Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-04
OUR NEW DRESS.

lne lzEADEk AllS A-A"AAN' -
appearance in an entirely new dress, and
in greatly enlarged form. A column
has been added to each page of the paper,
and its length has been increased so that
the entire enlargement is equivalent to an
increase Of five columns. The LEADER
is now the largest paper in Northern
Ohio, and equal in size to any
paper in the State. Outside of the
cities of Chicago and st. Louis, indeed,
there is no paper in the West which will
sarpass the LEADER in size. OF course
this enlargement, which has been necessi-
tated by the pressure of advertisements
upon our columns, will enable us to pre-
sent to our readers a larger amount OF
reading matter, and thus greatly increase
the interest and influence of the paper.
The new type with which the present
edition of the LEADER is printed is from
the mandatory of R. Allison
Franklin Type Foundry, Cincin-
natl. The white paper upon which the
LEADER is now printed is from the mill
of John Hoyt & Co., Castalia, Erie Co
For the neatness and taste displayed in the
making up and arrangement of the paper,
we are indebted to the judgment and ex-
perience of our foreman, Mr.. William T.
Stumm.
The old dress, which -.ade ITS " last ap-
rooronce or any stage" in yesterday
I,,u.inq's LEADER, was first used in our
;ssne of July 9th, 1864, and did its first duty
in the midst of the most bitter, determined
and prolonged printers strike ever known
in this city. Its period of service has
been shortec than that of any dress ever
used on the LEADER, but this is due not to
any inferiorityin the type itself, but to the
fact that during the last year the editions
of tbe LEADER have been so unprecedent-
edly large that it has done, in that short
time, more real work than any previous
dress in thrice as long a period And,
truly, during its brief term of existence it
has chronicled events which would freight
down a century of ordinary life. 1t
has recorded the mightiest occurrences,
the most sudden and terrible bereavements,
the most gigantic struggles and the most
glorious triumphs that have ever fallen to
the lot of the American Republic 1t
made its advent in a time of gloom and
Grants army, DIeeding and
exhausted, had concludeda series of con-
ficts which had failed to give us Rich
Greeley and Jewett, Clay
and Sanders, were plotting at Nj
lgara a disgraceful peace-when the
emboldened by the general
gloom, were arming to resist the draft,
md maturing the Chicago platform. 1t
the glorious victories and marches
# Sherman and Sheridan, which gave
'enewed confidence and hope to the
country. 1t made public the results of
he fall elections, which placed Abraham
Lincoln a second time in the Presiden-
ial chair and, no less than mill
ary triumphs, sealed the fate of Sc
.ession. 1t gave our readers the details
# the grand conflict around Richmond |
which terminated in the surrender of Lee |
nd the collapse of the rebellion. Then
n the height of public happiness and re-
oicing, it cast a sudden gloom and an
.uish upon all, by its announcement of the
murder of our martyred President. Now,
laving chronicled the strange and start |
ing changes which have SO suddenly |
transformed the blood and fire and ruin of |
ivil war into the happiness, enterprise
nd prosperity of peace, it concludes its
FORK just as the brightest era of our re-
eemed and disenthralled Republic has
1t surely has done honor
bic service, and deserves honorable
lention.n
In conclusion, we take this opportunity
. acknowledge the hearty support We
ave received from the friends of the
.EADER, and shall testify our apprecia-
on by continuing to make further i'm
rovements, as occasion will demand, and
t the same time shall spare no exertion
r expense in making the LEADER the
,ading newspaper in Ohio.