The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-22
Cur New York Letter.
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FROM OR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE.
New iuEK, MAY To- 1SG7.-'rhu French theatre
wus NOR. crowded than ever at the NIlliCe III
IhursdIv iaSt, 10y an imm ,lsc concoursc Of spec
tators WHO ha d paid their money to src nat only
the great t,agc ;ciinc III Lady Macbeth. but tn,
great cxPrcsi,lcnt of The Confederate States, ii
private box. JEFFERSON DAVIS has been i'll private
box or IN a public box in the great American thea
trc Of lie, for some tinc but he did not make llls
appearances in tc box ut the French theatre a.
expected that morning, nor did he take his depar
tine for Canada as expected that afternoon, for h,
| j. still here at the New York EIutc having becn
pre- entc.l by ir,dispostion from even partains o
| the i:ospitalit: of CHARLES OCoSoR.
Speaking Of ElsToEI and CHAnLss OCoSoN. re-
| i.ias Inc of circumstance have TO record III
relation to each, AS l consider O'CoNoR b: i;
.he greater parsonage Of the two, let Ine "a 'oSt
of him first This OK raordnary man, who is Per-
llaps the ablest ;rist in the United States, and
wllom but . moment ago passed on Broadway, lH
All el icrlv old gentleman OF modest ard u:assilEl-
! ing dcncanor, dresses plainly, might almost say
carelcssy, and is notorious tor almos. invariably
wearing hat not only size too large. but which
seems to haze done extra service. To observe
INN OH the street No one would suspect that this
| old hat covers head within which works brain
that burns with intellectual fire second i'll briliali-
cy and intensity to none and vet when We are
tia that this is CHARLES 0'CoHoR, and note more
carefully the owner of tho hat, we discover 4
something in the peculiar twinkle CT the small b'l;
indcscrhably piercing eye that tells us this is the
| man.
What haze to say III relation to RIsToRI Is this
The rra.t trage.liclc vino is to leave US to-day.
carr;inE away with her about two hundred thous-
an(, dollars, which she has mai Ill 4 few months
i. tho United States, not having bccu made ac-
uuai,ted with the fact that there is q Law which
reader it incumbent upon her to make return oi
her inco me- and pay tax thereon to Uncle Sam.
has neglected to make said return, 'crefore she
will bn waited upo, day b. ANDREWS, who was
once the low comedian at the Winter Garden, hut
is now Deputy Collector and will be called upon to
hand over ab ut seven thousand dollars, else she
viii not bc ali, we'd to depart. This is certainly Il
most nncollrtc,ils manner of acting toward this
distinguished distinguished alike fur her
charity and womllly virtues. as for her eXtraor-
di.ary artistic abilities. and tho notice should most
certainly hare been served upon her before
T!: revea.c lax, which is in general rather hard
upon a classes is particularly oppressive M re-
cards theatres and public places OF amuSc ncn
The theatres are compelled To pay ton lnd half
pcr cent! on the gross receipts per night, no mat
ter whether there be any profits or not. All Of the
theatrical mana%"rs are II Sslrse anxious to have
tho law re caice OF modifs&, and several months
sro, Fonp, The manager OF Fori's Theatre in BAL
mat nu3
cecde;l in collecting from several theatre men hero
and elsewhere small amounts of money with which
IL carry out tho engineering process. but the al
fair ended in tho ve,ilant managers handing over
their subscriptions and hearing Of the matter
norcrmOrC.
ES raordirarv efforts are being made by mca
of high standing and iaflucncc here to induce
Governor FESroH to pardo;l kErcEUM tho forScr
now confnc, in the musical institution known ns
Sing Sing, and the ovcr-chanSing and consistently
inconsistent Herald favors his release on the
ground that JEFFERSON DAVIS. greater criminal %
is Mt lurya The particularly acrimonious tone III
shc I,lq,d editorials in relation to Mr.. DAVIS since
his arrival hero leads people to suspect that some
If is c::rioys reporters lave been snibLcG by the
great STATE prisoner.
IL tOulRui.tCc Will liiS 1uNiNO VI wa ''S'i
MAN to "asitatc." but not to fight nor create
riot. the sli-Excisc Law men tried the aSltatinS
game ast n.sht by holding i meeting. There w;s
ysry little agitation, however, and it was rather
aa-h-;.,-t!rc-pan kind of all affair. donht ii The
,Iayor's plan will work well, and predict that the
question viii narrow itself down 10 beer aud fight,
or bear and don't fight.
4 tragic sccnn was enacted in . house i'll .avcu"
A., few evenings ago An unfortunate individual
named DAVIS hu,i proof that Iaso contendsd with
Othco can never bc ubta ,ctl that his worsc-hail
had been unfaitlful, wherefore ho entered the
room where she was with her paramour, and fail
.ng in the attempt to shoot the latter, shot hlIn-
self in the head with his pistol next jumped out
of the window and then drank ritriol. Strange to
relate. tho man is not yet dead. The name OF the
scduccr, WHO was not killed, but should have been,
is DIR. ROSENBERG.
DU CHA1LLu, the celebrated African explorer,
delivered most instructive and interesting lee
ture last night OH the Gorilla" terrible monster
Il kind Of ma .-nunkeY i'll form and appraia .cc,
and lion in strength and muscular developments.
Du CuAII.IU tells Ills that the Gorilla need not D"
rcya, dcd bv us rs "a man and Il brother.
hotln. new in theatrical l!ic except that
HAcKErr la holiiug forth ut the broadway AZ raj
staff. MoCLlhl
fJ,n All,anv