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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
GOSSIP from Columns.

The correspondent of the Toledo Com,
mereiaL writes a capital letter:
The difference between the war and the
peace administrations was very well ex-
pressed q short time since by General
Schenck, who, by the by, is in the habit
of saying good things. Coming into the
Executive Office he found Governor
Anderson with his coat of and busily en-
gagged with important business connected
with the mastering out Of troops, and
with a brief salutation he remarked:
{ Well, Charley, 1 congratulate you on
having something to busy yourself with,
instead of having to rust out as the old
Governors did"
allow SO ~ inquired the Governor.
"Why, you see, responded the General
with a bitter smile, 'the time of cur old
Wing Governors was taken up in COM
missioning all the young Wing lawyers
in the State as Notaries Public, ard par
doning out Of the P~enitentiary ali the Dem
ccrat8."
But we shall miss Governor Anderson
("Charley," as everybody affectionately
calls him. very much. He is one of the
most genial, warm-hearted, generous men
I have ever met. He is brilliant ohival-
rous, brave, honest, lacking only an apt
ness for the details of business to be sue
cessful as q business man. AS he himself
would say of this lack Of business success
ut could not be helped-it was Anderson
luck" And appropos of this, l must re-
peat a good story of his Illustration CT
Anderson luck:
When in Texas, during the first year
after the breaking out of the rebellion, he
WINS taken prisoner by the rebels. The
morning of the day he was captured, in
.endepvOring to fix the girth of his saddle,
he was kicked by a mule, and q few hours
after he was riding in an ambulance under
guard. As they were driving along, the
prisoner, rejecting on cruel fortune, the
ambulance passed over a dog, severe
ly wounding it, and the cries of
the animal aroused the prisoner from
his revery, and following a natural
impulse, he leaped from his seat and
up the dog to see how badly he
was hurt, when the canine bit him on the
hand. "There it is," he exclaimed to his
rebel companions, "Anderson luck, as
usual. But what misfortune in the past
could ever have led me to suppose that l,
Charley Anderson, should ever have lived
to be kicked by the meanest mule, bitten
by the ugliest dog, and captured by the
most villainous government on the face of
the earth, all in one day"
The rebs swallowed their age, and An
derson luck became a familiar phrase on
their maps.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
PERSONAL.

General Lee has recently received, as q
present from Baltimore ladies, a msgnif-
cent rosewood piano, one of the largest
ever manufactured.
1t has been stated and denied and re-
stated, that Major General D. N. Couch is
an applicant for the Boston Post Ofice5a
soft Couchl
The report that ex-GoSernor William
A. Graham, of North Carolina, United
States Senator elect, has beenspardoned
by President johnson, is authoritatively
denied.
NJ. D. Conway, IN his last letter to the
Round Td5Le, says: al saw Dickens the
other day. Time is beginning to tell on
him; the crows have left, p~lentifully, their
tracks on his brow; he has always an
anxious look" p
Hon. John A. Kasson, on his recent
visit to Iowa, announced himself an ultra
supporter of President Johnson's recon-
struction policy. The Burlington Havk-
eye, in a rather savage article, says his
expressed views entirely m~isrepresent the
sentiments of his constituents.
The alumni of Dartmouth College, re-
siding in New York, will give a grand
dinner tomorrow at that CITY, to DR..
Smith, the President Ct the institution.
Some of the most distinguished graduates
of that ancient seat of learning will be
present. Among these we notice the
names of Chief Justice Chase, Thaddeus
Stevens, Amos Kendall, Senators Clark
and Grimes, J.-WentwoTth and others.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11

"Chispa,p the talented New York cor
respORdentof the Cincinnati Gazette, says :
l hope that you see Mr.. Clapp's Satur-
day Press. 1t is not the old Saturday
Press, certainly, but it is wonderfully good,
and grows better from week to week. Mr..
Clapp's idea is to print a s~atirical paper
without illustrations, as the only sort Of
satirical paper which can succeed in this
country. His wish is to have original
matter in the Press, but he would rather
print a good selection than a bad contri-
button, * thatthe Press is not altogether
original yet. But there is every week a
good dramatic criticism; pretty certainly
a good p%oetical contribution, and a num
Der. of excellent jokes; often nearly the
whole paper is filed with things not be-
fore published, and it is rarely or never
~ j alsusfa lle 4~5 als "a
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
The New York Tribune upon Samuel
Cox.

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A Boston newspaper says of Mr. Ohio
Cox, who has just printed q book Of his
" memoirs and speeches':
Perhaps no man ever stepped into the halls Of
Congress who bad grsRter ability for ridic1llng the
tollies OF the Puritans than he. Their HISTORY is
familiar 10 him, and he has the faculty Of turning
out the most ridiculous side Of their absurditIes.
Only he does not concede to them the virtues they
possessed, rs they did possess some that were q
credit to any people,"
The faculty Of turning out the ridicu-
lous side" of great men has not commonly
been considered by moralists as a manly
one. Mr.. Cox, for instance, great, pure,
profound, noble and so forth as he is, has
a crotchet or two which it is quite natural
to laugh at He is a Puritan reversed.
That is, he is intolerant of virtue, scornful
of conscience, and does not think any
truth worth a personal sacrifice in this
bargaining world. Other men have been
moved TO admiration by the story of Ply
mouth Rock, but Mr.. Cox thinks it all a
foolish piece of business parcel of
psalm-singing asses, leaving their comfort
able homes, embarking in a crazy old shin.
suffering through a long and tedious vow
age, landing on a stern and rock-bound
coast, undergoing pestilence and famine,
and all merely for freedom to worship
God. Ridiculous" says MI. Cox.
" Served them right" observes Mr.. Cox,
when he reads that they lived for some
time on parched corn. HFanatical old
fools-snufling NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Notwithstanding Doors" says Mr..
Cox; "don't talk about their virtues-let
US have a nice, comfortable time sneering
their vices He is one of Lord Mac
%fesh-fies,p and alights upon the
tainted spot with an unerring instinct.
. fellow-Hy, albeit of the Boston breed.
does not object to. share in the repast;
only, for shame's sake, he insists that the
faint is not general. "Not sol" laughs
Mr.. Cox; "all rotten all rotten !" and
goes iocularly on with his repast.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
General Sweeney I'm Trouble.

The telegraph that General
Sweeney, the Fenian Secretary of War,
and Major of the 10th United States In
fantry, has very properly been dismissed
the service, for paying a higher regard to
his allegiance to the Irish Republic than
to his duty as an officer of our army. Gen
eral Sweeney has found that he cannot
serve two masters. He was stationed on
duty at Nashville at the time of tho Fenian
Congress, and applied for leave of absence
to attend it. That leave being refused
Sweeney had to choose which he would
serve-the Irish or the American Repub-
lie. He chose to serve the former, he left
his post without permission, and for this
has been very properly dismissed from the
service of the latter. This is as it should
be. Aside from the breach of army disei-
pline which has been the immediate cause
Of his dismissal, General Sweeney, holding
the relations that he did to the Fenian
Brotherhood, had no business in our army.
No man should owe a divided allegiance,
and an officer of the Irish Republic viii
have all the business on his hands that he
can well attend to, without burdening
himself with the additional duties and re-
sponsibilities of an office under the United
States.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
The Country Press on Postmaster
BENEDICT

The honest and Independent country
press of Ohio do not seem to look with
much favor upon the action of Postmaster
Benedict in prostituting his official posi-
ton to the base work of attempting to ex-
clude the LEADER from the mails in order
to extend the circulation of his own paper
The Plymouth Advertiser, one of the most
candid papers in the State, thus comments
on the extraordinary conduct of Postmaster
Benedict,
"The Cleveland Postmaster, Mr.. Bene-
dict, Of the Herald, has, for some time past,
been excluding the Cleveland LEADER
from the mails under pretence that many
of them done up in single wrappers, were
transient papers. The matter had pro-
ceeded to such an extent that thousands of
copies had been detained and much annoy-
anc occasioned to publisher and subscri-
bers. When ascertained that such was
abe case, an agent Of the LEADER offered
TO make affidavit to the fact of the papers
being regular ones, but was refused the
privilege by Mr.. Bsnedict. The LEADER
Company have taken steps to have the
matter thoroughly investigated, and
should the facts prove as stated, the prompt
removal Of Mr.. Benedict for transcend
ing bis authority, should follow. A few
years bach, the Herald was excluded from
the Mahoning road, by the directors Of
that company, for alleged d~isloyalty.
Then the LEADER nobly Took sides with (
the Herold-then Mr.. Cowles, of the
LEADER, was Postmaster. Now, the
LEADER is being rewarded for its then
~magnanimity by this exhibition Of mslig-
nant littleness, on the part of the proprie-
tor of its competitor"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
General Merritt.

This officer, whom the telegraph charges
with having made a reasonable speech in
Texas some days since, while drunk, is a
Captain in the regular cavalry, and Ma
jor General of Volunteers. He served in
the early days of the war upon Stone
mans staff. He commanded the LIST divi-
sion of cavalry in the Army of the Poto-
mac under Sheridan, and at times had
charge of ali the cavalry in ~Sheridan's
army. He was breyetted Major General
in October, 1864, after the Cedar Creek
victory, and received the full rank after
the battle of Five Forks and the capture
of Lees army. he is only twenty-eight
years of age, and his home is in Salem,
Illinois.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
THE DEMOCRATIC FESTIVAL.
Democratic Eighth Of January Sup
per5Speeches by Thurman, morgan,
NaIIandfgham m PendletOn.

-
columbus Jan. 81 Dispatch to the Gin. GaEette,l
The dilapidated condition of the Demo
cratic party was fifty represented by the
JacksoniaR supper here tonight. In
stead of being held at one Of the hotels,
where a supper can be got up with at
least some appearance of taste, a sparse
supply of cold meats and very ordinary
ct caterus were spread out in Houghton
Hall. 1t wal e cold and cherries affair.
Coffee could not be afforded, and until
q few bottles of wine were uncorked the
Democrats for once drank cold water.
The presence of a new iron spoon at each
plate suggested the comforting idea of q
hot plate of soup, and after the substantial
Of the supper had been disposed Of or
abandoned as unpalatable, and the speak
ing commenced, half a dozen ragged and
unkempt boys were sent through the hall
with plates containing a few oysters afoat
in warm water. Without a note of music
not even a song-the first speaker was
introduced, in the person of Judge Thur
man, who gave a characteristic sketch OF
General jackson, with a reflection or two
that had he been President for the last i've
years we should have had no war, and
that ne nipped secession in the bud with
out shedding a drop ofblood.
General Morgan followed, discussing
the encroachments of the late Administra-
ton on the liberties of the people. 6
Vallandigham was called out on the
freedom of speech and of the press. He
was greeted with the same tumultuous APP
plause that always attended his appear
ance since his memorable exile. He be-
gan his remarks in a familiar way, and
without the digni6ed, scholarly style usual
with him, and before he got through, de-
generated into what seemed to US very
much like a drunken harangue. Aside
from this there was nothing remarkable in
his speech.
The response of Mr.. Allen, the old
wheel horse of Ohio Democracy, was a
wen prepared effort, reeiting historical
facts to show that the erring South should
be received back as the prodigal son was
received.
The remarks of Geo. H. Pendleton we're
also creditable as Democratic doctrine.
Besides these, there were half a dozen
other responses from men of no note, and
what they said was mostly balderdash.