Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-26

simple to man, be VIII give you no credit
-he viii think he knew it before.
The ladies Of St. Louis have presented
General Frank P. Blair with splendid
dress sword and trappings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kean are going
to Australia professionally for three
years. They viii receive $4,000 besides
perquisites.
Asy0ung man has been squeezed nearly
to death BY one of Ruggles' presses. He
married old Ruggles daughter.
The Montreal papers say that thesleigh-
ing in that city and vicinity is excellent.
There was a severe snoR=storm the whole
of Sunday last.
Nearly ell the manufacturing establish
ments of Waterbury, Connecticut, will
make larger dividends on the first Of jan
uary next than at any time for several
years hitherto. ta4a4 r.
The Troy Times says that $500 worth of
shinplasters have found their way to New
bern, N. c., and circulate freely among
the Union soldiers and loyalists Of that
place.
1t is becoming quite common now in
New York to append to marriage notices
in the papers, F" No cards sent" thus OBJ
waiting the Misunderstanding and otfense
that oTersights in this little attention are
sure to cause among friends--
Ezra Chapell, an old and wealthy citi-
zen Of New London, Connecticut, has, for
q number Of winters past distributed sew
eral hundred loayes Of bread to the poor
Of that town, and he has already com
menced his charitable labors for this sea-
son. i-|
In the United States Supreme Court at
Washington, the black silk robes are abol-
ished, the new members being averse to
them, and at the next session the Judges
will sit in simple broadeloth. The chan ge
viii certainly be more in consonance with
republican customs-
The Legislature of Vermont has elected
the following State officers: Secretary
Of State, George W. Bailey, Jr., Of Mont
pelier Auditor Of Accounts, Jeptha Brad
ley, Of st. Adams; Bank Commissioner, /
]. E. Dickerman; Superintendent Of the
State Prison, Hiram Harlow, Of Windsor.
Since the first day of August, not less
than 350,000 blankets have been sent from
Captain W. H. Gills Department, Cincin-
natl, to different parts of the army. A
small portion Of these have gone East, but
the greater amount to the divisions of the
West
The Court Journal concludes an article
on English steam-rams as follows owe
have three facts with regard to these iron
clads-frst, they sre unseaworthy; second,
they are uninhabitable; and third, they
are as vulnerable in vital parts as wooden
ones" Very slight objections
The millers in Philadelphia, and to a GER
tain extent elsewhere, have great trouble
at the present time in procuring sufi-
cient number of -four barrels to carry on
their operations. Secondhand barrels
have advanced in price from eighteen to
fifty cents each, and new ones can scarcely
be obtained at any price.
Pins were worth O dollar a paper in
1872, and poor at that. Then it took four
teen processes to make g pin; now only
one, by machine which finishes and
sticks them into the paper. Saving pins,
half century ago, was as important as
saving cents, and hence the habit thus
formed sticks to many elderly gentlemen
whose coat-sleeYes are ornamented with
them, rescued from less.
The Evansville Qndiana) Journal says
the climax of villainy and ingratitude has
been reached, in the reported coup detat
Of Adam johnson, the chief of the Green
River robbers. It is currently reported
that this errant horse-thief, after seducing
hundreds of young men to follow his for
tunes, and rob and plunder their neigh
bors, and oft times their own relations,
has suddenly disappeared, carrying with
/. 81 fvau 10 kno kow
5000, with which he is said to have fed
to Texas.
At the Washington Navy Yard, on Fri
day last an experiment was made with a
10-inch Dahlgren (smooth bore) gun. A
solid shot weighing l30 pounds was thrown
at an iron clad target, at distance of Eve
hundred yards, perforating the iron pla-
ting, four inches thick, as also ten inch oak
planking, passing out the other side. The
plating was torn into fragments, one piece
| flying backward into the joiners' shop, two
hundred yards in the rear Of the gun, and
seven hundred from the target.
Frederick Robson Of Brentwood N. h,
has three sons, all Of whom are in the ar
my. he is, moreover, old and infrm.-
Last Tuesday evening he was sitting qui-
etly in his barn, husking corn, when
! fourteen young ladies drove him into the
house, and occupied the barn, They re-
mained until 10 o'clock, and finished the
husking-100 bushels.
A meeting of the book trade of Boston
was held on the 14th instant, at which
representatives were present from almost
every house, publisher, jobber and retailer,
to consider the mstterof raising the prices
of books, owing to the increased price of
paper and binding. They voted to confer
with the Philadelphia and New York book
trade, as TO the best course TO be pursued.
]. Lothrop Motley, the historian, now
Minister to Austria, has sent home the SUN
of $500, for the use of sick and wounded
soldiers; and 81, 100 has been sent by
Edward Cunningham. merchant Of Mas
sachusetts, now residing in shanghae.
A gentleman at Eaira, N. Y, got nic,
large cellar dug at very small expense, by
starting gold excitement about a $40
piece, which he found there-having first
lost it in & safe place, of course. One Of
the tTeasure-seekers actually paid 81 for
the privilege Of digging three hours, and
was rewarded by discovering four coppers
The cellar was full Of volunteer diggers all
day; and a sufficient excavation having
been made, the owner proclaimed that no
more digging would be allowed.
The Richmond papers allude Of late to
the large number ofaliens who are leaving
Dixie. Heretofore this class were permit
ted to come North in the aag-of-truce boats
with the exchanged prisoners, but the Gov
ernment has put a stop 10 that now, and
they have to get here as best they can.
Jackson is considered the most active
business place on the line of the Michigan
Central Railroad. There is not now in
the city o business building of anv des-