The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-25
LETTER. FROM NEW YORK.
tFRoM OUR sPRoI1L CORRESPONDENT.

NEW YORK, October 81, 1867.
When | inform your readers that q basketful OF
greenbacks, to tho pleasant tune OF o Thousand
dollars, was collected yesterday in fvo minutes in
the large congregation in Plymouth Church, for
the benefit OF q worthy lady, one and all will natu-
rally jump to the conclusion that said worthy lady
is mono other than the widow OF the late President
Lincoln, but the jump would lanld them into a
pond OF grave error. for the greenbacks were for
another. Mrs. Potter is the name Of the recipient
OF the handsome donation, whfch" followed hard
upon the eulogistic discourse Of the eloouent
Henry Ward Reocher, who touched, at the Same
time, the hearts and pocket-nerves of his flock.
Mrs. Potter is "a Charlestonian, and her story Ia
repleto with pathos. At the beginning OF the war
her husband, tits said, boldly avowed himself a
Union man, but instead of quitting the rebellious
South and betaiing himself to q more loyal Dor
ton Of Uncle Sans dominions, he and his GOOD
lady remained in Charleston, and devoted them
selves entirely to the s~elf-imposed task of proyid-
ing for the wants and comforts of such Union SOL
diers as wore 80 unfortunate as to be captured by
us poor rebels. Tn good samaritans spent about
forty Thousand dollars in the charitable cause, and
and had up to, this time received nothing back:
but asson thousand dollars in healthy greenbacks
was collected for them yesterday, IL may be con.
sidered q fair set off to the forty thousand In Con
Tolerate money, aud Beecher has proven himself
to be Q ~first-rate exchange broker. The labors OF
the good samaritans did not terminate with the
war, for they have, tits said, secured d large SPOT
in Magnohs,. whittier are to be transferred the
bodies OF three hundred Union soldiers now burfesd
in Pottersfeld. TIL new PottersAeld will be sur
rounded with an iron fence, and a suitable NOM.
nent viii be erected within the enclosars.
The election returns from Ohio.. shelving q rnaio-
rityalrsadyof sixtyIfiye Thousand and indicating
even o stin moro emphatic protest against the sd
visibility Of negro suffrage, has fallen like a,bomb-
shell into tho Radical camp here, and there is a
groaning and Q crashing Of teeth-the black freed
man has already begun to assume the shape and
proportions Of amsmmonth white elephant not only
in the regions Of the sunny South, but even in the
very NURSERY and cradle Of che Hsdical baby alon6
the shores that lie. o. unst the SONG, yyTAwwsy down
the river Of the Ohio. Mr.! Chase had gone over
home TO see to IL that the political gasnderr II shoould
hop the other way, but the gander hoped not as
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