Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-09

and graphic letter from the "sccursed
city" from which We extract a few Incl
dents and descriptions:
FIRST APPEARANCES.
The wharves looked as if they hsd been
deserted for half century-broken down,
dilspidsted, grass and moss peeping up be-
tween the psYements, where once the busy
feet Of commerce tired incesssntly. The
warehouses ne1r the river; the streets as
we enter them; the houses and the stores
and the public buildings,-we look at them
and hold our breath in utter amazement.
Every step we take increases our aston
ishrhent. No pen, no pencil, no tongue
can do justice to the scene. No imsgina-
tion can conceive of the utter wreck, the
universal ruin, the stupendous desolstion.
Observation-Disclosures and below; on
the right hand and on the left; ruin, ruin,
ruin, everywhere and slwsys-staring at
us from every paneless window; looking
out at us from every shell torn wall; glar-
ing st US from every battered door and pill
lar and Verandah; croucbing beneath our
feet on every sidewalk. Not Pompeii,
nor Herculaneum, nor Thebes, nor the Nile
have ruins so complete, so ssddening, go
plainiively eloquent, for they speak to US
of an age not ours, and long ago dead,
with whose people and life and ideas we
have no sympathy whatever. But here on
these shattered wrecks OF houses built in
our own style, many of them doing credit
to the architecture of cur epoch-We read
names familiar TO US sll /; telling Us of
trades and professions and commercial in
stitutions, which every modern city reck-
ons up by the hundred; yet, dead, dead,
dead as silent as the graves of the Phsra-
obs, as deserted as the bszaars ofthe mer-
chant Princes of old Tyre. Whoever
among us wished to know how his spirit
would feel if he were to revisit by the pale
glimpses of the moon the ruins of his na-
tive city after the present civilization shall
have passed away, learned it to his COM
plete satisfaction on the morning of last
Monday here. It was early-few strsg-
glers were abroad; just enough to make
the desolstion more desolste by contrast
and the stiffness, not of the Sabbath, but
of the desert hung heavily over all Hard
ly building in all this part of the
city--and this the business part
has escaped the terrible crashing
and smashing of the Federal shells. And
right in the center of it, are at least, I
should judge) ten acres of ruins, the mon
uments of the great fire which occurred
three years ago. This is in an open space
only blaekened walls and solitary ehimneys
remain in it. And, sIl around this area Of
desolRtion, are the ruined houses that still
"Gillmore's Town." as the negroes
COLL IL a fr;upopb Of ,,oili4ra,y slxiII of Ebo
art destructive of all arts q proof to the
Christian that Gods judgments are sure,
and that the cries of the poor are heard st
the Great Throne and avenged by the Ali
righteous Judge. They acted, the men
who lived in these mansions and traficked
in there stores and marts, as if God were
dead as if their own will was the only
standard of right-they Knocked at the
"higher law" they sold the poor men in
their avsrice and killed the good men in
their hate; when loI the people whom
they despisei rose up sgsinst them and
subdued them, and the race whom they en-
shaved trode their streets under the ban
ners and as the comrades of their conquer
ors!
THE sLAvEPENs.
We visited the slsvepens and broke them
open. What tale Of Wickedness these
letter books do tell We carried off among
US sll, the entire correspondence of these
the bell, the auctioneer's
block, the locks, and one sign.
Over one slsVe-trader's desk are now in
scribed these
''TExTs FOR THE DAY."
II am an Abolitionist; I glory in the
name."-[ Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
"Proolaim liberty throughout all the land,
into all theinhsbitsnts thereof" Isaiah.
"Put pike in the hands of q slave and
you make man of hin" ~ John Brown.
Non to Richmond 1.-THE New York
Tribune.
Feb. %, 1866.
CARTHAGE EST DELEEDAl
write this in the editorial rooms, down
own, of the Charleston Mereu7y. The
window glass and sashes are shattered by
hot. Over the msntle-piece, in pencil
marks, are written these lines, which show
hat the irrepressible spirit of radiealism
but on the right side now seems TO in
labit the cfice still:
For President in 1858,
WENDELL PHILLIPS, of Massachusetts.
For Plce President.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, of New XoTk.
GONE TO GRASS.
AT the beginning of the rebellion or of |
he threats ofrebellioD, Mr.. Caleb Cushing |
'redicted that the grass would grow in the
treets of Boston and New York if civil |
var resulted from Mr.. Lincoln's election. |
The prophesy has fsiled-rather signslly;
nd inclose you handful of proofs of it. |
pulled this clover and grass at noon to-
ay in front of the Charleston Hotel and |
he Milps Houss-Which, before the Unien |
vas dissolved according TO the theory of |
Gr. Cushing's Southern friends), were al !
Ways the busiest parts of Meeting street,
be chief business street of the city. Iwish |
-ou to send it to the Boston Athen@um |
or permanent preservation, to be bound |
p, if possible, with Mr.. Cushing's speech. |
Gould better reply or q filter illustration |
q devised for it2
A RELIC OF THE MERCURY.
1 have another relic, which is equally |
urious. We went to the Office Of the |
charleston Mercury but found that Mr.. |
shett, its editor, had Rhett-ired, and car
led his printing press and types along with
im.- But on the standing galley, there |
7as hslf column of what the printers
all "desd mstter'-type that has been
sed for an issue of the paper and is ready !
or ''distribution." It was almost entirely |
of advertisements, but there
Tere three lines, which seemed significant
f the character of the Southern leaders
IL of brsg even when getting ready to run
wsy-thst took the liberty Of securing /
lem for posterity, just ss it mad been "set i
p for the Mercury:
"There are no indications that our au-
1ogities have the first intention of aban-
Oning Charleston, as 1 have sscertained
7 careful inquiry"
THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
There was rather a humorous scene at
le office of the Charleston Courier. Ths
iitors had run away, but business man