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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
PORTAGE COUNTY.

The County Commissioners have au-
thorized and employed a trusty night
watch at the County Jail, in consequence
of the presence of important prisoners con-
fined there, charged with the murder of
John Rhodenbaugh.
The monument erected by the citizens
of Nelson in honor of the memory of their
fallen soldiers, will be dedicated at the
centre of that township, upon Tuesday
next, Nov, 2Sth.
The dwelling house of Joel I. Hough,
at Atwater Station, was burned to the
ground OF. Sunday night. -'T ~ g
Ont 10th Of October last the Selbys
and their connections, in all eighty-seven
persons, met at the shool house at Paris
centre for the purpose of holding family
festival and cementing a stronger
family union. There were present, Brain
ard Selby, Sr., aged Sc; widow Mercy
Hawley, aged 80; widow Mary Hine, aged
rs, and Thomas B. Selby, aged Sc, sons
and daughters of Brainard Selby, of San
disfeld, Berkshire Co, Mass, who in 1911,
being then about 60iyears old, sold isfarm
of about one hundred acres in that place,
and Travelled on horseback to Paris, then q
| wilderness and called StOrrsburg, and To-
Gated some fourteen hundred acres of land
! In March, 1915, WIN. Selby, son of the
above, with his wife and three daughters
/ Ohauncey Hawley and his wife Mercy
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A Plan TO Def-and the Government
Defeated.

About the first of the present month il
came to the knowledge of an accounting
officer of the Treasury that a proposition
| had been made to claim agent in this
| city to furnish him with valid claims
against the United States for arrears of
soldiers pay and bonnty to the amount
OF S5OO,000 and to allow the agent 90 per
cent. OF the whole for collection.
The agent naturally had his suspicious
excited, but the two or three claims placed
IN bis hands, as samples were perfect and
evidently genuine, containing the soldiers
discharge, final statements, etc. Fortu-
nately he was an honest man and con-
suited the accounting. officer on the sub
Jeet, who advised him to take all the pa
ners tfIat came, and make advances to a
limited amount. This was done.
Another batch Of claims was put in his
hands, and there being some reason to
suppose that the vouchers were stolen
tRaP tRaP ofcscr tisft fhsftdted it h6 proceedings that in
the course of a week fixed the frauds with
some certainty upon clerk in his office
named Dreeson, who had the recording of
those claims, and upon an outside accom-
pllce named Rabe, both being Germans,
and on Friday they were arrested.
- r-aT,y,l~--t..IaiIlS5 the nameS OF uJt7v4r--
ed soldiers, and the sums due, was also |
seized, part of the plan being to make |
fictitious heirs, in which project they were
to have been aided by an accomplice in |
who is probably bv this
time i'll the clutches of the law. All the |
papers were recovered. Much credit is |
due to the Hon. E. b. French, the Second
a udltor, for the skillful manner in which
.he detection and apprehension of the
'ulprlts was effected, and a vast fraud pre-
rented WdSHi1tgto7l Chronicle.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
CEAuGA COUNTY.

The following transfers of property are
renorted in Chardon: DR.. Nichols and T.
C. and w. C. Parsons have united in pur-
chasing the building known as Nichols
Drug Store, with the lot on which 1t
stands, heretofore belonging to j. D. Wor-
rallo. The price paid was 81 200, and,
the times and location considered, the
property may be regarded as cheap.
Harvey King has sold the farm in the
west part Of Chardon, which he has owned
and occupied for so many years, to James
Moore, for $4,000, and purchased, and
with his son now occupies, homestead III
this village.
Alfred Phelps has sold his house and
lot in this village, to NJ. w. Stone, for
$4,000.
In the town of Burton the following
transfers are mentioned; Stephen |. Cook
to Henry Rice, ll8 acresi consideration,
$4,000.
Hiram Brown to Horace B. Bishop, IA
$4,000 acres : consideration, l,40O.
Joseph Hydelto James Brown, 80 acres;
consideration, $500.
A. Hayes to L. E. Hayes, so acresi con-
sideration not known.
The Chardon Democrat has the follow
ing in reference to an Institute in Burton:
About four years ago, the need of a new
and large building for Academic purposes
became evident to the citizens of Burton.
Meetings were held, and company or
ganized and incorporated under the name
of " Burton Institute Association" with a
capital of So, 900, and measures were taken
to proceed with the building; but the
breaking out and continuance of the war
turned the thoughts and efforts of the
citizens so much in another direction, that
the matter was allowed to drop. But,
since the war, the enthusiasm for good
works has returned, and, at recent meet
ing, the capital stock was increased to
$4,000, and a building committee appoint
ed to proceed with the, work. So far we
feel justified in the hope that before long
Burton will boast Of good school build
ing and good school.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
A Political Pa1riot

Under the above head the Raleigh Pro-
gress the most radical paper in North
Carolina, says:
Lewis Hanes, whose ingratitude to Gov
ernor Holden is most unaccountable, has
been beaten in the Fifth Congressional
District by that sterling patriot, Hon.
Bedford Brown"
This "sterling patriot is one of the
men who fought most earnestly, in the
late convention of his State, against the
ordinance denying the right of secession.
He arrayed himself with the bitter seces-
sionists, and is firm believer in the right
of secession.
OF the general character of the election
in North Carolina, the same paper saws:
Were either Jefferson Davis or Zebulon
B. Vance, the one about to be tried for
treason, the other Il paroled prisoner un-
der the same charge, to oppose Andrew
johnson for the Presidency, and the cleo
tion be held tomorrow, they would beat
him 10000 votes in the State"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23

with their three SONS, left Berkshire coun
ty, each with an OK team, and after TIVE
months of fatigue incident to then Jour
ney of over seven hundred miles, arrived
upon the tract, erected rude log cab
in and commenced clearing the dense
forest. In the fall Of lsTG, the father with
his wife, his son Newton and wife now
Mrs. Hine, and Thomas b. Selby, came
also With OK teams-pcrforming the jour
ney in about six weeks. In 1921 Brainard
Selby, now Senior, removed with his fam
| lily from Oswego county, Ny. In s2S,
Hon. Ira Selby and family removed from
Wayne comfy, n. Y. In 1884, Captain
Freeman Smith, and Dolly, his wife
daughter of Brainard Selby, ist., with one
Son, returned from Jefferson county, n.
Y These several families were repre-
sented at the Festival
The following transfers of real estate are
reported:
RAvENNA.-E.. G. Wai., house and lot
on Spruce st. for s., 500.
Jacob Hawn, house and lot rear of Bow
cry st. to w. Z. Bradley for 81 900.
John Whittle, house and lot on Pros
pect st. to E. G. Wait for 81 900.
j. Clement, house and lot on Cedar st.
to S. N Pollard for $780,
L. K. Wait, house and lot on Mill st.
10 Andrew AIillnr G,- eco.
Lyman Ely ha sold his farm of 100
acres to John d. Calkins for about S27 per
acre.
Watson Holcomb has sold his farm of |
2lS acres to David w and John II. Thomas |
for $50 per acre.
RooTsTowN.-Mr A. Jerome has sold |
his place one mile east of the Center to
Mr.. Gibbs Hallock. Consideration 5000. |
Mr.. Francis Chapman has msved to
Cleveland, and rented his farm for one
year TO Sobisii Cotton.
Mr.. Thomas Heighton has sold his farm,
md purchased the Widow Clark's farm,
outh of Rayenna.
Mr. Seth Andrews mas purchased the
I'D Gillett house and ten acres of land of
Mr.. Upson, and Mr.. Upson has bought the
Id Coffin farm on the town line, of E.
Reed.
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From New York.
From 8Eatamoras.

IEOEA hhlsAhADEttS-
New YoRK, November GA merchant Of
Matamoras. who left that place on the I'd,
has arrived at New Orleans, and reports
that the city was then intrenched, with no
prospect of being taken, unless by assistance
from this side.
Ship Burned at Sea-
A Mobile dispatch of the goth says the
ship Harry F. West from New Orleans, for
Liverpool, was burned at sea.
Arrival of Steamers
The steamers Neshannack and Champion
from New Orleans on the 18th, st. Patrick
from Boston and Nevada from Savannah,
arrived this noon. The 29th Connecticut
Regiment arrived from New Orleans in the
Champion. The Champion reports she saw
On Uary r orJ heeT, bound north. fhe lew
vessels arrived to-day all report damage by
the gale.
TObaceOnists As sOeiafiOn.
The Tobacconists National Association
held meeting in Coopers Institute this
morning, for the purpose of appealing to
Congress to transfer the Internal Revenue
tax now laid on manufactured tobacco, to
leaf Delegates were present from nearly
all the States. 4 committee was instructed
to draw up resolutions expressive of the OBJ
lttb VI INC lAAAA tAN4A lJoA
recess.
Damage in Brooklyn.
Considerable damage was done in Brook
Iyn by the storm yesterday.
Experimenting.
New YoaK, November 22.-Mr. Norman
N.Wiard, of this city, has been experimenting
on boilers of the st. John and asserts in a let
ter TO the Commercial his theory that the
explosion of boilers is caused by the une-
quail expansion between the parts above and
below the surface of water at the time of
the explosion, which surface must be at or
dinary water line, or lower. when there was
a deficiency of water, or higher when the
water was foaming, has been confirmed,
and the boilers OF the st. John will be sup
Piled with self-acting devise to equalize
the temperature Of the boilers.
Snow.
Snow fell in this city for a few moments
to-day. h- a-i e
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23

A Paris correspondent of the Nation,
writes as follows: The gaities of Paris
have always attracted a host of strangers,
and have been for nnr capital a source of
great wealth; our theatres have been
school of wit, of manners of urbanity. In
all our public places and amusements
there has always been found an aesthetic
element; but the physiognomy of Paris,
so dear and so familiar to me, begins al
ready to wear the signs of that depravity
which has been encouraged and created by
the despotism of the Second Empire. The
symptoms of this growing depravity are
numerous. Far be it from me to wish that
Paris should become stiff and Puritan
town, but there should be some decency in
pleasure, some delicacy in freedom. De
cency and delicacy are now thrown aside.
The most popular singer in the public places
of Paris is a certain Therese, whose fame,
has, perhaps, not yet reached your ears, but
with whom it is time you should become
acquainted, as she is representative
| woman In summer she sings in one OF
the cafe concerts Of the Champs Elysees
! in the open air under the old and dusty
elm trees; in the winter, in a hall called
| Cafe de Alcazar. Having heard so mucf
of her, 1 had few days ago the curiosity
to go to the latter place. With great diff
ficulty l pushed myself through molly
crowd, composed of workmen and work
women, of clerks, of young and elegan
| gandinz, (dandies,) and of Jo1'ettes; sill
gowns were to be seen near bLouses; tn,
newest and lightest bonnets near old-fash
ioned muslin caps, the fragrance of tn
best Brevas was mixed with the smoke o
the clay pipes. A thousand men ant
women were pressed around marbl
tables covered with glasses, and tn
noise hardly allowed the unfortunat
singers, who presented themselve
on a small stage at the end of the room
to be heard. Who cared about the ia
BARITONE who sang in lugubrious ton
some air of Donnizetti Who cared eve
about the eoBaique, whose grimaces ha
something sad and melancholy, as had hi
|, worn-out black coat and his shirt collar
of dubious white? Theresel Therese
Now she appears at last, the queen of til
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
LORAIN COUNTY.

Last Wednesday evening the depot in
Elyria was entered by burglars who forced
-Upe.. tho window of the office. No at
tempt was made to open the safe, and even
the change drawer was not pilfereH. The
burglars may have been frightened away
soon after they broke in, as they tooknoth-
ing of any value.
Mr.. Joseph Townsend, of Sheffield, had
about $500 worth of wool stolen from his
barn last Thursday night and no clue has
vet been obtained to the thief 1t is prob
able that it was taken to Cleveland, and
we hope he may yet recover his property.
The work on. the new railroad between
Oberlin and Elyria is being vigorously
pushed forward. Several large gangs of
iaborers are employed at different points
on the route. The grading has advanced
for some distance at this end.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23

Alcazar. After deafenlng applause comes
great silence, and she begins, She is
dressed in the handsomest silk that Lyons
can weave, but its very beauty makes her
appear uglier; for she is ugly-there is not
Il good feature IN her face, and her anato-
my is singulary deficient. She begins;
her sharp and thrilling voice fills the great
hall her pronunciation is the most per-
feet ] ever heard-not word, not a syl-
liable Is lost, but, alas what words
and what syllables Her speciality
is TO sing indecent songs, and her talent
consists in tg1derLinmg, if [ may use the
expression, every indecent verse or word
her voice, at times very pure. assumes at
other times indescribable coarseness her
gestures, her movements, and her panto-
mime would make, as the French proverb
says, "a dragoon blush" But there are
no dragons in the audience; every allu-
sion every equivocal thought, is received
with tremendous cheers To me the au-
dience was the real spectacle, and a sad
and humiliating one. In old times I had |
witnessed the same sort of enthusiasm in |
the same places, but then it always follow |
ed a patriotic song. Tberese has taken |
the place of Beranger. From her songs |
The patriotic verses have carefully been |
l5sal--1I h. tl4. zl;s,..- E. e
.hem is examined by The Cens,u'e before it
san be sung in public. /
The admiration for Therese is not con-
ined to the lower classes. Last winter the
queen of the Alcazar was also the queen
If the salons. a good and pious duchess,
-i,-4I,l ] will not name f--,'.Sa she regrets
What she has done, was the first 10 invite
1herese to her house, and she received an
walton there at the hands of all that is
most noble and refined in Paris. AT the
iotse of Madame X, the wife of one
f our richest manufacturers, Therese sang
n the presence of NJ. Brittelle, the peTfet
z police. After one of her pieces, gen.
eman said to her " You don't sing thi.
t the Alcazar" No." said she "thc
erfet de police would not allow it." At
mother house, at Madame SIS after
herese had gone through her now cele-
rated repertoire, a charming young wo-
IAN, who looks like one of Raphaers vir-
ms, conversed with her, and finally said,
could you not sing another =
ece, something-what shall l say de
us fortg "No madam was the an
yer, II don't know anything de plus fort" !
OF bad answer for Therese. 7
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
Tho war Nor Yer Ended


New YORK, November 22.-The Posts
Washington correspondent says Congress
will act upon the theory that the war is not
ended. It is precisely the ground occupied
by the President and every one of the De-
partments Of the Government
Volunteers not vet discharged have re-
peatedly demanded their discharge in com
piiance with their terms of enlistment and
the invariable reply is that the war is not
vet closed The Treasury Department also
holds in reference to payment Of bounties
that the war still exists. The President,
while he protects Freedmen with the bayo-
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
Eriglish Elections.

We gave some time since some particu
lars relating to election expenses in Eng.
land. We baye since been pursuing the
investigation and find some further inter-
esting items. An examination of the ac-
count filed by seventy-six other candidates
show that their expenses footed up at
tll2,174, the average being 81, ,4I5. This
| gives a larger average than the expenses
of the ffty-seven candidates of whom we
| spoke before, by nearly $500, and the ex-
penses are also much further apart; run
ming from the election in Glamorganshire,
where two candidates returned joint ex-
penseof $50, to North StaffOrdshire, where
MIR. Edward Butler obtained his seat at an
expense of f6,992 2s. cd. This latter
election may well be called an expensive
one, for the two other candidates paid
7,6l5 los. I0d., making the cost of the
election not far from $4,000.
In Lincoln the legal expenses were re-
turned at CA, 400, which, us the number
of voters was only l,sO0, makes the cost
about Sl5 a voter The Lar Times adds
that "really, the election cost about G2O,-
600, as much as G20 being given for a sin
gle vote, and one leading tradesman, who
declined to promise either party, received
an order foI goods to the amount of E227
Is. and his vote wos tbns secured > Tho
.leadino tr,desman - must fool ,,rotifod
to have this little, fact published, and the
proof of his sbrewdnass ..in DECLINING IN
promise either party1 thus made paIent
To the world
We should think that grounds might be
found in these facts for an effort to over
throw this election for corruntion. espec-
iallv as we find it stated. in reference Ia
another election. that such an atteInnf was
talked of because of an item in the ex
penses returned of f54- az for the convey
ance of voters. loss of time. and subsist-
rrrrv.ii
A much heavier proportionate expense
than that incurred at Lincoln was paid in
Stafford, where the two successful candi-
dates returned expenses amounting to
60, 7s4 in a burough containing only be-
tween 1900 and 1900 people
A yet more striking instance of the pro-
fuse expenditure of money was ut Man
chester, where Mr.. Edward James, Q. c.,
was chosen, having only made his APP
pearance as candidate on Saturday be-
fore the election, which was on the follow
ing "Wednesday, and IN those five days,
paid out f2,346, or over s., 600 day.
The main expenses among this list of
candidates were the same as among those
previously mentioned, one of the princi-
pal ones being spoken of as the 'rather
mysterious item of ''agents." One, how
ever, that we had not noticed before was
for watchers" who are explained to be
men engaged to look after suspicious
Il
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23
The Shenandoah.

This celebrated pirate, which has just
terminated her career by surrendering to
the British Government in the harbor tf
Liverpool, is the youngest of the British
built rebel privateers, not having left
London on her GRAND of destruction until
her three predecessors, the Alabama,
Florida and Georgia, had been destroyed
or captured. During the year in which
she has been aAoat, however, she has sue
ceeded in doing as much damage to our
commerce as any of those which had
longer existence, She was built at Glas-
cow under the name of the Sea King, in
October, 1863, sold to Richard Wright, of
Liverpool, September 10th, 1864, and on
the eth of October cleared from London TO
Bombay as an ordinary merchant vessel,
under the command of Peter COrbett, who
carried in his pocket a certificate of sail
from her owner, empowering him to sell
the vessel at any port outside Of the
United Kingdom for f45,oOO within
SIX mOnllS lFou udt0 VI SOiNiAiN'''N'
On the same day, another English vessel,
the Laurel, sailed from Liverpool with
the necessary armament, stores, &c, for
the equipment of a war vessel. and with
rebel officers and crew on, board The
two vessels met at Madeira, and proceed
ed in company to a neighboring island, in
Portuguese waters, where, both vessels
still flying the British flag, thetrsnsfer OF
arms, stores and privateering crew from
the one to the other was consummated.
The Sea King, re-baptized as the Shenan-
doah, set forth on her piratical cruise,
under command of Captain Waddell, and
armed with six guns. She destroyed
few vessels near st. Helena, and then,
doubling the Cape of Good Hope, cruised
for some time in the Indian Ocean, doing
little damage to our commerce. She then
made her appearance at Melbourne,
Australia, and lay for sometime
receiving coal, provisions and re-
cruits She is next heard of in the
4 Pacific and Artlc seas, Where her raNaSes
among our whaling vessels were very
qreat-suficient in fact to cause an in
crease of about rs per cent in the price Of
sperm OIL In the four months between
the lst of April and the LIST of August she
DESTROYED and burned twenty-nine vessels
In the course of this time, her commando
I
was repeatedly informed of the collapse o
the rebellion, but refused to believe the in
tellirence until it..was confirmed by tn
British brig Barracenta, on the 3oth
August. He Immediately sailed for Llv
erpool, arriving there on the 9th Of Nc
vember. The telegraph has informed ou
readers of her present condition, and ID
disposition which the English gOvernmer
have made of her.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23

Among the new books soon to annear ia
diary, kept during the whole of tbe war,
at Richmond, secretly made by Mr.. Jones.
who NTas clerk in the Confederate States
Wa- 0fEae- Il 1ras- mot Intended fo-
publication, but merely as a private and
personal record 1t contains pretty f1lI
account of the transactions of tbe Con
federste War Department during the
whole period of its existence until the
evacuation OF Richmond and the sur
render OF General Lee, and comprising
dispatches pertaining to the said wa- 49,
office, with history of the rise ana va w,r
'gress of the events which evenfrs1I,,
broke up the "so-called Southern Con,
federation" 1t will occupy two octave
volumes, which, if the truth has bsen set
down BY the diarist, will be curious. If net
profitable reading.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23

Henry Ward Beech ,er m, Ohe-Tt,,
A New York correspondent of the Lo-
ram county Ns'os las had occasion to call
on Henry Ward Beecher, and speaks as
follows of his Visit:
Ihls r4rsday) afternoon having to
make c-d on Henry Ward Beecher. /
put IN a word for the College Societies; Ii
orary Association. He sat semi tailor
iasLdon on lounge, playing with a tassel.
and said perhaps he would make a west
ern trip this season,-if he did, he had no
doubt it would be agreeable for him to
make a car at Oberlin. Speaking of Theo-
logical Seminaries, he placed Oberlin
quite high, spoke of that place and Ando-
yer as excelling others in leaving their
stamp on students. He recommended
Oberlin students todivide their time willis
studying theology between Union, N. Y.
and Andover, Mass, To use his own
words that was the best way to make !
broadsided man." Another time TN
talk Of the more notable sights Of New
York.