The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-30
Our New York Letter.

Our New York Letter.
TFRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
New YoRK, March 27.-Temperance is q good
thing, and politics may be good thing, too, at
times, and when it is of proper brand; but it
we're perhaps better not to mix them up together
in the same dish. 1t is related Of gentleman in
uneagy circumstances, who lived, or rather yege-
tated, in third-class clearinghouse, that on
taking his seat at breakfast table, one morning,
and finding tho sugar dish half full Of sugar and
half full OF flies, he remarked to the landlady that
he was found Of sugar, and had great respect,
not To say affection for flies, blt TINT he preferred
having them served up in separate dishes il con-
yenient Politicians and temperance men are be-
ginning to serve up the political sugar and tem-
perste flies in the same dish. as for example: At o
meeting at Plymouth Church, last night, where
HORACE GREELEY, using his eloquent tongue as an
all-potent spoon, stirred the two things together
centending that the sale Of alcohol should he regu
lated and restricted by Legislative enactment, and
that the traffic in oil intoxicating liquors should be
likewise regulated by law. Now it may be aHvery
we'll to endeavor by legitimate means to keep up
the temperance movement, but if dealers are to be
prohibited from selling whiskey because men who
purchase may so use it, or rather 80 abuse it, as
10 injure themselves, the Legislature may Just as
well pass law placing restrictions upon tie sale
Of cheese, because buyers may: make it UP into
Welsh-rarebits, and by eating too much thereof
might lnjure Their digestive organs. What with
universal suffrage, temperance, women's rights.
Fenianism, and all sorts Of isms everything is
getting to be mixed up in such fy-and-sugar
fashion that we the heindependent boarders in Uncle
Sans large hotel, will soon have to esehew each
and every DISH or chew them altogether.
The committee appointed to examine into the
affairs Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the
directors of which have been charged with having
purposely flooded the market with stock, bringing
it down from two hundred and thirty to one hum
dred and twenty (par value one hundred), and
running LEONARD ". JEROME and others, has been
hard at work, but has found out nothing so far.
JEROME himself is one Of tho directors, and it ls
therefore hardly probable that there could have
been anything wrong behind the curtain.
The criminal record in the courts here of late
shows an alarming increase III the number Of per-
SONS arrested, charged with the horrible crime Of
intanticide and murder, by means Of the attempted
production Of abortion. Within the past week
there have been two instances in which the unfor-
tuaate victims of the last-named crime have gone
to their dread account. The horrible profession
seems to pay largely here for many Of is male and
female practitioners live in marble palaces that
rent for at least FIVE or six thousand dollers per
annum. IF there ever was one-half OF the immortality
among the people of sodola and Gomorrah that
exists in this great modern Babylon, then did
those two cities well deserve to be burnt to the
ground without cent of insurance. Nsw York
city, though good place in one sense OF the word,
is, in manytrespects, as thoroughly bad place Us
there is in this terrestrial globe. - : 80
The HerDM predicted yesterday again that we
would have fall Of rain or snow within three days
and half; but cne day has elapsed, and behold
we are favored with another snow storm. In to-
nao1row'e issue the weather-wise Herald will brag
hugely, and make another prediction, which vii,
OF course, again be verified, for the clerk Of the
weather seems to have snow on the brain, and
people have giver up oil hope Of having any
summer at all this year.
The extraordinary movement here among all
classes, and in all circles Of society, in favor Of
giving entertainments for the benefit Of the desti-
tute people Of the South, is daily gaining in popu-
layity. Theatrical people, operatle people, CIRCUS
people, concert singers, and amateurs, are all
working brayely in the good cause, and night after
night are concerts theatrical entertainments and
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ladies Of the Fifth Avenue. In consideration OF
this Inst mentioned circumstance, it becomes me
to explain how it ls that the performance Of the
Charleston amateurs for the bendft Of Tue SOUTH
ern Mutual Aid Association Of your city has not
come off as I had announced that it would. The
ladies had consented to perform provided they
would not DO compelled to appear in public
thestre or hall-whorefore JEROME was applied to
and promised tho use Of his theatre. IL appears,
however, that he has been compelled t withdraw
his offer on tho ground that the Ladies' Southern
Relief Association here, to whom he had rendered
tie -se of the building, will keep it eor an inde-
finite period, during which time it can cny be used
for entertainments given under their patronage
and for the benefit Of their oHp Society. Whether
or not tho amateurs will make arrangements to
to play the: rnder such conditions have not yet
pcen able to .earn.
A night or two ago concert, in aid Of the cause
referred to above, WAS given in tho immense par
lors Of tho magnificent asidonce of N. SToUaHToN
on Fifth Avenue, and largo amount was realized
The ladies who shone most conspie-ousy were the
Misses PARKER and BouDHE1MER, Of this city, Mrs
WILSON, also OF New York, md Miss BROOKS, o
Detroit. Critics say that Miss BROOKS sings quite
as well and artstically as the best professionals o
the italian Opera.
The merchants Of New York may deserve the re-
putation they have acquired for shrewdness, ye
they are not so wise but that they can be taken il
now and then. A man who calls himself MARTn
(that which We call rose by any other name woule
| smell as swect) has been carrying on, since Sep
tembcr 1858, the neatest kind of swindling game
and has come out ahead to the tune OF ten thou
sand dollars. MARTINS stock in trade consisted il
| quantity OF "cheek" and subscription list pur
porting to be for the benefit Of tho INDECENT mem
GERS Of tho Insurance patrol. He called regularl
once year on the firm Of H. B. CLAFL1N & Co.
and walked of as regularly with a ton dollar bill
and 80 with other houses, and verify his buslnes
did flourish and prosper. Yesterday, however, b
was arrested, and now is MARTINS occupation
gone.
Gold quiet at 1s4aa; business dull, and-only thi
and nothing more. MOULTRIE.
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DEATH OF COL D. s. TAYLoR.-Wo have to re
co~d this morning the death Of another old citize
OF Pendleton. On Friday last, Col. David =. Ia,
lor departed this life, in the sixtieth year Of his agt
after brief illness, Of apoplexy. His summon
was Short although prononitory symptoms Of th
disease had been apparent, for several years. Co
Taylor had accumulated large tortdne before th
zeDs lie had recently accepted tho appointmer
Of Assistant Assessor OF Internal Revenue, On
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