The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-27
Our New York Letter.
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Nsv4eiEfApti 9ae; [a election .e!tds!sssiss
yesterday, and created about as much excitement
as might have been produced by an election of
officers in boys debating society. The Republi-
cans carried the entire State with the exception OF
this ety and Kings County where al the Demo, @ 10
BEHHER Yas distanced, having come In, or rather
having remained out, as chairman of the stsy-at-
home delegation. r.: E!&iti;ki. sS.S ~ s.'.j.
The old Bowery Theatre WAS sold at auction yes
terdsy. There were two mortgages on the build;
one iar $1,000 held by, ]. s. soles. The first bid
was $4,000 which was run up, however, to $106, :
coo, at which price it Was knocked down to Leo
poldt Bernheimer, . wealthy Israelite.
a Acorespondence bureau has been started by one
Of the attaches of the Herald Office, which is con-
Quoted on curious principle, that is to say, the
bureau not only writes some letters gratuitously
but even pays largely for their publication in
other words, it is q novel kind Of an advertising
medium arrangement. One OF these bureau letters
was sent to . Southern paper Republication, but
and fifty aoaarss6 inseFe i5sin tEeircolu lunns; and
as this was rather more than the merchant for
whom the letter was written was willing to pay, the
letterM not published. There is aEite amania
here for the establishment of new bureaus by
needy Individuals here in want Of new wardrobes.
The Japanese EmbassY has arrived, and hold
forth at the Metropolitan Hotel They are par
ticularly wealthy and particularly ugly. The names
Of the Commissioners are Ono Tomogoro and
Mattimoto Judiyu. Their private secretary re-
joices in the euphonious name Of Fuhkasawa
Ukekh, and the balance Of the embassy have
names on which there ought to be an internal Tor
inferna,l revenue tax. they leave for Washington
in few days, and will be formally introduced to
Wendell Phillips delivered lecture last night at
the Brooklyn Academy Of Music on things in gene
raj; and politics in particular. Horace Greeley is
. shallow-pated simpleton; President johnson o
hard-headed traitor; Grant is seno soldier" and
each one of the sons Of Ham who live in the
South must have forty acres Of land presented to
him with the compliments OF Uncle Samuel. So
sayeth Wendell Phillips >. ..,....al..z7
Al last has q railroad bill been passed by the
Legislature and signed by the Governor, and we
may now count upon ha wing an elevated railway on
the west side of the city. The road viii begin at
the Battery, running through Greenwich street
and Ninth Avenue to the Harlem River. provided
that after the first half mile Of the track be laid
the plan shall be found to be success in me-
chanical point OF view. Should the thing succeed,
-e may hope for the passage OF similar bill next
session fora Broadwaj road.
The proposed road will be constructed as fol-
lows: Wrought iron columns, nine inches in dame
and twenty-five feet apart. will support the
hack, which is to be of steel, and sufficiently
strong to bear weight five times greater than
that Of crowded car; the columns will be kept
from oscilating by smaller columns supporting
them IN turn; the cars Will be pulled along by wire
rope, with which, by Q patented method, each vii
be carried fifteen hundred feet, when second wire
rope will do duty for another five hundred yards
The work will cost about three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars per m;le but nevertheless the
thing will pay handsomely if properly conducted.
The silver ware burnishers, shop painters, bee
rubbers, stevedores and derr1ckmcn, have all gone
into the labor movement, or rather into the labor
standing -stIcom oination, resolved to get better
pay for less work, or to do work at all for ths
same paytbat is to say, they are determined tc
prove that though they have ceased to work like
men, there is no child's play about the matter.
An immense amount OF real estate is now on the
market here, and large number Of sales are ct:
tocted daily, M S yet, stran say prlcos keep vel
the hct that building material is still extraord.
striking upward, as per paragraph above.
The annual ball in aid Of the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum takes place tonight at the Acade.
my Of Music and will be magnificent affair. Tits
probable that this will be the closing ball of the
season.
The theatres still draw well, but majority o.
the best actors and actresses are going over tt
Paris, MOULTRIE.