Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-21

Truly yours,

1 will write you long letter in a day
or two, describing men and things as 1
! find them here.
Truly yours, X.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Oct. Is, 1862.
EDITOR LEADER:-The city of Louis
Vile, the commercial metropolis of Ken
lucky, is, in population, about the size Of
Cleveland, but is more cOmpactly built
Entering it from the steamboat landing,
which, at this season of the year is in the
upper part of the town, the chief produc-
ton seems to be quilted streets, filth, hogs,
and children, the color more hard to dis
tinguish than the sex; for if the days be
warm, they are basking in the sun, or lOll-
ing in the shade, sans frook, sans shirt, sans
everything calculated to cover their na-
kedness. As you proceed toward the Calf
House, hogs, mules, soldiers, negroes and
gullies, reeking withyflth, slightly changes
| the scene. On all the streets near the
river the same marks of filth are seen, ne
groes, pigs and slush being indiscrimi-
nately mixed. Although lime of a good
quality is said to be plenty, yet the streets
and cutters are guiltless of using it. Pro-
ceeding South on the streets where private
dwellings are located, the cutters in places
are dried up, and the pavements in spots
are clean; this latter phenomenon being
effected by little cOntrabands, broom in
hand, who dust each passer-by TO their
hearts content. Still further South, and
near the extreme of the city, you enter
Broadway, which runs north and south,
and is a fine street, filled with mule teams
hitched TO Government wagons, loaded with
forage and commissary stores for the army,
and supplies for the different hospitals, of
which there are twelve or fourteen, mostly
located in school-hOuses, the late Gen. Nell
son having seized nearly all these, in
preference TO secesh houses, wherein to
quarter his sick and wounded soldiers
They arc fine buildings, large; if not
larger than those of Cleveland, and make
fine hospitals; but still one cannot help
thinking that schoOl-houses, when other
buildings equally good and convenient
could be found, might be left to their origi-
nal destination. But the General thought
otherwise, and military necessity" which
in this case means whatever the General
chooses deprived the children of their
schools in order that the wealthy Secesh
might live at ease in their splendid pal
aces
Broadway aims, in splendid buildings,
to rival Euclid street, but Broadway, in
this attempt, makes as much of failure as
Louisville does when she attempts to rival
Cincinnati. Yet Broadway has many fine
houses,-houses that would do no discredit
to either the bob or nabob side of Euclid.
Passing one of these few evenings since,
in company with friend, we stopped to
admire it. A man, passably well dressed,
who looked like tOlerably well-to-do me-
chanic, in passing AS stopped by US and
the inquiry made as to the name of the
owner2 The answer was given. "What |
business does he fOllow?' "He is a drug
gist." Other questions, such as "Did he |
make his money here ?" ETC., being duly !
answered, the next question was, " Can !
you give us any idea of what the house |
eost?' 81 suppose l can" replied the |
man, " as lam the o1sHer ofuE Just about !
that time would have given nything in |
reason TO be anywhere else, and if a con-
venient anger hole had showed ITSELF your |
correspondent would have tried its capa-
city in order to hide himself As it was, |
l made no more inquiries, but left as soon
as my legs could carry me away.
On Sunday last 1 visited the fortifca-
tiOns by which Louisville is surrounded
They consist of ditch feet wide at |
the top, - feet at the bottom, and about |
--- deep, which, with the en-
bankment which consists of the loose dirt
from the ditch being thrown upon the side |
next to where the enemy was expected,
makes the entire breastwork about -
feet high. Imagine what O defense this
against an invading army. It was only
intended to cover the legs and lower pait
Of the body from rife shots, and il may,
In this manner, have saved some legs,
but every ball which on level ground |
would wound leg, in these bitches or
rihe-pits, as l suppose they are called, |
would strike the head or breast The en- |
tire adult population were out for days In |
digging these entertainments, and so little |
adapted do they seem TO the use intended, |
that in derision they are niok=named the |
" notifications"
A man herewith a dollar bill in his pock- |
et, or five hundred of them, is poor indeed. |
He can't buy a cigar, or paper of tobacco |
cannot get shirt washed OF plate of |
oysters TO eat, because there is no postage |
stamps, no postal currency, no gold, no sill
yer to get in change. He can deposit his
dollar and trade it ont or 90 without Sill |
yer change, when it can be got, is worth /
just whatthe owners conscience will allow
him to charge.
As matter of interest to your readers,
and to everybody else, | will, in few
days, get some facts and give them to you,
showing the immense deal Of good the Sam
itary Commission is doing in this region.
Had it not been for this noble Commission,
and the Aid Societies, Heaven only knows
what ths wounded and sick soldiers would
have done.
By the BY General jefferson c. Davis
of Indiana, who shot General Nelson some
weeks since, is at the Gait House, and if
under arrest is not guarded. 1t is impos-
sible to learn anything about the matter
aS, for some reason or other, the people
here studiously avoid all talk upon the sub
ject. Why this is know not
Truly yours,
e--Gs-l--