New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-02
Hayes at Home.

George Alfred Townsend writes the fol.
lowing from Columbus, Ohio, to the New
| York Graphic:
Columbus, the official home of q probable
President of the United States. is one of the
| large secondary cities of the West, like In.
| dianapOlis, Des Moines and Springfield. all
OF which have grown heartily despite legis.
lative ard legal society.
1t is town of broad streets, well paved.
| with much shade, green places. high bust.
ness blocks, large Union depot. avoided
by tunneled streets, mill power, factories.
breweries and public institutions. 1t is a
rich society in private and banking capital,
and will compare in enterprise with apy
city of its class. Two railroads are no "
going forward by Columbus energy, one to
Toledo, another to Portsmouth. Abont
10000 people reside in the place; it is the
seat Of all the politics Of Ohio, and there
reside both Wykoff and Thompson. the Re.
spective chairmen of thu State political
committees. TIE leading hotel is tolerabIv
clean, and is called the Neil House. The
landscape is bounded by large turreted and
columned asylums, etc.
In the middle of the town, greenly en-
yironed and DOW growing less sharp and
pare behind the strong arising trunks and
State Capitol edifce in the Union draws the
facade Of its narrow windows, short an
pended portico of Doric columns, and Queer
fiat drum of an unborn DOME
The State Capitol is an edifice of some
beauty, more nassiveness and eize. and of
spacious accommodations. NJ other State
capitol yet achieved expresses more impress.
slvely the ldea OF strong sovereignty, un-
less 1t be South Carolina, or perhaps IIiinoi.
There are entrances on the four sides Of
this oblong mass, and their aisles cross at a
rotunda whose dOmed roof expresses what
the drum exteriorly fails to denote. In this
rotunds is we'll executed memorial to the
dead of the late war; Grant, Sherman. and
Sheridan, all Ohioans, are carved in hioh
relief, receiving Lees sword, and LincoIn's
Dust Is above. suppose the portraits mean
large painting placed here beside other
pieces Of portrait and statuary in fair tasta
In this building are the courts where
) udge Thurman, Judge Chase, Judoe NJ.
Lean, f. NJ. Stanton and others sat or nroo-
ticed. 1t lie emphatically to this era wha+
the Richmond State House was to the first
era in our politics, for Ohio is.at nresant
me balance weight between East and West
North and South. A State which oave -,
one short span the majority of the cIeariu
distinguished officers Of the war. the W.
two Chief Justices and narha~a
two Presidents, the leading Democro,;o
Senator and the heads of the two rni;n~
committees In Congress may well exclaim:
# IT. Thou art not East thou art not West,
And loyal heart, Ohio" e"ss
The Republican candidate for President
las Hawking room to his Office. where aii
ne States Governors are painted. oener.
NY OF the size Of life and in their times.
lhey begin with General St. Clair and
1 tnrGs ana follow through many plain,
1uruy Eogileh names until we come to the
lates of Chase, Brough, Tod, Denison. Cox.
iayes, Noyee, Allen and the civil war pal,
Ky. 10 be in this list strived ValIandic.
,am long, and Pendletou and Thurman.
,eople used to receive for an answer when
aey asked Tod why he did not spell his
anne Todd, like Mrs. Lincoln's family:
nth. 'po'' "oo
ONO does not produce. or, PRODUCING.
oes nos favor politicians Of the kichelien
lyle, Ike Governor Chase. He kept the