The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-16
Letter fcom Mrs. sIocuu,.


DEER Me EDITOR am 50 dreadfuly sot
back and disapinted, that cant help sttin
right down * givin you r peace ofmy mind
about your FaPor, aI5ho have 10 wipe my
hands rite ut of the suds 4 let my dish
water get cold while am talking. the
Deacon thinks justa do, only more so,--
Deacon Ephraim Slocum is my husband i
an Polly Sophronia SlOcum that sent you
two dollars in greaback mony & so cents in
Shin Plaster the second day Of last March
to hire your newes paper for 3 months. My
old man is poor hand at a pen & I alters
do the wrtin for the family, being natterly
8 Scollsr. Sacharisss tho Deacons darter
by his first wife, Was good deal larned for
she eliers would be porin over books when
she Orter have bin at work, hut she is mar
ried TO Benjamin DaDgs d lives TO Petroleum
Vile now and Mannasses Slocum my SOD,
lined the potomac army one year ago q we
hsnt no others only Ebin h he is so dTed-
fully sore eyed that we nerer had him to
try 10 larn eny thing. Well ssi sed-yoUr
newspaper don't keep Up JCith lChat 10 started
on: We Iers use To boTrer cur Parsons
Leader until evry body began to get so kin
der excited * husterated over what was
going on among our Soldiers, that Parson
Snodd said he couldent get a chance to read
ms own paper tsw save him, so many kum
10 borrerin it, So sails ts the D aeon. sposin
we send up TO Cleayeland & hire the Leader
for ourselves, he Deacon said he were
agreed and We did Some days / thot the
paper hadn't much to say, but generally we
called 1t fust rate. Our horse biloxi would BE-
evry day arter we got it from the Post O6ce
with the men from all about, cum to here
the Deacon read about q neral SbUrman
marching in such pert way right down
among tue Secesh, taking a B line straight
thro' Them ar pesky towns, brlm tull Of
rebels, & about the fall of Petersburg Il
Richmond lE Gineral Lee surriDdiug up all
mis- soldiers to our Militia, & then the awful
kiln of our good President by a poor,
sues kin, misera bic, low actin theatre playn
faller, & his gistn shot by piOus Boston
soldier, & and sll that which you must hev
red in your own paper. Well, as long rs
you Kept seudn us sich news, | used to ssy
oft3n that it was really wuth tho money.
But you have stop. sendin anything inter-
estin. declare tu gracious yure last 2 or
p4pers are regHl ? swindle Il tho Deacon
thinks so too Not one spec OF news, nuthin
only "Jef' Davis kant escape possabiy,"
which you have declared over and over.
Now it is perfectly awful dOin without eny
more Dtltl-by Hstb bsslhaJlOus ana uObNlu II
terestin To take their place. il you kant
give US anything but news about Foreign
folks as you cell il, and guess work as to
when the col spirators will be shot, and
what has become of Mr.. Jefferson Davis
and whom he is to be hung. l ken tell you
| shant dog our old hens every day fOr eggs
to pay for your Guy paper cny longer, aud
if there Is another printed in the
country I shall try that and see what they
can give US. 1 thot maybe if rit plainly
and told you what we thought about this,
that you would see the necessity of stirrin
round and huntin upsOmethin more excitin
& terrible in your next, for folks has got so
used to it that they wont du without it, the
Deacon says.
Not wishin to hurt your feelins, but to do
good, 7 subscribe my self your subscriber,
MRs. PDLLY SOPHKOEIA SLOCUM,
wife Of Deacon Ephraim slocum,
SlOcum's korners.
We will comply with the request of "AIrs.
Polly sophronia slocum" and give some
sensation items in regard TO the capture of
jeff. Davis and his skedaddling govern
ment. We hope soon to have the pleasure
Of giving an account of his being hung,
which We doubt not will grstify Ms. Polly