The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-16
rFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK. September l.

NEW IOhh, oCpICuUCl Lee
Two political events of great significance
have occurred. Governor Curtin has definitely
decided to support the Liberal movement, and
Charles Sumner has been nominated as the
Democratic Liberal candidate for Governor OIL
Massachusetts. The first gives us Pennsylva-
mia In October and November; the latter gives
a renewed impetus to the Greeley movement,
which has been tagging a little since the Maine
| election. Probably we could have carried
Pennsylvania Without and In opposition to
Curtin's influence; but there ls no man who
has SO strong a hold on the affections Of the
Pennsylvania Republicans, and there will be q
| great many OF them persuaded by his course.
The apparent certainly Of securing the eIecto.
raj vote of the Keystone State brightens the
Liberal prospects greatly. 1t must he con-
tossed that our friends have been In the dumps
Tor the past three weeks. There was a panic
among The betting men on the Greeley side.
One who had wagered ten thousand dollars on
Greeley's election, putting up one Thousand
dollars forfeit. only this week ordered the for
felt money 10 be paid over 10 his opponent.
Had he waited until To-day, | do not think he
would have given up so readily.
The Sumner sensation is one Of the most curl.
Gus oil this extraordinary political season.
Think of u Democratic Convention nominating
Charles Sumner for governor, and It's speakers
denonucing John Quincy Adams In unmra-
sured terms for apuslacy to the party. Was
there ever such a political topsV lurvy? 1t IL
doubtful II Sumner accepts. He went of to
Europe last week, aud will know nothing Of
the nomination until he reaches Liverpool.
The Springfield Republican, which Is a sort Of
semi-uflclal organ OF his, says the nomination
will ''touch him deeply" or course he will
not be elected, but his candidature will throw
great Animation into the Massachusetts can
vass and lay the foundation for future Liberal
victories. The Liberal Convention at Wor-
cester was attended by some of the most In
hueutial members of the old Republican party.
General Banks made q Telling speech, which
Is chiefly significant for the. announcement
he made tnst he has formally and TOR
ever separated from the Republican
party. Alter the Democratic and Liberal Re-
publican conventions lraLernlzed, and Gene
raj Banks had taken the chair 10 preside over
the jollihcation, your fello w-townsman, n. P.
O'Connor, ESQ.,. was brought out as the big
gun of the occasion. When he made that
great bit In The Baltimore Convention, his re.
ply to Senator Bayard, he achieved d national
reputation. He was therefore welcomed with
yociferous cheers when he appeared On the
platform at Worcester. He made one OF those
impassloned addresses oil his which brought
the convention up 10 the greatest enthusiasm.
Another amazing evidence OF the general top
sy-turvy-a South Carolina Democratic orator
cheered In q Sumner convention In the old
holbed of Massachusetts aboltlionism, where
O few years ago they Threatened To lynch
Southerners. O'Connor ID greatly In demand
tor the Northern stump. He is advertised TO
speak ct the monster mass meeting In Union
Square tonight.
The steamship Cuba, from Liverpool,
brought many of the expected celebrities yes
terday. Lucca, who ID to console us for The
loss of Nilsson. WAS welcomed oy her tnana-
ger, Max Marches, and taken TO q hired house
In Fourteenth street, near Delmonico's, where
she is expected 10 make herself at home Tor
the present. The season OF Italian operas
will begin ct the Academy Of Music on the
30lh Instant. "L'Atricalne, " in which Lncca
has made on extraordinary Impression in
Europe, will be the opening piece. Miss
Kellogg will alternate with the great German
prlma donna. Three new operas will be
nod; 'rOmbre," by Flotow, and the "Dutchess
OF Amalfl," by Petrelia. They are all successful
works, and are running in the European
opera houses.
Among The other notables who came by the
Cuba was Edmund Yates, the English novelist
and magazinist. Yates ls best known In this
country from his celebrated quarrel with
and 'Broken 10 Harness." Like Albert
Smith, Arthur SketchIy and other London
literary men, Yates has been conducting In
that city a sort of monologue entertainment
called "London Society,"" He proposes 10
introduce 1t to American audiences. If 1t Is
bright, vivacIous and within the comprehen-
Sion of our people, 1t may be q success.
Sketchly, who brought hither his "Mrs.
Brown" which was 30 popular In London,
failed 10 get Americans to appreciate 1t, and
went back home disappointed and abusive of
''the Yankees" 1t was, like the wllticisms OF
Punch, dreary bosh except to purely local con-
A very considerable part of the people OF
our metropolis are deeply interested In the
OF FORESTER, the burglar and Thief, VINO
has lust been arrested on suspicion OF having
committed the Nathan murder. must con.
fess, with some modification, that / have
heard more talk in polite circles within the
past two days about Forester than about the
Horace Greeley or the President.
There Is such a fascination about the great
crime that It's principal actors have assumed
heroic shapes In the mental vision OF the popu-
lace. Bets are offered Two to one that For
roster will get clear. It will be very difficult
to prove him The murderer. The evidence
be wholly circumslantial. On reaching
New York, he instinctively sent Tor The Two
best crImIual lawyers, Graham and Howe, to
defend him. They eau manage an American
jury II anybody can. NfA.
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