The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-07

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~ AUGUSTA, May 6.-Cotton dull and lower sales
126 bales; MiddIngs 23 !; Receipts 81 bales.
SAVANNAH, May Cotton dull; sales 200 bales
Middlings 24t. Receipts 7sO bales s'f
Our New York Letter
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(. New YoRK, May g., 1s67.-Contrary to general
expectation, the 6W de ropera given last night IL
the Academy of Music fof thg benefit az the Ladies'
Southern Relief association was not nurnareus1y
attended, though it was - magnificent and
recherche affair With such names on the com.
mittee Of management as JOIN J. AsroR, WILLIAM
H. APPLETON, AUGUST BELMONT, DR.. A1ExASpEB
B. MOTT, CHARLES O'CosNoR, and the like, people
had right to expect great things wherefore peo-
pie did expect them, bat were Disappointed The
fact OF the matter is that when fashionab e people
attend ball given for charitable purpose, nine
tenths Of them are attracted by the entertainment
without much regar1 to the object and as the ball
season is, so to speak, over now, fashionable folks
whose charity begins at home and remains there,
remained at home Themselves last night
The society for prevention of cruelty to animals,
which, from the length Of it's title. reminds 81
one DIckENs tsUnited Metropolitan Hot Muffin (aind
crumpet) Punctual Delivery Association, and
which in future will always refer to as the s. F.
&C T. A. held their annual meeting last night, the
Prealdent, HENRY BERaH, presiding. The Secre-
tzy read his report, wherein it was shown that the
labors OF the society had not been in vain "A let
ter was read from Professor AaaAssrz containing a
scientific and feeling alusion to the fact that tur
tie, could he speak IN answer 70 Lne query m Ine
love song, (called Loves Chidings) sehast thou no
feeling would esitating1y reply in the affrma-
tive the learned Professor informs the civil world
in general, and the humane 8. F. P.O. @. T. A. in
Particular, that q turtle does feel uncomfortable
when with it's FMS tied, it is placed on it's back
looking upward to the skies.
Y fendish outrage has been perpetrated on a
patient in the charity hospital on Blackwell's
Island of such terrible nature that had anything
one-ffteenth as bad ever Been done toa sspoolr
freedman" in the South the press Of the country
would have fed upon it for weeks, and that vile
sheet Hdrpers Weekly would have worked it ur in
hundred different shapes for months to come. Let
HARPER give us cut illustrative Of this picture !;
poor, hiendless man, "a white man, lying in the
agonies Of death on one Of the beds in "a charity
hospital and one of the officers in charge pressing
his finger rom time to time into the eyes Of the
dying man inhicting excruciating agony and
causing him to make desperate effort to
turn his head away from his tormentor Now
my object in referring to this affair is to
show the injustice Of visiting upon an entire
community the sins OK "a few evil minded
Individuals, How absurd would it be for me to de-
duce from the aforementioned circumstance the
conclusion that in charge Of hospitals here the
patients are cruelty treated, and yet had snoilar
case happsned in any Southern city the victim be-
ing freedman, it would have been accepted by
the masses as presumptive evidence Of the fact
Hat khav o<,c 1aJ:~ -,
ing the negro. Mrs. HARRIET BEEomR srowE is
here, and can. II she feels inclined, write up this
little affair; but she will probably not have time to
spare, as she is making preparations 10 return to
Florida, to settle there, and is perhaps purchasing
some little cheap tokens for. whatsoever old Toms
and young Topseys she may have made the &C
quaintance Of on: her late visit. 4 :; III 4 ~.
Speaking Of -HARRRr BEEcnER srowr brings to
mind the fact (Which may as well mention) that
her namesake, HENRY WARD BEEoHER, has written
q story for the Ledger, for which he receives one
hundred dollars per column. tT
A wealthy aad respectable old gentleman, who
':uaa on Murray Hill {ahd who resembles Mr. MI
oAWBER), was badly taKsn III AL. 80
Of the pill box and lancet, who charged him twelve
dollars for anputating troublesome excrescence
located in the regions Of his great toe. The old
gentleman conplimented the degenerate follower
cheat, ;swindler, rogue and thief whereupot1 the
doctor wa1ed wrathfnl, called in policeman, and
arrested the corn-lass old gentleman, who informed
the magistrate Of the e1orbitant charge Of The
physician, and on the latter acknowledging the corn
| the magistrate reprimanded him and discharged
the old man. s5;s sf 5@ f.ss I.si :
The Fox-QuEEN libel snit was called up yester
day in the lower Market Court. Fox, who is tn,
funny man Of the Bowery theatre, brings sui
against QtEEN, the serious man Of the Clipper
for libel QUEEN had hinted pretty plainly in q,
article in the Clipper that Fox vas rather too fonl
1 Of Miss FAraY HEa1aa, considering that he is i
married man. i; Fox, Of course, is as innocent as
vestal virgin. and only loves Miss .FAnNY tsas
friend, ," yet, when he wason the stand yesterday
and the shreWd lawyer (who is quite as cunning a
I even fox interrogated him aa to when he ha
last seem Miss. .HENIHa some persons smiled whe
he replied sethis morning" @ Al
The North and South contended against eac
other yesterday IN q foot race the North being re
presented by DAVIS, Of New York, and the sout
lhy THoasAs, os New Orleans. The race was
dash Of one hundred yards for one thousand do
lars {ten dollars per yard), and took place On tn
Bloomingdale road. The time msde was ten *
! conds, and the heat . dead one, as ths.nen cam
Il In Stock and loci" .' '.S .3s3s. Il. .5,3 I
= " Musical circles here are divided into tw
q classes the Chickeringites and the steinwayite
and each party declares that the prize at the Par
4 Exposition viii be awarded to sleader. PozNAna,
I and WRH1I who are IN Paris, are acting as Col
4 htners tothe CHIoKEs1Eas,, whilst sEYMoUR, q
nusical critic or The Times, rr1s, ths al
others for tho sruswA1s. II IL ;ys ss
4 v Y RlsroRI oponsf last night in Mary Stuart to
good house. Theatres AZ drawing.
5i ~ ~ ,s-sca ,siIfsss ;a:f.3s MOUETRIE.t
,secretaFy sEwAR was in Auburn during near
The whole Of the past week. This visit to his hot
= is preliminary TO his retirement nom public u
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