The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-07

IN favor OF white, as complexion, but had
Just ss lief be black as white, were it not for my
respect for the prejudlcel ''Nigger" has good,
healthy, chunky sound There is plenty of it,
and the consonants pleasantly fill the mouth
which utters them. "Nigger," however, has
come to be thought Vulgar, and 1 therefore
throw myself back on "colored, person."
''smashed pearl"-I am speaking, uuder peet-
ical figure, of the came thing-bas just as much
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happinees as / have Hence l am glad
TO see hltn In the city horse-car.
| welcome him beside me in church.
will not hear OF his being set apart in the thea
tire, in private cattle pen called THE Niggers'
Heaven" He is my equal, or capable of be-
coming my equal, in all the essentials of man
hood, and consequently when he places his foot
over the lonely threshold of my heart, l always
order an extra plate laid. Consequently do
not think that Horace Greeley Is SO much to be
laughed at for little incident which happened
to him the other evening as he was riding down
town in a Sixth avenue car. When he got into
the car he found il full, with the exception of
slight interval. scarcely large enough for one
person to sit in, between two colored girls.
Ninety people out of one hundred
wou d. Probably have turned up their noses at
euch &C ccommodation and would have preferred
to sta 1d But it was not so with MIR. Greeley.
True to his principles, he sat down between the
two girls, TO the infinite amusement of all the
other passengers, since every one recognized
his moon-like features and the general depravity
of his costume. He had bot been seated there
long before be became the innocent cause of one
of the masculine passengers getting into trou-
BILE. man sitting opposite one of party that
had been visiting the theatre, observing Greeley
thus sandwiched made remark, just loud
enough to be heard by those who were not in
tended to hear it, relative to the complexion of
Mr.. Greeleys nelghbors. The taunt struck
home, and one of the girls, rising, went and
stood over against the man who had made the
remark and deliberately spat in his facel After
thus vindicating the color of her akin, and over
whelming her traducer with ignominy and ex-
pectorston, she resumed her seat, but was COM
PEELED, the next day, to make her appearance at
court, where she repeated her savary assault.
Amasements-I heir Extraordinary scale,
am justified in making as many illusions as
do to the fall and winter season of public
amuseinents, for they certainly promise to be
extraordinary in character. Let me give q
brief resume of the new attractions, as we'll as
of the reconstructed old ones that will be pre-
sented. The performer who will be relied upon
to create the greatest sensation is of course
Nilsson, OF whom a half-length oil painting
which bears q suspicious resemblance to Mad'lle
Bertha Lind has been recently figuring in one
of the principal mdsic stores | hope that the
oil painting has not been prepared upon the
same principle npon which newspaper cuts of
the heads OF distinguished public men are SO
modified to indifferently represent each
pSher Whenever it becomes necessary to
publish obituaries. Nilsson will proba-
bly, be here next Tuesday. Whether
the report that che expects to be
received by the Common Council and to have
procession in her honor be true or not, of
course cannot undertake to say. 4 truly great
prSsr,a donna ought to be pardoned being vain.
Nilsson has been eEtravagantly puffed, to be
sure; but then there can be little doubt that her
merit is immense, and that tarOre will be
justified. 1t is thought that subordinate
sensation will be awakened shy Seebach, the
German tfagedenpe. | am inclined, however,
to think that Grau will depend for success more
upon the three hundred and fifty thousand Ger
mans who he says are in New York than upon
the fashionable circles who contributed 10 the
Historian sensation. There is no probability
that Fashion and Society will act as kindly
to Seebach as they did TO the Italian
queen of tragedy. Within the last two
years Fanny Janauschek has Angliczed her
language, aud Amercanized her nationality,
and Shakspearianized her art. She will act in
English, aud in tragedy, at the Academy of
Music. Al least two new theatres have sprung
into eXistence-that of Miss Lena Edwin, manu-
factured out a Kelly Il Icons recently vacated
premises, aud that of Mr.. Samuel K. Spencer,
bidden forth from the relics of the New York
theatre and DIR. Deweys Unitarian Church. The
highest modes Of tragedy and comedy will con-
tinue to be presented at Booths theatre; the home
of English comedy will remain at Wallacks; at
the Fifth Avenue the several veins of Moliere,
of modern French sensatonsts and of the
newest dramatizations from most popular novels,
will be industriously worked; French Opera
Bouffe Is to flourish at the Grand Opera House,
minstrelism is TO find its representatives among
the San francisco Minstrels the troupe of
Kelly and Leon, and particularly at
new and beautiful little opera-house
in process of building In West Twenty-third
street, near Booths; burlesque viii be irri-
gated at Woods Museum, pantomime at the
Olympic, and Niblo's Garden will be almost the
only New York theatre open to engagements
with extremely popular ''stars." English opera
will be ''pushed" by combination of the forces
which recently sang and fourlshed under the
leadership of Parepa-Rosa and Richings- Ber-
nard, and 1t is expected that Miss Kellogg viii
be an aid in teaching MS to appreciate orato-
rio. You observe, therefore, that the budget is
pretty full. The dramatic and musical critic of
of the period ought TO be man of vast educa-
tion and experience, and very powerful and
accomplished writer, yet habituated so TO ad-
dress the public as TO be almost incapable of
being misunderstood by people of average In
telllgence. Are there any such critics in New
! ORR! Emphatieally, no ALI BABA.