The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-12
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
TIE DISAPPOINTMENT OYER THE
NORTH CAROLINA TABLE-TUREING. :
Better News from Maine-The Great
Political Revolution in the North
east-Harper Brothers' Insult to Sum-
ner-The Battles OF tho CarIcaturlsss--
Private madhouse Erposures--What
will the Women do Next.

will the Women do Next.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, August g..
The news In the morning papers of the turn
OF affairs in North Carolina spoiled great
many breakfasts. The assurances Of our
friends In Raleigh of the election of Merrimon
have been so positive up to the very latest
moment that 1t has rather lrritated Us that
they have allowed themselves to be 30 de-
celved. An unpleasant part OF the business is
been already paid and The money pocketed,
(and spent recklessly probability by the DEM
ocrats. To have to disgorge under these clr-7
cumstances is distressing.
The Liberals. however, console themselves
with the thought that they have the Legisla-'
ture and majority of the Congressman, and
that Settle and Pool have been SMASHED. The
Radicals WILL. Of course, make all the fnes
they can over the election Of Caldwell, asit is
their last hope of checking the.Greeley tor
rent The Times flames With jubila,ion this
morning, and, thought am out OF heari1D +
have no doubt the Radicals are firing of &
In the City Hall Park, just on the epoCR
We fred hundred on Saturday. The dfawn
battle In North Carolina Will. have the ten
dency to make the fight tn Maine only the
side, Is all good. As an evidence OF the pro-
gress OF the Liberal movement among the
Maine Republicans, 1t may be mentioned tnat
lust one.half OF the towns In Baines district
were hastily canyassed for names last week TO
append to y call tor Liberia! Republican DIS :
DQ
ough, by any means. but five hundred and
sixty.tWo names were obtained. This shows,
at least, eleven hundred Liberal Republican
votes in the district, which, II substractedi; Z;
from the Republican strength and added 70
that OF the Democrats, Will wipe our the
Speakers majority of two years ago, and give
the district to Liberal. am assured 'that
the 's 'sGreeley craze 2. has.developed justSass
.srropgly m other parts Of the State. Il ir has.
we snail carry Maine next month. This Will
be victory worth twenty North Cnrolinas.
There is q great deal of indignation felt {
among the Greeley Republicans over the last
Mast cartoon In Harpers's Weekly, represent
strewiug flowers upon the grave oi.sPreston ~
Brooks. The idea of holding man up to
scorn and ridicue because NE is willing 70
forget his faucied iDilries, "aboiish hate" and
be at peace with hts Siata enemies, Is thoughtto
be nothing IL ss,han hendAsh. The Harpers made
a mistake II they supposed they would help
Grant BY printing such an insult TO saAner.
for the cartoon will only excite The dieg1st OF
people generally and exasperate tnoU ad-
mirers of Mr.. Sumner who have stlll ciung 10
the fortunes OF the President. This circum-
stance is another proof Of the intense 6itter-
ness into which ts,g political struggleris de-
"A new scarlcatsilst. has entered the lists
against Gran, .dr lei an old one has been
placed in posA where he can make his
work conspicueHG The Fifth Avenue journal
has gone into pictorial satire, with BelleW "a as
pear in the last number, aud they are excel
| lent, 1t is evident that the struggle between
Matt Morgan, in Frank Leslie's, and Mast, In
! Harpers' Weekly, is an unequal one. Nastis
greatly the superior. His exaggerations or
hs peeYlsrlttss fIhs IRsEal and gsmoeEaiic
Morgan Is but fresh arrival In this country,
and he has not been able TO get the hang OF,
our politics and our politicians faces-at
least not as compared with Mast. Bellew,
however, has worked the American mine for
q long time; his carlcatures here have more.
point and are better drawn, and he makes the
fight more equal against Mast. The latter's
eeuIns, BY the way, lies almost wholly In the
drawing. 1t is seldom one can get clear Idea
of The Hnub" of his satire. What sense, for
Instance, is there 10 this weeks cartoon rep
resenting Greeley on his knees before the
devil, The llkenesses are clever, that OF
MIR. NasL's candidate particularly go; but
where's the point?
Some Interest is being excited by revela-
tions being made in the tribune OF maladmln-
is,ration and cruelty In the Boomlpgdale
Lunatic Asylum. This Is private INSTITUTION,
classes. A Mr.. Van Week, who insists he Is
sane, and who was imprisoned In the asylum
by his relatives for several months, ant has
managed to escape, has taken legal proceed
Ings to expose the Institution and effect the
release of other persons confined there, VINO,
he claims, are of sound mind. These persons
owe their Imprisonment to the efforts Of their
own relatives and friends, and, OF course. the
attempt TO get them out creates commotlon
In those quarters. It is 30 difficult TO draw
the line uetween sanity and insanity, as we
are all crazy more or less, that RI toubt peo-
ple with q reasonable amount v saneness
often get locked up 10 the mad,houses.
The terrible exposure made uy Charles
Reade in Hard Cash." of the private mad
house system In England, was not ex-
agerated. 1t was only a few years ago that
here 10 New York distinguished officer OF
the navy was seized by his family upon the
purchased affidavits of two physlcians, who
pretended 10 examine him, and was I'M
prlsoned, and 1t was with great dfhcuity that
he got out again. A lawyer friend Of bis told
me at the time that the commodore's head
was Just as level as my own. The proceedings
now Instituted By Mr. Van Week will create
some excitement, and probably lead to an ex-
aminatiou oethe Bloomingdale Asylum by the
authorities. It is evident that private mad
houses should be visited In the manner pre-
scribed by law for State institutions Of the
kind.
The very latest sensation Is proposed reyo-
luton in female equestrlanism. Mr. John W.
Darlington, In Appleton's Journal, has printed
a powerful plea In favor of women riding
horses man fashion. He holds that that style
is the most reasonable, comfortable and health
| full for the sex, and that slde-saddles are q
| barbarism and abomination. The daily papers
| have since published an announeemenr that
| Eve young ladies have determined to adopt
Mr., Carrington's suggestions, and on Saturday
next lnaugurate his reasonable and comfort
able" manner of riding on horseback In Gen.
trail Park. They have devised o sort of Bloom
er costume, and invite all ladies disposed to
| ioin them In the revolution to meet them at
| the entrance OF the equestrians' road at the
Park at three o'clock p. NJ. How much OF q
| hoax there is In this announcement cannot
say, but 1t is likely there will be crowd as
! sembled on the spot on Saturday to see the
| fun. NYA.
| GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.