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

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New YORK, October 4, 1867.
There is never smoke without fire. Sometimes
there is but little fre-but o spark-sometimes a
medium supply Of ignited oxygen, and again a
large blaze--but there is always fire. The con
dit" reported in q recent letter in relation to Mrs.
LrNcoLN's ~incognito visit to this city on d clothing
and jewely selling expedition, is no longer simply
an con dit" It is q fact-an established fact, a no.
torious fact, a disgraceful reality-tis true, els
pity, and pity tits, tits true. Mrs. CLARKE has
thrown off her disguise, and Mrs. LINCOLN ap-
pears upon the stage, Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the
widow OF the once revered and beloved Chief
Magistrate Of the Republic, and martyr to a cause
which people seem to care about no longer-for
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS as President JOHNSON IS
a champion OF the Union as it was and ought to
be, but ispo more. In exposing; for sale valuable
articles, many OF which were presentedto her by
politicians and ofice-seekers' who were once for
sale themselves, and whose characters (2) will
be exposed along with, their. gifts, Mrs. LINCOLN
is at last having some satisfaction inAavenging
herself upon, these Summer friiendsfrona whose
abandonment in the day of her adversely she
finds it necessary to dispose OF u large
portion Of her winter garments. Many of these
articles are Of the finest texture and most costly
material. Among them we find, or we may find by
looking into the establishment at No. 609 Broad
way, a black centre camels hair shawl that cost
fifteen hundred dollars, a white centre ditto valued
at twelve hundred So Russian -salie cape for fifteen
hundredia Russian sale boa at twelve (oRR. course
hundred is understood) ; q white point lace shawl
for two, and a dress Of the same material mot made
up) for four but, her eafteE ''two' and -four, we
must understand thesword thousand instead oe
hundred. The broker in whose hands the articles
have been deposited values the entire lot at $24, 600.
but they probably cost nearly double that amount.
The distinguished lady whose wardrobe is thus
publicly exposed for sale, and whose husband once
held the highest post Of honor in the nations gift,
has nsaght LETT besides with which, To support her
self and family but seventeen hundred dollars, the
interest Of the twenty-five thousand presented to
her by Congress, which ought to have been and
would have been one hundred thousand, had not a
number of Republicans, who claimed to represent
the partX,of Witch GMy.L IscoIN wasgithe leader
ever,swhAt these gFr&stefnlls iniiSBnsimay have taken INTO
consideration, that Mrs. LINCOLN has also an in
come of three hundred dollars II the proceeds of
the rental Of 'honest Old ABn'sn house in Spring
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Now, that the entire details OF this disgraceful
business have found their way into the newspapers.
where even appears the e~orEezpondsnce bstween
Mrs. LINCOLN and her broker, 1t is probable that
tbs effects will be disposed'of in the most effective
manner. that Ia to say, at public auction, and as
this will be a novel auction, a sens ational auction,
a. 800, we'll no matter for the other adjective, SUI
flee it to say, that tie word omitted brings to mind
'eThe Devils Auction" which I saw last night at
Museum. -"
IN newspapers have for many weeks back
teemed with lengthy notices and still more lengthy
advertisements, in which It was claimed that the
great rival Of the Black Crook would Prove to be a
sensation more potent than the first, wherefore
night the house was crowded from parquette
to dome with those who had seen the Black Crook
dozen times OF more, and who, having come to
the Internal auction with their expectations raised,
awaited the raising of the curtain. thl
The scenery in the DEVILS Auction, which name
is given to the piece on account Of certain magic
pills, and SO forth, which tho Devil sells to q man,
who afterward plays the Devil throughout the
The scenery, L say. ia magnificent, nay
but yet inferior to that in the rival spec
tacle. The inebriation scene in The abode of Back
Us is, however, superlatively grand. Rows of love-
~ women, bearing golden clusters Of grapes, arise
before our dazzled view and ascend, but to give
place to others, at whose superior loneliness we
gaze with a tantalizins feeling, for we see these
scantily attired forms through q shower of wine
that seems, as it were, to endeavor in vain to
drown this vision Of beauty and shut it out from
our enraptured sight.
In many respects, the DEVILS Auction is more
attractive than the Black Crook; the corps de bal-
let is composed of women q thousand times hand
sonner, both in form and feature, than those in
the piece which has been run for so long q time.
and besides this, we have in the former q much
better opportunity to study the anatomy Of the
human frame. What little dress is worn in the
DEVILS Auction, is beyond all doubt much hand
somer than the Black Crook costume. Two of
the most beautiful girls whom Moultrie or any one
has ever beheld, appear as horses, that is to
say, horses heads cover their own, yet do not con-
ceal them, and an equine narrative follows each as
she walks. The balance of the costume is entirely
IN the circus style, in the tightest acception of the
These horse ladies each ~reioices in the DOS
session Of q form whore every god does seem TO
set his seal to give the world assurance of a per-
model Of q woman. |tIsg4s.E "a
Some portjqns os?the piece are excesdingly III. !
dicrous and amusing. Rosemary, a little French
peasant, loyes no man, but is exceedingly fond or
8 pet donkey; wherefore on cpeaocccasioon shSgek-
claims, lt'1Oh, that you were u man |" when. .pres.
to the donkey is transformed into human shape
still, however, retaining the ears and, natsstase Of
The donkey. The donkey-man makes love to
Rosemary, who, however, unlike many! young
women who love bipedal asses, rejects his suit
with sforpi when, prestoi again, the sears:atd
narrative disappear, and then tits q different; tsS
now makes love TO. the young man,
WIG, however,, refuses her; wherefore, to prove
that he is an ass for 80 rdoing, she. coltfixss.. toll
him again in the semi-donkey state In
sequel Of course the woman :~rnarries the ass.
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