The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-08
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Our Olcn Correspondent.

From Our 0len Correspondent.
New YORK, Jan. 8, 1870.
''Tweive Little Christians"
A correspondent of one of the daily news
papers has just made some astounding discov-
cries in regard to the way in which various
young Christians Qet us hope they are not men,
bers of The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion) pass their Sundays. don't know whether
he appointed himself vigilance committee of
one, but he certainly detected bakers dozen
of Christians last Sunday in rather naughty
conduct. Most of these young people-they
were all male youngsters-lived at boarding.
houses and, for a change, had cold homilies at
church and hot hash at h 0me. One of them
went to church and stood on the curbstone when
the clock struck twelve, for the purpose of see
ing the devout demoiselles come down the steps
and display their neat little batteries Two
others read the sporting papers in the morning
and went to call upon some young ladies in
Greene street in the afternoon. Two more drank
any quantity of mixed liquors, and turned into
bed at midnight full of bad theology and worse
whisky Other two stayed home all day. wrote
letters and slept / wonder where they reposed
most, over their pillows or their writing
paper? The rest firted with young ladies, lis
tened to religious humping on the boarding.
house piano, read tom Burke of Ours" and
played dominoes. One only Of these wicked
men went to church twice on Sunday but even
he acknowledges the corn of having slept in the
afternoon. In the face of these appalling facts
the newspaper correspondent TO whom have
referred asks that free reading rooms be thrown
open all Sunday and every Sunday and that
adolescents, Christian or Pagan, male or female,
be brought in from the highways and by-ways,
and have circulating libraries funnelled into
them without money and without price. Those
Christians are in ''parlous" way, verify, espe-
cially the two that went preaching to the spirits
in prison in Greene street. and l recommend
that they be handed over to the Commissioners
of Charities and Corrections.
Colonel John \. Du SolIe.
1t is with very gloomy feelings that / an
nounce the very serious illness of Colonel John
s. Du Sole, the principal editor of the Sunday
Times newspaper of this city, and for many
years the weekly correspondent of another Sun
day newspaper well known all over the Union
II is feared that Colonel Du Sole Is now lying
at the point of death at his residence at Vivian
Place, Hudson City. His Illness commenced the
day before Christmas just two weeks ago yes
terday, aud steadily advanced. Fifteen or
twenty years ago Colonel Du Sole was
Philadelphia notoriety, having been the editor
and proprietor of the Spirit Of he Times pub
lished there, and which, in his hands, was
distinguished for the eaustic impartiality
with which it attacked the stage and
produced endless epigrams in prose upon the
political nOtorieties OF the hour. Several times
he almost paid the penalty OF his life for Just
Onslaughts upon fraudulent regulations; on
slaughts which were considered at the time
stroelous, but were only brilliant aud whitening