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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
Long-Eared Witnesses !

At the late Common Pleas in Seneca county,
a trial for petty larceny disclosed pair of the
longest and sharpest eared witnesses ever on
the stand. David Hays and Martin Hays were
charged with stealing wheat from Henry Ston-
er, on the evening of the Goth of September
last Martin Hays was put on trial, and one
John Bolz and one Henry Slippers, brothers in
law, appeared as prosecuting witnesses, and tes-
titled that on the above mentioned night they
had seen the above parties going in direction Of
Stoner's farm, that they returned each having a
BAG on his shoulder, that as they passed by wit
nesses, who were stationed IN a blacksmith
shop by the road side, THEY HEARD WHEAT RAT
TIE IN THE BAGS. Boltz could not be mistaken,
he could tell THE RATTLE of wheat from barley
when in a bag, at the distance of ten PAGES
Witnesses tracked them to the bars of StOner's
barn, woke up StOner who was sure he had
lost three or four bushels of wheat from a pile
containing THREE HUNDRED BUsHEL.
Defendants admitted passing down the road,
passed witnesses premises and passed the
barn of StOner, that they returned with bags on
their shoulders, but proved that they had gone
to one Wagoner's Iew house, filled their bags
with shavings and returned. Dennis Blue,
Sen, man of unimpeachable character, testi-
fed to being present on return of Defendants
and seeing them empty shavings from their
bags. Jury out about five minutes, returned a
verdict of mot guilty." and Martin was liberat-
ed with the privilege of getting shavings when
ever he sees fit.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
Early Winter in Italy

The Asia brings intelligence that winter set
in early and with unusual severity in Italy
The first week in November brought a snow
storm, which blocked the road north Of Rome,
ened to impede the navigation of the Tiber-it
is said to have done so in the year S57. A
sirocco, which lasted for a week, ended the fri
gid term
On the 10th ut there was two feet of snow
in the Abruzze, and the mountains about Naples
were covered with snow. 1t lay so deep on the
cone of Vesuvius as far down as the Observa-
tory, that ascension was impossible. The old
est inhabitant had not even heard of SO early
Winter
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
The Manderer Nerroes.

We tlnd the following communication in the
last Edgefeld (S.C.) Ad1ertiser
Mr.. EDITOR Please insert this as an au-
thorized announcement that the cargo of slaves.
brought by the Wanderer from Africa, have
been landed in Edgefeld District and that most
of them are now within its confines,
This act has been done by a combination of
many of the first families in Georgia and South
Carolina, from purely patriotic motives
They ask for suspension of public opinion
until their motives can be explained and their
arguments heard in defense of it, to which end
| write this note, requesting to be informed if
you will give me place in your columns for
the purpose above indicated.
By information here from Augusta, Georgia.
and its vicinity, learn there is great anxiety
in that region concerning the Africans brought
there by the yacht Wanderer, or by the vessel
of which she was the pioneer. These Africans
are within few miles of Augusta, and, as far
as possible, kept secreted. Over 200 were tax
en- up the Savannah River The whole num-
Der imported is about 400 Those not taken
up to the neighboIhood of Augusta were land
ed in other parts of Georgia. So unpopular
is the movement to introduce African slaves
that but one out of the number had been sold,
and that was ''lkely" boy, II or Is years
old, TO a eolored barber in Augusta. While
conservative planters and people of respectable
position are averse to buying those Africans.
men of their own race and ''white niggers" are
ready to buy them.-Wash Cor. ~ Y Herald
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
st Clair Flats App cOpriatiOn

The bill pushed through the Senate at So
early day by Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, ap-
prIpriates S54, 600 for the completion of the
improvement in the harbor of Detroit, and for
deepening and widening the channel through
the st. Clair Flats Senator Stuart, of Michi-
gan, found it convenient to be absent when the
vote was taken, for fear of offending the South,
with whom he has lately made friends again -
Both the bogus Senators from Indiana, voted
with the Southern Democrats against the bill to
improve the highway of the Lakes The Wash
ington correspondent of the Detroit Tribune
writes
The bill goes to the Honse where every effort
will be made by your representatives to secure
its enactment into law. This aid to the navi-
CATION of the great lakes will be felt from the
st. Lawrence to the farthest shores of Superior
and Michigan, and will do much to build up the
commerce of our American Mediterranean seas.
Nothing now can defeat it but the ineorrigible
hostility of the Locofoeo party TO any kind of
internal improvements north of the line of the
Potomac. The only appropriations made since
the sectional policy of 1854 was adopted, have
been for the improvement of the Cape Fear and
Savannah rivers, and in those cases upon the
transparent pretext that the impediments were
placed there by the British We shall see.
however, whether they nOlo dare to set them.
selves in opposition to the whole northwest and
its interests.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
PrOperty and Taxa,ion

From a table in the State Journal, from tht
office of Auditor of the State, we learn thai
the value of real estate in Ohio, in 1858, is SET
down $500, O,2s5, ,947. The value of the person
al property is estimated at $3.50, ,5I4, ,Os4-mak
ing their aggregate value Ss4O, ,SOO,O3 The
total amount of State taxes for the year is 81.
s7s, l22 Is The total taxes for all purposes
amount to S9,756,65O 80.
The increase in the value of real estate over
that of last year is SS,665, ,2G5 The decrease
in the value of personal property below that Of
1857, is SI3, ,279, ,SI3-leavng still in the aqgre-
gate total of s. ,6I4, ,54S The amount of the
State taxes to be raised this year exceeds that
of last S36S, ,727 a. There is still greater
decrease in the value of personal property by
taking the estimates of 1855 and 1856, and it is
in great measure attributable to the fact that
bank property, illegally placed on the list in those
years, is omitted now. The decrease from 1857
has nothing, however, to do with this, as such
property was not entered on the duplicate of
1857.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
Dignity of n MexIcnm ePresident. ,,

! The Mexican correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin relates the following incident:
a very laughabIe circumstance occurred here
on Independence Day, which will give you some
idea of the social standing of the present Presi-
dent of Mexico, Don Felix Zuoaga. The pro-
cession had marched into the AIemeda, and the
President and his Ministers had taken seats un-
der canopy arranged for their reception, when
person walked up and threw pack of cards
in Zuloaga's face This circumstance created
litter, great even among the members of the
Cabinet, Tor many of them, as well as the spec
tators, had played at the same table where Zu.
lOaga had acted as a croupier in former times
Zuloaga tried 10 laugh himself, bat it was /" no
60" Different assertions were at once made
as to the cause of this act. Some said the per-
son who threw the cards had unfairly lost at
play while Zuloaga was dealing the cards; 9TH
ers, that it was only joke to remind him of
old times The best remarks have heard on
the subject were made by an old woman. who.
when told of the circumstance, expressed dis
belief. Her informant urged veracity but the
old woman shook her head, and said: 90 1t is
quite impossible any one could have been so
lmpollte." Her informant then said '' Why.
saw the cards with my own eyes" 'sThat NAV
be-" says the old woman, d" don't doubt about
the cards being there, but the poor man (ZuIoa-
ga) must have dropped them out of his hat by
accident ~
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
Cold Christmas on the Hudson

1t would seem that Arctic winter has shut
right down on the Hudson River instead OF
Hudson's Bay. The following paragraph from
the N. Y. Tribune of Dec. 2sth, has chilly as
pect in this region where there is no ice, no
freeze, and no sort of weather but rain and driz-
zlc, and no roads but the muddy bottomless.-
The first of January bids fair to find the Lakes
from Chicago to Buffalo as free of ice as in the
d"g-days.
The WEATHER AND Ice ON THE HUDsoN.-
Friday and Saturday were the coolest days this
season, the thermometer going down to zero
On Saturday morning the river was frozen over
at New-Hamburgh, and yesterday morning
persons crossed on the ice near West Point
The Hero is still at Four Mile Point, having
grounded on cake of ice several feet thick
Our reporter learns this fact from Mr.. Gaylord
fof Poughkeepsie. The wind blew perfect gale
N9Tly all last week, and the weather being cold,
lave quantity Office was formed in the river,
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
COtton in Liberia

The American portion of the population Of
Liberia, a,says the Journal of Commerce, have COM
menccd with much spirit, the cultivation of cot
ton, President Benson, in recent letter, says.
g There has been twenty times more cotton
planted by Amerieo-Liberians this year than
ever before, of both native and foreign seed, and
feel sanguine that its cultivation will increase
each succeeding yeare.' A half ton cf cotton
seed sent out by the Manchester (Eng.) Cotton
Supply Association has been planted extensively
The Association has also offered prizes for the
production of cotton, which Mr.. Benson thinks
will operate as a strong stimulus to its eultiva-
ton. A party of emigrants from Georgia sent
home lately sample of cotton of a species
which blossoms perPetually, and one of their
number asserts that good Sea Island cotton can
be grown in Liberia. The young Republic has
a most hopeful future.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
The OId soldiers, Pension Bill.


The bill granting pensions to soldiers of the
War of 1912, and certain Indian Wars, passed
the House of Representatives by a vote of I3O
yeas to 73 nays. 1t grants pensions to all who
served in the war of 1912 or any of the Indian
wars prior to that date, as long term as sixty
days, or who were ever engaged in any battle.
1t gives $50 per annum for service of sixty
and $50 perz-annnm for a service of six months,
and makes no distinction between officers and
private soldiers, as to the rate of pension The
bill makes the same provision for seamen and
marines in the naval service, as for the land
forces. In case the soldier has died, leaving a
widow, it gives her the same pension the hus
band would be entitled to, if living
1t has been stated that it would take some ten
or twelve millions to fill the bill in case it should
become law. Another calculation, said to
have been carefully made, places the sum at
only three millions. The fate of the bill is con-
sidered very doubtful in the Senate, the Demo
cratic majority not being willing to appropriate
money to pay ven mere pittance to old sol
diers so long as Cuba is tempting prize to be
bought begged, or stolen
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
Convention of AgricuIturists

A Convent On OF Agriculturists from different
sections of the country is to be held in Wash
ingtOn on the Sd of January, under the invita-
tion and auspices of the Commissioners Of the
Patent Office, with the concurrence of the Sec
retary Of the Interior The Convention is fol
the purpose of discussing such facts in practical
husbandTy as may come under the experience
and observation of the members, and of sug-
gesting means by which crops may be increased
improved in quality, and made more profitable
to the producer. The Department will allow
the delegates mileage of five cents to Wash
ington and back, with an additional sum of
twenty-five dollars to cover their hotel expenses.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30

American Railroad Iron.

The proclivity of the Democracy TO foreign
preferences in articles where American materia
and American labor are concerned in their pro
duction, is most extraordinary as well as fixed
The great contract Of furnishing pipes for the
Government Water Works erected for the ben
eft of the people of Washington City, was given
at first to foreigners, TO the marked slight Of
the great iron interests of Pennsylvania, and
the Administration was rebuked for this and
other shortcomings with will at the polls
The United States Senate has just developed
the old instincts on the subject of American
Railroad Iron. Mr. Foster, Of Connecticut,
when the Pacific Railroad bill was up, proposed
an amendment providing that the iron used in
the construction of the road should be of Amer
lean manufacture, and sustained his amendment
with sensible and cogent reasons. A discussion
followed, and the amendment was finally carried
by the following vote
YEAs-Nessrs. Allen, BigIer, Broderick,
Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Crttenden, Dixon,
Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Harlan, HOus-
ton, Kennedy, King, Seward, Simmons, Thomp-
son of Kentucky, Thompson of New Jersey,
Toombs, Trumbul, Wade, Wilson, and Wright
-25.
NAYs-Messrs. Bates Bright, Clay, Cling
man. Davis, Durkee, Fitch Fitzpatrick,
Green, Gwin, Hammond, Hunter, lversOn,
johnson of Tennessee, Jones, Mallory, Mason,
Polk, Reid, Rice, Sebastian, Stuart, and Ward
%
But one Opposition Senator, Mr.. Durkee, of
Wisconsin, voted against the amendment. Mr..
Bell and Mr. Cameron, who would have voted
for the amendment, were absent The great
majority of the Democrats in the Senate pre-
ferred the foreign iron for a great national
thoroughfare The fact is significant, and in
keeping with the established policy of the par
ty. This plank of the Democratic platform
was sound at Cincinnati, and will be at Charles
ton. An inferior article, if but imported, best
suits the Democratic Free Traders
During the discussion of Mr.. Fosters
amendment it was clearly shown by several
Senators, that the Railroad Iron imported from
foreign countries was generally far inferior to
that manufactured in this country, and that the
dangers of railway travel were greatly increased
by its inferiority. Many of the Railroad COM
panies in the United States have been badly
chiseled in the purchase Of what was supposed
to be cheap rails abroad, and we trust no Pacific
Railroad bill will ever find favor with an Amer
lean Congress, that does not contain the spirit
of the Senate amendment the Democracy in
that body voted SO generally to crush out. 1t
is high time that " encourage our own became
the National motto in the great staple manufsc
lures of the country.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
sererc Mealher on the Plains.

A company of seventeen men, who left Fort
Bridger on the Ist of November reached Ne
braska City Dec. 18th, after suffering terribly
from the weather on the Plains. All the men
were more or less frozen, and tive were nearly
frozen to death, their feet being about the color
of charcoal The snow portion of the way
was very deep, and badly dIifted The compa-
ny had to leave their wagons at Salt Creek,
where their mules gave out, swamped in the
snow
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30

~ Some people are ''far-sighted' and can't
seewhat happens under their noses. The Leader
makes statement in regard to the new steam
boat line, on the authority of the railway edi-
itor of the Cincinnati Commercial" not being
aware that the railway editor in question
scissOred the article from our columns without
giving credit-Herald
The Leader was fully aware, but made the
statement on the Authority of the railway edi-
tor of the Cincinnati Commercial to give it the
weight of reliable indorser.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
Hunting in the Northwest

The Indian paradise of the Hunter along the
Upper Mississippi and its tributaries has beer
taken possession 'of by parties of white MIN,
rods, and the Trempeleau Pioneer, published in
one of the most romantic and wild sections oi
country below st. Paul, states that party OF
hunters in one excursion of a week, brought
in as trophies bear, elk, "a lynx, beavers
3deer, minks, 4 otters, I6 fishers, 9 wildcats
wolves, and wild horses
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The Earth0uake in California

The earthquake at 81 minutes past one the
morning of Nov. Goth in San Francisco, Stock
ton, San Jose, &c, was pretty severe, and did
some damage TO buildings, especially at San
Jose. AT San Francisco it was the severest that
had ever been felt by the Oldest inhabitants. An
account says:
Men, women and children occupying brick
houses, as Col. Field of Illinois, used to say,
Broke for high timber" The dogs barked
aloud, and other animals were seen to give un-
mistakeable signs of fear and alarm, and, strange
to say, no serious damage was done. Several
new cracks were discovered the next day in
brick buildings, and some of the plastering fell
off
AT STOCKTON.
The windows of the houses first ratified as if
caused by rising wind, when a shock was felt
like that of ship swiftly sailing striking against
heavy wave that checked its speed for a mo-
ment then the shaking of the windows continued
for several moments The shock came from the
direction of Northwest, and was preceded by a
noise and violent trembling which was contin-
ued for a few seconds after the principal shock
had subsided. A small brick building near Nor
mon Slough was damaged to a considerable ex-
tent by the cracking Ofthe wall.
AT SAN JOSE.
The earthquake was more severely felt at San
Jose than anv that has before occurred there
Every family had some OF their dishes, glass
ware or clocks broken by falling off the shelves
or tables. Almost every grocery store had bot
ties, etc, thrown off the shelves and broken
some sustaining damage to the amount of a
hundred dollars. Every brick, adobe or con
crete building, was cracked or injured in some
way, or had the plastering broken Off Some
plastering was broken off the CITY Hall The
Jail and Sheriff office, two-storv brick build
ing, was damaged considerably by the cracking
and falling of the plastering. The new Baptist
church had the front walls cracked in several
places. new brick building, only one story
high, and eighteen by twenty feet in size, and
very firmly built, was cracked through the CEN
ter, and had the plastering shaken off Mr. Mi
nor's concrete building had two corners and
part of the corniee shaken off, damaging it to
the extent of $780,
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DIED,

On wednesday, Dec 18th Mrs EVA ROSE, in the f0th
yer of her age.
The funeral will be attended the NJ E. Church on
Sunday morning. at 10 O'Clock Friends of the family
invited to attend.
u Troy papers please copy.
At the residence of his athern-law Is Benedict ESQ.,
IN Mendon Monroe Co, N. Y. Dec. q, 1855. the Hon
VOLNEY HUGHES, late Mayor Of KenOsha, Wis, and
brother OF John NJ, Arthur and Hazen Hughes Of this
city, aged 81 years
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30

CHINESE EMIGRATroN.-During the six
months ending June 80, the total number OF
> Chinese emigrants which left Hong Kong, was
1929, of whOme $50 were females OF these
and we're for Australia, 3,2l4 for California,
San FraNrtor Cuba. The feamalcs were all for
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30
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Learning to Read
Learning to Think
Leaning about Common Things, Abbott
Learning about Right and Wrong
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Out Of Debt out of Danger,
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Patient Waiting No Loss
Contsntment Better than Wealth,
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Rollos Travels in Europe
Balloon Travels by Peter Parleyf
Gilbert GO-lhead, by Peter Farley,
Sanford and Merton,
The Boys Own Book,
Twill be Gentleman,
1 will be a Lady.
The Aimwel Stories
Child's Book ofNature,
Woods Natural History
Stories by Grace Greenwood,
Watts Divine Songs,
Stories from History
The Home Angel
Child's History of England,
A Child's History Of the United States
A Chiid's History of Rome,
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Boy Hunters. by Nayne Reid
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Bush Boys
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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-30

the army Of the I1ESSE ARMY-Recruiting for
this Fall ,bo.;. States has been so brisk
onI;s,;,, Do, ~ided to discontinue
eallsl'ng at Buffalo New h>~en and ssro,.I
other important stations in variot ,.iiu several
aPPueatlons being more numero1sN.t nc
service requires; the recruiting officer 'Ie
enabled to select better class of men than %
be secured when there is an active demand f.,
soldiers