The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-21

From Our 0iOn Correspondent
Mr.. swectzcr's Funeral. y

New YORK, Feb. 81, 1870.
MIR sveetzer's Funeral.
The remains of the dead Journalist Mr.. Henry
T. sweetzer were on Saturday afternoon taken
from his recent residence in East Twent ieth
street, and conveyed to DR.. Adams Presbyterian
Church, Madison Square. Mr.. Sweetzer had
been a member of this church, and large num-
Der OF his former friends were gathered there
for the purpose of paying him the last sad
honors. Among those present were Mr.. Man
ton Marble, of the World; DIR. w. Chalmers
w. @. Croly, I. M. Adams, e. Van Falkenbergh,
f. Seymour, G. II. Woodruff, and e. Carpenter.
DR.. Adams wisely did not prolong the sad SER
vices to an undue length, his remarks being
brief and limited to what he knew-and he was
well fitted to judge-of the private character and
spiritual attainments Of the deceased. Mr..
Sweetzer was a useful rather than q brilliant
journalist, belonging to that order which is in
dispensable, and from the mere fact of being 80,
paradoxical as it may seem, have duties to per-
form which never blazon themselves and rivet
attention, but require to be transacted la quiet
ness and unobtrusiveness. It was in this spirit
that Mr.. sweetzer performed all that fell into
his hands He was indeed noted for the con-
scientious and modest energy with which he
transacted every business duty.
Two PuzzlInR Points.
There are two puzzling points which New
York finds 1t impossible to make up its mind
about One is, What is relapsing fever? The
other is, is Mr.. Fechter great actor? On these
respective points the doctors and the critics
equally disagree among themselves. For in
stance, with regard to reapsins fever, one set
of doctors asserts that 1t is an extremely old dis
ease-as old as those metaphysical hills which
the good book terms everlasting, and which have
become proverbially expressive of intense an
tiauity. This set of doctors asserts that 1t was
both caused and cured in this city twenty-five
years ago; that 1t is confined to poor places and
people, and that it is lingering but not dan
gerous. Another bevy of wise men insists that
it is something entirely new and startling and
that they have in the midst of them pheno-
menon with which they know not what to do.
Precisely this dilemma Mr.. Fechter creates
among the critics, and, for the matter of that
among the public who have been to see him.
In the columns of the Tribune Mr.. Winter has
as brilliantly blackguarded him as the gentle
Willie could approach blackguarding any one.
In the World Mr.. Wheeler POLITICALLY perspires
over him on week days, and is suspected to be
identical with the "Nym Crinkle" who, on
Sunday write column of smart sententious
sayings about everything, without committing
himself about anything. Gossip lifts up her
hands and eyes, and swears that the reason OF
Mr. Winters prejudice" Gas she terms it) in
favor of Booths theatre, and against any other
is that his wife happens to form one of the stock
company at Booths AS for my part, dom
believe 'no sich scandal" Only (this eoiI
say) theatrical critics ought not to have actresses
for wives. That is not the way to write with
perfect impartiality.
George Francis Train
lectured last night at the Bowery Theatre. Fol
some weeks he has been preaching at the Tam
many. 1t may be that his discourses were o
too metaphysical, not to say heterodox charac.
ter for the pious residents of that locality; or II
may be that Mr. Trains love for the masses has
induced him to make himself martyr Cat the
low price of one dollar per reserved seat), and
gather under his wing the immoral chickens Of
Bowery, afflicted with the pip of poverty and
sin. At any rate, he is to preach regularly a
that establishment upon Sunday evenings for al
indefinite period. Whatever else can be saiC
against the Bowery management, it canno
Justly be accused of inconsistency in its dis
cernment of the relative capabilities and attrac
tions of the stars it engages, and of the sorts o
entertainment it aspires to give. One nigh
YOU have Mace and Heenan, the next Sunday
private rehearsal of new paHtomime, and tn
Sunday after George Francis Train. Every on
of them draws good houses.
MIR. Hart2,
the illusionist, opens this morning a pecula
little establishment at No. 748 Broadway. II
calls it his Bijou Theatre, and the interio
arrangements are supposed to be similar to thos
in the Partisan theatre of Robert Houdin, tn
celebrated French conjuror, to whom Hart
isndebted for some of his magic and intelligence
Hartz manifestly intends to work hard and max
money. His brother who is acting as his ager
told me that they intend to keep their offio
open from eight in the morning until seven {
night, for the manufacture and sale of every so
of mechanical appliance, besides giving publ
performance every evening. This is ratht
steady application, is it not5 ALI BABA.