Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-28

DEAR -: l Wrate home by the last
steamer, and shall continue writing until ]
receive a letter from Cleveland. You viii
probably see by my former letter, before this
reaches you, where am what ana doing,
where came from, sc, sc. The last letter
received from YOU was at Galatzi It was
brought me from ConsantinoPle I have
written you several answers, but as yet have
not heard anything from you. could ex-
cuse You for not writing last summer, as you
probably did not know where to direct but
as you know where / am located now, you
ought to find time to write me a long letter,
giving me all the news in Cleveland.
Capt. Pierce has gone 10 Petersburgh and
from there goes to England tp buy steamer
for the Tartar trade next summer, BE left |
a man by the name Of Gould, from Clayton,
N. Y, in charge OF the business az Fheodosia-
Mr.. Gould came out here about two months
since from home is q ship carpenter by |
trade, and Is going to build apier at Theodo-
sia, for Capt. Pierce in the spring.
! did not Ike living in Thepdosia very
much; it was such lonesome work. I could
not sneak French or Russian wen enough to
90 into company, therefore made very few
aeouaintances. There was only one English
family living there. I visited them as often
as manners would permit-more for the
lauphter's company than the old lady's.-
The father of the family lied about two years
since and was pretty well of but the Greeks
and Russians have swindled the family out
of nearly ali he had, and now the family is
supported by the eldest son (Who was cashier
and Interpreter for Capt. Pierce at Theodosia
last year), and daughter, who is an excellent
scholar. She speaks and writes Russian,
French and English, and is now giving les
/ ,ons in French and English at one ruble per
/ lssson So much for TheOdOsia and the young
lady with haxen hair.
3erbans a little description OF this country
and inhabitants would be interesting 70 You.
Abalxlia is on the coast Of the Black Sea, IS
-bont the same latitude of Cleveland, and is
surrounded by the Circassian mountains on
an sides except to the westward. The mount
aims are covered ith snow all the year round,
and are very pretty sight on a clear day
The wood is nearly the same mere as AZ
home, only there is boxwood and mahogany
mere. g..
There are small rivers running down from
/ the mountains all along the coast when
furnish plenty of good fish and water.
There is great differences between the
climate and that of Cleveland. Last sum
mer we had no very warm weather, and this
winter. so far, have had no snow and but
very little frost
! II is a rich, black, loamy soil, and any
thing that is stuck in the ground grows very
/ fast I saw one or two eorn-held here last
summer that looked fine. / brought corn
TODAY. delivered at the house, for twenty
Eve kopecks per keele of II okes. That is
at the rate of about forty cent? per bushel.
We have plenty of good hunting here,such
as wild boar, deer, wild dogs or jackais,
pbeasants woodcock, duck, geese, pigeons,
etc The pigeons are nearly all as large
apain as the wild pigeons in America. Wild
boar are not very plenty here, but at Gudava,
sixteen miles north Of this place, are plenty.
Won can imagine how plenty they are there
when 1 tell you one Prince killed twenty-five
in one day, last week. A capital days
sport that shall try my luck at them
soon.
Cant. Moore has two shot guns and one
, rife. / 90 out hunting every day or two.
Yesterday took one of the Captains guns
! and horse, and went up the river after pig
cons, but It was bad day and lhey did not
lay. I only saw two pigeons and one wood
Can't Moore went to Gudava to-day with
$50 iaborers to work in the forest think
: he viii close this house soon and 60 to Gu
dava to live, as oak is getting scarce here
: near the sea shore, and the house expenses
j are very large.
! There are here at the Captains expense two
/, FreAcbmen, one Italian interpreter who
! speaks FIVE or six languages, one Swiss IN
{ terpreter who speak twelve or fourteen Ian
/ ruagea. l cook, Russian, l servant Mingra-
e Ian l wstchman, woodchopper, French
!. men. l Iaborer, MingTalian; also myself
making in all twelve persons, and the house
expenses ara no less than 500 rubles
! year.
The river Ingon passes down few rods
!. baek of our house, On this side of the rivel
! the Inhabitants are called Mingralians, on the
! other side. Georgians; at Gudava, Abcas
slams and Sonkoma Kelly, 60 miles north o
. this place, Circassians There IS no doubt bu
! what .here are some of the biggest thieve!
/, among them on the face of the earth. They
|, ! freeze to everything they can lay their hands
: on. A few nights since, about a dozen
q them went into the mOuntaineers camp
! (which is about twenty rods from our house,
{. and were going 70 carry Oft there axes, ket
! ties. &C. but the monntaineers heard then
, and gave chase as far as the woods, but vert
I | too late to save several axes that they haC
q taken with them. One shot was fired by
n the thieving party, but it did not hit any one
Z Night before last they stole two hogs from
4 one of our houses, and attempted it agair
z last night, but were surprised, and hed wher
: they had taken TWO boards of the house.
p To-day about noon, when there were 10
= Of laborers about the house, one of thes'
. thieves walked out 70 our Woodpile in tht
\ yard, and took an ak. One servant seeing
! him, gave chase, but the thief ran into thu
= woods, and that was the last seen OF him o.
A the az. The servant was such large ia
I man. that be could not run much faster thai
walk. What they viii steal next, canno
\ tell. These thieves are men who are too lazJ
to work, so they follow stealing for hv
p ing.
The property in this country is owned some
thing after the English style. It's all owne'
/ by Princes. One Prince will own from nv
: to thirty miles of forest thus keeping the Ia
Z boring class under his control as poor a
+, erows.
When a man is rich in this country, he i
!. what you might call rich. There is Primo
, : living at Sonkoma Kelly they call "the ricl
2 man, and well be deserves the name. b
: owns all the property along the sea-shore 70
about thirty-fve miles this side Of Sonkon
! Kelly. When he goes travelling, he gener
e ally takes from forty to sixty mounted guard
: with him. Last summer be went on trav
:! cling tour, and took with him one hundre
: and twenty thousand roubles (l20,OOo) [
= rouble is about seventy cents American mo
y IL 4. ~ he a-rsnans A nina little snm