Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-11

men, consisting of D. A. Dangler and John
Huntington, of the Cleveland City Council,
R. B. Dennis, City Attorney, A. T. Brins-
made, Assistant ditto, ]. w. Schmidt, City
Marshal, and D. N. Gardner, Police Court
Clerk, left this city for Detroit, TO inspect
the practical workings, and learn the actual
results of the operation, of the Metropolitan
some time in that city. Arriving there Fri
day morning, they were introduced to the
Police Commissioner and the officers OF the
force, whom they found courteous and com
m~unicative. They were received with all
becoming tokens of respect and considera-
ton by Mayor Barker, and had interviews
with the President and several members OF
the City Council of Detroit. They speak in
high terms of the cordially with which they
were received and shown around. The party
returned on Saturday, and state that they
were very favorably impressed with that
they saw of the system. We are informed
that they are now preparing a report on the
subject, which will embody the results OF
their observations and their convictions on
the matter. We shall take pleasure i'll lay
ing it before our reader. in the city and
county, as soon as it is prepared for publ
cation.
This expedition was set on foot, we
understand, by David A. Dangler, Esq.
Impressed with the fact that our police
system is not as effective as it should
be, and that our police force is not
adequate, because so small, he is DESTROYS Of
introducing some system which shall be
adequate. There will probably be some ae-
ton with reference to police regulations, in
the Legislature this winter.
The Detroit papers give accounts of a raid
made on Marshal Schmidt, City Attorney
Brinsmade and Clerk Gardner, while
asleep in the train, IN Thursday night,
whereby the said gentlemen were de
spoiled of their watches, money, etc,
etc. No arrests have been made, although
the :" swoopers nave been spotted. We
understand that the g%obblers voluntarily
ungobbled the gobbled gobbleables, and that
in view of this ingenious act the City Mar
shall and Attorney agreed to let them slide!
GEoRGE ALFRED TowNsEyD.-The next lee
turer before the Library Association is the
gentleman whose name caps this paragraph
Mr.. Townsend is new to the lecture field /;
indeed, he is one of the youngest authors
who nave ever mounted the rostrum in this
country; yet his brilliant success before the
Young Mems Association of Troy, n. Y, on
Tuesday evening last, stamped him at once
no less happy in this sphere of literary eff
fort, than as a writer and poet.
In a lecture recently in New York, no less
a critic than oliver Wendell Homes, said
that the war had given-t the nation four poets
and one of these four was George Alfred
Townsend. Our readers will remember Mr..
Townsend's magnificent panoramic descrip
ton of the Battle of Five Forks. 1t sur
passed any piece of word painting executed
during the war, for brilliant grouping of de
tails and general effect. A picture was pre-
sented that the mind had no difficulty in
eomprehending in its minutest details. It's
coloriug was warm and glowing but by no
MtduS tAdRBbidlcu VI PO uCliBhbC
was Mai. Gen. Phil. Sheridan with it,that he
wrote Mr.. Townsend a letter expressing his
qualification, saying it was as faithful as his
own official report.
Though yet young man, Mr.. Townsend
has been all over Europe. In London he
wrote for the magazines and was cheered by
such men as Kossuth and Mazzini. In
Paris he fellowshipped with that class of
Jacobins who have always been the most
cordial haters of despotism and the warmest
lovers of liberty.
He came home from abroad during the
last year of the war, having left it soon after
the Peninsula campaigns. As a eontribu
tor to Harper and the other magazines, and
as co-editor with the genial Col. Charles G.
Halpine miles O'Reilly,) of the New York
Citizen, he has won an enviable position as
a writer. His first book, entitled The Cam
paigns of a non-C ombatant," is now in the
press of Blelock & Co., New York, and VIII
be handsomely issued in January.
Mr.. Townsend lectures to night in Ashta-
bula, Tuesday in Buffalo, Wednesday in
Dunkirk and Thursday before our own Lii
brary Association.