The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-19
NEW YORK LETTER.
(FnoM DUB OWN CORRESPONDENCE

self it are"), then would exclaim with the poet
SHOWS the time, and now the hour" for it to be
30, and would even add, now is the time, and now
the hour that is 30. The hot weather, which had
left us for while, has returned. The fashionable
folks who had left US for while to visit the seye-
raj watering places, have not returned. Southern
ers who come here are Immediately run off by
the heat. The theatres are poor, the hotels not
crowded, and New York city is at present most
emphatically under cloud.
But the clouds of duness are already almost dis
persed by the sun of ntioipation-anticpatio Of
the pleasures that are to come in the approaching
fall and winter seasons-of the exquisite enjoy
ment to be derived from witnessing the mastery
delineations of the great R1sToRI and OF EDWIN
BoorH, to say nothing of-or rather to say great
deal-of the feast of music to be served up by the
indefatigable man, MARETzEK, in dishes of fret
class Italian Opera ware spread out to the public
in the Winter Garden, which MAX has leased for q
period of six weeks beginning from the Goth of
next November. MARErzEK will serve out to the
public three Operas per week, besides Saturday
matinee. The remaining nights will be set apart
for the performance Of EDWIN BooTH, the great
American MAoREApY.
The gentlemen who belong to the society for
the relief OF their neighbors' pockets Of their su-
operations on suoh an extensive scale that every
man looks upon every other man as q member
Of said association, and some curious mistakes
have occurred. will "narrate' two Incidents,
the details OF one OF which were related to me,
while was, In proprta persona, an eye witness OF
the latter.
A few evenings ago, while respectable old gen.
tleman WAS walking along Fifth Avenue, within
holf Of ba
found himself suddenly in collison with pedes-
trian, who was himself vending his way in an op-
posite direction. The sudden jar, which almost
knocked the old gentleman off Of his aristocratic
pins and caused the loss of his equilibrium, sug-
gested to his suspicious mind pick-pockets and
the probable loss OF his five hundred dollar time
piece; suiting the thodgbt to the action and the
action to the thought, his hands sought his pock.
ct, and he found that his watch, which had al
ways been celebrated for going well, had now
gone. With steps ''as swift as meditation or the
thoughts of love- did our Fifth Avenue friend
turn in pursuit OF the stranger, whom he soon
succeeded in oVertakng; then drawing o revolver
he presented it to the others breast, remarking
as he did so, "Give me that watch or you are O
dead man."
The stranger, who did not relish the idea of being
dead man in such warm weather, handed over the
watch and took Ais departure at a speed that
would have won o emile Of appreciation or horse
laugh from the ghost OF Flora Temple. On arriv-
ing home, the old gentleman hurried up to his
bod chamber to give detailed account Of his ad.
venture to the wife of his bosom-the sharer OF
his Joys, his sorrows and his greenbacks-but
what was his surprise when, on referring to the
loss of his watch, said bosom partner informed
him that he had left it at home, at the same time
producing the veritable time-piece, and showing
tho old gentleman that he had actually been
guilty Of daring robbery, and had, by threaten
ing the life Of innocent stranger, succeeded in
robbing him of q valuable chronometer. It will
be remembered that our valiant friend simply
demanded ''that watch," whilst the other did not
by any means understand the joke, nor see the
point Of anything but the pistol. The Fifth Ave-
nue. highway robber went to bed much disturbed
by the ghostly double-tcking OF the legitimate
| and iegitimate time-pieces, and resolved to ad-
vertise next day (Which he did) for the gentleman
whom he had threatened to transform into dead
man.
The incident which came under my immediate
cognizanoe ia as follows Last night, as I was
riding on the Sixth Avenue cars with large party
Of harestonians-smongst whom was ono OF
your most popular and experienced young physi-
clans, DR.. D.-whilst some OF the party were
standing on the platform, man rushed into the
crowd and grabbed DR.. D.'s watch-chain; where.
upon DR.. D., not wishing to present his watch and
chain to an entire stranger, made counter grab
at the man, and there was a beautiful prospect o
o regular engagement (Moultrie had come up az
o reserve), when the man explained that he had
grabbed at the brake and not at the watch; and
in order to prove that he could not possibly have
been actuated by the desire to appropriate the
watch to his own use, he explained Tin German
that he was already the happy proprietor of Q
time piece, which he proved by exhibiting large
plated "turnip," or what we may call vegetable
watch, worth about thirty dollars per dozen. The
man insisted Tin Germany and the driver OF the
car lin English) that he had only gone to turn tht
brake of the car, and that the grabbing OF tht
watch-chain was accidental-to which DIR. d. re
piled that if he had had his six-shooter about him
the accident might have been attended will
serious results. The gentleman continued to con
verse with himself, conidentialy, in German fo,
some time, and 40 beguiled the monotony Of
long and tedious ride.
A curious divorce case is now on the tapis
or rather has already been brought up before th
Superior Court. A young lady, who has seen tn,
wrong side OF fifty summers, brings suit of di