The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-18
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| NEW YORK, September II.
Startling events follow each other so rapidly
in the municipal drama now being played, that
letter from New York almost stales before
| it reaches the eyes of the readers of The NEWS.
The telegraph has informed you of the robbery
of the comptroller's office on the evening be.
fore the celebrated vouchers" were to be pro-
duced In court, and also of Mayor Halls letter
to Comptroller Connolly demanding his resig-
nation, and of the comptroller's refusal to re-
tire. What will happen next, nobody will ven-
ture to say The public would not be surprised
| to hear of the suicide or sudden disappearance
ofelther of the unfortunate municipal trio.
+ have endeavored to slit public opinion upon
| the recent extraordinary occurrences. In the
| first place it is evident Connolly and Tweed
have lost all their friends. Even the street.
corner loafers shout to their fellows derts-
| lively, "Sa-ay, who stole them vonchers?' EX-
cepting few clerks around the City Hall and
Courthouse, you would not find score Of peo-
pie who would now admit that they are
s'Tweed's men" or '!Connolly's men," To this
depth have these mighty magnates fallen at
present. AS to Hall and Sweeney, opinions are
| ulflueu 1uclC dIC iuouJ pSioOho' S'Si eN'A4o"5
the opponents of Tammany, who believe that
Peter B. Sweeney is perfectly honest. As 10
| Hall, It Is notorious that he Is poor and that is
! o point in his favor. 1t looks as If he has been
| the tool-perhaps knowingly so-ot sharper
men. Although very amiaole gentleman n, In
private life, Hall Is not possessed OF prodtglous
brains He showed the gauge OF his intellect
when he ordered guns to be fired In the Park in
| honor of the safe arrival of young Jim Ben
netrs yacht at Cowes. He IS otherwise re-
nowned more for bad pnns than good sense.
But still, if the public money has been stolen,
he cannot escape part OF the responsibility.
Nobody believes the comptroller's version OF
the burglary. The vouchers which were ab-
| stracted so opportunely were the very ones
from which the accusers of Mr.. Connolly ex-
pected TO prove his guilt. That they should be
| stolen at this critical moment would seem to
be confession on the part Of the comptroller
that he dared not let the public see them. He
and his contederates are the only persons who
could possibly be damaged by their exhibition,
and therefore the only ones interested IN get
ting them out OF the way.
The affair has got outside of party limits.
The Times would undouetedly IKE 10 MAXI
/ capital tor the Radicals from the exposure,
but the people, irrespective OF party, have
taken up The matter OF the investigation with
so much unaniinity that the movement can no
longer be called Radical movement. II ls
Democrat who has applied for the injunc-
ton against the city officials, and the Demo-
cratic eX-Judge Barrett conducts the case Tor
the plaintiff The German Democrats, under
Mr. Oltendorfer, and backed by his paper, the
Stats Zeitung, repudiated Tweed and Connol-
" several weeks ago. Other Democratic
papers have been carrying on the fight, and
even the World takes sides with Hall against
| Connolly Governor Hoffman has had no rela.
tions, official or personal, wlththe auth0rltles
here since the July riots. The country Demo-
crafts dlscaim any responsibility for the action
| OF city politicians, over whom they have had
| no control II Is certain, therefore, that the
next Democratic State convention will pass
resolutions just as strongly worded against
municipal corruption as the opposition con-
vention will. The ring" will, therefore, De
| left out In the cold.
The mystery of the body In the sand, about
which gave some facts in my last letter, has
been solved. Strange TO say, notwithstanding
the apparent connection between the initials on
the dead woman's ring and those OF the miss
ing Troy dressmaker, 1t turned out that Miss
Jenny Hicks was not the person involved. she
| has been found by her friends In Boston,
whittier she went by some !ncomprehensbe
freak The drowned beauty was Mrs. Low
| ell, wife of the captain OF Mr.. Cornelius Roose-
yelt's yacht The captain deserted her for an
other woman aud ceased 10 contribute TO her
support Instead OF blessing her stars Tor rid
| dance from such worthless fellow, and get
L
enough to commit suicide. She took passage
on one OF the excursion steamers running 10
| Long Island, and when she was not watched
threw herself overheard. Her body drilted
ashore the next day. The identification OF
the body by the New York friends of the de-
ceased disposed OF the latest mystery.
Roberts Brothers have Just Issued volume
of the new American poets, Joaquin Millers)
verses. Miller has created an extraordinary
sensation in England. The critical Journals
and the reviews have praised him eXlrava.
ganlly. until they went wild over him. He was
| little known In this country outside Oh CALI
lorna He is q native OF Oregon, has lived q
wild frontier life, not unmiXed with crime, anu
knows but little OF the world beyond what ne
has seen in the plains and amid the Rocky
Mountains. His reading had been SO limited
| that at the time he produced his songs OF
the Sierras." he was acquainted only with the
works OF Byron among English poets. He
went over 10 England lately. where he at once
became the literary lion. AS an evidence OF
his ignorance, it is related that friend pre-
sented him to Browning, and learned 10 his
astonishment that until that moment Miller
had never heard of the poet. The situation
was embarrassing. Miller writes poetry In de-
fiance OF culture and education, because 1t IS
in him and has to come out His lines are as
vigorous and breezy as the winds OF his famll-
lar Sierras. He completely ecpses for the
time our last Pacific wonder, Bret Harte.
AT Steinway Hall a remarkable exhibition
is taking place nightly. Its the performances
of q band composed OF handsome young
women-all of them artistes of the>hiShest
merit. They were imported from Vienna,
where they have been sort OF local sensation
for several years. by Fred. Rullman, formerly
the leading theatre ticket speculator OF this
city. The young ladies number over twenty,
each one being proficient on some musical
instrument, and they are assisted BY child
twelve years old, whose soprano voice Is a
physical curiosity. For oddness, at least, this
exhibition has hardly ever been rivalled. Rull-
man will take his Yiennese on tour, and you
will have chance of hearing them In Charles
ton.
As close. the news comes of the nomina-
tion of Joel Parker for Governor OF New Jersey
by the Democratic Convention at Trenton.
Parker is unquestionably the most popular man
in the State. He is not only strong with his
own party, but he commands the respect Of
the other. He can probably poll FIVE thousand
votes more than any other Democrat in New
Jersey. The Radical nominee, Cornelius Walsh,
Is correspondngly weak. He Is simply rich
man-there is nothing more OF him. He is q
manufacturer, and for years has been in state
of chronic warfare with his wOrkmen. the Ia.
Dor vote will be against him. New Jersey is
ordinarily close. but Parker will have walk
over EYA.