The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-06
GLIMpSES OF GOTHAM.
MAYOR HALL's SECOND DESoAPEFROM
SING SING.


The FuneraIof MRS. Horace Greeley-A
Great scandal-Failure OF tho italian
Opera season-The Rival Camps OF
Lucca and Kellogg.
-s-a.s rPRoA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
$50 NEW YORK, November 2.
Mayor Hall has for Q second time escaped
conviction by the disagreement of the Jury.
! think public sympathy is rather With the
mayor. It Is true he audited the fraudulent
claims Of the Bling, but 1t Is not believed that
he shared in the plumber. OF course ne must
have known that peculation was going on
but as he could not afford to quarrel with MS
political friends, he simply shut bis eyes and
said nothing. It was his duty to guard The
public funds, and 1t seems as If he ought to be
pnnished for his criminal neglect. Still, no.
body appears to be very indignant that ne has
escaped go far: 1t is doubtful If he can ever
be convicted.
The funeral OF Mrs. Greeley yesterday drew
to the side Of her bereaved husband 81! Of bis
personal and many of hiB political friends.
Among the pail bearers was his old newspa-
per antagonist, but intimate personal friend,
Mr;Chamberlain, Of tie World, the present
editor of that paper during Mr.. Marbles re-
trement. The Hon. Augustus Schell, chair
man of the National f-Demo mocratic Committee,
was also q pail bearer, and among the gentle
men In the church were Samuel j. Tnden,
chairman Of the Democratic State Committee,
and Mr. Greeley's old friend, Barnum, the
Snowman. The Tribune Office was closed tor
several hours during the day. Mr.. Greeley
has vault at Greenwood Cemetery, and
thither the remains were taken: .....,
1t has Kot yet been discussed by the daily
papers, Ssy be alluded to In this correspond
enca without impropriety. mean the Bsecher-
Tilton scandal. The respectable press of New
York and Brooklyn has made an honest effort
to keep the matter ont Of Its columns, but
cannot see that 1t can shut ita eyes much long
er to what is absolutely .convulsing society.
Perhsps the readers OF TIE NEWS may first
learn,from this letter what will soon be known
from one end Of the continent to the other.
no state the case briefly, the woman woodruff
has published, with accompanying letters
Intended TO. be corroboranys, her long
threatened stack upon the character OF
Raw. Henry Ward Beecher. She duplicates
the wife OF Theodore Tilton, and about
twenty other ladiesot the Plymouth congrega-
don. whose names, however, she does not
mention. The story Is told with such! minute
attention to detail, and the names OF 30 many
well known men ard women are used that,
however false It may be, 1t carries conviction
to the mind Of the reader at first. The acou-
sation 10 not new to me. hesrd Of the TIL
ton matter over two years ago from another
quarter. i have been and am still Inclined TO
6elIeye that Mr.. Beecher has been slandered.
The present excitement Will Dring out tne
truth. Mr. Bsecher- will have TO take the
stand and say II he has been teaching the law
TO the people while ne has hlmseH peen lts
greatest tranSgressor.
.Assmay be supposed, the excitement In
Brooklyn, the home of the idoiized pastor OF
Plymouth Church; is intense Last night
neWSboyS were running through the streets
OF that City In every direction, crying "Extra I
Full account Of the great Beecher scandal"
It is safe to say that q hundred thousand copies
of Woodhulps paper have been sold s.nce
Wednesday. She attempts to justify her
course by saving that she ought not TO suffer
social osiracism for avoWing doctrines which
others, who are petted By society, are secretly
chetishlng. she. avows that her exposures
manuscript the Biographies Of FIVE hundred
prominent clergymen, merchants and public
men whose morals are no better than her own.
It is highly probable that before the next
edition 3her paper Is out she will be arrested
ss common nuisance and sent to BlackWelFs
Island. q - .
The Italian opera season is failure. Even
the greatness OF iLucca has not saved IL.
Last year opera was q success, and paid the
managers mnnifcenuy. The italian, English,
French and German species all prospered.
Pareps-R Rosa went back to England, and the
EngllAh troupe was broken up. The German
sesson has not yet commenced. Ihe Frencn
opera at the Olympic Theatre, with Aimee as
prima donna, Is doing very well. But Maret-
Eek III barely paying expenses. When MS
present season Of thirty nights are over, and
His subscriptIons run ont, he will find 1t almost
impossible to Induce his wealthy patrons to
subscribe to q second series.
The reasons are obvious. MaretEek mas
knfN aH6h O q q 10
had 10 suffer from 1t. Experience seems TO
tasch him nothing The fact is he Is trying
TO run an opera season on single great
name, He pays Lueca the Income OF prin-
cesS. and endeavors to save expenses on MS
company and orchestra. It is is true ne also
presenth Kellogg. sShe is favorite, not q
areat. singer; but he has overloaded her With
6eavyTofk, and she has not appeared to ad-
vantage Tie support, With the exception OF
Jamet. Ia bad. The tenori and the principal
soprano and contralto singers have ordinary
voices, the chorus is inefficient, the orchestra
10 execrable. 1t Is painful to 60 to the Acad-
emy and see Lucca and Kellogg struggle
through an evening Of difficulties. The con-
seuuances are that the houses have been
Srovinr thinner and thinner, and some of the
box Subscribers have even given up attend
ancs." Theitend must be heavy loss TO Ma.
retrSk and his hackers.
ISeca 1g not to blame. She has not en-
chante6 the Kew Workers a8 NILSSON old, Dut
she is recognized as great artistic, and she is
listenedt0 with pleasure. II Max will strength.
an hig corps, perhaps the campaign may yet
be retrieved. It Is shame that bis pretty
little prinaa donna should have occasion to
shed tears Of disappointment. By the way,
the newspapers charge that he has been en-
.cdlraging partisanshlp between the friends
sSEEucca and Kellogg. As is usually the case
SvnSn prime donne;of fame belong to the same
company, they get madly Jealous OF each other.
Miss Kellogg has quite o weak weakness that ns
believed. Max, according, to the critics,
has famed the lame Of discCrd, and Il. the
:saFfST hostile camps. After the scene closes
the company goes to Boston. Philadel-
and the western and Southern cities.
4 - yeariwe shall have our own Patti (Ade-
lnSj back again. her first return since the
season Of her debut In this city. There Is
Int oue other very famous prims donna IN Eu-
rope vet 20 come-Tietjens. do not hear
thst she is under contract to any OF our mana
gera. There is another Italian opera COM
psny-that engaged In Europe for the Tscon
Theatre In Havana-which Will appear mere
5..in,, tho NbrIafrnaa hOftdapg ThOuol IL