Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-14
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Charles Ward, of Salem, in letter to
Boston paper, recommends apprenticing
the contrabands now within the army lines
to the corporate bodies who are authorized
to build Pacific Railroad.
A Boston paper says that one of the
manufacturing agencies of that city made
sales during the month of October last to
the extent Of two million eight hundred
thousand dollars.
Over million bushels of coal arrived at
Cincinnati, during the recent rise in the
Ohio river.
During the year 1862 there were 1888
deaths in the Louisville hospitals, includ-
ing forty-nine rebel prisoners.
It is currently reported that large bum
dies and bales Of new bsndages and lint,
contributed by the people for army-hospi-
tai purposes, have been sold to paper ma
kers at Dalton, Mass.
Karsandas Madhsvadas, wealthy Hin
doc of Bombay, and an ardent sympathizer
with our Government, has sent to r. h.
Dana, Esq, of Boston, 81, 900 to be appro-
priated to some family which has suffered
in the war. Mr.. Dana proposes to divide
the sum among several families whose
husbands and fathers have been killed in
battle.
The gold watch of Mr.. Cluck, which was
lost in the late destruction of the Ameri-
can Hotel at the Falls, was found on
Thursday last, in the debris of the build
ing, as sound as when Mr. G. left it in his
room. This may be considered a somewhat
remarkable case of watch preservation.
GaribaIdi recently said: @Rome cannot
be saved a second time by the "cackling Of
geese"
---FI-v D----L- -B--lgvrOT, IT. IS said, has or
dered no more iron-elads TO be built, in
consequence of recent experiments with
rifed guns, proving that any amount of
iron plating a ship can carry can be pene-
trated with fat-headed shot. This report
is given in an English paper, and how
true it may be we have no means of know
ing. r.L al.5 -I. r+H.
The material now brought to the paper
mills is curious beyond anything ever be-
fore known. The New England Historical
Society has appointed committees to visit
the various paper mills. The object is to
save from destruction ancient manuscripts
and republications, sold as paper material
by persons who are ignorant as to their
value Rare autograph letters are thus
preserved, that otherwise would have dis
appeared forever.
Portland is the great molasses port in
New England. The importations last year
were larger than ever before, reaching s.
S24, ,632 cations, which was s22, ,524 gallons
over 1861.
The 37th regiment of Iowa volunteers
has about it q striking peculiarity, name
iy, that nearly all its members are over
forty five years of age. Three-fourths of
them are gray-headed, and many have
long, white boards, giving them a venera-
bic appearance. 1890
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times of
Sunday last says that large number Of
railroad laborers had just arrived in that
city, and would commence the work Of
breaking ground on the Pacific railroad,
thence west, on the day following. The
work is to be pushed with the utmost
vigOr.
The Massachusetts Estate Industrial
School for Girls is more than realizing
the expectations of its friends. The num-
Der of girls in the school in October last
was one hundred and thirty-one, and
many have been furnished with homes
Turing the past year. In the domain of
charity Massachusetts indeed leads all her
sisters. Her Lunatic Asylum at Taunton
las now four hundred and twenty-one
eighty-seven have been recover
d during the year.
A Berlin journal states that there are
low in the Prussian capital seven butch
RS shops for the sale Of horse flesh, and
hat seven hundred and fifty horses have
,een killed in the present year for their
upply. No animal can be slaughtered
or these establishments without a certifi-
ate from the veterinary surgeon of the
,Olice.