The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-15
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From Our olon Correspondent

New YORK, Sept. Ia, 1870.
Newspaper OhivnIry.
The jealousies, envyings, aud bitternesses and
chickering's of every kind which the maj ority of
newspaper men are prone to, give point to the
inquisitiveness expressed in the question os to
what has become of the chivalric newspaper
mansethat spiritual-minded being who COM
menced his journalistic life with mind full of
noble ideas and the resolution that his lance
shall be broken in the cause of nothing but
honor, justice, and truth? What has become of
that noble-minded stripping, that self-appointed
martyr
Sand has that early hope been blessed with truth
Hath he fulfilled the promise of his youth,
And borne unscathed, mid dangers stormy field,
Honors white cross and virtues stainless shield 2"
am afraid the cross has been trailed in the
mud and the shield has become discolored with
dust Look at the perpetual newspaper enter
prises ia New York Which of them is built
upon the 'eternal principles" of truth and JUS
tice What kind of editors are those
who govern them? What has become
Of those enthusiastic champions of truth, honor,
justice, and integrity? They have been man
ufactured by the hand of Circumstance into
those practical men who for the sake of worldly
prosperity, trample conscience under heel and
put their feelings in their pockets. Sentiment
is hidden beneath an odious and plausible
cynicism, and the aspiration which once had
the world is now limited to pay
ing ones rent finding boots and shoes for
the little ones, and making both ends somehow
or other meet. The rosy, poetic, and ridiculous
heroisms of youth are good-naturedly snubbed
by the practical man who once cherished them
and placed faith in them until he found they
''didn't pay" He discovered one day that, like
the classical drama, the eternal principles Of
right as a rule of action, do not draw well,
and the day after making the discovery he de-
cided to be henceforth on the make. He came
TO the conviction that heavenly was
a charming ingredient in piety, but that the
average business man did not seem to see the
use of it, and that the process of turning the
ideal he had imagined for himself into the real
of daily life was more exasperating than the
literal casting of pearls before swine.
''NIan and Wife,"
This dramatization was last night produced at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and opened the fall
and winter season at that establishment. Mr..
Daily vaingloriously announces that the adapta-
tion is his own; but if so it is merely an adapta-
tiion Of an adaptation by Wilkie Collins himself,
the original dramatzation having been so
changed as to suit the requirements of the Ame-
rican stage in general, and of the Fifth Avenue
Theatre in particular. The final curtain did not
fall until nearly quarter past IL o'clock. Some
portions of the dialogue are excessively weari-
some, evidently prolonged in order to allow the
scene-shifters and carpenters time to set the
scenes. But the general style in which the piece
is placed upon the stage is really superior to
that to which the public has been accustomed.
Some of the scenes are eXquisitely painted,
and are magnificent in effect. The furniture
and ornaments are very sumptuous, and the
imitation of thunder and-lightning shower
'startlingly real, as the conventional epithet
is. The forked lightning looked like gigantic
spiders web, spun out of gold. There was an
Interesting debM-that of Miss Clara Morris
who comes from the West, and who, except
when she manifested tendency to colloquial-
ism, was forcible, intelligent, and impassioned.
She appears TO be very useful addition to the
company, and has an interesting but not beau
tful face. Mr.. Harkins, as "Geoffry Demayn,"
performed some athletic exercises with cork
Oumb-bells, and made burlesque of the part.
Nilsson
arrived this afternoon, and proceeded imme-
diately to her rooms at the Clarendon Hotel.
There was no demonstration" of any conse-
quence. We were civilized enough to allow her
to proceed quietly to her destination.
Floating Fragments.
The Coroners jury charged with investigating
the Nathan murder met to-day and adjourned,
no further developments in the mystery having
been made.
1t is proposed by some of the Park Commits
sioners to "Japanize" the park-that is, to so trim
various trees and shrubberies as to represent the
TO ms of ships, birds, and four-footed animals.
hope that this proposition will not be seriously
entertained by the Commissioners as a body.
We no doubt need to learn something from the
Japanese, as well as from several other nations,
but the art of giving an air of monstrous artif-
ciaity to nature herself is not of the studies
we ought to feel anxious to be interested in.
Relapsing fever averages five cases per day
here, and is confined to a few crowded quarters,
such as portions of West Twenty-sixth street,
West Seventeenth street, and collection of
shanties at Observation-Disclosures street
and Eighth avenue. OF the thirty-three cases
of relapsipg fever reported last week, these
localities provided nearly one-half.
ALI BABA.
THE dramatic critic OF the Public Record thus re-
ters TO the merits OF oX's American Theatre. That
the ouses are crowded. and the entertainment first