The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-24

Ellerman, said he, els seriously affected by
the overweening vanity which they exhibited
in estimating their own talents. According
to them, the troupe was composed entirely of
GA No. frst-class artists, with the single
exception of Miss Elerman. Their preten-
sions we're ''supremely ridiculous" Their
impudence and conceit made it entirely i'm
possible to accept their testimony upon musi-
cal matters. One of them in particular,
named Drayton, to the audacity of rating
Caroline Richings on par with Adelina Patti,
added the still more hideous effrontery of
''styling himself first-class baritone" With
fine touch of sarcasm. Judge Cooley adds
'Ihere may be grave cause to doubt whether
the musical talents of the witness, Drayton,
are such that his name will be handed down
to posterity as a musical prodigy; but there
certainly can be no doubt that, through the
judicial archives of this State, he will be
known by succeeding ages as one possessing
those peculiar mental traits which entitle per-
sons to compulsory and oftentimes protracted
residence in lunatic asylums.' OF course, after
this Miss Ellerman got her money.
Unfortunately the jurisdiction of the Sixth
District Court of New Orleans in matters of
criticism does not texistend to New York andper
sonally we do not look for much relief under
the important precedent established by Judge
Cooley decision. 1t would be great COM
fort to the bewildered journalist and a boon
III
Cooley's could be established at the City Hall
or the Tombs for the instant trial and SEN
tence of musicians and actors and the author
itative solution of all manner of lyric and
dramatic difficulties. What dignity would be
added to the art of criticism when it thus be-
came something in the nature of chancery
practice we need not stop to point out. The
public, which sometimes declines to accept
the opinions of the journalists, especially
a. II fz.l L. L.
pressed with the Judgment of a regular
court, formally recorded by the clerk
and stamped with the official seal. And then
think how many nuisances we should be rid
of The critic of sociable turn, who writes
his notices" with the aid of the managers
brandy and cigars, and sometimes comes to
grief Gas he often did last week at the Rink
Jubilee) by trusting the promises of the pro-
gramme without witnessing the facts of the
performance; the confidence reporter, with q
voracious appetite for passes the musical
agent, who haunts editorial-rooms with en-
treaties for preliminary puffs, and thinks it
SO hard if we won't copy the flaming folly of
some infatuated critic for the country press;
Captain Costigan, who wants you to write up
his daughter, Miss Fotheringay, and is disa-
greeably cordial in his invitation to come out
and take drink with him-all these affic-
tions of the editorial profession would be
avoid. Think what we might have
been saved if the Boston Jubilee, for
instance, could have been judged by a
regular court instead of a defenseless
person like the musical critic of the
Iaibune! Shall we ever forget how that un-
fortunate man was scorched with the scorn
of Boston and prodded with q thousand pens
because he laughed little at the sacred shed
on the Back Bay? Did MT we tremble at our
T,,l Exyox
full Boston reporters taking notes with such
vicious energy? And shan't we catch it some
time or other, when they have leisure to do
full Justice to the occasion! The charming
young lady who sent us such a pretty note
the other day, and called us a Contemplate
miscreant' because we omitted to mention her
pet society; the ferocious Hebrew who pro-
posed to skin everybody in the building be-
cause we did not like his sisters singing-ah,
| if all this wrath could be turned upon a con-
stituted court, with plenty of policemen to
protect the bench and fines, aud imprison-
ment and all that for any victim who made
| a fuss, how much happier we should be, and
what peace would reign in Printing House
Square !! Then, again, criticism would be SO
much more effectual. An artist who disre-
garded the structures of the bench could be
committed for contempt of court. Against a
tenor who sang habitually fiat we should have
the remedy of an Injunction, and when a
prima donna lost her voice she could be ruled
out under the statute of limitations. The
selection of suitable judge might be attended
with some difficulty; but perhaps it would not
cost great deal to import Cooley. -
TURKEY IN THE WINNEBAG0 TRIBE
From tie Washington pa Reporter. eIt
The appointment of Wayne McVeigh as
Minister to Turkey is certainly one of the
most unlooked-for and extraordinary things
that General Grant has done since he became
President, and if it has been his purpose to
startle the public by the oattre character of his
selections he has undoubtedly succeeded most
admirably. That young and third-rats
country lawyer should be fixed upon as the
representative of the American nation at an
important foreign court is undoubtedly
without parallel in the history of diplomatic
appointments. Mr.. McVeigh ia to be sure, {
very decent young gentleman and, so far as we
know, bears an irreproachable private charac
ter. 1t is also true, according to the best in
formation we can obtain, that he is in pool
health and needs the softer and balmiel
breezes of a more genial climate; but we fai
to see that these are irresistible reasons VIII,
he should be sent abroad at the expense o
the United States Government, adorned witt
rank and an honor which have heretofore
been conferred only upon those who meritet
them by distinguished services rendered t.
the nation. There are a vast number O
young lawyers in Pennsylvania, possessed o.
Just as much talent as Mr.. Wayne McYeigh
and equally meritorious in every other regard
to whom the breezes of the Bosphorus ar,
of view, and would, doubtless, be ever,
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