The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-12
Our New York Letter.
IFRoM DUB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. I

\ New YoRK, February Tho long-talkcd Of
aerial bridge proposed to span Broadway at the
corner Of Fulton street, has at last been begun,
the foundation having been laid yesterday. -Four
posts of cast iron, each fifteen inches in diameter
and with ornamental bases, will support the struc-
ture, and the bridge will cross Broadway at right
angles opposite Fulton street; there will be flight
Of stairs at each corner five feet wide and with iron
ratings at the sides. The bridge will be sixteen
feet in height from the curb of the street to the
under wall Of the bridge ITSELF which will be strong
enough to support weight Of one hundred tons
When the structure is completed, we will all be
able to walk over the stages and other vehicles in
ste ad Of having them run over us, as they now do
Verify great age, and great city, where it is ne
cessary to connect the opposite sides of street by
q costly and magnificent structure such as this
bridge will be.
The Executive Committee of tho Southern Re-
lief Commission held meeting yesterday at the
office Of Messrs. Brown Brothers Co., and reports
that the subscription received SO far amount to
seventeen thousand dollars. This, however, is
rather small, when it is taken into consideration
that A. u. Stewart gave hvo Thousand towards it,
and Brown Brothers themselves a like amou at'
The affair, however, is in good hands, and there is
much probability that o very respectable sum will
be realized ero long, which will be immediately
applied to the charitable purpose in view.
Tho temperance movement is gaining ground
here, though, Of course, there are hundrods Of
thousands who are determined not only always to
look upon the wine when it is red, but to drink it
too, no matter what be the color of it's bushes.
St Plymouth Church, IN Brooklyn (Beechers) j,
the meeting being opened with a prayer SO
lengthy that it is marvel that the preacher could
get through without taking q drink, at least Of
water. The prayer had good effect no doubt on
the audience, but a song which followed seemed to
take better, for it was given in fine style by o
rather pretty young lady. The burden Of the song
was II will not marry q man who drinks.' 4
a poor newspaper clerk named Hope, but for
whom there is no hope was arrested yesterday on
charge OF having embezzled, in the last two
years, the sum of 1--WE hundred dollars from his
employers. Had the innocent thief been anything
but but seedy newspaper W man. he would hayo seen
would at least have arrived at five Thousand in
stead of as many hundred Two hundred and fifty
dollars Per year is poor business for thief
Every now and then one or another Of the Black
Crook actors appear in Court. Yesterday one of
the male actors was arraigned before Justice
wife. The man endeavored to dodge Justice I , but
Justice Dodge too wide awake and as his de-
fence was not satisfactory he has been held to bull
~ grand masquerade and fancy dress ball is to be
given at Irving Hall next Wednesday night by the
Theatrical Mechanical Association This nssociac
ton ls composed of men who construct and or
range the scenes in all the theatres Of this city
viii be lively affair." feast of theatrical talk and
flow Of good spirits of all kinds.
An ingenious individual here has invented what
pqrports to DO process by which it may be proven
whether or not there be any truth in the doctrine
4 q
The ghost-seeker contends that spirits can not be
seen through the medium Of common light, but
that the light must be filtered and refined and
also confined in close room, which it is by his in
vention. The patent has been refused, on the
ground that when the room ia SO prepared that
the spirits could be seen If there it would not bo
possible for live people to breathe therein, and
that the ghosts, therefore, would have all the fun
to themselves, and, besides, have their numbers
reinforced by the ghosts Of those who had desired
to see them. The main feature Of this new ghost-
room invention is that the room is painted With
spirits Of turpentine. 1 ~
"a very curious case came up in court yesterday,
IN which the prosecutor was young lady bearing
the romantic name of Philopena, and the de-
fendant . wealthy merchant. It appears that the
man Of business had fallen in love with Philopena
and proposed marriage, but that he had fallen out
OF love again, and then in once more, but this
time with another, younger and prettier lady.
whom he forthwith married
PhllGpena began an action for breach Of promise
but com promised the matter by receiving sixty
dollars in cash, six months note for one hundred
@ and fly and az agreement to pay her'hv dollars
per week for one year till the wound in her heart
should heal up. Long before the wound healed
however, the base man who had entered her house
and stolen her heart, entered the house again and
stole the note and the agreement; wherefore, he
mas been Phllopenaed and brought into court by
Aer Whom ne once courted. MODLTRIE.