The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-26
Our New York Letter.

Our New York Letter.
[FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
! NEW YORK, March 22-The Fenian free fight
which took place here on st. Patricks Day, and o,
which gave an account in my last letter, has
created quite an excitement among the members
of the many Irish temperance societies which took
part in tho procession for there is no gainsaying
| the fact that whilst many Of the excited rioters
wero under the influence of passion, arising from
Indignation against the truck driver, who wanted
to ride rough-shod through and over the patriotic
promenaders, many were undoubtedly under the
influence Of bad whiskey Wherefore the Father
Matthew temperance men are ashamed OF the af-
fair, and have held meetings dehouncing it in the
strongest terms, meanwhile do the wounded po-
licemen, with bandsged heads, swear vengeance
against drunken men in general, and inebriated
Fenians in particular-said schemes Of revenge to
be carried into effect at the first favorable oppor
tunity, as soon as they have sufficiently recovered
from their injuries TO go on duty again. The vast
quantity Of the enemy that the fighting Fenians
put into their mouths on St. Patricks Day. instead
of having the effect of stealing away their own
brains, came near causing them to steal away the
brains Of the truck driver and the reinforcing po
licemen. The battle may not always be to the
strong, but it was on this occasion, and victory
perched upon the banners Of those who were the
stronger from having paid their respects to the
strongest kind of forty-yard whiskey. The up
rising Of the drunken Fenians resulted in the
down-falling Of the sober policemen, but the
fighting is over now, here as well as at the other
end of the cable-and all's quiet among the Fe-
mans in New York today. :
The Herald publishes telegraphic report Of
the proceedings of the meeting Of colored citizens
that took place in Charleston yesterday, and peo-
plo here comment freely thereon. The general
impression, so far as I have been able to judge,
from conversations with persons all classes seems
to be that the freedmen are pushing matters
rather hasty in prematurely demanding new rights
not yet granted thom, and that it would be wiser
policy for them to bear their, honors more neekly
and have little patience.
Tammany Hall, in which so many politicians
have been bought and sold, has itself been bought
and sold and delivered, and the Society has pur-
chased as site for new hall the lot on Fourteenth
street, next to the Academy ef Music, where once
stood the Medical College, which was destroyed
by fire. The lot cost eighty thousand dollars.
The celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim
yesterday was tame and lacking in spirit This
arose from tho circumstance that all parties inter-
ested are holding back for the great ball, which
cannot take place before the 2Sth inst, as the
Academy Of Music could not be engaged before
that time
The Ladies' Southern. Relief Association, OF
which Mr.. ARTHUR LEAnY is Treasurer. have re-
ceived, up to this date, upwards Of thirty-two
thousand dollars, which will be duly distributed
throughout the South, through the medium Of the
bishops and clergy in the Southern: cities. The
ladies, who are tho officers OF this society, and
whose names should be held in grateful remem,
branco by the Southern people, are, Mrs. Judge J.
J. ROOSEVELT, Mrs. ARTHUR LEARY, Mrs. 8. NJ.
BARLOW, and Mrs. AIaERNoN 8. SULLIVAN !: T i
A large number Of citizens held an indignation
meeting at the Everett Rooms, last night, and
passed resolutions protesting against the three
tier railroad bill, as passed by the sspowers that
be' in the Legislature, at Albany. The proposed
triple line is to run through from Washington
Square to the Central Park, with elevated track
running, in portion of it's course through the sec-
ond stories Of abont one hundred and eighty
houses, an underground.s d.steam railroad, and sur
face horse road Tho owners of the one hundred
and eighty houses protest against tho Frenchleave
seizure and appropriation Of their property AID
with tho groat powers there. -,
Tho great Lioderhanz ball came off Of the
Academy of Music last night, and was truly
magnificent affair. The costumes were varied and
Of the most elegant description. Here O male
demon walking arm in arm with female angel,
here satyre waltzing with nymph, there MARY
STUART leaning lovingly on the arm of human
hyena, here u male bear dancing with female
shaker, there a monkey whispering sweetest senl-
ments Of love to o fairy queen, thousands Of the
fair sex and the unfair enjoying themselves to
their hearts content and the whole scene Lit up ny
hundreds of jets Of gas, and enlivened by the In
spring strains of music discoursed by the NAM
moth orchestra. The Arions, who give grand
ball next week, will endcavor to out horod HERoD,
and get up something oven more magnificent than
last nights affair, and then comes the great Purim
ball, which people say is to bo last though not
least, and bear the palm elone.,
The. trustees Of the PEABODY Educational Fund
had thoir counterfeit presentments taken yestor-
day at BRADYs National Gallery, and in the eve
ming they all took comfortable little dinner at A.
T. STEWARDS What they had for dinner, and
how tie little party went off, I cannot report, Us
through some very extraordinary oversight Monl-
trio vas not invited to break bread with the dis
tnguished gentlemen at the house Of the great
dry goods prince. :sjg3
The spring fashions have come in, but the
winter has not gone out. Yesterday we were 1a-
vored with another snow storm. MOULTRIE.