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St. Mary's gazette., 1866-02-15

FORMER AR,iIKs or T4GE | NlTRp SrATRs
The largest army ever assembled at any
one time during the revolution. WAS that
commanded by General Putnam. on Long
island. That numbered seventeen thous-
and men Of All arm $ The next largest
was that with which Washington captured
CORVALLIS at Yorktown, when ho had six :
teen thousand Our largest army ASSEM-
hl-d in 1872 WAS commanded by jackson
At New Orleans, and counted but six thous-
and Coming down to the Mexican war.
Taylor won hiu victories with force nct-
TT exceeding FIVE thousand, and Srott's
largest force was not beyond eight thous
and five hundred The largest army pri-
or to the rebellion was, therefore, that of
Putnam, at Long Island seventeen thous
and men
St. Mary's gazette., 1866-02-15

4 handsome Young lady being asked II
.h. ever gave !. kiss replied, M, but |
quite often have one stolen.
St. Mary's gazette., 1866-02-15
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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
Average vote for eight years.

Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has been
claimed as indorsing President Johnson's
reconstruction policy. He presided at a
glorifcation at Harrisburgh, Pa, over the
Connecticut election on the An inst, at
which a resolution was adopted declaring
that President johnson has forfeited the
confidence of those who elected him, and
pledging a firm support of Congress.
The organ of the colored people in
Charleston, South Carolina, in its last
issue names as its ticket for 1866, Gen.
Grant for President, Hon. VIM. D. Kelly
for Vice-President, Chas. Francis Adams
for Secretary of State, John A. Bingsam
for Attorney-General Schuyler Colfax for
Secretary of the Interior, John Minor
Bolts for Postmaster General, Senator
Grimes for Secretary of the Navy, Gen.
Sheridan for Secretary of War.
We heartily endorse the following
compliment to the Columbus Journal
which we find in the Sandusky Register i:
The Journal, by the way, is now the
rest paper Columbus has sent out for many
years. 1t is conducted with ability, tact
and enterprise, and seems determined to
prove false that adage which declares State
Capitals TO be death 70 newspapers. Above
all the Journal is now entirely free from
that official toadyism which too often makes
a State paper the supple organ of the ever
changing State administrations"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
NORTHERN OHIO NEWS.
LoRAIN COUNTY.
The Elyria Democrat says:

1AlAAd CHeOO " ouyS
Major General Q. A. Gilmore, late in
command of the department Of the South,
arrived in town lats Saturday evening,
and proceeded TO the residence OF his
father in Black River. bis visit will be
brief, but be promises, as soon as his Off
cial duties will permit, to spend a few
weeks in renewing the acquaintance of
his old friends in Lorain county.
Mr.. John Mcdonnell, of LaGrangc,
was killed a few days ago at R~awsonvIlle,
by being thrown from the bridge by u
train of cars.
On Monday night, April I'd, the resi-
dence of DR.. Z ID. Merriam, of LaGrange,
was entered by a burglar, who, fearful of
being discovered, partly opened the door
of DR.. Ms sleeping room, and with a
stick which he had prepared fer the pur-
pose, tished his pantaloons from their
place Of deposit, and took his pocket book
lherefrom, containing $40 in money. The
stick was left on the floor, and the pocket
book, minus its contents, was found IN the
village the next day.
The Oberlin NcloS records the failure of
one of the business men of that place, Mr..
Frank Hendry, dealer in jewelry, &c.
Mr.. H, the Neics understands, has been
conducting business mainly on borrowed
capital, and heavy losses in its manage
ment have stripped him of his property.
He has sold his whole stock to
his father, Samuel Hendry, ESQ.,
who, We are satisfied from our
knowledge of the circumstances, will
liquiGate his sons Indebtedness, without
in any wise profting by it himself or Sc
curing anything for his SOB.
The Teachers Institute of Lorain
county was held in Elyria last week.
About sixty teachers were present. Prof.
Partridge, of Cleveland, taught music in
the Institute; Anson Smith, Sup~erinten-
dent of Cleveland Schools, lectured on
Wednesday evening; Prof. Humiston, of
the Cleveland Institute, leetured on Air
and the Current of Wind" Thursday
evening, and DR.. Sterling, OF Cleveland,
lectured on Philosophy.
Chas. D. Collins, an operator in the
Western Union telegraph office, died in
South Amherst on the It'll inst, aged 20
wears.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Petersburg IndeD says some of the
people of that city are engaged in digging
up the remains of the soldiers buried
along the lines formerly occupied by the
Federal and Confederate armies, and sell
ing them to be ground into bone dustl
The Detroit Post says: perhaps no
city in our land, of the same size and
population, is cursed with so vile, corrupt,
desperate and determined outlaws and
villains as Detroit. Hardly a day passes
but that some dwelling house is broken
into, and crimes of the greatest enormity
committed" 1t attributes this to the fact
that the city is SO close to Canada.
A lawyer in Maine recently moved for
a new trial on the ground "that in rem
dering the verdict, the jury were unduly
Influenced by the beauty of the female
plaintiff"
One of the vickedest and most success
full hOaxes perpetrated on the first of April
this year, was the work ola lady in Phila-
delphia. She sent up to the pulpit in a
Methodist Church, a notice purporting to
announce a meeting in aid of another
church. a number of names of promi-
nent clergymen were mentioned as to take
part in the exercises. The preacher read
the manuscript to his large congregation
without hesitation, until he came to the
passage announcing that a certain layman
would sing a comic song, when he became
confused suddenly, remembered the day,
and abruptly sat down.
The Coshocton Age says, that on Tues
day last George Mathew, a ~half-breed In
dian, who was c~olor-bearer of the oath
o. V. V. I, in a fit of delerium tremens,
fell unnoticed into the furnace at the rail
road tank in that place, and was burned
to death.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
STATE NEWS.

The Dayton Journal announces that the
publication of a German paper is TO be
commenced in that city next week. Mr..
Miller, of st. Louis, is to be the publisher.
The Governor, in q few days, will send
crculars TO the Auditors and Commission
ers of the different counties in the state,
calling for a report of all moneys of the
Relief Fund, levied, collected and dis
bursed by them during the years '62, '63,
81, '65, and up to April lst, 1866.
John Sherwood, convicted in 1864, at
the May term of the Lucas County Court
of Common Pleas of the crime of bur
glary, and sentenced to three years i'm
.prisonment in the Ohio penitentiary, has
been pardonod by the Governor.
The State Journal says: Lambdin P.
Milligan, one of the Indiana conspirators
released from confinement in the Ohio
Penitentiary, was disposed to be very nice
in closing up accounts with that institu-
ton. After the order came for his release
and the Warden paid over to him the
amount Of money in his hands belonging
to him (Milligsn) he refused to receipt fol-
the money, on the ground that such re
ceipt would be a recognition Of the usur-
patton, and declared that the money was
illegally detained. So he gave a receipt
for money illegally held by the Warden.
Il is a wonder he did not insist on being
hung, rather than recognize the Presidents
Communication of sentence.
Toledo has raised S42, 900 towards the
$4,000 required to secure a connection
with the Grand River Valley Railroad.
A prize tight between two "bummers"
for thirty dollars a side took place in the
outskirts of Toledo last Tuesday evening.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
Cnrinns FInanctnI sfnrr.

The New York correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial says:
In the announcement of death, pub
lished by one or two of our papers on
Monday, appeared the information that
one Philip Burrows, died recently in a
town in Italy. But it seems to have
escaped the usually retentive memory Of
our public that quite a long tale hangs
upon this little item of mortuary news,
for this same moribund individual was
once a lawyer of some prominence here,
enjoying a large and lucrative practice,
and in the confidence of many Of our
heaviest capitalists and real estate wners.
He was the counsel for Van Rensselaer,,
A. T. Stewart and others, in his day his
brother being, while living, a partner Of
the great dry goods merchant.
In an evil day, however, Philip Bnr-
lows went back on his clients and his
character, by suddenly clipping for parts
unknown, taking with him a large
amount of money temporarily entrusted
to his care by several estates, quorum
magrapars was the handsome sum of half
4 million of money belonging TO the Van
Rensselaer, family, and paid to him by
Mr.. Stewart as the purchase price of the
magnificent Metropolitan Hotel, then just
bought by Mr.. S. for the sum named
Burrows was at the time acting for both
parties to the transaction, and, upon de-
livery of the deed of the property was,
promptly placed in funds by the pur-
chaser. But the temptation was too
strong to be resisted, and the legal gentle
man incontinently packed up his duds,
gathered together what little of other
peoples funds he could get at handily,
and started for Tuscany, where such
things as acquisitions and extradition nui-
sances are ignored. One or two of his vic
tins followed him up with a sharp stick
but when they came to bring law to bear
upon him, he was swift enough to turn
the tables upon them, whereby they not
only lost their suit, but had TO foot heavy
costs. In respect TO the Metropolitan
Hotel matter, rumor says that the Nsn
Ranssellaers did not get a dollar for that
handsome property.
The buildings have cost them nearly
$4,000 to erect, not TO speak of the val
ne of the lots upon which they were built,
their profits on the sale were more than
infnitesimal. All this occurred fifteen or
twenty years ago; and meanwhile Bur-
rows has been living in Italy like Il ma
bob, on the results of his ill-gotten treas
ure-another of the family Of exiles to
whom such names as Schuyler, Fowler,
Swartout, ct ID omne genus, have lent a
sort of lustrs.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
EN-President Buchanan on a Mission
He Holds n LeVee in Harrisburg.

-EAS EAUElD u Lev &c III EEdEElADIFE.
The Copperheads are evidently pre-
pairing for a grand campaign. Every ele-
ment of their strength and every indivi-
dual attached to their organization, p
bic Of contributing to its success, Will be
brought into requisition and used during
the campaign for Governor of this State.
Those two fossils of a corrupt political
combination, ex-President Buchanan and
Ex-Governor David r. Porter, met, YES
terday, at the residence of the latter, to
compare plans and arrange q programme
preparatory to starting their machine in
Pennsylvania for the election Of Hester
Clymer.
: 1t is well known that while Buchanan
was President, he was the mere tool Of
Davis, breckenridge, Slidell, Iancey &
Co, and that he obeyed their order as i'm
plicitly as any OF their slaves on their
plantations obeyed the lash of their over
seers. The poor old creature has now be-
come, for the second time, an instrument
of evil, at the control Cfthe same influence
now prevailing in Washington city, and
It is confidently asserted that he visited
Harrisburg in obedience to the expressed
orders Of Andrew johnson, to confer with
Ex-Governor David R. Porter on such
points as would suggest themselves for the
benefit Of Southern traitors, and the
strengthening Of Northern sympathizcrs
with treason.
The spacious parlors Of Ex-Governor
Porters residence were crowded last night
with leading Copperhead legislators,
and Copperhead citizens Of Har-
risburg, who called TO pay their
respects 10 the man who asserted the right
Of secession, who quietly saw the traitO rs
armiug themselves for the destruction of
the Government without i~nterposing his
constitutional authority to prevent the
crime. Mr.. Buchanan received his visi-
tors with a suavity and ease peculiar to
his experience in the etiquette of lcvees.
He congratulated his auditors on the re-
turn Of peace, and ckuckled slylv
as he grasped the hands of old
friends and gazed into familiar
faaes, while be reminded them that we
have a Democrat for President" The
whole topic of conversation las we have
it from adisgusted Copperheadl related to
the rights Of the South, to the Justice of
admitting Southern rebels TO Congress, to
the necessity Of winning a political gictory
which l0olld force the men l0ho trent forth
and beat dorm traitors into an antagonism
the Government. The levee of the
ex-President may be justly regarded as
the first demonstration on the part Of the
men of Pennsylvania. 1t is also
asserted. but we do not give it as truth,
that ex-President Buchanan and ex-Gov-
ernor David R Porter intend to take the
for Clymer. Great Is Copperhead-
sm.-HarrisbUrg Telegraph Of FRIDAY.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
PORTAGE COUNTY.
From The Ravenna Democrat:

sA-
The April term of the District Court
adjourned on Wednesday last. Hon.
Luther Day, of the Supreme Court, pre-
siding, and Judges c. E. Gliddon, n. L.
Chafee and j. A. Amber, Common Pleas
Judges of the 18th Judicial Circuit, COM
posed the Court. There were nine cases
upon the docket, three of which were con-
Some enterprising gentlemen from
Trumbull county have found upon the
farm of Joseph r. Hoffman, in the north
east part of the township of Paris, a de-
post Of coal. The bed is about nine feet
below the surface, and the vein is three
feet thick. The bed promises to pay well
for working. The same parties have
leased two or three farms in the north
west part of the township for the purpose
If drilling for coal, which they feel conf
deut of finding.
A couple of roughs, named Eek and
Ulum, provoked a row at a dance in the
town of Sufield, Monday night and in
the melee inflicted severe if not mortal
wounds, with an axe, upon a young man
named Fritch.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13

The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazette says that the action of
Congress in passing the Civil Rights bill
was the sixth instance where tUo-tbirds
Of Congress enacted a law without the
signature of the Executive. The cases are
as follows: At the second session of the
Twenty-eighth Congress, ls44-45, Mr..
Tyler returned to the Senate, in which it
originated, the bill relating to revenue
cutters and steamers, with his objections,
which upon s reconsideration was passed
by Congress over the veto. At the first
session ofthe Thirty-fourth Congress, 1855
Sc. Mr.. Pierce returned to the House of
Representatives, in which it originated, a
bill for continuing the improvement of
the Des Moines Rapids in the Mississippi
river, aud to the Senate, in which they
originated, a bill to remove distractions
to navigation in the mouth of the Missis-
sippi river at the Southwest Pass and Pass
a Loire, a bill making an appropriation
for deepening the channel owe the fats of
the St. Mary's river in the State Of Michi-
gar, and a bill for deepening the channel
over the St. Clair Falls in the State of
Michigan, with his objections, which bills,
upon a reconsideration by Congress, were
passed over the veto.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13

pipes are cut Of order, and cess-pools
afiict the neighborhood, if the streets are
dirty, or dirty animals are kept near the
house (hog-pens being an especial incen-
tive Of the disease let him, without wait
for the slew action of the authorities, re-
move all this manure of the pestilence,
where its seeds are deposited and grow at
once with vigor.
III. Be regular in your habits. Reg
uiar hours of eating and sleeping, moder-
ate diet, and sufficient exercise, are also
of great Importance in keeping the sys-
tenn in good order. 1t should especially
be borne in mind that any great changes
in mode of life, made as a preparation
against cholera are injurious. Thus
some men pour down q great deal oil
whisky to keep of miasma; while others
babitual drinkers, abstain entirely, with
a belief that in this way they will keep
the disease away. Either course is
eouslly harmful. In the same way
persons often injure themselves by
bathing too frequently, under the i'm
preston that this is beneficial. All ex-
cesses and unusual changes of this sort
should be avoided.
We cannot conclude better than by
quoting the language of Doctor Jacob
Bigelow in a recent number of the "The
Medical aud Surgical Reuiel0': "PeOple
"who would avoid or prevent cholera,
a should cultivate equanimity, regularity
+" of life and habits, cleanliness, salubrious
p" exercise, temperance, and avoidance OF
"all excuses. When they have done
4" their duty in providing for the care Of
4" the sick, alIaying public panics, and
a abating public n~uisances, they may
a safely dismiss all of their ap-
Il prehensions." He repeats, after the ex-
perienee of thirty years, the aphorism that
q should the cholera continue to prevail
/" three years throughout this continent it
q would cease to interrupt either business
q or recreation. Mankind cannot always
a stand aghast, and the wheels of society
q at length would be no more impeded by
its presence than they are now by the
q existence of consumption, of old age, or
" of drunkenness"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
Dress-One of the FolIies of Fashio

DresS-One of the FOIIies of Fashion.
The Round Table comments on extrava-
gance in the metropolis, and gives the fol-
Lowing as an instance:
Not many days ago we took the liberty
of compiling an inventory of clothing and
accessories sported by a young lady of six
teen or Whereabouts, who dispensed much
local color to the scenery of a fashionable
avenue, and accompanied by her bonrs.
The shortness and expansive character Of
the skirt worn by this young person i'm
parted to her the general appearance Of a
ballet dancer as one of those evolutionary
a~rtistes when executing a pirouette. The
expensive lace frill of the p~antalettes de-
scend no lower than to just kiss the long,
white stocking somewhere in the region of
the knee. The skirt, which was white,
was adorned with much elaborate futing
in blue ribbon. Over this was worn a
little cloak of black velvet, which must
have cost ever SO much a yard, and all the
margins of this were studded thickly with
small silver buttons.
On the fair head Of the young person
under notice there sat, ~jauntingly, a white
Jockey trimmed with streamers of blue
ribbons and surmounted with s white
ostrich plume. Boots of a bright vermil-
lion hue encased the feet of this favored
child. Her parssol was of white silk,
lined and tagged with the same in scarlet,
and she was provided with a little pocket
handkerchief, of which the lace might
have been worth about $40. The hair Of
the child was faxen, and would have been
beautiful had it not been crimped painful
" over cushions or wads. She had Jewell
ed rings in her little white ears and as she
drew off one tiny, tan-colored Jouvin
glove, we could see that her little white
fingers were bejeweled also. This is a
correct description of the articles under
notice, so far as our memory serves US. 1t
is not an exceptional case. We have taken
it at random, and its repetitiOns are to be
on all our fashionable avenues-all
different perhaps, but all marked by the
extravaganza of cut and color in
their garb.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
The Vote on the civil Rights Bill.

Washington Correspondence New York Tribune.
A perusal of the vote shows that
Mr.. Raymond, who so shamefully lodged
the vote on the passage of the bill, Is the
only Republican who voted against it to-
day. Nj. Bingham would have done so,
but was paired with an absent member
from Pennsylvania. The only member
who changed his vote vas Whaley, of
West Virginia, who was for the bill be-
fore and against it to-day. Nj. Kuyken-
dali, of Illinois, who voted for the bill
originally, was absent to-day. Mr.. Went
worth explained that he believed he
would vote the same wav to-day if he were
present, while Mr.. Ross said he understood
he would vote against it if present. Mr..
Briggs, of Michigan, lost his vote by be-
ing absent from the Chamber when the
roll was called. He would, tomorrow,
ask leave to record it in the affirmative.
If this be granted it will make the aggre-
gate exactly three to one for the bill
Among the noteworthy incidents connect
ed with its passage, is the fact hat Mr..
Clark, OF Ohio, who has been confined to
his room for the past ten days, and for the
most part to his bed, appeared in his seat
and remained up to the time Of the final
vote, reporting his vote with the Union
party and against the President.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13

A Democratic" meeting was held in
Hoboken, New Jersey, R few days ago
and adopted an " address" which was sub
sequently presented to President johnson,
and received by him with a grateful reply.
The Chicago Republican says that the
meeting which prepared this address con-
sisted of se~venty-ave persons, including
one rebel guerrilla, named Main, the noto-
rious c. Chsuncey Burr, who SIX weeks
before the murder of Mr.. Lincoln said
that whoevers should sssassinste him should
have a monument erected to his memory,
and james w. Wall, a gentleman whom
it was necessary to arrest at the beginning
of the war, and eonfne for some time in
Fort Lafayette, in order to prevent his
rendering too much assistance to his
friend, Jefferson Davis. All persons of
this character are now sure to be found
among the friends and admirers of the
President.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend's new

Mr.. George Alfred TOwnsend's new
took 1.-THE Campaigns of a Non-Com-
blatant" is Just out. The New York Post
speaks of it as follows:
There are few of the army correspon-
dents during the wal who have not &C
eumulated sufficient material for q racy
and instructive book. 1t is their own
fault if they do not improve the advan-
tages they have enjoyed. The most of
them, however, are satisfied with the re-
suits of their labocs during the wsr, and
are too much engaged to recast the hur-
riedly written descriptions furnished by
them to the press. Mr.. George Alfred
Townsend, however, is an except on. In
his preface he states that .'no man ought
to let the first four years of his majority
slip away uarecorded." We beg leave to
differ from Mr.. Townsend as 10 this point
but we are hone the less ready to kindly
accept the result Of his theory. His book
is a cosby snd readable account of his
experiences SIS an army correspondent,
very truthful in some of its characteriza-
tons and inaccurate in others. As a
whole, we can commend it as a spicy and
lively account of the details of army life.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-13

The son of ex-Gov. Bigler, of Pennsyl-
vania, whose death we recently announced,
committed suicide, while in the delirium
of a typhoid fever, by shooting himself in
the head.
A Berlin correspondent of the Boston
Trareiler comments upon the senile prof
legacy Of the old king of Prussia, who st
the age of 6syears still fre9uents the green
rooms of low theatres, and finds his boon
companions among loose ballet girls.