Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-26
FROM NEW YORK.
lcorrsspondenos of the Ohio Statesman

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New YORK, May %, 1868.
The proverb, "better late than never"
suggests itselfto the mind of every person
who has watched the swindling transact
tions of the gift enterprises and establish
ments of like character. For months, nay
years, these concerns have carried on their
business on large scale, without the au-
thorities, informed by the press, taking the
trouble of interfering and putting stop
to what had more and more degenerated
into public nuisance. More than week
ago A. A. Kelley was arrested and given
an opportunity of making the acquaint-
ance of the Buffalo jail. His arrest ap-
pears to have inaugurated general search
after characters of like description, for
the papers announce the injunction laid on
the French bogus lottery establishment of
Smith & Co., at Covington, KY, the par
ties who have run the concerns having
taken French leave and run away from the
arm of the law. All that lottery swindle
ought to be done away with, and so should
many other nuisances. The majority of
the sensation papers and dirty weeklies,
for instance, are still fiourishing, in spite
of our large dailies making war against
them and denouncing them whenever an
opportunity presents.
In regard to the performance at Niblo's
Garden, the Herald has become very virtu-
Gus of late, perhaps because the proprietors
OF that establishment do not wish to pay
the Herald for the "puffs'' which it is 9TH
erwise ready to publish for cash. The fact
OF the matter is, that nothing Objectionable
whatever can be found in the present per-
formances of the "White Fawn;" the music,
In the first place, is excellent, many mem
bers of the orchestra being first class artists,
and we have not had for many a year as
good an orchestra for performances of that
description as the one at Niblo's. AS for
the morality of the plot, it stands far above
that much boasted of Belle Helene and the
Grand Duchies. The ballet is what NAV
be seen in the theaters of every large city
of Europe, and no fault can certainly be
found with the striking and graceful exc
cution of the sailors dance and the drill of
the female soldiers dressed in beautiful
uniforms and presenting striking and
pleasant appearance.
The musical festival at Steinway Hall
deserves honorable mention, and promises
to be success in pecuniary point of view.
The Harmonic Society, once SO well and
favorably known, is no longer what
it used to be, and we may as well
acknowledge the fact, that besides the
German society, Liederkranz, there is no
well drilled large chorus in this city. Ger
many excels in good musicians and if the
rumors circulating in the musical world
are true, we will have at the end of the
summer season, such an assembly of prom
inentartists from Europe, as has never yet
been witnessed on this side of the Atlantic.
Travelling is easy nowadays, and even in
Europe, trip to the United States is not
more thought OF than journey from Eng
land to Italy. Emigration continues to be
very brisk; it is fact well worth noticing
that in the month of April, 16,96S passen-
gers have arrived ON board of AZ steamers
from Europe, while 25 sailing vessels have
only brought 531 passengers. Travelling
by sailing vessels between here and Eu-
rope evidently gets to be among the thing
that were, nor it is to be wondered at; for
the expenses are not much below those of
voyage by steamer, and the latter decid-
edly preferable for speed and comfort.
Those who take an interest in sports,
will be surprised to hear that Irving Miles,
one of the pedestrians who were to walk
1000 miles in 100 hours in a billiard room
in Chatham street, shot his trainer yester-
day, inflicting severe pistol wound, and
was taken to the station house. He states
that he had been unable to get up, at the
appointed hour for continuing his walk,
and that he had fired the revolver in order
to wake his trainer who was asleep in an
other part of the room. It is not known
whether his statements deserve any credit.
In the mean time, the race is indefinitely
postponed