The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-19
NEW YORRISMS.
From Oar 0,On Correspondent
= NEW YORK. Nov. 10. 1868.


legal soiidity to it, and the confectionery
abounded with none of those intellectual and
fanciful devices which raise the profession OF
the pastry.cook into one OF the fine arts.
General Grant made a short speech, In which
he said that he should be no gladder to be vel
coined any where else than he was there.
Mr.. O'Conor, who presided, made classical
and retrospective speech, in which he alluded |
to those who were not lost but gone before, and
brought in number of pretty piquant post
prandiSlisms about sbrines and acolytes
The guest of the evening made moderate
speech, in which q little romance, little Jocu-
larity, o good deal of self-abnegation, and
profusion of peroratve sentence were JUDI
ciously mixed together.
Several nobodies made the longest speeches
of the evening, and the accustomed number
OF regrets from distinguished men were received
THE LECTURERS
are coming upon us as thick and remorseless
a. an Egyptian plague.
All the existing ologies are promised for the
winter and Lemercier and Du Chaillu send us
home N ebuy weeping to our beds, there to
dream about the goril till daylight does
appear.
The gorilla of the lecture room was Infinitely
more imposing, though, perhaps, not near so
much OF an imposition, as the gorilla of Barnum
This gigantic humbug, whose monogram figures
conspicuously on the door. plates of his Fifth
avenue brown-stone, has lately gone back to
lecturng on Temperance and money
making"
GENERAL GRANT
Is taking violent measures to preserve peace.
Every morning he has breakfast with his family
in his private parlor at the Metropolitan, and
o1 pif uh
of five words --"Let us have peace. Amen"
The family then dive in and have piece of
tenderloiU, or piece of lamb chop, or piece
of scrambled eggs, as the case may be.
At 10 O'Clock he watches his opportunity and
dashes through the lobbies of Niblo's Theatre,
whence he makes his exit by the side door on
Spring street, where the proprietor of the New
York Ledger awaits his arrival with horse and
team.
having nothing better to do, has resigned and
Alderman Conan has succeeded in getting passed
pious resolution to the effect that his election
as Governor is only preliminary to his election
as President, which is rather modest way OF
putting 1t.
The frat anniversary of
THE woMANs HOSPITAL,
which is for the treatment OF all diseases to
which women are peculiarly sub. ect, took place
on Tuesday night. During the year 212 patients
had been admitted and l66 discharged.
You will have perhaps observed that in this
State
GRANT HAS GAINED MORE
on LincOln's vote in majority OF the counties
than Seymour has gained on McClellan's vote.
The vote of this city, no Wever, and Of its
suburbs, has been swollen out of all proportion
IN fha in, bair att tho
men voting over and over again, manufacturing
illegal voters by means Of frauduleat naturaliza'
ton eltifo ates. 1t is only by this means that
this State has been made 20 represent a vote
which it never really gave.
BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES
keep pace one with another in Ne v York. Last
week there were 242 births, and 504 people made
into 252, leaving a difference Ot only ten between
the born and the welded.
AT 10 O'Clock this morning, large party Of
ministers from the various cities ot the Union
and styling themselves the
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONVENTION,
met in the Reformed Protestant Church, at the
corner OF Twenty-nnth street and Fifth avenue.
The topics arranged for discussion are almost
twenty III number, and include ali that are
calculated TO advance the work OF socia'
religion. The new fashion OF publishing
religious appeals among secular advertisements
is not among them.
On Tuesday night, the
RADICAL REPUBLICANS AND InE DEMOCRATIC
UNIoNIsTs
held their primary meetings all over the city
The conservative Republicans held off.
The Democratic Union party elected dele
gates to conventions to nominate aldermen in
the odd districts, not withstan ling the act of the
last Legislature, extending to another year the
terms of the present incumoents.
AT the
CASTLE GARDEN LABOR EXCHANGE
more than thirteen hundred applications for
labor have been made within twelve days.
The average rate OF monthly wages paid to
males was $l2; 10 females, $3.50.
The fashion OF publishing he names OF
''DIsTINGUIss ED ARRIVALS"
at the hotels rs getting 10 be bore. The hotel
reporters occasionally find ftields among the
list and heap upon them the equivocal compli-
ment OF publishing their names in a list in
which nine tenths are small celebrities.
"AFTER DARK" VS.. AFTER DARK
Eibo's against the Bowery Is now the cry in
eaultian brain.
The Injunction that was laid upon the high
minded BOwery paragons has been again re-
moved.
THE EARTHQUAKES
are SLOWLY travelling this way.
They have reached New jersey and Staten
Island, and goodness kno VS. how soon Central
Park and the Battery will be smashed together