The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-20
NEW ENGLAND POLITICS AND
GOSSIP.
Especial Correspondence oikriunati Gaaette.l
NIAeARA FAILS July IA.
HINT 70 c%APITALlsn:

N4A0AAA EAhS JU9 IL
HIM TO CAPITALISTS.
Going up from New York 70 Boston, the
other day, by the Fall River route, I
found at Newport one of the English rail-
way carriages divided into convenient
apartments for the use OF small parties. J
which has been tried for 8 year or SO, Is
as m experiment on hat road. Anything
p~leassnter for q family, or for party Of
five or six friends travelling tcge her can
hardly be imagined. Small ezra charges
are made for the use of these little apart.
ments, about corresponding 10 the charges
made for berths and state rooms in sleep
ing cars and the arrangement seemsa
profitable one for the road, as well as con .
venient for the passengers, who can thus
travel with sl the privacy and nearly sI
the comfort of their " psrlors. It has
been found remunerstive on every railroad
to attach a sleeping car to nearly every
night train. Why would it not pay as
well to put one Of those English carriages
On every day express train? There IS a
small fortune in store for the man who
does If.
THE BOSTON RADICAL CLUB"
Some one said be always read Wendell
Philips speeches to get the latest news. 1t
might, l imagine, be found a still better
plan TO attend the Sunday afternoon din
ners of what is popularly known in Boston
as "Frank Birds Radical Club This is an
informal little organization, which had It's
origin years sgo,in q suggestion by Mr.. +. !
W. Bird, and which holds weekly meet
ings in q private room at YOung's Hotel,
over q we'll spread dinner table where Mr.
Bird still presides. Here, in past time, re-
sistance to the fugitive slave law used to
come on with the meats and John Brown
and the desert were discussed together
with a consolatory cup of coffee or glass of
champagne to wash down both. Members
of the "healthy political organization"
used 10 look with homo on this little polit-
zeal 'juntO' where treason was held TO be
as common a dish as roast beef, and where
the clouds from the fragrant Hsvanss wss |
but the blackness from which the ~fanatical
tempest was to burst forth-unless the
'heaIthy political organizations prevent
ed.
Here one might expect, almost any Sat.
urdsy during a recess of Congress, to meet
Chales Sumner and Henry Wilson, with
Representatives Goocb, Boutwell, and 9TH
ers. Governor Andrew was generally in
the gathering ofthe faithful; Major SteaI ns
was always and John NJ Forbes DO u
frequently to be seen; Wendell PRiDirs
broke many a lance across the table with
or Wilson Emerson sometimes
in Charles W.. Slack, +. B. sam
born, Wn. Endicott and a dozen others
the younger radicals we're regular attend
ants. What remonstranees to the Presi-
Dent and demands upon. Senators, and sp-
peals TO the people and calls for meetings
in Fat euil Hall have been prepared over
hat tablet What plans for changes in
.he Cabinet have been eoncoeted here /.
what schemes for agitation; what multi,
-orm devices for pressure" that have led
politicians TO curse the very name Of the
much inveDtiDg 1snkeesl Tnurlow Weeds
rooms at the Astor House have been spoken
If as the mysterious chambers whence came
he DEGREES that governed ihe politics of
New York and shaped those Of the Nation.
But around this long table in the private
lining room at YOung's Hotel nave gath
red men who sent out an influence more
sr-Tesching, and in the end more potential.
lsed dRfRi ii fEffdts IIet live . d4ass, at9esHKd lP, 4 gBd
vitiated it by any schemes for mere
advancement.
Sumner and Wilson were in their old
last Saturday, at Birds right and
-
eft; Wendell Phillips had gone to the
but his friend, George L. Stesrns,
WAS there; Gov. Andrew was in New
York, and a member of his staff took his
place 3 dozen of the younger Radicals
md working politicians were gathered
about the table. Shrewd, practical men
hey all loOked-certalnly not "one idea"
men in appearance, and the income returns
bear ample testimony that several of them
had ideas 10 some purpose on other
besides politics. 1t may be ress-
3urlng, too, to some timorOus Western
newspapers, TO know that there WAS not q
g long haired man in their number.
"TheIe," said Bird in 8 whisper, point
.ng out one of the guests, Hthere is the
1ext Lieutenant Governor Of Msssschu-
- for they have f~slstes" here, too,
and make up their tickets far in advance.
{ Is that your article on Port Royal just
put in the July North American p another
was asked. "NO, indeed. L said all 1 had
say some time sgo in the atlantic.
Port Royal is getting wonderfully written
up, of late"
Then came talk of the new paper in New
York, and Msjor Stearns was loosely called
to tell how The Nation was paying the
of Seward and two or three others
Negro Suffrage was discussed; John
sons policy wss criticised, and the private
news from the capital csnYassed. I had
just come from Washington myself, and
that l knew what WISE going on
there; but more of what may be called
pure personal politics-the positions and
Of individual men-snd the hopes
and fears of the Radicals thereon, could be
here in an hour, than there In q
day.
The IO7th q. v. i. H
The New York Herald, of Monday, says
the 10Th Ohio Volunteers arrived in that