The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-01

From Our o,Sn Correspondents 7o
n" NEW YORK, May 81, 1870.
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on Sunday at Irving Hall, where he intends to
set up a new church. The principal, indeed the
only, tenet of the church is that any one may
belong to it who has been baptized and believes
in the divinity of the Saviour. 1t is to be a
church where plain drinks and fancy drinks are
allowable, and where no brother has the right to
frame a teetotal or excise law for any other
brother Whatever you do, drink fair" is the
motto of Mr.. Smythe no less than of Betsey
Prg Fairness in drink with HIM means the
right to swallow everything you want at all
times, Sundays not excepted. Since he was
kicked out by his old congregation, his sermons
have been attended by larger crowds than ever.
People want to see the man who had the auda-
city to set ordinary rules at defiance. This auda-
city is of such a nature that if Mr., Smythe saw
fit he would decorate the communion table
with mint-juleps and administer baptism in Kis-
singer or eau de Cologne.
Mr.. Beecher's Sunday.
But not even big man like Smythe can alto
gether blot Beecher from public memory. He
is always doing or saying something to be re-
membered. 1t may be true that he loves popu-
larity for its own sake, but l don't believe he
strives after the eccentric for the mere purpose
of enjoying notoriety. His recommendations
for the Sabbath are his chief sins in the opinion
of his enemies. What are these recommends
tions? He evidently believes that the Sabbath
was made for man, not man for the Sabbath;
and thinks that we have a right to modify it to
a very liberal degree The opinions he pro-
mulgated only last Sunday have given great
offense, even to some of his friends. By re-
tuning a jocular answer to member of the
congregation who invited his attention to a
patent fastener for blinds, he countenanced
laughter in church. By announcing that no.
thing should ever induce him to put his name
to petition that cars might not run on Sunday,
he countenanced work on the Sabbath day. By
affirming that he would like to see the whole
church as profusely decorated with flowers as
his pulpit was he countenanced a frivolous ex-
pendture of money that might better be given
TO the poor. So cry the cavillers. Oh if the
poor only got but little of that money which
croakers among Christians say ought to be
spent on them, there would not be so many
vagrant families sitting homeless and houseless
on the stoops of New York.
Superintendent JOurdnu.
The new Superintendent of Police is making
himself terror to the sergeants in the various
station houses. His plan is to visit them in
person at unexpected hours, such as two or
three in the morning, when those supposed to
be on duty are in reality relaxed in sleep. In
this way he has startled the officials in several
station houses. Yesterday morning he visited
nearly dozen before daybreak. In one q SER
geant was stretched upon a table fast asleep. In
another the policeman who should have been on
duty in the park was snoozing behind door.
In one or two cases drink had united with sleep
in producing supplying effects In all of them
the sudden irruption of the Superintendent cre-
ated an immense flutter and stir. He has come
to his work with the determination to create a
sensation in that department. He has created it.
I,.11N Nf &hAA Af
and lDe prudence of an older one. Superintendent
Kennedy may be said to have been blase with
the positive of duty. Perhaps Jourdan will be
when he has seen as much of it. There is
plenty of work for him to do in the field of
reformation. The overhauling of the station
houses, important as it is, is only one of the
many necessary innovations that await him.
But it will probably be some weeks before he
gets through with it. There are worse evils in
them to be remedied than that of sleeping SEN
tinels.
The Season.
The amusement season is drawing to close.
The hour approacheth when the green curtain
shall descend to rise no more, until next fall,
upon permanent stock companies. At Booths
and Wallack's the regular season closes with
next Saturday. At Booths, edwin" provided
last evening collation. for the behoof of New
York critics and editors, and in honor of his pa
in-law, Mr.. McVickar. That gentleman COM
menced short engagement as peter Pomeroy"
in Mr.. Gayler's play of Taking the Chances. Mr..
DAILY, of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, is said to
have deeply offended, with three exceptions, the
dramatic editors of New York. The cause of
this offense is that the occasion of the supper
he recently gave at the st. James Hotel, in honor
of the hundredth performance of Frou-FrOu,
the only dramatic editors invited were Mr..
Winter of the Tribune, Mr.. Morris Phillips of
the Home Journal and Mr.. Roosevelt of the
Citizen and Round Table. The question which
the other dramatic editors are said to ask them
selves is, "Be we dramatic editors, and
suffer such dishonor ?' Echo answers,
t'Not If we know ourselves" The snub-
bed dramatic editors-a portion of
them at least-are said to have formed
''ring," the inviolable resolution of which is not
to visit the Fifth Avenue Theatre upon the first
production of Fernando, and not to bestow upon
that play any notices other than the merest
business necessities demand. By publishing
Mr. Cooneys name as the translator and adapter
of Fernando, the manager hopes to get the
Herald on his side, Mr.. Cooney being the chief
theatrical writer for that celebrated casuist in
art. But in this expectation he will find himself
profoundly mistaken for the Herald is so afraid
of the possibility of its columns being venally
used by its employees, that probably no notice of
Fernando will be permitted by the proprietor to
appear therein. This is the latest newspaper
theatrical chit-chat. Next Monday we are to
have at Niblos the play of Not Gully, which
good Mr.. Hemphill produced SO successfully
ever so many months ago at the Walnut Street