The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-23

From Our 0sSn Correspondent
New YORK, June 90, 1870.

NEW 1ORK, June 30, lofV.
Teutouic Fat.
Yesterday morning q German Club of Fat
Men drove in barouches through several of the
streets in the neighborhood of City Hall Park
preparatory to going on picnic. The barouches
were twenty in number, and each contained
three or four fat frauds and pinguid pills" who
evidently enjoyed the publicity. AS an exhibit
ton of fatness the procession was delusion
and snare. Not one of the number was re-
specially corpulent taking into consideration that
he belonged to fat mems club. AS the morning
drive of party of gentlemen, it was not calcu-
lated to enhance the public's admiration of the
club 1t abounded in aldermanic countenances,
in whose traits fingered ruby "reminiscences of
wine and turtle The observing populace cheered
and yelled and one austere beholder, who wore
awhile cravat, turned on his heel and murruured
something about ''glorying in their shame
The turtle and the wine above mentioned are to
be accepted as fgurative phrases. The original
articles of consumption were probably lager
Erlanger Niersteiner, Schwetzer kase, sausages
pretzel, and Limburger.
Our New Directory.
The New York City Directory, for the year
ending May /, 1871, is just out and contains
about Is, 900 more names than the one for the
preceding year did. We number 200 more
Smiths this year than we did last, and about
1900 altogether. The Greens amount to about
900, and the Joneses to $50. The Robnsons
have come down to q mean 2S0. In this years
directory, uncommon names are rather COM
mon, if 1 may use such a paradox. We have
more than $50 nurses whose business it is to let
people into the world and only two cemeteries
to accommodate people when they go out, which
goes to prove that New York is a live place. and
don't believe in death.
Dickens Death In New York.
The death of Charles Dickens has been made
in New York the occasion of a great deal of
ef1lorescence in the pulpit and in the news
papers Mr.. Beecher and Mr.. rockingham, in
using his death as text have met the demands
of good many members of their congregations,
to whom the future of the great novelist was
grateful theme for speculation. The news
papers have made it the subject-matter of epi-
grammatic editorials, and plenty of business men
have had the vile taste to ring in bad joke in
the advertising columns, at the expense of the
dead man and for the advancement of their own
interests. For my own part l think that the
condition of mind which refuses to dwell upon
the subject at all, and that which presumes to
prescribe the precise position to which
that departed genius was assigned in the
spiritual world are equally in the wrong. 1t is
in human nature to take profound interest in
interests which lie beyond this life, particularly
when those interests involve the well-being or
ill-being of one who has endeared himself so
vastly to humanity at large. Several millions of
human beings received the news of the death
of Charles Dickens with the emotions of sorrow
at the loss of personal friend, and it is i'm
possible therefore, that the remarks in refer
ence to his spiritual future of men who are at
once good Christians and original thinkers
should be read without feelings of the keenest
tIola
the expressed hopes of his future happiness are
fount i must seem puerile and illogical to any
one Who is industrious or bold enough to think
for himself. These attributes as a love
for humanity, charity for its weaknesses, the
love of purity, truth, and beauty-are far from
being exclusively characteristic OF Christianity.
Jews and Mahometans show them to some ex-
tent, and the present aspect of the New York
pulpit on the question has a tendency to
prove how ''unsound" that pulpit is on matters
of orthodoxy.
After the Jubilee.
There is only too much truth in what l have
said about the loose manner in which the
Beethoven" Jubilee was conducted Such a
firstcass izzle has never been seen in this city.
Scarcely any one was paid but the principal
eingers and leaders of the orchestra, who in
sisted upon having their money before uttering
i nOle. Ever Slnce SaLuTudy Tue VI SccOnu
and Third avenues have been thronged with un-
paid ushers and chorsters, going up to the
Rink to present their claims in the insane hope
of having them settled. Meanwhile the parties
supposed to be responsible are resting from their
labors, and are absent from the city, leaving to
their clerks the pleasing task of facing the
dissatisfied Band of the Unpaid. In remember
ing that festival New York has liter ally
nothing to be proud of. Little that was good in
It, almost everything that was bad was attribu-
table to itself. Some of the best music and the
best conductorship came!from Boston. The Hub
never had SO fair an opportunity to crow over
the metropolis as she has now.
The Chinese
Seventy natives of China yesterday left this
port for q nameless destination in Massachu-
sets. The mystery surrounding their goal is as
as unfathomable as that eneircling the bourne of
United States Government vessel entrusted
with a secret mission during the war. The
seventy are said to be ian able bodied, fine
looking set of fellows" Perhaps so. No Chi
naman that l have yet seen-eXcept perhaps,
Chang-answers to this description. Look at
the Cinnamon who sell cigars and candies any
where on Broadway below the Astor House.
They look like dry mud, as though the original
clay out of which they were made retained its
pristine color am afraid the romance sur
rounding the Chinaman is even more poetic
and has less foundation in reality than thai
enveloping Red Cloud. A very good test would
be to allow him to address a meeting al
Cooper Institute. l should like to hear hi;
opinion on shoes, housekeeping, and the genera