The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-16

NEW YORK, sept. 10, IbIV.
The Nathan Murder.

shall have occasion to refer to the Nathan
murder, may well be permitted to say my
own individual say before dismissing the case.
That say merely amounts to the opinion that the
detective police of this city not worth
Continental benediction. The verdict rendered
by the Coroner's jury simply stated that the
death of Mr.. Nathan resulted from wounds in
hicted by instrument known as 'dog" in
the hands of some person or persons to them
unknown. The jury, however made one sug-
gestion that is very sensible, and which ought to
have occurred to our police authorities without
a necessity for its being prompted
by other parties. The suggestion is that the
reward for the arrest of the murderer be so
modified as to include for the accomplice or
accessory (should there be one) immunity from
prosecution, provided he gives, relative to the
crime, all the knowledge in his possession. A
good many of the facts in connection with the
murder have a tendency to prove that the crime
was not committed by one man only Of course
IL Is not conceivable that the murderer, if there
was only one man concerned in the deed, will
seal his own doom for the mere sake of obtain
ing the reward offered. But if more than one
is concerned in the murder, the proffered i'm
munity from prosecution will have the inevlta-
BILE tendency to make the least guilty party come
forward and hand his companion over to JUS
tice. So far as appears, this suggestion is the
only good thing that has been evolved by the
Coroner's jury.
TIE Reverend Horace Cooke.
do not admire the practice of kicking man
when he is down. or when he is up, either The
kicking, except under very extraordinary cir
cumstances, l can dispense with. l make this
remark Introductory of the fact that one or two
sensation papers have gloatingly announced
that the Rev. Horace Cooke is at present q
clerk in q downtown store. The assertion is
not literally correct one. Mr.. Cooke holds
situation, in which physical strength is an ad-
vantage, in the Seamless Clothing Establish
ment, No. 462 Broome street, of which Mr.. j.
Falconer is president. There is nothing in the
mere fact of his being so employed that need
make him ashamed and he probably transacts
his duties better there than many ministers of
the gospel do who continue to retain pos
session of the pulpit to their dying
day. The extent of Mr.. Cookies sin-if he COM
mitted any sin-I am not competent to Judge,
and am glad that am not placed in q position
where it is necessary for me to decide. Who
is it that first gave utterance TO that gracious
expression of trust in Providence, II had rather
die sinner than live one?" l dare say if the
Rev. Horace Cookies thought could be literally
interpreted it would read something like that,
and would be found to contain much more
firm and joyful confidence in the justice OF God
Than in the judgment of man. We all know
that he committed an extreme error: none of us
can prove that he committed a crime or a
grievous sin. If Mr.. Cooke does his duty in
the position where he has found his level, he is
infinitely more to be congratulated than if he
had remained in the pulpit with his offenses
artfully cloaked.
RiruaIIsm Revived.
In extremely large number of Episcopalians
applied for tickets of admission in order to
witness the ritualistic, service which was held
to-day in the st. Sacrament Mission. The church
itself only holding six hundred, of course the
congregation had to be limited to that number.
Father Bradley was the officiating priest and
the service used is what is known as the Scotch
Office of the Holy Eucharist, as embodied in the
Book of Common Prayer recently approved by
Bishop Doane of Albany. In this Office the doc
trine of the Real Presence is set forth precisely
as it was in the liturgies in the days of Queen
Elizabeth and Edward the Sixth. Almost every
one of the High Church clergy had received in
vitations, and the celebration was a brilliant
exponent of rituallsm. There are hundreds of
people who in such demonstrations can find a
more free expression for their religious senti-
ments than in any other mode. was going to
say $50 much the better for the people, but on
second thought will say $50 much the worse"
Heteroxeneities.
There is a good deal of amusing if nno-
cent sffectation is the manner in which Wal
lacks theatre is conducted. Thus the date at
which the season will open is never an
nounced until every other theatre is In full
blast. The names of the plays and the per-
formers are with elaborate pains concealed up
to the last moment from the theatrical critics
and newspaper people generally, and the Or
chestra, with ostentatious simplicity called
''the band" Considering that Wallack's has
had career brilliant enough to justify some
eccentricities of this kind, perhaps these little
flaws ought to be pardoned. The new company
will be particularly rich in men, though it will
not equal the Fifth Avenue Theatre Company in
women. Its principal men will be John Gilbert,
Charles Fisher, George Clarke, j. H. Stoddart,
John Brougham, Owen Marlowe, and 3. T.
Ringgold 1t will have only three women, how
ever, who amount to anything-Efie Germon,
Miss Henriques, and Miss Mestayer.
The Nilsson excitement has commenced.
That she arrived here quietly and that she was
driven quietly to her hotel was true enough.
OF the several hundred people who awaited her
arrival only one or two individuals were aware
that the plainly dressed grey-eyed young woman
walking in very commonplace manner down
the plank was she. By the time she was in her
carriage and was being ushered on board the
Jersey City ferry boat the crowd made up its
mind that she had given it the slip, and when
it was just too late began feeble series of
cheers. When she reached her rooms at the
Clarendon she discovered that they were over
poweringly sweet with the scent of the superb
bouquets that were awaiting her arrival Bou-
quets, did l say! The bouquets alone