The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-20
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The Tribune is in a futter OF alarm that
some of the undetermined Republican mem
bers will be seduoed by Tammany golo TO
abandon their party. No doubt there are sew
eral country members who would be Wiling
t to sell ont if they could fnd spurchaser. Cal.
icott, a Democrat, sold himself in this way to
the Republicans, a number OF years ago, and
afterwards went to the penitentiary sor Whis-
key frauds,
sorship of theology in Yale College. The sal.
airy Is handsome, and his attendance need not
involve an abandonment of the lat oenehce ne
at the falling away Of Yale's once rigid ortno-
doxy. Nobody knows what Beecher's religious
belief is. II is doubtful If he knows himself.
He is extremely liberal, and some say ne IS
secretly a sort Of spiritualist. He mas an
nounced recently that he does. not belleve IN
a hell, and he has shocked many persons: mo.
tons Of propriety By speaking in the pulplt OF
other antics he ste be guilty of no one can
tell, but something odd and startling Is eX-
pecsed every Sunday. That Yale should take
him for a teacher Is, perhaps more startling
still. Socially Beecher ia q hrst-rate ieloW:
He likes.good company. and gets on most Of
the best jokes himself. He is q tride vain,
both of his looks and his abilities. He is gen.
erous, spends his money freely on good OBJ
iects, and Is, I think, honest. How jolly lie
must be to. him; good health, pleasant domes-
tic relations, the consciousness OF genus,
idolized by half OF Brooklyn, and admired by
half of the United States, and plenty OIL money.
His annual income, from all sources, IS mol less
than $25, 900, and he could double Ill ne cared
to lecture in other cities on his OF n!snts.
Besides he has his handsome town house on
the Heights, and his summer villa On the Hud-
son, presented to him by his congregation.
Mr.. Edwin Booth has just become .inVolVed'
In a curious lawsuit, With q theatrical critic OF
this city. The latter has been publishing
some severe structures on Booths acting. IN
his paper called the Season: The other night
he was attempting 10 pass the ticket-taker al
Booths Theatre, on the usual press privilege,
when he was stopped. He went with lndigna:
ton to the box office and purchased a ticket OF
admission, but was still refused an entrance.
His next recourse was TO the courts, from
which he has obtained an order to Booth to
let him in. The next grand struggle Will De al
the doors Of the theatre, between the crlIc,
backed by the myrmidons OF The Law anu
Booth, with his tragedy company. II 1t Is
done in costume, It will be more interesting
thar the fencing scene IN Macbeth. MIR.
Booths manager attributes the offensive GRILL
cisms to The circumstance that the Season was
elected from the theatre as the programme
paper.
Intending visitors-to New York this sum.
mer must not omit q visit to the Battery. Those
who have looked upon It's wreck heaps anu
shanties any time during the past twenty
years, will hardly recognize It.. Thanks TO the
new park commission, 1t will shortly be one OF
the greenest, shadiest, breeziest and pleas
ATTEST lounging spots in the metropolis. The
transformation is something wonderful.
There are those who believe that, with the
uptown movement Of business, the lower part
Of the city will again be occupied LOT res,
dences. About the Battery and the lower end
oil Broadway were once the homes OF the no.
bility and gentry. The last Of the fashion
ables who lived down there was Stephen
Whitney, and he stayed for years after the
rest 81: his social equals had'm0Ved away. The
elegant edifces of the past remain, but tney
are used as steamship offices and lofts iAr
storage. / learn that q w%ell-knoWn real estate
.speculator is contemplating the purchase OF
several blocks of Battery property, with the
view of putting it into fine residences.
Long Branch, This summer, is to be the Nee
CO of the fashionable world Of New York. II
Is to be considered highly improper for onr
citizens TO 60 to Saratoga and Newport. Our
restless President viii return to his cottage on
the beach as soon. as Congress adlourns, anu
during this summer the Branch will undoubt-
edly be the actual seat or government OF the
United States, and the gathering place OF d.
plomatlsts, o~flceholGers and politicians, as
well as OF butterhy beaux and bellies. The rise OF
Long Branch l'as been rapid. Property there
has advanced enormously. Land situated on
Ocean Drive, which " years ago could have
been bought for $1,000. per acre. is now worth
5000 per lot Of 100 feet 'front.'. Hundreds or
new private residences are going up this
spring.
many new and magnificent hotels In the pro
cess of erection on the upper end Of the island.
Broadway Is becoming as magnificent from
Tbirtieth to Forlieth Street as anywhere be-
low. Fur very large frst-class hotels lave
been opened in thai section within TWO years.
The great hotel offNew York, however. Is TO
be butt on %Fifthavsnue, opposite the entrSnoe
to the Central Park. Ground was broken
week before, last, and the building is to be
finished In thirteen, months, or In time to re-
ceive guests on lhs LIST Of May, 1872. The
hotel will occupy ten lull city lots, and Will be
eight stories high. The French style or q
In the centre, into which carriages
will drive and guests will .a!lght, viii ce the
most NOEL feature OF the new edlice. The
cost, with the ground, will be over a million.