Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-08
RumOrs About JeT. Davis TRIAL.

Washington Dispatch to the Chicago Republican. I
1t appears to have been finally decided
that JEFF. Davis will receive a full and
free pardon, and be furnished a passport
to Europe on giving his parole never to re-
turn. The several plans of trial have
fallen through. The Norfolk court of
Judge Underwood, was first squelched, on
the plea of want of jurisdiction, and the
fear to risk his trial before such a Jury as
would necessarily have been taken from
that district, who would never have agreed
upon a verdict. A military commission
was next agreed upon, and evidence was
prepared to convict him of conspiracy in
the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln but
time rolled on, and fresh testim my was
prepared to add to the weight already
against him. Then the President
has concluded to have no more
military court trials; and Chief Justice
Chase was sent for and consulted as to a
proposition to try him in Virginia, by a
circuit court of the United States, over
which he was to preside. This Mr.. Chase
took time to consider, and has finally de-
clined to have anything to do with it,
giving as a reason that there is no organi-
zntion of his court ia Virginia, and, If
there was, any trial by jury would be a
farce. The President decided that he
should not be tried anywhere else, and
overruled the plan to try him in Baltimore
or Washington, because he CDavis) COM
mitted his crimes in Virginia. Thus the
matter stands to-day. 1t is said that, in
addition to the united appeal of the rebel
leaders in the south to let him go, Horace
Greeley Henry Ward Beeeher, and others
visited the Presidentand begged forthelife
and pardon of "the eminent Southern states
man" they claiming to speak for the Re-
publican party en- DdSSe, and ~denouncing
those who asked otherwise as entitled to no
consideration and the South and the De-
mOcracy being always in favor of free
pardOns, their advice is being taken. No
man is to be punished for treason. Davis
goes to Europe for the present, to be made
a hero and a martyr, until such a time as
the United States Democracy, having
gained possession of the government, shall
call him from his exile to fill a position in
accordance with his ambitious desires. The
declaration that treason is a crime, and
should be esteemed as such, and punished
as such, is not likely to be realized rs
'there Is no way to try traitors, and the
people do not want any one punished"
A ~COunterbIast Against Cabbage.
A physician of Cincinnati, writing
Gpropos of the arrival of the cholera-laden
Atalanta, ~denounces sauerkraut as follows:
EDITORS CoMMERCIAL.-I have no par
ticular desire to rush into print about chol-
era, nor because cholera is probably COM
ing, but L saw something of cholera in 40
and 80, and having no desire to see it
again, L wish to offer the public a single
caution, and put the people on their guard
to some extent, its introduction but
more especially its prevalence when it does
come. [ allude to the well known veget-
able, cabbage, so universally eaten by all
classes, rich and poor, Germans, Irish,
.mericans,-white and black, old and
l mean boiled cabbage, for when it is
BOILED it is the most unhealthy of all veg
or Of all others combined. A fer
nenting principle is generated by boiling
which makes it infinitely more unhealthy {
han when eaten as unboiled as "cold I
To this article of diet, l traced {
S the exciting cause in ls49, more cases I
# cholera than 20 all others and l believe '
t to be next to personal uncleanliness, ,
more prolific of that terrible disease than $
other causes. 1t is q cheap and de- :
vegetable, hence its universal use
5 an article of diet, but when cholera pre- :
1sils is almost as dangerous a poison as the
eadly upas. Even when cholera does not '
revail it often produces cholerine and
hOlera mOrbus. 1 have treated a number
f cases of the latter disease recently,
directly to this cause. '
My advice flor whatever it is WORTH
\ both now and when we may..have chol-
ra with us to eat heartily and exercise
RELY, fearing nothing except filthy streets,
lleys, habitations and boiled cabbage. ]
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