Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-08
FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondents of the Ohio Statesman :,

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NEW York, February 5, 1868.
The political horizon is moderately clear
in this city of Gotham. The trouble be-
tween young DR.. Syng and the authorities
of his church is still a topic of converse
tion in all religious circles. Mr.. Blanchard
lectured last Sunday afternoon to a fine
audience on Fifth avenue, and laid down
platform very nearly the same as that on
which Thomas Paine stood; and Mr.. Froth-
ingbam in letter to the Tom Paine So
ciety, speaks in very high terms of that
pioneer of Free Thought.
| For about a week the sleighing in and
around New York has been delightful, and
the skating, all that could be desired. The
Kinks are doing fine business. On Some
of these, medals (Gold ones, think of that
have been given for first-class skating; and
Morris, of Jersey City. has actually carried
the prize business so far as to give leather
medal to the worst skater on this beautiful
pond.
We are now blessed with a new letter
carrier system by which our. drop letters
are collected and delivered several times 8
daylight down town, nine up town.
The failures in this city for the week end
ing last Saturday night were but ten, O
whicn two were of wholesale houses whose
liabilities were only about 100000.
Since the disclosures in the ship ''Leib-
zic" affair, and the publication of an alb.
stract of the German Society's report, there
has been much feeling expressed here
among the Germans in regard to the treat
ment rec eived by emigrants on the Ham-
burg packets. Philip Bissinger, fine.
whole-souled gentleman, tor some years
President OF that society, has been again
elected, and is now preparing an important
emigrant bill to be presented to Congress.
This bill provides for the securing Of cer-
tain privileges to passengers which they
have never yet enjoyed, and will tend, If
passed, to protect that unfortunate class,
emigrant passengers, from the barbarous
treatment of ship owners and ship officers.
Next in order will come movement to
change the existing order of things on the
railroads leading from New York to the
West, whose emigrant passengers suffer al
most as much as they do on the ocean voy-
age.
The International Copyright Association
held meeting few nights ago, to con-
slider the practicability of applying for a
law for the protection of English authors
in the United States. The passage of such
law, they think, will influence the action
of the British Parliament, and induce them
to protect American authors in Great
Britain. In opposition to this move comes
carefully prepared pamphlet, by Henry
C. Carey. OF Philadelphia, in which the
veteran political economist argues strongly
in favor of the free trade in literature. The
bill now in Congress will not cover the de-
mands of the New York publishers who
favor an international copyright law, but
will probably be amended this week.
The theaters are thriving. Niblo's pre-
sents the White Fawn nightly to crowded
houses. Lotta is doing "Little Nell'' at
the Broadway; Wallack's is flourishing as
usual; the Mintrels sing and dance and
play burlesques without any sign of giving
over; and the circus, a monopoly, and Bar
NUNS, another monopoly, are making for
tunes for their proprietors. We have much
music this winter at the Academy and at
Steinway's, generally of the very best.
Several readers are before the public since
Dickens departure, but have not drawn
very wei, although Vandenhoff, Eytinges
and one or two others, are really superior
to the great Englishman as elocutionists.
The ladies are all ordering Celadon
dresses and coral jewelry. Celedon is a
dull sea-grean-a mixture of pea green
and orange color-something like the tint
of brown-kitten's eye in a coal cellar, or
the lamps in a Bleecker street car after
twelve o'clock. 1t is a pretty color for
those who like it, and as Miss McFlimsey,
of Madison square, affects it, it must, per-
force, become popular.
ISLANDERS Against Mr.. Pendlet0n.
Believing that Mr.. PENDLEToN will be
the Democratic nominee for President, and
believing, furthermore, that his election
will follow his nominations. Republican
journals are already busying themselves
in coming ISLANDERS against him. The Neu
York Tribune is exceedingly industrious in
this disreputable business. The Neo York
World makes this exposure of the Tribune !
work:
The Tribune retracts one calumny against /
Mr.. PendletOn Only to perpetrate another. |
1t says: "Mr. Pendleton was in Congress
when all our war loans were authorized |
though we believe he never voted for one
of them. The Tribune lies under great /
mistake on this point as it made in relation
to the proposed issue of two billions of |
grecnbacks. When it found that it was so !
in error in respect to the one,
it ought to have been more cautious in re-
spect to the other. 1t is not fair treatment 7
of public man to fling out charges against /
him at random.
We are prepared to show from the record
that the new accusation is as baseless as the
first. We wish to ask the Tribune it it will
consent to reprint say third of a column |
of documentary matter in refutation of its
charge against Mr.. Pendleton, if we will
save it the trouble of search, and enable
it to verify our citations by giving the
are to he found. We think it owes this re-
pararion to statesman it has injured but
its ethical standard may be different from
ours and it must be its own judge of its
moral obligations.
We will withdraw this request and econ
omize the Tribune's space, if it will print
the following passage from speech of Mr..
Pendleton, and signify its belief that the
statement therein made is true. To his
on .he 10th of October, 1852,
Mr.. Pendleton said that 'he had uoted for
the men and money asked for by tn: Govern
naent. He aoould continue to do so.''
The Tribune has more than once praised I
Mr.. Pendleton, in no stinted terms, as a
gentleman. Veracity being an indispensa-
Pile ingredient in the character of gentle
man, the Tribune is bound to accept Mr..
statement unless it can discred-
it it by evidence. 1t as much belongs to
the character of gentleman to retract an
unjust aspersion as TO speak the truth as
we hope the Tribune will exemplify in the
present case.