The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-18
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FROM o-y ovsn Correspondent

NEW YORK, July 1S, 1870
Europe In New YorA
The city of New York is exceedingly agitated |
over Two subjects, both of which itappears to have
equally at heart The first is the political con-
vusion which threatens to include all Europe
In it's throes the second is which yacht is to
wiu, the Cambria or the Dauntless. Whichever
yacht is first esped off Sandy Hook will be i'm
mediately communicated to the public at this
port by a peculiar arrangement of flags, calcu-
lated to telegraph the news in the most pic
turesque and plain pauner. L might almost
say that the war question assumes secondary
place in the popular heart On Saturday frantic
attempts were made on Wall street to manufac-
ture capital from cablegrams. To create
q panic however, was impossible. God
which sold on Friday at P. NJ. at 115A, sold at
10 on Saturday morning at 1893. Gold closed
on Saturday at 1867, the lowest point it reached
being 1865 and the highest 11634. The bulls
and bears were never in a direr state of pecu
NOUS rerspiration. The Gold Exchange Room,
between the mental excitement and the feverish
physique of the crowds who filed it, was almost
as hot as though it had heated furnaces beneath.
However European markets may be affected 10y
the political questions now agitating all Europe,
the markets have at least hitherto been un-
affected here. Time was when gold went up
like a gas-balloon, but an international row
three thousand miles off permits us TO
look on with folded arms and calm regards.
This is as it ought to be. At the French and the
Prussian Cunsulates not drop could be eX-
tracted from the official lemon by the most
lemon-squeezing reporter. No instructions have
been received by either of the Consuls from his
government, and diplomatic reticence was
therefore the order of the day. A significant
event, however, happened to the North German
Lloyds steamer Hermann, Captain Reichmanu.
She was to have sailed at two o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon from the pier at the foot of Third
street. Hoboken. All the passengers were on
board the steam was got up, everything was in
almost perfect readiness to start. Atabout three
quarters of an hour before the very moment of
leave taking, Captain Reichmann received de
spatch which forbade him leaving this
port Figure to yourself the scene. Some show
of remonstrance made, but it fell on
the Captain like feathers on the Cardiff giant
The steam was turned off, the passengers were
turned out, and by the time two o'clock came
(the hour when she to have left the pier)
she was as closely hugged up against the
wharf as if no thought of sailing had ever
entered the head of crew or passenger Messrs.
Oerichs IL Co.. of Broad street, had been the
recipients of the despatch which they had i'm
mediately forwarded to Captain R4ichmann.
With respect to the general feeling in the city,
il finds some exponent in the fact that SUM
ber of Germans held meeting at Delmonicos
downtown establishment for the purpose of
expressing their sympathy with Prussia. A
large meeting is to be held on
Wednesday evening at Steinwly Hail.
which has been gratuitously rendered therefor
by it's proprietors. During Saturday afternoon
an intense but entirely unwarrAned ex-
ctement was got up at the Battery by the intel
Ieence A rumor was created, for instance,
that an engagement was inevitable between
the Jean Bart and the Scmirams, of the French
marine, and the Prussan frigate Ancona
Hundreds of people repaired to the Battery, in
tent on smelling gunpowder, and supremely in
different to imminent sunstroke. Probably so
great an amount of perspration was never
manufactured by so small number of people
in the same space of time. Opera glasses and
feld-gasses were brought to light, and
some OF the more ideal of the spec
tators saw the belching broadsdes, heard
the cries of the wounded and dying, and
confidently looked for circumstantial account
in yesterday mornings papers. The unreliable
lity of human expectations was illustrated when
1t was positively ascertained that the Semiramis
was in all probability in French port, that the
Jean Bart was far on her way to one, and that
the Prussian frigate Ancona was very likely
safe and snug at Plymouth. When these facts
were definitely ascertained it was decided to
wait little longer for the lists of killed and
wounded.
If run the chance, by writing so aften about
Free Bathing Establishments,
OF wearing out the patience with which you
expect me to touch on something new, it is
because those institutions have really taken a
very strong hold here, so much SO that all
teachers in the city-public school, private
school, and Sunday school-are invited to attend
meeting next Saturday, at which the advan-
tages of such establishments shall be enforced
in a lecture. The meeting is to be held at half
past one next Saturday afternoon, at the church
at No. 240 West Fiftieth street. 1t is proposed
to erect number of free bathing houses, and to
found hygienic libraries, rooms for calisthenic
practice, and halls for physiological lectures
in connection herewith. The National Vete-
ran Temperance Corps is going to add to
its efforts in the cause of temperance a
series of well-directed attempts in the way of
establishing free baths, and evidently recognizes
the efficacy of water as an outside tonic as we'll
as an inside moral regenerator. DR.. David P.
Halbon, the secretary of the Committee on Free
Baths states that $50 900 of the tax levy of 1863
for this city are for the erection of two free
floating bath one on East river and one on
Hudson river. sThe corps intend this to be the
basis for a series of fresh and of salt water
baths, warm and cold, at all seasons, in the GEN.
trail portion of the city. This is at least a hope
full indication that we shall never retro GRADE to
that washless condition in which free public
baths were only an idea and nothing more.
ALI BABA.