The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-14
NEW YORKISMS.
H'om Our osOn obrrespondent.


lottery swindlers In this city surDasscs belief,
and the reason they cannot be done away with
Is that none OF the victims are willing to 10 lge
formal complaint. Letters by the score are
received at the headquarters of the detective
police, the burden of the greater part of these
being the amount of mental aud money suffer
Ing caused to the writer's For the most part
these victims deserve no pity. They have bees
warned over and over again. They have had
the lottery.swindler'5 game eXcoriated aud laid
bare before them. The verest country bump.
kin ought TO know how worse than worthless
all these "prcliminary" and grand" distribu-
tioRs are. To purchase lottery tickets nova
days is next door to becoming prrtner III the
swindle. one desplses the fool who Is swndled
out of his money, time, patience, aud sense OF
honor, AS much as ne loathes those ieweiei
and perfumed rufians whose business it is u
get up supposititious &C cooperative" societies, in
which diamonds, watches, and pianos to any
amount,varying between $500 900 and So, 900, 900,
are the pIIzes. The latest thing of the kind is
The New York Jewellers Cooperative Onion,
the "pIeiminaryn distrbution of whose prizes
has already taken place, the 2Sth of March
being the da,c liked for the 'graud" and fna
distribution.
HE'LL GATE,
10 remove the distractions OF which has been
the darling dream of engineer, for the last six
teen or seventeen years, is 10 be operated upon
again to-day. Mr. Sidney +. Shelburne is the
present contractor but the rev series o. opera
tions Ire cJmmGnced on Monday were uusuc-
cessful, owing to the iDclemency ofthe weather.
Mr.. Shelburne, like every other engineer, |
suppose, who has attempted the cure OF He'll
Gate, brings with him new and "never fail
Ing" apparatus. which consists of steam
engine and a drill enclosed in a vessel accom-
modated SO far as siLking purposes are con-
ceEned to the fierce rush OF the tide at He'll
Gate, eight knots an hour being the maximum
rate. He'll Gate is the bete ROW of New York
harbor, and Frying Pan Rock one of the most
cantankerous points of Ii ell Gate: so that If Mr..
Shelburne does not come second best out of the
encounter, II ne does not 90 from the Frying
Pan into the fire, as ] may say, he and his
invention arc TO be con- usratulated.
Hubards copy of
HoUDON's STATUE or wAsHINGToF
has at length been removed to the Academy of
Design from the City Hail. which it has deco.
rated for 80 long time. not uninteresting
little history is connected with this statue.
HoudOn the most celebra ed sculptor In Paris,
was, in 1875, induced by Thomas Jefferson to
VEIL tnls COVhtty lor Tue purpose VI taking
plaster casts OF Washington pre!usory to scuIp-
turing marble statue. When Houdon arrived
in this country, so enchanting and persuasive
was his address, 30 magnetic were mis- argu-
ments so extraordinary did Washington feel
his abilities to be, that the Father of his
Country, yielding to the solicitation with which
Art seeks Truth, permitted him5elf to be laid in
state OF nature upon table whilst the neces-
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was able to present to the world statue whose
fidelity to the original 10 form aud lineament
has never been equaled. and no free spirit
revereEces Washington The less for having Tor
the momeut yanquished the bashtulness of hts
nature out OF regard for the interests of art
and the Inqulsitivenees OF pOs.erty.
As the MiDgo chief exclaimed, IN his message
TO Lord Dunmore, so might excl aim
"WHo is THERE TO MOURN FOR LOGAN? NOT ONE
with reference to the batch o! James Logans
w'lo have from time 10 time been oyerhauel
gs I'd taken to police headQuarscrs Since l last
wrote one or two more have been arrested, and
fittings go on at this ra Q the House OF De en-
ton will soou teen with an indefinite number
OF ''dOubles" OF the undiscovered murderer. All
the ne newspapers, even the long suffering IrtbuaP
which is fond of denouucing the quick .wtted
Herald, getting disgus,ed by tins time with the
fusslness and failure OF the Coroner and police
But Notwithstanding the many cries of "woll,'
the public anticipates discovery every morn
ing, and is far from growing used TO the
matutinal disappointment. The latest procla-
nation, Offering a reward OF $4,000 aud freed Jm
from prosecution. to the passive accompltce o
Logan, should he appear as witness against
him, has as yet produced no response.
THE PARK COMMISSIONERS
have denounced the veocipede and refused 10
have the unciean thing in Central Park. Reason
why, it frightens the horses. Now, in my
private opinion, Central Park is l4Ise enough
70 have yelocipede course OF its own. In this
progressive age, when the veiocipeie is part
of progress, the proceedings OF the Park Com
missiOners looked upon a. nArro w-minded
and bigoed. Ii horses are frightened
by the yeiOciptde, 30 mlcn the better
ior the horses. Ititis tbe lore that must suc-
cumb TO the vciocipede, aud not the velocipede
that must succuRb to the horse; for If all tina !.
is said be true the millennium is at hand, when
thfy shall be turned out 10 iced on the tat oil
the land, aud the veo3tpede shall super. edo
beasts OF borden, and trot.iug on the FasnI u
course shall be no more fore yer.
On Tuesday evening thc Church of the
Saviour, III P!errepon! street, near Cl Mton
BIO, kiSJ, was The scene ora
FASHIONABLE WEDDING,
the parliei TO which were Mr.. teDry Jessul
Stevenson, of the firm OF William Jessup's Sons
and Miss Jaue Clements Jessup, daughter Of tn
late Henry Jcssup, OF Brooklyn. 1t Is current
bEieved that most fashionable brides and bride