Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-04
ADAY OF JUBILEE.
.sIhe Fall OF RichmOnd'' in Cleveland
No End of the Cannon Fdring-A
Thousand Flags are Given 10 the
Breeze-GeneraI ReiOfcing.

Our citizens awoke yesterday morning
with the duty of municipal election be-
fore and upon them. A day warmed to the
usual degree of electioneeripg excitement
was anticipated. The quite startling Off
cial bulletins of the morning paper, read
over the coffee cups, stirred the blood to
some extent, but no one was prepared in
mind for the tremendous intelligence which
was, two or three hours later, to break like
thunder stroke on the city, and render
business a nuisance, throw all interest in
the election into comparative shade, and
convert the day, after che first stunning
shock was over, into an universal holiday
ard jubilee. For, though we have known
that the end at Richmond was nearly
reached, and that the city must soon fall,
no one seemed quite ready to hear an an
nOuncemeLt 80 startling as that the Capt.
tai of the Confederacy was actually in our
hands, and so the telegram fell with brisk
shock upon the ear.
But the thunder stroke quickly converted
itselfinto an exhilarative, and men and wo-
men has.ened up and down as if they had
been inhaling "laughing gas" The old
secesh gun was made to tell the story from
the Public Square. People thronged about
the bulletin boards of the LEADER and Herald
offices, and the news spread itself through
out the city, and sifted like light into every
by place. Flags were run up on the flag
staff on the Public Square, on the tower of
the First Presbyterian Church, The Court
House and Telegraph Office, while the Stars
and Stripes were given to the breeze from
scores of vessels in the river, and from in
Vulnerable private houses in the city.
The authorities sent for the Brooklyn bat
tory, and about four O'Clock P. n, two
brass pieces, came into the city, and fred
salute of hundred guns on the Square.
The young folks were in their element. All
the boys in Christendom, apparently, were
out, shouting, and diving into the cannon
smoke, and going through the divers evo-
lutions which gaaains know, and at every
discharge of the guns falling and feigniDg
tho convulsions or quiet estate of wounded
and dead men.
The firing ended, horse attached to one
of the pieces gave the crowd cause for q
good deal of merriment. He was stubborn
wretch, would not bulge an inch, and
evidently, did not enter into the spirit of
the occasion, but leered, and sulked, and
baked, and swore, as well as horses eyes
could swear, that he sympathized with jeff.
Davis.
Not contented with the noisy demonstra-
tions of joy, ,;the bells were called into req
uisition by the enthusiastic people, and
many mistook that form of rejoicing for the
alarm offre. One steamer, with hose cart
and hook and ladder, ran out, but discover
ing the true state of the case, returned,
blowing the steam whistle half the length
of Superior street.
During the evening occasional guns were
let off in the city and country roundabout,
the people testifying, by carrying the ex-
preston of their joy far into the night, to
what depth in their minds and hearts the
glorious news of yesterday had sunk and