Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-09

damage 10 crops IN oA eAo H'OA - .
The corn crop was particularly damaged.
The following are condensed reports from
various points 4
ILLINOIS. 7
Dixon, corn badly injured; buckwheat
destroyed. Centralis, but little damage,
corn out of the way. Nelson, Lee county,
damage to corn about SO per cent. From
Mississippi river to Chicago, on the Rock
Island Railrosd, the corn is destroyed
through the entire route, embracing re-
zion Of hundreds Of miles. The papers at
Bloomington, FrsepOrt Peoria, etc. all
speak Of the great damage done in their
localities. The injury to corn and pOta-
toes is serious. The frost extended into
Egypt Thousands Of acres are destroyed.
INDIANA.
The Indianapolis Journal speaks Of
great damage in that section. Buckwheat
destroyed, and late corn seriously injured. |
De Calb county, corn, buckwheat, and |
vines generally killed. Evansville, dam
age almost inCalculabls. TsbaccO has suf-
fsred immensely. Garden vegetables rem
dered unfit for use.
IOWA.
Cedar Rapids, corn on low grounds bad
" damaged; buokwhcat destroyed su-
/ / a'5rs- -oHI 51rIUuBIy InJureui on
high and dry lands not so bad. The Des
Moines Register learns that the damage in
the western part of the State is very
great.
WISCONSIN.
Madison and vicinity, corn on low lands
greatly injured; buokWheat, totally de-
strOyed. The Janesville Gazette says corn
suffers most; tobacco injured about 20 per
cent? buCkwheat and all vine products to-
tally ruined-loss immense. Waukeshs,
damage extensive. The Ls Crosse Demo-
orst says, in Mormon, Coolie and Coon
Valley the damage was very severe. Lew
is Valley suffered severely. In Houston
county the damage was light.
/ MINNESOTA.
The st. Paul Press says; The frost
briefly mentioned in our paper yesterday
morning was as severe as our first account
indicated. Its extent we are unable to
state, as we have only accounts from q
district Of about forty miles around the
city. The frost extended over this region
and was general in its operations. The
corn was killed completely, and no field
escaped. Tomatoes, cucumbers, watermel-
Ous, ETC., are all killed, and flowers and
vines are completely destroyed.
OHIO.
As whole the damage is not serious
In some localities it was severe-vines Of
sweet potatoes, melons, squsshes, etc, were
badly damaged. Tobacco was seriously in
jured in Green and Montgomery counties.
Dayton, the frost was light. Toledo and
vicinity, considerable damage was done,
and farmers cut up their corn to save it.
On the line Of the Toledo & Wabash Rail-
road, everything in the shape of corn, pO-
tstOes, sorgo, tomatses and melons were
killed. The same on the Michigan South
ern. sandusky, frost light Western Re-
serve, damage not extensive.
The RstnIsatory Order Of President Lin
coin.
Our readers viii be interested in read
ing the following quotation from the Man
chester (England) Examiner, showing how
Englishmen look upon the Presidents or
der Of protection to colored United States
soldiers:
HThe negro in the United States has
won another step in the ladder Of premo-
ton TO the rights and duties Of human
being. President Lincoln declares that
black man falling into the enemy's hands
shall be treated exactly ss if his skin were
Of the orthodox color. Heis not to beshot
nor yet sold into slavery, but simply de-
tanned as q prisoner Of war till he is pa
rolled or exchanged. This will be bitter
pill to the Confederate authorities, but
there is really no choice in the matter
President Davis will have to eat his own
words. he may treat as he chooses, those
rational ehattels over whom his power ex-
tends, but when the chsttel is dressed in
United States uniform, his exoellency
must learn to treat him as q man. This
necessity will be for the Southerners very
salutsry discipline. Who knows but that
if the war should continue long, the en-
forced habit of treating black men on the
footing Of human beings will become invet-
crate and pave the way to emancipation
As the Southern prisoners in the hands OF
the Federals are all white, Southern whites
will have to be exchanged for Northern
negroes. The sons Of rich planters will
thus be likely to find themselves weighed
of against their own escaped black slaves
30 much white flesh in one scale, 30
much black in the other; st. Clair against
sambo. Southern prisoners will perhaps
elect to remain in confinement rather than
endure the 1gnominy Of being rated at the
same price as their niggers- Let them take
contest The ignomIny of being exehang
ed on such terms is one which may be
buried in the depths of their own conscious
ness and forgotten, for it is one Of which
the world takes no account. 1t is all the
aama tn uH Wifsbb or tho hurzuaa sPi-it
chooses temple Of ebony or Of alabaster.
It is the soul within the man and not the
color of the skin, that gives the article all
its value. A slave and his owner, if both
stripped and covered with coat Of white
wash, will seem so very much alike that
one may be exchanged for the other. IT,
however, the soreness as to color be
found very serious it might be arranged
that black prisoners should undergo pri-
vate whitewashing at Richmond before
they are exchanged, so thai by an innocent
device the cartel might still deal with
whites only. With or without this accom-
modationto Southern tendencies, President
Davis will have TO come to terms. Presi-
dent Lincoln has the terms Of coercion in
his hands and will assuredly use it. For