The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-28
GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.
4 PAN TO CATCH SOUTHERN VOTES
FOR GRANT.
The Greeley Ratification Meeting
Another dominating Convention -
Stokes's Sufferings-A Sickly Season
Dizziness In the Show BusIness-Vfsit-
ors from the South.
[pRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE

Somebody writing in the Times from Clarks-
vile, Va. advocates novel plan for taking
the wind out of the Liberal Republican sails
and carrying the South en- masse over to
Grant. It is nothing less Than that the Phila-
delpha Convention shall INSERT plank In Its
platform In favor of the remuneration of the
Southern people for the loss of their slave
properly. If such proposition should be
made In The conventions, what breeze 1t
would raise And yet stranger things have
happened in this year of political surprises.
The Greeley and Brown ratification meeting
has been finally arranged for the evening Of
June 3, Ia week from Monday The, great
hall of the Cooper Institute has been engaged,
and among The speakers will be Governor
Brown himself. 1t is understood that Mr..
Greeley declines to make any speeches this
campaign, though 1t is possible he may show
himself on the platform on the evening OF the
meeting. One of the features of the demon
sIratlon will be the marching of the ward
clubs through the streets, carrying torches
aud wearing white hats of the pattern used by
DIR. Greeley In 1856. The style IL low crowned,
with brim about two Inches wide.
a curious fraud was perpetrae ed on the daily
papers yesterday by parcel of adveDLurers,
VINO gathered ut o house In West Fourth
street and resolving themselves into a"Work-
Ingmen's Naliuual Convention" proceedrd 10
nominate candidates for President and Vice.
President. Grant received the hrsG honor and
Massachusetts Wilson the second, and the
chairman iupudently telegraphed the infor-
lnatiun 10 botn OF them. The "conventlon"
held It's session In secret, and the report was
fixed up and given TO The reporters. 1t has
-slnas been ascerlained tnat, instead Of TWO
hundred and Ten delegates, representing
thirty States and Territories, being present,
the meeting was scarcely larger than that held
by the three tal!Ors Of Tooley street. The
published account of the proceedings says
pledglng that State TO nominees OF the conVen.
lion.
That miserable being, Stokes, was dragged
to court again yesterday 10 plead to the In
diclment. By the advice OF his counsel he
stood mute. Under the statute The court en-
tered plea OF mot guilty" and The trial was
set down for the third Monday In June. Stokes
certainly begins to feel the irksomeness OF
restraint. 1t ls anything but pleasant tor
man TO Iinger along weeks and months In O
Cell with dread uncertainty hanging over
him. Even books and the visits Of friends
| become distaslelul. The spirit yearns for the
open air, the liberty to 20 where it pleases, TO
the green fields, the seashore, the ocean, the
! theatre, anywhere out Of the monotony oil
| those four gray walls. / wonder II Stokes
would not rather be- hanged than stay another
| year In prison.
Graham deserted him h3 has been genern ly
looked upon as doomed man-dOomed, not
IT, the gallowS, but. 10 punishment OF aome
kInn Il Ia Certainly TOO much to expect o
| modern New YORK Jury 10 consent TO tae
hanging Of o man VINO wears good clothes.
Certain y governor would commute the Sen
tence OF death. IL Is said that =. okes IL very
much depressed In splrils himself. The hor
rib!s woman who helped hlm to hls ruin has
\ not been to see him since his arrest. Un
curbed By the tragic ending Of her last in
trigur, she has plunged intu fresh l'ssipations
and few days ago was the heroine Of another
shoe ing affair, In which The wife Of notori
GUS uptown gambler fiourished The pistol.
The continuance OF. cool wea' her so late 10
the season Is one of the marvels OF the year
| Ovrrcoals ure still worn at night. and yet We
are nearly into June. The physicians say tnt
| wealhsr Is unhealLhy. In the middle OF tne
day 1t Is UNUSUALLY damp and close, ana tnt
! aIc Is hazy. Can this be The f0rerunner OF ths
| chO,era, which ls 30 confidently expected from
Europe lhls year? The health of the city il
generally unfavorable, smallpox and cereoro
spinal m.nlngils are still troublesome. INT
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sburb-, particularly In Brookli n gives NOR
distress to tho doctors lhun anything else, To-
most of the cases are beyond remedy.
Dullness has settled upon he world OF amnse
ments. one OF the most brilliant Of the the
aires being that burned, and several belnf
closed. The close of the season is announced
at the Fifth Avenue. Mr.. Wallack Keeps MI
house open with London Assurance and I'M
Matthe ews- -Brougham combination, but promi
sps no novelties. Edwin Adams ls playing II
drama,lzaLion OF EnUch Arden al Booths
This sls all there Is of consequence. TIT
lovers of music are attracted TO Theodore
| Thomas's Garden, just outside OF Centra
Park, where nightly concerts are given by MI
magnificent band.
The influx of Southern visitors has begun
the Charleston. Savannah and New Orlean:
steamers coming crowded every time. a
the same time there Is more than cores
pondlng outflow of Northern people OF wealth
| 10 Europe. The last Havre packet took ou
nearly four hundred frst-class passengers
| One OF the preLtiest sights to be seen In th!!
neighbornood Ia the sailing OF New YorK's
steam ocean fleet on Saturday afternoons
Usually from fifteen to twenty-five frst-clas
buals can be seen steaming down The bay a.
Ihs sa ma moment. NYM.
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