The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-25
NEW YORK LETTER.
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| tne polnng, DaRlng roasting, stewlng frying heat
the scorohing, parehing, melting heat Oh, the
merciless sun, the cruel, sultry, sweltering sun,
cooking walk, and as we sit, and as we
lie down, as We 60 out of doors, or remain within
our hot houses, as wo cat, drink, or sleep,
cooking us ever, never ceasing, ever increasing
parching us, and roasting us, and showing no
! mercy. The thermometer marking ono hundred
| degrees in the shade-one hundred and eighteen
in the sun,-everybody melting with the intense
| heat, and yet too hot and fargud to give words
| to their suferings- friends met in Broadway and
spoke not but in pantomine. Mr.. Noakes walking,
| without cravat or collar, would meet Mr.. Stokes,
innocent OF vest and making an impromptu fan out
| or his porspiring hat and looking at him would
sigh, as who should say: sGreat - Jerusalem.
what horrible weather" in reply to which would
Stoakes' hot lips indulge in faint pantomimic
| movement suggestive Of q naughty adjective be-
ginning with tho letter D and termin atlng in -
able. The hottest day in ten years-terribly hot
suffocatingly, uncompromisingly, hell llsuggestvely
| hot WAS yesterday. The me-thinks sixteenth of
July, 1866, and write to-day, tho seventeenth
is hotter still.
On Sunday last, when the great war news was
received from Europe, the Herald issued an extra,
which came out at IL o'clock, and six Of the news
boys who were selling said extra we're arrested by
Captain OF Police, in the Fifteenth Precinct
BENNETT is Of opinion that said Captain carried
his religious scrupes rather too far and also car
ried the newsboys too far in taking them to the
station house, where they had no desire to TO-
wherefore the great newspaper man has brought
suit against the religious Captain, who will
probably be made to sweat even more than be
must necessarily perspire in this hot weather.
There WAS feast Of dancing and flow of beer
at
oabinet-makers assembled to celebrate their an
nuai Picnic. AS there are no less than twenty
tWo hundred members, and as all Of them are
nrst-ciass oaoinet-makers, they should send COM
mittee to Washington, where there seems to be q
general smash-up in the "Cabinet."
The knights Of the cue held a meeting yester
day. in one OF the parlors Of the Metropolitan
Hotel, and formed National Billiard Association,
to hold regular annual tournaments for the cham
pionship. The first regular tournament will be
held in this oity, in September next.
Leutenant-General GRANT, with Cols BADRAu
and PARKER OF his staff arriy ed at the Metropoli-
tan yesterday. They not, however, going to
fight it out on this line the whole summer, as it
would be much too hot line, but are en- route for
the place where ei matchmaking would be capital
business st present.
The American emigrant ship Monarch of the
Seas, which is known to have sailed from Liver
Pool on the 10th Of last March, for this port,
having thus been out four months, has not vet
been heard from, and great fears arc entertained
that she has been completely wrecked. She had
on board six hundred and seventy-rour passen-
gers, besides crew Of 6fty-four men and officers
Ali are supposed to be lost.
Yesterday, police officer who was on duty at
pier No. so East River, seeing a carpet bag float
ing Oh tho water, proceeded to fish it up
visions OF wet greenbacks loated in his minds
eye as tho carpet bag foated nearer towards him.
Now he has it-ln haste he opens it, and Oh !
horror OF horrors, he finds dead baby. Heaven
knows how mauy such carpet bags are sunk to
rise no more, are sunk to hide horrible crimes,
resulting from the truly deprsved state Of morals
In all classes of society in this great city, in which
there are more mysterious closet skeletons in
every family than were ever dreamt Of in THAoKE-
RAYS philosophy.
The New York Fire Department will be we'll
represented at the great Paris Exposition, to be
held in August, 1867. A frst-class "steamor," !"
the best that can be made in America, will be sent
over, accompanied by forty picked and gallant
fire boys.
Tho Italian Opera Troupe held forth last night
Tin ErnanD at Niblos Garden, for the benefit Of
sidering the thermometer, and the opera went off
well. This, however, is no weather for operas or
theatres Nevertheless, the theatres are still
doing some little business.
Troyatore tonight at Niblo's; Octoroon at
Olympic; DAN BRYANT at Wallaoks; BRoUaHAM at
Winter Garden; BUEsLAY Family at the New
Bowery; THEODORE THOMAS Concerts at Terrace
Garden. MOULTRIE.
P. SIN your agents cool Office, thermometer
at P. NJ. ninetg-nine degrees
New YORK, July 20.-Everything must have an
end. There must be an end to pleasure and an
end to pain, an end to sorrow and an end to joy.
The war even came to an end, and there is no tell
ing but that we may one day see the last retiring
coat-tails Of the Freedmen's Bureau. The heated
spell we have endured here has proven no excep-
ton to the rule-the hot weather has been driven
away effectually by the thrice blessed thunder
storm that came to our relief on Wednesday.
Taking due advantage of the most agreeable
change in the weather, people eojoyed themselves
yesterday to thoir hearts content and crowded
the theatres last night. Five thousand lovers of
the turf turned out yesterday, and turned into
the enclosure at Fashion Course, to Witness en-
joy, lose and win greenbaoks on the great trial
o. Al. III l..l.--