The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-07
NEW YORKISMS.
from Our o,on Correspondent

forth beauty, wealth. fashion, talent, intellect,
people of renown, poverty, misery, rags, idle
ness, pleasure, profit, show, humbug, virtue,
vice, hypocrisy, works of art and exhibited
them all along the worlds epitome- Broadway.
The misis we're lifted from East river, which
was as sparkling and glorious looking as though
no ferrybost disasters there had ever sent
unsuspectng passengers to sudden death, or as
though no aspiring contractor had never
dreamed an impossible dream of damming II
up and annihilating it forever. The fog
was blown away from the harbor by the golden
breatbines OF yesterdays spring-like atmo-
sphere, and the loung6rs. at the Battery had no
remembrance of the late explosion off anly
Hook, whereby so many human beings were
flashed face to face with eternity.
And this reminds me that the widow of
CAPTAIN WILLIAM L. CHURCHILL,
one of the victims Of that calamity, whoIforfeied
his life in the discharge OF his duty, while
endeavoring to raise the ship Scotland, is a
cripple, confined to bed, and almost totally
helpless. The death of her husband has left
her without a penny and the only relation
upon whom she has a claim is an almost desti-
tute mothtr, residing somewhere in Georgia.
If any reader of this paragraph desires to lend
to the Lord, there never was a better opportu-
nifty.
The East river bridge, the tunnel, the under
ground railroad-will they soon exist, or will
they await that far.of time when Tennysonian
navies shall grapple in the central blue? The
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD SCHEME
has, for the time, fallen through.
The incorporators are, 1t is true, applying to
the Legislature for new charter, whose terms
shall not be 80 stringent as those of the first.
The first required that $3,000,000 should be
subscribed by the first of the present month,
and that $500, 900 should be deposited with the
State Controller, and forfeited if the railroad
was not completed within the time agreed upon.
Neither of these stipulations was complied with,
and hence the whole affair has simmered down.
The old inCorporators were only willing to sub.
scribe about onehalf the stock and one-half the
deposit money stipulated for, and their present
demands of the Legislature smack of the SEN
timent that economy Is the better part Of enter
prise.
Mean while, a new test Of the elevated railroad
from the Battery to the intersection of Green
wich and Cortlandt streets is daily expected 10
be applied.
Colonel Fmmons Clark, OF the
SEVENTH REGIMENT,
has written Lengthy, argumentative, but
polite refusal to invitation from Generals
Postley, Burger, and Ward to a contest for the
military championship of the First Division.
The reasons which Colonel Clark states in
such gentlemanly manner are, that the 18th
Regiment repudates any desire for any emblem
of superiority as compared with the other regi
ments of the First Division; that all com petition
of the character proposed is sure to result in
general dissatisfaction, and to infict permanent
injury upon both the vanqushed and the victo
rious regiments engaging; and that any regi-
= ment so acquiring the championship is in honor
bound to defend it against any other regiment
challenging the business of its claim.
Colonel Clark's whole reply is fair sample
OF the su0uiter inmodo fOrfi'er in re-
THE PREsIDENT-ELECT OF 1872
tthe reader will perceive at once that | mean
George Francis Train) delivered, on Tuesday
evening, a speech nearly four hours long, at
Cooper Institute.
This incoherent demagogue-th brittle, bril-
liant babbler-this impromp!u and irresponsi-
BILE constructor of unry ythmlcal epigrams-was
listened to with attention by the populace, if
that may be called attention which expressed
itself at frequent intervals in loud demonstra-
tions of Fenian tatrore. His appeal that every
Fenian present would groan the English consul
aud the British minister out OF house and nome
was received with cheers.
AS has been his custom for many years past
Mr.. Beecher, on Tuesday evening, was present
at the
AUCTION SALE OF THE PLYMOUTH PEws.
That he should make practice OF doing so,
and have acquired the habit OF seeming to abet
the auctioneer, has furnished both his friends
and enemies with an eXhaustless topic for crit-
cism. But here, on the one hand, we have a vast
quantity OF pews wanting to be possessed, and
here, on the other hand, we have a dispropor-
tlonately vaster quantity of people burning to
possess them. Are the pews 10 be left unsold,
and il the public to be let in pell-mell, and is
Mr.. Beecher to subsst on a George Muller-like
faith, with such peIquisites az his lectures pro.
vide? Or are the pews to be sold? and if SO, by
what better way than BY auction? and if it is
right to sell them by auction, why is it wrong
tor Mr.. Beecher TO be present. If the thing
really be right, and have only the appearance of
wrong, MIR. Beecher is better, stronger bo!der,
and nOber III his church, at such a time than
out OF it.
TYPHUs FEVER
has been raging in several of the tenement.
houses on East Thirleenth street. The first
symptoms of the disease were observed among
some very young children, almost infants,
whose debauched parents had abandoned them
and left them to the streefs. The houses, no ".
ever, have been fumigated, and no new case,
|, have yet been heard of.
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