The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-13
Our New York Letter.
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| 1Nh" Aohh, APru 1V--in my letter OF the *
inst. made an allusion to the unprecedented ris
In rents here, and the extreme difficulty in pro
curing eligible unfurnished houses, except at tn,
most unreasonably exorbitant figures. It hat
| been confidently hoped and expected that as tn,
month OF April advanced, and the first Of May
| the great moving day-grew nearer and nearer q
hand, the landlords. fearful OF having their houses
left untenanted, would yield gracefully, and lowe,
! their high notions and high rents ut the same
time; but life is made up Of disappointments ani
miscalculations, and these are Of them; for the
evil is unabated, and the house-rent panic Il NEAR
panic among the pay-rental CLASSY grows with ite
| growth. In yesterdays Herald an advertisement
appeared Of q desirable house to rent, in good
| location, Thirty Sixth street, near Sixth avenue
price only $1,000; and applicants therefor were in
vited to call at the residence of the advertiser
between the hours Of 9 and IL in the morning.
fear your re ders MAJ suspect me Of exaggeration
when assure them that this little notice created
more excitement among certain classes here than
would have been produced by the announcement
that tho Supreme Court had given decision
against tho constitutionaty Of the Reconstr
Act can only say in reply that the circum-
stance am about to relate is founded strictly on
fact, and will leave the facts to speak for them
selves. At the appointed hour Mou1TRE found
not ofhcially as your correspondent, but yet cfci
ally in another capacity, VIZ: That Of; O. house
seeker, acting in behalf of IN about-to- -be house
less friend # the man had advertised to give out
gold inexchange for ex-Confederate currency, the
house could not have been rnorecrowded with
eager applicants; the parlor WIS 6lled with ladies'
tho passage-way was crowded there was perfect
jam outside and around the entrance, and in fact,
it was almost impossible to get inside the house
MoULTRR, however, wedged his way in to see tho
fun. At nine o'clock the gentleman made his ap-
pearance, Ike Mayor at his court, and announced
that he would first give an audience to the
lady, who he had been informed by his servant
(who wore white gloves, had been waiting patiently
since seven O'Clock. The patient lady was received
in room adjoining the crowded parlor, then an
other lady, then another still, each one marching
in in post Office style. The crowd, however, grew
impatient.and made rush for tho private room;
whereupon the gentleman came forward like can-
didate for public Office and addressed them all
collectively. He began by stating that the house
has no yard, whereupon about dozen OF the
ladies' wore seen to disappear suddenly. Next he
stated that some Of the rooms were rather small,
then added in kind Of parenthetc style, that
there was mistake in the advertisement as to the
exnct locality in which the house is situated, and
gretted to state that bet&er7haR being indisposed
he himself was indisposed to show the house to
each or any of the assembled multitude till some
time next week. To describe the scene that en-
sued at the termination Of this Grafton is almost
impossible. Noses were turned SO contemptuouBly
(some of them tantalizingly pretty noses) that
they seemed determined to remain up like the
rents. rush was made for the door, your cor
respondent being the first one out and the house
was soon vacated by those who viii have to vacate
their own houses before the first of May or stand
the raise in their rents and accept the situation
that they cannot better except by taking q
house in an uptown situation, and moving up Ia
some point between 80th and 13Oth streets, the
terminus Of Third Avenue Railroad, and q ride o1
one hour and twenty minutes from the City Hall
Park iss y 4: it5 S,55ss, t@=s33s
Some little excitement has been created here by
the arrival Of the Greet Eastern; not, however:
fnn ANY: desire TO .f,n his shin for the gene
RAJ cur1oslty has been gratlhed on that point on
two occasions Cn 1860 and 1852, but because many
had feared that che had gone to bottom, as she
crossed the ocean in quite leisurely and digni:
fed style, taking fourteen days from port to port
tThe Gredz Eastern may be- . in fact is-the larges,
and handsomest'ste aaoat yet, should ever
have occasion to go across the water, uncoupled
with desire to go under, would prefer embark
ing in smaller craft. : = s.ssls'7E
have hitherto purposely avoided any alusion to
the outrageous crusade against class of people
whom, spite Of religious (or rather rreigious) pre-
judice, we cannot but respect by such Of the Insr
ance Companies as claim to have suffered by taking
what they are pleased to call tsJew risks; but as
the e. itenient has been resumed and as there are
no less than sixty thousand Israeltes hero who
protest against the base calumny, my duty as q
correspondent induces me at least to give the
facts as they are. A card has been published in
the Herald, which, it is supposed, emanates from
one of the Insurance Agents, reiterating the
charges and attempting to substantiate the
truth (?) thereof wherefore, an indignation meet
ing is to be held on Monday next, in which many
Of the wealthiest and most respectable Jewish
merchants and capitalists win take part. No less
than sixty OF the largest and oldest, Insurance
Companies III the United States have made state
ments giving the lie unqualified and direct to these
ridiculous charges; but, nevertheless, ths lis nus
taken root in all directions, proving that though
truth be mighty il viii not always prevail and that
the seeds Of fasehood planted in the soil Of pre-
judice, and watered BY the hand Of ignorance, viii
spring up with grocdly crop (or badly crop) Of
lies: .
AUGUST BE1Moars gallery of paintings-per-
:t9. .oAio AoSo PAAsnbo cOA1oCtlou IL ILLS c1Sy-Wl
be thrown open in few days for public inspec-
ton. the price Of admittance being placed at one
dollar, the proceeds to be handed over Is the
Ladies' Southern Relief Fund. s ;i s+i 81. ii.
A. 7. STEWARDS dry goods establishment on
Broadway, at the corner Of Tenth street, Is to be
enlarged to about six times it's present size I,
will extend through to Fourth avenue, and vii
cover an area Of nm scre and ,quarterof ground
In one Of my letters published several mons.,s
| ago;I gave an account Of a new invention, mag
netic light, with such 'brilliancy as to admit o
ones reading ordinary print at distance Of /
quarter Of q mile from the light, and predicted
| that 1t would soon come into general use here
My prediction will probably soon be verified, al
the thing has been thoroughly tested and found K
be all that is claimed for it. The Eqht Is so In
tense that II aesN fuse piece Qtnetal held at a dis
tdnce Of fifty yurda uaeretrons and for photograph
purposes it is superior to the light Of the SUI
itself Es} g 4
The Charlest< respondent of the Herald in
forms its readc that South Carolinians are no
only repentant, but that il the Radical part,
'swould act generously, modify the iron-cad oath,
&C., that all who have been bad boys win not onl
be good boys to Uncle Sam, but will throw thei
Northern Democratic friends overheard, and tina
the Radical party Will carry South Carolin
almost unanimously for their candidate for th
next Presidency" The correspondent does no
give this opinion as his own exactly, but tells u
that it is the opinion Of semany." South Carolin
unanimous for q Radical candidate ! " tenpora,
naores ~ sS e .s q L, Jul ,S.; M0ULTRTE.s