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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
NEWS ITEMS.

Cincinnati is hereafter to be paved with
the Nicholson pavement, and the work
on Park street, fromaLongworth to Fifth,
has been contracted for at so cents per
cubic yard for grading, SECS per superb
ciAl yard for pavement complete, and Sl.75
per iReal foot for Dayton stone curbing.
The people of Clayton, Illinois, have
been considerably excited blythe discovery
of a mans head in the creek near the
town. After some search a leg was found
with a boot on it. Nothing more could
be found to throw any light on the mystic
rious affair.
An interesting novelty in medical legis-
lation is pending in Philadelphia. 1t pro-
poses to subject all young physicians to Off
cial examination before license to practice
is given them. and will deprive unlicensed
doctors of the power to collect any bill in
law for their services, while persons en-
ploying them will have 2e recourse for
malpractice.
The London Times correspondence from
Rome says: The Pope cannot depart from
q principle he has one laid down and made
known. Two years have elapsed since
the American Bishops, of whom there are
about thirty-fve, wrote to Rome for in
stPnctions how to act toward the sect of
Fenians then rising into existence. The
answer, as might have been expected, d.
rected that it should be discountenanced.
Since then, only four of the Roman Catho-
lilo Bishops in the United States, and they
are Irishman, have openly protested
against Fenianism; the Archbishop of st.
Louis Bishop of Philadelphia, Bishop of
Chicago and another. The other Bishops,
without expressing any sympathy with it,
have permitted the epidemic to spread.
As to the feeling and action of his Holt
ness there can be no doubt"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
How Dutch Gap Got Its Name.

An Englishman and a Dutchman, SC
the story goes, undertook, for a wager, to
row their respective skiffs from a place
seven miles below the Gap to a point above
it. The man who arrived first at the place
of destination was to be considered the
champion and to receive the stakes. Both
started. The Englishman pulled out Wig
orously, when the Dutchman, with true
Tutonie imperturbability, suffered his op-
pOnent to go ahead without an apparent
effort to keep up with him.
When the Englishman began to round
the bluff, after passingthe gap, the Dutch
man was "hun down" and almost out OF
sight of his antagonist who was a sure
thing of it."
When the Dutchmsn reached the gap
he ran his skif on shore, raised it on his
shoulders and made his way with all pos
sible dispatch across the few hundred feet
of Intervening space. When the Eng
lishman arrived at the point at which the
race was to terminate, what was his as
constituent TO find his opponent in his
skif, calmly swaiting his appearance, hav-
ing relieved the wsriness of his stay by
smoking, with Dutch leisure, three or four
pipes of tobacco.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
Horrible Rarhartfies.

The last China mail is full of accounts
of eruelties practiced On criminals at
Annoy, some of which are almost too re-
voting for belief. A letter thus speaks
of n of the most recent of these outrages
which wa probably no more brutal than
others constantly occurring:
. The Hai-Hong wrote down
their names and ordered them to be
Aogged-the rebel 300, and the other Gull
prit 200 blows with the bamboo. The
rebel having received his 300 blows, and
borne them without a murm1r, was taken
to a cross that had been erected for the
purpose, and being securely dashed to it,
in an upright posture, with his arms ex-
tended, the executioneF commenced his
horrible butohery by first cutting off the
flesh above the eyes,, next the ears, and
then the breasts; then he cut through the
muscles of each arm, laying the silvery
white bone bare, the flesh not being cut
off but left hangingl the blood spirit
ing out and actually bespattering
the executioner at each pulsation
of the hearth Then the muscles
of the thighs were cut in the same man
nerl After the exeeutioner had performed
these tortures upon the poor wretch, he
laid his small knife aside and took an
other, about ten inches long, and about an
inch broad, and cut gashes on each side Of
the mans chest, laying the ribs bare.
Then he made several fogrishes with the
knife, and then ran it into the poor VIC
TINS body entering just below the stern
UNI, in the middle of the chest, to the full
extent of the bladel This / thought would
prove the coup de grace. But no, for the
man still breathed, and the executioner
still continued his bloody task, cutting
downward with his knife and letting out
the eptrailsl He then slashed and cut
open the stomach Then giving a veil.
ran his hand in and seized the mans liv-
er, and cut 1t out passing the bleeding,
quivering mass to his assistant as cody,
and in as business like a manner as though
he were opening and butehering a pig.
This finished the torture, and the exeou-
tioner,left the victim in this mutilsted state,
not yet dead, for l saw him give several
gasps for breath afterwards. BE then cut
the sampan mans head of, at the foot of
the cross, with a single blow, and then re-
turned, and letting loose the rebels head.
which fell forward, he decapitated him.
certainly the most merciful stroke he had
given that day. The bodies were ex-
posed on the same wharf, with their legs
tied TO posts, for five days afterward. to
the great annoyance of the Europeans. |
who occupied the houses adjacent. The
poor rebel bore his inhuman fortunes most
m%anfully; not q moan or cry escaped him.
during all the time. The only movement
ne made wa a slight quivering of his
whole frame, and a movement of his head
TO and fro otherwise a spectator might
have questioned whether he were alive or
dead, during the horrible exhibition,
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
POLITICAL.


The New York Nsa0s seems ( rely upon
a m that Mr.. Speed is about to leave
the Cabinet, and will be succeeded by Hon.
Henry stanbury, of Ohio.
The importance of one vote is again
illustrated. Had not Senator Stockton, OF
New Jersey, voted for himself, he would
have been expelled from the United States
Senate, to which he was legally
elected.
The Senate has reconsidered and re-
jected F. W. Sykes nomination for Dis
trict Tax Commissioned of Alabama to
which We alluded seme days ago. He was
a rebel Legislator.
The President has nominated David W.
Ballard, of Oregon, to be Governor OF
| Idaho territory, to succeed Caleb Lyon
Messrs. Maynard, Fowler and Stokes Of
the Tennessee delegation, will go to Con
n~ecticut to stump for Hawley.
Col Forney, in one of his Occasional
letters, notes the fact that, with all the
clamor against the Radicals, there are nc
delegations from Wall street, or the great
financial world, urging the adoption Of
the Presidents reconstruction policy
The Union men in Connecticut have had
the letter of Postmaster General Dennison
to Hon. ]. ". Patterson, of New Hamp-
shire, in which he expressed himself in IA
vor Of the Republican ticket, Autographed
in fac simile and sent all over the State.
The Democrats are making a great cutlery
against this attempt to, as they say, sin
timidate the Postmasters."
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
The President and the COnneetieul
Election.
From the Detroit Tribune. ]


James E. English, whom Cleveland say.
be supports, is the Democratic candidate
for Governor, and General Hawley, a gal
liant soldiers, whom he opposes, is the Re
publican candidate for Governor. The
President sees one of his postmasters sup
porting q Democrat for Office instead of a
Republican, and the President himself, al
though elected to office by Republicans,
approves the detection. The President
has prided himself on adhering TO all
those who stood with him on the Balti-
more platform. Did Mr.. English, who
has now secured his support against a Re
publican, ever stand there2 Never, and
the President knows it.
II is well the disguise should be thrown
of. Nobody has had any confidence in the
Presidents platitudes about not desiring
to break with the men who had elected
him. Everybody has known that the pro-
slavery democracy in his hear, would
sooner or later erupt upon the surface. He
told Mayor Stearns and others, that he un-
derstood the Democracy too well to be
captured by them. 1t looks hugely like
it-don't it3
We are begiening to have a pretty plain
understanding of the situation. The De-
mocrats indorse the President to obtain
his help, and he helps them because they
indorse him. The simplicity of the
scheme is one of its chief attractions. OF
course the Pennsylvania Democracy will
be similarly favored TO those in Connect
icut, and all that will be necessary here
after to obtain the favor Of the President
will be to indorse him. He is infalhbie
and tolerates no dissent. Those who do
not approve his veto aud kis speech Of
February 22d viii be certain Of his OPP
position.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
N%oRTHERN OHIO NEWS.
PORTAGE COUNTY.
From the Ravenna Democrat :


Mr.. Isaac Phelps, of Ravenna, has a
COW that is twenty-one years old, and has
just given birth to two calves. This same
COW has had, in eighteen consecutive years
prior to this spring, eighteen calves, max
ing a total of twenty calves in twenty-one
years.
A small dwelling in the north part Of
the village of Kent, owned and occupied
by a Nj. Kavsnaugh, was entirely con-
sumed by fire a few days since.
Master James Allen, of Charlestown,
has left at this Office a mammoth hens
egg, So inches in circumference, weighing
81 unees. He also left a most diminu.
tive egg, smaller than that of a robin;
both the product Of the same "biddy."
William L. Russell, left with us, last
week, two enormous hens eggs, each
measuring Ct inches in circumference, and
weighing 81 ounce each. A friend at oui
elbow enquiries show many of these egg:
it takes to make dozen ?"
L. W. Hall & Son, of Ravenna, have
formed a c~o-partnership as booksellers,
stationers, and for the publication of the
Portage County Democrat.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
LoRAIN COUNTY.
From the Elyria Democrat /:

Captain Azor II. Nickerson, of the Vet
eran Reserve Corps, and Sergeant FEEDER
lex II. Dibble, late of the 18th Ohio Bat
terry, both residents Of Elyria, have been
appointed I'd Lieutenants in the regular
army. The former is attached to the oath
and the latter to the l3th regiment.
Captain Nickerson is now on duty in
Louisiana.
Lorain county has sent to the peniten-
tiary within one year past, ave men for
various offences, who aggregate term OF
service is sixty-four years.
We learn on good authority that the
liquor sellers in Amherst, exasperated be-
cause some of their number have been
issue in the election next Monday. Their
principal aim will be to defeat Esquire
Turrell, who is opposed to the sale of
whisky, and elect one of their own stripe
of "damnation dealers" in his place
A causalty occurred at the West Branch
Bridge, in this village, last Wednesday
morning, which came near resulting ia
tally to one of our citizens. Colonel T.
II, Linnell, and Major Il. G, Laudop we're
walking on the railroad track, and as they
approached the bridge, their curiosity was
excited by the impetuous rush of the wa
ter, which was at high food. The noise it
produced prevented them from hearing a
train which was approaching behind them,
until they had passed On the bridge a few
PAGES, when Colonel Linnell discovered
that it was just upon them, and gave the
alarm. There was no time to reach the
other end, and as they had PASSED over
the high abutment, they had no time to
retreat.
Mr.. Linnell sprang lack a few feet and
set down on the end of the iron roof of the
bridge. Mr.. Laudon attempted to reach
the e~mbankment, but met the train before
be got across the abutment, and made &
desperate leap, striking twenty feet below
the sloping embankment, and rolled to
the bottom. Mr.. Linnell ran to his aid as
soon as the train passed, and found him
senseless from the shock he received. He
soon recovered and was taken to the resi-
Gence of p. A. Bishop, near by, when med
zeal aid was called. His ankle is very bad
ly sprained and his face and body cut and
bruised, but he is now doing well. The
discovery of the train, the rush, and the
leap, were but the work of g moment.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
The Bancroft Grafton in Great
Rnffian.

The London correspondent of the New
York Herald, in speaking of the attack
upon England in Mr.. BANoRoFT's Lincoln
Grafton, says:
1.-THE mail that carries this letter TO you
will carry some dispatches to Sir ]. Bruce
and to Count Montholon Gpropos of Mr..
Bancroft's Grafton. The British Munster
will be admonished to make a friendly and
informal represention to Mr.. Seward and
to get from Mr.. Seward disclaimer ofany
sympathy with the anti British sentiments
of Mr.. Bancroft. 1 am told that the French
Minister will have more definite instruc-
tions. He will be told to hold himself a.
loot from any intercourse, except official
intercourse, with the Government of the
United States, until Mr.. Seward has ex-
pressed in writing his regret at the insults
offered to the French Government. Fur
ther it is said, but this is only gossip, that
Napoleon has intrusted to Austria his will
ingness to join in a protest against the in
suits offered to the Imperial Austrian fam
ilvn
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
me MetrepoIitan Police RIII.


We have received & corrected copy Of
the Metropolitan Police Bill, which is
now . law, from which we observe that
the bill does not as we have stated pre-
vicusly, 60 into effect Immediately. 1t
will take effect on the first day of Nay
next.
We also observe that in the Bill as pub
lished by Us 8 clause of the 5th section i.
omitted. The regulation in regard to the
number Of patrOlmen Is that they shall
not exceed a n to each one thousand IN
hAbitants a. shOaOn By the last Federal
seassa." The italicised clause was omit
ted in our publication Of the bin.
In other respects the copy of the bill
printed in the LEADER is exact.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
MA Wrnta fha Mesnare :

Though not q matter Of great lmPor-
tancs, It Is still one Of very much interest
to INQUIRE who wrote the late veto mes
sage Of President johnson. That the lat
is a man of ability is not doubted, and
that he is not capable of writing a clear
and pointed legal argument is equally free
from doubt. Even If his knowledge of
Law were sufficient for the task, his unfor-
tunsts style Of composition would utterly
prevent it. Bis logical powers are strong
enough when thoroughly reused. but SO
poorly organized and unwieldy as to coun-
teract much of their natural force. With
cut system, bulky and diHuse, his style
has always been q great trembling
block TO his arguments. This has been
particularly true of his late efforts, and
has been q source Of great trouble to those
who nave honestly tried to interpret bis
Delphic ~oracles. Verbose in the extreme,
most of his ideas have had q hard struggle
into Light from their cloudy shelter Of
words. While 8 strong will and violent
passion make him most earnest in
thought his long sentences con-
fused and disjointed, filed with pa
reathsses and subordinate clauses, loosen
his chain of argument, and sometimes be-
fog him beyond extrication. His fire.
quent vehement ordinations look
strangely enough in the gloomy back
ground of crude and complicated style
The message was evidently written by
= clesr-headed, able Constitutional lawyer.
If johnson wrote ii, he has made sgreater
improvement in perspicuous composition
than q man of his age, education and
temperament can ordinarily make in
years Of study and practice It is clear,
concise and pointed, and it is impossible
tina. it was written by the author
Of all these long-winded, Pathological OBJ
sure documents and speeches lately given
ont by the President. It is 50 bald a
piece Of borrOwing-it 50 clearly betrays
another hand and a better one-that few
will fail to recognize its false paternity.
Rumor says it was written by HON
Henry stanberry, formerly Attorney
General of Ohio, a jurist Of dessrvedly
high reputation. We feel perfectly clear
thatif not Mr.. Stanberry then some other
good lawyer is the father of the Message.
It's central ideas are doubtless Mr.. john
sons, its arrangement and style could
could never have been his.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
The Plain Dealer on the Metropolitan
Police Bill.

Police BILL
We find the following in regard to the
Metropolitan Police Bill in Wednesday
evenings Plain Dealer:
THE measure was carried by one vote,
and the bill is now g law. The Republican
members all voted for the bill-the Demo
Gratis voting solid against it. The Republi-
cans were cajoled into voting for the bill,
by the plea that it was necessary TO put the
control of the Police into the hands of four
inca, II order to keep the police power Of the
city permanently in the hands Of the Re
publican party. DANGER is the Feputed
father Of the bill, and it is supposed that
Governor Cox viii appoint such men Com
m~issioners as he (Danglerl may think ex
pedient."
There are about as..many mis-statements
in the paragraph abOveAs can be crowded
into q many lines.
First: The bill was not carried by one
vote, The vote was yeas 10, nays Ia
majority Of 8.
Second: The Republican members did
not all vote for the bill. Two of them,
Messrs. Cummings and Doan voted
against it. This is a small matter, but it
is worth while to be correct even in imma-
,tsrial statements.
Third: The object of the bill is not to
keep the police power of the city perma-
nently in the hands of the Republican
party On the contrary its ayowed pur-
pose and inevitable result is to take the po-
H. g., o,t - AZ kor1, ~ on- 1olsffcaT
party. There is as much likelihood of the
Democrats getting control of the State
Government as there is Of their getting
control Of the city of Cleveland, and
therefore If the matter is regarded as a
political move no good could accrue to
the Republican party. There is no imme-
diste prospect that the Democrats Can get
control of either.
Fourth: The implication of the Plain
Dealer that Mr.. Dangler will influence
Governor Cox to appoint special favorites
Of his as Commissioners is not more in
suiting 70 the former gentleman than to
the latter. We have the best authority
for saying that in the selection of Com
missioners Governor Cox will, with the
hearty approval Of Mr.. Dangler, appoint
citizens whose business reputation and
position is a guaranty of their integrity,
ability, and interest in our city govern
msnt-nen who viii be perfectly accept
able to the vast majority of our citizens
who favor this bill-men against whom
the PsaiH Dealer itself, let it try ever so
hard, cannot find a word of objection. If
he does not we shall be more dissppoint-
ed than the Plain Dealer.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30

General Grants political qualifications
for the Presidency, as stated-by those who
have lately started that project are that
he has expressed no opinion in favor of
either Congress or the President. His
political recommendations are like those
Of the late Joseph Bowers the elder, when
ne was a candidate in Pike county, as re-
lated by the lamented John Ph@nix, the
general furnisher and setter up of travel
ing humorous lecturers.
The Democratic Committee called on
Mr.. Bowers, and inquired what were bis
politics. "Gentleasesb" said Mr.. Bowers.
!" I have no politics. What" said the
sstonished committee, Hno politics y
mo, gentlemeA" said the i~mperturbable
J. B, mot q dam'd politic.1' He was
elected by an overwhelming Majority
Cincinnati Gazette.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
We have read the Herald's article Q

W. have read the Herad's article on
the Civil Rights Bill through twice-an
amount Of attention which we do not
usually bestow upon the lucubrations of
that paper-and are still unable to dis
cover whether it supports Congress in
passing, or the President in Tetoing, the
bill On the whole, we incline to the
opinion that it does both. Ii cannot OPP
pose Congress without losing its sub
scribefs-it cannot oppose johnson with
outlosing ORcs. SohurrAh forthe bill and
hip, hip hurrah for the vetOIl Some people
might fancy this twO-horse set 3 little
dihcult but long practice has rendered it
the easiest thing in the world for the
herald Il hiss been on as msny sides of
Is many questions Is the President him
self and 5 man who possesses its Ales for
the last tEelve-nonth is furnished with
opinions Of all possible shades from the
most radical TO the ultra conservative.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30

A correspondent of the Toledo Blade,
writing from DAnviilei Ill, under date of
the 18th, says:
Across the line in Indiana, and in dis
tricts adjacent to Danville, farmers report
that the wheat crop is not a failure, as was
apprepended. The blade is dead, they
say, bot the root is alive and sprouting,
giving promise, after all, of 8 crop.
Peaches, l believe, are "done for"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30

PROCLAMATION,
MAJORS OFFICE
NIL ~ TooC

MAJORS OFFICE
CLEVELAND, March IT, 1886.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
i prov sion of the second section Of an act, passed
April 18th, 1857, supplementary to an act entitled
" An act to provide for the Organization Of cites
and Incorporated villages" passed May Sd, 1889, I,
HERMAN NJ. CHAPLIN, Mayor of the City Of Clsys-
land, do hereby notify and require the qualified
electors of said city, to assemble on the hrst Men
day ofApril next. being the second day, Of said
NJ. ofsaid day, at the following places in the seYe-
raj Wards in said city, viz: ~
In the LIST Ward, al the Engine House on Cham
In the I'd Ward at the Rockwell Street School
House.
In the Sd Ward at the new School House on
In the An Ward at Engine HOUSE No. q, Hun
tington street.
In 9th Ward at the School House, St. Clair
street, east Of MuirsOn street.
In the 9th Ward, at the "Wigwam,'' (so called
on Garden street.
In the 7th Ward, at the Engine House No. {, on
Phillip street.
In the sth Ward at the Station House on Yer
mont street.
In the sth Ward at the Engine House on Church
street.
In the 10th Ward at the Basement of the Ken
lucky street School House. ~-1
In the 18th Ward at Engine House No. 10, on
Lorain street.
And said electors will then and there, before the
hour Of six O'Clock P. NJ. Of said day proceed to
elect one Commissioner Of Water Works and eight
Constables from the city at large; and one Trustee
from the First Ward, one Trustee from the Second
Ward, one Trustee from the Third Ward, one
Trustee from the Fourth Ward, one Trustee from
the Fifth Ward, one Trustee from the Sixth Ward,
one Trustee from the seventh Ward one Trustee
from the Eighth Ward, one Trustee from the Einth
Ward, one Trustee IRON the Tenth Ward, one
Trustee from the Eleventh Ward, who reside in
their respective Wards; and also one Assessor for
each Ward; aud one Member Of the Board Of I'd
ucation from the Third Ward; one from the
Fourth Ward, one from the Fifth Ward; one from
Ward.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my
hand and IN xed the seal Of EAid city, 18th day Of
March, A. D. 1866. @
marI9:sO2 [sEAL-l h. M. CHAPLIN, Mayor.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
WASHINGTON TOPICs AND GOSSIP
coNsrRYAT1YE pocuMENTs.

A large edition of a pamphlet has APP
pearod, ordered by the Conservatives as a
campaign document. 1t contains the first
veto message of Mr.. johnson, the 22d of
FEBRUARY speech. the speeches of Messrs.
Seward and Raymond in New York, and
the letter of Governor Cox.