The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17
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FroTt Our 00n Correspondent.
New YORK, August II, 1862
On Saturday that portion of

From Our 0wn Correspondent.
NEW YORK August H. 1859.
On Saturday that portion of
Fulton Street Church
winch torso many years has been daily used at
MONDAY for prayer-meeting purposes was used
Tor that purpose for the last time. 1t is to be
torn down in order to give place to a handsome
chapel, capable of seating over one thousand
persons. When that chapel is completed the
MONDAY prayer-meetings will be held there.
Until it is completed they will be held in the
audience-roOm of the church. On Saturday the
meeting was more than ordinarily interesting,
since it came under the denomination of events
whose sadness is due to their occurring for the
last time. Since the religious revival of twelve
years ago, the Fulton street prayer-meetings,
although they have abated somewhat of their
first numbers and enthusiasm, have given no
evidence of decay. The meeting of Saturday
was monster one, and the institution itself is
one of the most salutary and beneficial isms of
the city.
Sunday, which was celebrated as the Feast of
the Assumption by all the Catholics throughout
the world, was observed in a quiet manner by a
few French residents, as the
Centenary of Napoleon the First.
A dinner was given at a restaurant ut No. 66
West Thirteenth street, presided over by NJ.
Pierre La Fontane, who was in the Regiment
Chasseurs de Vincennes and received a severe
wound in the skrmish of Quatre Bras, which
preceded the battle of Waterloo. He therefore
possessed peculiar claims to the honor. All
funds which were left above necessary expenses
are to be forwarded to Paris for the benefit of
the Hotel des Inyalides
Owing to the fact that on Saturday
Prince Arthur Started for Halifax,
the correspondents selected from among the
Mo- VTr1 m tO
his arrival there, have their plumes rutiled and
their quills bristling. If newspaper talk can
induce the prince to come hither, his advent in
New York is a certainty We need an excitement
here as companion to the one created by the
Baron Renfrew, who arrived some nine years
ago, at the blushing age of eighteen. That visit
was one of the best parts OF the education which
the Prince of Wales had bestowed upon him by
travel. All his bashfulness stared out of
him during that brief tour, and he acquired the
art of supreme imperturbability.
The poor folk of New York are so given to
personal cleanliness, that to the car passengers
who, at evening, are driven along those routes
that lie close to the river, the living statu0ry
presented at every turn to their notice is at
once healthy and universal. At and after dark
The Upper Piers of the East River,
and the water itself near the wharves, are dotted
between ten and twenty, all IN puriS ndturdHbuS,
and disporting with the innocent unconscious
ness of dolphns. "Where the perlice ?"
Candor compels me to say that the "perlice"
eyince only too great an appreciation of the
beauties of the human form divine, when that
form is feminine and entirely divested of the
results of the labe1s of the dressmaker and
sempstress.
Costly Joke.
Judge Kelley, who sometimes is in the chair
usually occupied at the Tombs by Justice Dow
ling, is an extremely kind fathcrly benevolent
looking man, bald-headed, quick-tongued with
genial voice, and of great celerty in transact
ing business. He is happy and quick in catching
the spirit of case and disposing of it in the best
and shortest manner possible. On Saturday
afternoon, Just as court was closing, rather
singular one was presented to him. A Miss
Eliza Stewart was accused of stealing twenty
dollars from Mr.. LOring.
"About o'clock after Friday midnight said
the complainant "as | was walking along
Crosby street, this woman came up to me and
asked me for two cents for her starving mother.
/ handed her out that twentydollar bill and told
her to take it,
''And she refused ~ asked the judge.
''No, sir; she snatched it out of my hand and
ran off with it,
"WeH, you told her 10 take IL, SAID the
judge.
eyes, but only meant it as joke" explained
Loring; Il didn't think she was going to take
it,"
''Nothng to do with it., answered the Judge.
''You told her to take it and she took it. She
would have been a fool if she hadn't should
have done the same thing myself-particularly
if my mother had been starving. The man who
repents an act of charity is worse than the man
with no charity at ALL Eliza, keep the twenty
dollars: you are discharged Mr.. L., It's better
to have had and lost than never to have had at
all"
POLITICALLY this may be true-but view the
aphorism as a sort of poetic license.
The Fish Market at Fulton Ferry
has long been an abominabe nuisance, scentin9
the air in the entire neighborhood. 1t has al
length been removed. On Saturday it was tori
down 1t had stood there for many years, and
had spread throughout the atmosphere pisca'
torial impressions that were anything rather thar
prepossessing 1t only remains now for the
meat and vegetable markets across the way tt
be torn down. That and the Fulton fish marke
have been twin nuisances for many year past
Between the two a passage-way could scarcely
he forced to the ferry-boats The Washington
Market has long been similarly incommoded, bu
the tearing down of these Fulton street abomi
nations has commenced work of regeneration
that will be copied in all parts of the city wher
similar pests abOunds.
Miss Garrison
is the name of piOus female who, IL the print
in the musc-shop windows do her justice, pos
sesses an abnormal quantity OF bore, ana pre-