Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-30

vertising and otherwise setting the thing
on foot-slO0,OOO or more in all. The
facts leak out--the thing becomes bore
the ticket holders grow restive-the first
class business men notify Mr.. Crosby
immediate hacker that their endorsement
mustn't be trifed with-the newspaper
items-men crowd their notebooks with
juicy memoranda, and wait the auspicious
moment for frst-elass sensation when
premsturelya Especial goes 10 the New
York Tribune and the fat is in the fire
with a vengeance Mr.. Nickerson is
eornered and cannot escape. The agent
in New York telegraphs for an explana-
| tion-the business men wait on Mr.
Nickerson,-a next morning card
appears in all the papers announcing over
the personal guarantee of Mr.. n. that the
drawing shall take place or the money
| shall be refunded. And here the matter
rests as L write.
The drawing will probably never take
place. The ten thousand men and wo-
men who have wasted sleepless nights in
determining how the rents of the Opera
House shall be appropriated as soon as the
drawing comes of, might better have
slept Mr.. Nickerson still has the elephant
on his hands, and now the elephant has
pleasant 100000 hump on his back
But the foolish will not learn. Ten to
one there are geese and ganders still in
Ohio aching to be plucked. Let all such
forWaHa- thNir money ut once 10 some
Chicago lottery dealer, and not waste it
on the newspapers. CHIEL.
President JOhnsonss Rebel Friends on
General Sheridan.
As a specimen of the way in which Hmy
policy encourages a delightful fran&ness
and freedom of speech among recent trail
tors and rebels in regard to the heroes Of
the war for the Union, we quote the fol-
lowing from oneof Mr. Johnson's southern
organs, the Union Springs ala Times
of August lst, in regard to gallant Phil.
Sheridan
General Phil. Sheridan grew during
the war to be quite notorious. His blood
is Irish, aud, being an Irishman, he was
full of fight. He commanded Irishmen
They wonld fight Hence, in an army of
Yankee blue bellies, who were splendidly
drilled in retrograde tactics, and against
a man whose taste for peach brandy was
stronger than his sense of duty, this little |
five feet eight of resolute Finniganism |
made some reputation. We rather liked |
the little fellow on account of his pluck, |
and were glad to see him promoted, even |
in an army of crayens and thieves. He |
studied hard at West Point, he behaved |
well in Washington Territory, and it |
pleased us to see him escape the paternal |
pick and shovel which had contributed |
largely to the internal improvements of |
Ohio.
@Why, then, has he spoiled sll by his
foolish show of authority? Why has he |
proved TO the world that he is only a vul-
gar ditcher at heart after all, and that his
high rank is not the reward of merit, but
.he mere result of fortuitous circumstan-
5es ? This is really too bad. We have
heneeforth to acknowledge these Yankee
hybrids as countrymen, and it would be |
gratifying to Southern gentlemen to know
hat some of them had just claims to de-
3ency and respect But one by one. the
eaders of the Northern army show them
selves to be only black guards and brag-
yarts.
"Butler turned thief at the start Tur-
hin was natural-born imp of perdition;
Thomas has displayed q remarkable apti-
ude for giving white peoples churches to
lis black betters; Sherman found the
orch more eongenial weapon to his un-
lightly nature than the sword Grant
ried to be politician, and failed as sig
lallY as when he attempted to defeat Lee
airly; and now one of the small fry,
hort tailed, Shiny tadpole of the latter
lonest father, and everlasting libel upon
irish blood, the scorn of brave men and
he synonym of infamy, Major General
Phil 81. Sheridan, has added his name to
his list of outrages upon humanity by
he issue of General Order No. IA, Mill
ary Division of the Gulf