The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-13

From Our o,on Correspondent.
New YORK, Oct. 12, 1870.
Our New CrystaI Palace.


Our New Crystal Palace.
Some months ago mentioned that Crystal
Palace was soon to be built In this city. Since
then the plan has taken more definite shape
and the association has purchased the land
which is at present occupied by some cattle
yards between Third aud Fourth avenues,
above the Yorkville tunnel. The area COM
prises more than twenty-five acres, and COM
mands a really splendid view of Long Island
Sound, New York Bay, Yorkville and Harlem,
Long leland, and the lower part of Westchester
county, East river and North river, and the Pal-
sades. The building is to be thirty-six hundred
feet long and one hundred and fifty wide, and
three of the sides will be eight stories in height.
1t will occupy the four sides of the area named,
with an open central space of about eleven
acres. These eleven acres to be laid out
like garden, to be furnished with statuary,
flowers, and shrubs. The materials out of which
the new building is to be constructed are iron
and glass, and the style of the architecture is to
be extremely ornamental. The capital of the
Association is rated at seven millions of
dollars-a capital quite sufficient to build such
an edilce as New York would have every rea-
son to be proud of, and to cherish as an expo
nent of the amount of architectural skill attained
by metropolitan artists The locality is GER
tainly one of the best for the purposes that
could possibly be selected.
Mr. Tllton and Lager Beer.
If report speaks truly, Mr.. Tllton and reve-
rend brother have got into some misunderstand-
ing respecting lager beer question. The mis-
understanding is so complicated, and partakes
so largely of the convolutions of the Schleswig-
Holstein difficulty, that despair of making the
reader understand, with exactuess, what the
ENHANCEMENT is all about. About three years
ago, it seems that Mr.. Tilton and the Rev. j.
n Of Mt Del m m
together, and that wine upon the table.
Some time after this Mr.. Tton heard that Mr..
Fulton had said that he (Tilton) admitted that
he occasionally used wine for his brains sake
(not, like Timothy, for his stomach's)
Another some time after, Mr.. Tilton was as
sured by a merchant of this city that
Mr.. Fulton had gone into Bowery
restaurant with him (the merchant), and had
there drank several glasses of beer and that he
(Fulton) appeared to be good judge of the
article. These different stories naturally caused
a correspondence between the two reverend
gentlemen, the counter-allegations being rem
dered all the more spicy from the fact that Mr..
Fulton is a temperance preacher and orator, and
Mr.Tilton is, as every one knows, the editor of a
religious" newspaper. What the precise truth
OF the matter is / am not prepared to say; al
though it is interesting to note that the mer-
chant who originally gave Mr.. Fulton his nfor
nation has since written to him, promising that,
in case the matter comes into court, he is ready
to substantiate his statements.
MIR. Beecher's HeterodOx Heaven.
From season to season Mr.. Beecher grows
more and more charmingly heterodox. 1t is
pleasant to see a preacher brave enough to de-
part from doctrines which the greater part of
his congregation have been educated to believe
in, and which they so devoutly cherish. Neither
by the press nor by his brethren of the pulpit
has Mr.. Beecher ever been accused of adhering
too closely to the literal meaning of Biblical de-
scriptions, and this season his departures from
lilerality have been more conspicuous than ever.
Perhaps his summer holidays, communion with
nature, aud looking from nature up to natures
God has had the effect of making him see both
nature and God little more plainly than he has
hitherto done. For those of the orthodox whom
he offends there is sufficient compensation
among the heterodox whom he pleases. Thus,
in his latest sermon about heaven, he gave a
spirituality to the subject, and at the same time
materiality, which many of his hearers had not
hitherto believed in. He insisted that the gates
of pearl and the streets of gold were all meta
phorcal illusions, and plainly meant only to
convey the idea that after all, heaven was be-
yond all description. One of the later of the
many false charges brought against Mr.. Beecher
is that he is spiriualist. There is no truth in
that. He is very far from being a spiritualist
according to the ordinary meanings of the word
spiritualism. He has Investigated the subject
however, more thoroughly than most clergy
men would do, and has gone so far as to pay a
professional spiritual test medium for giving a
-seance at his own (Beechers) house. This, it
must be confessed, is an extent of liberality at
which the orthodox brethren would be shocked.
Janauscheik's Ensish.
Janauschek has appeared at the Academy of
Music, and truth compels the admission that
she does pronounce English remarkably well.
Not, indeed, with the absolute perfection that is
claimed for her by managers aud agents, but
still to so great degree of exactness that no
one not hypercritical will feel disposed to find
much fault with her. Strange to say, however,
the very word which she pronounces with least
correctness is the one upon which most en-
phasis and Importance are to be laid-the name
of the hero. In pronouncing that her original
intonations strike through the thin strata OF
English, and the result is very amusing DAILY,
however, has managed to get some of the most
influential papers on his side. By engaging one
critic to do some work for him, and employing
the wife of another as member of his stock
company, he has won to his side two of the
most Influential papers of New York. He has
also made 1t part of his mistaken policy to smut
such papers dare to say Janauschek is not
greater than Ristori Rachel, Seebach, and Sid
dons all combined. ALI BABA.