The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-08
rpRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE,

New YORK, July 8.
The terrible heat Is the uppermoet topic.
Indeed, 1t ls difficult to get up interest In any
thing else. People pass the melting moments
recsuntIng to each other their sufferlngs dur
ing the long scorching days, and the seem
ingly longer sleepless 4ights. The customary
salutatlon is, swell, is this hot enough for
you." feeble joke on the supposed anxiety
of humanity TO keep warm. Another fsvorite
criticism Is, "Why, where is that nice fur over
coat you used to wear, amt you cold" And
these persons who affect literature will tell you
that threadbare joke of Sydney Smiths. about
wanting to take off his flesh and sit In his
bones in good draught.
Itis natural for any body when he Is very hot
to declare that that particular time is thehot-
test he ever knew. But think the thermOm-
etrlcal record shows that the heat this season
ia unprecedented. The range has been high.
er than any registered for the same length Of
time In this latitude. In cool places l0l has
been touched, and hardly any Thermometer at
three O'Clock on Monday showed less than SO.
Since the heated term set In there has been
over three hundred cases of sunstroke In this
city, Of which more than half have been fatal.
Southerners who are here are unanimously OF
the opinion that such intense heat does not
vIsit the South. The warm weather may be
more steady, bus 1t does not behave 80 extraV.
agautly.
surround the coda f0untaiSE clamorlng for tne
sweet drinks which make them only the more
thirsty. Vsnders- of fans are plentiful ana
prosperous. Boys with Tin cans mount Inc
horse car steps and sell cold water at i've
cents glass. Wherever an Ice man Is swing
Ing of from his cart the great glistening
Jumps of Ice, there are con2rpgated multiludes
of children gathering the splinters ior imme.
diate consumption. Fat men, In linen coats
and hatIess, streaming with sweat and red ID
the face, pass you plying the fan. The poor
horses lOll at the mouth aud not unfreqnenty
abandon the attempt to keep up appearances
and lie down on the hot pavements. At the
windows OF dwellings cit gasping females, IN
mysterious garments Of white, striving 10 WOO
the breeZes. The steamboats, and railway cars
cannot accommodate the crowds trying to fly
from the city. PITY us, ye who live where
business Is dull. The worker m this crowded
city must brave the heat and challenge the
sunstroke and ruin himself with the costly.
because constantly consumed soda water, tnat
mis- daily task may be accomplished. Lucky
the man who eau afford to 'lay up"
Next to the torrldly, we talk OF the great
race at Long B:anch Detwsen Bassett and
Longlellow. Twenty-Five thousand New York-
ers and Philadelphlans went down to the
Branch yesterday and panked their stamps on
Bassett. The bets were ak TO four IN favor oi
Bassett Pools sold $1,000 to $1,000 in his favor.
There were couple of Thousand southerners
on the track, mostly Keltuckisns, And tiiey
eagerly took all the bets tney could get at odds
against Longiellow. During the race. the ex-
element was intense. The Kentuckians
were more like manlacs than 9,,r. Isasonao1, 1aan,
P ahead of the Northern taVorlte. there
aross from thousand threats Ll.at old,
tamiliai U..rebel yell" which the battling
armi "a iised to hear, during the war. A Vete
ran Northern .s0toter1 who was az the race
told me that the sound, which he'had not LIS
| tened 10 for seven years. actually startled
him, and he almost anced th..t he ought lo
hear the "cracK," ''crack," "crack" OF the
rifles following IL, and see the gray jaekeu
leaplng the race-course fence. JChA Morrlssey
| who had twenty-five thousand dollarS stakec
on Bassett, exclaimed, "rhls is dig reoe
| victory" The Sontherners owned all the
money In Long Branch last nlHht. Hhe new
j Yorkers who came back to town Dy the rali
| roads and steamboats, had scarcely enough o.
fluids left to buy ice water-juleps and such
| were absolutely out OF the question.
Old John Harper, who owns the great Ken
lucky horse, was superlattVely happy. II
must have been the heat that oVercame bin
for when Longtellow came laundering ,pas
l.
val, the old man sank In chair exhausted.
Friends raised the breeze around hlm WltL
/ IheIr fans, and he revived. to receive, Wltl
| tears In his eyes, the thicK.cominR congratu
lations. It was great day for Old Kentucky
Imr General Breckinridge was one of the
ind,o5." TIL One of the New York reporters
yves characteristic description Of Ken
lucky sporting gentleman who was present
| II la 40 true 10 nature that cannot refrain
| from copyiDg It. The Kentuckian was mid
| die aged man, who ap0sLrophized LonglelloW
thus, Us the horse made his first appearance
on the track: "YOu blessed prince; II yor
don,L win this race TN never love you any
on YOU, dear-don't lose It," And when Long
fellow came crowdlng In far, lar ahead. yQl
could hear that Kenlucklan whoop for mile
The lawyers fur the defence IN The Stokes
trial Yesterday were trying to prove from ths
| witnesses on the stand That the doctors muir
dered Fisk with probes and stimulants. They
probably succeeded In making an impression
on the jury, (Which does not read newspapers,
and will naturally expect an Intelligent YER
dict OF acquiltal. Stokes had his whsle family
around him In court yesterday. His mother
q fne looking matron of the New Euglant
| type, and his sister, q pretty young lady, bott
| modestly dressed, sat by hts side. Stokes ant
his counsel are very free In expressing thelI
opinion that The trial will result 10 his acqult
tai. When the defence begins TO bring out 1t:
evidence, no doubt, public opinion will veel
around 10 favor OF "thls unfortunate young
man" 1t always does. The jury will bring IL
a verdict OF ''nOt guilty." the crowd will boot
Stokes will throw himself into McKeon's arms
and The audience will be dissolved 10 tears. Tht
meritorious creature will stride into the air 6
free man, and another example will be
afforded for the encouragement OF cold
blooded murder In the metropolis. NYI.