The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-21

From Our 0rB COrresDondenL
NEW YORK, July 81, 1870.
Gone Tin TIfpher


begins to become a subject of profound interest
to his fellow-creatures? Tapemeasure and l
W re clerks together. We swept the store out
with The elf-same broom in our days of geesome
boyh, od we ran on the same errands, blotted
tn sam books have written similar letters Of
complaint to the newspapers respecting the
white slaves of the New York dry good stores,
an in other identical ways have maintained our
claims to sympathetic misery. But all this time
had secret contempt for Tapemeasure. Iscorned
the idea that he could ever be worth
salary OF one hundred dollars more year than
mine. [ iidcued his claims to being an ac-
compli.hed window-dresser. ! laughed in my
S eve at the airs he put on when 1T was his
luck to wait on fashionable lady customers.
One fine day. however, it transpires that Tape
m ure falls heir to a million dollars in gold,
left him by a mysterious relative residing in
some obscure village of continental Europe, and
whom nobody ever heard of before. From that
moment profound reverence for Tapemeasure
becomes rooted in my heart against my will.
Ev ,rything 1 have hitherto regarded as mean
and low in him groups itself among the graces
as a wilful but charming eccentricity. He used
to wear jewelry that l knew was borrowed
but that WAS only due to an obscure foreshadow-
ing he had of his present greatness. He
was forever talking to me about the
solendor in which his family lived,
Who, since discovered, subsisted
off the proceeds of little candy store in small
provincial town; but that was merely COM
mendable desire to place his people in favor
able light Money is a wonderful ointment for
moral eyes, and causes them to see virtues where
none were believed to exist before. l don't
know whether it has this effect, or, indeed
wh ether such an effect is needed in the case of
young Italian of this city who has been for
some time past employed as a salesman in one
of our leading dry goods stores. The young
counter jumper has just fallen heir to the sum
of one million dollars, which has been left him
by an Italian uncle of obliging disposition. To the
credit Of the nephew be it sad he accepts the
stu ,tion like a gentleman, without resigning
the one he holds and striding out with a strut.
When last seen he was bending over the counter
with as persuasive glibness as though his pros
pective income did not amount to more than
twice as much day as he had hitherto, in al
probability, received per month. White slaves
how many are there of you that would step so
serenely from measuring out silk aud ribbon to
the conduct of princely fortune?
Tne Price of Chinese Help.
RI Gently made mention of the head of
household who, having tried every variety of
the genus Biddy had fallen back, in disgust, on
John Chnaman, and discovered him to be q
pearl. 1 presume that she deluded HIM and
his wife in some weak moment, when they were
wearied Of rolling tobacco leaves and smoking
opium. Perhaps she promised them fat rat or
consented to sacrifice favorite terrier, but at
any rate she did procure a coffee-faoed pair
from the Orient, and persuaded them, on mode
rate terms, to answer the bell and do the wash
ing, housework, and gardening, whilst she bent
consultation of the culinary taste of the extern
sive household who looked to her for victuals.
If report be true, however, it will not be so easy
aft r all to persuade Mongolians to become
an institution in United States kitchens.
Recently Mr.. Koopmanschoop e Co.,
of San Francisco, were applied
to by New York gentleman who inquired upon
what terms Chinese help could be imported
thence. The reply was that good Chinese SER
wants commanded in San Francisco $40 in gold
per month, with board, and that upon such
terms they might be induced togo to New York!
1t was also estimated that their average passage
hither would cost $50 per head which would of
course ave to be betrayed by parties importing
them. Is Biddy, then, underpaid Is sixteen
dollars per month, in greenbacks, an inadequate
sum for such a compendium of the virtues
Have we depreciat, sd and abused the poor thing
Have we have trodden on the culinary worm
until it has turned and stung Us ? If so, let us
put the bits together by all means, aud see
whether the reptile will wrgge amably STILL
BY all means let us contract with Biddy to pay
her $50 in gold per month for working eight
hours per day.
War at the Battery.
About four weeks ago the Superintendent of
Public Parks warned the sixty or seventy keep
ers of booths and shanties around the Battery
that they must clear out. Some of them had
been there for thirty years, and some even
longer, and remembered the days when the Bat
terry was the principal promenade of the city,
and when the houses in the neighboring streets
were the palaces of the city. Now, however,
Mr.. Tweed, who has been finding out so many
wonderful things, has discovered that these
shanties must give way to the march of i'm.
provement. Yesterday and the day before,
therefore, were devoted to destruction. Early
on the morning of Tuesday the adyance-guard
of the Department of Public Parks loomed in
sight, and the work of death commenced. The
booth-owners most of whom were women,
fought tooth-and-nail in defense of their shan
ties but were of course forced to yield at
length, though one and all kept up q
storm of abuse long after the last
stall had been demolished Mrs.
Bulgruddy, with the tears streaming
down her cheeks and her arms akimbo, swore
that they were nothing but parcel of dirty
thaves, so they were, but that she'd be aiven
with 'em yit. Mrs OFlaherty protested that
she'd have them to know, the bloody mur-
therers, that she axed no odds of the loikes of
such of them, that her fayther was dacent,
honorable man-rest his sowl!-but that he turn
in his grave at such treatment this. This