The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-11
MEW YORKISMS.
From Oar osrn oOyrspondsns.

"tVW V@ Vecn O0TTerp0Nd6S&
EEw York, March IL, 1869.
The resignation of Mr.. Stewart Is Of course
he chief topic of conversation alike in bank
fhces and breakfast psrloIs--st least 1t was
esterday morning. To day A. 7. s. sinks into
comparative insiguidcsnce. He becomes the
gone man instead OF the coming man, and all
eyes are turned in the direction OF this latter
monstrosity, ready to gloat upon him with
aA'ectlooate triumph whenever he shall be
pleased to put In an appearance. By theby
what capital editorial that is in the World
to-day, entitled MIR. Stewards Grand
Charity" and dwelling uDon the piety aud
muni6cence of that shrewd seller. If charity is
cold, l am sure he stands below zero, and
perhaps that is preci ely the man we ought to
have had for the Secretary Of the Treasury.
The landlords threaten TO raise their rents
with the 1st OF May, 10 which case there will be
grand exit OF between fifty and one hundred
thousand people from New York. Rents are
already higher than people of limited incomes
can very well stand. However "stratteued"
the tenants means may be, the landlord
Is always devisng "crookedern path
for them to flow into. The new YORK
'1st CT May" system, bythe-by, is one of
the most unbearable systems that was ever
invented in tho memory Of man. Such grand
transformation scene as is witnessed then, in
every other residence of suburb aud city, was
never equalled in the history OF the spectacular
stage, from the era OF the Black Crook down to
that OF Hun,p,y Dunpty. And there Is no reason
why the system adop ed IN large cities abroad
by which tenant is at liberty to leave his
house at any quarter Of the year, should not be
put inte successful vogue here. More than
anything else, it would have a tendency TO
oE.l,i 6rat q ich 10
more of an All FOOLS Day, when looked at in
that light, than the first Of April ever was.
The antic ipated rise in rents is preparing many
q family of moderate means to look out for
homes for themselves in westchester county,
New Jersey, Long Island, and the score Of
suburbs whose focus ~ New York. Year after
year thousands of our people, who hoped to live
and die with the Gotham atmosphere Of their
nativity around them, have been compelled to
radiate away from this fascinating focus, and
lay their heads at night upon pillows very
remote from the central metropolitan mansions
where they we're established in their PALMER
days. And matters have reached now such a
crisis that any further rise in rents will distri-
butte among the environs at least seventy-dye
thousand people whose utmost struggles at pre-.
sent Just enable them to 'live decently.n
The scavenger murderer whom l mentioned
In my last has been examined by the coroner
and held to answer, and mysterious woman
las incontinently died from the effects OF lager
mot laudanum. The woman belongs to the
class who are described, in the language OF the
Morgue, as ''unkuowD." She is thirty years old,
wears a red velvet cap, Grape trimmings, white
handkerchief around her neck, morocco boots,
plaid bordered grey shawl, calico underskirt,
and black overskirt. Had lunch in her pocket
of sardines packed between brown bread and
made into piscatory sandwich. Such woman
of sudden enters a laeer-bser saloon on For
sYth street. asks fer "ein glass" sWallo US the
contents without blowing oil the troth, and
drops down dead. Hao ehe put lau0anum into
it, No one saw her do so, and the coroner not
= being notified of her death until nearly twelve
hours after it happened, no facts have yet been
got Mt, except the mysterious one of her being
spirited away in fly to second-class under
takers on the Bowery. 1t may he a case Of
hushed.up murder, or it may be case of "3e-
terminedn suicide C'determined," OF course,
who ever heard of suicide that wasn't "deter-
mined Ply, or it may be case of death from
natural causes. But in the present state OF
public apprehension, when the shadow of the
elusive "Jlm" is yet hanging over the matutinal
sweepers of area-steps, the prejuiices are in
favor of death by violence.
Yesterday evening was celebrated the first
anniversary of Humpty Dunapty's birth. After
the evenings public entertainment was over,
tables were arranged on the large stage of the
Olympic Theatre, and all hands present "iell
in,n the pluuder consisting of everything eatable
and dripkable that usually figure upon preten-
tious bills of fare. Many of the actors and
actresses OF other theatres were present, and
the theatrical critics of the various daily and
weekly newspapers were largely represented
1t was novel idea this celebration of Hump.y
D,tnspfys birth, one worthy OF the brain of the
conccctor OF the conceits which figure on pcto-
rial pacsrds over all the waste places OF the
city, representative OF the more salient incidents
in the career of that spoiled darling, who, like
other darlings of the public, before this, has
remained so long time ION the fence"
Miss Kellogg has been playing "VIoletta" !" aud
the newspapers have been declaring that she
sings better than La Grange does, and acts
better than Gazzanigadid. To praise Miss Kel-
losg is the fashion. To hint that Patti, Nilsson,
or Tleueus may possibly be her superior proves
you to be either suburban or cynical. The
costumes at the opera, particularly during Clare
Louise's appearances, have been verv gorgeous
Fashionable young men have instituted neV
custom, namely, that of pairing their boards
such of them as have any-ln the middle, Whicl
gives them horny or tGsk-like appearance
very prepossessing. ,ALI BABA.