The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-02-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

O1VS GDcTO uaVO UtCu 5tfGIdl fSly HS"'J A"ANS -
snow, covering tho ground to sufficient depth to
admit of the enjoyment Of the cxhilirating plea
sures of sleigh riding. On Saturday lasS the
sleighing carnival was at its height. Thousands
of the fair and the unfair sex were out enjoying tho
| fun. The Bloomingdale road was thronged with
sleighs, drawn by gallant steeds, and bearing
happy beaux and bellies, whose merry laughter
mingled with the tinkling of the tiny svery
slsigh-bels, till the music of the bells and the
music of the bellies harmoniously blended, as the
otherwise noiseless vehicles swiftly and gracefully
glided along. See where goes that handsome
couple wrapt in furs, the flush Of health and OF
love upon the maiden's cheek, as she nestles
closer to the side of her admiring swain. See
where-but they slide along swiftly as VIC watch
them, and are lost to our view. Tho beautiful
and snow-clad avenues in Central Park were also
resorted to by thousands of the sleighing frater-
nty whilst the skaters throngod toward the lakes,
where fifty thousand were. on the ice at one time.
The official list of the number of persons who
have visited the Central Park during the month OF
January from the 1st to the Oath inclusive, shows
that the Park has, during this period, been visited
by four hundred and eleven thousand two hun
| three hundred and forty-four equestrians; forty
five thousand two hundred aud seventy vehicles,
and seventeen thousand five hundred and thir-
| teen sleighs
Snow and ice are very good in their way-yery
good for seighing and for skating-but de-
cidedly bad thing to get on tho track of street
car The city railroad companies down on
tho snow and ice, apG the horses are down on said
ice and snow much oftener than they like; where
fore, the railroad people having heard that good
way to catch bird is to throw salt on its tall and
having been informed, moreover, that salt will
melt ice or snow, have been seasoning the streets
with salt as though they were large dish Of some
thing about to be cooked for mammoth dinner.
The City Fathers, however, showed that said sea-
soning was out of even in this cold season,
and called attention to city ordinance which for
bids sailing the streets as though they were
large ice-cream churn.
In my last letter 7 gave you an account Of the
ingenious robbery OF porter of the Greenwich
Savings Bank by true and false policeman. 1t
was taken for granted that the real policeman
was innocent, and had been played upon by the
.Su r like ga harp of Q thousand strings" but the
President of the Bank says that, in the language
of ARTEMUs WARD. she does not see the thing in
those lamps" and adds, moreover, that looking
at it from the light of other lamps, he thinks that
both of the men were true policemen and false
policemen at,the same time; that is to say, they
were true 7QNcemep, being really bona tide officers
of the sr IL but that they weres snsvsrtheless
false, inasrnuch as they q couple of thieving
rascals, who conspired together to rob the Bank
porter. The astute Bank President is sharp
man, and am inclined to believe that in this in
stance lie has seized tho right female swine by
the organ OF hearing. The rogues in this big
city are so exceedingly smart that tho honest
mon must necessarily sharpen their wits to the
finest possible edge, or they will havo their Dyes
robbed out of their heads whilst they are Innocent
ly doing, and glass ones substituted.
The petroleum fraud case, in which Colonel w.
d. MANN and Mr.. SrRATroN had been charged
with having swindled certain parties by selling
them shares in the United Service Petroleum Con-.
pany under false representations, has como to an
end Justice DODGE decided in favor of tho de-
PENDANTS to the suit; Mr.. SrnArroN has been dis
charged, and Colonel MANN, being honorably nc
quilted, is once moro regarded as an honorable
sman."
On Saturday last the following sentence was
pronounced by Judge GILBERT on JOSE GONZALES
FERNANDEZ and Francisco GENE SALVADOR, who
lad bcon convicted of the murder Of the Spaniard
OrERo 'The sentence of the court, in each Of
your cases, is, that you be taken hence to the
place whence you came, and be there confined un-
til Tuesday, the ninth day of March, and on that
day. between the hours of nine in the forenoon
and three in the afternoon, you be hanged by the
neck until you be dead"
The prisoners were not in the slightest degree
affected by the reading of tho above sentence or.
rather, they gave no outward demonstration that
they were so. Let mo add hero what the Judge
seems to have omitted in reading the sentence
and may Con have mercy on their souls.
The pickpockets arc doing fourisling busi-
ness; their operations are principally confined to
the street cars, where they have oflato been help
ing themselves so plenteously and successfully to
other peoples greenbacks that the newspapers
are CRYING out "trumnot-t -tongued against the deep
damnaton of their taking off," Tho only way for
man to insure himself when he gets into one OF
these cars, that he will not have his ?ocket-book
distracted from his pocket, is for him to leave it
nj home and only carry about his pcrson-in his
meath would answcr-cnough money for car fare.
Tho Charity Ball on Monday night at the Acad-
envy of Music, for the benefit of the Nursery and
Chlld's Hospital, was decided success. The
magnificent building was filed to overilowing, was
most bcautifully and tastcfully decorated for the
OCCASION, and the dazzling light of hundreds Of
jets or gas, revealing thousandssof faces deckei
with the smile of beauty, shone upon sccno that
brought to mind tales of fairy palaces created by
tho cncnantcr's wand.