Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
Tsp,cidi Correspondence Cleveland IEADEa.l

the price of board, unless to increase /
which ranges from two and half to thre
and a half per day in good boardin
houses. Rents have gone up greatly, which
With tie cchtinded high price Of proti;
siois, not much higher than in Cleveland
however, compels the exacting of thes
high rates by many host and hostess VII
say they would gladly take their forme
boarders at lower figure if their expen
ses would warrant them in so doing. Th
consequence is, all persons relying upol
hotels and boarding housesfo homes, will
slim purses and not actually obliged to b,
here, stay away, The pleasure seeking
wives and daughters of Congressman ar,
left at home, and the bereaved C2) hus
bands and fathers relieved, of these ex
pohsive encumbrances, make the best bar
gains they can for food and shelter, re
gardless of former associations and pleas
ant ties
The anticipated rush of Southerners tc
Washington this winter, filling every nook
and Granny Of this rambling city at any
price, Is one of the nillusions Of hope" that
has hot and will hot be realized BY grasp
ing landlords, and their lofty expectations
based thereon are destined to as lofty q
fall. Yet mahy cling to the fond delusion
that if not this Nitter. surely the next will
bring the crowds of free and easy, money
spending Southerners, forgetting that
Southern riches took to themselves wings
and few away with the rebellion and that
the Boosting, domineering aristocracy,
based solely on the blood and sweat of
toiling slaves, so long oiir shame, is how
among the things that were, and not again
for many generations will the Federal
Capital be ruled and toned as formerly by
these labor-seorning, self-indulging, arro-
giant volqptuaries,
Thus fdr Washington has been very
dull, but much gaiety is predicted after
the holidays and the re-assembling of
Congress. l doubt if the prediction will
be verified 1t is too close .h@-L--a-
or UrrU JerrTCIe tragedies here enacted in
the highest circles, filling all hearts with
anguish and gloom, TO admit of right
thinking and feeling people joining unre7
servedly in the exbausting rounds of
frivolous pleasure, and rivalry In fashion
and display will not, think, be as much
the ruling passion of metropolitan DANES
as formerly.
The sudden illness and death of Mr.. Cor
win added another shadow to the matty
hanging over Congressional and other cir
cles here, and he seemed deeply mourned
by all. By invitation from Senator Sher-
man l was present at the meeting of
Ohioans in the, Senate Reception Room,
assembled to take action respecting the
demise of this beloved and honored states
man; full reports of which, and the ex-
cellent speeches of Messrs. Chase, Schenck,
johnson, Davis, Sherman and Seward you
have doubtless received, gaining, thereby,
a fair idea of the htly spoken words on
that occasion, but very little of the unre-
portable and unspoken sorrow pervading
the whole assembly.
Mr. Chase, presiding with all dignity
and majesty ss USUAL was sd s5lemrized
aid softened as to seem the very embodi-
ment of manly sorrow. Gen. Schenck' s
manner and tones of voice, far more than
his touching words, told of the unshed
tears flooding his heart Reverdy John
sons furrowed cheeks were wet with the
silent rain of grief. Mr.. Sherman, deeply
solemn and appreciatiTe, betrayed not the
gushing tenderness of those who in life
came nearer to the honored dead, whilst
Mr.. Seward, as a happy and most fitting
climax to the whole, appreciating and ad-
mitting all, yet unswayed by pstbos over
sundered social ties, seer-like looked away
from the glittering, endearing, yet perish
able attractions ofths man to dust return
1g 10 the iuperishable pr ineiples of his
life, to what he sought to be, what he was
and what, though dead, he now is, to his
country and mankind. He sat quite near
me, affording an excellent opportunity for
studying the face and manner of this great
statesman, risen from the dead as it were,
TO pilot little longer our perilled ship of
state. How many memories of the
dark and dreadful days came rushing
back as 1 gazed upon that serene
and still swollen face,made all the more in
teresting, if not beautifed, by the assassin s
murderous strokes. Cares of State, long
grappling with death, and sorrowing for
the beloved dead, has silvered to pearly
whiteness his once great profusion of soft
brown hair, and fixed it as crown of
glory upon head large, very high, long
and moderately broad, joining on to slen-
der neck with a sharp inward curve, whilst
an immense ear, very low set extending
from line drawn from the lower edge of q
thick,pouting under lip to the upper eyelid
almost hidden beneath compact, jutting
brow receding more from perspective pre-
ponderance than from lack of reflective
power, would stamp him phrenologically
the highest type Of an intellectual man.
The keen, round, not large blue eye, ,peering
ing out from beneath the jutting and now
shaggy brow-the long, high-arched nose,
with large, clear-cut, broad and moderate
ly thick-winged nostrils, strongly defined
from the thin, rounding cheek, and sha-
dowing a moderately long and compressed
upper lip, dropping at the corners into a
heavy line, running parallel to small
rounding chin, portrays him to the dis
criminating physiognomist as clearly an
intellectual king among men as the eagle
is king of birds. And yet l doubt if he
has the power of winning hearts as OF
swaying 1ninds-of drawing men to him
through the power of love as through the
power of intellect; and though not un-
loving, l doubt if ne ever committed a
single indiscretion through affection or un-
due sympathy for anything human.
Age is great beautifer or great de-
former of men according as has been the
animating spirit and purpose of their
lives. Looking around upon the many
familiar faces before me, i was particularly
struck with the revelations of the spirit
lives they involuntarily betrayed in their
off-guard moments. Some had grown dull
and heavy with the declining fires Of
youth-some revealed dan k traces of bit
terness and seorn-some of falsehood and
treachery-some ofhatred and malignancy
some of voluptuous sensuality and many
of selfishness and consuming ambition, and
a few told clearly of ecloser walk witt
God" Mr.. Stewards eagle-shaped face
now radiant with intellectually, interested