The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-08
Our New York Letter.
[FEom OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT !

New YORK, April 5.-In the Protean Comme
dietta, entitled the Young Actress, scene oc
ours in which distressed theatrical manage
being much harassed in mind on account Of ex
treme pecuniary embarrassments appeals fol
advice to his { 6'ughter, young lady of prac
tical and business turn of mind, whereupon tht
latter inquiries the amount of his Indebtedness
which she is promptly informed is something
more than two thousand dollars The shrewd
young lady next inquiries the amount of he1
fathers assets, and on his assuring her that il
does not exceed seven dollars and O half, she
disposes of the subject in summary manner
by advising him .s'not to pay" In so far as
the question of the resumption of specie pay
ment is concerned, the United States Govern
ment occupies a position somewhat similar to
that in which the distressed manager found
himself placed; wherefore as it was necessary
for some one to play the.role of the shrewd nd
wiser, the New York Chamber of Commerce has
set itself up for the part. The question of such
momentous Importance to the interest of the
country was thoroughly sifted and discussed
yesterday by the self-appointed advisers in sol
emn assembly, but resulted in hardly anything
more than the discovery of two mares nests =
nest number one, that specie payment cannot
now be resumed; nest number two, that it
should be resumed as soon as practicable. AS
a means whereby. this consummation SO de-
voutly to be wished for can be brought about,
the advisers recommend prudent and7judi-
cious contraction of the currency; adding at
the same: time, however, that an imprudent and
injudicious contraction thereof would be q dan
gerous experiment. Now, as these gentlemen
do not tell us where lies the line ',of division
between such contraction; as theyiadyise and
such as they deem iinexpedient, they have left
the question where it was before, and have
only throwI such ray Of light upon the sub
ject as renders the darkness visible. i,
4 literary man, unlike Mr.. SiLAs CaEda, in
:lsmuch as he has not wooden leg, and be-
sides this, does not get paid for his brain
work, having written q biographical sketch of
R1sroR1 and received nothing for his pains,
hut such pleasure and satisfaction as he may
have derived from the perusal of his own book,
has brought 8 suit against the theatrical mana
ger, (now in Paris) fol whom the book was
written. The case will necessary take a long
time to dscide, as interrogafories have to be
entered and forwarded to the s@defendant.
RrsroR1 has made thousands..of dollars da-AU,
the manager who brought her out, has made
likewise, while PALMER, the French
manager who:was the 90 between who: intro
duced her to GRAu, has also feathered his nest
well, but the poor literary man without q
wooden leg) who wrote the biography Of the
great tragedienne, has not made the wherewith-
al to purchase q quire Of foolscap, which by the
by, he should purchase on credit, and make
into sugar-loaf shaped hat to cap the climax
of his folly in working for theatrical people
without stipulating for payment in advance.
The mutual bad feeling that has for 80 long
o time existed here between the sons of Escu-
lapius, between the Allopaths and Honeopaths,
has broken out at last in open and undisguised
warfare, and as the doctors differ and quarrel
among themselves, sick people who are anxions,
to get we'll, ald well people who are fearful Of
becoming sick, look on, and take q deep inter
est in the result Of the contest The Allopaths
contend that if little lump Of sugar is sweet
q bigger lump is sweeter, and therefore favor
large doses of medicine, whilst the Homeopaths
claim on the principle that the best things are
put up in the smallest parcels, that infni-
tessimal doses are the most potent. Yesterday
ut meeting Of, the. board of health where the
reign supreme, q communication was
received from the Homeopathic. charging the
former. with unfair play, in not having given;
them q chance during the prevalence of the
Cholera last year, Of testing the merits Of their
treatment, at the same time giving the lie direct
70 the published declaration Of the .Allopaths
hat they (the Allopaths) had challenged them
the Infnitessimals to fair trial of their skill
On the receipt Of this naseous pill, the Allo-
paths refused to swallow it, and one Of them
waxed wrathful, and suggested that the paper
in which the pill was put up should be sent
back to the Infnitessimals, the proposition was
received with applause by all but the Presi-.
lent, who contended that though the mixture
was unpleasant to take, the Homeopaths should
be dealt fairly with, and added that the latter
lad not been treated as courteously as might
have been. The President however was over
ruled and the pill was sent back to the Homeo-
paths who had prepared it. ..s...-
MAX MARETzEK, the great impresario Of the
opera, has opened fire anew Through the col
INNS Of the Wor1d) upon JAMES GORDON BEN
NETT, the acknowledged, though despised and
much abused, impresario of the press, and in
;inuates that BENEFITS ssinfuence" had some
hing to do with the destruction of the old Acade-
my. This of course is sheer nonsense for as
Dad as BENNETT may be, it is absurd to lay
such criminal charge at his door. The WorId
ndulges from time to time in such absurd SEN
sational articles, which there is not newsboy,
\ chamber maid, nor bootblack in New York
80 silly as to believe.
If it is true that there is q tide in the affairs
Of men, which, taken at the food, leads on to
fortune, that tide must assuredly have set in
for poor servant girl here who, after working
FOR six or eight years in the capacity of a
for six dollars per month, has
Drawn a prize of five thousand dollars in the
Havana Lottery, and been thereby enabled to
seal her happiness together with that of a low
ing journeyman carpenter, to whom she has
been engaged for three years, and to whom she
IS now married.
PErRELLA's masterpiece, the Carnival of
Venice" was produced at the Academy on
Wednesday night with great success, and will
DC presented again this evening. Dion BoURcI-