Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-17
The Fifth Ohio CaValry-COHfrndie
tf0n 0f the RsehmOnd SANDERS

The Fifth Ohio CaValry-COHfrndie-
tfon of the Richmond SANDERS
The Lieutenant Colonel, commanding
the 5th Ohio Cavalry, John Grummlll,
has published card in the STATE Journal
in reply to a story in the Richmond papers
about the Ohio boys. He says the Rich-
mond police were a pack of robbers, who
seized and robbed sober and unohendlng
men, on pretense of keeping order Ac-
cording to the ColOnels account, the men
were most shamefully abused in Richmond
| He says: 'ALen of my command, who
were duly sober-men who were never
known to be drunk or disOrderly-Werei
while passing along the streets, or while
stopping at places where refreshments
could be obtained, pouneed upon oy
the police, and taken to the station house,
and there the police were ordered, IN the
language of one Of the officers IN charge,
to ''gO through them, damn them, go
through themP The police took the arms
and the private property of the men
their poeket-books and money. Then,
when my men were released from that
prison, they demanded their property and
money which had been taken from them
by the police, which demand was refused,
and the fact of the authorities having the
money, fatty denied, and instead OF recelv-
ing their property in accordance with
their Just demands, they received insulting
and ungentlemanly answers Inc prop
erty, as yet has not been returned ne
also says: @One of my officers gave ms
side-arms to his servant to keep for him.
The servant buekled the belt around him,
and stepped just outside Of the walls OF
Libby, near the door or entrance, and at
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mOnd, the arms taken from him, and what
money (some ten dollars) he had was
taken by said officials, and when the Off
station-house, and made statement of
the facts in the case, and demanded the
return of his arms, the Chief of Police,
Major Croft, stated to the officer that he
would have taken them from him as quick
as from his niger, and the best thing you
can do is to 20 back to your quarters, or
1 will put YOU under arrest" The gem
eral appearance of this is that Richmond
needs what General Sherman said South
Carolina wanted, "more burning"
Discoveries in Boiler Explosions
a New York letter to the Philadelphia
Inquirer says:
A curious fact in connection with the
explosion of the st. John, that has not
vet been noted, is that all the boiler ex-
plosions that have occurred in this Vicini-
tv for some months past, and there have
been quite number, causing at least
hundred terrible deaths, have been Of low
pressure engines. 1t had always been
supposed that low pressure engines and
boilers were safer than those made for
high pressure 1t seems natural that it
should be so, and yet when We come to
look at the results, they are such as to en-
tirely puzzle and confound even those
most expert in such matters.
was talking yesterday with gentle
man who has very high reputation here
as an engineer and scientific man, and he
assured me that the whole subject of boil
er explosions is as yet comparatively lit
tie understood. In fact they form sub
iect worthy of much scientific research
and investigation. 1t is supposed that
steam, heated beyond certain point,
necessarily passed, even in low pressure
boilers, when coming in contact with an
iron surface, generates certain amount
of electrical or galvanic action, that final
ly destroys the fbrons strength of the iron
and renders it brittle and liable to frac-
hhOthOt eats'
tinued pressure on the inner surface of an
iron boiler gradually destroys the strength
of the iron, so that although a boiler may
stand the initial test of hydraulic pres
sure, that viii form but little proof its ca
pabilities to withstand the long continued
elastic and varying pressure Of steam.
1t is certainly true that in the uses. Of
steam, it has yet been studied but very
little apart from its mechanical effect.
These explosions, for which the theory of
steam will not account, as
the boilers were fixed to elbow of" at a
low pressure, will turn a large share
of attention to this subject, and possibly
we nav soon find it necessary for every
steam boiler to be arranged with an cleo
trical machine or indicator, to show the
amount of electrical action, and the ap-
proaeh of electrical or galvanic storms.