The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-12
Our New York Letter.
[FRoM ouR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT


aerial bridge proposed to span Broadway at the
corner Of Fulton street, has at last been begun,
the foundation having been laid yesterday. -Four
posts Of cast iron, each fifteen inches in diameter,
and with ornamental bases, will support the struc-
ture, and the bridge will CROSS Broadway at right
angles opposite Fulton street; there will be Hight
of stairs at each corner FIVE feet wide, and with iron
ratings at the sides. Tho bridge will be sixteen
feet in height from the curb Of the street to the
under wall of the bridge ITSELF which will be strong
enough to support a weight of one hundred tons.
When the structure is completed, we vii. all be
able to walk over the stages and other vehicles in
ste ad Of having them run over us, as they now do
Verify great age and great city, where it is ne
cessary to connect the opposite sides Of street by
q costly and magnificent structure, such as this
bridge will be-,
THE Executive Committee Of the Southern Re
lief Commission held a meeting yesterday at the
Office of Messrs Brown Brothers & Co., and reports
that the subscription received 80 far amount to
seventeen thousand dollars. This, however, is
rather small, when it is taken into consideration
: that A. T.. Stewart gave five thousand towards 1t,
and Brown Brothers themselves like amount.
The affair, however, is in good hands, and there is
much probability that q very respectable SUM VIII
be realized ere long, which will be Immediately
applied to the charitable purpose in view.
The temperance movement 1s gaming ground
here, though, Of course, there are hundreds OF
thousands who are determined not only always to
look upon the wine when it is red, but to drink it
too, no matter what be the color Of its bushes.
grand anti-imbibing meeting was held last night
st Plymouth Church, Erooklyn lBeeenors9 y
lengthy that it is marvel that the preacher could
eet through without taking q drink, at least OF
Wster The prayer had good effect no doubt on
the audience, but song which followed seemed to
rather % pretty young lady. The burden Of the song
5 wns: 81 will not marry man who drinks
"A Door newspaper clerk named Hope, but for
whom there is no hope, was arrested yesterday on
acharge OF having emDezzled IN I the last two g!
wears. The sum OF five hundred dollars from his
employers. Had the innocent thief been any thing
but seedy newspaper nan, he would have seen
the absurdity of selling his soul 80 cheaply, and
iwonld at least have arrived at five thousand in
stead Of as many hundred Two hundred and hfty
:: Every now and then one or another Of the Black
i Crook actors appear in Court. Yesterday one OF
the male actors was arraigned before Justice
Dodge ON. charge of having abandoned his lawful
wife, tThe-Inan endeaYored to dodge Justice, but
Justice Dodge was too wide awake, and as his de-
fencswss not satisfactory, he has been held TO bail
to await trial. 5zss,.5s -
"a grand masquerade and inncy dress ball is to be
! given at living Hall next Wednesday night by the
tionia composed Of men who construct and ar
range the scenes in all the theatres Of this CITY, 1t
win be lively AFFAIR." feast Of theatrical talk and
"a flow OF, good spirits Of all kinds.
seAn ingenious individual here has invented what
pmports to be process by which il may be proven
whether or not there be any truth In the doctrine
Of spiritualism, and aotunl1y applied for patent.
Tie ghost seeker contends that spirits can not be
seen through the medium Of common light, but
that the Tight must be filtered and refined, and
soconfntJ IN close room, ich at is BY his m
vention. The patent has been refused, on the
ground, that when the room 3is so prepared that
possible for live people to breathe therein, and
that the ghosts, therefore, would have all the fun
to- themselves, and, besides, have their numbers
reinforced by the ghosts Of those who had desired
TO see them The main feature Of this new ghost
rooms 5inyentionzis that the room is painted with
spirits Of turpentine.
very curious case came up in court yesterday,
in which the prosecutor WIS young lady. bearing
the romanEcS name fsofsS SPhilopena, and the de-
fendant o. wealthy merchant, It appears that the
man Of business had fallen in love with Philopena
and proposed marriage, but that he had fallen out
y of love again, and then IN once moro, but this
time with another, q younger and prettier Lady,
whom he forthwith married:
Philopena began an action for breach Of promise,
but compromised the matter by receiving sixty
dollars in cash, six months note for one hundred
an fifty, and an agreement to pay her five dollars
per week for one year till the wound in her heart
ahl ID heal up. Long before the wound healed,
however, the base man who had entered her house
and stolen her heart, entered the house again and
stole the note and the agreement; wherefore; he
has been philopenaed and brought into court by
her whom he once courted.. .s MOULTRIE:s,.: ::