The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-16
GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.
THE NEW YORK PRESS ON THE DEATH
OFNAPOLEON.

THE NEW YORK PRESS ON TIE DEATH
OFNAPOLEON.
Revival OF Liberal Republicanism-
Signs OF Political Awakening I'm tho
East-Phelps, Dodge g. Co. inTrouble-
Beecher, Woodruff and Tilton Again
"A New Tribune Entcrprise-Profes-
sor Tyndalrs Popularity-m a r L
Twain on the Sandwich Islands.
lFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, January IL.
The dead Emperor gets very little praise
from the severely virtuous New York editors.
Some of them have discovered that ne was
always fool, and owed his twenty years mas
terry over Europe to the sagacious counsels of
the PersignyB, Fleurys and do Mornys who
surrounded him. The Northern editors have
not forgiven nor forgotten Napoleon's anxiety
to Intervene In behalf of the South during the
late war. His death recalls to mind the
famous negotiations OF Slidel and the other
Confederate commissioners with the Emperor
In 1868. Had he been able at that time to pre-.
vail upon England to join him In the recogni.
tlon OF Confederate independence, and had
raised the blockade, how changed Wonid hIVe
The Liberal Republicans did not die as
party with their leader. 1t sounds unseason-
able to hear of Liberal Rally" In the pres
ent depressed condition of politics. But there
was one at the old Broadway headquarters on
Thursday night, and speeches were made by
BY Gen. Cochrane, ex-Congressman Stewart,
and others. Grants course towards Louisiana
was bitterly denounced, and the speakers re.
Iterated their undylng hostility to the Repub-
llcah party. They profess 20 believe that their
organization is the nucleus OF the ruling party
Of the future.
In ore corner OF the North, at least, the po-
litical lanes have been lighted anew, and
there is an exciting canvass In progrePd The
New Hampshire people hold their annCal State
election In March. Ex-Governor Weston, the
most popular Democrat IN the Stale, has been
nominated for governor, and the Temperance
and Labor Reform factions are also IN The
field. 1he Republicans are expected to re
nominate Governor Strow. As the State Is
close, and the smaller factions draw votes from
the Republicans, the Democrats have good
hopes OF carrying the State. There are also
symptoms OF political revival In Connecticut.
A number OF Republican politicians are can
vasslng for the gubernatorial nomination In
opposition to Governor Jewell.
The largest metal Importing house In the
country, Phelps, Dodge Co., Of John street,
Ia in serious trouble with the Customhouse au.
lhorites. The affair has created great deal
of talk In mercantile circles, and there have
been efforts made to keep 1t out OF the news
papers. The charge made against the house
is that 1t has undervalued It's Invoices for some
time past, and that the government has SUI
fered TO the extent OF several millions OF dol
lars In unpaid customs dues. An inVestiga-
ton of the books has been ordered. A curious
story was circulated yesterday ie the effect
that the house had compromised by giving It's
check for $26O,000. This money. 1t was al-
legged, was divided ameng the Cust0mhouse
urlng, ;" with the understanding that the pros
ecutlon against the dellnquents would be
dropped.
porters that the trouble arises only from o dill
ference OF opinion between themselves and q
The customhouse as to the right construction
of a clause in the revenue law. II the decl-
sion of the treasury department is against
them, they will pay the claim, which Is estl-
mated at from one TO three millions OF dollars.
They profess 10 be perfectly Wllllng 10 40 tue
i,rIght thing" II Ia certain that caPlas mas
bosa iaanpd a1oines thou. Ine house, IL 10
but Just to say, has always stood above suspl-
cion heretofore. The members are well known
Radical Republicans, and assisted very large
ly, 1t Is said, with their means In the re-elec-
tlon Of Presldent Grant.
On the evening Mr.. Beecher delivered his
lecture in Association Hall, advocating COM
pulsory education, his traducer, the woman
Woodruff, appeared at Cooper Institute In o
wild harangus, in which she repeated all the
ISLANDERS upon his character which she pub
| lished In her paper some weeks since. Two
deputy Uuited States marshals We're waiting
at the stage door, and as soon as she con-
clHded they arrested her and lugged her on
to her old quarters OF Ludlow street jail,
where she now is. One cannot be martyr
| Without suffering. She is pretty sure to go to
George Francis Train Is likely TO follow her.
| By the way, Theodore Tllton has tardly pub
| Ished a statement In his paper, the Golden
Age, In reference to the great scandal. He
| emphatloally denies every charge made by
Woodruff and Claflin against Mrs. Tllton and
himself.
The Tribune, which ia improving under the
re-established management OF Wnlteaw Reid,
has gone into new enterprise. 1t has taken
to Issuing supplemental sheetg, containing
verbatim reports OF all the notable lectures
delivered in the city. The number containing
| Professor Tyndalrs complete course OF lee.
lures las had sale OF over hlty thousand
copies, showing how decided ls the public IN.
| terest in scirr.ihc matters. Another supple.
men,. ehe. uas been issued containing Wen-
dell .lps's "Lost Arts,n Beecher's Com
pulsory Education" DR.. Bellows'a "Is there a
| God I" aud james T. Fields's "Masters of the
s tuatlon"-all of which have been delivered
| 10 the city within few days. The price OF
this popular literature Is but three cents per
copy.
Professor Tyndall Is having even larger
audiences in Brooklyn than In New York.
The Academy OF Music in that city is literally
packed to the raflers with people. He draws
better than his ntrywomen-Thompso
and the British Blondes, which is credltaole
| to the city of churches, for the blondes are the
! most attractive persons In the show line
almost everywhere. Tyndalls experiments
are really very beautiful, and get rounds upon
| rounds of applause from the audiences.
Mark Twain has been writing humorous
sketches of the Sandwich Islands for one o1
the daily papers. Apropos Of the sudden in'
terest that has sprung up about them, ne
passed several months at Honolulu, as oil who
| have read his last subscription book are
| aware, and is able TO talk intell1gently, u
amuslngly, about the country and people
He favors annexation. 1t seems that GRAM
does also. 1t Ia a race between General Scho
| field and drunken Prince "Bill" as to which
shall oanture the island. NYM.
WRECK OF TIE GOLDEN HIND.
A Famfshed Crew Subslsting on Hu-