Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-05-14
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PlrrsnunaH, May 18th, 1861.


PIrTsBuRsH, May 18th, 1861.
Coming down over the Cleveland & Pits
burgh Road last night in one Of their splsa-
did sleepiug cars, I made the acquaintance
a somowhat famous character Of The femaie
persuasion. Ny bed happened to be next the
separating curtains which shut The ladie9 IN
and the gentlemen out. AS settled down
fora nap, / heard m animated conversation
going on between las l supposed two young
ladies in the next section. The vo ces were
smooth and pleasant bat what astonished
and puzzled me was the almost infinite vari-
ETY. of topics upon which they talked, with
hardly an i~nstant's cessation between them.
Touching frst upon the new moon, and the
beautiful starlight which shone through the
window, | put them dowa as two young
ladies going home irom school. Then they
glanced Of to " the crisis" and were 80 elo-
quent in behalf Of the poor soldiers, that |
was sure they were Florence Nightingales
going to Join their regiments, or 70 help
Miss Dix. The next minute, it was the Kan
sas famine, and l decided that they were
Secretaries or Directors Of some charitable
association. But ] had no sOOner faneied
them calling upon me for a little donation,
than they began to calculate, with agricultur-
al fOrethought the chances for = good wheat
crop in the fall, wherefore closed my eyes
in the belief that my nearest n~eighbors were
industrious farmers girls, who would blossom
into thrifty dairy women ! opened them
again in establishment the next minute, when
from vegetable roots they commenced a dis
cussion upon Greek and Hebrew roots and
Latin declensions, and so, when they had
brought all the dead languages to life and
exhausted The living ones, l made up my
mind that after all, they were Professors ,"
in some female collegiate institution. But
there are not hall the subjects upon which
they (and especially one Of them, who
seemed to be the older) talked
Good gracioust how that woman did
talk for half an hour, ct the end of which
time, Conductor Coe came through with his
lantern. Selling the opportunity, when he
was collecting their tickets, I stole a glance
in upon the conversationistS and to my
amazement one of them was a boy, and be,
too, not more than ten years old. How any
boy eould have carried on such a cOnverss-
ton, l cannot imagine, and wondered too
If his boyish life would not be talked out of
him before he was Eve years older, if that
woman was bis sister. As COe came back he
glanced over his shoulder and said; lido
Isdaes Hesnan Hsnkn." So that was the
woman who determined 10 be John c.. Heen-
ans wife whether he acknowledged her or
not; who wSs rendered and accepted the
Captaincy of the Dayton Light Guard, and
who makes sensations in Theatres. got q
good view of her afterwards. She stall and
haughty-wears a long dress without hoops
holds up hT dress in front with a theatri-
cal air, displaying numberless folds OF Whlte
petti-gaTments-wears -"Queen Bess' hat,
low at the top and flowing at the sides-snd
writes her name ttMiss a. Menken." The
boy with her is her brother. So much for
that woman. TEVfdJ E9IZU
A large number of river boats are lying
idle at the levee, from the stoppage of the
New Orleans and Memphis trade, but no COM
plants are heard. But one sentiment per-
vades Pittsburgh, and that is the enforcement
of the laws and death to traitors. The women
are as patriotic as the men. d.
The Qamp-tEo miles from tewn-is ad-
mirably fitted for the purpose, so far as lOca-
ton and formation of the ground is con-
cerned. The troops look well. and are mostly
uniformed. but not with the regulation dress.
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