The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-18
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Only few weeks more will elapse petore the
Persons, fresh returned from the watering
places, will have selected for their opening dis
courses the standard text OF the harvest being
past, the summer ended, aud goddess congrega-
lions not saved. And, indeed, the regularity with
which the churches and the theatres are stimuli
taneously closed for the summer season, AMI
reopened for the fail and winter, seems fairly
10 challenge criticism by no means iattering
TO the pious zeal of the preachers. Notwith-
standing the amazing number OF churches which
Brooklyn possesses, the stayer-at-home would
be puzzled to find more than two or three of his
favorte ones open. But then til o question arises,
have not the preachers as good a right as the
players, or the merchants, or the lawyers, or
the politicians, or the people, in any other
branch of business, to feel the need of
= watering. place reposeR And where is
the use OF their remaining in the city
TO preach when all the pew-payers
have gone to the country Depend upon it the
spectacle of an empty house acts as deprcss-
ingly upon the preacher who worships God as
upon the player who worshIps mammon. The
pulpit and the stage are the two extremes which
meet in the capabilities they afford their mem.
bers for passing many weeks OF every year out
of town; and if other professions offered the
same advantages, as many lawyers, physicians,
politicians, and business men would be found
throDging the wateringplaces between July
and October as there are at present players,
preachers, and military and naval heroes. Iu
fact, such religion as exists in the fashionable
churches of this city, whose congregations can
afford to send their pastors to Europe to get rid
OF bronchitis, or whose pastors can afford to
send themselves there, can be supported quite
as well at Long Branch, Saratoga, and Cape
May as in the consecraed houses that beautify
Broadway and Fifth avenue, or the hundred
brownstone purlieus of piety which render
Brooklyn so nominallY religious city. The
average religious interest here of wealthy con-
gregations will suffer no diminution after the
gaities of the waning watering-place season are
over; though doubt whether this admission
says much for the magnitude of the average
religious interest
The Herald has lately got into en- amusing
quarrel with DR.. Swinburne the Health Officer
at Quarantine. The alleged cause is DR.. Swil-
burne's attempt to deprive the Herald function.
aries of the opportunity of publishing the ar.
rivals at this port in advance of other news
papers, and the Herd has consequently created
. new department for its columns, entitled
Quarantine Operations" whose object Is to
sprinkle personal abuse upon DR.. Swinburne's
devoted head. Correspondence from Custom
House officers, shipownsrs, and longshoremen,
institutes certain inquiries which hint at things
not perfectly consistent with the Health Officers
fair fame, and the ready -witted and malicious
cunning of the Herald is at no fault in picking
holes wLere its own failure presents such an
ample motive for it to do so. Its last statement
is that if the captain of a vessel in Quarantine
will consent to use DR.. SWinburne's tug, she can
get out at any time but that if an outside boat
is desired, the chances of getting away are ex-
tennyely slim. 1t Is stated that The tugs are in
the employ OF the officer, who is alleged to col
lect $40 on brigs, and $50 on barques, paying
out meanw while only $40 for the one, and from
$50 to $35 on the other. AS all the world is
familiar, no wever with the Heraids ingenious
aptitude for revenge, there 10 but one opinion as
TO no Y the case stands between the salubrious
official at Quarantine, and the remorseless octo-
genariau of the H,ra'd office, whose physical
and moral strablsmus balance each other.
All the world is likewise acquainted with an
other feature of that bsneful newspaper healed
'Personals," to which the first prominence has,
for the last few months, been given. Occupying
the upper lett hand corner of the first page it Is
he unfods the damp sheet previous to imbiblug
theretrom his mental matutinal bitters. Ho v
much OF the scurf and scum of staggering and
reckless city life is compressed into these daily
"stickfus' will not undertake to decide; but a
reader has no occasion for more than an ordi
nary knowledge of the world TO perceive that an
excuse and opportunity for all grades OF venslity
and meretrciousness are given, from the in vita
ton which presses reply 10 certain initials to
a certain place, to the garing advertisements
about "beautiful infants wanted to adopt out,
by woman who is already too familiar to the
criminal courts.
During the regatta of the Columbia Rowing
Club ON Saturday afternoon, an extraordinary
degree of excitement and comment was occa
stoned by the display OF muscle by fair anC
youthful waterwoman. All these things go tC
teach us, suppose, that occasionally we encoun
ter one among the fair sex who is the peer o
any of the male sex in any one walk of masculine
life. In this age we have female gymnasts
female balloonists, female orators female editors
female lobbyists, female doctors, female priz
fighters, female champion skaters; but believ
this is the first instance that New York has beel
treated with a female rover, young and beau
tiful one too. The display took place near tn
Elysian Fields, Hoboken, which we're crowde
with ob.eryeTs, as 8 set Off to the crowded deck
of the steamers that crowd the water. Tn
members and guests Of the club on board tn
steamer William Tittamer were PARTICULAR
fervent in the applause they bestowed on tn
distinguished rover, who succeeded in preserN
ing her incognito, and before vanishing in