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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
Rebel Imapeuverines'


The recent rebel demonstrations around
the borders Of the fhsster Of war, indicate
q desperate effort on the part of the rebels
to distract the attention Of Gen. Grant,
and make a division Of his forces necss-
ssry.
The plundering snd butehering raid Of
Forrest in Western Kentucky and Tennes-
see hsd IS one Of its objects, no doubt, the
withdrawal Of troops from the main body,
in order to weaken them.
Fhe operations now going on in North
Gsfe{ihs,- beginning in the capture Of
Plymouth, and now being directed against
Newberhe, have for their end the same
general purpose.
II is also a necessity for Lees army that
his communication through the old North
statO shnnId be kept intact. IL bean "a
cover sll the posts now held by our forces
on the coast he can thus guard against
flank movement and his srterisl conneo-
tions with the Gulf States. His army is
now fed chiefly through supplies drawn
from Georgia and Alabama.
L is therefore question Of life and
death with the rebel chiefs to be able to
maintain an uninterrupted connection
with the source whence is drawn the life
Of the rebellion. The grand policy Of con-
oentratiOn is therefore to be persevered in,
notwithstanding these raids on the outside
Of the csDters of war. The war is not one
for territory, to be guarded by immune :
able garrisons and Outposts, but one for
crushing rebels in arms. A new era is
dawning in this concentration policy
and the best results may be consequently
predicted.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

In these days of corruption and wan
derings from strict reotitude, it is quite
refreshing to witness the conversion Of 50
eminent sinner as the wheeI-horae Of the
Ohio democracy. After years Of wretched
shutting, Medsry has reached the following
conclusion:
"Just as often as this idea of running
"policyD for Office instead of principle"
has been tried, it has failed. There is not
q single instance wherein it ever succeed
ed that We remember"
There is no doubt whatever, that the
primal cause Of the destruction of the
Democratic party is due to its abandon
ment Of principles. In the hour when
every man owes everything to his country,
when the slightest encouragement to the
rebels is crime Of the foulest magnitude,
the Democracy are committing the suicidal
sct Of abandoning their country and sac
rihcing patriotism to party. The manner
in which many Of them still cling to the
old delusioD, tn slavery is divine in
stitution and that it is the mission Of the
Democracy to uphold it in opposition to
the heather and inhdel sbolitionists, shows
how a once powerful party has shipwreOk-
ed its hopes. We gather ray of comfort,
however, from this confession Of Medary.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
"DsmOoratio >, News.


During the two weeks ending April
18th, the Treasurer sf the Vallandigham
Fund reports S5, ,O46, SO as received. So, ,42O
GENES from friends" in New York
City.
Every township in Holmes County went
Democratic on Monday. The lowest ma
jOrity (87) was in Ripley. That township
gave enc Democratic majority last fall.
Samuel Of the Crisis, does not wish TO
barter away his principles as do others of
The faithful. In the last Crisis he says:
We even find Democrats now, as in their
originsl errors, ready 10 give up their
faith, their principles, their security, in
the vain hope that power is everything
and all else must yield to the mode OF o5-
tanning Il. In such ideas there is only
weakness and defeat, corruption and dis
honor; and one defeat without honor or
the faith which bind souls as brothers To-
gether, and all is lost in airy nothing. A
vacuum viii then be where the old srmy
Of Democrats once stood battling for the
right.
The Democracy have carried Belmont
County, Ohio, by majority of six hun
drsd votes.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

The Chicago organ of JEFF. Davis wrig-
giles into every Eind of snaky attitude to
throw discredit upon The government and
the North. No possible species of slander
or sOphistry goes unemployed long when
once it come within the vision Of the chief
Of western cOpperhesds.
In Tuesdays edition of that deleoiable
sheet, we have beautiful specimen Of cop
perry logic. The Philanthropy of abolition
lists is the subject Of bitter TRADE. The
organ of JEFF. regards it as not very gen
uins article. Why so2 Because abolition
lists forget the ignorance, deprsvity, des-
titution, and death at their own doors in
their sympathy with the slaves. Now, we
can assure you, Dir. Times, their sym
pathies are largely directed toward the ig
norance, dsprsvity, and destitutiOn which
prevails in the ranks of the copperhesds.
They feel very strongly for you all, and
hope that the sslutary lessons Of bitter ex-
perience viii not be lost upon you.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

Mr.. Bean, proprietor of the Fremont
Messenger Copper has been trying to
make little spec. Que night last week
portion of his printing materials was des-
troyed, by persons unknown, as he said.
but whom he denounced IS i!Loyal Lea.
guers and Republicans" He also stated
MS losses at sevel al thousand dollars
the leading Union men of Fremont, feel
ing outraged by the libel, immediately y de-
nounced Beans statement. and ofFars5 a
liberal reward for the parties who commit.
ted the outrage. Subsequently il was as.
eertsined that Bean grossly exaggerated
his losses, and besides, the Seminal calls
attention to the suspicious facts that onIv
the least valuable part Of She material
was injured, and that the forav on tbe
office was on the night Of the verv dsv an
which the Sheriff had notified parties in
terested, that q mortgage Of 81 200 on Il
w-rrr1A ~ - -
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

A copperhesd exchange induIges in The
following:
The administration of the General Gov.
ernment is now wsging the war openly for
the freedom Of the blacks, and in 80 doing
they trsmple the dearest rights Of thewhites
under the iron heel Of military power.
The emancipation of the negroes is e
terror to ell true genuine copperhesds.-
Probably, because they regard themselves
as unit to compete with the black rsce in
future competition for the honOrs and
properties Of life. WereslIy sympsthise
with the poor whites" who are fearful
Ofbeing Outstripped in the coming conflict
Of the races.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

A Copperhead oracle thus displays the
futile mslirnity Of its oompstriots:

a Copperhead oracle thus displays the
futile mslignity of its OOmpstriots;
uThere are men in that TUnion1 party
too honest to endure patiently the sending
home Of only Republican soldiers to vote
in State Elections. The great mass Of
radicals, deluded by their leaders into a
belief in the constitutionality Of legal
tender paper currency, now repent their
folly when its consequences are emptying
their pockets and visibly sending the ma
ton headlong down the sleeps Of bank
ruptcy- The despotic authority used to in
carcerate political opponents they begin
to see the wrong Of, when their political
friends, like Hswley D. Clapp, suffer,
though in his case there was tenfold the sp-
parent cause. F."
l. There was no sending home Of
only Republican soldiers" to vote in Ohio
last Fall, when all her Volunteers voted
in camp, or field, or hospital, wherever
they might be, and gave an aggregate Of
4l;453 votes for the Union to 2, ,391 for the
Democratic candidates. Nor was there
any "sending home of only Republican
soldiers to vote" last Fall in Iowa, when
all her soldiers voted wherever they might
be, and gave 1904 votes for the Union TO
1904 for the Democratic candidate, though
the latter was at that moment q General in
command of 8 portion Of those very SOL
diers, professedly in favor Of q vigorous
prosecution Of the War. Nor was there
any sending home Of only Republican
ss1diara to Voten in Wisconsin, whose
soldiers all likewise voted wherever they
were, and gave 9,257 votes for the Union
to TAI to the Democratic candidate Nor
was there any "sending home Of only Re
publican soldiers to vote in Missouri,
whose Volunteers who are legal voters ali
voted in the field last Fall, giving an ag-
gregate Of 8, 827 to III for the "Conserva-
tive" o ndidstes, though one Of the latter
was Colonel Of one Of the Missouri reei-
ments, wherein he received exactly 6S
votes. Besides the above, the 'Conservs-
tive authorities Of Missouri rejected about
5000 Radical votes, but could not reject
enough TO fslsify the verdict Of those who
are fighting for their country.
Why has not some Copperhesd journal
or speaker the manliness to face these and
kindred facts: Thoy are constantly pre-
tending that /" the Abolitionists" don't
volunteer, i0heH the soldiers of every State
which has alIot0ed its soldiers to Vote IN the
field haze URitoTnly given oVsTt0helmiag ma
joTitiss for cur side and against them We
dare them to attempt to show an exception.
The six States that allowed their soldiers
to vote last year lone Of them only those
in hospital within her own limits) showed
an aggregate Of 1925 Union votes last
Fall to 7,112 Democratic. Dare you face
these returns, quibblers? Why has your
party not enabled the soldiers Of Delaware,
or those Of New Jersey, or those of Illi-
Doies, or those of Indiana to vote? You
have the power; why do you never exer-
else it in favor Of allowing all the soldiers
TO voteF We dare you to do it where you
can, and so obviate all pretenee Of par
tiality in the premises N p Tribune.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

The New York Independent points out
some of the defects in our present tariff.
Speaking of the enormous price that has
been charged for butter, it says:
The cause of this exorbitant advance in
such a commodity has been attributed by
s1me Of our cotemporsries 10 speculation; /;
but we think the sole cause has been a le.
gitimate one, and may be directly traced
to the neglect Of Congress in not amend
ing our tariff of duties on imported mer-
chsndise. The product of our dairies has
been sent off to Europe, to pay for articles
Of pure luxury, whose importation has
been stimulated by the rates Of duties i'm
posed upon them. What is an article of
luxury? is a question that opens a wide
door for debate. But there are certain
things which no one will deny are luxu-
ries, pure and simple; and these are.
strangely enough, among the most lightly
taxed articles Of the whole list Of foreign
importstions. All kinds Of jewelry, and
all the trumpery which comes under the
head Of mock jewelry, for example, pays
but twenty-five per cent, while mechanics'
tools pay thirty.fve. Silks costing under
a dollar yard, and silk velvets under
three dollars yard, psy but thirty per
cent, while cheap oslicoes pay about fifty,
and sometimes IS high IS eighty per cent.
The finest Of merinos pay but thirty-ive
per cent, while low.priced mousseline de
LANES pay about fifty. Champagne and
Burgundy wines, which ought to be taxed
at least hundred per cent, pay but fifty,
the same tax that is put upon medicinal
which are necessary for the
health. Little toy figures for manteI orna.
ments pay but ten per cent, diamonds five
per cent, pearls and coral but thirty,
while steel files pay thirty five per cent.
and two cents per pound. The tariff is
full Of such violations of the cardinal prin.
ciples Of taxation, whereby the highest
rates Of duty sre laid upon articles Of
prime necessity and materials needed by |
The lsboring people, while the lowest rates
ars put upon articles of pure luxry, which
none but the very wealthy ought ever to
indulge in. Is it any wonder that thought |
iul men complain Of the pernicious care
essness Of Congressman TO their highest
iuty while such things exist?
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
GENERAL NEWS.


Three brothers named Hudgins, who
took the oath after deserving from the reb-
Ell army, and then found employment in
one Of the government repair shops in
Washington, have been discharged by Col.
onel Ingrshsm for rejoicing over the Fort
Pillow massacre. Served them right.
A western paper tells this story: A
farmer prosecuted his mother, ninety-one
years old, for the cost Of her board with
him for nineteen years past. She had
been living with him, taking care Of his
children, eight or nine in number, knit
ting stockings, SO. The Judge dismissed
the case and reprimsnded the hard heart
ed son.
The Educational Commission for Freed
men has Just held its snnusl meeting in
Bosom, re electing Governor Andrew as
President. The clothing given out during
the past year was Of the value Of S25, 900,
and 81, 900 are in the treasury.
The Central Ohio Lunstic Asylum has
408 patients. Since its foundation it has
received 4, 1852; Of whom 809 we're insane
hereditarily, BOB from domestic causes,
2O2 from intempersnce, $50 from religious
excitement, and Is from seduction.
The sum of $4,000 has been subscribed
in this country for the Protestant College
in Syria.
Thomas Blanchard, the inventor, who
died in Boston last week at the age Of sew
enty-fVe, was 9 remarkable man. He in
vented the tack machine when he was only
eighteen years old and sold the patent
right for $1,000; his next invention was
the lathe for turning gun barrels; then he
went to Springfield, Massachusetts, aud
multiplied ingenious Misunderstanding
out, altogether, twenty-five patents for
new machines or improvements Of old ones.
He died wealthy.
At Colts factory in Hartford workmen
are busily engaged in removing the ruins
and rel building.
The city and county authorities Of St.
Louis have given $4,000 in aid Of the
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair.
Oil Creek, in Pennsylvania, has pro-
duced forty thousand barrels Of oil during
the past two weeks, and one we'll in the
same neighborhood is yielding at the rate
Of four hundred and eighty barrels day.
There is among the curiosities on exhi-
bition at the Maryland Sanitary Fair a
punch, bowl which has this interesting his.
tory:
The celebrated Tea Party of Boston,
which performed the first great act Of the
Revolution by the destruction of the team
the ships lying in Boston Hsrbor, and so
prevented the collection Of the odious tax
which the British government hsd laid
upon the Colonies without their consent,
held its last meeting previous to doing that
great work in the house OF the patriot Mr..
Benjamin Edes Of the Boston Gazette. The
party WAS kept amply supplied with punch
by Mr.. Edes, prepared in a China bowl of
good dimensions by his son Peter Edes,
then youth Of nineteen. The family Of
the latter moved to Baltimore prior to the
late war, and have sscredIy preserved this
precious relic. Before the death Of Peter
Eaes, he wrote letter detailing his share
in the memorable event Of which we treat,
and requesting that the bowl should al
ways be preserved in his family.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
The Horrible Treatment of sIav,s.

A correspondent at Baton Rouge, Leuis-
lana, in late letter, gives some sad facts
concerning the former treatment Of slaves.
he says: ain company Of 250 blacks
IN this city, there are not seven able bodied
men, They are aged, or young, or Grip.
Piled. never saw so many cripples in
my life as among the negroes here. We
often meet them with one arm, one leg or
shoulder broken, or hip out of joint, or
one eye out. These are common badges
OF the slave Il is awful. One woman,
who was formerly a Shareholder. told me
that she had been called mistress BY twen-
ty slaves, but she herself had been the
greatest slsve. She said: HYou Of the
North know nothing about it. l have
often begged. my husband to tighten the
tasks Of his slaves, and not TO visit them
with tortures. But he would answer that
my Yankee whims were the ruin of his
negroes. When l married him 1 thought
him an idol, but he turned out libsrtine.
as are most men Of Louisiana. One slave
woman had five children, half brothers
and sisters Of my children, and to torment
me he often compelled my sons to call his
mulatto children brothers and sisters. At
length he brought their mother into nv
part Of the house, calling her his sweet
heart and thus adding insult to injury.
often wished could die
" have seen Mr.. C. assist in ironing q
poor man whose back had just received q
thousand lsshes, and WAS q perfect Jelly
had been washed in strong brine, then
burned bis quivering flesh by whipping his
back over with whip Of corn busks in q
,ull blaze. The next morning while being
1riVen out to work he was given q blow |
o make him keep up with the rest, and he
lell to rise no more His masters name |
was Samuel Lay. One slave who had at.
tempted to run away was whipped, ,ironed,
Ind the bottoms of his feet glshed, 30 that |
he blood followed his steps for week,
Fhen another whipping ended his dsys.d
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
The Fort Pillow OIassaCre Re-enacted.

The New York Herald's correspondent
writing from Newberns in regard to the
recent disaster ct Plymouth, says:
Ny informant also acquainted me with
the fact that ell the negroes found after
the surrender were stripped Of their cloth
ing and brutally murdered in cold blood
1t must be understood that General Wes.
sells had no eolored troops at Plymouth,
save q few recruits for North Carolina
regiments, and the poor, unfortunate
blscks thus butchered were merely labor
ersifOr the government. The negroes were
formed into line, in nude state, and fred
at By the brutal soldiery, purportine to re.
present Southern chivalry. Nature re-
volts at these facts; and the plan apps-
rently adopted by the rebels for the future
disposition Of negroes is emancipation
from, and not for, life.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
An Exciting scene az Niagara Fails.


The Niagara Falls Gazette has the fol
lowing account Of an extraordinary ice
jam in the Niagara river few days since,
and the narrow escape of several per-
sons:
a change from the prevailing easterly
wind to the opposite quarter brought down
immense quantities Of ice from the lake
| last Wednesday, night. For the first time,
we believe, in the recollection Of the "old-
est inhsbitant," the ice formed complete
dam scross the rapids between the bridge
and the upper end Of Goat Island. With
the exception of few rods in width near
the main shore, the rocks below the ice
dam were bare. It was safe walking where
usually flows an impetuous food. And
yet it was not quite so safe, as was proved
Thursday morning, when several young
men wandered over the barren rocks, and
visited boat that had been lodged there
for several weeks. Will eenjoying walk,
which we of this generation may never
again hear Of, the ice dam gave way and
the vast volume of water, probably from
five to ten feet deep, came rushing through.
The dam soon disappeared, and the boat
that had remained fixed against the ordi-
nary torrent was swept away over the cat
sract. 0fcourse there was hurrying to.
ward the island shore and the paper mill
pier. Some escaped with little wettiDg,
while others barely escaped with their
lives. A young man named Barlow was
obliged to leap from one to another Of the
floating cakes Of ice, and fully spprecist-
ing the necessity of making land before
being carried too near the cataract, lost no
time in lesping from the last cake, and
swimming several rods to shore.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
Interesting Experiments with Shot and
Iron Plates.


Iron Plates.
A private letter from an officer Of the
gunbsst Essex, in Red River, published in
the Cincinnati Commercial, gives this &C.
count Of an interesting series Of expert
ments at Fort De Russey:
''some experiments were tried with the
nine inch guns Of the Essex on the iron
oasemsted battery of Fort de Russey, prior
to its destruction, to test its power Of re-
sistsnoe and the strength Of the guns. The
writer says: Our nine-inch pierced the
iron and twenty inches Of the wood, throw
ing the bars of iron all around. Some Of
the pieces of iron were thrown upward
some sixty feet. One piece about ten feet
long came down with sush force that it
ran plumb through log four feet in cir
cuuference. Nobody could possibly have
stood behind the oasemste, the conoussion
was so tremendous, aud the splinters would
have killed them. We then tried the hun.
dred- -pounderF, with the same effect We
threw our F34d shot against it, and in the
same hole go. : shell which exploded,
throwing up the iron for ten feet ell around.
After We had experimental till the captain
was satisfied that the place was not i'm
pregnsble, as tho rebels thought, we set
fire to it and burned the remaining tim
bers.'"
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

The Union men Of West Virginia held q
State Convention at Parkersburg April
20th, and appointed ten delegates to She
Baltimore Convention. The delegates at
large are ". D. Stevenson, Of Wood; G..
D. Hail, Of Harrison; John N. Boyd Of
Marion, and c. N. Fitzgerald, Of Mason.
The Wheeling InteIligeneer states that the
whole delegation are for Mr. IjneoInia re-
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

A curious work on eosmetics recanfr
published, strongly condemns rouge ana
pearl powder, but informs the ladies bov
they may give color to their cheeks with.
out danger. Thus Take fragment ~
bright crimson silk, dip in spirits Of v;ns y
and rub it over the cheeks mill a noaa,..e --.e
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28

From Rev J. Newton Brown, D. y, Editor o. tne
EncyclopeoiA Of Rsligfous hnoWictge and Chris
tinn ChTonlci 3, PhilRdelphs,
AlLnOuEn noE d lBposec IsVOr recommend Eat
ent Medicines 10 general through dtgtruHs o. Lneu
ingredients and e1ecus, vet know OF no surnoieni
reasons Why man may not testify 20 the oenenta ne
believes himself 20 have received nom any Hnpie
prs1sratien in the hnps he may thus ooatriDurs 'e
ne Denent Of Others.
do this the more reEdiiy in regard 70 hooHandt
German Bftters, prepared Dy On. U. m. jackson, o.
thts city, Decausol preIudiceL against Lnena OF
many years, under the impression that thsy HeIs
chiefly an alcoholic mixture. 1 an indebted % ~
TREND Robert shoemaker, Eqs., DC removed tn1
plsiudice By proper tests and Tor enc 70
ny themi when suffering from great an lCls Consh
iled debility. The o. three sOstls8 OF snsse B
ers, st the beginning Of the present ar Wss -,
lowed by evident reaf and restoration 20 asgIseo
bodily and mental VigOr which hEd not elL ioT 81
months before, and hsd almost despared 0f sgannG
therefore thaAk God and my friend for dire ns M
20 tbs use OF them, }. AEMGUE BRG We
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-28
~ EMEMB BER,@
That this Bittsrs Is FOt Alcoholic
CONTAINS NO RUN or WHISKY,
And CaR't Stake DrnnkaFds
Is the Rest Tonic in the World
Is the Rest Tonic in the World.
= REAp KHO sAEs sO: q

81 hHAO HHO "a 10 SO' ~
From, the Rev. Levi G. Beck, Pastor OF the Baptist
Church, PembertOn, New Jersey, formerly ef the
North Baptist Church, PhiiaGslPhir.
have known Hollands German Bittsrs favoraely
for nul ubcr OF years. Ihave used thsm In ny own
family, aid have been SO pleased with their euecu
that was induced to recommend them to many otn-
ers and kn that they have operated in strlktng
ly Denehcfa manner. take great pleasure IN tnuh
publicly pre- claiming this fact, and calling the atten
Tion OF those afflicted with the diseases tor which
they rec, 1Ihmended, TO these BitterH, knowing
from experie uce thar my recommendation VIII oe
sustained. 90 this more eheerfuly as HOO1ands Z
Btters Is iutep ded to benefit tbs afflicted, and Is mo-
a rum drink - Yours truly,
LEVI q. BECK.