The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-18
VIEW YORKISMS.
FfoW Oar 0,en Correspondents.
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from oar OsSn COyrespondenG
new York, March Is, 1869.
Oh Patrick appears TO have Joined the tempe
rance society. for during the last few years his
dislike 10 water has been so great that not a
drop mas fallen upon the streets during the day
celebrated In commemeration of him. Yester.
day was no exception TO the new rule SO re-
Gently inaugurated. The skies were blue and
the air was bslmy, with just sufficient OF q
nip" In IL TO make the paraders anxious to
revenge themselves 10 the unedulterated
whisky OF the restaurants that swarm around
The City Hall Park. For City Hall Park was
The centre of ali the Civic displays. Early In
The morning q crowd commenced to assemble
There. which gradually swelled until about Q
In the afternoon, when all the Irish societies in
the city formed into procession-lines, aud were
reviewed by Mayor Oakley Hall from the steps
OF the new Court House. These socie.
Lies occupied about one hour and
nah In moving past. Their display OF
Irish flags and banners was handsome
and expensive, and am bound TO say they
treated the stars and stripes with respectful
enthusiasm which was only second to the
homage they paid their own oolors. There is
no scotchman like an English man. is the old
saying; and there surely is no staunoher Ameri-
can than the American son of Irish parents.
Even the Irish day. laborer and the Irish apple
women, in decorating the implements of their
cRrts-with the shamrock, never forget to
twine the red, white. and blue in the closest
proximity to- it, Writing at this out. of. the way
hour, q faint report of q ST. Patrick's Day muir.
der. committed yesterday afternoon, reaches
me; but the report is very faint, and the
crowd whicn yesterday morning was squeezed
within the Park railings to the point of burst
ing, was SO orderly and well disposed, that
ismiss the rumor as an exRggeration. The
here yesterday In Jersey City, Staten Island
nd Brooklyn, and suppose the rejoicings
these quarters were only a small proportion
Ufequal rejoicings taking place elsewhere.
Miss Marriott. the English actress, arrived In
shis city the day before yesterday. AS / re-
marked in previous letter, she rejoices in the
sobriquet of "the elephant" obtained from the
ponderous nature of her performances, rather
than her physique, which the admirers of the
female form divine had begun to dread was a
tr1de Ia Lucy Rushton. Miss Marriott may be
very good actress, but we have had English
actresses here before who might have been
very good actresses, only they were not;
for instance, Mrs. Scott-Siddons. She halls
from the Surrey Theatre, London, which, dur.
ing her palmiest days there, held about the
same relation to the other London theatres
that the Old Bowery used to do to the New
York TEMPLES OF amusement Consequently,
II LIS difficult TO believe that metropoli.
tan theatrical mouths will water very
much over her, particularly when the
"Hamlet of Charlotte Cushman is remem.
bered. Other theatrical new in this city is not
very important, II except the opening of the
dramatic season at Fisk's Dig opera house next
Monday week, and of opera b0u0e the week
after at his little one tnat at present goes under
me rae, name OF s,g Bron,gha%'s s Miss Kellogg took
all the world was surprised at compare
lively slim attendance at the Academy. and
1he Patti of America, kellogg came in for
her share Of the hot-house, and though Presi-
Russian Emperor, and given ner q Sl6 900 set
Of furs, there gre iools enough in New York to
pelt her with bouquets which deserve to be
public singer nowadays. from the preponde-
forced 70 become q Lady OF the Cameiiss at the
fall Of the curtain whether she likes 1t or not,
themselves of admiration In any other way,
rush irsanely upon the lanerage OF flowers;
TO it must be said. the tricninosis which
harbor' OF a sailors boarding-house led the
Sanitary Superintendent 10 suspect that dis
the West. His Investigations developed the
interesting fact that between five and six hum
dred hogs arrived in this city from buffalo
few weeks ago, and their carcasses sold out
1ndustriousy as possible. in some cases at the
rate OF seven cents per pound. Thirty or forty
dead hogs which the inspector examined were
found to be full OF the measles, sugar-cured
fpse for sale at the various groceries where frst-
class family provisions abound. No supervision
Is exercised at the depot of the Hudson River
Railroad Company, and the loads which have
arrived and been distributed through the city
are those which were excluded from the Buffalo
markets on the ground OF being diseased No
effort seems to have been made however, on
she part of the sanitary inspectors to discover
the whereabouts of the buyers aud vendors of
this diseased meat; and the appalling question
which arises In the mind of tue metropolitan
lOdger, as he vividly remembers to have eaten
ham for breakfast, Is, Have got incipient
trichinosis, or have not?
talk about the hardships single women endure
In the struggle to obtain living here's but
there Is also great deal of truth not contained
In that talk, Not a few women who are not
remarkably gifted With brains. but who possess
an incalculable amount or brass and no con-
science, make more In o.called literary pur-
suits than many men do. Not few "edt-
tresses" of fashion magazines get their $50, or
375, or even 500 per week. and 1t is no credit to
wolves no great extent of mental power and is
only well paid for because those who
perform II float amid the scandal and
tooleries, and small table talk of fashion
able coteries, and the magazines circulate
among people who have no taste for any "Iite-
rature"that Is not slipshod and siangy. Ac
tresses too, that have not twentieth part OF
the cultivation You meet with in the average
women of society, make SIS per night, lltho-
graphers, $40. wood engravers, school teachers,
designers book binders. con pSsitors, $40, sales
women average So. Tho sempstresB is the
worst paid OF all, averaging not IS per week;
and. considering that she IS paid by her own
right women to correct woman's inhumantty
TO woman before they make ridiculous endea
vors to set right mans 1nhumanlty toward
them. ALI BABA.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.