The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-26

From our OSn Correspondent

held meeting at their rooms adopted the articles
Of incorporation, and appointed committee TO open
subscription books. The Board Of Directors then
met, elected president, vce-presidents and secre-
tary, and everything promises that the company VIII
proceed to business as sufficient funds can be raised.
The subscription books are TO be opened immcdi-
ately at the offices OF Mr. Brandon, No. 1873 Water
street. and of Duncan, Sherman ~ Co., Nassau
street. ! think the Hanson cab system Will succeed
here The people who ride in passenger cars Will
ride in them none the less, and the quantity Of
forced pedestrians who in vain seek entrance TO the
Broadway stages viii stand greater chance of ac-
cOmmodation than ever before, now that the
supply is about to be considerably Iessened by
the withdrawal Of that large class of gentlemen who
hustle downtown at 10 o'clock in the morning and
up again between and in the afternoon. The rule
which excludes a thirteenth person from seat in a
Broadway stage is very vigorously observed, and
there are but few cases in which Infringement OF
It is sought II is a tacitly understood one. No
printed regulation is posted up; rule to that effect
has ever been recognized by any stage company
But the passengers themselves have found it conve-
nient to maintain il, and the only who seek to
break it are the Doras and FlOras, who rush in
where masculnes fear to tread. The male creature
would no more think of attempting to occupy seat
in a Broadway stage which already accommodates
full dozen than the most superstitious OF old maids
would dream OF making the thirteenth at a Christ
mas dinner That thirteenth seat is most positively
not for Joe, though Josephine, who travels on her
cheek, may occupy it. Therefore l think that the
Hanson cabs will be grateful acquisitions to gentle
men who don't care for few shillings way or
the other, and who smngly occupy the footboard of
an omnibus, when cOnventiOnality ordans it, in all
sorts Of weather.
have never yet read sensation novel in which
the heroine was charming kleptomaniac, though,
should imagine, a perfectly irresistible creature
might be manufactured out of such material. Such
one was Miss Rebecca Fitch, belonging to a wealthy
New York famly-yOung, pretty, and apparently
sursOunded by everything to make her happy and TO
keep her innocent These privileges and restraints
however, could Rot prevent her from taking what
did not belong to her, and though still quite young
not more than twenty, should thnk-she has al
ready served out two terms of Imprisonment one in
the State Prison and one in the pententiary. She
was up yesterday for the third time, charged with
stealing clothing and jewelry from q residence in
Fourteenth street Since she young and pretty,
it is a wonder she did not Ego down" with "Gunny"
| Bedford, who, as Judge, pronounced sentence OF
| three years against her in the State Prison. The
Judge has luscious taste in youth and beauty and
therefore deserves all the more credit for restraining
| himself
b The religious and the quict-lOyng citizens are much
disturbed at the prospect of having their rest and
their religion broken in upon next Sabbath by the
grand procession which has been talked of in con-
nection with the decoration of soldiers graves. In
Brooklyn the celebration will take place on Satur-
day, and If cupidity can find the heart to grant the
people an unwonted holiday, the propriety of making
next Saturday that holiday in this city also would be
very deeply felt. AS at present contemplated, II
great procession is TO march TO Cypress Hills Gene
tery and organize an impromptu pre-Fourth-Of-Juy
affair, in which the blatant mouhngs of self-seeking
demagogues shall contrast with the voiceless eo-
quence OF the patriot dead
Although, at it's last session, Congress passed
law locating the site Of the Post Ofice nothing
whatever towards building that Post OniCc has been
| done by the commission in whose hands the matter
| was placed. Nor does the commission so much as
vouchsafe reason Tor its lethargy, preferrng to
behave with that gentlemanly reticence and disdain
| which characterize health inspectors, building in
spectors, and creatures Of that kind. The only sur
mise afOat is that Mr. A. Il. Stewart does not ap-
prove OF the site designated by Congress- and thinks
his store, some hundred feet above the spot selected
! in City Hall Park, a much preferable place In
| other words, Mr.. A. r. Stewart is in want of a job
ana thinks he scents one in the new Post Once. He
| smells rat, and no wonder, when it is considered
that the old Post ONCE, at the intersection of Nassau
and Liberty Streets is nothing more than an immense
rat-hoe. No market shambes ever more
anicted with rush of rats than the Old Post ONCE
! shanties are. The smell Of carrOn is round the
| place. and how the clerks manage to carry their
business is more than the new Postmaster tell
Some portions OF the roof keep out the rain bet
| ter than an old penthouse would. Fulton Market
would answer quite as well for the post official hus-
ness Of New York as this scandaOus old building
"a
! job might be forgiven, and his wholesale store
bought up, if only new Post Oice would be the im
mediate result.
Rather warm weather for murder but it has come
all in lump this week. greatly to the qualification of
! local editors TO whom it is so much 'meat" We
have had murder in MoTisania, in which man
was literally dubbed to death by his neighbor
another murder on Monday night, in the Eleventh
ward, in which one bully shot another through
the head, the sequel to long-chershed enmity; and
almost a triple murder ON Sunday by frenZied
wretch, who strOye first TO hammer out the brains Of
his wife and daughter, and then to shoot himself IL
seems as though murder and mercury rise together,
and that when the thermometer is at its highest the
passions are far above bood-heat too There is not
so much affinity between cool weather and crimi-
nay; and IS it not true that temptation will always
leave You to your reflections if you give her the
| cold shoulder?
The readers of the New York Herald, if they
peruscd the advertisements OF that sheet, will per-
haps recOllect small notice which appeared at in
tervals among the theatrical advertisements to the
| effect that Ladies' Museum of Anatomy was
| shortly to be opened. That institution is at last
| opened. 1t. is situated over the Male Museum OF
Anatomy, at once a mOnstrOus and u moral eXhibi-
tion, and is under the proprietOrship OF man named
| Beck. III l should mention all the wonders u
| contains, II might with some reason
be urged that this letter not precisely the sort Oh
thing 10 be read aloud in the family circle. the new
museum, however, rejOCeS in Venus de Medlcl
and an Apollo Iieyidere, and is supplied like dol
laI store, WIN females only in attendance; Inc 9
doors are opened from A. M. until q I. NJ, anu
tne msntutlon only needs TO be taken in charge Dy
'sOrosis or 'WorkingwOmens Association 10 3 oe-
come the great leVer II was intended 10 De III I1
elevaIoh oi Ihe sex! Whether gentlemen ure f nu-
mltted the handbis do not state the wording being
caIeluly framed 30 as TO remain ambiguous upon
| MIR, Lefinowen s at tl,o ron,roonv enacting the