Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-11

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Revolution still going On-Gen-
| eral Quietude of The City-The
Ansasetaesfs9A Codes Harvest
for the Show PeOple-NIisceI-I
laneous.
/ Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
New YORK, Nov. 6, 1868.
IF there ever was such thing as
methodic storm, we .exempliGed the fact
on the faithful third of the month
Kennedy-the secondhand magnate
of the Metropolitan Police-tried very
hard to create riot, by his infamous
order to take violators of the election
laws" before United States Commits
sioner, instead of PoliceSJ Judgs but
even that insult could not Yoment a fight,
SO excellently organized were the Demo-
cratic forces in this city.
Acton and Kennedy would very well
have liked an excuse to shut up the
polls in the fourth and sixth wards, thus
Shutting off twenty-five thousand Demo
cratic votes, which would almost have
surrendered the State to Radicalism-
but it could not be done, and the glo-
rious result for Democracy you are al
ready aware of.
Greeley, not content with the present
Radical triumph throughout the Union
achieved, ,sas he knows, by the most
barefaced political cheating on the part
of the Radicals that was ever attempted
at the polls-is beginning to howl about
l"fraudulent Democratic votes" his usual
dodg ge, and made aspeech at the Union
League Club last night, recommending
that Hofman's election be contested by
Griswold. But he ought to have brains
enough to know that it cannot be done.
Hoffman is Governor of this State be-
cause the people loved and wanted him
Just for that purpose, and the minority
may "contest" till doom's day without
effecting any change in the popular will.
| AS a general thing, think weghays
made good fight, and this is thesopin-
ion of most of our Democratic leaders.
In opposition to the largest system of
wholesale fraud that was ever perpetrat-
ed on free people so called ] We. have
torn entire States from the grasp'of the
enemy, which they calculated to secure
to themselves; we have made Legisla-
lures ours which were, heretofore, in the
hands of the Phillistines; we have as
serted our protest against oppression and
villainy before the world.
| The Revolution" of Frank Blair
was no myth. 1t has been nobly inaug-
urated. We1may wait for another four
years to see its fulfllment, but it win be
none the less carried through. s1slsA
The ball has been set rolling, and OBJ.
struct it as you may, it is rolling down
hill.
| Greeley may howl; Raymond snivel;
Bennett eat dirt and boast of his incon-
sistency; and the World play traitor to
the party that made it worth cent;
but the ball has been set rolling, and a
is rolling do,on hill.
| The general quietade of the city
during election was something remark
able, but we have kept it up ever since
| In all sorts of fashionable amuse-
ments we are doing. a smashing bust:
ness, "tthoagh in such1a pleasant matter.
of.fact way as to make very little com
motion.
The theaters are all doing splendidly
or nearly all.
They say we are deterioating in oul
i dramatic tastes-that we have forgotten
Shakespeare and the other "legitimat
lists" in our admiration for the ballet and
the spectacular. But the continued sue
cess of Forrest at Niblo's is a comment
on the other side of the question.
saw him play "Othello" the other night
He surpassed himself, and in the fna
scene shone forth with real greatness
The greatest tribute to his genius wal
that his. audience numbered throngs o
our most refined and critical theater
goers.
Florence is doing the "Ticket-of
Leave Man" at the Broadway. 1t wa
once-in the old Winter Garden days
a good card, but it is now stale, and the
public seem to know it.
They have again brought out al;
Belle Helene at Pixies Opera House
to great audiences-there is no resisting
Tostee; and "Genevieve de Braban" i!
having a good run at the French Thea
ter. But it is apparent that this styl
Iof performance has given the American
people aEsurfeit, and Ispredict that tn
liday Of the opera bonffe is we'll mig
over in America.
The Bowery establishment and negr
minstrel halls are understood to be dc
ling well with their usual class of GU
: tomers-nearly one-half of whom al
strangers in the city.
There are very few items of misce
laneous information which would be
any interest to your paper.
Big Judge Connolly is very happ
over the election.
. Hoffman is in high spirits-Greele
isn't.
Tweed, Sweeney 0akeyFHalb sets a.
are well satisfied. 4 CILx ~
. The Metropolitan Fire Departmel
will parade tomorrow and be receive
by Gov. Fenton.
A wealthy individual, and moving
the best circles, named William w. Ke
; nedy, was yesterday sentenced b
Judge Bowling to the penitentiary f
2 1.-TWO months, and to pay fine of fift
dollars, for assaulting Judge Alker,
: 1.-THE Marine Court, in a street car. Ke
{ nedy pleaded guilty and stated his pos
. tion in society as an excuse; but Dem
. cratic Judges do not believe in priv
legged classes, and Bowling gave him IL
full extent of the law.
I COMPLIMENT NTHE SPoT.-D'Orsa
! in remarking on . beauty-speck( on tt
: cheek of Lady Southampton, compare
: it to a gem on rose-leaf. "The cor