The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-11
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From Our Oson Correspondent
NEW YORK, April II, 1870.

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NEW YORK, April II, 1870.
CIose-NIOuthed Correspondents.
respondents-particularly those who live
New York and communicate with papers out
the city-are often uni Justly abused for being
cool gossipy and candid They are credited
with telling all they hear-and more, and it is
claimed that their Imagination supplies the place
of fact. ask leave to say few words in their
defense. Some there are, many perhaps who
have graduated from the slums of Bohemiauism m
and who will never be able to shake off the rank
flavor of that condition. but there are other some
who are continually dreading that they shall
prove embarrassing from the retcence
which sentiments of gentlemanhood or ladyhood
compel them to observe. What right have l,
for instance, because 1 happen to correspond
with O newspaper, to tattle in public secrets
which came to me through private sources?
may share the worlds love of scandal. l may
have no objection to listen and to repeat some
thing that is not to my neighbors advantage,
but sense of decency and justice causes me
to recoil from simultaneously repeating to many
thousands of readers what have heard casually
dropped in private discourse. This Is where
the conscience of the correspondent steps in.
He has to determine where he shall draw the
line between being spicy scandal-monger and
awearisome purveyor OF platitudes and stale
news. Perhaps more correspondents have this
moral discrimination than the newspaper-read-
ing world thinks. 1t is tantalizing to be in pos
session of interesting facts in regard to public
characters and not to be able to use them; to
know you might say something that your
readers would slap their knees over and cry
'deyilish smart" but that good taste and good
feeling prevent. Give the correspondent his
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sometimes be more readable If he were more
yiolatiye of confidence.
Lester walIack and Troupe
have returned within the last few days from
their Eastern and suburban trip, where they met
with some curious adventures, which MIR.
Tayleure, their manager, ought to publish in
pamphlet form. They would make most strelish-
able brochure.
broadway on Saturday Afternoon.
The balm and beauty of Saturday afternoon
brought forth throngs of well-dressed people.
Broadway was unthreadable except at q very
slow and tortuous pace. Two sumptuous bellies,
attired in very voluminous silk dresses, aof the
color of ashes of rose, paraded the thorough
fare from one end to the other, and attracted
vast amount of comment. At some points of
their progress crowd collected around them as
large as though surrounding puppet show,
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sary.
New Jersey Morality.
The New Jersey newspapers are very moral,
and admit nothing which they conceive to be
vicious into their columns unless it is extremely
well paid for. 1t is thus that they make both
ends of God and Mammon meet. Travelling the
atrical companies they are particularly down on,
so much SO that they make out bills for theatri-
cal advertisements so much an inch, and charge
half as much again as for other advertisements.
Vice may be said to pay in New Jersey-in
fact, to pay in advance.
Midsummer Novelties.
During the midsummer holidays two plays
which are old everywhere else are going to be
produced in this city. One ofthem is Mr.. Hemp
hills Not Guilty, which was played so long at
the Walnut Street Theatre, and is to be brought
out at Niblo's. Another is Mr.. Brougham's Red
light, and Mr.. Gayler's Fritz, which are to fill
up the heated interregnum at Wallack's. With
their customary silly superciliousness, suppose
New Workers will pretend to ignore the fact of
their having been produced elsewhere, aud enjoy
them all the more for having thrown dust in
their own eyes.
Japanese Princes.
Three Japanese princes, whose names are re-
spectiyely Hongma, Erouye, and Yamada, are
in the city visiting the churches the theatres,
newspapers, and public institutions. They are
eighteen years of age, and are said to be hand
some. Having had the opportunity of inspect