The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-26

From oar OlCn Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 26, 1870.
The Sabbath Sentiment.


York, especially during the summer, is q curious
field for investigation. A large proportion of
the churches are closed. Pastors are off to
Europe, and congregations are at the seaside.
Personal religion evnces q tendency to fall
down to zero, in exact proportion to the alt-
tu lie of the thermometer. The few churches
that are open offer the perspiring sinners the
Opportunity of listening, in q pew where the
thermometer is ninety-seven in the shade, to a
sleepy discussion which holds out little hope
of there being, for that particular sinner, a
heavenly amelioration of his present state. On
tn other hand, the Park, the river, the suburb,
the steamboat, the rail car, the carriage, ice
cream, clam-bakes, lemonade, and lager re-
spectively invite. The sinner of the dog-dav
period finds it impossible to accept the Cow
perian aphorism that
s'The path OF sorrow, an that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown"
He meekly hopes that Hoboken lager is not
incompatible with heaven, and If he yield to
the exigencies of the excise law, it is only to
picture to himself state of foamy bliss here,
after, and TO
'Think, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful frau shall bear him company"
In truth, midsummer piety in the metropolis
is grace very little to be depended upon. Re-
ligion with fan in her hand grows supine,
and floats off into an irresponsible nap. Bax-
ter's "Saints Rest is found to be infinitely
more attractive than the painful energy of that
awakening volume, "Work for Willing Hands"
The flesh is weak and the spirit is not willing,
and practical Christianity subsidies into a sort of
quietism which has for contemplation cool,
sparkling soda-water as a means of grace. OF
course there are some roriferous natures, forever
strong and dewy by reason of their innate ex-
haustless freshness. These are of the kind that
are born with a genius for hard work, and toll
in season and out of season. They have their
reward. A portion of it consists in the secret
maledictions of those less fervid Christians
who do nothing all lifelong with the air of
making it q religious sacrifice.
Regal Suicide.
He who during the last six months has walked
much about New York will have been struck
with the appearance of an Indian-complexioned
woman wrapped in scarlet blanket and glisten-
ing with beads. The children ran after her, and
she divided the honors with the organ-grinders
and the monkey performances. Some called
her the "Queen of the Gipses," others the wife
of the young chief of the remnant of once
celebrated tribe of Indians. In several parts of
the city were families with whom she had
scraped acquaintance, who listened to her ro-
mantle conversation, made her presents of pro-
visions and groceries, and ia a quiet way yielded
her the homage that belonged to one of the last,
lingering cheftainesses of an expiring race. AS
contrast to this pleasant popularity which she
enjoyed when abroad, Queen Sarah was un-
lappy in her domestic relations. She
was married to young man
who, SO far from respecting his own
dignity and the dignity she shared with him as
his wife and queen, often appointed menial
work for ler to do and abused her if she neg
lected it. On Saturday morning Queen Sarah
was eudeavoring to catch of those cool
draughts which the flaming summer in a moment
of forgefulness exhales. Her husband dis
covered her in this condition of dolce far niente,
aud instantly gave her linen duster belonging
to q young man boarding at their house, with
dir ,ctiors to wash and iron it for him. If you
can imagine the look LADY Macbeth" would have
assumed had she been similarly requested by
her husband, you can imagine the profound rage
and disgust that revealed themselves on Queen
s rahs countenance. She, with the blood of
the Wampanoag and Winnepisseogees throb-
bing in her arteries, r-rub and scr-rub over a
wasn-tub, and bring her fingers into
propinC Cuity with vulgar soap-suds? Not if that
court knew herself-and she exhibited very
perceptible inclination toward the opinion that
she did. The duster was flung to the earth and
trampled upon with ignominy. Wild words
rained from the insulted queens lips, and in a
paroXy .m of rage she rushed from the room and
the house. Night came-and no Queen Sarah;
morning-and her place was vacant still. Filled
with o dread that they no longer sought to
conceal, her husband searched the house high
and low, and in the garret found the body of
his wife suspended from one of the rafters by
her shawl. Reduced to frenzy by the insult put
upon her, the unhappy woman had suspended
that article of dress around her neck, and then
kicking from under her the bed she had stood
A. tr;o IL
the sleeps of eternity.
''But When VIII IL BE Donee''
The trip from Harlan Bridge to Fulton street
is wearisome and body-breaking to those who
have to make it every day, and have no medium
but the cars. / forget who it was that computed
the precise duration of time by which life was
shortened by riding in railway car SO many
hours per day for so many years, but remem-
ber that the result of the calculation was by no
means in favor of that mode of travelling. 1t
has therefore been proposed to establish line
of boats to supersede those of the Harlan Navi-
cation Company, which now runs two boats
between Harlan Bridge and Peck Slip. The
line at present in operation is overcrowded,
dangerous, and extremely uncomfortable in
several respects. People are slowed in it like
cattle in a pen, and 80 much time is consumed
in the trip as to make it a serious objection to
business men. The question when will the
new line be put in operation?' may be very
pertinent and opposite one, but it is not one
IN able TO answer. ALI BABA.