The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-28
N Il WY o r X I s M S.


New YORK, Aug. %, 1859.
Well, the contest between the
'Arvards and the HOxfords
is over, and am glad of it. / rejoice that one
more international event is settled, even though
Mayor Oakley Hall did not have the opportunity
of firing off one hundred guns in honor of it in
City Hall Park. About half-past one o'clock
the excitement commenced around the news
paper offices here, and kept pretty well up all
afternoon. After this there was peace along
Park Row and Broadway, and when half an
hour afterwards news came that the Hoxfords
had won by three lengths, every native-born
American felt that the ineffable disgrace of hay
ing been six seconds behind could never be
washed out. Our national importance has gone;
our idolized institutions are totterng; the bull
warks of our national liberty are levelled to the
dust; the eyes of the goddess of liberty are red
with weeping; the stars have vanished out of our
banner, and the stripes-suggestion of infamy!-
alone remain. Was it for this that our grandpas
fit into the Revolution Brother Jonathan is
down in the mouth. Uncle Sam hangs his head,
and bushes to own himself a man. Columbia is
no longer the gem of the ocean-or if she is, she
is but diamond in the rough. Them bloody
HoXfords (drat 'emD got three lengths a'ed
and them blarsted Awards six seconds be'ind !!
Isn't it 'deous?
Those New York Correspondents
who were going to achieve such wonders at
Halifax appear to have been doing very little
after all. The fact is the public seems to be
slowly but surely settling down to the conviction
that the New York correspondent, with the
funds in his pocket, and the newspaper and the
public at his mercy, is rather apt to be fraud.
He is far away from his native land; unaccus-
toned champagne and sherry flow around him
like water, and he drinks like fish. / do not
say that this is the case with any of the Halifax
young gentlemen, bit where are those letters
that were to have been published, and which, it
was supposed, detailing every movement of
the Prince, would fill the Philadelphia news
papers with dreadful jealousy? Not one of those
letters has yet appeared, and the managing edi-
tors of the various New York newspapers pine
after them in vain. 1t is not presumable that
the princes governor has shut down upon the
correspondence staff. Such an idea is not to
be for one moment entertained. | lean to the
more likely suppOsitiOn that the charity of New
York correspondents (to themselves) began in
this instance abroad instead of at home, and
that the ajority of them had entered into en-
gagements to prepare SO many exclusive ac-
counts for British journals as to leave them
selves no time to write for the journals in New
York they were supposed to represent. Time
will show whether l am right. Prince Arthur,
at any rate, cannot complain that hitherto he
has been overwrittcn here.
There was a report on Wall street yesterday
afternoon that
LOuis Napoleon was Dead.
The spread of this report was helped by tn
known fact of the Empress Eugenie's sudden
and unexpected return to Paris. Consequently
there was a great deal of happening in and out
of the Gold Room, and between that and the
Harvard and Oxford row, the metrOp. hardly
knew which end of her was uppermost.
stephen NIassett Jeemes Pipes of PipesVille
has gone heavily into the preaching business
lately. By the cut of the jib he looks like
sailor, but in floating Bethel, have no doubt
he would exercise a rugged eloquence cores
ponding to Byrons "forty-parson power" HI
| possesses the art of getting gratuitous notices
from the daily and weekly papers, which, in th
selfish centre, is an extremely useful art in
business point of view.
Theatrical Gossip.
What do you think they are going to run mex
| Monday week at the Olympic? Uncle Tom
| Cabin, with Mrs. g. C. Howard as "Topsy
| By-the-by, why don't some scissorial geniu
| take hold of Mrs. Stoves last article in the At
lanttc and make n sensation play out of it? Th
| plot would be quite as fine as many that hav
been played upon the stage in this city durinl
| the last year or two, and would be pleasan
contrast to the moral insipidity of her brother
| healthy play of NOrloOOd Oh, they're brigh
| family these Beechers-one Of them the princi
pal ism of the Hub, and the other of Gotham.
| ALI BABA.