The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-13
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From Our 0iOn Correspondent.
New York, Oct. 49, 1869
T0nsorIal Travels.


q prominent "human hair establishment
in Cincinnati. 1t was taken to Philadel- |
phia, and thence brought TO this city. AS late |
as last Saturday, well-known tonsorlal artist |
called upon Chief Kelso, at the Central Police |
Office and informed him that the capillary cargo |
had been offered him for sale. Mr.. Kelso there |
upon detailed O number of detectives to recover |
the property. After ferretng around for some
time they yesterday pounced upon a woman
named Julia Leehan and two men named Jacob
Urt aud Jacob Lampert in East Broadway, and
discovered in their possession about
half the amount of the spoils. The
strength of capillary attraction was never
more perfestly illustrated Neither was
the fact that crime and commerce to certain
extent implicate one another. The modern
belle will have her hair or rather she will have
hair this is not hers, but came off the head OF
some one else. The modern artist in chignons,
who has big rent to pay, must raise the stamps
by fair means or foul. The East Broadway lady
who was yesterday arrested is no worse than
scores of other dealers in false fronts, &C., as
yet undetected She made the gloomy corridors
of the Mulberry street fortress rc-echo with her
squeals, and slung around her own hair in the
most reckless manner on being charged with
having received the stolen locks of other
people, well knowing them to have been
dence of repentance, Mrs. Leehan has already
made ample atonement. She had not been five
minutes in the lookup before her shame was
manifest in the ruins of her shattered chignon
and from the way she shrieked it was evident
she regretted having proceeded upon Mrs Glass
principle of "Grst catching your hair
The Wall Street BuII-Baitcr.
The enemies of Mr.. Fisk swear that he was
once lion-tamer in Van Amburgh's menagerie,
~ 1T.
the animals" If this be so, the versatility which
leads him to spend the morning among the bulls
and bears and lame ducks Of Wall street, and the
evening around the tinseled glare of the theatre,
is easily accounted for. His love of the men-
agerie and the penchant for tights and spanges
have not quite died out. Circumstances have
only modified his aspirations. If there are no
lions to be tanned, there are at least bulls to be
haited and bears TO be led by the nose and made
to dance. If blue-fire and thunder to music are
not admissible, there is at least the eolat of
rumored reSdHidaces and the delicious publicity
Of having his box at the theatre known to every
one in the house. In the Gold Room and the
green room stocks and stock pieces, the
notoriety Fisk remains the same, and the
- Acknowledgements element is still prominent.
Mr.. Greeley n Swenrtst.
1t is one of the most difficult things IN the
world to make one who knows Mr.. Greeley only
through his journalistic and political reputation
believe that he is an accomplished swearist, and
can dash expletives about in the most bewilder
ing style of art. To this day he has never for
given one of his old otfice-boys-a new one at
that time-who made some mistake in bringing
him his mail. Upon that memorable occasion
he did not swear much, but the little he did
swear was far from being decidedly in favor of
the youths spiritual well-being. In his anathe-
..z
OF Lord Byron's profound reflection that
'eThe noun which In the Hebrew means Il am
The English always use to govern DAMN"
That he has toned down now considerably
from what he was years ago can readily be be-
leyed. 'Twould be pity if he hadn't after
having been SO constant sleeper in church for
so many lustres. His detractors make no scruple
in saying that he does not believe in the Trinity,
but in o duality of which Horace Greeley is the
first person.
Amusements.
To-day at 1 o'clock P. NJ, NJ Tissington,
musical director at the Grand Opera House,
takes benefit there. The performance is to be
miscellaneous, and Madame Ponis who is living
in retirement, is to play Peg Wellington" in
Nc SKIS and Faces" From the boards of Niblo's
FormoSd is to be withdrawn next Saturday
night, in order to make room for Miss Western
in East Lynne, on the succeeding Monday
HOrse-Car Improvement.
Cap ain Mayne Reid is not so busily occupied
with is new magazine ORtDard, and IN weep
ing ever the fortunes he so easily made and so
lightly parted with, but that he finds time to
write to the newspapers occasionally, and pro-
pose plans for public convenience. His latest
crotchet is in relation to the city railways and
he proposes plan by which passengers drivers,
horses, and conductors might be indefinitely
blessed. AS the innovations he proposes would
apply equally to Philadelphia to this city,
retail them here. He suggests that cars should
be allowed to stop only at intervals of every
four Blocks, and that all passengers who may
wish to get out, or pedestrians who may wish to
get in, shall be accommodated only at these
points. He recommends that stone platforms
shall be erected at these intervals, high enough
to be on a line with the platforms of the cars, so
that passengers pass from one to the other
without any of that wOdng through mud and
water and upheaval of the knee Joints which at
present signaliZe their endeagOrs. He claims
that the greatest drag upon the horses is caused
not by the load they are obliged to pull, but by
the frequent stoppages and the immense strain
consequent upon getting in motion again; and
he shows Cor thinks he shows) how such say
ing of time would be had, by the adoption of
his system, as to entirely supersede the necessity
OF IN underground railroad.
ApropOs OF this let me remark that the scheme
Of the
Central Underground Railroad,
no far from having been abandoned, has been
ardently pursued during the last six months
Engineers have been making very careful sur
Veys, and it is probable that double tunnel
will be rXcavated. Several European capitalists
have offered to invest largely in the undertake