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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

From private letter Of Q. S. Naval Of
fcer to a friend in this city, we are permitted
to make some e1tract,s which are worthy at
tention at this time He writes;
''The present political and financial aspect
Of the country is gloomy enough. You will
observe that my prediction to you in July
last is fast, too fast being fulfilled There
ean be no doubt but we are breaking up as a
government. I can see no other result to the
spirit abroad. The slave question is only a
Pretezt. Ambition, the determination of bad
men to rule or ruin, and schemers in Treason,
are doing this work. The other States, as
yet, have not enough courage to stand fast
If Virginia stands fast, shall breathe free
Let South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and
Georgia gOl Give US Maryland, Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana, and no
great harm may come. But believe civil
war and revolution far worse than thu French
Revolution is upon Us. Yet I have great
faith in the good temper, wisdom and cour-
age of the North. fear Mr.. B. is the worst
enemy the 0. s. has got. His message
looks lik it. The 1000 stand of arms sent
TO South Carolina looks like it. The forts Of
Fayetteville look 80 too.
voted for Mr. Lincoln, and for tina Re-
publican COagressmen. l would do it to-
morrow ifit were to be done again. From Ju-
ly to November, learned much in our affairs
as a nation The trouble hed to come. Let
it come at once-the sooner the better. If
Fremont had been elected we would have
withstood the shock. l am afraid it is too
late-but better now than ten years, or one
year, later. can not forget am a North
ern man, and I shall stand by New York for
veal or WO. Frightful as is the contempla-
tion we must look it in the face. But the
Northern people are sluggish. We ou hit to
be srming. would urge upon. the country
the Northern States especially the sea
board States, the stringent necessity of arm
ing and filling our armories with arms. We
are all destitute
Why don't the North call their Legisls-
latures, and call for Northern Conven ion2
can not understand this apathy. Il is in
explicable. Virginia, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, all the South are filing up with
arms and munitions Of war. This l know
from private sources. Yet we are idle. /
tell you we must have war, and can't escape
it, and my opinion is, we should make but
one campaign of it. We must conquer by the
sword, by cannon, by shell and shot. We
must conquer, and terrible conquest it will
be- but l see no halfway measures to save
US.
People here are getting much excited. Busi-
ness is in q worse condition than is general
ly allowed. The government has suspended
payments, and we are all at our wits ends for
money. Why all this empty Treasury if our
country is so fourishing, so fruitful, so pros
porous as Mr.. Buchanan says? What has
become Of all the money!
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

A SINGULAR RAcE.-some -four thousand
zufus performed war dance for the amuse-
ment of Prince Alfred. The South African
Advertiser thus describes them:
The Zulus are distinguished by long tap
ering feather stuck in their woody wigs. They
have Weighty complication Of skin strips
and cut tails hung round them. Hardly an
inch Of their sable figures can be discerned.
Bands of1ong ox-hide reach above their
chins and almost hide their persons. At the
present moment they are chanting long,
low kind Of refrain, which gradually sWells
into q semi-roar as the dance proceeds. Now
one little fellow rushes out Of the ranks. He
leaps into the air like kangaroo; he tosses
bis arms about rolls his eye-balls ronnd un-
Ill nothing but the whites are seen, gesticu-
lates, and jabbers away some inconceivable
o. with the rapidlty Of falling water;
"a. IS conference.-the, bobs his head
up aud down, shakes his tail and shield about
in the widest way, and makes himself gen
orally as savage and untamed a human ami
NAL as possible.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

Attorney General Black on Secession.

AGtQrHey GenefnA niACA On
The Attorney General has Published a
long letter giving bis legal views OF secession,
which was evidently prepared with much
care. BE gives the opinion that the people
of a State cannot throw of their allegiance
to the General Government and that
the Executive is in duty bound TO enforce all
the laws OF the country, as he finds them up
on the statute books BE is required to col
lect the revenues Of the ports Of the country,
and this collection may be upon either land
or water. If the duties cannot be collected
at the custom house, then they can be at some
other building, and if not upon land, then
the custom house can be transferred to a YES
sci, and the duties collected upon the water.
So that a national vessel stationed off Fort
Moultrie to see the customs properly collected,
would answer all the purposes Of a custom
house at Charleston. In such a case, should
South Carolina attempt to prevent such
collection Of the revenue, she would be
making war upon the United States, and ma
tional honor would require the subjectiOn Of
such resistants. The President has power
delegated to him to enforce the laws, and to
do this the military force Ct the country is
At his command.
The Attorney General holds that the Pres
ident has no right to recognize any State
after secession; or to release her from her
Federal obligations. Such power is granted
only to Congress or a Convention Of the
States
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
The secension Proieets.

The New York correspondent Of the
Charleston Courier says thst the Metropolis
is about to secsde and form a new State.
combining New York, Brooklyn, Staten Is
land and three counties on the east side Of
the Hudson, the new State to be called Man
haitian.
Another correspondent says, if South Caro-
lima does not go out New England win Sc
ceds.
We think Artist Walcutt's plan is the best
He proposes, If the South secedes, to say to
them $50 along and we viii secede too, and
ali 60 together" It would be joke if the
whole country should secede from itself
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
Capture of a RObber Under Dimculrie..

capture OF n hOODer Du0ef Ultuc
The Olney (nl.) correspondent OF the Vim
eennes Sun, gives the following account OF
the arrest of Thread, the mail robber, IN that
place a few days age:
Pm. Cullen, of Olney, notified Gilmore,
special agent, of the whereabouts of Thread,
the mail-robber, whose presence was much
desired at Springfield before dissolution Of
the Union made the United States Courts If
no account Last night Gilmore, Sheriff
Johns, Constable Lynch, and two or three
others, took hack for Edwards county, a
few miles north of A .bion, to investigate the
house of one Peters, the brother-in-law of
Thread, where it was reported Thread was
secreted.
About midnight the posse arrived, and
after secreting the axes and other deadly
weapons about the premises, opened the un-
locked door, entered Threads room, pulled
him out of bed, and handcuffed him in a
moment, amidst the cries of Oh, sister Pc
tiers Help Murder
Mrs. Peters, who is a young, athletic wO-
man, struck the floor in her night-gown like
a she-tiger-gave a scream and called "BullI"
seized hickory stick and laid out Gilmore
timber and helpless. The dog followed and
took Johns by the leg. Peters caught Lynch
and downed him-s Frenchman OF the COM
pany came to his rescue blow with the
fearful stick, aimed at Johns head, caught in
the folds of the heroine's night-gown and
saved the head of that ''public functionary"
six or eight shots made the dog silent for
ever-a lamp broken over the females head,
cooled her ardor-variOus kicks, cuffs and buf-
fets sent Peters of for help. Thread would
not move to get into the hack-so by the
hair, legs and clothes he wss thrown in
brought to Olney, and is now on his way to
field by railroad.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
How IL ThisF

We are informed by telegraph that mes
senger has arrived at Washington from South
Carolina, bearing the electoral vote of the
State for President for the next four years,
and the telegraph further informs US that the
messenger eirew his pay for his services -
What are we to understand by this? Has
South Carolina geOneludel to say in the
Union. And if not, why does she so far con-
form to the requirements of the Constitution
as to convene an Electoral College, and trans
nit the choice Of the State for Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, to Washington Mr.. Breckinridge
has not been named, we believe, in cOnnec-
ton with the Presidency OF the new South
ern Confederaey, and it is therefore difficult
70 reconcile this movement with the repeat
ed statements Of the representatives from the
would be seeding State, that she is al
ready out of the Union. Again, assurances
are received at Washington that no hostile
demonstrations are intended against the
Government, but that they are merely arm
ing for defence. These things indicate
moderate tide Of feeling and action which
augurs wen for the future.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
HereuIes among the Hors.

At AcTaggarts pork house, day or
two ago, jeremiah Haley carried from the
"wheel" TO the "books," a hog weighing
seven hundred pounds net, and Edward Gut
Ter carried one the same way that weighed
six hundred and fifty pounds. We learn
these facts from John Unversaw, the "gutter'
of the establishment, who, we believe, could
carry anything less than an elephant the
same distance. Where is DR.. Winship p
He could only lift 1000 pounds by getting all
the advantages Of a platform to stand on,
with the weight below him, and convenient
stick to lift by, and then could barely make
the diff visible. But these stalwart Hoos-
iers can take 700 pounds on their backs, and
carry it across a big pork house, through all
the blood, and slop, and slippery footing Of
such place. We don believe the Yankee
doctor could do Indianapolis Journal
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

-As late as the lst Of this mouth, there
was much grain uncut in Ireland and much
Of what was cut is badly saved. Fully one
third Of the potato crop is wholly lost.
-AGerman blew his brains outat Walters
vile, Ill, because his wife gave birth to boy
instead Of a girl A very childish revenge
A New Orleans orchestra leader hus
been knighied by the Queen Of Spain, and
preached with the order Of Charles III. She
had seen some Of his music.
"A Carolina editor has found authority
for secession in the Bible. We should think
the scriptural words most applicable to the
secessionists are thCse:-" Depart ye cursed, ="
ETC.
The volunteers OF Marsala, Catala6mi,
aud Palermo have resolved to present GaI-
ibaldi with stlr in diamonds, bearing c
inscription The thousands 10 t-i
chefl'
For the six months ending Nov. 1860,
the Merrimack Manufacturing Company Of
this city have made and printed into calico
about eleven million yards of cloth, consum-
ing 2, ,375, s9s pounds Of ofcotton.-LOveH NelO'.
The 7th Monmouthshire (England) Vol
unteer Rifles are to have red shirts, blue
trowsers, and wide-a-wakes; they are to be
"Garibaldi boys" Posters about the town
announce that +" 100 Garibaldi boys are
wanting"
1t is reported that house in New Haven
Connecticut, has received an order from South
Carolina for one thousand boiler kettles, to
hold several thousand gallons each-such as
are used on slave ships,
-Klingensmith, who murdered Reeves at
Warren, Trumbull Co, last February, has
been cried and convicted Of murder in tine
second degree.
"A hoy ten years old, son Of Seth Jen-
nings of Freedom, Portage Co. weighs one
hundred and thirty five lbs.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
Ourrases upon Clevelauders At New Orr


The New Orleans Delta Of the 4th says:
A. e. Burritt was waited on by a commit
tee, who ordered himself and his house
keeper to leave town.
The allegation against the latter was that
she corresponded with the abolition paper
called the Boston Banner of light; and
against him it is alleged that he is an active
abolitionist, and has beento Cleveland, Ohio,
to sympathi1s with the asynpathisers and
Avengers Society Of John Brown"
Mr.. Burritt is the father-in-law of Mr..
Barnum, salesman at Freeman & Kellogg's s.
He is an old man whom we know personal
ly, and know to be one who will never be
found intermeddling in another's business.
We fee, safe in warfanting that he is no ''act-
i've Abolitionist andthat he interfered in no
way with the Institution of slavery where be
found it. Yet the threat against this peace
able Cleveland citizen may, ,erethis, have been
carried out. How much nearer mus! the
match burn down to the powder before
Northern Democrats viii rebel2 Must the
flesh Of their own children be burned before
they acknowledge that there are any aggres-
sions Of the South2
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

TIE CAPITOL AT WAsHIEGToN.-The ques-
ton as to whether the columns Of the capitol
extension can be obtained in monolithic
shafts, Of American marble, seems TO have
been definitely settled by the rapid delivery
Of these shafts from q quarry in Baltimore
county, in the State of Maryland. Twenty
of these columns have already been delivered
in single pieces. Three of them are finished,
placed in the building and crowned with
their beautiful capitals; considerable por-
ton of the superintendent entablature is
erected with portion of the marble ceilings,
thus giving an earnest Of what these stupen-
dous porticOs are to be when furnished
There will be one hundred columns in all,
supporting entsblatures and marble ceilings,
deeply paneled and enriched after the ornate
manner Of the Corinthian order.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

SUFFERING FOR TIE WANT OF MoSEY-
The greatest hardship, it is stated, prevails
in New York and Brooklyn among the naval
officers, sailors, sailors wives and others
owing to the non-arrival of the usual month
ly money from the U, s. Treasury. Officers
have been insulted BY butchers, grocers, tall
ors, Sc; sailors are daily rebufed by hungry
Iand-sharks and suffers, and poor women,
whose husbands away on the ocean, have
left them half pay, are suffering feariully be-
cause of their inability to fulfill their pecuni-
airy obligations. No pen can adequately des-
cribe the wretchedness which even a weeks
delay Of payment causes in the navy The
money for the SaEannah's crew was received
and paid to them at Brooklyn on Wednesday.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13


From Union letter from Hon. John Bel
to the Union meeting at Vicksburg, we ex-
tract one Of the closing paragraphs;
'sYiewing the subject IN every light in
which It can be presented, an constrained
to say that by no principles Of public
law, BY no code Of morals, by no law Of
earth or heaven, would Mississippi or any
other State be justified, under existing cir
cumstances, in withdrawing from the Union.
confidently believe that the happiest cOnse.
quences would result from a conference Of
all the Southern States. as confidently be-
lieve that majority Of the people Of the
North are tbs day. prepared TO agree to any
fair and reagcnabie plan Of adjustment which
such q cpnfs cence OF the Southern States
would proposs. 1 purposely abstain from
suggesting what in my opinion, should be
the basis Of such planof adjustment"
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

Our Memphis correspondent wrote US.

Our Memphis correspondent wrote US.
al have been for few days in this city,
and am much pleased with it but not so well
pleased with the state of affairs"
By accident it got into the paper last night
as follows.
81 have been for few days in this city
aud sm much pleased with the state of af-
fairs. PLAIN Dealer.
As we copied the article, with comments,
it is proper to copy the correction. We have
seen the manuscript of the article which
agrees with the first quotation above.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
LARGE SALE OF RICH FURs.
aftistEllancnns.

TOR THE HOLIDAYSl-GREAT
IL Arrival o. Hoiiiay Gifts. santa Clause has
made bis Gift Depot at schTinks g. IN snusrior A.
The subscriber Is prepared 10 present 10 he public
z larger and more varied assortment or Holiday
6lits than ever before exhibited In Cleveland
COhfECfIOh ERIES Of all descriptiona suf5-
ei-nt to sweeten and delight the entire iuvenie non
ulatiOn. -''S ~
Il, FANCY Boxes, Fancy Boxes, Fancy Boxes,
Also, great variety Of French Figures and Toys
Observance Of ofChRtSTMAS and NEW YEARS
- An abundance OF Grapes are kept on hand for
parties &C fdecltl JOHN SUHRf,K
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

How TO MAKE ALL PHoFoGRAPHs STERo-
GRAPHs.-Ifw we close one eye and bring the
other opposite the center Of q photograph,
and tolerably near to it, the picture usually
starts out with almost stereoscopic distinct
ness. The effect is finest in architectural
photographs. A similar result ina feebler
degree is produced by looking at drawings
and paintings in the same way The
explanation is too obvious to need state
ment, but the fact, although interesting and
valuable, usually escapes notice,
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
BooK-KEEPINe.

Crittsnden'a Book Keeping, Counting HOuso sdi-
lion.
Crittenden's Bookkeeping, School edition.
Dufrs Book k-Heeping.
Fulton and Eastman's Bookkeeping.
Jones' Bookkeeping.
Mayhsw's Bookkeeping.
Karsh's Bank and Joint Stock Accounts
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
GER1IAN.

Adler's Progressive German Reader.
Adleris German Dictionary, 70
Adler's German Dictionary, School edition
ElWell's German Dictionary.
Gand's Grammar Tor Germans TO learn EEghsh.
German Speller.
OHendord7s German Grammar.
schischlager's Pronouncing Dictionary.
Peissuer's German Grammar.
Woodbury. German Grammar.
Woodbury's Shorter Course.
Woodbury's Method for Germans to Learn Eng
ish.
Woodbury's elementary German Reader.
WoOdbury 8 Eclsctic German Reader
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
HIGHER MATHEMATICS.

Davies BOuTdon's Algebra.
Davies Legendres Geometry.
Davies Elementary Algebra
Davies Elementary Geometry.
Davies Surveying.
Gillespie's Land Surveying.
LOOmisi Treatise on Algebra.
LOOMS Elements Of Algebra.
LOOmis' TriRonometry and LOgarlthms
LOOMS Elements Of GeOmetry.
LOOMS Analytical Geometry.
Rays Algebra, First Part.
Rays Algebra, Second Part.
Roblnson's New Elementary Algebra.
RobinsOn's University Algebra. -
Robinson's Geometry.
Towers Algebra.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
ENGLISH GRAMMAR

ENGLISH GRAAlMAR.
Bullions, Analytical Grammar.
Bultons' PaTsing Book.
Browns First Lines Of English Grammar.
Brown 8 Institutes OfGrammar.
Browns 6TsmmAr Of English GRAMMAR.
Clark.s First Lessons in Grammar.
Olark's English Grammar Revised.
COvolla Digest Of Grammar
HoWler.s Elementary Grammar
EoWlerls English Grammar
EoWlerih Grammar-SchoOl edition
Greene. Introduction 70 EuRIish Gramm
greene.s First Lessons In Grammar.
Greene,s Analysis.
Greene,s Elements Of English Grammar
PinneO,s Primary Grammar.
PtnneO's Analy tical Grammar.
P1nneo's New Analytical Grammar
PinAeo's English Teacher.
Towers Engl sh Grammar.
Yields New English Grammar.
Weld and QuackenbOs' New Grammar
Wells New Grammar.
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Goal @iI aud Camps.
algtiGe

M N0TICE.-NOTiCE is "a ERE
IN By given that an application for pardon viii
3 made 70 the Governor % Ohio in behalf 81 Charles
Martin, who was convicted Of the crime Of passing
coun tarf8f mcney, at the February Term, lao, Of
the Court Of Common Pleas Of Cuyahoga courtyard
9enteneed 70 the Penitentiary for three years from
the 20sh day qf February 1850.
Cleveland, December S tS507ts
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

Az OPES WiTTR - a exchange says that
an open winter is augured rom the scarcity
o. bee.h and hickory nuts this fall.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
RRADlNa-hND SPEErTva

HEADING AND SPELLING.
HsmAn's YounY LAdi ss' Reader.
Hazeu's SpeieF AMI Dsfner
hiilard's keadeFs
LOvelfs haadert
mcGuhey'g smaller Primer
McGgileyla 3 Pictorial Primer
hIe9un8yis 9 New First Reader.
Mo9unegls New second Reader.
mcduheyia New Third r. ader
McGulleg,s New Fcurth Reader.
Mc9uhey,s New Fifth Reader.
hcGufsy' 8 New Slxta Reader
McGuhey'5 High School Reader.
McGuney,s Old First Reader
McGunsy's Old Second Header.
McGuney's Old Third Reader.
McGuheyis Old Fourth Reader
mc6uhoy's Old Fifth Reader
McGunsy's speller.
Prices English sDelier
Sanders New 5relleF
Sanders Old Speller.
Bargent'6 Readert
Swans Speller.
IoWne's Progressive Readers
IOwne's Progressive speller
IoWne's Speller ard Dedner
Mebster's Elementary Speller.
Mrightls 0rthOgraphY.
Word Method Primer
MOrcester's Speller.
Wsbb's Normal Readers.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13

PRoLIFIc.--A canvasser in Richland dcounty
has found a family with seventeen children
with the prospects good for the future.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
ASTRONMY.

Burritt's Geography Of the Heavens.
BOuvier's Familiar Astronomy.
Mitchsll's Popular Astronomy.
MattisOn's High school Astronomy.
Mattison's Primary Astronomy.
Olmsted's school Astronomy.
Smiths Illustrated Astronomy.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
RHEToRIC AND CoMPosITIoN.

Boyd's Rhetoric.
Boyd's English Composition.
Blairis Rhetoric. -..
BroOkdeld's Composition.
Kames' Elamants Of Uom position.
NeWmans Rhetoric.
Parker's Aids to English Composition.
Quackenbos' First Lessons In Composition.
OuackenbOs' Composition and Rhetoris.
Whatsly's Rhetoric.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
FRENnH

Collotia Dranatis French Readar.
Corinhs, By Madame Do stael. Paris edition.
Da Eivas' Elementary French Es1aor,
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Lettsr from the Republican Central Com
mittee Of the stateOf California.
Committee Rooms, le3 CLAY ST. 4
SAY FRArnIsco. Nov. Us. I

Tie Complimeats of the Committee 70 ths
Mascara Democrat: Both the Pacific States
have declared for Lincoln and Hamlin-Ore-
gon by plurality Of some four hundred
Totes.aad California By twelve hundred votes
The estimate Of tie Republican vote in
this State transmitted to you on the tth Of
October last does not vary Eve hundred
votes from the actaal result. 2 a''s -'-
GnBERF A. GRANT. Temp. Sec.
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NTOTICE no CONTRACTORS-

NI O44OG L " WV 4 4AA4AAA 4 O4Al--
Sealed proposals will be received al this oilda,
until the 10th day Of January next az if O'Clock d
Tor building bridge over the Canal, near the mouth
% Tinkers Greek, in lndep-ndeec.
The work to be completed by he lst day ci Jane
next.
rlans and specifications for the work may be sen
At this oflce onaI.i afIer the 18th 81.
The Commissioner reserve the right % accept or
r5rct any bids. By ordcr Of the Board
I WILLIAM EULLEHs
OFFIcE or THg COuuIgs 6NEgs o. CuTtHoaA 20.
Cleveland, December 5, lstu.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-13
PHYSIOLOGY.

Cutters First Book In Physiology.
Outter's PhyHiOlogy and Hygiene.
GOadbF's Vegetable and Animal Phydi0logy.
Hitchcock's Anatomy and PhyaiolOgy.
HOoker's Human Physiology.