The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-14
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From Our olon Correspondents

~ US naOlJaOle as possible Tor the next year or
so. lie has painted the interior entirely white
and Vornishcd the desks and tables. He has
enlarged the cashiers Office, and opened the
way for the MONDAY to wink in. He has
turned off the gaslight, of which there was en-
tirely too much, and turned on the sunlight of
which there was entirely too little. lie has put
out the thirty fires that were IN full blast last
winter, and placed the maximum at onc-fourth
that number About two thousand dollars
have been expended already, and the clerks of
the old Post Office will probably bc able TO
keep a roof over their heads until that Of the
new one is completed.
Can Mr.. stewart Keep u HotcIe
Who started the rumor that Mr.. Stewart had
purchased the Fifth Avenue Hotel ! am not
prepared to say, but the rumor has been started
and Mr.. Stewart is credited with that purchase.
That he would have made good Secretary of
the Treasury no one who shared in his disap-
'pointment will dispute, and that he has been
almost miraculously successful as merchant
every one acquainted with the liberal manner in
which he conducts his establishments will admit.
But whether he can keep hotel is q question
yet TO be determined. Perhaps this is only a
tentative effort preparatory to his undertaking
the management of that celebrated working
women's hotel which has so long been
talked Of At any rate, it is not to
be believed for n moment that he
embarles in any of these enterprises with the
Intention and desire OF making money. On
the contrary, during his recent visit to the
Queens County Agricultural Fair he solemnly
assured the PresCNut of the society that he had
purchased the Hem stead domain with no eN-
psetati0n- of making money, but simply with
the desire to improve and develop the tract
bought, so rs to make ii available for homes
tI,oy. 81
A OinmOnd in the Rough--nud "EScddy."
1t is fair to presume that you know something
oi the history of Reddy the Blacksmith. an
glad TO be able to add his name
to the list Of the rcpentant He never
attended a Water street prayer meeting;
he don't have the Police Gazette lying in the
folds OF the family Bible, and lie has no equal
predictions for ardent spirits in the shape of
whisky aud ministering spirits in the shape Of
parsons fresh from the pulpit. He has no little
son Chester to maudlinize over while he sings
81 want TO he an angel" and he entcrtains not
the slightest notion of travelling round the
country and furnishing cheap show entertain
ment. In fine, he is not one of those cut-and
dried wic>edcst men who york up into magnii-
cent magazine articles. Hc is simply rullian
whom the newspapers have printers'inked into
infamous notoriety, and who, having acquired
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ruilianisms shall have been porpctrated, now
announces his desire to repent and swear off,
not only from drink, but from bad dOngs gene
rally.
C:olrOnds -ttes in Gotham.
4 Dr. l. w. Hall, of No. POS Broadway, is
organizing Il colony of gold and diamond hunt
ers whose object is 10 emigrate to the new Col
conda, near Hopetown, South Africa. Mr.. Louis
Houd the lapidary to Queen Victoria at that place,
says that The diamonds found there are equal
to those discovered at Bahia aud San Salvador.
1t would scarcely be credited that so great
number Of people were engaged in this eXpcdi-
ton The rooms of DR.. Hall are crowded. and
ne is pcstcred with questions all day long.
Specimens of the soil-siitings from the vicinity
OF Tlopctown are on exhibition at his address,
and among quantity Of two ounces in weight
q number of agates ametlyst5, garnetS, car
blncles. with now and then a very dimInRtiye
Siamond, arc discovered. Alas! the miCroscO-
pic pertinacity with which these sifCings were
examined, proves too sadly the eagernes5 with
c,hich hundreds of advent1rers are ready to run
.NCyrisk for sudden wealth.
Amusements.
At Booths Theatre Mary Warner is being very
carefully rchearsed and its first production is to
be signalzcd by the debut of young lady who
has only lately adopted the stage rs profcs-
sion. At The Fifth Avenue Mrs. Scott-Siddons
draws, ] was going to say large audiences, but
as no audience that could be crammed into that
theatre could possibly be a large one, | will
modify the expression by saying that she fills
the house. As an actress she don't in the OPT
MON of the critical press amount to row OF
pins but so long as the rows oi boxes are salts
fed, presume that neither She nor Mr.. DAILY
srumbles much. 4 multifarlously gifted Bohe-
mian who processes to much experience among
New York newspaper people, once whispered in
my car that any theatrical critic Of this city
could be bought, if you only approached him
properly. have no doubt hg foudly believed
he was speaking the truth, but have equally
As little doubt that he was wrong. There is a
great deal of venality, but there are likewise n
great deal Of artistic culture and conscientious
expression of opinion among the daily and
weekly New York press. AT the same time /
am free 10 confess that have never seen better
acting. or better newspaper criticisms of act
iug, here, than have seen in Philadelphia.
Lord AinsIey's Wedding.
Yesterday was to have been the Weddlng-day
of Lord Anslcy the 'party' whom one of the
Journals here stamped as an impudent adycn-
turer, and who took no punic measures, what
ever private ones he may have taken, to repu-
diate the charge. have no reason for believing
that the wedding did not come of, or that, when
take up to-day's newspaper | shall find full
account of ii therein. The premature sympathy,
however, that IS wasted upon tic bride Is extern
sVe in its character, and the feeling has gathered
@roEud thai the nuptials are 10 terminate In a