The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-12
rFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

[FRoA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, October 6.
Next to the elections of Tnesday!in the CEN
trail States, those Of our people who have
taste for political excitement are most inter
ested ia the mayoralty contest. The situation
to-day Ia briefly this: Four candidates art
already In the field, nominated by a dozen Of
more factions, To wit: William F. H%avemeyer
Jimmy O'Brien, John McCool and Smith E
Shaw. Mr.. Havemeyer has been mayor be
fore. he is q merchant and hnancier o.
wealth, and lie very venerable-in years. Jimmy
O'Brien needs no introduction. He is a noted
leader OF. the ruflan element. McCool is
politician of some local prominence. Shaw IL
a downtown merchant, of whom little IL
known. It is probable that In, the course Of
the canvass McCool and Shaw Will be thrust
aside. Havemeyer will be endorsed by the
Grant Republicans, and o'Brlen will run as
The candidate OF Apollo Hall.
The only unsettled question now Is. whom
| will Tammany nominate 1fltselect the right
man, he will beat both Havemeyer and James
| OBrien. Some of the prominent Tammany
,eeders pronounce for William Butler Duncan,
the millionaire. He is backed up by the Man
haitian Club, the Tribune, World and Herald.
| But there is a vigorous opposition to this no.
mjnation. The popular lille penny News says
| he would be better fitted by his education and
| Iastesfor the position OF Lord Mayor OF Lon
don. Though an American born, he Is allied
by blood to The English nobility. Lord Lau-
| derdale Ia u relative, and q sister OF Mr. Dun
cans is the wife Of Sir George Hay, Bari, an
EnpIlsh gentleman of distinction. Such q
candidate, argue the opponents CT Mr.. Dun
| can. would be %repugnaut to The Irish voters,
| who constitute 30 large q part OF the Democra-
| cy of New York. II may be that these views
| viii have so much weight With the nominat-
In. convention that MIR. Duncan will be
dropped.
| be unavailable, Is thought to be Abraham r.
Lawrence, Jr. There Is no objection 10 him
on The score of Integrity and capacity. In a
lew days the Tammany Convention will meet,
and Then the contest will DO narrowed 10
Three candidates, each confident of success.
The Republicans hope TO- triumph through
Democratic divisions and Jimmy O'Brlen,
because he has been potent among the lower
millions. But money goes 9 great ways In q
| municipal election. Nous ueTronS.
Mr.. Greeley presided ut The anniversary
meeting of the Liberal Club, last evening.
The Liberal Club Is not what It's name might
luply-a political organization il the interest
OF the Liberal candidate for Bresldent. 1t
was born before the Liberal party was thought
of, and Mr.. Greeley has been It's president for
TWO or three years. It Is an association OF
local scientists and men Of letters, and ls
much given to the discussion OF subjects above
the comprehension Of ordinary mortals.
Stephen Paul Andrews ls q member, md the
club occasionally takes q swing ut his "Aleva-
tor tho new universal language he has To-
vented. Mr.. Greeley sat at lie head of the
ltbanauet table last night, at Dallnonico'e, and
made one of his neat, non-polltcal speeches,
which pleased everybody. Buchner, the Ger.
man savant, and Edmund Yates, The novelist,
wera among TIE guests AUD speech-Inakers.
now foolish U. 8. q would have appeared In
The midst of these philosophers.
Mr.. Froude's curse OF lectures In this city
Ia already announced. He has selected his
subjecls from Irish history, and will treat of
the Norman Conquest of Ireland, lis condition
UNDER The Tudors and Stparts, the Penal Laws
anu their cpus, anences. Grallan and inc vol,
%unteers, the Rebellion OF 'a8, The Union and
the Ireland of to-day. This will cover the
history Of tho country. pretty fully, Mr..
Fruude's y%ell.klown opinions on the Qnes-
lions which have divided the people OF the
two Kingdoms are not such as TO draw to.hls
lectures the Irish masses who inhablt New
York. His audiences will probably be select
and small, and composed Of our native born
people of culture, 1t is said he has been guar
anteed twenty-five hundred dollars for the
course of five lectures.
The current week will be devoted to prayer
and Jubilee among Mr.. Beecher's people. It
commentaries his silver church wedding
that Ia, The twenty-itth anniversary OF the De-
ginning OF HIS pastorate. Every day In the
week Is TO be devoled 10 some peculiar ser
vice: and among other features there are 10
be q reunion oil all the surviving teachers ana
scholars OF Plymouth Sunday-school Tor Inc
past quarter OF q century, and q "hlstorlcal
meeting" 10 which old members Will relate
"reminiscences of past Incidents connected Win
the church. Mr.. Beecher Is now getting 10 be
an old man, and has frequently said OF late
that La should soon retire from active labor.
Though lie has had an enormous income,
one slrpassing In late years that OF the Presi-
dent orthe United States. he has not been q
saving man, and can hardly be called very
we'll Of. He gives quite freely In charity him
self. and is n rood liver. It Is likely that his
people will take advantage of the present COM
memoratiye occasion 10 make him g present
which will keep him comfortable during Inc
years of his retirement.
Niblo's theatre, which was wrapped In
flames last MAY and thoroughly burned up,
has been rebuilt, and energies In a few weeks
from the hands of the workmen, bigger and
brluhter than ever. II ls to be The home OF
speclacls of the "Black Crook" species. A
Niece Ia now preparing which Is to eclipse any
thing produced 10 New York, London or Paris.
NYM.