The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-08-03

gross OF tho Great Local Improve-
ments Around New. York-ThesEes
. River Bridge. and the sTndergroukzd
. RaiIway-A New Play Crushed by tho I
Critics.
[FRoh DUB OWN CORRESPONDENT
&. 80 42a.e NEW YoRK, July so.
Mi. Greeley's purpose to abandon the reoep5
ition Of guests at his farm on Saturday alter
Moons was announced last week. He held the
last "Chappaqua matjnee,n asEthesreporters
call it,. on last Saturday, and, as usual. the
Times spy was there, sneaking around for
material to throw rIdicule on the host and his
guests. The report duly appeared In Sundays
Times and was quite 10 keeping vita the very
contemplate course Of the Grant organ under
Its present management Mr.. Grssiey's clothes
were described and abnsed, The "feed" was
complained oil, and the invited guests were
depicted as "loafers at Tree lunch" all this
from q person who went andsthrust himself
upon the private party uninvited. Such dis
graceful, t.journalism" almc st justlhes the
brutal insinustions of the Sun, which, when tE
reports the punishment of a ~ifyb -,er, heads
It IA Warning losithe Editor Of Lie Times"
that editor, as Is well known. being the hug,
actress. =, I. ~ =. ~ -
The reunione, which have been keptupf for
many years, are over, and Mr. Greeley has
gone into retirement In Brooklyn. Re1Ns
working like q beaver on an encyclopedia
which bis friend Alvin Johnsonis harryIng up
for The press... He stays at the house Of Mr.
Charles Storrs, on the Heights, and sees very
few visitors. While he is thus employing the
leisure permitted to him by his candidacy 10
useful literary labor, his competitor Qns Of,
ice) is on the wing to the st. Lawrence River
and the Thousand Islands where he is going
to have weeks 6ahing and shootfngrf Yho
loys lists in Utica give him reception today
he is to feast with his man, Conklng, who.
lives there. He will not get back permanent
ly to business In Washington before the SnreE
of October. which is Just the time that Horace
Greeley has an appointment 10 deliver the an.
nual address before The Queens County. Agrt.
cultural Society: Comments are7eupernuout.
Let me advert q moment TO mattrr ratner
outside the scope of New York correspond
ence, but which is or consequences enough TO
be noticed at once wherever tne pen .ls em-ss:
poyed. The Hon. James Lyons, OF, Rlcn-
mond, Va, has just printed letter giying ms ais
to be copied into the Southern papers, and2h
not exposed, calculated toinfame the feelings
of southern white men against the Liberal
Candidate for President. Mr.. Lyons quotes
most atrocIous passage imputiDg iufamom
lives to the ladies OF the South and creditsth
to Mr. Greeley. The Tribune notices the
charge this morning, bnL treats It with, rldl:
euie' Mr WhlieIaw Reid undertakes the dan:
gerous character of this accusalion! 15 sholid
6e sternly branded as falBehood oefore rie
gets currency in the South. for the Radicals
and their allies, like Mr.. Lyons, Will take care
to apread 1t widely. The passage never ap.
peared In the Tribune, nor iell from! ME-. Cree
II namnlIoG
TILED nMiscegenatiOn," work which the Tri'
bune polntedIy condemned when 1t was pup-
I happen to know something, about this
famous literary equib. It was gotten up our,
| Ing the closing years OF the war by garcel
| of wags, In Democratic newspaper omcen
this civ. It was an absurdiy Ingenious argu-
ment 10 prove that the amalganntion OF Inc
Ra Ragffb ffbaard baRd Fltte RS qate6s
tom In this country, 1t would proouce the
grandest race of beings the world ever saw.
z word was -"miscege enati0n"-to re-
present this order OF things, and the new ana
| improved beings were christened "miscegens."
| TO the surprise Of the originators OF the bur
| leeque, great many Abolilionlsls TOOK it as
| serious, and some of them actually endorsed
it and Its doctrines. 1t had alarge sale, and
where the joke was not seen, Was vigorously
denounced. AS said, the Tribune was one
of the foremost In condemning the work.
Il will BIZ part OF the Radical campaign
tactics to give currency to pretended quota
lions from the old files Of the Tribune Gnen-
Awe 70 SouLherners and Democrats, end our
! neople would do well generally to question
Il fheir genuineness. 1t Is hardly possible thar
4 eo earnest man as Mr.. Greeley, alter thirty
Il years labor on the editorial columns OF Inc
Tribune, should not have said some hard tnings,
i and some unjust things TOO, OF DIS poItlca.
opponents, but 1t should De remembered aiso
Il ha rr4D0Q81Ol6s
| as editor. for all that appeared there, y wa
physically impossible for him to nave WIltten
| evsrvtbnp. or even to have seen everything,
for he has been In the habit OF going away
from New York every few weeks ior years "
Lecture or make speeches East anu West.
have noted, from time to time, Tor the IN
terest OF yonr readers, the progress or the
greatest Of our local enterprises the oridge
f,niIdlng across the East River, to unite New
| YORK aud Brooklyn. Two massive stone Cc""'s
ers are being erected on the banks OF the rlv-
er, opposite TO each other, and from these the
bridge of wire will be suspended. with no in-
tefgening supports In the Waleri Ths Brook
jyn tower has now been completed 10 height
OF one hundred and forty.six feet above the
river, and after ten feet more OF masonry Ia
laid iC will have reached the road leVel. On
the top OF this three smaller towers will rise
to an additional height OF one hundred and
twenCy-two feet. They will be used to hold
Il
therefore, OF the structure above water level
will be Two hundred and seVenty-eighI. feet.
Il Is expected that this WORK will be complet'
ed by next spring. In the meantime, the NOV
York tower Is beginning to show itself. "
is now seven feet above the water level, ano
will be flashed by next winter. Then
the great work of laying the bridge aud
building the anchor piers will begin and is OK
pected 10 occupy al least four years more. &c
that 1t will be close on to the gear 1878 before
people will be passing over the ships nn:-.s1
between the two oiues: The distance oetweel
the two river towers will be sixteen hundred
Seet. but the enlirs length OF the bridge from
Brooklyn Heights to Chatham Square Will be
three thousand tour hundred anu eighty feet,
or two-thirds of mile. The road bed of. ths
bridge will be divided into five passages. The
two outer for vehicles going east alra west
the Two Within these for horse cars, and the
central track, which will be raised above the
others, for foot passengers. Wnen the bridge
ia open horse cars will convey passenger,
from the City Hall, Brooklyn, to Ihe City hall
New York, inside OF ten minutes. The Hmi
now consumed in the transit by ferry ant
stage is nearly three-quarters of an hour. .r:.:
The underground railroad, which Will begtl
at the City Hall Park and extend TO Harlem
will be commenced In September and tinishet
, | 10 Two years. The new poslVf1ce Will be com
pleted and occupied In about u year from lni
lime. It will be ready for Its hansard aoou