The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-04

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been mistaken for the politician, whose
dress and personal appearance were as
different from the elergyman's as from
any man living.
Mr.. FREELY N JEFF DAVIS.
The Citizen of last week, has the follow
ing in regard to the charge of Mr.. Weed
that II. q. has maintained q correspond
ence with certain relatives of Jefferson
Davis. We quote:
Some time ago, Mrs. Jefferson Davis
wrote q very touching and truly wemanly
letter to the editor OF the Tribune, thank
ing him for the advocacy OF civil over
military tribunals In the cases of political
offenders; complaining of the alleged ILL
treatment of her husband, the insufficient
and unwholesome food given to him, his
subsection to heavy letters, his being denied
hours for open-air exercise, and all the
other absurd ISLANDERS of the same sort
poured out by the fertile correspondents of
the Philadelphia Inquirer. -s
To this Mr.. Greeley replied, as any gem
tlemsn must have replied TO any lady, so
unfortunate as to have q husband in such
8 sorry case. He dissbused her mind of
the false stories of i'll treatment and priVa-
ton; assured her that our Government
was wholly incapable of any such mean
malignity IS the reports in question had
~ibelously charged to its account; that Mr..
Davis had good and wholesome food, as
much open air as he needed, and that
when last reliably heard from-ihe health
of her husband was not only not worse,
but much better than it had been at the
TINA of hia
Mr.. Greeley's letter then wound up by
some reassuring words to the effect that
she might dismiss snxiety as to any snap
Judgment or dIum-hesd proceedings and
execution in regard to her husband, it
being Mr.. G.'s conviction that he weuld be
given 8 Just and public trial before some
fairly constituted and honorable court.
This letter, open, was inclOsed in one TO
General William Birge, commanding at
Savannah, to be delivered or returned as
that officer might think advisable; and
surely in this Transaction. at least, there is
nothing to damage Private QGreeley in
the judgment OF any candid or compass
siOnAte censors.
HOW H. G. "TooK DOWN" HIS STAFF.
The Times of Monday has the follow
ing:
About fifteen yeas ago, when the tenn
perance furore was at its height in this
State, our good friend of the Hsecale anti
quinn was the grand champion of total sb-
~stinence, not only in theory, but Ito his
honor be it ssid), in practice and he made
his influential journal so conspicuously viz
tuous in this regard, that nine in ten of all
his country readers were ready TO swear
that every man on the paper, from A No.
l to Zed, was q rampant cold wsterite, and
went to church three times and half every
Sunday, besides Thursday night. One day
in q ponderous leader on his fsvorits hobby
the Governor betrayed his innocence OF
tppling by writing that on a specified &C.
casion certain persons had been drinking
brandy, whisky, champsge and Heidsiek."
The morning en- which this Lapsus some
thing wss printed, found us (the writer
tbere) in a grand chuckle over the
Old Mans blunder in saying champagne
and Heidsick." Most of us had known
Charles Heidsick in the shape of sick head
ache too often to forget him in q hurry.
In our seven-by-nine editorial room, which
held Us all in those days, we laughed huge
ly ove the mistake. There was the future
Assistant Secretary of War, keen, sarcastic,
imperious, sitting on his tall bench with his
everlasting green shade over his eyes say
ing good things, one-third sweet and FIVE
thirds bitter; there was the then incipient
ULYSSES the ~far-trsvelled, but not such an
uncomfortable liar as the Trojan humbug;
there was the gentlemanly Professor, rotund
and d~ignifed, yet ready to shake his glasses
out of their golden frames at q number
one Joke; there Wss the relAtor there was
the quiet man of all work, who is at the
present time annoying q sixth of the city
bv sending in Uncle Sans tax bills; there
was, lastly and greatestly, the courteous
and Important money man, a good fellow
q gourmsnd by education, and perhaps
coming IS near as any other of us to the
aawfuI example" for the Old Mans
homilies. So we sat and haw-hswed
over the leading editors mistake, until
that veritabIe Individual appeared, his
crumpled hat perched on his coat collar,
his thin hsxen hair half covered with the
pages of q smashing leader, written before
| breakfast, and jsmmed into he,,hat instesd
of the pocket his hands full Of letters and
pspers in most admired disorder; and his
| whole self slouching in with the lurch Pc
cuIiar TO him alone, his clear, child-like
face and innocent eyes beaming with that
mild, inquiring look, that overeomes malice
and almost dissipstes prejudice.
Conspiring to confound the Old Man,
who hsd 30 often COMPOUNDED US for lesser
sins, we put forth the gcurmand IS our
spokesman, and he, in English remarkable
Tor its mathematical precision, his mlnd
was commercially constructed rallied the
chief upon the ridiculous mistake ne 3
made in representing Champagne" and
"Heidsick . IS distinct tipples, and then we
felt victorious and again we gutfAwea-
Looking around upon the crowd in ms
quiet way, and las hamlet senior, scented
the morning air. seeming to gent the
! morning cocktail, the champion Of teetotal-
ism crushed us under this quiet reply :
aNow, did II WssI 1 reckon, I'm the
onfv writer on this paper who could make
such a blunder." We subsidized. And
down to this day, it would appear that the
Old Man Is oblivious of the commonesI
distinctions in the catalogueof pOtAbles.
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