The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24

From or 0ton Correspondent
NEW YORK, July "a, 1869.
ClRm-bate.

Rockaway Beach. The affair was melange of
journalists and actresses, and has been so
nashily reported in the New York papers that
say nothing more about it.
MIR. RaymOnd's Successor.
Mr.. John e. Bigelow, formerly the man
aging editor Of the EDenjng Post, has succeeded
Mr.. Raymond upon the Times That is the news
of the hour. The appointment was made yester-
day. Mr. Bigelow is not young man, but he
has something that is better than youth-he has
experience. He has been a journalist ever since
he was anything at all, has seen great deal of
life and society at home and abroad, and unites
great natural administrative abilities to a fine
education. Some years ago he went to France
as Charge dAfdires, and owing to the sudden
resignation of the American Minister there, was
appointed to that minister's place. He is the
son-in-law of the poet Bryant, which accounts
partly for the high position he has so long held
upon the Post. He is a living illustration of the
truth of the prOverb that handsome is that hand
some does; for he is very generally liked in spite
of his reputation of being the most unbeautiful
man in New York. Now that the appointment
has at last been made, l wonder how many
heart-burnings have been cooled off People
talk of the jealOusies of women and the enyies
of the green-room, but they have still greater
reason to talk of the covetousness of men and
the bitter rivalries of the editorial sanctum.
1t has been well said that PGcbard's Monthly
is sort of pocket biographical dictionary. Tom
Thumb Minnie Warren, Commodore Mutt
Lola Montez, the Siamese Twins, Edward
Ketchum, Horace Greeley and other monstrosi-
ties figure month after month in its pages, and
furnish highly delectable reading for a virtuous
| public This month believe Mr. Barnum pro-
| poses to give the true
| HistOry of the Mnrrin ge RetNyeen Tom Thumb
| and IaVinia Warren.
! Let those read and believe, who will. Barnum,
| if Iapprehend him Alright, tries to make out
| that the match between this interesting couple
was veritable love match. The truth is, no
two people could have been further from
thoughts of love than these two were, not only
at the moment of marriage but months before
the wedding was celebrated. The whole thing
was business speculation got up by Barnum
| and the respective agents of the predestined
| dwarfs Their separated attractions began to
| fail, and as n stroke of business it
was necessary to bring them together.
| The thing was very cleverly arranged,
| and brought forth the anticipated results. Tom
| was artfully piled on The one hand; Lavinia was
most sklfully manGuvred on the other. 1t
| was the story of Benedick and Beatrice seen
| through microscope. Dwarfs are notorously
| obstinate. Tom was averse to marriage, and
| having been kissed to death by girls and women
since the time he was boy, he naturally despised
| the sex. He and Lavinia hated each other before
| they ever met. Their agents worked upon this
natural hate and artfully converted it, fora time
into the appearance of love. These two poor
little dwarfs were piqued into marrying each
other-that is the long and short of it-particu-
larly the short If by any chance they were
found together, they were at once separated with
great show of chagrin and perturbation. And
| while one set ofmercenary go-betweens attended
to this part of the business and veXed them, out
| of sheer spite into the desire and determination
| to see each other, another set were secretly
| employed to persuade them into what a fine
pecuniary advantage it would be to them to
| become man and wife. Lavinia possesses
| spirit and q strength of will which would do
credit to many full-grown man. The argu-
ment which was used with her. therefore, was
that she would find no difficulty in gaining the
| upper hand of so feeble-minded creature as
Tom that she would really be the head of the
household, and could keep Tom in charming
subsection by allowing him few shillings a
week for pocket money. The course that was
pursued with Tom was to persuade him that,
married man, he would be entitled to the full
| enjoyment of all sums realized from the public
entertainments of himself and WIFE These bats
|
these poor little plotted-against mannikins were
allowed to be in each others company. Bene-
dick and Beatrice, SO long pitted against one
another finally imagined themselves in love-
| and Trinity Church soon witnessed the crowning
| success of Barnum's ingenuity. So much for
| the wedding between Tom Thumb and Lavinia
| Warren being love match
President Grant will not Demonstrate.
If we have prim President who don't care
for parade or show of any kind we have only
ourselves 10 blame. We elected him to Office,
and if he is not genial and don't take with the
crowd, and is not fond of making speeches, and
don't like to create a sensation at steamboat
landings, railroad stations, and hotel fronts, we
are in fault for having elected him to office.
When General Grant comes to this city, he does
so as if he were doing good by stealth and
blushing to find it fame His wife shops surrep-
titiously, and the family trio devour their lun-
cheon under the rose. The Presidents coldness
and awkwardness however, have succeeded in
| freezing the civic functionaries. There is not
much clapping of hands and throwing of caps
in the air in this city when General Grants
arrival is known. "Let me have no intrusion, {"
| is byword at the AstOr House. If this dninus
continues, the Presidents memory, after he
leaves office, will, fear, be as eyanescent as his
own Havanas and not nearly So fragrant What
manner of man is this ask the fathers of the
city, We have piped unto him, and he will not
dance; we have mourned unto him. and he has
not lamented; and they turn for relief to ''Presi
dent Colfax, the hope of 1873.
Has Age MeIIOwed DiclSensr
Has any reader of THE TELEGRAPH encoun-
tered a little editorial which yesterday appeared
| in the New York Tribune, and which discovered