The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-21
FESTIVE PHILADELPHIA.

From the ". Y. World.
While the Mayor and clergy of Philadelphia |
for to them the work seems hmited-are |
working hard to stimulate latent charity for
suffering France, her leading men seem to
have given themselves up to festive revelry.
The local press is redolent of the fumes of
the fryine-pa The sluggish pulse is quick
ened by convivial stimulus; steamship
schemes subside for the moment. However
oblivious of devastated Champagne and
blasted Burgundy Philadelphia may be,
ssClicquot' and .'Clos Vougeot' live in the
affections of her loyal sons. Dinners are the
order of the day. Two mortal columns of
newspaper chronicle these events. They were
a two-fold welcome, and in honor of brace
of colonels-one veteran, one youthful, but
both returning to their fathers house after a
long or short diet among the husks OF Wash
ineton and Santo Domingo. For them the
larded Tis de GEAR and the Gallo crOquette are
prepared The gallant "colonels" are Forney
and McMichael The former shakes the dust
of the District from his indignant feet, and
comes back to the city of BSrie, filed with
resentment at Borie's patron. 1t was just
such an event as community like Philadel-
phia, crowded with excitement, would be apt
to celebrate, and we read that an ex-mayor
presided and that ''the banquet, worthy of
the OCCASION was one of the best, in its luxu-
ries and appointments, ever supplied by
Mr. Augustin (saintly name), whose reputa-
ton as caterer and culinary artist is unsur-
passed. The wines, too, were of the finest,
as was to be expected from the practised taste
and experience of the gentleman who selected
them.
But this was naught to the honors paid by
the Union League to the CORY soldier fresh
from the perils of sea sickness and Santo
Domingo. 1t was something of which, the
press mildly says, ''the highest of the land
might be proud" Aside from conviyiality
and the brimming cup, there was in it touch
of poetry and romance. When, in Mr.. Addi-
sons tragedy, Cato goes out to meet his dead
son a martyr in freedoms cause, the heart is
moved at the stern fathers silent woe. Here
we have quite as stern Cato welcoming
back a living, resuscitated, hilarious
Marcus, and the "Senate" of the League
no pent-up Utica-joining in the festival.
1t was the feast irrational, the flow of
soul substantial and we are informed, rather
superiuously, that 'full justice was done to
the material good things" Then the gallant
colonel-''hereditary orator, familiar with
one sort of "blow"-made a speech, on
which, being reported, public interest, ner-
vously alive to aught from Azua or Aux
Caves fastens. We have read every word of
it; it is rather playful than philosophic. A
large portion of it reads like Clarence
dream of what he thought he saw sin the
Shiny bottom of the deep" or spasmodic
incoherent, rhetoric such as, after his malm
sey bath, Clarence might have INDUCED il
when he had been rubbed with salt and rolled
in hot blankets and brought back from
drowning. The dissatisfied Goldfish nib
bling at Doctor Howes philanthropi
toes and the t0taay clustering rounC
Fred. Douglass are worthy poetic Agassiz
From small fish to small facts the transition
is natural; and the colonel, after informinl
the company that nobody spoke Spanish bu
an adventurous major of the name Of "Haz
ard, told them that the Haytiens were no
bodies, and that Cabral was a feeble guerill