Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-27
MORNING LEADER
TUESDAY MORNING OCT. ~, 1858.


The Chinese eat picked oatterpillars
snd think they resemble trufles. ~
Il is suggested that Frank Pierce ought
TO be invited to come to Ohio Immediately
to erect thstmsusolem Of hearts promised
in his Concord speech.
Albert Rhodes, Esq, OF Pittsburg, Penn
sylVsnia, attached TO the Agricultural De
partment has been appointed Consul at
Jerusalem.
Tho largest locomotive in the United
States, If not in the world, has been built
for the Philadelphia s Reading Railroad
Company. 1t has twelve driving wheels
and weighs more than 100, 900 pounds.
The Atlanta Appeal accuses our troops
Of shocking vandalism at jackson, Mis-.
sissippi We hope our troops will con-
tinue to shock vandalism wherever they
get an opportunity.
Mr.. Chittenden, prominent citizen Of
Brooklyn, New York, has offered to pay
$4,000 for two hundred recruits to fill the
ranks Of the Fourteenth Brooklyn Regi-
ment
The Herald says General Dix has con-
ssnted to run for Mayor Of New York, pro-
vided he is nominated by the War Demo-
Gratis and endorsed by the Republicans.
Idaho territory will choose legislature
and member Of Congress on the 3lst of
October. The census shows three hun
dred and twenty thousand white popula-
tion.
A Democratic editor in the Nevada Ter
ritOry says of the defeat of his party in
his city awe met the enemy yesterday,
and are out on parole this morning"
The Detroit Free Press, of late date,
says "The friends Of General Cass will
he pleased to learn that his health is i'm
proving, and thathe is now considered out
OF danger.
The London Court Journal learns that o
young English lady of seventy summers
and good deal Of money has just given
her virgin hand to her butler, lad of
thirty eight.
One Of the petty German Kings, in the
recent Diet at Frankfort, wanted his army
instructed in the use Of the Armstrong
gun so he got one, but was obliged TO
ask leave Of the next King to have the
target put up in his kingdom, his not be-
ing big enough for the Armstrong range.
A man in Washington went to sleep,
lately, wrapped up in tent cloth, there
being 9 dead body near him similarly
wrapped up. The undertsker's men took
him up by mistake, and would have buried
him il he had not entered an emphatic
protest against it.
A London professor lectured recently on
adulterations of food. He handed round
coffee, which wss pronounced excellent,
then told the audience that they had been
regsled with mixture of bulloek's blood
ohicory, Sleeps liver, dried, and old coffee
grounds. he gave them capital porter.
too, made Of spirits of wine, gum arabic
and burnt sugar.
Major General il. Peck has issued an
order requesting commanders Of sub-dis-
tricts to recommend sons of fathers dlstin-
guished in the war, and young men be-
tween the ages Of sixteen and twenty-one,
serving in the district of North Carolina,
and conspicuous for merit and ability,
from whom selections will be made for the
Nes1ADAC5 IL LuC NOEAn N1Iullub QugLh OF
Cadets at the United States Military Acad-
smy.
The State Of Massachusetts has Just con-
oluded a contract for the manufacture of
20 artillery carriages, consisting of the
light l2-pounder, or Napoleon gun, and
The 10-pounder Parrott with all their i'm
plements, equipments and spare parts
This is an indication that Massachusetts |
intends to be ready for any emergency.
The Vermont House of Representatives
has adopted resolution to thoroughly or
ysaiEe the enrolled militia of the State in
Q companies, and regiments, and brigades
With provision for arning the same and
or an efficient drill of each company and
ts commissioned officers, ami for annual
for the instruction of the
'ntire militia by regiments and brigsdes.
Animals cut up queer antics down East
runaway horse trottedi into store in
sEth, Maine, where several ladies were
rading, making things generally miscel-
aneous, snd at Portland a respectable -wo-
nan was aroused from her slumbers, a few
1ornings since, by an attempted foreible
ntrance to her sleeping apartment by q
oW. The playful bovine had passed
trough the kitchen and, sitting room, and
7as still endeavoring to advance, but WAS
spulsed, and soon changed her base.