The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-10-13
YORK LETTER.
=rrnou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

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nrv, York, October 9.-The superterrene versus
o,htarraneous railroad controversy lacks. naught
- en;rit. Last night Ilwas admitted behind the
scenes and allowed to take look at the plans of
tho upholders of the superterrene, aerial or eleya.
ted arrangement, aud they meet so heartily with
nv approval that I lave become entirely con.
yerted, and have deserted the rank and file Of the
underground railroad sympathizers The plan is
in substance as follows: Along the edge of the
sidewalks are to be placed columns of iron twelve
feet in height, standing each on base composed
of block of granite, and connected together by
massive iron chains; the columns will be some
what in the shape: :of the body of man with tho
two arms extended ,iand on these projecting arms
the two sides OF the track are laid. The track
will be but three and half feet wide, one half
over the street road. It is proposed to build
double track Zone on each side Of the street) to
run through Broadway and elsewhere, extending
in all twenty-five miles in longth-making for the
two tracks fifty miles to be constructed. There
are to be three hundred cars, to run by steam,
some of them to stop at every third corner, some
at longer distances, and some to run through
direct
II is estimated that one and a half. millions Of
dollars OF capital will bv all that is required to
put the thing through successfully, provided the
charter which they are to apply for is granted
them; and the projectors of the undertaking in
tend that, by'clarging but three cents fare they
can IN short time make profits sufficiently largo
to guaTantee.a dividend of twenty-five per cent.
to she Stockholders. At the corners where the
steps; will be conveniently placed, leading down to
the sidewalk below. The great advantage to be
derived from the proposed plan is, that neither
the streets nor the sidewalks will be at all OBJ
stricted. It aeems to me that a similar arrange
ment would be desirable M in Charleston, where you
have such narrow Istreets The charter will be
applied for, and should it be granted, the work
will be pushed ahead vigorously and at onoe.
"A grand Santa Anna Roberts -Me4i Fenian
picnic took place yesterday on Staten Island;
Roberts held forth about the wrongs of Ould
Erin. The former spoke in the Spanish language,
which would have been very edifying, no doubt,
if the crowd had been furnished with books Of the
speech in Spanish and English, in the style OF the
Ristori performances; but as the crowd under
stood English, or even Irish, much better than
Spanish, Santa Anna,rather wasted his sweetness
on the desert air. agG
It is suggested that the Seventh Regiment Of
this CITY bb sent on to Paris at the time of the
great aS Ss oyer
peneivo "a wealthy merchant here proposes to
raises the money by subscription, and heads the
list Mt{ s1o QQg BE had better give his money to
tue BuleEulb pOoI. s=4...-
"Our American Cousin, which has been for so
long time on the theatrical boards from time to
time, has now come up in court Miss Laura
sKeene and il s.. Clarke are the principal parties
to the suit. Miss Keene contends that the play
was purchased by her from Tom Taylor, who
wrote ii. and that Clarke had no right to perform
it in his theatre in Phladelph Clarke says that
the piece was written as much by Mr.. Silesbee as
iby Tom: that hb (Clarke) bought it from some one
who represented Sesbeee, aud that having paid
for it he had right toproduce it. Several actors
were called upon as witnesses In Ine Case ana ~
seeing Jefferson, Dyott, Peters and others with
out paying. Our Cousin comes into court again
to-day. LIZ. -.
Ristori's ssJudith" has not been as we'll received
as either her "Medea, Marie Stuart, or "Eza- u
be th 7" though the piece was performed as Well as
it can possibly be- Thus far her "Elizabeth" ls
her best character. We have yet, however, to see
her in s'Lady Macbeth"
Dawson, the great German actor, draws much
larger audiences than Ristori. This however,
must be attributed to the circumstance Ihae Lne
German population here is rather somewhat
larger than the Italian, and Germans can UNDER
stand Dawson rather better than we can under
stand Ristor In my next propose to glye your
readers an account of Dawson in "Mephlsto-
pheles "Gn Faust), in which ne appears to-night, NJ
To anon of your readers who, in speaking OF tue
ereat tragedians whom they have either seen,
heard Of, or read about, like to appear knowing
and we'll posted, may as well hint tnat IN reler
ring to Dawison, they must remember that the n,
name is pronounced Dawson, as though spell WIN
"a we," la samivel Vellor, the aged -... ~
Some people pronounce Ristori's name with thg
accent on the first syllable like history, but
rather incline to the belief that it will make no
difference in hundred years hence whether VIC
adopt this mode OF pronunciation, or let the ac-
cont stand on the last syllable, and the long (as
iu story remain. ,, o,aanoovno H. q
pretty little hands pretty little young lad!es
and Who even 20 80 far as to become "punailcly
engaged" to find out afterwards that they love ~!
another" should take warming by the case OF MISS s
Minnn Solomon vs Bernard Brown. Bernard sold
Minna that he loved her; she replied that by
curious coincidence she loved him IN re!urnmin 9n;a
fact. had loved him in secret for long time; ms
was followed by squeezing OF hands anu sWIo 3o
knows2) perhaps kiss or two. The loving couple
became .sengaged but Bernard grew 1constane n1;l
and : and ID short, married another lady ~ MN, I
ma sues for damages and lays the damages done 70
her heart ct ten thousand dollars. Ihe Ooure =
thinks that the heart repairs can be done lor less
money, and oompels Brown to pay over nVe nun
dred dollars. ..........
Weather cloudy and threatening rain ram; nn1r
GRAND AND IMPOSING CONFEDERATE FUNERAL
IN KENrucxY.-The Cincinnati Commercial says !:
On Tnesday last the bodies of ten rebel soldiers,