The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06
n Ew YORK LETTER.
[FnoM OUR OWN coRRIspoNpESr.l I

NEW YORK, August Had Hamlet lived in
those dAys-had he lived in Now York, and gone 10
Saratoga to attoDd the rrces-had he returned
after the races were OVERHEAD he taken the train
from Saratoga to Albany, and tho Dean Richmond
from Albany to New York-he would probably in
conhdential conversation with his m Maternal rela.
tive, or over bottle of Bordeaux wine uithhis
friends Horatic lnd Marcellus, have remarked
| referring to tho Dean Richmond-that she "is q
combination, and form indeed, where evory god
did seem to set his SEAL to give the world nssur.
anee OF =" a boat. From this your readers will
learn four important facts-frst: that have loft
Saratoga; next, that am once moro in the big
city; thirdly, that I came from Albany on the
Dsan Richmond; and lastly, that am pleased
With said boat.
arrived here in time to learn what did not
know before, and what you know already per
telegram-that the great Atlantic Gable is a sue
cess-that CYRUS FIELD has takon the first stop
towards the carrying out oq BHAKspEARRa idea of
putting grdle around the earth in a half hour
and ton minutes; that the Old and New World are
united that we can receive here in New York to-
night message from London sent yesterday
that the line is open; that four thousand words
have been sent across the deep blue sea in twelve
hours, at the snug little price Of FIVE dollars per
word; and in short, that the thing is great sue
cess.
1t is most extraordinary with what Indifference
| the great eW Of the success o. the cable was
| received in this city. The only reasonable con.
struction can put upon it is, that nine mon out
OF ten had expressed~the opinion that il would
again prove failure; and, therefore, thought il
best to say as little about it as possible, when
they found that they were not the Solomons they
thought themselves. Verify the conceited and
and self-opinionated men of this great city are
not dead yet, but still live and will live forever.
| more.
The cholera is on the increase, and is speedily
| assuming the form of epidemic There were
| sixteen cases officially reported yesterday, and
five deaths. In Brooklyn there were ten cases.
four of which proved fatal No one is alarmed,
and the evident increase in the dread disease
creates no excitement.
Head-Centro STEPHENS, the "Fenian man." has
| come out with a document addressed to the Fe-
nian Brotherhood, in which he informs said broth
erhood that there will be q fight this year for
Irish freedom on Irish SOIL No ono believes him
nor the document.
At q meeting Of the Board OF Councmen, held
yesterday, resolution was passed granting to the
West Side and Yonkers Railway Company the
privilege Of erecting aerial railways in Greenwich
street. If successful, the line will be extended
further, commencing at tho Battery, running
along Greenwich street to Ninth avenue, and
across the Harlem River.
General SANTA ANNA has brought suit in tho
Supreme Court against two gentlemen, whom the
great Mexican alleges have swindled him in the
chartering Of the steamer Georgia, which brought
him and his staff from st. Thomas. Tho General
does not like 'fthe customs Of tho country" il
swindling is one Of them, and 80 has placed him.
self under the protective power of the law.
AThe most extraordinary case Of generosity on
record Is that OF gentleman (from Maine) who
lost wallet containing s6OOO and when the wal
let and contents we're handed to him by a poor
and honest man, whom old Diogones should have
found with his lantern, offered him fifty cents re-
ward, which he afterwards, in a burst Of generos.
ity, increased to seyenty-ive cents. This gentle-
man believes in the principle Of taking care Of the
pennies that tho pounds should take care of them
selves.
The theatres ARE doing much bettor. BRYANT
at WALLAoKs, in "shamus O'Brien" "The Ice