The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-24
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
EFRoM OUR OWN oonREsPoEpEET.l

EFRoM ouR OWN oonREsroEpEST.l
NEW YonK, May 19.-Your correspondent, 'Moul-
trie," having just sufficiently recovered from a
long and serious indispoaition to grasp with now
feebie hand his ever feeble pen again, with con-
valoscent bow, greets tho readers OF THE News.
This great city has in some respects become re-
formed since my last letter. The reform is health
full in moro than one acceptation OF tho term;
healthful in so far as regards the public MORALS
at best but immorsl; and again, inasmuch as it
enanates from the Health Board, clothed with tho
almost unlimited powers Of an Excise Commits
sion.
The Excise Law, though in many of it's work
ings an admirable law, is nevertheless but al arbi-
trary usurration OF authority on the part Of the
Legislature of New York State, ostensiby for the
purpose of benefting this city, but iu reality to
pay OFF an old political grudge that the Albany die
tators (Republican) owe this Democratic city.
The law prohibits tho Germans from taking
their lager beor OIL Sundays, and as they prefer
good lager to bad politics, If they do not succeed
In putting atop to this antiSunday beer-drinking
legislation before the next election, the German
Republicans here will vote tho Democratic ticket
entire, when the time for said election shall ar
rive Thus are politics and lager beer mixed up,
end thus are the boer drinkers resolved not to
bear their wrongs
But il liquor and boer (and individually caunot
be drunk Sundays in tho cty they tall OF
them) can be, and are drunk elsevhefe; and the
extensive and wholesale imbibings indu1ged in on
the Sabbath day in Hoboken, Westchester County,
and other places within abort rdo sail from
New York, are horrible to relate. And thus does
the Excise Law work, after oil, in a rather unsa-
tisfactory and one-sded manner.
An. Js..ca MrSrau has orea ed preok snnsa-
ton here by appearing in frst-class respectable
theatre {the Broadway in y costume that is about
as near an approach to nudity any lady dare
attempt in public, in this great city, where
the motto of almost every individual is IT do as
please" Mrs. MENKEN, with the exception OF au
exceedingly short pair Of Turkish unmentionables,
is clad in nothing but the tghtest kind Of what we
may call circus tights and yet must do her the
justice to add that her costume is artisticaDy
arranged as to render the tout ensemble admissa-
ble Il 10, indeed, euriously contrived semi-sug
gestvely indelcately delicate affair altogether.
Mrs. MENKEN, of course, has fine form. She
is passably pretty, very bad reader, third-rats
Bowery actress, 4 very good posturer, and-an
| extraordinary woman, who ia making an extraor-
dinary amount OF money.
| Gen. SANTA ANNA is at present in Elizabethport,
N. J., and in q few days will be in New York. Cen
! eral BEAunEaARD is at the New York Hotel. The
| ex-Prcsident OF MeHioo osontss much sreates
| sensation here than the ex-Confederate General.
| Every one to his taste.
| The Herald Of to-day's issue devotes an entire
column to praising up GRAu, whom it is pleased to
denonlinate the Head Centre OF the Opera, and to
running down MARsrzEK, whom it is still more
pleased to oan its Dead Duck. The Herald init
mates that GaAu is making vast amount OF mo-
ney. learn from source which I deem more
reliable, that the Head Centre is finishing the
season here to the tune Of about five hundred dol
iars per night clear -.-loes. SO much for Buck
ingham-I mean 30 much for newspaper reports.
WEHLI, the great pianist, who drew crowded
houses night after night-or rather morning afte
mornng-at Waiiack's iost good doai of mo
ney, aud has gone back to Europe. He is un
donbtedly very great artist, but there was NJ
} money i'll the thing, and his matinee entertain
ments were filled through the potent agency o
complimentary tickets.
Ton "the blind nigger pianist" took we1l ant
had r great peouniary SUCCESS.
s'Ernani" and & portion Of Faust Mt tho Acade
my to-day.
BARNEY WILLIAMS and his wife arc holdin
tn at the Winter Garden in an Irish play caiie
J Connie Sooga." BARNEY has recently returne
-. from q tour of six weeks in which he made, clea
OF all except personal expenses, the comfortabl
little sum Of sixteen thousand dollars.
O. At WALLAoKs, ssNever Too Late to Mend"
given every night with most superb scenery. "A
the Broadway, Mrs. MRsKRN appears for the la'
b time In her attractive costume. Next week sh
\. appears In the "French Spy" JIM ROBINSON sti
drawing land turning summersets) at the Ne
York Circue.
/. Weather cool and pleasant. MOULTRIE.