The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-08
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From Our Oion Correspondent.


have become 80 popular in so short space OF time
but the hansoms that have been gosspped about
for the past month The Hanson Cab Com
pany has had very many and very formidable oosta-
cles with which 70 DEAL and in spite Of these the sub
scriptons have come in with perhaps quite as much
rapidity as could have been expected. The number
OF horse railways in the city, and the extreme cheap
ness and carelessness with which they have been
laid down. have had something to do towards con-
tributing TO this result The streets are so cut up
that anything 90 lumbersome as a four-wheeled car
riage cannot pass through them with any safety to
ITSELF OF without having its wheels clogged in the
numerous mud-hlled ruts The lightness and small
ness OF the hansoms therefore render them very
sirabe and these qualities the Irish jaunng-carts
which are coming into use here greatly share with
them. Before long lapse OF time, should not be
surprised II the four-wheeled carriages are ban
shed to the bygone ages, and we indulge in nothing
but the two-wheeled article We shall become q
riding people, and all pedestrians will have to reside
abroad.
1t is my belief that the reign OF the British bur-
lesque blondes in New York will soon come to an
end. They may perhaps survive for another season,
but not, think, longer. Mr.. Henderson, by the
manner in which he last week invited the attack OF
Mr. Butler, the theatrical critic OF the Spirit of the
Times, to have put his foot into it, and TO have
given occasion for the striking Of the first blow in
the demolition OF the "pantomimc-spectacu
lesque." That the signal for many of the daily
and weekly newspapers to rush in and make an
attack which they had been waiting for good pre-
text to make. The Times had coumn-and-a-half-
long article on Sunday and nearly as long q one
yesterday, in which MIR. Henderson, Lydia Thomp-
son, Olive Logan, and the whole Kit and crew of
blondes and antibondes, used up in the choicest
reportorial English, profusey sprinkled with six
syllabled adjectves, such not to be found in
any dictionary that / wot OF. Indeed, almost
all the journals seem to have been simultaneously
discovering that there is scarcely theatre in the
city that ia not infested with English actors and
treBses, that native talented is crowded from the
boards, and the mediocrity OF Albion permitted to
fill their place. Even Mr.. Waack seems TO have
yielded without much struggle to the prevailing pas
sion for the British blonde. 1t is thought that oval
lacks"the DID, original chaste, exclusive Wallack's
really exists no longer and that all that remains is
a memory. With the towering success OF Mr. Booths
great enterprise the elegant Lester grew naturally
jealous, If not indignant His audiences grew COM
paratvely slim, and his receipts no longer ranked
among the first In the city. Some of the best OF his
old members died. others married and RETIRED Others
coming to the conclusion that they had Jagged super
fuous long enOngh withdrew on a modest compe-
tency to lonely widowhood or widowerhood, as the
case might be, and could be nightly in the lob
bies pensvey contemplating the scenes OF their past
successes. Mrs. Vernon was the last whose death
was chronicled. There have been various rumors
aoat about the approaching season. but it is quite
likely that "Waacks," in its old sense, will never
exist again. 1t is already usurped by a troupe OF
pantomimists and dancers
The Everett Rooms, place where spiritualism
and number OF other quasi religions are brought
upon the tapis, are getting to be extremely well at
tended of Sunday morning. There everything is
broached which in religious point OF view is "im-
proper" Beautiful immoralities are broached under
O moral guise, and all the allurements spread forth
that can be presented by young and handsome lady
speakers faultlessy attred and equally attractive
IN hpi SDepChp ureSSn A
lady named Mrs. Brigham spoke there at some
length on Sunday morning, and created sensation
by her sermon, entitled the beautiful Life" SO
far as / can understand it, the beautiful Life" con-
ssts in casting aside many of those virtuous 'preu
dices which the best safeguards OF society Mrs
Brigham is not Mrs. Brigham Young, as the name
might imply; neither are her doctrin es MOrmonsh
They are made up OF BLOSSOMS" and "howers," and
"joy" and eight" and "inetfableness," and soft
general denunciations OF everything orthodox and
religiousy respectable. But she is bright, smart,
and piquant and one OF the best sensations OF the
Everett Rooms.
The police are to have general overhaung, even
the police surgeons. The clubbing" principle
seems to be as great favorite with them as with
the lower orders OF bue-coats. The numerous cases
OF neglect and brutality that have forced themselves
upon Superintendent Kennedy's attention leave him
no alternative but to root out delinquents. Many OF
the prisoners are injured, sometimes very badly,
vet at no time has there been too few surgeons upon
the force to prevent their attending to their duties
so that these many cases OF neglect appear wholly
without excuse. 1t is, indeed, time that Kennedy
himself should be walked up. He has been mapping
his Mulberry street kennel long enough and there
is great deal OF dissatisfaction expressed against
him. 1t is only once in great while that the brutal
ty OF the policemen OF the surgeons receives any
check. The pelice magistrates too often side with
the "Thugs" and it is only when an outrage is so
plain and nagrant that it cannot be mistaken, that
the injured parties receive justice and the assaulters
are punished.
Mr. James Fisk, Jr., has signalized himself by
taking party OF newspaper-press people to Boston
and back for nothing. 1t seems TO be prevalent
notion with "outsiders" that every newspaper man
accepting an invitation of this kind is necessarily
Bohemian Of the worst dye and is expected to give,
and does give an immense quantity OF putting in re-
turn. The Bohemians-wh0, by-the-by, have to bear
great many other peoples sins on their shoulders
were excluded from this Fisk symposium, many OF
the partakers Of which number among the highest
toned press gentlemen OF New York.
Mr.. Edwin Booth, the well-known tragedian, was
married yesterday at Long Branch, to Miss Mary
| McVicker formerly OF Chicago. The ceremony was
performed by the brides grandfather the Rev. S. f.
| Myers Of California.
At length a long-taked-of project is TO be put
in execution. This is the erection OF library and
| reading-room for sailors, in defiance OF "bonus
| money" ''blood-money," landsharks, boarding
| house keepers, and the whole string OF frauds who
| conspire to keep the sailor out of his rights The
structure is to cost about 100000, and will vie in
beauty and utility with the palace that has lately
| been run up by the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton 1t is intended, too that the sailors shall be in
| structed in the common English branches, and in
navigation and that the building shall become the
nucleus of protective institutions Of various kinds
| all for Jack Tar's especial behoof and advantage
| will gaV Of