The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-26
The THRArRE-THE BLACK Crook ARRIVED AT

The THEATRE-THE BLACK Crook ARRIVED Al
LAsT.-There is no longer any doubt The ia
nous Black (rook-the crookedest Crook and the
olackest crookedest Crook-which has taken Ne"
York by Storm has been wondered at by two MIL
lion of people, aud peeped at through one million
of opera gllsses, has arrived in Charleston, ano
will make its first appearance tonight.
This is tie great, the eventful, day on which
tickets may be taken, and parties may be made up
and escorts may be found, and all may prepare foI
the great event of the Theatrical season. Gives
there man with soul so dead" that he does long
for the Black Crook? Is there any individual who,
in reading OF the glories OF the Black Crook has
not wished that New York were Charleston? The
change is made. Gotham is Charleston as far a.
the Black Crook goes, and those who do not hasten
TO the Theatre tonight Will wait longer and fare
worse. This city cannot have Charles Dickens,
Ristori, the French Opera, or daily Congress
man, but it can have the Hibernian Hall, the
Messrs. Templeton, and the crowning triumph
the Buck Crook. What will Augusta say now
Has Augusta, had Augusta, q Black Crook? No
But the happiness may yet be hers, and then she
will no longer try to envy Charleston, Savannah
and New York.
The DEADLY SN.-Snce the days of Adam and
Eve, when crime first destroyed the peaceful
pleasures of Eden, there has been no sin more
fascinating than apple-stealing. Robbing an Or
chard has long been the ambition of many
youthful aspirant for fame and a halter, and In
nearly every instance the stolen fruit has been ap-
pies. The fondness of our first parents Tor this
forbidden fruit has descended to their posterity,
and in consequence of numerous depredatlons
apples are in some places considered common
property. The habit of annexing apples has been
generally confined to the country, but ii is temp
tation that cannot be resisted, and last night an
individual was brought to the Guard House Tor
abstractng apples from the store OF MIR. Zanoga.
A bad precedent should not always be followed,
and though the pilferer pleaded the example OF
Adam, and said that
"When Eve she did the apple eat,
Smacked her lips and said twas sweet;
And Adam he came prowling round
And spied the peelings on the ground;
he took few on his own account This excuse
was very plausible but the apple thief was IN
formed that Adam had never lived in District NO.
2, or he would have thought twice before ne took
the first bite and he was detained in custody for
following bad example.
RUMoRED RIOT ON WADMALAw IsLAND-It was
rumored on Sunday that an election disturbance
had taken place on Johns Island, which was pre-
vented from having any serious consequences by
the prompt arrival of detachment OF troops from
Wadmalaw. This rumor was scarcely cold when
report flew through the city like wildre that there
had been riot on Wadmalaw Island and that
number OF persons had been killed.
1t was impossible to find where the alarming
rumour originated, but it soon assumed terrible
and before dark it was currently be-
lleyed that more than twenty white men had been
murdered. No man knew any particulars, but
it was said that a party of negroes had attacked
white man, who called on his friends for asss-
tance. This led to general melee, in which the
negroes used firearms freely with the bloody re-
suit already mentioned. Another report had II
that Young man named Morris had been
badly wounded by the negroes. third report
confined the uprising to one plantation, all bie
houses and buildings upon which we're SAID 10
have been burned down by the excited negroes, 10
avenge some fancied wrong.
These were the rumours, but some few absolute
facts have been ascertained. When the steamer
st. Helena left Rockville early Monday morning,
all was profoundly quiet. 1t was suggested that
the rioters might have waited Intentionally until
after tho departure of the boat 80 as to prevent
any immediate help for those whom they assailed,
but it was not believed that any disturbance
whatever had taken place. During Sunday night,
however, the st. Helena was chartered by General
Clitz, commanding the Post of Charleston, and
she left for Wadmalaw at three O'Clock yesterday
taking with her Colonel Williams and
detachment of about forty soldiers. Until the
st. Helena returns, nothing reliable can well be
known, but it is hoped and believed that the whole
affair is either hoax that its details are grossly
exaggerated.
The VOTE IN THE STATE.-The following table
shows, in condensed form, the number OF regis