The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-01

From Our oan Correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 81, 1870.

NEW YORK Aug. 81, 1870.
Getting the Best Of 1t.
! confess to a hereditary prejudice against the
New York clearinghouse keeper. l count her
my natural enemy, and l rejoice whenever she
is discounted. Hence have heard, with pro-
found pleasure, of misunderstanding which
has arisen between masculine boarder named
Kennedy and feminine lodgng-house keeper
whom l will call Crook. In consequence of
some unpleasantness that arose in the house
Mr.. Kennedy left, and soon after brought against
Mrs. Crook action in which he claimed the
sum of one hundred dollars, partly in return for
money which he says he lent her, and partly as
a compensation for the ISLANDERS which he says
she heaped upon his character. Poor Mr.. Ken.
nedy must either have been badly treated or
else he must possess disposition of extreme
malignity, for on the day of trial he
subponaed all of Mrs Crooks servants, so
that there was no dinner upon that day, and
if there had been dinner would have been no
servants to wait on table. Furthermore, the
wounded Kennedy, flushed with the eXpecta-
ton of revenge, had prepared a schedule of
terms, and threatened that unless Mrs. Crook
complied with all of them he would not let her
off easy. These terms were that she should fur
nish him written apology; that she should pay
the court costs, and also five dollars to o chari-
table institution; that she should make a solemn
promise to treat all her boarders, for the future,
in Christian manner; and that she should con-
fine herself to one gill of rum per day. The
counsel for the defendant-Kennedy was his
own counsel-was loading himself for very
destructive discharge of eloquence, when the
Judge put an abrupt end to the scene by sem
fencing Mrs. Crook to hand over to Kennedy
twenty dollars, and by intimating to both that
thpv had better Or ahout their hu ueinaes
In n New York store.
If the provincial young man who pictures to
himself life in a New York store as opening ort
upon short and easy road to wealth could
gather only few facts relative to that life, he
would think twice ere he left his native home
to begin it. How the young man, without
friends and without family, who works for a
living in New York wholesale store, does con-
trive to keep body and soul together is q pro-
found mystery to me. The salary with those
commencing the business, or but little way
advanced in it, ranges from three to eight dol
lars week. and the work is intensely hard.
From August to the middle of November he
works from eight in the morning until eleven at
night with only enough time allowed him to
eat and drink sufficient to stay his hunger.
There are large and magnificent stores in New
York, the proprietors of which do an enormous
business, whose employees get salaries SO in-
significant that their lives are one long burning
sense of injustice. Think of three dollars for
ninety hours hard work-oHe dollar for thirty
hours-three cents an hour That is very
sobering reflection for all young men afflicted
with the New York delirium And then con-
sider the class of men among whom such work
is performed. For the most part they consist
of ignorant Irish and English, with all the dis
fbo in6n ly Iono
that are peculiar to the low and ignorant. All
refinement, all delcacy, all purity of feeling,
all aspirations after higher and better life,
seem to be relentlessly crushed out of young
man who is thrown among such experiences as
these. The blush and bloom of lite, its green
ness and it's glow, are all ruthlessly defled-all
for the false hope of obtaining, from city life,
position and enjoyment which fall to the lot of
only the exceptional few. No; the majority of
''young men from the country" who enter New
York stores leave hope behind them.
sUrIeIia."
When you have seen Madame Launer and
Bertha Lind you will acknowledge, repeatedly
as have referred to them, that my references
were perfectly justified by the excellence of the
gifts of these two women These gifts have
been rendered more brightly apparent in the
ballet of LI'ielLd, which has been this week
produced. The substance OF the ballet is not
at all new. 1t deals with the same subject which
is worked up in F0ast, although the subject is
elaborated in manner very different from that
in which it is developed i'll Goethes master
piece. Some of the scenes are excessively sem
sual, and in this respect the ballet presents
both Lind and Lanner in light in which it is
not pleasant to contemplate them. A part of
the action is represented as passing in
Turkish palace, before a Grand Vizler who is
pictured in the last stage of amorous senilty.
In his presence "Uriella,n a character that
is performed by Madame Lanner, executed
dance which, in the handbills, is appro-
priately named a dance of seduction but
which is exquisitely licentious, and therefore
lacks the qualities of purity delicacy intellectu-
ality, that generally characterize Madame Lam
ner's efforts. In the last act, however, occurs
one pantomimc scene whose extreme beauty
partly atones for the immoral deliriums of a
previous dance or two. This pantomimic scene
is representative of the moment when "Uriella
discovers that the mortal whom she loves has
given his heart irrevocably to another. For a
few moments "Uriella" hestates, as II conscious
that the sacrifice which she is about to make
the lovers, and that consists in yielding herself
up to torment and destroying the contract by
which the mortal man had bound himself to her,
is too great for even superhuman nature To
make. At last however, in moment of exalta-
tion, she sends the lovers into one anothers arms
and remains transfXed in a rapture of agony
At this point the gesture and attitude are exqui-
sitey touching and beautiful, and full of pathos
that is often beyond the reach of mere words
ALI BABA.