The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-26
NEW YORK LETTER.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE

as many silly speeches as he can in tho
shortest space Of time; if this be his inten-
ton, he will no doubt be eminently successful.
1t would not be bad idea for the great incendia-
ry to make tour of the country with panorama
of tho burning of Columbia, which he could illus
trate in the most approved style, charging fifty
cents admission, and sending complimentary tick
cts to the citizens of Columbia in general, and
WADE HAMPTON in particular.
Almost mysterious affair has Just come to light
or rather has but partly como to lght-which
would furnish abundant material for such tale
OF horror as none but Poe Il mean 81. PoE)
could do justice to. A man named PATRICK
y O'BnIEN-whose name suggests Fenian parent
age-armed himself yesterday, with spade and
started to dig well in the middle Of a large lot
on Hamilton avenue. After @ few digs, noting
that his spade struck against hard substance
whereupon he went to work more vigorously that
he might 1.-THE mystery explores" having explored
which, grim and ghastly skeleton stood confess
ed. On examination, it proves to be lady skel-
eton, and is supposed to have once encased the
unhappy soul Of one Mrs HAYES, who disappeared
most mysteriously from her residence, about ton
years ago, and was supposed to have been muir
dered by her bosom's lord. There are, howe yer,
thousand and one speculations in regard to the
affair; but, the skeleton has no speculation in
less sockets that it does not glare WITH although
it was found in WELL the majority Of the conjec-
lures may not prove to be we'll founded.
German gentleman, who had grown tired OF
bearing the ills that flesh is heir to, attempted
yesterday to blow out his brains with revolver.
and suiting the word to the action and the action
to the word, he put the pistol to his cheek and
pulled trigger the result was that he disfieured
himself by tearing off his cheek, but his brains
still remained in stdtu quo. Nevertheless was
Death, grim monster, meroiful to him sinner
and, at late hour last night, took him from this
world OF sorrow. Csuse-domestio unhsppiness.
An important case has just been decided in the
Superior Court, Justice MoCuNN, presiding. Hon.
BENJAMIN WooD brought an action against the
Mayor, Corporation, &C., to recover $50 900 due
him for advertising in the Daily Ne,os. Tho de-
PENDANTS admit that about s24, 900 is Justly due,
but deny that they owe the balance Justice
MoCuNN has deoreed that the amount acknowledge
ed must be handed over ct once, and that refe-
renee be ordered to ENooH L. LOWE, Esq, Coun-
seller at Law, to ascertain the balance Of the
claim.
do verify believe that were q needle of in
nuitesiina1 oimenoi"ns ~ L~ LidaU.. a. -.
Thousand haystaoks Of enormous magnitude, q
New York detective officer would not only trace
out the needle if ordered to do so but could state
exactly how and when it got there, and how 1t
had borne its captivity. A few weeks ago, an
officer here, a clerk Of the Lost Chidren's De-
partment received letter from a young lady
aged twenty-seven years, stating that she had
just discovered that she had been stolen from her
parents in this city twenty-one years ago, and
carried to Pittston, Penn. She added that she
had been stolen from the house of her aunt, whom
she believed to be named Mrs. POTTER. In
couple Of weeks the aunt was discovered, and the
parents would have been discovered also, had
they not taken their departure, many years ago,
from this subiunary sphere, and gone to the
abode where detectives can make no headway.
A few days ago I spent a most agreeable half
hour in the studio Of the great American trage-
dian, EDWIN BoorH, at his private residence in
East Nineteenth-street. Tho room is adorned
with pictures and Photographic, and on the great
artists table are books that exhibit his taste for
literature of the highest order. The most con-
spicuous picture in the room is large colored
photograph OF beautiful woman, the dearly be-
loved wife of the great actor, who has perhap
never been seen to smile since death snatohed
her from him three years ago. BOOTH has ever
been known as high-toned gentleman, OF Quilt.
vated mind, great intellectual developments, and
most fascinating manners; but withal ever quiet
and unobtrusive, with q countenance tinged with
cloud Of melancholy. Since the death OF his
wife, and the unfortunate shock ocoasioned by
the event which brought the family name into
suoh unwished for and unexpected notoriety,
EDWIN Booth, even whilst off the stage, is, in
mien and conversation, the living embodiment of
SHAKsPEARE's conception OF the melancholy Dane;
and it is no wonder that, in the great q
delineat OF Hamlet, he is acknowledged to be
the master Of the hitherto unriyalled MAcREApY.
BooTH's sister, the wife of CLARKE, now man.
agor Of the Winter Garden, has just finished q
biographical sketch of the life Of her father and
the book has just been published by CARLETON.
The volume is, OF course, exceedingly interesting,
and is more authentic than the published seve-
raj years ago and written by young lawyer, who
was scarcely sufficiently we'll posted in all details
to do justice to the undertaking.
As have informed you Il think) in previous let
ter, BOOTH will appear here in November, at the
Winter Garden, three nights in each week-the
other three being set apart for the performances Of
the Italian Opera, under the management OF the
indefstigabe MAnETZEK. In anticipation of Booru
hIsToRI, the Opera, &o., people are enjoying in
advance the gayeties OF the approaching fall and
winter meanwhile, however, it IL extraordinarily
dull here at present in this inglorious summer
where refore everybody has Saratoga on the BRAIN
| or Newport on the brain, or Long Branch mania.
| an exodus from the metropolis. Your correspond
ent has been suddenly attacked with the first
named malady, and 30 has concluded to go to
Saratoga imbibe the waters ottapd tha ox.o.I