The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-02
NEW YORKISMS.
NON Our oiVn Correspondent
Nrw Yong Dec q lS,

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fashionable, the brazen, the shop-lifting, and
the loungng part of the community, and that
eight detectives had their hands full.
The boarding has at length been removed
from tbo nh .,,hOrs street front Of the
NEW COURT HOUSE.
That proportion of the ensemble thus exposed
is archhecturally perfect, or rather soon will
be, when the por,icOs line OF Corin.hian columns
are completed.
OBaldwin has promised to be
GOOD BOY,
and has therefore been discharged.
lie will be chief mourner at the funeral OF
Larkin, his late backer.
fit were possible to induce that old no,ice.
magistrate, Death, TO take bail TO- ,,,rlin | an,
confident o'Baldwin would offer Il
SUNDAY ON THE BowGRY
Is fearful So, at to the Christian.
Wlthlp. sound of the church bells that intone
The story of the cruci6Xion, Jew peddler5
display their wares along the Bowery sidewalks,
aud challenge you to buy tooth.picks, pencils,
pens, saponaceous dentridces, jewery, pocket
books, suspeuders, tooth-combs, patent shoe
laCers, French polish, chiuaware, etc.
1T Is also a famed rendezvous for street tights
between newsboys,
Sunday on the Bowery is one of our institu
lions.
dirtiness aud tawdriness, and misery, IN con
sTast with the splendor and pageantry OF Fifth
Avenue, would have Wept over it even as He
Wept over jerusalem.
The headquarters OF the
BOYS IN BLUE
are at No. 167 Broa lWay, whence an order was
yesterday issued by General Charles K. Graham,
Grand Marshal requesting all otncers, SOLDIERS,
and sailors residing outside of the city of New
York and desirous of attending the inaugura
lion of General Grant TO communicate with
Colonel Samuel Truesdell, AdiutantGeneral,
who will probably furnish their expenses on.
The Boys in Blue intend largely to respond.
THE LoEw BRIDGE
! have had occasion to mention once or twice.
may have occasion to mention it once or twice
When the courts the Common Council, and
Street Commissioners are In muddle about it,
surely l may be excused. In fact, 1t is huge
architectural Frankensteiu which its creators
don't know what to do with.
The courts order the bridge down; the Com
mon Council pass resolutions that the bridge
shall go down; aud tue street Commissioners
brings matters 10 a dead lock by saying he has
no money, and consequently can't take the
bridge down.
So it remains up, and The last opinion vouch-
saied about it j., that it had better remain
standing until the flowers break forth again, the
crickets are heard a-chirping, aud the cricketerS
at-oatting.
49,
the
FAILURE OF PRoTEsrANTIsM.
The course OF sermons has naturally attracted
the most intelligent CONGREGATIONS 10 be found
in this city, and the opposition OF many
preachers.
Korthrup, who's rather thought to have shut
DIR. Ever up with the remark that, but for Pro-
testantsm Or. Ever would not have been
allowed such freedom OF utterance about Catno-
Icism.
meeting-place high in favor with
THE sPIBIrUALIsTs
is the Everett Rooms, at the junction OF thirty
fourth street with Broadway,
A Miss Nellie Brigham has Lately been having
She is an ora'ress, good.looking young lady,
extremely fond OF speaking OF the Harmony OF
Life.
From the beautiful congratulations l extract
This one idea, namely-Tlat harmony OF life
consists in the utmost development of all that
is healthtul and good in humanity, and the
utmost repression of all that is evil.
she is decided New Yorkism, and worth
going TO hear as well as see.
On Monday night the
ST. ANDREWS SOCIETY
celebrated the one hundred and twelfth annl-
yersary of the patron SAINT OF Scotland.
The haggis and the usquebaugh produced on
the occasion were none the less relshed because
1he Society is charitable one. If
EDWIN BOOTH
chose, he might ignore, for some little length OF
Ilne Lne CuSlOm VI OpGuluS tuC UON-SuttI W
the public sonumerous are the applications not
only from friends OF his in this city, but even in
Philadelphia, for seats on the occasion OF the
first nights OF opening.
Friends of Mr.. Booth as far north as Boston
and as far south as Baltimore are already
forwarding their letters and their gceeubacks.
Happy the treasurer who serves under such
manager happy the leading lady happy the
first old man
spoke Of the new tenor Boetti. He was not
long enough with Us to be loved as he deserved.
Besides, he had that sweet young thing Brignoli
as rival. But a
NEW LIVE PRIMA DONNA
named Elena Lanzri has arrived, and has been
taken to the bosom of Murray Hill. just as Miss
Kellogg, in London, was taken to the protecting
arIus OF Park Lane dowagers.
She will appear about the 18th of the present
month at the Union League Theatre, at present
usurped by Olympic Audouard.
MRS. SCOTT sIpDoNs
appeared last night as "Rosalind," and of all
theatres in the world at the WoTrell Sisters
Theatre, which was crowded from top to bot
fom by an the "illigince and aristhocrSyy" of
New York.
Her intelligence aud coquetry remind me of
what Mrs. John Drew once was. cannot
understand why people wish to see her as
Beatrice" Sweet and pensive and gentle
characters would sit on her best. | wait to see
her as "Juliet;" / should love to see her as
''Viola;" fear to see her as LADY Teazle;" /
should smile to see her as LADY Macbeth"
Blessed be the inventor of the epigrammatic
OF pointed style, saith ALI BADA.
COTTON.