The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-25
[rnon OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK, October 81, 1867.
When info,m your readers that basketful OF
erecnbacks, to the pleasant tune of thousand
dollars, was collected yesterday in five minutes in
the large congregation in Plymouth Church, for
the benefit of worthy lady, ono and all will natu-
rally jump to the conclusion that said worthy lady
is none other than the widow Of the late President
Lincoln but the jump woud lanld them into
pond of grave error for the grconbacks were for
another Mrs. Potter is the name OF the recipient
of the handsome donation, which followed hard
upon the eulogistic discourse of the eloquent
Henry Ward Becchcr, who touched, at the same
timo. the hearts and pocket-nerves OF his flock.
Mrs. Potter is CharlestOnan, and her story is
reDletc with pathos. At the beginning OF the war
her husband, it is said, boldly avowed himself a
Union man, but instead of quitting the rebellious
South and betaking himself to moro loyal por-
ton OF Uncle SANS domnions, ho and his good
lady remained in Charleston, and devoted them
selves entirely to tho sef-imposod task Of provd-
ing for the wants and comforts OF such Union SOL
diers as were go unfortunate as to be captured by
| us poor rebels. The good samarltans spent about
forty thousand dollars in the charitable cause, and
| and had up to this time received nothing back /;
but rs one thousand dollars in healthy greenbacE9
| was collected for them yesterday, it may be con-
sidcred fair set off to the forty thousand in Con-
federate money, and Beecher has proven himself
to be tirst-rate exchange broker. The labors Of
the good samaritans did not terminate with the
war, for they have, ts said, secured large spot
in Magnolia whittier arc to be transferred the
bodies of three hundred Union soldiers now buried
in Pottersfeld. The new Pottersfield will bo sur
rounded with an iron fence, and suitable monu-
ment will be erected within the enclosure.
| Tho election returns from Ohio, showing majo-
rity already of sixty-fvc thousand and indicating
even still moro emphatic protest against The ad-
visibility of negro suffrage, has fallen like bomb
shell into the Radical camp here, and thero is a
proaning and gnashing of toeth-tho black freed
man has already begun to assume the shape and
proportions of o mammonth white elephant not only
in the regions of the sunny South, bat even in the
very nursery and cradle Of the Radical baby along
the shores that lie, as runs the song, "Away down
| the river OF tho Ohio Mr.. Chase had gono over
home to sec to it that the political gandor should
hop the other way, but the gander hoped not as
he desired, and the chase was goose chase, and
failed completely.
A negro may, in some respects, bo equal to q
white man, and is indeed much better in many in
stances than his bleached brother, but people arc
beginning, rs poor Artemus was wont TO say tt
see the thing in different lamps and the refrain
the song "a niggor is nggcr" has boon taken W
again even in the North, and will be sung I'LL tlt
music thereof is encored by the audience of th(
world. Tho wise ADVICE given to little Bo-Poop
whose sheep had strayed away, L mean the in
junction to lot them alone, MAJ be well tondered tt
the Democrats at this crisis. We have simply t
wash our hands of this negro suffrage question
an leavo it to tho so-called frionds of Sambo an,
Pompey, who are already just as much Disguised
with tho dish rs is well fed quadrupod of tho ca
nine speccs with remnant Of cold whortcborr
pudding.
A change is fast coming over the spirit of every
body's dream, and things in general, with on
dark brethren in particular, must Gro long fin
their Lowell The South will not be st. Domingo
and We shall have white mans government afte
all.
General Sheridan has arrived here again, and j
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel; but tho Sheridan ma
mia has been played out, and tho second advent {
| the great lIldll CTcdlC6 uO OACltOHSiI S'Ou
j, such OF his admirers as bawled themselves Int
sore throats when he made his grand enfree here
few weeks ago. He came: ne saw; he spoke; an
was ion Hc went; Was chccred; came Decl
and is lamb. He saw again. but spoke not nc
conquered more. l verify believe that even Mou
trie himself conll not keep up an excitement lon
among the cw-scns.tion-cravin8 people OF thi
modern Babylon.
l. the week just passed there has bccn rather
lively time in the gold market, and the prcciou
II N,,ot fo1h hatt - SOmn
! crronoously supposed that tho premium must fal
on account of the anticipated disbursement froi
D the Treasury of twenty-five millions in coin cue a
interest on the first of November; but as thcs
l payments are found TO have been discounted lon
ego, there may he a rise instead of fall. I'll
change in the political aspect CT affairs has cause
the ewes hat gold and stocks do glare with to hay
more speculation thereon than Macbeth found !
Banquo's visual organs, and there will be an excl
ing time in the gold room ana the stock oXchanS
Cotton is no longer quiet, as in my last repo
II has awaked, and already hcgns to loo; up an