The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-05

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Our New York Letter. -s
LrRom ouR REGULAR ooRaEspoNpsnr]
New York, April l. y
Make money-honestly if you can, but
n,ake money. Such the eadvice given by a
fond father to his we'll beloved and hopeful
son about to set out on life's journey. Put
money in thy purse, said Iago, make money
cry one and all; 7; work for it, strive for it,
make it! by fair means, make it BY
foul means; speculate, gamble, cheat,
for it; if needs must be, but get it.. any
how A great excitement on Wall street,
| a general stir around the stock boards, live
" conversation in the hotel reading-rooms
Ewealthy men who have a thousand times
been guilty Of swindling Operations not vet
found out, indignantly denouncinrlg, the con
duct Of other wealthy men who have been
guilty of cheating and have been: found out
at at last: : !. Three Of the biggest men in New
York arrested on charge Of having been
engaged in the biggest kind Of. swindlins
arrangsments--=D Daniel Drew, James Fisk
and William Belden-the names of the
great Found Out, legion the name of the.
great undetected. The three big men are
charged with fraudulent transactions con-.
nected with-the failure Of the Merchants
National Bank at Washington. iShaks-
peare said that all the world 5 d stage. and
all the men and women merely plavers.
Moultrie adds that all of Wall: street, is
faro bank, and all the men therein are
players, except the dealers, and among the
dealers there is such thing as the stocking
of stocks as well as of cards, and unfair
dealing as well as square games. Swind-
ling is of course dishonorable, and wrong,
and censurable, butt is disagTeeable thing
to be poor, to be, as Miss Bella Wilfer
remarks in Our Mutual Friend, very Door,
ddegradingly poor, Extensively poor, beastly
poor; and so people must make money. and
the lords of Fifth Avenue must play their
cards as best they can in the great ga,mb-
ling establishments of Wall street.
A physician who calls himself and Is
called by others, Dr.. Theirs, and who could,
# he chose, write q book that would con-
tain matter quite as interesting as the
history Of the French Revolution BY
his illustrious .name-sake,, has been
arrested on charge Of having caused
the death Of one Mrs Noble, on
whom he most ignobly attempted, by the
exercise Of his surgical skill, to bring about
an abortion. In the endeayor to conceal
one crime, the physician has been guilty Of.
another and a greater one. 'Ss. =.
John.C. Heenan and Joe Coburn had 4
difficulty, short time since, In gambling
saloon here, and were on the point of le,a,y.
ing the affair to the arbitrament of the fist.
when they wisely concluded that If they
did m fight itWould be- just asa we'll to have
something staked upon the issue Of the
cont contest, wherefore they have agreed to.
punch each others heads in the Elysian
Fields: in -Hohoken (where the duel be-
tween Hamilton and Burr took place) for
the champion belt and ten thousand dol
lars. When the punching takes place, I
expect, to have, reserved seat. as i have
the honor ofsbeing personally acquainted.
with Q fast young gentleman who has the
greater hoaors::of being intimately acquaint-
ed with vt the man who once whipped by
the Honorable j John lMorEiissey, member Of
Congress, and faro bank proprietor. 3:
When gentleman takes part in private
theatricals, and allows his better half to do
the same, he should beware Of taking 4
character in which he is compelled look
as ugly<as possible, and giving the part of
the handsome and well dressed lover to
proprietor of a captivating moustache. An
amateur performance took, place a few
ri nights ago in Brooklyn, in which. there
was an ugly gentleman with q pretty wife
who did not take the precaution. The:
play came of as announced, and then, as
had not been announced, the ugly mans
pretty wife went off to parts unknown with
the handsome lover, who played dSthe oppo-
site aaaappositepart ,S y
j The Rey.h:Rr sGheever,deliveredsa "a lee
tdre last night at the church Of the Puurii:4e =
a1E tans, on ssthe right Of the colored race in
convention, ' and the burden Of the dis.
course e was that the people Of the North, If
they value the jewel consistency, should
not deny the negro the same rights in the
free States @ that they have given them i,.e11us
IN the South. Il is certainly but Justice.
that If the negrosis to have a seat in thd
orchestra chairs in the South, he should at
least be allowed e sit in the; political dress
circle in the free States Of Tie: North.
The strike for higher; wages by the car:
penters (who want four dollars per day in
stead OF. three and half dates ,fron1stos;
day, the first of April, but is. nevertheless
by no means an April fool arTangendnsssf1t;. dss1 =
the carpenters are in earnest but many Of
them are half dolorous 10 anticipation: titt Of
the strikers falling to accomplish thesse,b thesob-;
ject. desired, and then being thrown out Of
employment
The Radicals here are diseusteds and dis
appointed at the stats, Of atfairs III the South
and.the: entiente scnn1silnk9stha seems to ex.
cot l,1k T.. as. rE,n