Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-20
FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman
New YoRK, May 16, 1856


A great many arbitrary acts are commit
ted in this city by private individuals. but
more particularly by corporations, and
none appear to make more free use of that
privilege or the want of organization in
our municipal institutions than the horse
car companies. Last Sunday night the Sd
Avenue Railroad Company had new track
built in front of the City Hall to enable
their cars to turn round at distance of
300 yards this side of the prescribed turn
ing point, thus not only making the route
shorter one but also creating much in
convenience to the large number of COL
veyances, which gather at that spot from
all directions. 1t seems, however, that
somebody interfered with the practical ex-
ecution of the plan, for the track has never
been used and l believe has been removed
again.
Your readers have no doubt heard great
deal of those famous, or rather infamous,
gift enterprises which our city is infested
with. Many young man from the coun-
try has been ''taken in'' by those swind-
ling concerns, but the press has finally
succeeded in calling the attention of the
public to that wholesale robbery, and of
compelling the city authorities to adopt
energetic measures for their speedy sup
preston. The operations of one OF these
concerns have just come to light, and the
man suspected to be at the head or it has
started on an involuntary journey to Bpf-
falo, in company with a detective, for the
better investigation of the various business
transactions which he has had with parties
of that city. The individual in question
is well known to the press for being the
publisher of Kelly's Weekly an illustrated
paper which, believe, had larger num-
Der of subscribers than new papers can
generally boast of. We must hope that
this will be the beginning of descent on
all fraudulent enterprises of that descrip-
tion. A man who, as Kelly appears to have
done, swindles a number of poor crippled
soldiers and sailors out of their little mon
ey, deserves to enjoy the beauties of small
cell, with plenty OF time to think over his
Improbable and wicked course of action.
We live in fast age and in fast coun-
try; no wonder, therefore, that anything
fast strikes the attention of our public
Those gilt enterprises marched little too
fast; that's why they were stopped or are
being stopped by the community. 1t is a
wonder, however, that the fast course of
those two steamers which have lately start
ed for Liverpool, on a race, were not stop
ped in their fast course by the elements,
either fire or water, or both combined.
The fact of their having raced is of course
not acknowledged by the captains and Off
GERS of either vessel, but it is nevertheless
sufficiently known and generally talked
about. The City of Paris proved to be the
fastest of the two, having made the trip in
nine days and thirteen hours, while it took
the Cubs ten days and ten hours to reach
her destination. There is great deal of
ocean travelling this spring again; in fact,
more so than last year. in spite of the at
traction which the Paris exhibition then
offered to the curious, the fashionable, the
rich, the pleasure seeker and the business
man. The prospects, not of lasting peace
in Europe, but at least a peace lasting as
long as the travelling season lasts, will in
duce man of leisure to visit the
Alps, the Eternal City, the beautiful seem
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osities and works of art in the French cap
ital.
Immigration to this country is likewise
quite brisk, the arrivals in one day this
week having amounted to almost $500
emigrants. This is what may be called a
pretty good days work, and shows what
free institutions can do for a country COM
pared with the despotism of Europe.
We are building in this city day and
night almost, and new palaces spring up
as if by enchantment in every part of the
city. The erection of warehouses, thea
tres, private buildings, and tenement
houses, etc., is contracted for, and as you
walk through the streets on blowy day.
you will be strongly tempted to call for a
pair of goggles at the nearest opticians for
fear OF loosing your eyesight among the
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The Nicolson pavement begins to be
much in favor, and several streets in the
lower part of the town are in course of be-
ing metamorphosed and provided with
that latest of street improvements. 1t will
indeed be quite an improvement, for we
can in this metropolis boast of streets
where man runs good chance of break
ing his neck, if he has the misfortune o
passing through them at night, without
having a local knowledge of the various
Instructions in the way of the wanderer.
Turning finally our attention to a rather
more cheerful topic of conversation, we
find that the success of the late musical
festival in Boston has spurred the New
Workers to follow the example of the SIS
ter city. Next week we are going to have
a series of concerts and oratories in Stein
way Hall, which, to Judge of the artists en-
gagged in the enterprise, promise to out
shine everything of the kind ever produced
in this city. Connoisseurs of music who
have witnessed the Boston festival, say that
we cannot do as well here for want of ar.
fists, good choruses and competent con.
ductors. Perhaps we may not this year.
but there is no reason why, in this metrop-
oils, the interest of the public in good mu-
sic should not be awakened and the taste
for classical performances cultivated to the
same degree as in the 'modern Athens
which, it is true, has an estab lished reputa.
ton for appreciating better than we dc
anything i'm the way of fine arts. l am in
clined to believe, however, that New York
will make good effort next week towards
acquiring an honorable name, both in re-
gard to musical talent and in an apprecia-
tive audience.