The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-28

NEW YORK, November a.
Assasslnatious, mysterious disappearances
and arrests on suspicion are the staple OF New
York news nowadays. They furnish the local
newspapers With their most startling display
heads and most pungent editorial leaders.
As 10 the cases Of missing men, notwith-
standing the ado made over them by the
reporters, there III reason to believe that most
of them are bloodless. Two families and @
large number OF respectable newspaper men
are plunged into the deepest woe over the
sudden disappearance OF q Mr.. Van Dorep.
he went of from bis home, In Brooklyn,
wearing bis best clothes, and with kid gloves
on his hands. HI had one hundred dollars In
his pocket. he said he was going q cunning.
He took nc gun with him, however. Long
Island has been searched high and low for bis
remains, and OF least one person has been ar
rest, d on suspicion of having made away
With him. After several anxious days the
suspicion begins TO dawn upon the minds Of
the relatives that the man has run away to the
West. His father thinks That he has fled 10
California If he is ever discovered he ought
to be punished for obtaining sympathy under
false pretences.. TIl.
The great furry in "NorthwesLp stock, and
the arrest of Jay Gould, al; the insligation of
ivatspeculators, also add to the llvellness OF
the season and drive IecollectIons of the polit-
icsl catastrophe from the mind. The arrest is
not 30 much the consequence of the Erie BAIL
way suits, as II Ia one OF the Incidents OF the
struggle between. the great, stock gambling
cliques In Wall street. Some Of The other
magnates who ara In 1t are Augustus Schell
and U0cle Daniel Drew. and tits reported that
over one hundred miLlIous.of dollars are In.
volved. Gould ls the leader OF one clique; and
the other side hoped that ~ bis arrest 8 break
In the market could be eff ,cted. 30 far, how
eevef, he has beer able 10 maintain his POSI-
ton, and the prospect Ia that Uncle Daniel
and his set will be cleaned out to the e1ten.
Of iuiauy millions oil dollars. I III
operators In these Wall street ''corDers" with
respect The game is simply. 10 lure s'cer.
tain nHmber of people into the purchase or
sale of q stock by false representations, and
then squeeze them. The foTemost'operator In
Wall street at this time Is Daniel Drew, who
away from the street makes the most extraor.
binary pretensions to piely, and who Is indeed
regarded With the greatest reverence 6y one
religious denomination. he figures In the
leading religious movements; and gives his
money freely TO churches and the theological
semtnarles. Uncle "Danlel" will die In the
odor of ssnctity, and yet Wall street Is full, of
the "dncks" whom he has famed.
The official returns OF the election In. this
State are published and make some curious
revelations. Grant has a majority over Gree
ley OF 6s, $50. q But the falling off ofthe Demo-
cratic vote was enormous. compared with the
Inst full Democratic vote. Fltty-seyen thou
sand and thlrty-one Democrats In this State
did not 20 near the polls. One thousand four
hundred and ahy.folr voted for O'Conor, and
some ian unknown quantity) voted tor Grant.
6. 8. Cox, for coDgressman-atiarge, leads
--.l- --~.I- mr. mn - NA.-- Y~a INV
ernor, ran ahead OF Greeley IN the middle and
Western parts OF the State, aud behind him In
this locality. which !s remarkabls. for herelt
rs that tie sRoniii, Catholic element Is very
large. One of the Catholic papers attributes
the falling of 10 New York to the bad falth:of
Jimmy 0'Brien, who was trading off Herman
TO let votes for himself for mayor.
The belief OF the best political arithmeti.
clans is that Grneley's' vote In the Union will
fall fully three quarters Of a million behind
that OF Seymour's four years ago. II a quar-
ter OF q million OF Republicans In The Union
voted tor Greeley, 1t will turn out that a mill
lIorl of Democrats did not 70 to the polls this.
month. THIS Is more than Grants majority of
the popular vote. Inotice that some Sontll-
racy OF the Norlh Of ''lreaohery" because they
did not give Greeley their full vote, and to
threaten to cut of from all communion with
them in the future. IL is only just to the
Northern Democrats TO say that the returns
coming In from the eouth show that the
Southern Democratic vote fell off 10 the same
proportion, Notwithstanding 1t was the South
which headed the Greeley movement at Baltl-
more. 49, -
Stanley, "the dlsooverer,' ls the latest lion.
He come back from his trlumphs In the old
world last week, and on Friday night was
feted by the Lotus Club. There was a large
attendance of nDtabilities at The banquet; and
stanley made two speeches In the course OF
the evening, all about Stanley. HeJ is under
engagement to Rnllma1, the dramatic and
mualcal manager, to deliver one hundred lee
lures Ia this country, and the almost incredi-
BILE story ia that he Is to receive FIVE hundred
dollars per lecture. I believe that, II RuilmRn
has promised him that much, Rullman Is going
to lose money. The very full reports Of the
Herald, copied Into the other papers, of Stau-
ley's journey, have satisfied public curiosity
to q great extent, and 1t does not seem posi-
ole That he can draw more than one or two
nights each In a few principal cities.
The most infatuated person In town about
Stanley is our worthy Mayor, A. Oakley Hall.
His honor has sent a communication to the
board of aldermen requesting them to agree
to a grand municipal reception Of the Herald
reporter. The mayor usually loses bis equa.
nimlty whenever anybody about the Herald
office makes q ''hit." It will be remembered
that he frantlcaily ordered q hundred guns 10
be fred In the park when young Jim Bennett's
-acht won the ocean race to Cowes a few.
ars ago. Mr.. Hall has great admiration for
l.. Herald, and the Herald, as It's editorial
co. ms testify, has great admiration tor Mr..
da,
&c ge Macdonald, the Scotch novelist, has
been , liverlng very successful lectures here
and In BROOKLYN on "Tom Hood" BE" is 8
charmll speaker, though the soottish-accent