The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-09

alleled in that historic report of the authentic
British traveller who, being asked to describe
the manners and customs of certain islanders
wrote, Manners they have none, and their
customs are disgusting" And where, o
where, were the Unitarians and the Moham-
medans the Parsees and the followers of
Buddha, the Swedenborgans and Miller's
Saints? Where was the gentle Polynesian, or
that isolated savage tribe known as the Moya-
mensing Repeaters? Had they all torn off in
a body, brandishing umbrellas, and crying
''amok, amok, to funeral at the other end
of the town, to which equally they were not
invited, and were they banging down the
doors of the House of Mourning with equal
energy? Royal Jenkins speak, Let us not
burst in ignorance; but tell!
All the invited gentlemen, even the Presi-
dent, wore a remarkable article of dress,
usually black, called ''pants," whose use is
not described; but as one guest is reported
as entering with his right hand thrust deep
in his pants pocket, we take it to be some
useful if not necessary garment. The cos
tunes of the ladies are given with con-
scientious fidelity to the color of their shoe
laces, and the number Of their corsets. All
but one. Once our peeping Tom failed u.s.
Yis not in mortals to command success, but
he did more, Sempronius, he deserved it,
The distinguished Somebody wore black.
ellis lddy'-courtly Jenkins !-''had dark
olll VI WulCu reporter was
unable to gather" Unable, mind After
the ceremony, which was really performed,
notwithstanding that the attention of the
ladies was distracted by the bowling mob,
and that of the gentlemen by that new toy,
their ''pants"-and during which 'the BRIDE
| groom recited the formula without the
prompting of the clergyman, distinctly enun-
ciating" (Which was certainlo q remarkable
| triumph of memory and elocution, the ''for-
hniT1c full tyun and
kins, though he hates him, insists on doing
him that much-admiring justice), the bridal
train left the church, but Mr. and Mrs.
Bishop went over to the pew in which sat MIR.
and Mrs. President Grant, and-talked!
jenkins here audibly fops down on his knees
in the presence of majesty, and relates, with
bated breath, that the President and Mrs.
| Grant sat, but Senator -- and General -
stood! Whereupon we feel bound, in the in
terests of elegant literature, to think of his
tacle, but can't Charles the First
holding Van Dykes pencils comes the
nearest to it. But there is the
difficulty of deciding which represents
monarch, and which artist Besides, it
might have been Francis and Andrew de
Sarto, after all. &c. duly abashed, we follow
the wedding party home, but are grieved to
find that those dreadful Philadelphia 'people
! of all creeds, and people of none, must have
broken into the supper-room before us; for
| though by what we must be allowed to con-
slider a direct interposition of Providence,
| 'the supplies held out till midnight" " Gun
ceasing assaults were kept up on the salads,
ices, etc, etc. renewed attacks, ETC., etc"
| Nothing better could be expected of Jews and
| infidels, of course, but decent people could
not surely be SO rude, not to say greedy. AS
for the presents, ''the display of silverware
alone was as great as can be found in many
stores claiming to be largely in the business,
| etc., etc." 1.-The presents were all carded
with the names of the givers," whereon fol
lows an inventory Of articles with ''the names
of the givers, and nothing omitted but a
price list, which mistake is evidently blunder
of the printer.
We have been forced to omit unnumbered
gems of thought and flowers of feeling, as
our model would describe his own sentences.
But what is here printed will serve as the text
to our sermon Are we reading of Yahoos or
of the fine American of the year of grace 80?
Can we call ourselves civilized while Jenkins
goes unwhipped of justice, nay, paid of
vanity? This wedding was meant to be a
sweet and beautiful family festival 1t has
been made to seem an ostentatious and taste
less pageant. The American of high life
thinks it fine thing to read such an account
as this in the papers. 1t smacks, to him, of
fashionable intelligence, and the Court Jour
nal Thomas Jefferson be praised that we
can never have the compliment of a Court
Journal in this country, but this paste imita-
ton of it is worse than the real thing. A
titled aristocracy, living, IN a sense, on the
people, is, in way, the property of the peo-
pie, and cannot keep itself out of type.
But an American citizen belongs wholly to
himself. The public which pays two cents
for its morning scandal, acquires thereby no
valid title to know whether his wife cleans
her gloves or asks the French Minister to
dinner, nor whether his daughter has seven
dozen solid spoons on her wedding day. OF
not even plated fork. With great acces-
slons OF wealth in the last years there has
come certain vulgar publicity of living
which, while it may make the unthinking
admire cannot but make the judicious grieve.
For the security and privacy and simplicity
of home are the best possession of q people
who have no barriers OF caste to protect then
from the encroachments of an underbred, un
taught, unsensitive multitude. And wher
Jenkins opens wide the door and invites tha
multitude to enter, it is not benefited by
what it sees, and the sacred household god
veil their faces and turn away.
CUBA-A BROAD AMERICAN POLICY
REQUIRED.
From, the " Y. Herald
There seems to be some reserve with tn
administration and consequently an unusua
reticence with the Washington newspaper cor
respondents, on the policy of the Governmen
with regard to Cuba. This leaves room for
good deal of speculation. Consequently tina
portion of the press which evidently is unde
Spanish influence pretends to believe tn
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