of the new resurrection collins, for want him to
have every possible chance of coming back, and
continuing to install princes and pGrUenus in
one another's good graces.
An indignation meeting has been held at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, expressive of the
dissatisfaction of the citizens with the behavior
of the supervisors of Kings county in the
unfair appointment Of inspectors and cauvassers
of registry and election. 1t seems that IN a few
wards the Board had made fair appointments,
but that In the vast majority, especially in those
IN winch the most anxious scrutiny was neces-
sary, 1t had made the appointments all one way,
Woods Theatre has set the example Of reform
in regard to tie ticket nuisance. There, at
least, entrance to the lobbes is not rendered
hazardous by speculators who thrust their
tickets In your face. All the theatres along
Broadway are subject to this nuisance Woods
Theatre has likewise abolished the system of
return checks, so that theatre-goers who at the
close of each act think it is long while be.
tween drinks, have nothing to do but endare
their perception of that truth.
Mr.. Forrest was received last night by an
audience of respectable size aud enthusiasm.
He enacted "King Lear" Being seXagenarian
himself, and by no means so young as he used
to be, it is quite unnecessary for him to take
such elaborate pains in an aged makeup. In
the little l saw of the performance l could
detect no decline of genius. But since Lear
is not precisely youthful character, physical
strength and energy had no need to be simu
lated. Messrs. George II. Clarke and F. Nor
daunt, of Chestnut Street Theatre memory, were
respectively the Edgar" and Edmond" OF the
occasion.
Madame (or Madamoiselle) Desclauzas is evi
IDENTIFY getting nervous at being withheld from
public gaze, and Mr.. Grau has therefore pub
lished a remarkable statement, the gist of whic
Is, that the Grdnde Duchesse OF Rose Bell is I,
be Withdrawn in the height of its success, il
order to please Madame Desclauzas, whose con