The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-18
N II wv o n KI s r2 8.
rom Our oun Correspondent.
NEW YORK, June 1s, 1870
The Indians Again.


Red Cloud and his compatriots have made
great success here. Red Clouds speech at
Cooper Institute on Thursday afternoon is gene
rally admitted to have been the most dramatic
and picturesque revelation of the kind that has
ever been beheld in this city. The speech of
Red Dog too, was full of the broad and biting
arcasm of the prairies. 1t was wonderful that
hese two men, fresh from the uucouveutiouali-
es of forest life, should have been able to
ddress a crowded civilized audience in that
reat sublerranean semcirce known as Cooper
institute. The atmosphere was sckening, but
every seat was taken. All the aisles were
crowded. Each DOORWAY was blocked up.
The perspration streamed in channels down the
faces of the auditory. Handkerchiefs did great
deal of mup-work over inhamed visages. Flies
buzzed, aud the unfragrant steam of cooked
humanity thickened the air of that vast apart
ment. How those wildwood warriors. seated
upon that bare wooden platform must have
pined for one breath from the natural refriEera-
tors of their native lakes and woods and noun
tains Yet in spite of these unpromising sur
roundngs Red Cloud and Red Dog both spoke
wonderfully well, Red Cloud being most remark
able for the stern majesty and profound pathos
of his appeals, Red Dog for his uncouth yet
bitter and pointed sarcasm, which must have
entered some hearts that heard 1t like poisoned
Indian arrow. Not even the slowness of the
Interpretation, sentence by sentence, appeared to
lessen the interest of the auditory to hinder
the vehemence of its applause. The gestures of
both these warriors, but of Red Cloud in particular
were singulary eloquent and noble. 1t was the
perfection of natural pantomime, possessing the
largeness and grandeur which art
altogether affect. 1t has been proposed that
this speech, which was prepared with the as
sistance of General Smith, shall be repeated in
. II the principal cities of the Union. Certainly
it would be better advocate of Red Clouds
cause than any other that could be conceived of.
step-C Chiidren.
By step-children-and more particularly the
step-childreu of New York; do not mean the
children appertaining to a step-father or a step
mother. l mean those pests of society who
beset door-steps after o'clock at night and
make night hideous with noise until long after
the time when the children of sensible parents
ought to be in bed. l know that New York
affects to be great metropolis, but it cherlshes
in its heart of hearts provincialism of which
Philadelphia would be ashamed. In no country
town Will you find half the nuisance arising
from children around door steps after nightfall
that you encounter in this wretchedly preten-
tous Gotham. If you except the more arsto-
cratic streets, such Fifth avenue, Fourteenth
street, Twentythird, Thirty-fourth, and Forty
second, you will not discover a neghbor-
hood that is not, during the summer
months, made intolerable with the bosterous-
ness of the children. Talk of the nuisance
of street cries That nuisance is nothing to the
screams and cries of the children. Rachels
children must have been born dumb, or she
would never have wept for them-at least had
she been of my way of thinking. If you will
point out to me the propriety of allowing ones
front-door steps to be made impossible by imps
wearing the outward form of human children,
all yelling ''shoo-Fly" at the top of their voices
will endeavor to view that phenomenon in
favorable light. Until then, please regard me
as in state of opposition to street children
bordering upon detestation and hatred. A babe
in the house may be well-sprng of pleasure,
but babe on the doorstep is a handspring of
disgust, and its parents ought to be made
to suffer III the internal revenue tax.
A Beautiful Billiard club
Billiard clubs are comparatively new insttu-
tions in this city, although they are well known
on the other side OF the water A handsome and
convenient one is now hourishing on Broadway
near Twenty ninth street. 1t is hundred feet
long, fifty feet wide, contains fourteen tables,
and has three hundred members. 1t is supplied
with all the periodicals of the day. domestic and
foreign; is furnished with fifteen chess tables a
piano. and numerous paintings, engravngs,
statues, and articles of Uertu. A pneumatic
TUBE between IL ana the Coleman House has also
been constructed, through which refreshments
are supplied at a moments notice. One of the
features of the club is that the reading-roum is
kept open on Sundays-after the style of Pha-
delphia. This is where Mercantile Library
failed through the old fogyism of some of its
members. In Philadelphia you have your
library open, and there are some soothsayers
there who connect that impous fact with the
hailstorm that recently devastated you though
whether the hailstorm was to punish the
people who used the reading-rooms of Sabbath
or those who supported the drinking saloons
upon that day, will not take upon me to decide
In New York we cannot keep either the library
or the liquor saloon open, or if do sell liquor
there we do it on the sly. We have not ye
reached that Phiadelphian point of spirituality
in which food for the mind and stimulant fo
the body supplied in simultaneous install
ments The nearest approach we have made Il
in this Billiard Club, where even on Sundays thu
pneumatcally- ly-despatched instalments from thu
Coleman House occasionally take liquid form
and refresh the gentlemen in the readng-room
Satisfactorily Settled.
That wandering Christian and misled indivi
dual who intends to accomplish so much goo
and only succeeds in laundering in to an infnt
quantity of harm, has been surreptitously feel
ing his way about the city at midnight and pla
carding every available point with such peril
nent questions as ''What shall do TO be saved?
Chow can the soul find rest 2" etc. In hi
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