Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-19
FROM NEW YORK.
correspondence of the Ohio statesm.n.l

New YoRK. Aug. Is, 1868.
Some one, styling herself" An American
Woman" has written fiery, eloquent let.
ter to the Tribune, denouneing those who
have heaped ycensure and ridicule on Mrs.4
Abraham iBinceln, Adeclaring: "More
criminal than the assassin who took from
her the husband of her youth are the men
who have reviled her, and not man in the
nation has come forward to denounce the
cowardly and gross attacks on this defense
less woman. Men of America. where is
your chivalry? They have
entered the sanctuary of her private life,
and degraded her in the presence OF her
children.s and not voice cry shame! |!
Gradually sinking under the many trials,
: her physician ordered her to go to Europe
for the benefit of the trip and change of
o scene, and it required all her strength to
rally sufficiently to do so. Again, the
Washington Star, unproyoked, heaps upon
8 her coarse abuse 1t is too much. She
sank under thess repeated trials, aud was
too ill to sail" The editor, in reply, after
alluding to Mrs. Lincoln's fault in appear
ing before the public In connection with
dresses, &C., declares belief "that her
mind was injuriously affected by the muf-
der of her husband. and that much which
has given pain to the American people Is
justly attributable to this circumstance"
If this last be really true the American
people will certainly be chivalrous enough
to desist from ridiculing. or denouncing this
& ,,oor eorrou-etr;oLan ,,,o,,aar Tbis rayaL
. lation would, If possible, make the whole
matter doubly heart-aching business.
We have had quite bad scare with the
cattle plague, but the excitement is rapidly
dying, the steps taken by the Board OF
? Health and by the Governors of New York
and New Jersey being relied upon to pre-
vent the spread of the disease and the sale
of diseased meats within our markets. The
scare will probably have the good effect OF
causing increased vigilance in the inspec-
tion of food, and of insuring humane
treatment of cattle in their long Journeys
from the West. For the past few days
large numbers of people here have refused
to eat beef on account of the fear of devour-
ing portion of the cattle plague.
b. There is always one scare or another
about the things which minister to our eat
ing and drinking and smoking propensi-
ties. Now one thing and now another
Just now, with many, it is tobacco. Some
OF our folks who do so love pipe or a
q cigar, have discovered that our enterpris-
ing small boys who so industriously gather
the rejected ends OF cigars, do not always
rvsvyn cnlxy 10 fl,n I,,1,. -
smoking them, but rather thrifty in their
young days, sell their accumulated stock of
''stumps" to small manufacturers, by whom
they are reconstructed into /" fancy" to
bacco. Isn't this terrible thing to con-
template? The peculiar flavor of some to-
bacco is now accounted for. 1t reminds US
of Mark Twain's travels in Italy. He says:
do 1t on any account. 1t makes me shud-
der to think what 1t is made of. You can
not throw an old cigar STUB 'down any,
where, but some seedy rascal will pounce
upon it on the instant. - *oOne
of these infamous stub-hunters followed us
all over the park, last night, and we never
got smoke that was worth cent. We were
before the cigar was half gone, because
he looked so viciously anxious. He regard
ed us as his non-legitimate prey by right
of discovery, think, because he drove of
several other professionals who wanted to
take stock in us.'aq Twain thinks this re-
jeeted tobacco gets into the market again.
Mr.. Patrick H Jones, Clerk of the Court
of Appeals, appointed by Gov. Fenton
Register of the City of New York, vice
Gen. Halpine, deceased. yesterday qualified
in the requisite oath of office. 1t is UNDER
stood that the fees and emoluments accru-
ing from the present time until the 1st of
January next, shall be paid to the widow
of Gen. Halpine.1 FiiH 10 - .1'- ti.i ..i Z
The railway share market was demoral-
lied yesterday by break in Erie, which
opened at 5711ss, sold at 5lA, and closed at
5211s. 1t is declared that this break was not
unexpected, as the bulk of the stock is upon
the street, and the present management
has no further need of it; three-quarters of
the stock being in their name, it is claimed
that nothing can interfere with their cleo
tion in October. The most damaging state
ments are published in this city against the
management of this road. The Tribune
declares inevitable an entire extinction of
the common stock and a heavy deprecia-
tion in the value of the preferred. 1t says:
"The Atlantic Mail passed out of existence
.entailing loss of s3,O0O0OO; the depre-
citation of Pacific Mail took $lO,OOO,OOO; the
decline from Express stocks fully $l5.-
100000 from the street, and all within fif-
teen months. The Erie is yet to take $780,
100000 more--all of which is as much lost
as though the money had burned up.'
Bad enough to be true, if one-tenth of this