The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-04
GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.


GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.
CHARLESTON AND THE FEVER NEWS
IN NEW YORK.
A Rigid Quarantine EstablIshed-De-
tention OF Steamers and Passengers
in the Lower Bay-The Dead Body
Found In the Trunk-Prevalence OF
Ante-Natal Murder at the North-How
the Cholera Is Solicited to Come.
TFRoM OUR owS CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, August 80.
The tendency of the New York journalist Is
to make a big sensation out of every Item of
news which will bear working up to the point
of startling head lines. Charleston, unfor-
tunately, has been made to- suffer in reputa-
ton. more than she deserves, for the cases of
yellow fever which have appeared there. The
night editors OF the New York papers have
been assisted in their efforts to get up panic
about Charleston by re malicious public and
private dispatches sent here from Wilmington.
When these dispatches were representing that
our devoted city was being ravaged irightfully
BY the fever, and that the facts were being
impressed by the health authorities, you can
hardly blame the New York newspaper men
for making the most Of the story. They can
not all be supposed to know the motives
which actuate some rival cities IN mlsrepre-
sentlng their neighbors.
The quarantine officers have taken vigorous
measures to prevent the introduction OF the
fever into this port 1t is well for all travel
lers coming North to know that for the pres
.ent Southern steamers sailing from any of the
ports where the fever is believed to exist
will be detained al quarantine in the lower
bay of New York for several days. The South
Carolina Is still at quarantine, though she ar
rived on Saturday. The passengers were al
lowed to come up yesterday. The Manhattan
arrived of the harber on Tuesday night. She
was boarded from the hospital ships Illinois,
and ordered to the lower quarantine, notwith.
standing she showed Dr. Lebby's clean bill of
health. The passengers will be allowed to
come up to the city on Thursday morning, but
the vessel, understand, will be required to
discharge her cargo at Red Hook, the lower
ead of Brooklyn.
The admonitions OF the press to DR.. Carno-
chan, about guarding against the expected arrl-
val of the Asiatic cholera, hasi probably induc-
ed that official to be unusually severe to yes
sels from all places where contagious diseases
exist. Until the daily bulletins from Charles
ton report the absolute disappearance of the
fever, therefore, the steamers will be expected
to sojourn for few days, on every trip, In the
lower bay. Captain Tom Lockwood, with
view to improve each shining hour, has taken
on board to-day Quality of pigments with
which he proposes to paint up the Adger dur
ing the time he has to lay off In quarantine on
the next trip.
We are just now going through course of
the most narrowing and blood-curdling sensa-
tions, and the newsboys are happy. We have
mUre steamboat explosions and railroad
smash-ups from abroad. and at home "mys-
farv Sinco n00r Mr. Nathan wac murdprad
in Twenty-third street, by some person or per-
sons unknown, nothing so dark and terrible
has happened In our mid as the tragedy of
the body in the trunk. 1t recalls to the minds
of the older inhabitants the Colt and Adams
affair Of thirty years ago. Colt "a brother of
and boxing up his remains endeavored to get
them out of sight BY shipping them to another
part of the country. So this fend, "Dr."
Rosenzweig, tried to dispose of the body of the
young lady whom he had killed by stufing 1t
into trunk and checking it to Chicago via |
the Hudson River Railroad.
The discovery of another murder Of the |
same character, oy the notorious Madame Van |
Buskirk, of Bleeker street, has opened up a |
discussion upon the terrible secret crime which |
stalks abroad throughout the North, no. mere
ly through the wlckedness of so-called physi-
clans, but with the concurrence of thousands
Of respectable men and women who are inte-
rested. The South, am glad and proud to
believe, Is almost wholly free from this crime;
and you, who know so little about 1t, would be |
astounded If you really had revealed to you |
the extent to which 1t exists at the North. In |
Boston, and indeed throughout the New Eng |
land States, the practice Of ante.natal murder |
is so common, even among people OF social |
position and members of the churches, that 1t |
Is talked about just as freely as any other |
everyday topic. Doubtless thousands Of peo- |
pie in the North look upon 1t as no |
crime whatever, while others regard |
It merely not as TrSng n0a g,7S
In my assertions, refer to the letter address
ed to his flock by the Episcopal Bishop Cox, OF |
Western New York, two years ago, on the |
subject. The Bishop said that the crime exist
ed to frightful degree among his best people, |
and he could keep silent no longer. Here is a |
field for the reforming energies of such pious !
persons as General o. o. Howard. Senator |
Harlan, Senator Wilson, and Vice-President |
Colfax, who find so much to torture their loyal /
hearts In the wickedness which abounds IN |
the South. They rail at their neighbors, while |
q cancer Is at the very core of society In their
own homes.
The succession of heavy rains which have
visited this locality has left the city In very
uncleanly condition, and 1t Is evident that If |
the cholera were suddenly to make a lodge
ment In some OF our back slums the mortality /
would be dreadful. Everybody Is scolding |
dOOuL luc COuulllOu vi NdSuluBlOu uuu ruitOp
markets and their neighborhoods. A visit to
either would give an observer the most melan-
choly forebodings of the future. The streets
around are filed with stagnant puddles, |
and the cutters reek with decaying vegeta-
bles. The markets inside actually have the
odor of putrefacton when the weather Is
hot. 1t is amazing that the officials of
this great and wealthy city have permitted
these nuisances to exist The good admins
tration of government, 30 conspicuous In other
departments, is singularly wanting In the
health board. One would suppose that with
all the money at the command Of our magls-
trates. they would make model markets for
New York. 1t would be blessing If a fire
should break out In the rookeries on the North
River In the neighbOrhood of Barclay street,
and level them with the earth; and 1t is wen-
der that they have escaped 30 long. The
Authorities are moving at last, and we are
promised sanitary revolution. NYM.
CRIME IN THE STATE.
Shooting Affair In Union.
The Times saws: IOn Friday evening last |