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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
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The State Agricultural Board Of Mime
sofa have passed a resolution ~denOuncing
Isaac Newton, the Commissioner of Agri-
culture, matchmaking his removal.
The Democratic papers complain that
while the Independent is constant in its
censures of President johnson, its pro-
prietor and associate editer holds a Fede-
raj Office worth from $4,000 t o $4,000 a
year. The Democrats are looking out
sharp to see where the fat offices are.
Hon. Chas, Summers late speech is a
magnificent production, and occupies
thirty columns Of the Globe.
The attendance at the New Hampshire
State Convention was larger this year
than at any convention for a number of
years past. A vigorous ava is pre-
dieted, but the Democrats have no expec-
tatfon of carrying the State.
The Philadelphia Ledger asserts very
positively that we are soon to have i'm
portant changes in the Cabinet, with a
view to promote harmony in the Admin
istration.
The n. Y. Tri6une's Washington dis
patch states that the report in the House
of the conversation of the President with
the colored delegation, produced ia gen.
eral feeling of disappointment and sad
ness"
Governor Ward, of New Jersey, has
created much dissatisfaction by refusing to
renominate Hon. John Van Dyke to a
State Judicial Office he has held many
years.
There are a class of Kentucky legisla-
tors who desire to postpone the election of
q. S. Senators from that State until next
year, SO that John c. Breckenridge can
secure a pardon and be elected.
The words of Gen. Rosseau, of Ken
lucky, which Mr.. Grinnell, Of Iowa,
severely criticised, were as follows: "But
if you intend the arrest of white people on
the &C parte statements of negroes, and
hold them to suit your convenience for
trial, and fine and imprison them, and 1
say that 1 oppose you; and if you should
so arrest and punish me, 1 would kill you
when you set me at liberty"
The Chicago Tribune, abiding to Hon.
John f. Driggs's proposition to remove
the National Capital from Washington,
thinks that such removal is merely a
question of time and agreement as to the
place of permanent location. We think
SO too, and the subject had better be thor
oughly examined now, before any more
money is expended at Washington.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14

Reconstruction, under the Presidents
plan" is working beautifully in Texas.
The Texas Convention, which organized
a few days ago by electing as its Presi-
dent the former President of the Conven-
ton which took Texas out of the Union,
has now signalized its loyalty by refusing
to take the amnesty oath, a motion to take
it having been voted down on Saturday
last, by a vote of SO in favor to Al against.
In other States the whipped and beaten
rebels were only toe glad to be pardoned
on any terms, and took the amnesty oath
with the utmost alacrity and eagerness.
But these Texas Unionists have toe high
stomachs for this, forsoothl They refuse
to be pardcnedl Like John Mitchell,
they shave ne use for the article" They
even refuse, in the most deliberate man
ner, to swear allegiance to the United
Statesl And these are the men who are
to reconstruct" Texas. They ought
every man of them, to be reconstructed
on the gallows.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
Politics.

The Georgia Legislature elected Judges
of the Supreme Court on Friday, January
9eth, choosing Hon. Dawson A. Walker
for the long term, his opponents being
Judge Lyon, the present incumbent, and
Gen. d. L. Benning. Judge Lyon de-
feated Gen. Benning six years ago. mainly
through the fundamentally of William
Dougherty, Esq, who, in a pamphlet of
some length, brought very grave charges
against Judge BIS judicial course. The
same pamphlet was reproduced some ten
days since by Mr.. D~ougherty, and con-
tributed more than any other thing to the
defeat of Gen. B. To fill the vacancy of
Hon. G. J. jenkins, there were as eandi-
dates Hons. 81. Warner, B. Hill, John
Sehley, R. b. Clark end IversOn L. Har-
ris, and on the second ballet Judge Harris
was elected. His election seems to give
pretty general satisfaction, while the
friends of Gen. Benning are extremely
mortified, and very much ohagrined at
his defeat.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
Tho MemorisI ObSeouies.

No ruler was more respected, no man
was better loved, than Abraham Lincoln.
No death in the worlds annals so wrung
with anguish the popular heart, or called
forth expressions of mourning so univer-
sal, 60 grand and SO pathetic as did his.
Turning back from these quiet times of
peace to the perturbed and stormy days
of last April, and viewing with our minds
eye the grand funeral pageant which
moved across half a continent, bearing the
nations martyr to his final rest, we cannot
fail to be impressed, much more solemnly
and deeply than at the time, with the
g%enuineness, the universally, and the
depth of the nations grief at the loss of
Abraham Lincoln. And now, after ten
months of eventful history, the Congress
of the United States has devoted the
birthday of the murdered President to
solemn services in commemoration of
him. These exercises were severely sim
pie, as wa BETTING the occasion, and our
republican manners; but the scene, the
orator, the audience, the day, and above
all the virtues and the greatness of him
whose memory was thus honored make
these memorial rites memorable for all
time. Our readers will find an account Of
them in our telegraphic dispatches. The
speech of Mr.. Bancroft, of which a mere
abstract is given, we shah lay before our
readers at the earliest momen possible.
1t is a production worthy the reputation
of its author and.the occasion upon which
it was delivered.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
An ApDrouriate illustration.

The following is an eloquent passage
from the recent successful speech of Hon.
]. A. Garfield:
remember an incident in the history
Of the eastern church, as rendered by
Gibbon, volume two, chapter twenty
eight, which illustrates the power which
slavery has exercised among us. The
Christians of that day, under the lead of
Theophilus, undertook to destroy the
heather temples. Gibbon says:
"Theophilus proceeded to destroy the
temple Of Scraps without any other diff
culties than those which he found in the
weight and solidity of the materials, but
these obstacles proved SO ~insuperable that
he was obliged to leave the foundations and
content himself with reducing the ediiice
itself to a heap of rubbish, a part of which
was soon afterwards cleared away to make
room for a church, erected in honor of the
Christian martyrs.
"The colossal statue of Scraps was in
volved in the ruin of his temple and relig-
ion. A great number of plates of different
metals, artiicially joined together, compos-
cd the majestic figure OF the deity, who
touched on either side the walls of the sane
tuary. The aspect of Scraps, his sitting
posture, and the scepter, which he bore in
his left hand, were extremely similar to the
ordinary representations of Jupiter. He
was distinguished from Jupiter by he as-
ket, or bushel, which was placed on his
head, and by the emblematic monster which
he held in his right hand, the head and
body of a serpent branching into three tails,
which were again terminated by the triple
heads of a dog, a lion and q wolf. 1t was
confidently affirmed that if any impious
hand should dare to violate the majesty Of
the god the heavens and eRrth wOuld in
stantly return to their original chaos. An
intrepid soldier, animated by zeal and
armed with a weighty battle-axe, assembled
the ladder, and even the Christian multi
tude expected with some anxiety the event
of the combat. He aimed a vigorous stroke
against the cheek of Scraps; the fell
10 the ground the thunder was still silent,
and both the heavens and earth continued
to preserve their accustomed order and
tranquility. The victorious soldier repeat
ed his blows, the huge idol was overthrow
and broken in pieces, and the limbs of Ser
apis were ANONYMOUSLY dragged through
the streets of Alexandria. His mangled
carcass was burnt in the ~ampitheatre amid
the shouts of the populace, and many per-
sons attributed their conversion to this dis
covery Of the impotence of their t~utelary
deity"
So slavery sat in our national Capitol.
Its huge bulk filled the temple of our lib
erty, touching it from side to side. Mr..
Lincoln, on the LIST of Janoary, struck it
on the cheek, and the faibhless and unbe-
lieving among us expected to see the fab
ric of our institutions dissolve into chaos
because their idol had fallen. He struck
il arain: Congress and the States repeat-
ed the Blow, and its u~nsightly carcass lies
rotting in our streets. Tho sun shines in
the heavens brighter than before. Let us
remove the carcass and leave not avestige
Of the monster.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
Chess AneodOts.

4 One evening, when Robespierre, al
ready surrounded with his halo of terror.
was sitting in the Cafe de la Regence, a
young little exquisite entered the saloon,
and unceremoniously installing himself at
his table, moved a man on the chess-board
which stood in front of R~obespierre, who
responded to the move. The game went
on and was lost by the latter. They be-
gan a second game, which he likewise
lost. Seeing this, R~obespierre felt his
honor engaged, and inquired for what
stake they were playing. "For the head
of a man" the lad replied. ~ have won
it; give it me- Robespierre drew from
his pocket a sheet of paper and wrote an
order to set at liberty the Comte de R,
then imprisoned in the Conciergerie. The
smart little dandy, it seems, was no other
than the Comte's affianced bride.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14

DR.. Hunter Mcclure, Professor of Sur
gerry in the Virginia Medical College, in
a paper on 'gunshot wounds of joints"
gives the particulars eff the wound received
by Stonewall Jackson in tho first battle of
Manassas. He says:
The ball struck the finger a little to one
side, broke it, and carried off Il small piece
Of the bone. 1 determined to save the
finger, if possible, and placed a splint
along thepalmer surface to support the
fragments, retained it in posision by n
strip or two of adhesive plaster, covered
the wound with lint, and told him to keep
it wet with cold wafer. During the treat
ment the hand was kept elevated and
confined in q sling, and when the use of
this was discontinued, and the hand was
permitted to hang down, there was, of
course, gravitation of blood toward it. In
consequence oft, however, the hand was
sometimes swollen and painful, and to
remedy this, Ia often held it above his
head fer some moments. He did this so
frequently that it became at length a hab-
it, and was continued, especially when he
was distracted, after all necessity for it
had ceased. / have seen it stated some-
where that whenever, during a battle, his
hand was thus raised, he was engaged in
prayer; but l think the explanation 1
have given is the correct one. ! believe
he was the truest and most consistent
Christian 1 have aver known, but 1 don't
believe he prayed much while he was
fighting.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
Candidate

"Not any more, I thank you" says the
bibulous man in the play, while he holds
out his glass toward the gentleman with
the bottle. "Not any more Presidency, l
thank you" says MI. Andrew johnson to
the numerous visitors who call on him
nowadays. aDon't you see he has had
all he wants ?" asks the Chicago Times.
What a pretty play it is, and how the
spectators are deluded, to be surel
When a public man begins to decline a
nomination for the Presidency that has
not b~eenoffered to him by any considerable
body of bis fellow citizens, it is a sure in
dicstion that he wants somebody to press
it upon him-to embarass him with ito
put him in an awkward position concern
ing ito be deucedly urgent about it, and
all that. There is no coquette like your
politician, especially if he had one taste
the Presidency, and more especially if
be is bidding for votes outside Of his own
party.-Chiegso Tribune.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
STATE ITEMS.


The ladies of the Universalist church,
Springfield, O., of which Rev. S. 2. Carl
ton is pastor, recently closed afestival and
fair, the net proceeds of which were
$I,lOO.
The Fairfield County Agricultural So
ciety, at its recent meeting, elected a full
Democratic Ticket. We doubt whether
this arrangement will much improve the
prospect of the fair.
A new Infrmary is about to be built in
Lorain county, and the Commissioners are
visiting the Infirmaries of other counties
in order to fix upon a model.
The citizens of Massillon report that
the canal has been frozen up for a longer
time this winter than for many years.
since it was frozen over and it remains
so yet.
The Stark county f publican says the
insane man, George Hershberger, who ran
away from the Infrmary Of that county
some weeks since, has been returned. He
strayed into Columbiana county Infirm-
airy, and upon notice, was returned. He
has since attempted to make another es-
cape.
There are about 10, 900 U. s.. pensioners
IN Ohio, and it is estimated that the num-
Der will reach $4,000 when all the appli-
cations shall have been considered at
Washington.
The ~Sandusky Register declares that
the thieves Of that locality walk four
miles on the ice to steal the cannon balls
on Johnson's Island to sell for old iron.
The GAINESVILLE Times reports that a
married gentleman of that city recently
left his wife and children, and eloped with
a lady, going to Texas.
The Oxford Citizen reports that a re-
turned soldier, George w. Weldon, came
to that place last week with his wife, a
cultivated lady from Tennessee. He re-
manned a day or two with her, then de-
camped, leaving her without money and
taking with him the greater portion of her
wearing apparel. Her situation was made
known TO citizens of the place and she
was furnished money to pay her passage
home. Letters received from her since
thst time announce her safe arrival at her
fathers.
The Vinton County Republican says
that recently several childreno of Mr.. Stew
art, living near VInton Furnace, accident
ally got hold of a pistol which had been
laid away somewhere in the house, and
whilst engaged in examining il, the weap-
on exploded, instantly killing a little son
of Mr.. Stewart, aged about two years.
The ball entered the little fellows breast,
passing near the region of the heart.
The Washington County NeaOs says the
convention to nominate a candidate for
Representative to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Hon. A. /. Haskin, held
at Marietta on Saturday last, was slimly
attended. Only IS votes were east for the
two candidates, Col. R. R. Davis and
james B. Green, Esq. The latter received
So votes and was declared the nominee.
A correspondent Of the Commercial re-
ports the death by hanging of Mrs. De-
borah Baxter, deceased. The family re.
sided near Twenty Mile Stand, Warren
county, and the suicide was committed on
the 4th inst. Her husband died in July
last, and since that time she has given up
to the deep melancholy that resulted in
death.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
ras Fature site Of the American Cap

AkuAe
A resolution has been offered in the
House Of Representatives looking to the
removal of the national capital to a site
more centrally located and less exposed
70 the possible attacks of foreign enemies
and to domestic menace. There is no
prospect that this measure will succeed at
present but in the course of time it may
prevail. Washington is in every way
unsuitsd for the capital of the United
States. It is two small a city to aecommo-
date the demands upon it. It-like all
capital cities which have nothing to sus-
tainthem but the capitals located in them
is grasping, greedy and rapacious. But
the great objection to Washington is its
geographical location. The capital Of a
nation which stretches from ocean to ocean,
across a wide continent it is nevertheless
located on the tide-water of the Atlantic,
D the eastern edge of the country. The
capital Of the nation should be located at
its center-if not its geographical center,
thenits center of population. The great
objection, however, to removing the capt.
tai at present lies in the fact that the cen
ter of population in this country is all
the time changing. As the great west
Ellis up with inhabitants and the vast prai-
ries beyond the Mississippi begin to TEEN
with industry, the center Of population
follows the star of empire westward.
When Washington was selected as the
capital it was not very far from the center
Of population. twenty-five years ago
Wheeling was that center. New it rests
at a point very near Cincinnati, and it
win continue to travel westward and
slightly southward-for the tide of immi-
grafton is henoeferth to flow to the south
as well as to the west-until a century
from now the center will probably lie on
the other side of the Mississippi
river, and somewhere in the state
of Missouri. If Canada should become a
portion Of the United States the centre of
population would lie between Pittsburgh
and this city. In that event, considering
the high, beautiful and healthy location
Of Cleveland, and the advantages which
its location on the lakes give it, it might
be selected for the new capital. If Mexico
were annexed at the present time the CEN
ter of population would be near Cairo,
which, being the geographical center of
the continent, and located at the conau-
ence of the Ohio and Mississippi, seems to
be very nearly the "hub' of the western
world.
Aside from the great difficulty sfselect-
ing a location for the new American capt.
tai, the immense cost of the public build
ings and works of the present capital and
the great time and labor necessary to con
struct adequate buildings in a new place,
will prove a great argument against the
removal of the capital, at least before the
present burden Of debt is removed from
our shoulders. Until, therefore, the trans
Mississippi territory has been filled with
emigrants, until st. Louis, Cincinnati and
Chicago have settled between themselves
which is 10 be the Queen City of the in
terror, and until the national debt is paid,
the capital will probably remain where
it is.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
Cool.

The following conversation was given
us by a gentleman of the city as having
actually occurred a few days ago. Desir-
ing to engage freedmen on his farm for
the present year, he addressed among
othere a stout looking fellow with:
"Boy, do you want to hire next year,
Freedman" What sort of work is it,
sir2"
Citizen-"I want hands on my farm /;
can 1 get you for one2"
Freedman with pompous air)-Well,
no; 1 don't care about hiring next year.
What will you take for your placer"
Citizen somewhat surprissd)-"Twen-
ty dollars per acre"
Freedman-"How much would it all
come to at that?"
Citizen (makin a mental calculation
"Six thousand two hundred dollars"
Freedman-"Y-e-s; what are your
terms2"
Citizen-"One third cash the balance
in n and two years, with eight per cent.
interest.
Freedman-"Wouldn't you make some
deduction if l was to pay the whole in
cash and gold".
Citizen-"Certainly, eight per cent.
Freedman-"Make it ten.
Citizen decidedly astonished)-"Very
welI'.
Freedman-TH take itp
The gentleman was then informed that
he should have money the next day with
out fall
Look out We Legislative Hotspurs the
freedmen will have all your lands in a
dozen years - Columbus Mss Huder.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
The President and the Negro.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser.l
A delegation Of colored men, with
Frederick Douglass as chairman, called on
the President yesterday In response to
the address, the President made a long re-
ply, in which he took ground against
negro suffrage as likely to bring about q
war of racesl He expressed a willingness,
however, to grant suffrage to the negro if
popular majority so willed it, otherwise he
would not force it On any community.
That is what is called "sound Democratic
doctrine" But it is very mischievous.
There is a right above the popular will.
The people can do wrong US well as kings.
Justice, equality, common sense, yield
suffrage to all alike, regardless of caste or
color, making one rule for all. He is the
statesman and the true man who is gov
erned by principle, and who dares to OPP
pose the wrongheadedness Of a popular
expression.
The President referred to his former
statement, that he would be a Moses to the
negro, by saying, Il have said, and l re-
peat here, that if the colored men in the
United States could find no other Moses,
or any Moses that would be more able
and efficient than myself, l would be their
Moses to lead them from bondage to free
dem. That 1 would pass them from a
land where they had lived in slavery to a
land, if it were in u reach, of freedom; l
would be willing to pass with them
through the Red Sea to the land Of prom
Use, to the land of liberty" Does this
mean colonization 2
The whole speech shows that the Presi-
dent is governed by ideas gathered from
slavery, and that he lacks real faith in
human rights. He talks well of "democ-
but he has the convictions of an eli
garch. We hope he may pass his Red Sea
and reach the solid land beyond where he
will be willing to concede the justice and
the right of equality for all men.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14

The Ecuador mission, left vacant by
the resignation Frederick ascaurek, ESQ.,
of Cincinnati, is, in accordance with a Gus
tom at Washington to be given to some
Ohio man, and three or four Union leaders
have already fled their applications. The
Washington correspondent of the Cincin-
matt Commercial says that Messrs. Stanton
and Nixon Of the Ohio Legislature, and
William P. eoggeshall, private secretary
of Goveinor Cox, have all forwarded
strong recommendations for the position.
The place is worth $500 a year, in gold
and is a very pleasant one, while the duties
involved are neither arduous nor particu-
larry responsible.
Fancy dress balls seem ts be the rage all
ever the Stats, 55J
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DYEINc.
CYRJAX.

French and Fancy Steam Dye Works and Cleaning
Establishment, Belvidere Farm, East Cleveland,
and 96 Seneca street. ID.
0FFIcE-104 Seneca street, Cleveland, O..
I mean to make this the BEST DYE-H0USE IN
THE WEST, and shall spare no effort to give salts
I call the especial attention Of Gentlemen to the
'2 IMPR0YED FRENCH STYLE
OF Cleanining or Re-dying Of mad0-uP Garments.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-14
Terrible Scene in a Menagerie.

An unprecedented scene occurred at the
Cirque Napoleon, Paris. on the night of
January 22d, during the performance of
Mr., Batty, the successor of Van Amburg,
who is now exhibiting in Paris. The
moment he entered the wild beasts cage
the lioness was observed to be in a terrible
g The lions were also roaring and
jumping about, and Mr.. Batty seemed to
have lost his usual influence over them.
The public, fearing to see him torn to
pieces, cried out, $50 out, go outI" Mr..
Batty took the advice, and cautiously
withdrew, walking backward. The cause
of the extraordinary commotion in the
cage was soon ascertained. A few min
utes before the commencement of the pei
Torrance the lioness had given birth to a
cub, which was thought to be an only son.
The youg lion was taken away from her,
and given to a bitch to suckle. But Just
as Batty entered the cage the lioRess IN
expectedly produced a second young one,
and the lions wanted to eat it-a prOpen-
sity said to be very common among wild
beasts when in a state of captivity. The
fury of the lioness in defense of her of
spring, and the ferocious attitude of her
companions in the cage, produced an ex-
traordinary panic among the spectators,
and several ladies tainted. After q short
pause Batty contrived to separate the
from the cub, and the latter, about
the size of a cat. was held up by the nape
of the neck for the inspection of the com
pany.