The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-30
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
[rRou OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. ]

IFRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEw IoRK, September 81.
As in the approaching Christmas holidays the
.sBlack Crook" will have had its ruu, and will give
way in point of sensational interest and attraction
to its more potent successor, tho Forty Thieves,
40 has the SIcELEs sensation exhausted Itself,
and gives place to the newly-born SHERIDAN
mania. General SHERIDAN is coming the lion is
near at hand: the soldier who first won merited
distinction on the field Of battle and has recently
ACQUIRED still greater notoriety OH account oil the
antagonistic position he has assumad toward the
Chief Magistrate of the Republic, in whose service
his reputation was won. The lion will soon be
here. and of course will be rendered public
reception. Veteran organizations composed OF
men who having fought for the Union, are now
arskalled as it were in hostile array agaim't Its
greatest living champion and supporter, will take
part in the reception. The General will bo the
guest of the Union League Club, so named most in
appropriately, as it is bona tide Ant-Unlon BLACK
Republican political organization, of which one OF
the most honored ?jmembersristhe learned rene
gade, Dr. FRANCIS LrEBER, who, at the period dur
ing which he held the position of Professor OF His
tory and Political Economy in the South Carolina
College, was member of one of the most radical
pro-slavery societies in the South, but is now-put
tell it not in Gath what theeold man is now.
SHERIDAN will be received by black and white-the
proceedings of the reception will appear black ON
white in the papers of the day-and then will he
take his departure to give place to some new SEN
sation.
The evil that men do lives after them-the good
ia often inferred with their bones. Thus it might
have been with CESAR, thus lot it not be with the
great prize fighter just gone'to his account lzzY
LAZARUS is no more; he has fought Ms last light
NO more will he come up to the scratch at the
call of time-there is no time for him-his sponge
has been thrown upward, and has landed IN the
realms of eternity LEY is dead On last Satrr-
avnipht. when Izzys Sabbath was out, there was
esreoeption" at the prize fighters house-a Stree
and easy"-where IzzY sang his favorite songs,
cracked his jokes as gracefully as he had often
cracked mems smugs," and was the life and soul
of the entertainment. On Sunday he was wel'
and 80 on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday
he was not we'll. Yesterday no was ah ill man, and
last night he was dead prize tighter. Inc enemy
before whom Izzy suocumbed was conectlon q
fat around the heart. This carried LAZARUS on
and padida mars has claimed him for his own.
Tn accorlancewith the Divine injunction, that by
+be .sweat of our brow shall We eat bread, 1t ID
right and proper for mem to work. Yet tis Oh
inst FIAT the amount of sweat expended should bo
,,ronortionate to the amount Of bread received,
wherefore have the poor and we'll bred, though rot
well Dreaded clerks resolved to perspire less, and
es n step in the right direction, are holding meet
inos. in which the early closing movement ID the
theme on which they give play to their eloquence
The grocery men, who lead the van, assembled last
hight in solemn conciave and passed perspiration
diminishing resolutions
REPORTS current here which, if true, furnish
es new evidence os tho truth Of the allegation that
nations can be ungrateful as we'll as Individuals, or
At least unmindful of the interests OF those lert
unprotected by the death Of PATRIOTS statesmen
or warriors, who '.have done the State soma SER
vice." 1t is rumored that Mrs, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
is at present boarding at one OF the up town hotels
here, under the assumed name of Mrs. CLARKE
that her object IN visiting this city is to dispose OF
wearing apparel and jewelry, which cost seven
thousand dollars, and will probably not bring ore
than half that amount and that she is compelled
to make this sacrifice as her funds are nearly ex-
hausted, and she has naught left for the support
of herself and family but paltry income Of seven
en,hnndred dollars per annum. Can such things
be, and she the widow OF the man at whose FIAT
millions of slaves we're born to freedom. tempo
rq. o 'mores -'-'-''-'-'
!, Ifit be true that iaartiagss Gensdp in heaven
it is strange that the celestial factory does not
losol ifs rspGfat;bn; sin Hkes manner for m
stance as the reputation 4of .RoaERs or. "oS.
'TENHoLa would suffer we're We to receive
ftom either house an invoice of very inferior
chtlery. For there are certainly many matches
Thich,..if. made in. heaRen, ,--mrst -'haFe been
gbtten up by news and inexpegiepced clerks in
the matrimonial department: kfsw weeks ago
ybung gentleman Nho has .seeH bpt sesenty-hye
winters, became ehamored Of a pretty lass who
had seen but twenty summers and tho two were
made one, OF. rathT SenrI foT tpe lady
was number one and the old man but cy-
pher-neverthsle did he continue to sigh Tor
thc love Of his Wife, but no sighed In vain, and his
sishing increased when the lady, who reioicos in
The possession of lively temperament and play
full and kitten-ikc disposition, would occasionally
cd of on q Erench leave furlough, aud remain
AWAY For weofs at time. On ONE occasion the
young girl remained away so long that the green
syed monster deemed it but good mdnners to call
in sndkeep the old mans company, which he did,
and caused the latter to exclaim, in tho language
Of othslfo, sft69 hast set me on the rack" and
when hisD Sretuhhe hheds ina took thslsMinto
his own hands, and also q stout stick, with which
he arghed With her inia most impressive and
marked manner; whereupor she carried the case
into Court t,ztogetherlwith the old hian and the
stick. Was this Heaven-made match?
LEOPOLD DE MyEg, the wonderful pianist. Who
tis said, can do inoreoh apSiano without smashing
it 10 atoms than any artist living, wiz hold forth
at sSteinway Hall next Tuesday, and you may be
web assured that Mouitrie will be there for irhis
vest pocket, cen now as he writes, nssties iovihg
ly and close to his heart three first class compl-
mentary tickets Of admission to said entertain
inent.
In all the theatres artists and the artists are
all drawing pictures of greenbacks. L
Gold still advancing. Cotton stin declining.
49, MoULTRTE.