The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-29

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pssms and not likely to recover; the O
reading-rooms, mission schools I
nd libraries are all closed for the hot sea- Il
on, and the good people Of the city are all f
of town; the cholera and the Russian B.,
Plague are daily expected, snd the streets
re being filed with filth IS fast IS possible
n order to give the disease 8 good vel
,ome; bank clerks nave been seized Win I
m 'insane impulse" and are running Oh as T!
as possible with all the gold they can
Iay their hands uponl Such Is a brief
spitome of the passing hour but the half
has not vet been told A very strange,
eretofore unheard Of disease has brok-
n out among authors and newspaper cor
r~espondents-it only attacks professional
men Young Americans are on
the rampage, and fast getting the control
of things; the Atlantic Gable has "parted
in mid.oeean" and not q tear has been shed
over it; i~ntemperance and immortality
and dishon esty ere fast on the in
cresse: wealthy old men go to bed a.
night, and find themselves pennies IN the
morning; terrible railroad slAugnters'
steamboat disasters, suicides and crimes
too terrible TO mention. flood all our daily,
papers with their sickening details, and
he verdict given in all these cases Is =
AN obody to blame" Thus you see 4
hot weather has 8 demoralizing influence
on people in New York, IS well Is in other
cities and towns.
can only account for the present de-
TiOhtful state of affairs by supposing that
o1 the respectable people are out of town.
We need Beecher, and Bellows, and Cha
pin, ard Cheever, back here to preach
good morals to us.
GLOVE Usighs the AdairB Of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers, while the bad prevails
Well may the whole country go into fits
when Wall street has an attack like the
present ore. columbus has recently had
It's sad and much-to-be. regretted tragedy,
but that was but 8 rush-light compared 10
the blazing sun of our astounding bank
defslcations. The financial bottom of
things is everywhere dropping out very
p~romiscuously "bulls' sreloslng their gold,
an horns, and "besrs' have at last
caught their tails in q trsp-a steal trap
II ia which seems destined TO deprive
them of their csndal spPendsgesl Some
meu predict that we are on the eve OF a
dreadful financial crisis. They ssy the
whole country is in an awful state, If any
body knows what that is, and that there Is
an immense amount of "rottenness IN
Denmark" meaning that honesty, integrl-
ty of character, temperance aid virtue,
are hard to be found. l don't wonde that
the knees of bank presidents tremble and
knock together; thot the faces OF stock
holders turn pale, for who can q man trust
when his own son proves unworthy OF con-
Rdence Z The defalcation Of the Phoenix
Bank is soon followed by another, and here
tofore the most respectable private bank
ing house in the city is obliged to suspend
payment Old Mr.. Ketchum hurries into
town from his country seat to find that his
son has decamped with several millions
No wonder the father was sstounded, and
almost psralyzed. If this dishonesty on
the part of those employed in banks con
tinues to show itself, the people will soon
lose all confidence in these institutions and
those connected with them the infection
will soon spread into the country and soon
we shall have 8 panic. I don't consider
bank-clerks any more culpsble than the
presidents and directors. All this speculA'
ton and fnAnciering in gold and stocks Ii
little better than gambling, n We might
as well go to the faro bank as the gold
board. Even the newspaper writers who
cry out against sill this, and preach sucf
usiling and orthodox sermons to the PEG
pie, after the crime has been committed ar'
no better than these same ~efsulting clerks
And this brings me to a consideration o
the would-be famous JuRius II. Browne
~ III IA --stk ~ Hav ~ L. Gnffhr
Jonese, BIAcKe, Wnltee, etc j VINO panny
aIines it for half 8 dozen different news
papers, and pitches into Secretary Stanton
the rest of the time.
f MIR. Greeley, ss editor of the New Yorl
Tribune, has very little to do with this anti
Stanton warfare; it seems TO be simpl,
Browne on one side, and nobody on tn
other, What little dust is kicked up come
from the ink.horn of said Browne. H
I seems to fancy, Ia mental hallucination
probably) that Mr.. Stanton eXerted him
. self to keep Browne in the rebel prison
from the time of his capture al Vicksburg
until his escaped This Mr.. Browne i
gJunius' Of the Cincinnati Gazette an,
4 if you compare the articles which b
publishes in the Tribune with his CORES
9 pondence for the Gazette, you will 90
I E06V Al nGhIlI WOAo v uOAA w 11A-S@
g The Gazette must feel highly com
plimented in republishing, from the NeV
York Tribune, original correspondence
Very few New Workers would ever hsv
discovered that "Mr. Junius d. Browne
one of the escaped prisoners from SAlls
bury. yindicatfs himself from the charg
a of making grave statements without du
consideration" etc, as the telegrSphic dli
. patch reads, if they had not discovered
e in the Western papers. It is very easy
account for the appearance Of the "highl
g important news from New YORK" In tn
Western papers. Mr.. Browne is An az
ouaintsnce of Mr.. Thomas W. Knox, th
i agent for the Western Associated Pres
. and it requires no stretch of the imAgins
q ton to suppose that Mr.. Browne dictate
the dispatch himself So you see how III
. important trash is sent over the wires, an
Secretary Stanton trsduced before the pee
| pie. But, alas the great HJunius" is sicl
and not likely TO recover. he has ha
8 some alarming symptoms of late, and eve
: his best friends consider him beyond tn
reach of medical skill. He has been
9 anxious to obtain sensation news items fc
d the press, since the close of the wal, ths
q he has really put his life IN danger. l sa'
him but recently, and must tell you d
) condition at thsttime. The last Bulletin
which has been issued at the corner {
Broadway and Fulton, where Bsrnum
Museum was, Ct is pasted on pile {
bricks,) contains the sad intelligence tbs
3 he is no better and sinking tsstl Tn
Hwhst-has- killed-him," is the Bsrnum
fire, and 8 Turkish BATH Large Grove
Of ragged boys, bsre-headed girls, and oil
a apple women stand about the "Bulleti
, Board" weepingl 1t is. all up wit
: Browne, and soon his monument will /
9 seen in Central Park with this inscriI
g ton;
Q BIC JACET BROWNE
SALISBURY, STANTON, BARNUM
/. TRIBUNE AND TURKEY.
r "QWOrIns magma PGrs twiP
But let me tell you how it hsppenet
Mind, the monument is not built vet. A
the wonderful fire at Barnum'A N
Browne had all the hair burned from d
top of his head, until it became as smoos
Q and glossy as q welLscoured brass KEITH
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