The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-25

Prom Our 0ssn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov 95 1862
The Way of the Transgressor.


arrived In this city which was destined to be the
scene OF her greatest failures and successes. In the
course OF q year or two she married a man named
Leese, who subsequently became notorious thief,
and finally abandoned her. Thrown upon her own
resources, abe opened hotel, and proved her
ability to keep It. She kept it so well that she
made no less one hundred thousand dollars. She
was too beautiful and bright, though either to re-
main the hostess OF o first-class hotel or to live
quietly and comfortably on the means she hal
amassed. Her first husband had been thief. SO
far fr0m learning wisdom from this mistake she
married again-and politican The consequences
were that she sank lower and lower, aud after few
years became one OF the most dazzling pickpockets
In the annals OF metropolitan crime. Her pick
pocketing career has been long one. Yesterday 1t
came to an abrupt termination, for the present at
any rate. Reduced to her last penny, she was ar
rested for attempting to steal forty cents from the
pocket OF passenger in a city railway car. Her
sentence was severe one-three years in the State
Prison. Even with such long career at her heels,
she is only thirty-hve, with sufficient remains OF
beauty about her to argue that she must have been
extremely handsome once. Her manners are just
as ''takng" as her propensities, and coupled with
Mr.. Charles s. Spencers eloquent appeal to the jury
in her behalf, were all but sufficient to counter
balance the District Attorneys address and the
Judges charge.
panic has seized on the members OF the Fat
Mems Association and displayed itself at the meet
ing yesterday at the Revere House. Hitherto their
proceedings have been characterized by as much
smoothness as though their own bodies had fur
nished the necessary OIL But the question that now
perpexes them is, where are the fat women to come
from7 To give artistic completeness TO the ball
which is to take place in December, fat females
Indispensable. 1t was fondly trusted that the
necessities OF the hour would develop them, just
as a crisis in a nations history inevitably brings to
the surface the hitherto submerged hero who has
been so long invisible yet anXiously awaited
That any quantity Of ladies will be present is no.
thing more than the plain fact; but ethereality Of
FORM that quality 80 Indispensable to the average
ballroom is the very thing not wanted there. The
belle Of the room will not be the handsomest woman
but the heftiest; and she who can make three hun
dred-weght kick the beam will be the champion
bouri of the hour.
Photographic the Elephants.
These distinguished residents of Central Park
were yesterday interviewed by photographer for
the purpose OF having their pictures taken and
placed in the gallery along with other geological
swells AS might have been expected, the aged ele-
plants who were first placed in "possh" conducted
themselves with perfect decorum, and from the
points OF their tails to the tip of their prOboscises
never stirred muscle The operation was wit
messed by large assembly of park VISITORS includ-
ing occupants OF the invalid chairs and of the little
goat carriages When It came to be the infant ele-
plants turn, however, then commenced the trouble
With less correct intuitions respecting the nature
and uses of the camera, one young one In particular
obstinatey persisted in turning his back and tail to-
wards 1t, to the astonshment OF the photographer
and the Indignation of the keeper. In vain
the keeper turned the animal round,
staked him, fed him, coaXed him, and beat him; the
cloth was so sooner removed and the process of
photographng commenced than the animal wheeled
round and presented for contemplation portion OF
his body which, however useful to himself,
is scarcely eminent as an object Of
beauty and certainly not calculated to elevate and
refine the feelings as picture. After repeating this
playfulness several times, and invariably winding it
up by making of at full speed pursued by small
dogs and the curses and cudgelings of his keeper,
he was at length brought to bay quite out of breath
and allowed himself to be taken first by the atten-
dant and then by the photographer.
At Home on December 2.
The Christian young men who belong to the asso-
citation of that name. Their new building will be
opened next Thursday. 1t is nearly finished, and the
books pictures, and other appointments which de-
corated the old building are being taken there this
week. The lecture-room on the second floor will
comfortably seat one thousand. The chairman OF
the music committee has made the association pre-
sent of very handsome organ. The library and
reading-room are on the third hoor and occupy two
OF the finest rooms in all New York The library is
two stories in height with extremely large windows
fronting on Fourth avenue, the bookcases being
built into the walls all around, and reached by iror
staircases similar to those in the Astor Library AL
the appointments OF the new building are calculated
to make Christianity seem not incompatible with Tho
luxuries OF life. Cold comfort is occasionally thu
only sort OF comfort realized hy the furniture o
churches and other religious ediaces; and the new
mansion inhabited by the Y. NJ G. A. is in pleasan
contrast to these.
A Museum of Art.
We are to have museum of art in this city. 1t 1
not very long ago since American citizens in Europ
forwarded to the Art Committee OF the Unio
League Club in New York memorial suggesting
the Importance of early measures for the establish
ment of q Metropolitan Art Museum. In respons
to call made by that committee, meeting ha
been held at the Union League Theatre, and MI
Bryant was appointed chairman Several ideas bear
ing upon the subject OF an art museum were throw
out by various speakers. IL was proposed, for In
sJance to have the museum erected In Central Parh
and IT, very laudable belief was expressed that in
few years we could line the art galleries OF such
building with as choice copies from original pain
ings and as exquisite casts from antique sculptur
as any that adorned the many costly and celebrate
museums of European continental cities. set {
resolutions was also adopted to the effect that
committee OF citizens, properly representing th
various organizations and individuals directly or II
directly Interested ia the erection OF an art museum
should at once be appointed, and that to them tf
whole subject should be referred. Fifty gentleme
were then appointed on the committee-genteme
who, If may Judge by the names, have abundal
resources for pushing on such an enterprise eth
by the expenditure Of their wealth or their Judgme
In art, or both together
Making Another MnH's VIII.
rather singular will case is before one OF u
Brooklyn courts. Last August, farmer nam'
Bone who lived near Cypress Hills Cemetery, die
intestate. He was a widOwer, had grown-up daug
ter and left ten thousand dollars Upon learning tf
fact one Bergerman, who had been an intlma
FnIu AxufII hut