The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-15

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NEW YoRKIsMs.
Oaon Correspondent.


New YORK, April 15, 1869.
don't wonder that foreigners grow disgnsted
with this climate, and that even the geniality of
Dickens was put to severe test by an American
eatarrh After faint show of spring weather,
winter re-clutched us yesterday, and the heaviest
of heavy clothing was not too comfortable in
the streets. Perhaps this blood-stirring atmo-
sphere had something to do with warming the
sensibilities of the conductors and drivers in
regard to their rights, for those OF the Second
avenue line simultaneously left work, and for
some hours that thOroughfare was void of pub
He vehicles. A strike there was what might be
expected as indeed strikes might be expected
upon all the routes, for the wretched employees
are underpad and overworked, and are abused
alike by public and by press. Who ever thinks
of pitying car-driver or CONDUCTOR The stage
and omnibus driver is condoled with, the hack
man is compassionated, the private coachman
shcits our sympathies, but when is one express
mon of commiseration wasted upon the six
teen-hours-per-day toiler who drive passengers
from one end of the city to the other, or sees
TO their safe and comfortable bestowal? The
drivers and conductors upon the Second avenue
cars have lately become so morbidly sensitive
upon these facts that, on an attempt being made
on the part of some new director to increase the
their several charges, and stationed themselves
along the line to visit with violence whoever
should presume TO supply their places. The re-
volt was partly due to the extra car system.
When man fails TO put in an appearance at the
proper hour in the morning, he is placed upon
one of the extra cars which are employed only
nm two or three days in the week and is
''docked" in his pay for those days when the
axtras are not running. The strike is probably
inclusive to others in other departments of labor
and the likelihood is that during the summer as
many strikes will be theard of as though the
clock of labor had beepiwound the wrong way
and was sounding constant alarm.
Considerable alarm has been created In the
bosom of MADAME Byron" with whose name
Won may not be wholly unfamiliar She occu-
pies a residence in East Seventeenth street, ad-
yertises in the Sunday Mercury and the Herald
and periodically sends forth placard-bearers,
brandishing announcements to the effect thai
An. only and original Madame Byron reveals
xour whole life to you from the cradle to the
crave, and does various other interesting anC
pleasant things for consideration. Instead o
being fair fat and forty she bears the appearance
of being fast, forid, and fashionable. Sh'
4, a clairyoyant and spiritual test medium, an'
her manner of conducting business is similar Z
that of all people.of lher class. Visitors write
.umber of questions on little slips of paper
,.hich. before looking at them, Madame crushe
pp into little pellets, and, throwing them upol
the floor, processes to give the correct answer t
Them through 1.-The mediation of spirit-frien
of the writer's. A Mrs. Goulet, who had apple
for information about watch that had bee
rtolen, and had paid eighteen dollars for infoi
nation that was far from satisfactory, came
the conclusion that fraud had been practise
upon her, especially after calling again an
again upon Madame and being refused Sed@c'