The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-07

From Our Oion Correspondent


The review of the First Division of the Ma
tional Guard took place yesterday afternoon,
and the display gratifying in every respect,
Tor the weather was bright ard bracng, the
streets were thronged, and the men in excellent
spirits and condition. OF course the review
took place on Fourteenth street, as it always
does. The line of march was much shorter than
usual, owing to the fact that most of the men
are obliged to undergo inspection next week,
and it will not do for them to lose two days.
The march commenced at 3 o'clock and the en-
tire review over by s. the whole line of march
being simply down Fifth avenue from Twenty
third to Thirteenth street.
The Fisk-Corbin ImbrORliO.
According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, there is
a law of compensation which regulates in some
mysterious manner all the relations of people to
each other. How that law applies to the rela-
tiOns between Mr.. Corbin and Mr.. Fisk it is, at
the present muddled stage, impossible to deter
mine. The private secretaries of both these gem
tlemen are perpetually kept busy in writing to
the newspapers denals and couuter-denals.
Mr.. Corbin, on his side, omphatically denies
that he ever exchanged a word on financial mat
ters either verbally or in writing, with Mr.. Fisk
from the commencement of the gold speculation
until the day of the crisis. He with equal en-
phasis denies that he ever, either verbally
or otherwise, authorized any human being
to buy sell gold for him or
any one else. The odum that has lately attach
ed to his conduct has made him seriously ILL.,
At the best of times he is not very wise man.
He is q sort of child-man, lacking that dignity
and consistency of behavior which give to
ones character the appearance of earnestness.
He has been journalist as well as a speculator
and though he has learned considerable witness
in both of these fields, he will find it difficult
to explain away his statement that he 'did not
associate with such men" as Mr.. Fisk. Mr. Cor
bins crowning merit is that he is ardent
chnrch member, and n furlherer Of everything
that is lovely and of good report in Zion. Piety
and peculation, 1 should say speculation are
scarcely inconsistent with one another. The
present generation has learned the secret of
serving God and Mammon simultaneously, and
of getting Cor of thinking they ge) the most out
of both.
''NO More Wuntedv'
This is the information placarded up on the
fence surrounding the ground of the new Post
Office, and which carries discomfort, not to say
despair, to many an expectant bosom. 1t is in
tended for the crowd of laborers of all classes
surrounding the grounds and clamOring for
work of some kind. The men have just been
paid off for the month of September, the masons
averaging five dollars per day, and the common
laborers two dollars and seyenty-five cents. In
dDOuJ sIAlCCH luOuSuuu uOlldIS WIS pau OuJ.
About five hundred men in all are employed, and
two hundred of these arc kept busy from sunset
to sunrise The new Post Office while it is in
process of building is like heaven in this respect
that there is no night there. A multiplicity of
lanterns are distributed around the grounds, at
night and there is not an hour of the twenty-four
when the clang of the workmnes tools is not
heard. Fortunately the precautions taken by
Superintendent Hubbard, in banking up the ex-
cavations prevented the rains doing any mate
rial damage. Not single slide of earth or sand
has taken place. By the tenth CT next month
all the area walls are expected to be up to their
prescribed height las well the piers of the sup
port of the main walls. The report was started
that some Italian marble had arrived here from
Leghorn, but the fact is, no Italian marble for
that purpose has been contracted for. Mean
while the principal door to the Post Office
grounds is constantly besieged with crowds of
lookers-on whose curiosity, l hope, is satisfied
stood there one morning myself for five min
utes, and saw thirteen cart loads of dirt go out
and twenty-five empty carts go in. My curiosity
was satisfied to repletion.
Our Night Schools.
The fulness of attendance which character
ICES the city evening schools of New York is q
very happy indication. At some of them the
course of instruction embraces not only several
of the modern languages, but also some of the
very highest departments OF discipline in alge-
bra, astronomy, political science and navigation.
Of night schools of not quite so advanced a
class there are no less than three for .colored
pupils, eleven for females, and fifteen for males.
great number of foreigners attend for the
purpose of becoming thoroughly acquainted
with the English language The Free School OF
Science, at the Cooper Institute is one of the
very best of its class, and Mr.. Peter Cooper, at
the commencement of the present season. very
generously endowed it with twenty thousand
dollars, which are to be spent in enlarglng the
stock of instruments. 1t is not to be doubted
that these night schools exert an influence which
has not hitherto been appreciated, but which, in
some degree restrain the demoralizing tenden-
cies of Black Crook and kindred isms.
Limited Divorce.
This is what Mrs. Agatha States has secured
from Judge McCunn, of the Superior Court II
will be remembered that this pleasant carollist
has. or rather had, husband who was uXori-
ous that he followed her around the world, and
threatened to shoot her during the perform
ances This was decidedly unpleasant to
Agatha. 1t was quite enough for her to be
stabbed by criticism, and posonedby stage direc-
tion, without being shot at by a maniac sea
captain from private box. No wonder her
voice sometimes quivered into an involuntary
trernolo, and she found it impossible to hold a
note with her accustomed teuacity. Cruelty and
ill-treatment are the grounds on which she sup
ported her application, and the referee, rejoice
IN, hprf favor