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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14


From Miss Kate Fields pleasant paper
on the last days of Waiter Savage Ian
dor, IN the April number of the atlantic
Monthly, We copy these interesting rem
iniscences of three eminent English au-
thors. L once asked Lander to describe
WORDSWORTH personal appearance. He
laughed and replied:
"The best description l can give you Of
Wordsworth is the one that Hazlitt gave
me. Hazlitt's voice was very deep and
gruff, and he peppered his sentences very
beautifully with sirs. In speaking to
me of Wordsworth, he said: "Well, sir,
did you ever see a horse, sir ?" Yes"
q Then, sir, you have seen Wordsworth,
sir He looks exactly like a horse, sir,
and q very long-faced one at that, sir
And he did Look like a horse, added Ian
dor.
Those who nave seen good likenesses
of Wordsworth will readily remark the
resemblance. A greater length of ear
would liken tho Lake poet TO an animal
of less dignity.
Continuing the conversation thus begun,
Lander said Il saw a great deal of H8z-
lit when he was in Florence. He called
upon me frequently, and a funny fellow
he was. He used to say TO me "Mr.
Landor, l like you, sir-1 like you very
much, sir-you're an honest man, sir, but
I don't approve, sir, of a great deal that
you have written, sir. You must reform
some of your opinions, sir" And again
Lander laughed with great goodwill.
81 regret that 1 saw Charles Lamb but
once, replied Lander, in answer to many
questions asked concerning this delightful
man and writer. Lamb sent word bv
Southey," Il think Southey) "that he
would be very happy to see me, where
upon we made him a-visit. He had then
retired from the India House, and lived at
Enfield. He was most charming in con
versation, and his smile impressed me as
being particularly genial. His sister was
also a very agreeable person.
During my visit, Lamb rose, went to a
table in the center of the room and took
up a book, ont of which he read aloud.
Soon shutting it, he turned to me saying,
"Is not what l have been reading exceed
lngly goOd2' Every good / replied.
T%hereupon Lamb burst out laughing and
exclaimed, "Did one ever know so con-
ceited a man as Mr.. Landor2 He has ac-
tually praised his own ideas p 1t was
now my turn to laugh, as l had not the
slightest remembrance Of having written
what Lamb had read.
Are there many to whom the following
lines will not be better than new2
'Honce, and only once, have I seen thy face,
Ella only has thy tripping tongue
Run DER my breast, yet never has been left
Impression on it stronger or more sweet.
Cordial old man what youth was in thy yezrs,
What wisdom in thy levity what truth
In every utterauce of that purest soul
Few are the spirits of the giorihed
I'd spring to earlier at the gate of Heaven"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
A Lawyerin the Pulpit,

Tho Christian Inquirer has a letter
from Boston describing the appearance of
a leading lawyer of that city in DIR. Meme
miah Adams pulpit. Mr.. Durant, it is
said, on the occasion of a severe domestic
atfliction-the loss of his only son-and
under the influence of the revival move
Wents in the city, has left the bar for the
pulpit. The writer says of the discourse:
1t was remarkably affectionate, and al
though given in an off-hand way, with a
lawyers freedom, it showed no trace of
the lawyers sharp analysis, or keen dis
elimination, or aggressive point. 1t was
very much of the st. John temper in its
feeling, though never ascending to his
high argument for the gospel as the Eter-
nal Word, the absolute truth, in which
alone the weary soul can find perfect and
unending rest. 1t twas,
on the whole, a memorable occasion, to
hear Rufus Choate's business partner, and
one of the richest and most successful
lawyers in Boston, preach. Preaching it
surely was"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
WASHINGTON TOPIcs AND GOSSIP
TEAL OF IEFE DAVIS

- Vt Ia
There seems TO be no longer any doubt
of the fact that the Government intends
proceeding with the trial of JEFF. Davis.
The latter and his counsel have been So
officially informed. The House Judiciary
Committee, in the meantime, are hurry
ing the investigation into his alleged com
plicity in the assassination plot. The
committee hope TO be able to report to the
House at an early day, probably next
week.
"MY PoLICY@sENAToR NNE's SPEECH.
The agitation in Congress in behalf OF
the Presidents policy struck a snag Wed
nesday in the Senate. Tie debate rolled,
along by Messrs. Doolittle and Cowan
with aggressive insolenee, was met and
broken by Nh. Nye, Of Nevada, in a
speech which electrified the Senate. He
impaled the Wisconsin recreant and tore
10 tatters the flimsy pleas for the Presi-
dents policy. A speech of such logic
wit sarcasm and pathos has never been
delivered in the United States Senate. AS
a remarkable evidence of its character.
Mr.. Fessenden, against the habit of his
whole Senatorial life, arose when Mr..
Nye yielded to a motion to adjourn, and
warmly shook him by the hand, and com
plImented him with great emotion. The
Senator from Nevada will resume to-mor-
row his pulverization of the traitors 10
the war and 10 the Republican party.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
The Warrington Territory Females
Find a Market.

1t is stated that A. S. Mercer, Esq, OF
Washington Territory, who took a steam
boat load of young women TO a husband
market on the Pacific coast last fall, has
written back that his enterprise is a sue
cess and that he he will repeat the exper-
iment next summer. II is to be presumed
then that the interesting cargo of femi-
ninity reached its destination without ut
terly tearing each others eyes out and
that the susceptible bachelors of WASH
ington territory rushed eagerly to the
dock, provided with blank marriage Ii
eenses, duly authenticated, contesting
eagerly for the first choice from among the
loveables; that at last all of the New
England importstions, even to the uglieSt
and Oldest were at last disposed of and
are now engaged in frying slap jacks and
sweeping cabins in the homes of the Pa
cifc. We are glad to learn that the ex-
pertinent has been successful. Men great
ly predominant on the Pacific coast and
women in New England. If these coun-
t~eryaling disparities could be removed at
the same time by such projects a. this,
barring their apparently commercial char
scter, the family relation, that great con-
servator of all the virtues, would be more
common, and great good would result.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
THE LEADER LEADS.
AThIrd Party I'm Indiana.

The third party movement in Pennsyl-
vania, on which we have already COM
mented, is likely to be parallelled by a
similar movement in Indiana. Union
aad Democratic tickets are already in
nomination in that state, and the Union
platform, one would think was sufficiently,
conservative to suit the most confirmed
Johnsonian in the Republican ranks.
But there must needs be a third party,
for, forsooth, the Presidents friends
cannot strain under the same banner
with the Colfaxes and Julians, the Nor
tons and Orths of the Republican party
of Indiana And SO a call has been
issued for q third party convention To
meet on the 10th inst. to nominate a third
ticket. Only those who supported Lin
coin in 1864 and who now support john
son, are to participate. We need say
nothing farther of the character of the
movement than to say that Sol. Meredith,
the bully who earned an infamous notO-
riety by his cowardly assault on Mr.. Ju-
lian, is the head, and that Mart Igo, the
defaulting Quartermaster of the 37th In
diana Regiment, is the tail of the list of
signers to this call. These names are
enough to damn the movement to eternal
fame. But the movement does not need
the condemnation of such names 10 blaze
it with the people. 1t viii be universally
repudiated by the Republicans of In
diana. Indeed we almost hope that the
third party may be put fairly in the field,
in order that the strength of the John
son Republicans" may DC tested. We
venture to predict that if this is done the
third ticket will not have enough sup
porters to make a decent canvassing COM
mittee at each polling place.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
Amlrlean Freeamen,s CommI.slo

AmIrIcan Freedmen's Commission.
The May number of the Amerierl
Frsednsss presents a statement of the
work of the society," which VIII be found
full of interest 10 its patrons and friends
During the last year 307 schools and 775
teachers have been sustained, and over
10000 pupils educated by the various or
CARNATIONS in the North not ~sectarian in
character. The amount of contributions
exceed $500, 600, and it is estimated alto
gether not less than 100000 have been
spent by these societies Tor the benefit of
the freedmen and others. Their work is
still increasing, and in New England the
number of teachers has grown in six
months from 100 to 1872, and in New
York from 40 to $40. OF the GLIB teach
ers now in the field, 49l represent this
commission and its branches. 1t is evil
dent that the project of forming the var
ious societies before existing into one has
had a gratifying success.
From the reports and correspondence Of
the society interesting tables have been
compiled, showing the location of schools
by States and towns, and by what socie-
ties they are sustained. Poetieal justice is
satisfied in finding that South Carolina
has the largest number of schools, l29.
Virginia comes next with lO4 North
CarOliua has 80; Tennessee, SIS Mary
land 81, and so on Mississippi and Ar
kansas, which are certainly not less in
need of enlightenment, have but 20, and
10, respectively and when we consider
that these schools are open 10 whites as
well as blacks, we may appreciate the ex-
tent of the field that remains TO be titled.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
rhe sunday LiarorLau.

The following dialogue took place in
one of the n. Y. drug stores, on last Sum
day afternoon. Aman walked in and m
quired:
"Have you any camphor?s
ayes sir" .
Chow do you sell it,"
Fifteen cents an ounce sir.
"Give me an ~ounce2"
"The camphor was duly weighed and
wrapped up. The customer then en-
quired
"Have you good whisky p
"Yes sir"
"How do you sell it2"
Fifty cents a pint sir
"Give me a pint"
Have you a prescription, sir 2"
mo sir. 1 want to dissolve the cam
phor.
Very well, give mt the camphor, and
Tll-put it in
"No, no, 1 want to take it home; my
wife Is sick"
Every well sir you can't get the
whisky then without a prescription"
well, now, this is a id pretty
state of affairs, a man can't get a little
whisky when his wife is sick
The customer became disguised, walked
cut and thew the camphor into the gutter
and goes of, doubtless thinking the Sun
day liquor law a strange affair.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
JEFFs HASH NOT GOOD EToUGH.
III uJ
THE CROPS.

We CLEAN from exchanges the follow
ing crop intelligence: Stark county, Ohio
Wheat very ~unpromising, many fields be-
ing plowed up, Rye, very little seeded
last fall. Wayne county, 0hio-Wheat
very poor; one half will never be cut
almost a failure. Rye, very little sown.
Pickaway county, Ohio-Wheat prospect
very poor do not look for one half of a
crop. A large crop of corn will be plant
ed. Perry county, 0hio-Wheat about
one-tenth of an average. Rye, not injured.
Fairfield county, 0hio-Wheat badly
damaged; not over one-eighth crop. Rye
very little injured. Licking county, Ohio
in the northern part of the county per
haps one-half a crop, Southern part not
over n quarter. Hooking county, Ohio
Wheat generally very poor and thin
many fields plowed and sown in oats.
Highland, Brown and Adams counties,
OhIo-Wheat will not yield tho seed.
Rye cropvery light.
The New Albany, Indiana, Ledger says 4:
The wheat in some parts of this cennty
looks pretty well, but in some localities
it was badly winter frozen.
A Mississippi planter writes hat most
of the planters in Tishimingo and the ad-
jacent counties are planting grain princi-
pally, instead of their staple cotton.
Where their crops formerly consisted of
.two-thirds cotton and one-third bread
stutfs, there has been a complete change,
and they have, instead, two-thirds bread
stufs and one-third cotton. The reason
of this is the scant supplies in the coun-
try and in the scarcity oflabor. There is
but little stock, and no money to by more
with, and if the stock was in the country
there is no feed for them. The corn crop
is promising, and also the fruit.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
Death OF Mrs. Thomas CariyIe.

[LondoB Correspondence New York Tribune
The mid-weekly mail will have brought
you the news of the sudden death of the
wife of Thomas Carlyle, in her carriage in
Hyde Park, this day sen night, from dis
ease Of the heart, accelerated by excite
ment and alarm for her little dog, which
had been run over by q vehicle. The de-
ceased has a claim to the worlds graft
tude of which it will hardly be remindful.
One involuntarily recalls DIR. Holmes re-
marks on character and genius in speak
ing of If, and especially his smile of the
great three-decker towed along by the lit
tie, toiling steanl-tug, wanting which it
might "wallow and roll about, and drift
hither and thither, and go of with the re-
fluent tide no man knows whittier" 1t
was to his marriage that the great writer
owed the competency and leisure TO write
those books that all the world reads. His
tasks were not so easily accomplished or
so soon appreciated that he could have
done without either. 1t took him five
years, as he has told us, to produce "Sar-
tar Resartus." Hence, when the lonely,
obscure, eontemplative young Scotchmsn,
who ffty-six years ago, entered the Ed
ingburg University, where he was installed
the other day as Chancellor, who left it
undecided as to his future course, who, in
company with his friend, Edward Irving,
filled the humble position of usher to two
schools in Fifeshire, and subsequently be-
came the private tutor of Charles Butler,
when in 1927 he married Miss WEIGH,
a lineal descendant of John Knox ("the
father as Carlyle has loved to call him,
"of Oliver Cromwelr') and retired to that
solitary farmhouse of Craigenputtock,
which Emerson has described for us, it
was a fortunate thing for US all. In 1884
they came TO London, to a quiet street in
Chelsea, from whence the deceased lady
will be conveyed to her last, narrow
home tomorrow. Her husband was away
at the time in Scotland. "The rest of his
pilgrimage alone" as he wrote of Ster-
ling. "She is forever hidden from his
eyes, and he stands, on the sudden, very
solitary, amid the tumult Of fallen and
falling things" Mrs. Carlyle was a wo-
man of intelligence and culture. She
had correspondent with Goethe and other
notables of literature, and the great Ger
man had written sonnets TO her.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14

The Harrison county Tribune, in Ben.
Loan 6 district, Missouri, has run up his
NAM for denomination to Congress.
The Cincinnati Commercial styles Mr..
Raymond "the superb leader of a conser-
vative party of one"
Horace Rublee, Esq, of Wisconsin has
been nominated by the President as U. S
Consul 10 Rotterdam. Mr.. Rublee is edi-
tor of the Madison Wis., Journal.
The Grand Rapids Democrat claim:
that Hon. F. W Kellogg, of Michigan
and Major Charles P. Babcock, having
resided at the South recently, have con
siderably appropriated to Democratic de.
prayity of politics.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
Whereabouts Of Rebel Generals.

A Southern paper SAYS "There are
twenty-eight general officers of the late
Confederate army doing business in the
city Of New Orleans. Among them are
Gen. Beauregard Lieut.. Gen. Longstreet,
President of the Southern and Western
Accidental Insurance Company Gen
Hood, of the firm of J. B. Hood & Co,
cotton and commission merchants Lieut..
Gen. A. P. Stewart, of Stewart & Bros,
cotton and commission merchants Msi.
Gen. Frank Gardner, draughtsman; Mai.
Gen. 81 S. Buckner, of the firm of Phelps
& Co, cotton factors, and editorially con-
nected with Tie Crescent; Brig. General
Henry Hays, candidate for Sheriff Mai.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of the cavalry,
selling carriages, buggies, &c; Brig. Gen
NJ. JEFF. Thompson, the famous Swamp
Fox Of Missouri, of the firm of Thomp-
son Il Power, grocers and commission
merchants, who avows that he is now as
doeile as a kitten, -thoroughly recon
structed, and puts up the best article of
old Bourbon in the market; Mai. Gen.
Loring, of Banks & Loring, cotton fac
tors Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall,
lawyer, as corpulent and interesting as
ever Grig. Gen. Garner, Brsgg's chief OF
staff, grocer and commission merchant ;
Brig. Gen. McNair, grocer; Brig. Gen.
Hawthorne, cotton factor; Brig, General
Trudeau, the old artillery officer, now
praticing medicine Brig. Gen. Arm
strong, planting neal the city Maj. Gen.
D. II. Maury, IN aturpentine place Brig.
Gen. King, Of Texas, dry goods clerk
Brig. Gen. Joe Davis, ship chandler
5rig, Gen. Higgins, running drays. Tom
Scott, Of the old LIST Louisiana, and Col.
Walton of the famous Washington Ar
tillery, are all doing business here
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
senator GuthrIe In IssI.

A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Ga.
zefte says hat as he was travelling on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad in the
spring of 1861, on his journey North, the
train stopped at a station north of Bowl
ing Green. A military organization Of
young Southerners, dressed in their in
famous gray, were drawn up in line, no
doubt to impress the minds of the Yanks
honieward bound with the military ardor
and strength of the South. While adj
miring their fine military appearance, the
writer was startled by the cry of Guthrier
Mr.. Guthrie, who was on board, went out
on the rear platform of the car and sd
dressed the assembled braves. The
writer had listened to JEFF. Davis, Judah
?. Benjamin, and others of the notorious
leaders Of the rebellion, but Mr.. Guthrie
on this occasion eelipsed them all in his
~denunciation OF President Lincoln. stic-
matiZing him as a tyrant, and urging his
hearers 70 resist the demands of the Presi-
dent. None of the eloquent and notorious
orators engaged in those dark days in fir
ing the Southern heart had ever equalled
Mr.. Guthrie's address, short as it was, in
reasonable and despicable sentiments.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
Business Men Wanted

ITO ENGAGE PERMANENTLY. ON
l. salary OF commission, to receive add all or
drTs, and collect on subscriptions. for superior
subscription Books and Sartain's Series of Sacred
and National Fngrayings, including bis large and
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a true caupa nion- piece for
christ Blessing Little Children" II, supsri-
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pirate match, pNTt4kes OF a striking ~contrsst.
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Ct Engravings.
An examination OF our assortment will satisfy
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A feE General superintendents wanted, to en-
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References required. Apply either personally
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corner ofHigh and Friend-sts., Columbus, Ohio;
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mayI1:3IS
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14

A new excise law has recently gone
into operation in New York city. On
Sunday last nearly all the establishments
in the city for the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors were closed, and the athens en-
joyed a quiet orderly Sunday. The few
violatOrs of The law we're promptly ar
rested, and on Monday were fined in sums
varying from $50 to $50. With a vigi-
liant, impartial police, the possibility of
enforcing the law in a great city like
New York was fully demonstrated. OF
course this law closing g~rogshops on the
Sabbath is not a municipal ordinance, but
a State Lal1.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
The ..LittIaGo,-

The result Of the recent " Little-go 81 at
Cambridge was that out of about three
hundred and fifty men, one hundred and
sixty and upwards were either "scratch-
ed" or "~plueked." This proportion, says
the Pail Mall Gazette, is enormous when
n considers that in two triposes none
were disapproved for the mathematical,
and only about five for the classical. The
Greek Testament appears to have been a
fruitful source of failure.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
A Suecimen Brick.

A few evenings ago, in front of the
Metropolitan Hotel, a noisy rebel, in con-
versation With several rebel officers who
had just come in from Richmond, openly
declared that such was the feeling in the
District of Columbia, that all that war
required was a hint to arouse the CON-
munity ITO clean OUT both Houses OF
Congress. Warming with his subject, he
announced that he would "give ten thou
sard dollars for a shot at that Yankee
schoolmaster, the scoundrel Julian, OF
Of Indiana" upon which a wounded
Union officer, who was standing by, asked
him why he did not shoot, and followed
it up by telling him that he was a coward,
and afraid to carry his threat into exc
cution. The Reconstructed rufian SUBJ
sided, of course. As a comment upon
this fact, it is this morning stated that
the returned" patriot is now holding a
position in n of the Government print
iRg offices.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14

A countryman recently visited Paris
and had his pocket picked. This SO an.
noyed him The was a Norman, the Yam
kee of France6 he determined to punish
the next pickpoeket who robbed him. He
contrived a sort of slip-knot which should
arrest the thiefs hand. While visiting
the Louvre, he felt a pickpocket's hand ii
his pocket, and saw that he had caught
the thief. He determined to enjoy his
vengeance before delivering the 2 to
the police. So he quietly walked from
picture to picture, dragging the pick
pocket after him, for the thief dared not
saya word. He had enjoyed the rogue's
torment for al hour, when he determined
to deliverhim to a policeman about thirty
yards of. When ne got near the police
man he turned around to collar his pris-
oner-there was nobodyl The rogue had
cut the Norman's whole coat-tail and
made off with it. I
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-14
There Is awfnI naws frnm MaslinA.

There is awful news from Washington,
which we may impart in the strictesteon-
hdenee, TO u readers. Wade and Stanton
two Of our great guns-have differed !;
not TO be TO mild about it they have spo-
ken 20 each other hastily indeed quarrel
ed. Wade is said-but tits SO incredible
that one hardly dsres repeat ito have
used pro6ne language in speaking 10
StShton, and to have made personal an
plication Of the profane language -afore-
said to the Stanton aforesaid. The differ
'ence between these eminent gentlemen
was merely relating 70 the Presidents pol
this and nothing more.-Cfae;n-
ssati Commercial