Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-28
LETTER FROM CORY.
Pennsylvania COpperhends- Improve
mentS, dc., dc.


From an Occasional Correspondent.
CoRRY, Pa, Nov. 25.
EDITOR LEADER: On arriving here
from off the Philadelphia & Eric road,
and hearing the newsboys cry "Here Is
the New York papers and the Cleveland
LEADER, it almost seems as if one had
overcome a gigantic barrier and stepped
from solitude into the teeming highway
of traffic and civilization. Any where
out of the charme circle over which the
sceptre of King Petrolia waves, in the
good old Quaker State, the hardy people
are decidedly slow, and it may be the
utterance of no joke to say that Andrew
Jackson still continues to receive many
of the votes of the free and Independent
electors It would be more creditable if
such unsophisticated simplicity prevailed
to greater extent, for nowhere was the
comprehend more vehomous during the
progress of the rebellion than in the re-
moter sections of Western Pennsylvania.
Your correspondent heard an old citizen
of Warren say that he chopped to God,
from the bottom of his heart, that if Grant
attacked Lee in front of Richnion d, that
Lee would lick him like hell" A Dutch
man present said, "Vell, l shust hopes
they have one pig fight, and about twenty
thousand PENNSYLVANIA soldiers gets killed
SO they cant vote" This was Just previ-
Gus to the election one year ago. Holmes
county copperheadism is angelic in COM
parison.
Cory has in three years become an i'm |
portant town, the population at the pres |
ent time numbering perhaps four thousand. |
Except the Downer Oil works there are no |
buildings of permanent character, but |
all the houses are of wood with balloon
frames and as slightly built as possible,
and have them habitable A large hotel |
will soon be open, but it is badly planned
with a good many dark rooms, and must
be well kept indeed to become a favorite
with the travelling public. FOx's Hotel,
the United States, and the Railroad House,
adjoining the passenger
depots, seem to be the best patronized,
but the very best place to get tip top
meal on short notice is the small but neat
50 Mazeppa," kept by the Oakley Brothers.
The passenger stations here are wretched
rough board shanties, not a tenth part
large enough, and without parallel for
their discomfort. The 4. & G. w. Co,
however, will soon have completed very
good and much more commodious depot,
4 little to the west of the old one, which
will be used by all the roads till a substan-
.ial and large structure can be erected.
The projected railroad between Cory
md Westfield will no doubt be built
which will add to the importance of the
ormer as railroad center and be of vast
benefit to your sister city Buffalo for at
present it is almost entirely cut off from
he trade of the oil regions. The A. & G.
W., as well as the 0. C. and the 2. u f.,
re laying down endings, which are great
V needed. The want of transfer depots
md enlarged facilities for handling freight
eriously obstruct the business of all the
oads, but each day sees new and decided
Your agents, Messrs. NJ. Riley & Co,
,eep on hand, besides the LEADER, all the
Sew York papers, as well as general as
ortment of the current literature of the
ay They are also prepared to refresh
he inner man, and their place is altogeth-
r popular and agreeable resort for the
emporary sojourner. Is. ,