The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-05
Our New York Letter.
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New York, April


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New YORK, April l.
Make money-honestly if you can, but
make money. Such the advice 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; 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,
general stir around the stock boards, live
ly conversation in the hotel reading-rooms,
wealthy men who have a thousand times
been guilty Of swindling operations not yet
found out, Indignantly denouncing the con-
duct of other wealthy men who have been
guilty Of cheating and have been found out
at last. Three Of the biggest men in New
York arrested on charge Of having been
engaged in the biggest kind Of iswindling
arrangements s-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. Shaks-
peare said that all the worlds stage, and
all the men ands women merely players.
Moultrie adds that all Of Wall street is a
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 we'll as Of cards, and unfair
dealing az well as square games. Swind-
ling s of. course dishonorable, and wrong,
and censurable, but it is disagreeable thing
to Be poor, to be, as Miss Bella Wilfer
remarks in Our Mutual Friend, very poor,
degradingly poor, Extensively poor, beastly
poor; and SO people must make money, and
the lords of Fifth Avenue must play their
cards as beststhey can in the great gamb-
ling establishments of Wall street. -.
j A physician who calls himself, aad is
called by others, DR.. Thiers and who could,
if he chose, write book that would 4con-
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
-. ahortion ;asIa. the endeavor to conceal
one crime, tue >iciau has been guilty Of
another and greater one. ->-> 49,
] John G. Heenan and Joe Coburn had
difficulty, a short time since, in gambling
saloon here, and were on the pointsof leay
ing the affair to the arbitrament of the fist,
when they wisely concluded.that if they
did fight it would be just as we'll to have
something staked upon the ISSUES Of the
contest, wherefore they have agreed to
punch each others heads in the Elysian
Fields, in Hoboken (where the duel be-
tween Hamilton and Burr took place. for
the champion belt and ten thousand dol
lars When the punching takes place, 1
expect to have reserved seat, as have
the honor Of being personally acquainted
with a fast young gentleman who has the
greater honor of being intimately acquaint-
ed with the man who was once whipped by
the Honorable John Morrissey member Of
Congress, and faro bank proprietor.
When a gentleman takes part in private
and allows his better half to do
the same, he should beware Of taking a
character in which be is compelled to look
as ugly as possible, and giving the part Of
the handsome and we'll dressed, lover to
of captivating moustache. An
amateur performance took place a few
nights ago in Brooklyn, in which there
was an ugly gentleman with a pretty wife
who did not take the precaution. The
play came off as announced, and then, as
had not been announced, the ugly mans
pretty wife went Oft to parts unknown with
the handsome lover, who played the oppo-
site and opposite part. tr- ~ ~. -.
The Rev. Dr.. Cheever delivered . lee.
ture last night at the church Of the Puri-
tans, on s'the right Of the coloredrace in
and the burden of the dis
course 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 (D that they have given them
in the South It is certainly but justice
that if the negro is to have seat in the
orchestra chairs in the South, he should at
least be allowed to sit in the political dress
circle in the free (?) States Of the North.
The strike for higher wages by the car
penters (who want four dollars per day in
stead of three and half J, dates from to-
day, the first Of April, but is nevertheless
by no means an April fool arrangement;
the carpenters are in earnest, but many Of
them are half dolorous in anticipation Of
the strikers failing to accomplish the OBJ
iect desired, and then being thrown out Of
employment.
The Radicals here are disguised and dis
appointed at the state of affairs in the South
and the entiente cordiale that seems to ex-
ist between the whites and the freedmen,
not that they love the negro less, but that
they love the Republican party more, and
there is gnashing Of teeth in the Radical
camp as they foresee the downfall Of their
party, when Pompey and his old "massa"
shall vote the same ticket and unite their
interests as it is meet for them all, and
meat for the blacks especially that they
should. 1t is the general impression here
that by playing up to spades, the Southern
people have turned bad game into a-good
one, and that though for awhile the (Con-