The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-01

From Our opn Correspondent


Wearing of the Uniform by the Police.
From the number of anticipated designations
sent in, it is probable that the Board were quite
aware that their regulations would have that
effect An avalanche of designations was yes
terday let fall apon the Board, after receiving,
accepting, and filing which the Commissioners
proceeded to virtually revoke all that they had
said by appending to hereguations the eXplana-
ton that any member of the force will be re-
lieved from those regulations by the Board, or
the Superintendent, or the President of the
Board, or in the absence of the President or Su-
perintendent, by any Police Commissioner in
special cases. Among the more amusing of the
designations handed in was one by sergeant,
which read as follows-
"Gentlcmen :-Deeming the amended rule ty-
ranncal and humating to me as an officer and
man, and in my Opinion directly assisting all classes
of law-breakers especially the propret0rs of vim
mills, to evade and violate the laws /, therefore
tender my resignation as a member Of the Metro
politan Police Force, to take effect on the s Gay of
september next"
q This is decidedly spicy. The reader is par
ticularly requested to notice the wthcring sar-
casm of the reference to the proprietors of
"gin-mills.' | am afraid the writer of the resig-
nation in question has been driving some neat
operations in blacl-mailing with reference to
the Excise law, as he evidently thinks that the
destruction OF his incognita by his being always
compelled to wear uniform will interfere with
his perquisites of detective.
Mr.. Bonner is out in a moral card in which he
repudates with indignation the imputation that
he ever might, could, would, or should have
used Mrs. Stoves article on Byron for any con-
sideration whatsoever. 1t Is very amusing to
read this vehement
Outburst of BOnncrean BuncOmbe.
That the New York Ledger is interesting,
moral, and instructive we were taught to be-
lieve through the medium of advertisements in
our school-boy days, and, even if we had not, a
Perusal of the chefs dUurre of Sylvanus Cobb,
Jr., and of Mrs. Paradise Southworth would
have abundantly assured lis of that fact. Be-
sides, of late years, it has been very evident that
Bonner has been trying hard to eradicate the
raw-head and bloody-bones style of romance
from his chaste columns. Why Mr.. Bonner
should bear down against Mrs. Stowe in such
particularly strong terms | am unable to con-
ceiye. Has she not merely stripped the band
ages from the wound of unnatural vice aud dis
played it to us in all its bleeding hideousness?
How's that?
hear that Mrs. Richings Bernard has been
publishing in the Philadelphia newspapers
Gard
which is very silly junction of cgotism and
Castle the tenor and Mr. Campbell, the Dari-
tone of the old troupe, should have forsaken her
banner and gone unto Parepa-Rosas. What a
pity that Caroline should do so! ! presume
Messrs. Castle and Campbell, like other people.
are fond of getting as much as possible for their
wares, and are willing to warble under whatever
banner will bring them in the greatest number
of grcenbacks. Certainly they have right to
their choice and Caroline has no right whatever
to complain. pitiable aspect is the very last
in which she should wish to appear beside her
hcshy rival.
The Watermelon Crop
rivals the peaches. Watermelons are arriving
here in such abundance that the spectators
scarcely know what to do with them. Twenty
Eve thousand were dumped" here on Monday.
From Baltimore cargoes are landed containing
between three and four thousand. From the
Southern States single vessels bring cargoes of
between eight and nine thousand, and money is
being made on them at a rate uneYampled in
that line of business.
The Brooklyn Citizens Reform Association
have been holding meetings with regard to the
prOpriety of commencing political meetings
with prayer. Of course such proposal pro-
yoked good deal of spirited discussion. Some
members thought that it would be enough to kill
only waste time; the majority that it would be
exceedingly inappropriate. On that latter
ground the proposal was finally rejected but
the Executive Committee were authorized to
prepare address to the public on the subject.
Miss Glyn Cor Mrs. Dallas, as she is known to
personal friends) is expected ere long in this
city. She is
ALOndOn Actress of Great Local Celebrity.
although her name is scarcely known in this
country. The most critical and fastidious of
the London weekly press have very highly com
mended her performance of cleopatra" in
Shakespeares antony and Cleopatra, and it is
in that tragedy that she expects to make her
principal hit in this country. Among the fore
most admirers of Miss Glyn is the London
Saturday ReUielC, the most accomplished, the
most educated, and the most bitterly cynica' of
all the London weeklies. Miss Glyn intends
making the tour of the world, commencing with
the United States and the Canadas, finishing up
the American continent with California, and de-
parting thence for Australia. Next to ''Cleo-
patTa" the "Duchess of Malh" introduced to us
by Mrs Waller) is considered h2r finest part
She comes to us in the nick of timc just as the
bloEde-burlesque is played out and the metro
polls finds it can exist without Lydia Thompson.
The first section of the
Elevated Railway
between the Battery and Cortland street is
completed, and the new cars have already been
placed upon the track their lifting being wit
messed by crowd of upwards of five thousand
spectators The cars much resemble those of
the city passenger railways save that they are
larger and more highly finished in back walnut
1t is not expected that the road will be opened
for business before December for although the
pillars are up ms far as Thrteth street. the vaults