The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-13
Our New York Letter.
[rRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. ]

New YORK, April 1O.-In my letter of the 81
inst. made on allusion to the unprecedented rls'
in rents here, and the extreme difficulty in pro
curing eligible unfurnished houses, except at tht
most unreasonably eXorbitant figures. 1t hat
been confidently hoped and expected that as the
month of April advanced, and the first of May
the great moving day grew nearer and nearer al
hand the landlords, fearful of having their houses
left untenanted world yield gracefully, and lower
their high notions and high rents at the same
time; but life is made up of disappointments and
miscalculations, and these are of them; for the
evil is unabated, and the house-rent panic Il mean
panic among the pay-rental class) grows with its
growth. In Yesterdays Herald an advertisement
appeared Of a desirable house to rent, in good
location, Thirty-Sixth street, near Sixth avenue,
price only $1,000; and applicants therefor we're in
vited to call at the residence of the advertiser,
between the hours of and II in the morning.
fear your readers may suspect me of exaggeratlon
when assure them that this little notice created
more excitement among certain classes here than
would have been produced by the announcement
that the Supreme Court had given decision
against the consttutionaGty Of the Reconstruction
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 MoULTR1E found
himself at the scene Of action, having gone there
not officially as your erondent, but yet cfici-
ally in another capacity, VIZ That OF house
seeker, acting in behalf OF an about-to-5e house,
less friend If the man had advertised to give out
gold in exchange for ex-Confederate currency, the
house could not have been more crowded with
eager applicants the parlor was filed with ladies'
the passage-way was crowded-there was perfect
lam outside and around the entrance, and, in fact,
it was almost impossible to get inside the house.
MoU1Tn1E, however, wedged his way in to see the
fun At nine o'clock the gentleman made bis ap-
pearance, like a 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
il in post Office style. The crowd, however, grew
npatient;and made rush for the private room;
whereupon the gentleman came forward Like can-
ddate for public Office and addressed them all
collectively. He began by stating that the house
has no yard, whereupon about o dozen of the
ladies were seen to disappear suddenly. Next no
stated that some If the rooms we're rather small,
then added in kind of parenthetc style, that
there was mistake in the advertisement as to the
exact locality in which the house is situated. and
concluded his address by remarking that he re-
gretted to state that better-haR 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 tho termination of this Grafton is almost
impossible. Noses were turned so contemptuously
(some of them tantalizingly pretty noses) that
they seemed determined to remain up like the
rents. A rush was made for the door, your cor
respondent being the first one out, and the house
was soon vacated by those who will 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 o
house in nm uptown situation, and moving up to
some point between 8Oth and 19Oth streets, the
terminus Of Third Avenue Railroad, ard ride Of
one hour and twenty minutes from the City Hall
Park.
Some little exlithment has been created here by
the arrival of the Great Easter7,; not, however:
from any desire to see the big ship, To- the gene
raj curiosity bx1 been gratineI on that point on
two occasions lin 1860 and 1862, bri because many
had feared that she bad gone to bottom, ss she
crossed the ocean in quite leisurely and>hghl-
fed style, taking fourteen days from port to port
The Great Eastern may be-in factis-.the largest
and handsomest steamship afoat, et,,shodld ever
I, o;o to ha
with desire to go under, would prefer embark
ing in smaller craft.
have hitherto purposely avoided any allusion to
the outrageous crusade against class of people
whom spite Of religious or rather irregious) pre-
iudice we cannot but respect by such Of thcInsur-
ancs Companies as claim to have suffered by taking
what they are pleased to clll sJew risks;" but as
the excitement has been resumed, and as there are
no less than sixty thousand lsraelites hero who
protest against the base calumny, my duty as
correspondent induces me at least to give the
facts as thoy are A card has been published in
the Herald, which, it is supposed, emanates from
one of the Insurance Agents, reiteratlng the
charges and attempting to substantate 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 will take part. No less
than sixty of the largest and oldest Insurance
COMPANIES in. the United States have made state
ments giving the Lie unqualified and direct to these
charges; but, nevertheless, the lie has
taken root in all directions, proving that though
truth be mighty il will not always prevail, and that
the seeds of falsehood, planted in the soil Of pre-
b,,k h,p6 Of
spring up with groodly crop Tor badly crop) OF
lies.
AUGUST BELMoET's gallery Of paintings-per-
haps the finest private collection in this city-wil
be thrown open in a'few days for public inspec-
ton, the price Of admittance being placed at one
dollar, the proceeds to bo handed over to the
Ladies' Southern Relief Fund.
A. r. STEWARDS dry goods establishment on
Broadway, at the corner of Tenth street, is to DC
enlarged to about six times It's present size. 1t
will extend through to Fourth avenue, and will
cover an area of an acre and quarter of ground.
In one of my letters published several months
ago, gave an account Of new invention a mag
netic light, with such brilliancy as to admit of
ones reading ordinary print at q distance of
quarter of mile frc ~xthe light, and I predicted
that it would soon INC into general use here.
My prediction will probably soon 20 verified, us
the thing has been thoroughly tested and found to
ho Ill that is claimed for it. The lgh4 is so in
tense that 1t aci fuse piece OF maetathed at a DIS
tance Of fifty yards Mergrons, and for photograph
purposes it is superior to the light of the sun
itself.
The Charleston correspondent of tho Herald in
forn,s it's readers that South Carolinians are not
only rcpentant, but that if the Radical party
'would act generously modify the iron-cad oath, >
&C., that all who havs been bad boys will not only
be good boys to Uncle Sam. but will throw their
Northern Democratic friends overheard, and that
&C the Radical party will carry South Carolina
almost unanimously for their candidate for the
next Presidency" The correspondent does not