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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
ImnrnYemnnfs.

During the past year the unexampled
prosperity of the LEADER has enabled its
proprietors to introduce Improvements
which render it still more worthy the
support of its large and increasing circle
of readers.
Within that period it has been twice
enlarged, the total increase in size being
about seven columns, thus at once accom-
modating the advertising pressure upon
its columns, and giving much more space
to news and miscellaneous reading matter.
1t is now as large as any paper in the
State, and larger than any outside Of Gin
cinnati. rfI
On the first of October it appeared in a
new and handsome dress, greatly inereas-
ing its legibility and improving its APP
pearance. m
A new double-cylinder press has been
purchased and erected during the year,
which enables US to accommodate our
greatly increased subscription list and at
the same time to keep the paper open for
the reception of news up to the latest
moment.
The LEADER presents more, and moro
interesting, reading matter to its readers
than any other paper in Northern Ohio.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
FHK CLEVELAND LEADER.
A DdIbTrtHeeA and Weekly
NEWSPAPER.
~
The Largest Paper in the West outside
of Chicago, st, Louis and
Cincinnati d. as
PROSPECTUS FOR 1865

The new year upon which we are about
to enter will usher in an era of national
growth, prosperity and greatness unexam-
pied in the ~history-of the world. After
four years of desperate conflict, the prin-
ciples which the LEADER, in common with
the patriotic citizens and soldiers of the
country, has always announced and de-
Tended, have triumphed and the var for
the Union and Freedom has ended / n vie
tory and peace. Secession and slavery
have both been crushed, and our Republic,
reunited and regenerated, enters upon a
new and glorious career. The future is
full of the promise of greatness to our
nation and of prosperity to its citizens.
And yet the crisis of our danger is not
passed. The contest has only been trans
ferred from the military to the political
arena. The weapons are ballots instead
of bullets, the pen instead of the sword.
The spirit of secession is yet alive. The
great work of r~ecOHstTucting the rciutiUHs
Of the Southern States to he Union, so
that the nation may be made secure, Its
faith and honor kept inviOlate, and equal
rights to all its citizens guaranteed, Is yet
to be performed-a work which for its
immense importance and gigantic diff
culties is only paralleled by that which we
have Just concluded. In this most cri-
teal and important period-in the midst
of these great eyents-no man, rich or
poor, can afford to be without a news
paper. 1t is an article of prime necessity
in every household. Without it a man is
half a century behind the age. D.
The Cleveland LEADER enters upon the
tWentv-secon1 wear of its existence with
the'brightest of prospects, and with a more
widely-extended and well-deserved popu-
larity than at any previous period in its
history. Its principles and objects have
always been fearlessly avowed and boldly
advocated. They are the perpetuity of
the Union the maintenance Of Freedom;
the establishment Of Equal Rights to ali
men; and the advancement of the ma
tsrial mental and moral condition of the
Dsple.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Chicago Tribune publishes a col.
umn and a half of dispatches from vari.
Gus towns in the northwestern States
showing that the Thermometer on We'd
nesday night and Thursday morning last
ranged from ten to tW~enty-three degrees
below zero.
Ex-senator Trusten Polk has returned
to st. Louis, and is staying for the pre-
sent at the house Of a friend, near Lafay-
ette Park. =.
W II. Smith, Secretary of State for
Ohio, is preparing a work entitled THE
Life and Public Services of the late Hon.
John Brough, Governor of Ohio.
P. Z. LAWN and S. NJ. jackson, con-
tractors on the main line of the St. Paul
and Pacific railroad, absconded a few DAYS
since with over $4,000 which they had
drawn from the company to pay their en-
plOyees. Officers are in pursuit of them.
AT Wilmington, N. c. matters seem to
be, taking a r~etrograde direction. Two
freedmen, convicted of larceny, have been
sentenced to be sold into seryitude. This
sentence accords with the old State code,
and can be regarded as ~eminently Rip
Van WInklean, or as an Intentional
thrust OF the metacarpals into the facial
'lineaments Of the Constitutional Amend
ment.
MIR. A. Rev announces a lecture at Clin-
ton Hall, New York city, to which admit
lance free will be given to male graduates
of college, editors and reporters, provided
they come in groups of six, each group
furnished with a Mitchell's school atlas.
He offers TO prove the world to be heart
shaped that before the food it was a
mere duodecimo, which a volcano of the
time expanded into a very large or ele-
plant folio !. and that the heart aforesaid
is dropsical, in other words gorged with
water and petroleum, for the existence of
which in springs and wells he proposes to
account. The lecture has its place among
amusements, rather than in the sober
domain of science
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Telegranhic Denartmenf.

We receive the regular Geographic dis
patches to the Associated Press, obtained
at great expense. Special dispatches to
the Western Associated Press, received up
to four A. NJ, and containing the latest
news, are also published in our morning
edition. These dispatches are received by
only n other paper in the State outside
of CINCINNATI We have also able and
Intelligent correspondents in Wash
ington, Columbus, Chicago, Oil City and
other places, who will furnish US by tele-
graph with reliable and exclusive news
from those cities.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
The Spectral Face that President
Lincoln Saw.

In a recent lecture by Bishop Simpson
he relates many interesting particulars
and incidents of Mr.. Lincoln 9 private
life, and repeated the story which he had
heard from Mrs. Lincoln, that when the
news of Mr.. Lincoln's first election
reached his home in Springfield, he saw a
reflection of his own face dead in the glass
beside the reflection of the living counte-
nance. When he first saw il he thought
it was an optical delusion, and turned
away from the glass, but when he looked
in it again he saw again the double refec-
ton. After resting some minutes he.
looked in,tbe glass the third time, and
again saw the spectral face behind his own.
The circumstance made aldeep impression
upon his mind, but he never spoke of It
until about two weeks before the last
Presidential election, when he related it
to his wife. She was fearful that he would
not be reelected, and he told her Of this
incident with the Interpretation he put
upon it-that he would be reelected, but
would not live out his term. And after
wards when the plans of the future were
discussed and he was asked what he would
do after the second term of his office had
expired, he always replied with the proviso
-"If l live.p The Bishop said he could
not explain the circumstance or determine
whether. it was merely an optical delusion
or an intimation of warning from on high.
Mr.. Lincoln always regarded it as the
li?.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Matrimonial Relations Of a Girl of
Fifteen

In the New Bedford Mass. police court,
last week, Mary E. Haskell, a girl only
fifteen years old, was complained of by her
sister for bigamy, having been married to
one Ira Haskins in October last, while her
former husband, Charles j.. Haskell, was
living. For the defence it was claimed
that respondent having been first married
at the age of thirteen years, without the
consent of her mother, who is her only sur
viving parent, and having been sepa-
rated from Haskell by his being in
generated in the State prison, ard hav-
ing no intention to live again with him,
that marriage was void. The testimony
for the prosecution showed, however, that
she had expressed an intention to live
with Haskell after his term of imprison-
ment should expire. The court said that
the reports hold that a female of twelve
years is of legal age to consent to her own
marriage and respondent was ordered to
furnish 500 bail for her appearance at
the Supreme Court at Taunton in March.
The complainant in the above case is mar
ried to the brother of her sisters first hus-
band, both of whom were sent to the
State prison last June for shopbreaking in
Westnort.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
A Southern Notice Of Northern

Do N
From the richmond Times, December Ill
The blood-hounds of Zion bayed loud
and fiercely from their lofty pulpits on
Thanksgiving day. 1t was a national
Sabbath set apart for prayers to God for
the return of peace to a land desolated.
SCARED and torn by civil war, vet humid
reds of the ministers of the Prince OF
Peace made that sacred day hideous with
their wolfsh howls for blood. They stood
at their affairs like those fierce Roman
priests who propitiated the sensual deities
of mythology by the slaughter of whole
hecatombs of sheep and oxen.
Stuffed with turkey and surfeited with
pudding, they still hungered for the little
which war has left the defeated section.
Rubicund with generous wine, their fever
ish thirst for "rebel blOodp was as great
as that of a lion for water after a days
hunt under the scorching rays of a Syrian
sun. Never was the holy mission of the
preacher so shamefully prostituted as it
was IN Thursday last by those who
sought, in Gods own temples, to in1ame
the passions of the North, against a dis
armed and defeated section. The Presi-
dent asked these men to return thanks
that there wa once more peace in the
land, and, with faces infamed and voices
hoarse with rage, they rushed into their
pulpits to pour forth v%itriolic denunciations
upon the heads of the sorely afflicted peo-
pie of the South. No prayer for the for
giveness of imprisoned Confederates did
any of the blood-hounds of Zion send up
to the m~ercy-seat Of their Divine Master.
Not n of the cruel pack asked the bless
ings Of Heaven for the humane and patri-
otto policy of the President. Lei
How the sunburnt cheeks of the brave
and humane soldiers who followed Grant
and Sherman in their splendid campaigns
must have glowed with indignation, when
they were told that their sacrifices and
honorable wounds and deeds of valor
''consummated nothing for the r~estora-
ton of the Union, +.r
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Financial and Commercial Be.
norris.

The financial and commercial depart
ment of this paper is now in the hands Of
one of the most competent and expert
ence1 financial and commercial editors of
the West, and is invaluable to bankers
nd business men. It's local and tele-
graphic markets, and financial and com
nercial summaries, are exhaustive and
accurate. Among the market reports we
furnish a telegraphic summary Of the oil
market in Pittsburgh, prepared solely for
the LEADER, daily reports of the Stock
and petroleum markets of New York, and
a weekly review Of the New York whole
sale and dry goods markets, furnished to
the Western Associated Press.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
The conservative Republican ,,
STRENGTH in The HnrSn

AZ The conservative Republican,
Strength in n House.
The frst-vote that has at all assumed
thslcharacter of a H~test-vote,n as measur.
ing the comparative strength of the con.
servatives and radicals in the House Of
Representative, was on Mr.. Wilson's mo-
P~tionto refer all papers relating to recon
struetion, without debate, to the Joint
Committee Of Fifteen, and to exclude all
and any of the late so-called Confederate
States from representation in Congress
until that committee shall have reported.
The direct result Of the passage. 0 fine res
0lutio4 isto exclude for months all repre-
~sentatfyes of these States, and it was OBJ
posed by al, Republicans who are in. favor
of Immediately restoring said States
to power. The latter all voted for the mo-
ton to lay Mr.. Wilson's resolution upon
the table. They are Messrs. Raymond,
Hale J.. Humphrey, Darling, Davis and
Griswold Of New York, Hill, Stlwen and
tFarquhar of Indiana, Randall, Rousseau
and Smith, Of Kentucky, Hubbel of Ohio,
Blow and NOEL of Missouri, Phelps, ].
L. Thomas, Jr, and F. Thomas of Mary
land, and Kasson 0 Iowa. They rally in all
just twenty out of one hundred and forty
three Republican members of the House
a pitifuT opposition, truly. If their vote
is cast with that of the entire Democratic
party, the radical Unionists will still
have a majority The total Democratic
strength is forty; the total Conservative
Republican twenty the total vote which
the fusion of the two elements can well
command is sixty; while the Radicals
number one hundred and twenty-three-a
clear ~tEo-thirds majority, with three to
spare. n7'iia'1 bsii11 PIG
The vote above referred to brings out
some Interesting facts as regards the SEN
timent Of various localities upon the re-
construction question. Thus we find that
sixteen out of the nineteen members ofthe
House from Ohio are radical. The Union
members from the great Northwestern
States-ohioi Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Iowa and
KRnsas-with the exception of Nh. Hub
bell, of Ohio, and MIR. Kasson, y6f Iowa, /
are s unit for the radicals, Every member
from New England is likewise radical.
The conservatives rally strongest in New
York, where they are six in number, and
the Border States, where they number
even. ai
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Future announcements.

1t is not the intention of the LEADEI
to remain stationary. 1t intends to intro.
duce other Improvements as rapidly as
possible, to grow with the growth of
Cleveland and Ohio, and in short to con-
tinue, in the future, as in the past a
thoroughly LIVE PAPER.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
COFreSD9ndeDce.

The LEADER numbers on its staff of
correspondents at New York, Washington,
Columbus, Meadville, and other cities, and
in the army, some of the ablest and most
interesting writers connected with the
press. rae
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Editorial nanarfimenf.

This department of the LEADER is in
competent hands, and will receive careful
attention. The LEADER will always be
found battling boldly and manfully for the
elevation of mankind and for freedom and
Justice to ell,
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
An Ann.Fenlan Movement.

a movement in opposition to Fenianism
has been set on foot by anumber of lead
ing Irishmen in Brooklyn. A public
meeting is to be called at the Academy of
Music, at which resolutions denouncing
the Fenians will be offered.-Nea0 Fork
Post.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Terms,

Owing to the present extraordinary high
price of printing paper, Costing more
than double what it did before the wary
and the increased price of labor and tele-
graphic reports, the terms Of the LEADER
will necessarily be as follows: l
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Report OF the 0uarsermaster General.

AheboFb ol the uuFAeFuAaste OcAhcEUAs
The lengthy report of R. J.. Meigs,
Quartermaster General of the United
Stats Army, is a very interesting docu-f
'ment and we regret our inability to trans
fer it bodily to cur columns. Some of its
figures can be transfetged, however, and
some of their lessons can be appreciated.
During the last year this department has
spent the enormous sum of $43l, zoe, O57
"A. How this @big pile has been spent
the report proceeds In detail to show. The
Scale on which things were done is excel
lently exhibited by the list of articles of
army clothing still remaining on hand
after the close of the war. In it we find
such items as these: uniform coats on
hand 462,lo5; jackets 5O5,sIl; trousers
1,Is5, 234 drawers l,166,541; flannel
shirts ~l,542.294i great coats s99, 725;
blankets 1908, 725; waterproof blankets
3s4,O75; blouses 1,4lO,O59; pair shoes,
1882, 25Oi vests, pairs, 435,O96 stockings,
pairs, 1,s03,09I; hats 39f, sos; caps $685.
922 knapsaeks sos, l91; haversacks 522,-
e21 canteens 845, 2O9; large tents % 400 ;
common tents 53,gO2; shelter tents 1911
252i bed sacks l66,3O7; axes 9O,54S ;
spades and shovels 1883; hatchets ILL.,
227; mess pans 364,41O; camp kettles
406,4lzj picks IO3,2 2s and other articles
too numerous to mention. rsT
In the department of military railroads
and telegraphs, the figures, though less
enormous, are scarcely less significant.
During the war the Government had at its
command 10000 miles Of railroad, /, 100 Of
these exclusively military, and under the
sole charge of that splendid executive Off
Ger General McCallum. During the last
year Of the war the Government used 6,22S
miles Of military telegraph, but no less
than 5000 miles were abandoned, torn
down, and reconstructed during the prog
ress' Of hostilities. The rapidity with
which these were constructed is referred
to by the Quartermaster General in terms
of pride-apd well it may be, when the
EtOwah bridge, 625 feet long and rs feet
high, was built in six days, while the Chat
tahoochee bridge, 74O feet long and 90
feet high, was built in four days.
During the last year we used 81 ',112
horses and 5s,Sls mules. Sheridan used
up four=footed beasts at a fearful rate. His
cavalry had to be mounted three times a
year. To feed these horses cost a million
amonth- During the war we gave them
nearly %, OOO 900 bushels of corn, about
79,oO0.OOO bushels of oats, more than
l,5OoIOeO tuns of hay, and 2I,OOO tuns of
straw. p.
Such are some os the eloquent figures
from this wonderful report. We cannot
follow it into all its interesting details
without reproducing it, at even greater
leugth than in the original. We shall
have to leave the reader to ponder these
fragmentary illustrations, excepted from
the dry figures of this document, of our
national strength and power.
N-
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
Sins rrnm Prentice.

Lip-seryice is considered discreditable to
a Christian, but it is a delightful thing be-
tween two lovers.
A hunter in Colorado killed six fawns
in one day, and sold them for a handsome
sum. That was "the thrift that follows
fawning." @
The fellow that borrows your watch for
a day and never returns it, has no need of
a watch; he is a good time-keeper him
self. va r
If you discharge a jest at a friend or a
gun at q w~oodcOek, be sure that it isn't
out of season. q.
Whenever you take a drink, be sure you
keep your nose above water.
Gross dogs and girls with beautiful in
cisors and molars show their teeth.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
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The Regents of the smithsonian In
sfitufe

/ TO-. . bAALNAles
The appointments from the lower House
of Congress of Regents of the Smithson.
ian Institute are very appropriate, all the
gentlemen chosen for that position being
men of liberal and thorough education
Mr.. Patterson, of New Hampshire, is a
graduate of Dartmouth and was, previous
to taking his seat in Congress, a professor
in the faculty of that institution. Gen.
eral Garfield is a graduate of Williams
College, and is well known in Northern
Ohio as the President of the Hiram Eclec-
tic Institute. Mr.. Farnsworth, of Illinois,
although a selfmade and s~elf-taught man,
is one of liberal educationa and w~ell-versed
not only in legal but in classical lore.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25

The vote Of the white residents of the
District of Columbia on extending the
suffrage to, colored men resulted in 1000
votes against it to 10 for it. Now let the
question be put to the vote of the eolored
men. If they don't vote as unanimously
for the measure as these others did against
it, we miss our guess.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
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one copy Of the Daily.
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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25

If a loafer and gallon of whisky are
sitting side BY side, the i0Insr win prob
ably Rs3EGlk fTsty g1gFI sgyaJss-E :