The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-10
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
lrRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

large blaze-but there is always nre. lne VI
dit" reported in u recent letter in relation 10 MIS-
LNooLN's ncognto visit to this city on eiotiiiiI
and jewelry selling expedition is no longer siipis
an con dt.n 1t is fact-an established fact, no.
torious fact. disgraceful reality-tS uue' 's
pity, and pity 'tis,. It's true. Mrs. CLAhAh nus
thrown off her disguise, aud Mrs. LINCOLN ap-
pears upon the stage, Mrs. AFR.haM LINCOLN, VI.
widow of the once revered and beloved Chle'
Magistrate of the Republic, and martyr 10 Il cause
which people seem to care about no lohger-lor
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS as President JOHNSON IS
I q cbsmnion of the Union as il vas and ought 10
he but is no more. In exposing for sale valuable
articles. many of which were presented to her Dy
politicians and ofice-seekers who were once ior
colo Themselves and whose characters (?l Will
be exposed along with their gifts, Airs' AiN'oi''
is at last having some satisfaction III a'ehe'hs
herself upon these summer irlenos from WHOSE
. abandonment in the day of her adversely she
finds it necessary to dispose OF a large
portion of her winter garments. Many OF these
articles are of the finest texture and most costly
material Among them We find or we may nnu Dy
looking into the establishment at NO. oo9 Droao-
Yay, black centre camels hair shawl that cost
fifteen hundred dollars, white centre ditto Vaiueu
at twelve hundred "a Russian sale cape ror in'eeh
hundred; a Russian sale boa at twelve tof course
hundred is understood); a white point lace shaWi
for two and dress of the same material (Got made
up) for four; but hereafter, .'two" and -four we
must understand the word thousand Instead OF
hundred The broker in whose hands the articles
have been deposited values the entire lot at s2iOOo
but they probably cost nearly double that amount
The distinguished lady whose wardrobe Is thus
publicly exposed for sale, and whose husband once
held the highest post of honor in the nations glt'
has naught left besides with which to support ner
self and family but seventeen hundred dollars the
interest of the twenty-five thousand presented to
| her by Congress- which ought to have been and
wonld have been one hundred thousand, had not
number of Republicans, who claimed to represent
the party Of which Mr.. LINCOLN was leader,
Eyoted against the amendment. I should add, how
ever, what these grateful men may have taken into
consideration, that Mrs. LINCOLN has also an in
come of three hundred dollars | the proceeds of
the rental of ''honest Old ABE's" house in Spring
| field 80
Now. that the entire details OF this dsgraceful
business have found their way into the newspapers,
where even appears the correspondence between
the effects will be disposed of in the most effective
manner that is to say, at public auction, and as
this will be novel auction, sensational auction,
a. we'll no matter for the other adjective, sui
fee it to saw that tue word omitted brings to mind
| s'The Devils Auction" which 1 saw last night at
Banvard's Museum
The newspapers have for many weeks back
teemed with lengthy notices and still more lengthy
advertisements, in which it was claimed that the
great rival of the Black Crook would prove to be a
sensation more potent than the first, wherefore
| last night the house was crowded from parquette
| TO dome With those wfo had seen the Black Crook
dozen times or more, and who, having come to
the internal auction with their expectations rased
| eagerly awaited the raising Of the curtain.
The scenery in the Devils Auction, which name
is given to the piece on account Of certain magic
| pills. and so forth, which the Devil sells to man,
who afterwari plays the Devil throughout the
piece The scenery, 1 say, is magnificent nay
gorgeous but yet inferior to that i'll the rival spec
tacle The inebriation scene in the abode OF Back
us is however, superlatively grand Rows OF love
" women, bearing golden clusters of grapes, arise
before our dazzled view and ascend, but to give
! piace to Others at whose superior lovehness We
gaze with tantalzing feeling, for we see these
| scantily attired forms through shower Of wine
that seems, as 1t were to endeavor III VAIN to
drown this vision of beauty and shut it out from
our enraptured sight.
I'm many respects, the Devils Auction is more
attractive than the Black Crook; the corps de bdl-
| lei ia composed of women a thousand times hand
somer both in form and feature, than those III
| IIl hoe hpap q
and besides this, we have In the former much
bett.r opportunity to study the anatomy of the
l,,.man frame What little dress is worn i'll the
Devils Auction, is beyond all doubt much hand
somer than the Black Crook costume. Two OF
the most beautiful girls whom Moultre or any one
else has ever beheld, appear as horses that is to
saw horses heads cover their oWn yet do not con-
ceal them, and equine narrative follows each as
she walks. The balance OF the costume ls entirely
in the circus style IN the tlghtest accepton OF the
term These horse ladies each rojoces in the pos
session Of form where every god does seem to
| set his seal TO give the world assurance Of per
feet model of woman.
Some portions Of the piece are exceedingly lu
dcrous and amusing. Rosemary, little French
peasant, loves no man, but is exceedingly fond Of
| u
claims, ''Oh, that you were man II when, pres
to the.donkey is transformed into human shape,
still, however, retaining the ears and narrative of
the donkey. The donkey-man makes love to
Rosemary, who, however, unlike many young
women who love bipeda asses, rejects his suit
with scorn; when, presto! again, the ears and
narrative disappear, and then tits different tale
Rosemary now makes love TO the young man,
| who, however, refuses her. wherefore, to prove
that he is ass for doing, she contrives to
| transform him again in the semi-donkey state. In
| the sequel of course the woman marries the
The Devils Auction" is a success, and, in fact,
successor that the "Black Crook" has much
cause to fear, the more 80 as Banvsrds was crowd
ed last night with an audience made UP OF as good
classes Of society as visit any of the first of the
metropolitan theatres.
society has been recently organized here
whose object is to suppress gambling, and some
OF the members got to wola last night In tine style
by escorting a squad OF policemen into the we'll
known den at the corner of Ann and Nassau
streets where twenty of the disciples Of the Egyp-
tian king were arrested to be held in S;:ace oae.
1t is yet to be proven whether an: OF the members
OF this moral and mind-son 3-one-eses business
association know aught IL. relation to the doings
in ten handsome establishments, one III Twenty
fourth street and one i'll Broadway, near Eighth,
or whether they have ever heard Of such men as
the Hon. JOHN MoRRIssEY and JOHN c. HEENAN
the dealers-in checks.
He who walketh through the streets OF New
York III the small hours OF the morning, should
!. beware of having about his person large amount
of money, for truly this is walking in the paths OF
the unrighteous. A California theatre Ii, lnagel
thought not SO, but walked through Broadway
/ Yesterday morning in the night, or yesterday
night III the morning, with no fear IN his soul and
with four thousand dollars in his pocket. Fortu