The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-28

From Our Dun Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 9s, 1869.
The East River Bridge.


The East River Bridge.
There are two or three subjects which periodically
float before the contemplation Of the New Yorker,
and pin him to the conviction that he lives in 60
aheadave city, whose moneyed men will not passvey
allow any other metropolis to get in advance Of It,
One OF the subjects-I will not say delusons-is the
Hanson cab; another is the underground railway
another is the East River Bridge. Like the balls
which the conuror keeps in the air. these topics are
continually being manipulated by parties whose
interest it is to persuade editors constantly to keep
the matter before the public The least unpromsing
of all these projects is perhaps that Of the East
River Bridge. In spite Of the opposition OF the
Union Ferry Company, the idea has begun to assume
definite shape The iron casson upon which the
foundation OF the tower the Brooklyn shore is to
be laid is already being contracted for its cost is to
be two hundred thousand dollars, and its weight
three thousand tons. The foundation OF yellow
Georgia pine will weigh an additional eight thou
sand TONS and the casson is to be sunk into the bed
Of the river to depth Of ftyfour feet below high
water mark The Brooklyn terminus of the bridge
is to be the upper slip OF the Fulton
Ferry, near the foot OF Fulton street.
BY this means Chatham Square and Catha-
rne street in this city will be brought into immedl-
ate connection with the principal business centres
of Brooklyn, such as Myrtle avenue, Atlantic street.
Fulton street, and Fulton avenue. Among the
speedy good things anticipated for this prospective
bridge Is the completion Of the caisson ready for
submersion, within the next two months The
timber foundation was the invention of the late Mr.
Roebng. The work OF dredging the river and anni-
hilatng the old docks is to be commenced at once,
whereat the half-milllon people inhabitants OF
Brooklyn, and the million of New York (speakng in
round numbers) greatly rejoice. An
Anti-MOrmon Fugitive
from Salt Lake City, sweet seventeen in age Scotch
in lineage, and penness in pocket, has just found
friends enough to pay her passage back to Europe,
in vic nf fha ctn ohn TaIlo hor
Mormondom, where she stood in danger of being
forced into marriage with an uxorious sexagenarian
What astonished her there more than any
thing else was the asseveration OF Brigham
Young that the more man was married
the more he was saved, and that unless
man had seven or eight wives his damna-
tion was certain. This and the solicitations OF the
sexagenaran so irrtated her that she made her es-
cape, though at great peril, from the city, threw
herself upon the protection of some United Status
soldiers encamped near, and received sufficient
contributions from them to pay her passage to
Omaha. There she sold sufficient clothes pay her
passage to this city, where she was compassonated
by Harbor Master Thompson. This gentleman laid
her case before some friends who gave money, which
was needed and did not give advice (Which could be
dispensed with; and the young lady, whose name
is Emily Kane, has gone back to Glasgow, there to
describe how she came "Across the Incontinent"
among the fastnesses-and loosenesses- Mormon
dom.
All that we certainly know about
Pere Hyacinthe
Is that nothing whatever can certainly be known
about him. The sang froid with which he treats
b0res; the utter disregard and Indifference he mani
tests towards newspaper Bohemians; the unblush-
ing temerity with which he orders beefsteak, when
there is possible for his not ordering sal
mon or bluedsh-these are about all the points
which his habits Of retcence and secluson furnish
or gossip to batten on
Janauschck.
Because nothing ever finds Its way nowadays into
print concerning Fanny Janauschek, 1t must not be
imagined that she s not hard at work In this city,
studying English, and preparing for her debut. She
8 a woman OF very unusual strength Of mind. When
The says she will do thing, it means something.
She has said for instance that she will learn English
10 as to perform credtably in that language, and
not all the dsparagiug arguments hitherto lavished
ipon her have been able to alter her resolve. II 1t
had not been for her indomitable resolution, she
would never have presumed to come, almost unan-
nounced, to this country, and remain week after
week at the Academy Of Music, performing to au-
aiences which may have appreciated her acting but
by which she was rapidly losing money Per-
haps one fact that makes her disposed to
'Iofe" the American people is that she is voted
passee in her country and in Berlin for instance,
will not, it is likely, ever set foot as successful
again. In this country we are not so
to be no longer young Were Charlotte Cushman,
for instance to reappear here upon the stage, her
would be as crowded and enthusiastic
rs they were twelve or twenty years ago. 1t is un
erstood that when Janauschek debuts in English 1t
will be In conjunction with Mr.. Booth, in Shake
spearian characters.
Barney Williams.
MIR. Barney Williams has been showing
his handsome face and his neatly-ftting
gloves at all the newspaper offices in Gotham where
he has personal acquantances and friends. His pur
pose in doing this has been to take solemn leave OF
them before departing for California and Australia
With all his merits, Barney cannot rest easy under
the though. that Mr.. Wheatley should be one or two
hundred thousand better of than he; so, to ensure
dying worth half million, he is commencing the
present tour Mrs. Williams, who is the pink of
coblness and good sense, would gladly rest but she
has listened to blarney-I should say Barney-and
taken up the burden OF theatrical life again, saying
sadly, at might have was"
A new mode OF
Settling n Bank Account
was illustrated yesterday morning at the Citizens
Savings Bank at the corner OF Canal street and the
Bowery. or that bank Mr.. Charles W. Held is the
paying teller and Mr. James Lillias OF the bank
depositors Mr. Lias went to the bank, said that
he had lost his handbook, but wanted to draw
his money. Mr.. Held informed him that 1t would
first be necessary to advertise the loss. The depo-
sitor did so and Immediately returned to the bank,
again demanding his money. The teller then in
formed him that he must make an afidavit Of his
loss, and get a new book before he could draw the
money due him. This statement appeared quite to
blind the intellectual and moral faculties OF Mr. Lii
bas; for, although he left the bank at the
time, he returned in the afternoon, de-
manded his money in a loud voice and ex-
cited manner, and before Mr.. Held could
answer him, drew a four-barreled pistol from his
pocket and shot at that gentleman twice. The shots