The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-17

Excise Law still holds its SWAY, and neither liquor
nor lager beer ca be sold and imbibed un Sunday
EXCEPT sub rosa and at the risk of the penalty Ill
case of detection But they tell us that there ls to
be Il riot vet. and they tell us there Will not DC.
| Time will show.
| The spring meeting at the Hob0ken race course
opens tomorrow with three races II hurdle race
Of two miles over six hurdles, dash for one and
| Il halt miles. and dash of single mlle and the
first meeting of the American Jocky Club takes
place 1T jerome Park ON the 22d inst. Leonard
". Jerome with the assistance OF DIR. Irving, has
! rrvolnmZcd the luaascs here il.somuch as re
cards the fondncSS for the sports of the TURF and
the announcement Of Il race now produces here
quite as much excitement as it would havo done
in Charles on Or New Orleans in the oldcn time.
The enthusiasm with which night after night at
Walla:ks. the great Derby race scene i'll the Flying
Scud is received, is straw which shows how the
popular wind blows. In this scene the mirror is 80
he'd up to nature that the reflection looks like ma
turc hcrscf-wc behold the race track crowded
with men, women and children, negro mlnstrels
among The Masses circus men performing their
the crowd cheering, gaming tablos and men playing,
in fact everything precisely as we see it OH race
course. Aud then tho racc-the horses small
when We've! at a distance. increasing in size as
they hear us, and the winner living Scud,
coming in upon the stage covered with foam. and
bestridcd by the old jockey who had not ridden
for forty years, but rode Flying Scud to save the
race, tho rider having been drugged by those who
merit III the play, with the exception of the fine
effect produced by this scene, and us the piece al
most outdraws tic Black Crook itself, it snums
that Jerome and Dr. Irving have been successful,
and that the people of New York have begun to
take lively interest in the delightful sports OF the
turf.
The Herald of to-days issue publishes list of
the lar ge number of Richmond's in tue field that
desire to 60 to the eaPacty 5s pip
of the South (very properly do rot feel any ex-
traordinary interest in the matter, it may not he
amss ut my rate to givo the list for the benefit nf
your readers if only to be received as information;
Tennessee nonlinatcs Gen. George H. Thomas ana
Gen. John A. Logan; Indiana proposes ColiaX and
Beast Butler: Ohio wants Chase and John Minor
Bolts the Herald hangs on to Grant and Lee;
New York prefers Grant and Farragut, and Maine
goes in for-or comes out for-Wendcll Phillips
and one Isaac Newton. who is not the philosopher.
Five thousand thirsty individuals who could not
obtain a drink here Yesterday. not because 1t was
not to be had, but because they were in un6lIsstu
ignorance as to the whereabouts of the sub rosa
piaces--five thousand thirsty mon went over to
Hoboken and paid their respects. to the whiskcy
and lager which can be found there even OH
the Sabbath day. verify believe that should
law be passed prohibiting the sale of liquor and
these five Thousand Sunday cmgrants, and at least
two hundred thousand more. could leave New
York for good-or for bad-and sock a home III
moro congenal and less temperate cline. 1t Is as
well c.ouSh Tor cassie, after ne hau peeu uiuiih
10 rail against men who put the enemy into their
mouths, but men arc fond of tho enemy, IN fact
| they regard him as friend. and men may come
and men may go, but they'll drink on forever.
':Alark Twain" the humorist Samuel Clemcns).
delivered his first lecture lust night ut the Cooper
Institute. Twain, while ho lacks the broad hl-
NOR of poor Artcmus Ward, is yet sufficiently
witty to be worthy to attempt to supply the place
of his, would almost say, ilustrous predecessor.
| With Artcnus Ward We were more amused by the
| manner in which his witticisms were let of than
by the matter itself; while with Twain the hMmor-
ons savings would have almost as good effect in
print.
japanese, Flying Scud and Black Crook leagues
ahead OF tho other theatres and places of anluse-
ment in q pecuniary point of view. One OF the
proprictors of the NEWS, who s here, has patron
lied all these and awards the palm to the Black
Crook.
0-' MOUL1RIE.