The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-11
Our New York Letter.
[FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
New YORK, April 8, 1S67.-I havo had occasion
theatres are springing up in every direction, that
HAcKErr the great Falstaf, and BOOTH, the unrl.
vailed Hamlet, are about to begin anew the work Of
reconstructing the drama by erecting suitable tenn
pies for the comic and tragic muses. besides tins
P1KE's new opera house up town will soon be I'm
ished, as also the American Museum, intended to
eclipse the glory of the great mermaid Snowman
and unsuccessful aspirant for Congressional
honors.
In this letter have to proclaim the reconstruc-
hon of the church, the rise Of new star ID the
ecclesiastical horizon, the ID Of new SECT, Che
rise oi new church known che Liberal Chr1snan %
Union According to the tenets Of the neN sect, IL
is not deemed essential to piety and true rengloth
that one shall ever wear face as long as the Al,
lantic cable, that We shall aft1lct our sous anu
bodies, that we shall proclaim ourselves sinners,
that we shall confess that we have been guilty ol
every offence in the catalogue OF sln and yet MOD
estly claim to be forgiven and admitted TO s,ne5 ,s to
laugh and be merry, and to indulge IN proper
amflsements and recreations, but enjoins SAID IN,
diligence upon us as duty, on the prnclple !. iala
down by Mr.. Sleary in Dickens Hard Times that
Blanchard delivered an eloquent discourse yester,
day, in Brooklyn, in favor Of the new ehurch anu
it's doctrines, and contended that there Is notnmg
immoral in dancing, that it is less harm to take
part in private theatricals than to atseno aaaa
operas, such as Don Giovanni or speeta-
cular pieces of the Black Crook order,
and concluded the discourse, by announcing
that subscription is to be raised TOR the purpose
Of erecting building wherein the members OF the
new church can indulge In innocent games ol cness
49,
The Southern Relief Commission here has re,
ceived, up to date, one hundred and ten thopsana
dollars, Of which nlnety-sx thousand have already
been distribute the remaining fourteen tnousano
Will be sent South next week, together with seve-
raj thousand bushels Of corn. Besides TINS, Tue
Commission has received lotter from the AGrl-
cultural Department at Washington, Wnerem ~ 10
stated that fifty thousand dollars worth OF SEEDS lee
will soon be distributed through the South In1s
see-seed again; but it will be sowing the seea 90 OF
gratitude and good feeling that Will grow INTO
goodly fruit of friendship and union
An English physician named DR.. Delamare, VINO
resides over in Brooklyn, who is perfectly sane az
times, but who grows as mad as \ Maren al c,
hare when the wind is South-Southwest. and then
does not know o hawk from saw Hamle1
did NOT mean hand-saw,) has been cuttlnG up
such fantastic tricks of late that think IL may
amuse your readers to run over an account Of a nus
large amount of money in mining speculauons,
and having next lost his mind as he speculated on
the ruin that stared him in the face, he conceived
the curious idea that if he did not Walk fourteen
miles per day. he would be corpse IN less than q
Week-wherefore he started on his tour; but
stopping at ,bar-room to take drink, ne met
party Of working men there, with whose society ne
was 40 much pleased that he abandoned the
promenade idea, and proposed to box or Wrestle
with the stoutest OF his newly-found trends 1or
TI1~n knt Nff
and the madman won with ease. Having over
come the stoutest man, he proposed TO hanaie
the balance Of the party, one by one, which
they accepting, he, 10 their unfeigned sur
prise, put them all hors du comoat with the
greatest ease laughing SO heartily meanwhile, and
giving such evidence Of being highly pleased that
Of course none of them suspected that ne was
mad. One of the jolly workmen next proposed to
the merry madman a sociable game or two OF
euchre also for drinks, which he accepted, playing
astonishing and delgh6ng the party by ordering
champagne in abundance. Of course the entire
party soon grew hilarious, wherefore when the
madman proposed that the loser OF the next game
should be tossed in blanket, all hands agreed
The doctor lost, and insisted that he should be
tossed in the blanket per agreement, and so was
taken out and shot up in the air half dozen
times when one OF the drunken blanket-holders,
whose hold was not tight because he himself was
tight, grew convulsed with laughter and let 60 his
end, which came near making an END OF tne e. a0c- M
tor, who fell upon the hard ground, instead OF the
soft blanket, and was badly injured: Physicians
Of the first emnence have been called in, and they
state that the novel method Of ministering to
mind sesaa zee man who aa t2 result
also thrown into burning fever, which, when 1t
sbates may leave him entirely freed OF bus malady.
G. L. Fox, the funny man OF the OLD BoWeIy, Y
has begun libel suit against Frank Queen, OF the
Clipper, who had written Fox up, or frankly speak,
inc. had written him down. Although there is no
naIne mentioned: in the Objectionable article, the
cunning Foz has found on tmeans whereby ne can
that he Is the gentleman ree5sn se
and he will be compelled to give bail: Queen had
insnuated in the article alluded to- that there ls
lady whom Fox loves better than he does his law
full wife.
want game in the intelligence Office. \ lady ap-
plies at the intelligence Office for servant wh o
can do 80 and 3d. or sew and sew and 80 forth,
and very nice, tidy, and neat locking 4lri ls
shown her, whom, after chatechislng ana receivlne
cIudes to take whereupon she hands over two dol
lars to the intelligence Office man, and leaves the
Office. expecting the girl to call next day: The
girl does not call next day. The girl never
calls. The lady goes back to the Once ara
learns that the girl has received letter noI,
q cousin in the country who has been suddenly
taken sick, &c., and must CO., put that there ls
another girl in the Office who might suit-nothlng
is sa;l about refunding the two dollars, and the
lady as she is out of pocket that amount, IN nine
cases out of ten, will take on trial o girl who has
thus been forced upon her like magic card in the
conjurors trick.
Who saws that money can not be picked up IN
the streets in New York !? Moultrie conte that
it can, for on last Friday, as your correspondent
Lane, his foot kicked against pile Of greenbacks
which bis hand picked up. How much-se yenty.
two dollars-honor is the subject Of my story
away to the Herald ofice-advertisem ent W ritter
found, sum of money" &c.-win5 the owner
came ? Oh, yes, the next day comes and 80 doet
the owner Of the seyenty-two dollar pile-money
given civ up-man very grateful, and (Moultrie thinks
very lucky. number Of men also applied whe
had lost other amounts, or, perhaps, no amounts
at all, and Moultrie had most delightful 1l Tme
So much for being lucky. MOuLIhlE.