Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-18
Statesman.
FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence of the Ohio s,atssman.l
New YORK, Nov. 13, 1868.

NEW YORK, Nov. l3, 1868.
The temperance of the sun to-day,
afterso many llong hours Eof absence,
gives promise that we are to have at
least one more good spell of weather
before the final crash which Elder Snow
predicts: and the cool bracing air that
now begins to pinch is only the forerun.
ner of the frigid winds that will soon
whistle through the feahess branches
and around the sharp corners, making
the nose tingle and the ears smart, and
making a host of lazy people into lively
actors. Business begins to look up
Light goods hang heavy on the haber-
dashers' hands, and furs and weoiens
and other warmth preserving fabrics
grow hourly in demand. Overcoats,
even of pattern oflong ago, are sought
tor and easily found. Flannels display
themselves openlyin the Windows'of the
furnishing stores, long WOODEN stockings
and short wooden socks. and comforts.
and tippets, and ear mufs, and wrist
warmers, and thick gloves, appeal coax
ingly to the passer- by to come in and
purchase: and in short, everything that
man has wrought to keep his fellow man
warm with, is put forward in most en-
ticing way and made to warn him that a
sharp.winter, is hard upon his heels
But the ice man is unhappy, and the
good fellows who furnish us with that
creamy summer dish, which Bridget says
is "baked in a cowld oven," have no
thanks to offer fory the change, and so
much gutteral growing away down in
subterranean corners among the salt
boxes and milk-cans, and cream-freezers.
This and other evidences of dissatisfac
tion which one witnesses every day
convince me that there is perhaps limit
to the power of Providence-for it
surely cannot make everything to suit
everybody.
The lecture season has fairly begun,
and bids fair to, be AVERY Interesting
and profitable one. DIR. Hayes lectured
last night on "Artic Researches 5" Mr..
Geo. S. Fisher, on "Japan;" Demer;i,r r.
on "Anatomy;pTDr Wilfetss of Phila-
delphia, on t'Mental Dyspepsia;" and
others of lesser note discussed various
other themes to excellent audiences.
There was an interesting lecture before
the ladies of the Workingwomen's Home
the other night, but Grandmother Hal
day, who has charge of the institut'
allowed no notes to be taken, and AZ
the hearers all take oath thu na' I,
would not repeat any7part of sn ne
is impossible for me to te'. H. 20
thing abohtit, exceptltha' 4 you an.
was either "Woman's u the sunJe'
construction )" that : a.s OF N
lady of refinement II pe o,,i.' ieo.urel was :,
beautiful parlors of o .La 'IIe H., snat III VI
crowded and that al M tho IaJ; IaJ;os we, :,
lighted. - Au"y' were I"
nie eminds me that the Workingw
n ihen Protective Union is now regularl
qua" .ered, and if any Of your reader
Wv sire to aid noble work let them 1eiy
} encouragement to this institution. Th
bitter days of winter are fast approach
ing, and there are hundreds of hous
girls inthis city whoIm4st spend a grees
paSt oft in discomfort orpositive miserl
Shops are all full, and there are five al
plications for every vacant place. ri
Protective Union secures employmer
for workingwomen, wherever employ
ment can be secured; and where goo
female help is needed, in city or cour
try, the housewifeZor- r.illiner, or til
skirtmaker, cannot do better than
make the Union the vehicle of commit
nication with the unemployed. Ther
Is no expense attending any negotiatio
with the establ. bl..lshment and it will be th
most intelligent intelligence office in th
country.y,-
The ,8ortIiihgg ggvonnen,s nnen lAssJeiatior
recently organized, held a meeting o
Wednesday night, about 200 member
being in attendance. Of course ther
I.'gas little squall every once in while
but the business of the hour was, for tn
most part, conducted with order an
ability. These meetings of the Asso
citation are becoming quite popular witt
the gallant representatives of the morn
ing dailies, and as the best looking O
them are always assigned the duty O
reporting the proceedings the ladies ar
never annoyed at their presence. Th
city editors of the aforesaid Journal
complain, however, that on the meetin,
nights it is very late before these gen
ltlemen return to the Office, and the prin
ters grumble a little because they ar,
kept waiting for copy. This is some
what odd, too, for the meetings adjourn
at ten o'clock and copy is not impera
lively demanded before midnight.
Yesterday morning at % o'clock,
brutal assault was made upon one of tht
Sun editors as he was returning hom.
from his Office. The three rufians who
made the attack, seemed to have no de
sign on the editors pocket, but simply
desired to "punish" him for fun; but
this desire was not gratifed. The quill
driver took good hold of one Of the
wretches and pounded him so that his
mother would not know him, and one Of
the Office boys came up in the nick OF
time, grappled with another and pun
ished him severely. The third man was
about to enter into the dispute when a
policeman appeared, and he took to his
heels, but swass subsequently captured.
The other two were not arrested, because
the guardian of the city's peace was not
sure that they were to blame.
Among the novelties introduced since
my last letter are the two-wheeled ve-
locipede, or bicycle, and professor of
the Art of Cooking" The first is a
novel vehicle, with its two wheels on a
line 'wthAeac othertandem, as it were,
and is propelled BY means of foot -crraanks
attached to the forward wheel. The ri
der sits in saddle on the bar or rod
connecting the wheels, works with his
feet just as if he were walking, and
steers by means of simple apparatus
which serves, also as. -a.balance. pols.-