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GossIPY LETrER-soME POLITICS AND LIT
TIE BESEyOLENCE. /
CINCINNATI, OHIO, September 90, 1879.
Editors Dispatch: Your correspondent
has TO offer as an excuse for this communi-
cation bis knowledge OF the fact that you
are ever ready, and willing, to give your
readers all the news that can possibly be
had, hence venture this intrusion on your
columns. ...,,r .l,... .-...,.... 49,
/ am in Cincinnati. Perhaps your gram
matcal critic will object TO the above, and
say that it is incorrect OF doubtful Well,
il he do, I will only say ''many men OF
many mindS,' sc. Yet am actually living
and breathing here. Ali Of which is not
correct, but grammaticaliy right. ,n.
This is wonderful city, especially when
we know that there are many men living
to-day who knew it when it had not as
many houses as Ashland, in Hanover
county, has now, and there are those
in Cincinnati who claim for it popu-
laton OF about three hundred thousand.
just think OF it. In less than half GEN.
tury city springing up in what once be-
longed TO the State OF Virginia with a
population OF over quarter OF a.milion.
1 presume that this city was named after
that great Roman patriot who did so much
for his country; and let me assure your
readers that il they only knew the number
OF patriots-outspoken and fearleSs-who
now claim Cincinnati as their home. they
would agree with me and concede the pro-
priety Of such name. lit was named for
the Society Of the Cincinnati Editors Dis
pGtch.] Almost every man you meet IS
patriot-at least he entertalns you about has
country. and processes the deepest soliciiude
for his State, especially at this time. You
will find these unselfsh O. men in the
ranks Of the Republicans as well as in
the phalanXes OF the Democrats, and
YOU will find them more earnest per-
haps in the lines Of the Greenbackers.
Indeed. you will be sure to meet them
everywherc-the hotels are full of them.
They discuss the political situation at all
times and in all places-in the streets, in the
| houses, on the trains, on the steamboats,, and
even on the hill-tops. The world in Ohio
| is being certainly enlightened on the rights
and Driviteges Of the dear people. TO say
that strenuous efforts are being made on
both sides would not be saying half enough.
The Greenbackcrs have not fully decided as
to what their course shall be in the fight;
they do not love the Fosterites, and they say
w ~
they are not to be bought-not at least when
the bargain is made public before fully con-
summated; hence these patriots are indig-
nant. and have taken to painting, and yet
they fear and trembe for the futurc of their
beautiful Ohio, for they assert boldly that it
is not safe to entrust the government OF the
State in the hands Of either Ewing or FoS-
ter.
As far as can Judge the political horo-
scope is at a stand-Still, and very difficult to
forecast with any degree OF certainty, as
there is no telling what an hour may bring
forth. At both headquarters in this city
news is coming in every hour, and from
the interviews your correspondent has had
with those who manage these places-the
machinc-men-he is forced TO say, drawing
his conclusion. however, from their state
men,S, that both are bound to lrin. This,
you say, and very naturally too, is impos-
sible, as TWO cannot win in the same race.
But there can be tie. Now, will there be
tie in this case? From other interviews
had with prominent men outside of the
machine, ] think can answer, and do so
satisfactorily 10 myself at least. 1t is this:
| have come TO the conclusion that Foster
will be Governor and the majority of his
| ticket elected; but the State Legislature
will be pretty evenly divided, and the ad-
vantage on the side OF the Democrats. I
| have reached the above conclusion from
| what could gather from parties who view
| the situation calmly and with unbiased
minds. General Ewing's friends are very
( enthusiastic; much more so than Charlie
| Fosters, who is familarly styled Charlie
By his friends, Ewing being called by lis
Old Tom. .- ....
The booms raised by the army of stump
speakers now advocating Republican priuci-
pies, and proclaiming in every section OF
the State that salvation and prosperity de-
pend solely on the success OF their cause,
is diving out somewhat, and the Democrats,
by Herculean efforts, baye gotten the hur-
rQh on their side, and the home.stretch be-
tween the two candidates promises to be
exciting in the extreme. II the old war
horse can only hold out his chances are
good; but the Republicans say he is broken
winded, and is sure to be beaten on the
home-stretch by the more fleel-footed Char
lie, who, being well, is just now being fed
on fresh raw eggs, thus endeayoring to
give him plenty OF wind. A few more
weeks and the most exciting political con-
test that ever took place in Ohio will be
closed; and il your correspondent is not
much deceived the result will justify the
above predictions.
Hon. A. NJ. Kelley and John NJ. Higgins,
Esq, were here to-day. They have gone
TO attend the ]. c. z. q. Convention OF the
United States, which meets tomorrow at
Dayton. Archbishop Purcell will deliver
the opening sermon to the delegates, and
OF Catholics from this city and
the neighboripg towns will be there to well
come them. Indeed, grand time is an
icipated. ..g,.t ...s r.
4 SUCCESSFUL RUNAWAY MATCH.-John
!, b, aged twenty, and Ellen Ferris, aged
~. zen, u runaway couple from Philadel-
a.. were married on Tuesday on board
q 10 -ry-haat of the New jersey Central |
ilroao while on its passage to New York.