Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-09-07
Communications.
OF the Charles City Intelligencer
Letter from New York.
New YORK, Aug. %, |

NEW YORK, Aug %, 1865
FRIEND HILDRETH To-day, write
at 4l2 Broadway. To commence my
task will ask if it isn't pity that,
in this city, all around the devil is
found2 Many there are who often de-
clare that, since the angels fell none
can tell whether we 60 it well or are
moving towards the sulphur mines.
The elucidation of this question re-
quires so great quantity Of mixed
theology that your correspondent will
not settle down upon the point, but
will proceed to state why at least one
of Adams sons believes that the ruler
of the heated regions is in town.
Before all things, comes firstly
(which will include reference to the
police returns) the arrests which
amount to the modest number of TWEEN
ty-one thousand, within the last month
Each liar, thief, pick-pocket, forger,
garoter, swindler, confidence man,
pimp, drunkard, unfortunate" assas-
sin and murderer, had offered to prove
by the testimony of sixteen Irish fami-
lies that his character has heretofore
been as holy as the purity of snow and
as clear as the chastity of ice !! The
judicial robes could not see it, but told
" Black Betsy to give them transpor-
tation to Blackwelrs Island
Secondly, the remarkable increase of
murders. Scarcely week passes
without recording the horrible details
of some atrocious murder. If man
gets on one boot, and lives long enough
to pull on the other one, he has fiatter-
ing promise of seeing and enjoying
peaceful old age /; here human life is
safe =: happy country sweet spot.
Then we have bright prospects of
a visitation of the cholera. The pale
man is riding the white horse west
ward, and yet our board of health pre-
serves sanitary cleanliness that would
give a deeper stencil to the odor of
skunks
The bilious commotion on Wall ST.
lst, Henry B. Jenkins, the forging tel
Ter of Phoenix Bank, meets Miss Ida
Brewer, pretty waiter girl, and thinks
"Sweeter eyes were never seen;
Eyes SO fiery and serene"
He stood not upon the order of his say
ing, but said at once, IL love you"
She sweetly put in rejoinder, "pas-
sion reciprocated,' whereupon the
stockholders of Phoenix Bank discover
themselves troubled with the "outs
to the tune of three hundred thousand
dollars. Immediately every body,
whom Jenkins greeted as "my friend,
is arrested, thrown into cell foul and
filthy, as an accomplice of the stupen.
dous defalcation. One of them, James
H. Earl, got unnecessarily scared, and
concluded he would stand better
"shown to take his trial in the Other
world, and SO committed suicide. The
balance of the crew take their incar
cerations philosophically, and the vam
pires will stay in if they can't get out
Next comes the Ketchum "gold re
ceipts," which is pretty well understood
to mean, practically, colossal frauds
to the amount of many millions. Th'
details l omit for sake of brevity.
| The enormous taxes. 1t has onl,
cost the New Workers, to have th'
blessing of city Government, serea
teen millions for the past year. The tire
mendous blowing and cursing of poll
ticians over the recent appointments o
Preston King for Collector Of this Port
and Noses Y. Odell for Naval Master
| The loving caresses Of Horace Gree
ly and Thurlow Weed which resemble
the embrace of Kilkenny cats.
The feasting and toasting of JEFF
Davis family by the conservatives
on the arrival in this city the other da
Of the aforesaid interesting f. +. "
of the late Southern Confederacy.
The constant railing at and damnin
of negro suffrage by every one who's
. brains are located upon the under lip
, For these and numerous other re;
, sons, l am certain his Satanic Majest
has arrived W.