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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-26
TRUMBuLL COUNTY.
From the Warren CRronicLl

FROM Ine arren ~CHrOnJctet
There have been over 600 United States
licenses issued by the collector of Internal
Revenue for Trumbull county, to manu-
factarers, traders, merchants, pedlers, &c.
A young man named Blair, who was
employed in the store of P. Gates, in
GustaYus, deoamped a few days ago car
rying with him some $500 belonging to
Mr.. Gates,
A correspondent writes from the town
of North Bloomfield, Trumbull county
"They began operations at the oil well
some time since, and the work goes on
with considerable energy. We all feel
some degree o interest in the proceedings
and hope before thesummer closes to have
a flowing well in our midst.
A correspondent from the town of Lib
erty, Trumbull county, writes: "Our
prospects now are pretty fair for having a
furnace and rolling mill erected in our
township, as it is SAID the proprietors have
secured a site in the village o. Girard. If
such proves to be the fact, it will give a
new impetus to the farming interest, as it
will tend to create a ready cash market
and at good prices for all the smaller pro-
ducts of the farm"
A man aged about fifty years, named
Drake, who resided on the west side, near
Wheatley's grocery store, died on last
Saturday night from exposure.
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nzrino his recant visit at Washington,
Theodore Tilton was very thick with Mr..
Stanton, A horrible radical plot must be
on foot.
The House Committee on Elections to-
day decided that james Brooks is not en-
titled to his seat in the House, but that the
contestant, William c. Dodge, is entitled
to the position.
The Augusta papers repor t a rumor
afoat that there will soon be q colored
convention held in Augusta, for the pur-
pose of sending Representatives to Con-
gress from the Territory of Georgia"
The Lanark Ill.) Banner announces
that Hon. E. B. Washburne will not be q
candidate for United States Senator
before the next Legislature, prefering his
seat in the lower house, of which he is
reasonably sure, as long as he chooses to
retain it.
An enthusiastic supporter of President
Johnson's rapid reconstruction policy was
arrested 'lately at Independence, Mo-,
while engaged in a meeting to sustain the
glorious principles of the veto message,
and the speech of February 22nd. The
charge against him was, that he was n
of the wretches who aided the notorious
Quantrell in the massacre of Lawrence.
Governor Brownlow is nov in Knox
vile. He that on Monday,
April 2nd, he will deliver an address on
our State and National affairs, occupying
thirty minutes time; giving fifteen min
utes to each subject. He says he prefers
giving in his own way his views to the
people of his own county, and that he will
not stop to see if his views are popular or
unpopular.
The next Legislature of New York will
have to elect a Senator TO serve for six
years from the 4th of March, 1867, when
the term of the Hon. Ira Harris will ex-
pire. 1t is related in Washington, says
Forney's Press, that prior to his extraor-
binary somersault, II. ]. Raymond, of the
New York Times, had some prospect of
being the successor of Mr.. Harris, but
that a recent visit of that gentleman to
Albany soon satisfied even himself that
bis chances were among the feeblest.
Both Houses of the Legislatures of Iowa
have passed a resolution that whereas on
the l4th day of September, 1866, two Amer
lean soldiers, one of whom was a member
of the LIST Regiment of Iowa Veteran Cav
airy, were punished by fogging, by par
ties acting under the authority of General
Gustav, that therefore by this wanton act
the majesty of the law has been violated,
the honor of the state has been insulted
and the rights of American soldiers
trampled under foot, and they demand
that the authors thereof be held to strict
accountability, and after proper trial be
subjected to eondign punishment, that
future tyrants may take example.
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COUNTY.

From the New Lisbon Buckeye State !;
Rev. Mr.. Heath, Agent for the Ameri-
can Bible Society, and a returned China
missionary, exhibited in New Lisbon a
heather idol, which he brought with him
from China.
Mr.. James Starr, of New Lisbon, has
invented a wonderful rat-trap which
works to a charm.
The annual meeting of the Columbiana
County Bible Society was held in the
Christian Chapel, New Lisbon, Ohio, on
Sunday evening, the 18th day of March,
1866. The following officers were elected
to serve during the ensuing year: For
President, Robert Whitacre Vice-Presi-
dents, the clergymen of Columbiana
county /; Secretary, William ]. Jordan
Treasurer, Benjamin Pritchard; Deposi-
tary, Parks, Gilman & Co. The aggre-
gate amount paid into the treasury of the
Society during the spast year, from that
portion of the county which has been can
vassed, is $l,265 Is; of which amount
$l,Ol7 63 was paid to the Parent Society.
The Patriot says that the New Lisbon
oil well has been sunk over seven hundred
feet, and operations are now suspended for
a second time. The well is through the
third sand rock and into blue rock. The
chances for oil are squally.
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semmes RIdivivus.

1t seems that the reported release OF
Raphael Semmes was he is
to be tried before a commission composed
of military and naval officers, as the New
York Herald has it, and the question to be
decided will be whether or not he violated
tae usages of war in es Gaping from his
vessel: after striking his flag. This is
a mere technical o~ffense, and conviction
viii not involve a punishment at all COM
mensurate TO his many and real crimes.
1t is q matter of very small moment how
he managed to save his mise rsble carcass
after his vessel was beaten, compared to
the piratical acts he committed against
our commerce, from the time he heard of
the collapse Of the rebellion until he
sought safety in an English port. 1t
needs no commission to demonstrate that
he violated not only the usages of war
bdt the instincts of the commonest
bravery in the manner of his escape.
His eowardice is notorious. Before
the commencement of the fight with
the HKearsarge" he strapped a life
preserver around his waist and wa one
of the first to take to water. When the
Deechound's boats were picking up the
survivors, he called out "Tske me; I'm
the Captain |" This while his men were
struggling for life. It would be difficult
to conceive of cowardice and selAshness
more complete than that. To owen q
court to ascertain whether such a fellow
had observed the proprieties in retreating
after a fight seems to be sheer foolishness.
Either hang him as a pirate, or let him
go scott free.
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Sad Incident of 1.-THE Fenian Conspiracy
in Ireland.

From the London Telegraph, March IL
There are two rather sad stories arising
out of the Government action in the sup
preston. You remember a man named
Clarke, was shot, a few weeks O in the
street in this city. Two men, acquaintan-
ces of his, called for him, asked him to
take a walk, and a third shot him. He
died the next day. 1T reminds one of
Keats "two brothers and their murdered
man riding through Florence. The
true story of the tragedy is this: Clarke
was a "B," or Captain in the Fenian So
clety. He lived in a street where the gov
eminent discovered a Fenian armorv.
and shortly afterward he was noticed by
his co-conspirators to have plenty of mo-
neyi and they suspected he was spending
the government reward for betraying the
armory, when, in fact, he had not been in
communication with the government at all.
and was simply of1ush of cash" because he
hdd Te9e1ved money from friends in Amer
lea.
After he was shot he gave the police
when dying, a long and detailed account
of the men who walked out with him, and
OF the circumstances of the murder. The
account waspurely fictitious, and invented
by his dying and, alas, lying lips, to screen
the Brotherhood. Knowing he was shot
by Fenians who unjustly suspected him,
the poor fellow still died game"
Another story is of a man named ellis.
He was seized with otter Fenians, and in
his first fright he offered to turn informer
to save himself He was brought on the Ia
BILE to testify. and then refusad IN GOV ono
word against his former associates. The
police warned him of his fate, but he per-
sisted he was thereupon tried and SEN
fenced to five years penal servitude.
his wife aud two younger
children were lying in a fever hospital.
his two elder boys employed in a fac
,ory had been turned out of employment
because the workmen threatened to strike
inless the sons of the finformer" were ex-
9elled. All this accumulation of misery
Jilhs knew when he refused to betray the |
F%enians, and yet the poor devil faced it all.
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OHIO NEWS.
COUNTY.
Eo- A. n-r. p..or-

From the Conneaut Reporter:
The people of Kelloggsville are moving
toward the establishment of an academic
school. The prospects are promising.
A race was to come off last Wednesday
afternoon at Amboy between Mr..
Wright's horse of Conneaut and an Ash
tabuls horse. One hundred dollars 8 side
was staked.
Mr.. Il. A. Hubbard, of Amboy, had a
valuable bay mare stolen from his prem
ises on the night of the 18th. A reward
of $50 is offered for the apprehension of
the thief.
Ex-Sherif Wright has commenced the
real estate business in Conneaut.
The Sentinel says that Mr.. r. @. Warm
ington, of Ashtahula, has just completed
his new hotel. 1t is three stories high, Il
by 80 feet, brick, and will be called the
Clarendon Hotel" The Hall in thethird
story is the largest between New York
and Chicago, with the single exception Of
st. james Hall, Buffalo. 1t presents a
floor 70 by 55 feet unobstructed by q sim
gle pillar. 1t will seat 1900 people.
Altogether this will be one of the finest
hotels for the size of fireplace in the State.
Water will be furnished in all the rooms
in the house, by a hydraulic ram, from
the excellent springs owned by Mr.. Wst-
son, Just cast of the hotel. Marble wash
stands in the dressing rooms and every
thing in proportion. The dining room is
spacious and pleasant, there being room
for 300 guests. Seventy-two bedrooms
will accommodate the dodgers. The he 81
will be opened April 5th, by 3 ball, TO b
| given by the fremen of that e~nterprising
village, for the benefit of Fred Blakeslee,
who lost his Photograph gallery and all
its stock by the late fire in that place.
The Telegraph says: Renters are plen-
ty, buthouses are few, and the renters go
about the streets looking and looking, but
find no place in which they may betake
themselves and their families. What the
upshot of the whole matter is going to be,
we do not know, but we do know that,
judging from the present appearance,
there will not be more than one house to
rent in our town in the spring to a half
| dozen that are now wanting them,
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pulpit at the Methodist Episcopal church
here for the year just closed, will go to
Cadiz.
The Diocesan Convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church of the Diocese
of Ohio, will meet at Massilion in June
next. The meeting at Massihon in the
same year of two such ecclesiastical bodies
as the Episcopal Convention and the
Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, is an event in the his
tory of our town that Massilonians should
be proud to remember.
From the Canton Republican
In the last Scientific American we learn
that our townsman, G.. S. Hardgrove, has
been awarded a patent for a car and
wagon brake.
The hunt for good veins of coal was
never prosecuted with moro diligence.
The deepest hole in this vicinity is that
made by what is called the Rope Com
pany-but that is for oil. 1t is two hun
dred feet deep and is growing downwards.
The traces of oil are said to be quite salts
factory. Harris Reynolds, neal town, hav-
ing about convinced himself that there is
oil on his premises is "running the thing
into the ground" at his stone quarry, hav-
ing already penetrated to the depth of
sixty feet.
Our bachelor representative to Colum-
bus had his equanimity disturbed the
other day in this wise: His bill to allow
married women to contract for repairs
and improvements on their separate prop
erty was under consideration, and he was
explaining its object when Northway of
Ashtabula interrupted his remarks by
cruelty asking if the gentleman from
Stark gqs in fcpor Of making contracts
with lOoBlen. Not seeing the point, Col.
S, innocently replied yes" when Ashta-
bula r~ejoined by saying, "theH aohy don't
you make oney' The House realized the
joke, and INDUCED in some levity, but the
Col. parried the thrust gracefully, and ex-
cited renewed merriment by reminding
the member from Ashtaoula that it takes
tDo to make a contract.
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STARK COUNTY.
From tha Canton R~epontoru:


Last Thursday evening policeman Rig
Ter found upon the streets, a strange wo-
man most disgracefully drunk. She was
lodged in Jail over night and in the morn
ing brought before the Mayor. She said
her nam was Sarah Brown, that she came
from Wooster and was in search of work;
that while she was blessed with a husband
he and she kept tavern, and that since
she had been compelled to paddle her
own canoe" and had been employed most
Of the time as cook st various taverns
throughout the country. She was fined
81 and costs, but having no money to pay
either she was ordered to leave town forth
with.
The excessively bad weather has pre-
vented the work of cleaning out the canal
and basins at Msssilon, from being prose-
cuted as was intended. As soon as the men
can work it will be commenced.
The Pittsburgh Conference for 1866 met
at Washington, Pa, and adjourned last
week 70 meet next year at Massilon. Rev.
Mr.. Hickman will be minister in charge
for the current year at this station. Mr..
Pittinger, who has aceeptably filed the
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-26
Prorre.s or M ChoIera.

The St. Louis Democrat is permitted tC
publish an extract from a private letter
from an officer in the army, dated New
Orleans, March 18th, which says:
"06iciAl news that the cholers has
broken out at Key West hiss reached US,
Assistant Surgeon Taylor and sixteen men
are down with it. A strict quarantine is
established below New Orleans, and YES
sells from Havana and Key West are sub
ject to twenty-one days quarantine"
The pestilence is slowly but surely ap-
preaching. Having already reached the
main land Of our Southern coast from the
West Indies. we may soon expect its pro-
gress northward. Let the people of our
cities and towns prepare for it. Is Geve-
land ready7
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Cnu,ea OF the Cattle Plague.

The London Spectator of February oath
offers a suggestion in regard 70 the pestl-
lence now raging SO destructively among
neat cattle in England, which may be
well worth considering by stOck-breeders
in this country. 1t is to the effect that
the cattle plague may be one of the con
sequences o high farming, which has rem
dered cattle more susceptible to the con-
tagion of disease. There are two great
causes which may predispose the system
to disease-want and plethora. And
hence this pest, which is indigenous among
the scattered and hungry cattle of the
Steppes in the interior of Asia, becomes a
pestileace among the fattened herds OF
England.
A fact confirming this idea is found in
the cases of France and Holland, int
both which countries the plague was IN
troduced about the same time it appeared
in England. In Holland it ravaged the
stalls, while in France it had spread so
that many people insist it has not been
there. In the country there is nothing of
what the English call high farming, and
but little high-breeding or stall-feeding,
60 that the cattle are mostly in their
natural state. In England, on the other
hand, where high-breeding and high
feeding are carried on TO the greatest
lengths, there is also a practice very prev
alent Of forcing forward the fattening
process upon very young animals. The
Edinburgh Reuiel0, in an elaborate article
commencing the success of high farming,
boasts that animals which formerly re-
quired three years to fstten are now mark
etable in fifteen months from their birth.
If there is any truth in this suggestion.
it is of no little Importance to American
stock-breeders. IN the first place, our
herds will be less exposed to the pestilence
than the English, because our markets are
less exacting in regard to fatness of beeves,
because our cattle are much more mixed
in breeding and made up more largely of
native stock, and because the great
breadth and moderate quality of our pas
turage favors a natural and healthy
growth of the young stock, while the prac-
tice of fattening yearliugs into beef is en-
tirely unknown.
Still, a werd'of caution will do nc harm,
and may lead to some careful and useful
observation among breeders, to accumu-
late facts bearing on the question.
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Petreleum IN Texa..

The New Orleans Pieay1tne says that
petroleum of great purity, and in large
quantities, has been found in Angelina,
Trinity and Nsoogdoches counties East
ern Texas. Most of the petroleum springs
are in the western section of Nacogdoches
county, on the Angelina river, in the
country between the Angelina and the
Nueches rivers, in Angelina county; and
on the eastern lire os Trinity county,
bordering on the Nueches river. A very
large tract Of land in this section of coun-
try, has been bought by Northern capital
lists, for the purpose Of working these Fe-
treleum EpriagA
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-26

A relic of no mean value has been
found in the possession of a family in Te-
cumseh, Mich. 1t is a copy of a New
Testament printed in 1893, four yesrs be-
fore the termination of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. It was printed in London,
"by the Deputies of Christopher Barker,
Printer 70 the Queenes most excellent
majestic" It is said there are but fifty
copies of this edition known to be in exis-
tenee.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-26

Fred Douglass delivered q lecture in
Chicago on Monday evening. He said he
was there for the purpose of making trea-
son odiOus, and was speaking as Andrew
johnson did immediately after the assas-
sinstion. BE declared thst the President
had betrayed the friends of freedom, but
thst they had survived Fitz John Porter,
Buell., and Mcclellan, and they could sur
Tira Johnson.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-26

The records Of the War Department
show that niasty per cent of all our soldi-
ers were natives by birth; and that of the
foreigners the Germans furnished three
men where the Irish furnished one, and
that the negroes furnished three where the
Irish furnished one, though the latter are
bitterly opposed to the blacks having the
to vote
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Endorsement Ofthe President :

The independence exhibited BY the
writer in resisting the attempt to levy a
tax upon him as an oficeholder under the
Federal Government, his just statement
ofthe correct principles, entitle him to re-
spect and appreciation. I, therefore, as an
evidence o. my appreciation of the quail
ties manifested in the letter, recommend
him to the Paymaster General for an early
promotion. ANDREW JOHNSON.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March Is, 1866.
In respect to this matter it is proper to
note one OF two facts. Mr.. E. B. John
son is q youth of nineteen or twenty years,
wholly unequal to the composition of the
letter signed, and it was evidently got up
for him by some of the new special friends
Of the President and his reconstruction
policy. Further, Mr.. Rollins has sent out
no circulars, nor has any regularly Or
ganized club of New Hampshire Union
sent out circulars of the character al
luded Il in the letter. All the facts war
rant the statement that the circular and
the johnson letter are both weak mven.
tons Of the enemy, On which TO get the
Presidential Endorsement for use in the
,cming election. !
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WARRINGTON ToPTos AND GOSSIP.
THE coNNEcrIcUr ELEcTIoN.

Senator Ethel Fowler and Representa-
tiyes Maynard and Stokes, of Tennessee,
are going to Connecticut to speak in the
interest of General Hawley for the Gov
ernorship.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-26

The City Council and City officers of
Urbsna, celebrated, on the evening of the
18th inst, the fitch anniversary of the
first meeting of the Council of that city.
The first meeting of the corporate author
tiles was held March 18th, 1916.
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HENRY S. FOoTE.

Hon. Henry. S. FOote publishes a card
denying the report that he is the author
of the resolutions introduced by Senator
Stewart. He says, at is rue that l
warmly approve it, and had the honor of
being consulted by its author in regard to
the probability of the South's accepting it
if profered but the proposition itself, and
every feature of it, originated in the Judi
clous and discriminating intellect and
KIND and ~magnanimous spirit of the Sena-
tor from Nevada, who, though l am proud
to acknowledge him as a son-in-law, is Just
the last person in Christendom whose ac-
ton as a public man 1 would attempt to
control or influence.
H PRESIDENT AND THE UNION PARTY.
A Committee of gentlemen from Con-
neetieut, Influenced by many extra
ordinary reports from this city circulating
in that State, had an interview with the
President Among the number was Ma
jor General Hawley, the Union candidate
for Governor.
The President, of course, desired to see
bis policy sustained wherever the issue
was distinctly and fairly made; but he
had not interfered, and did not propose to
interfere, with the politics of the States.
THAT INDEPENDENT YOUNG MAN OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
Tho following somewhat remarka lie
correspondence is made public to-day:
PAYMAsTER GENERALS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, March 20.
To Hon. E. II. Rollins, United States
House Of Representatives.:
STp- hava i1ef raoaiua1 q o1ro,1or &c
the New Hampshire Union Club, request
ing me to remit a sum equal to one and
one-haif per cent. of my annual salary for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the approaching election. The circular
states that such persons as to home to
vote at said elections are hereby excused
from complying with this request. AS 1
am not q voter, / must according to this
circular, remit a sum equal to one and
one-half per cent. of my annual salary.
[ am against all measures which
tend to destroy the purity of
the ballot box, and this 1
regard as one. 1 have never given a cent
for the purpose of bribing voters to vote
contrary to their Judgment and 1 never
shall. Any man who sells his vote de-
serves to be d~isfranchised. l have watched
doings of Congress during the present
session, and in so doing have noticed tina:
you have acted with that disunionist,
rhad. Stevens, and therefore 1 am to be-
lieve that you and your party partake of
MS cup which contains this essence of dis
union. Upon the principle that like be-
gets like, L am led to believe that this
money, so raised, will be expended
'or the purpose of elevating more disun-
onists to power. As a student of the
Constitution, Ihsve been taught that all
made for the purpose of procuring
power and Office by unfair means, are con-
rary 10 the spirit of liberty aud justice. 1
10 not be eve that, during the present ses-
ion, you acted in accordance with the
will of the majority of the people Of New
and l confidently hope that
'ou and your disunion c~opartnership will,
It the next election, meet with that rebuke
-ou so justly deserve. Your appeal for
unds argues the weakness of your cause.
l am yours, respectfully, !