The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-25
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world was resigning itself with more than usual
feryor to the prayer and penitence of the lenten
season. To far as public amusements are con-
cerLed, however the peniteutial feryor Is not
AZ all visible, and Roman Catholic and Eplsco-
palian piety evinces ITSELF for the most part, In
half and half smatter of religious observance,
which bears as much resemblance TO the
genuine article as the widow out of mourning
does to the new made ''nsttutious" whose hus-
band Is just laid in his grave, or as the gay
apparelled Quaker does TO the orthodox victim
of grey gowns and poke bonnsts. The religion
of the past six weeks, 80 far as fashionable New
York is concerned, has been drawn with such
an amazing "head" on, that nothing but froth
can be distinguished, add the thing has no body
to 1t at all.
Apropos of religion. the Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage, lately of Philadelphia, has just been
installed as pastor OF the Central Presbyterian
Church. in Schermerhorn street, near Nevius,
Brooklyn. In the absence of the Moderator of
the Presbytery of Nassau, the Rev. Mr.. Pome-
roy, of the Ross Street Presbyterian Church.
conducted the exercises and propounded the
usual constitutional questions. The Rev. p. d
Oakley, of Jamaica, delivered the charge to the
pastor, the Rev. DR.. Van Dyke that to the
people. and the Rev. Or. Wells of Williamsburg
oficiatcd IN miscellaneous manner. Mr..
Talmage will succeed in Brooklyn, and in
these days the success of minister depends in
agreat degree upon the same causes that con-
tribute 10 the success OF an actor or an orator.
Mr. Talmage, though by no means a hand-
some man, is magnetic one, and Is besides a
muscular Christian, and can "proye his doctrine
orthodox by apostolic blows and knocks" He
used to be one of the favorite pupils at the
gymnasium of Hidebrand & Lewis, at the
northeast corner of Ninth and Arch streets
Philadelphia; and have no doubt that in the
weightier matters of the law he is Just as efficient
as In handling the dumb-bells and that his
sp ritual travail more than keeps pace with
his Indian club exercise. II Is fair to presume
that he has benefited by the change. will not
say that no minister ever hears a "call" to q
pulpit where less salary is given than the one
he has been receiving; but the understanding
In the Schermerhorn street church is that Mr..
Talmage gets $1,000.
Mr.. Be-gh, the interchangeable mediator be-
tween the suferings of brutes and the sins OF
their masters, has had his feelings cruelty lace.
rated during the past few days. In the first
place, be has. discovered some turtles whose
clippers had been purctured, and who were
enduring Brothers-Davenport like agonies in
being tied together and packed that way for
transportation; and, in the second place, he had
run foul of the man with the bear. To bring to
Justice both the turtle-torturers and the bear
belaborers required but little time, and
into court, accordingly, were turtles
bear, and men marched, with Mr. Bergh and a
posse OF policemen at their head. To see the
President of the 8. p. G. A. standing there
before the bar of justice, with the bear on one
side. and the turtles on the ether, and surging
nj ha fanao Of fho I'm
spectacular specimen of the moral sublime. The
delinquen.s were all cent up In default of bail,
aaa then Bergh, having got up an appetite, went
home to his turtle soup in triumph.
Any stranger in the city who has not seen
Horace Greeley, but who has a desire to witness
that slouch hat aud that demoralized coat, has
an excellent opportunity at the poultry show
up at the Empire Skating Rink. The rink has
been recovered from its original purpose, and
Is plenteously stocked with every variety Of
poultry from every quarter of the world. There
have already been more than q thousand entries
of birds, other animals, AMI implements, and
amongst all the confusion and upr0ar of the
place may be distinguished the voice of Horace
expatiating with shrlll eloquence upon
the batching of chickens and the
utility of apple-trees as hen-roosts.
The desire of the countrymen to get
sight of Horace, and at least touch the hem OF
"that old white coat,"is very great. The coat.
by.the-by, is not old, and it is not white at this
season of the year, whatever 1t may be in
summer. 1t is of greenish hue and sufficiently
sloucby IN nature to correspond to the hat On
Tuesday, while he was lecturlDg, man bearing
evidences about him of Pennsylvania Dutch,
walked up TO one OF the doorkeepers at the
Rink aud asked to be shown Horace Greeley,
ss he had been informed that accomplished
somnsmbulst was present. Greeley was
at that moment addressing the crowd
on the purpose of and benefits arising
from the New York state Poultry So
ciety, and the doorkeeper Indicated him with
his index finger, and contemptuous chats
him. intended TO be expressive of disdain OF
the inlerlocutor's ignorance. "Here!" ex-
claimed the countryman in a stage whisper,
and thrusting one dollar noe into the hands
of the astonished doorkeeper, "You puts him
NIT your pocket, py tam! Dat ist all RIGHT |
You show me Horace Greeley, dat list gootw
and hereupon the coun'rymau cropping his way
silently back, turned, as be neared the door, to
take one last look at the chicken eulosizer, and
finally departed, laughing internally, aud with
the conviction OF having paid an honest price
10 see good thing.
The row between Captain Young, the delec
tive, and the Police Commissioners has termi
mated In the dismissal OF the Captain by tha'
honorable body. As he had already resigned,
he claims the glory of having rendered the act
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