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Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
PERSONAL

A clergyman named Townsend COM
mitted suicide in Wilson, Maine, on
Thanksgiving day.
Edwin Booths reentre at the Winter
Garden, New York, on Wednesday night,
was the grandest triumph of his dramatic
career. Among the audience were George
w. Curtis, Hon. George Bancroft, the
historian, Bayard Taylor, DR.. Charles D.
Brown, embalmer of the lamented Lin
coins remains. r. d. Holmes, Grand
Master of the F. and A. Masons of New
York. The New York Herald was
"groaned" by the audience several times.
The house was crowded with the beauty,
fashion and intellect of New York. 1t
was half an hour before the storm of ap-
plause subsidized, and he was permitted to
proceed.
On New Years day General Grant re-
ceived at the hands of Congressman
Hooper, of Massachusetts, a valuable
library, consisting of about two thousand
volumes, on behalf of his constituency, in
so quiet and informal a manner as scarcely
to attract the attention of those present.
The value of the gift, and this appropriate
manner of bestowing, challenge admira-
ton. The number of people who called
to pay their respects to the great General
at his residence in Georgetown, was al
most as large as the crowd at tho Presi-
dents, though he lives couple of miles
away from the centre of population. A
c~oncourse of carriages and pedestrians
were arriving and departing from his
door till a late hour. Mrs. Grant was
assisted by her sister, Mrs. General Dent,
and Mrs. Colonel Porter, Mrs. General
Rawlins being too i'll to attend.
The Baltimore american says the di-
sease, pneumonia, which terminated the
life of Henry Winter Davis, was sudden
and abrupt, both in its origin and fatal
result. On Sunday, Mr.. Da7ia possessed
his usual health. On Monday he was out
among the citizens of Baltimore, and
caught cold from an incautious exposure
to the weather of that dvy. He returned
to his home and proceeded to take a cold
bath, from which he emerged with a chill,
the disease which effected his death, al
most Immediately attacking his physical
system. The fever accompanying its sew
eral stages, continued until Saturday last,
when it was broken, and decided symp-
toms of approaching dissolution were
manifested. Fullconsciousness was main
tanned by him until the latest moment.
Mr.. Davis was to have delivered m ad-
dress in New York this week on the sub
iect of the Mexican question.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
POLITICAL.


The Democratic State Convention will
assemble in Hartford, on Wednesday, the
eth day of February.
Governor Cummings, of Colorado, is
sued a proclamation on the 2sd of Decem-
Der, calling attention to the fact that the
Territorial Legislature would be expected
to meet as usual, on the first Monday in
January, the State organization being
held in allegiance until recognized by the
National Government. The Territorial
Legislature was elected in September, and
is not only Democratic, but believed to be
inimical to the State organization. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether it will inaugu-
rate any steps to delay admission into the
Union. ua
The campaign is soon to open in Penn
sylyania for the election of a Governor
next October, and of a Legislature upon
which viii devolve the choice of q Q. S.
Senator, vice Cowan. The Republican
fUnion) State Central Committee is called
to meet at Harrisburg, on the 10th, to fix
the time for holding the State nominating
Convention, and in Allegheny the primary
election is called for the 18th, for a County
Convention to select delegates to the
aforesaid State Convention. Various
names are being mentioned for Governor,
gics Curtin, who has held the Office two
terms (six years. and does not seek re-
election, and also for Senator, viee Cowan,
whom nobody, in the Republican ranks at
least, proposes to r~e-elect.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
LATENEws ITEMS.

A Mr.. Charles Windech, of Detroit,
while dancing the schottische with a lady,
at a ball on the 28th ult, andhaving made
the circuit of the hall, staggered and fell,
and before he could be placed on a lounge
was dead. He was lately from Titusville,
Pa. He died Of heart disease.
There was a panic in the market for
hogs at Chicago Friday, caused by large
receipts and a very stringent money
market. The receipts Of hogs were over
$4,000 head, and our special dispatch
states that they will be much heavier to-
day. The receipts of hogs at this place
were near 1900 head, and the indications
are they will continue large for some days
at least.
On Sunday last, while a party of nine<
teen boys were skating on the st. Law
renee River, near 0gdensburgh, the whole
field of ice separated from the shore and
began to move down the river. When
the boys discovered that they were carried
of, they set up a terrific yelling and at
tracted the attention Of Mr.. Joseph King,
who by making three trips, succeeded in
saving them al.
At Paris, Illinois, on the 21st inst,
while Mrs. Alexander, aged widow Of
General NJ. Z. Alexander, n of the
early pioneers of Edgar county, was dy-
ing, the widow of Isaac Sanford, also one
of the early pioneers, came into the oom
and fell down dead, Mrs. Alexander ex-
piring almost at the same time. This sad
coincidence is rendered more remarkable
from the fact that at precisely the same
time the two widows died, a young couple
were being Joined in wedlock in an ad-
house.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
a GRAND srn.ntion Inat

TIE Associated Press dispatches to the
daily papers contain the startling an
souncement, dated at Cleveland, that the
9hio Fenian State Convention was held in
his city on the LIST of January, and de-
iared unanimously in favor of President
Roberts and General Sweeny. aCan such
hings be, and overcome US like a summer
loud, without our special wonder2"
Ponder it, Clevelandersl A mighty or
~:anization, the Representatives of the
irish Republic in the great State of Ohio,
Jas met and held its deliberations in your
midst and you knew it not. Its grandeur
vas all the more conspicuous because of
Is reticence and ouietness. The Weddel
House was not crowded beyond its wont,
ior did its register bear a larger proper
ion than usual of OLaffertys and Fitz-
hrrolds, of Dooligans and Murphys. The
treets were not filled with d~istizgues of
be Hibernian persuasion, nor did the
waite brogue of ould Erin rcsound more
oudlyo or more frequently than usual upon
ur streets. Even the ubiquitous re-
orters failed TO discover the mighty
Eenian gathering which held its session on
he LIST inst Our citizens passed to and
20 along our streets u ladies profered
he hospitable cake and wine to festive
%allers, our youths drove back and forth
Tong the Avenue, or made excursions to
ilverthorne's and the river, returning
hence hilarious or comatose-and none
reamed of the events, big with influence
u all future time that were transporting
our very midst. Let this be an exam
e and a~lesson, in ~aternuns ofthe modesty
hich marks the truest greatness.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
he Cleveland and Columbus Mails.

The Cleveland and Columbus Mails.
The Columbus Journal of Monday
snorning says;
/" AS we have stated in another place,
Ihe Cleveland LEADER of Thursday morn
sng, containing important matters, did not
each US until Friday evening. This lie not
~tnfrequently the case"
) We can only assure the Journal that
she LEADER is sent regularly and mailed
st the proper time. The Journal is
Equally irregular in reaching us. For
snerly we received the Columbus papers
10y the eleven o'clock morning mail, but
IAov they do not arrive-or, at least, are
ast distributed-until five in the after
o~nths-subiect the Journal says:
ls Several complaints have reached us by
! .etter and otherwise from Northern and
Ohio, that the Journal is almost
tRbitually one mail behind its proper
kme. We a only say to u friends
hat the fault is not with this office, nor,
I'VE are convinced, is it at the Columbus
az osto1ice. The attention of the proper
Department, we are assured, has been
innalled to the matter, and if any fault is
mound in the Department, it will be
speedily and promptly rectifed."
3 We can say with the Journal that "the
is no with this Office in the matter
eff the LEADER, but we are not able to
state with equal pOsitiveness that it is not
I the Cleveland Postofice. Complaints
ss5f this kind are SO frequent as to excite
suspicion. The unjustiRable and illegal
cection Of Postmaster Benedict in discrim-
0nating in favor of his own paper to the
exclusion of the LEADER from the mails
lfOrds ground for the opinion that he
would not hesitate to use the whole power
# his Office to accomplish his selfish pur-
roses. We are glad to learn that the at
ention Of the Postofice Department has
keen called to this delinquency, for it is
Ugh time an Investigation be had. Ger
kin officials should be taught that the
Sstal system was not adopted for the ad-
Ancement Of the private interests of those
lharged with its supervision, some ofwhom
9eem totally unmindful Of their oath of
|ffee.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10

De Quincy somewhere tells an anecdote
of a man, who on b ing threatened with
an assault by eighteen tailorA cri& out;
Come on, beth Of you"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10

clude to share the delays and adventures
of mighty ride to Washington together
To my great discontinue we find the
Washington train gone three hours ago.
and must wait here one and a quarter
hours for another. But for the breaking
down Of car No. !, containing Bill At
woods hogs, and the consequent delays
oceasioned by this slaughter of the
innocents" we would have been in
Washington by seven and a half P. NJ,
t~wenty-nine hours from Cleveland Tbutit
is after nine and it will be eleven o'clock
before we make the Washington depot, a
most undesirable hour for q lone woman
to be cropping her way a mile or more to
her appointed stopping place, with the
probability of finding barred and bolted
doors to check her entrance at that late
hour staring her in the face, and l gladly.
accept the proffered services OF the gallant
christian soldier. In all that waiting,
tired, sleepy throng 1 see no familiar face,
and all are silent save this officer, whom
l manage to keep talking, getting glimpes
thereby of life at West Point-the school
boy habits of many we now love to honor,
and of others too soon translated glimpses
of regular army life in Kansas, Utah, Ne
| Ndud7 OuAlAOIhld, UelOIS bh0 war anu 50
down through the fearful ratrieidal strife,
with the tender diapason of wife and
daughters underlying, including all. Thus
the hours pass quickly; and we are in the
depot, almost under the shadow of the
towering Capitol, a coldly dismal place at
night, from which wehurry of, to a kind
ly greeting from my waiting hostess,
when l say goodbye, it may be for years,
and it may be forever" to one of the most
refined and agreeable men it has been my
fortune to meet, and ascend to a cheerful
room enlivened with a blazing fire in an
open CRATE, where l am soon alone with
my thoughts and pleasant memories of the
most comfortable and delightful journey
city.
And here let me say a word for the B,
& o. R. R., which 1 found in excellent
condition, with new and comfortable cars,
and obliging conductors. 1 think it As
desirable route to this city from the West
especially to Cleveland, now that the con-
nection is effected atBellaire, enabling them
to reach here in t~wenty.nine hours. ]
would advise taking the morning train
from Cleveland, bringing youa at Bellaire in
daylight, and over a portion of the beau
tiful scenery between there and Altamont
also the most interesting localities at thi;
end of the route by daylight, and a eleal
view of the most magnificent marble
structure in the world as a fitting intro
duction to the abiding city of some of the
most remarkable men of the present age
of which more anon. G. L. r. &
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
The National Debt.

The monthly statement of the national
A1bt shows a slight increase in its amount
:, lring the month Of December. The
of the Secretary of the Treasury
afhibits the following result:
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.

HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
All those who want holiday presents,
For a Father, q Husband, or Son, & %
Or a kind and afectionate Brother, ~ All
Or a Friend, q particular one,
Will fud the largest assortment job 20
At ISAAGS' Great UNION HALL aroa
OF splendid appropriate presents,
Which acceptable will be TO sll. I 9Is-
We have COATS ofeVsry description,
And OVER-COATS to keep out the cold,
And PANTS and VESTS Of late fashion,
To fit all, both young and old; 20
We have SeARFS, CRAVATS and NEGK-TIES,
GLOVES, COLLARS, sUSPENDERs, HALF
HOSE, ~tli ~ lI4.E u.
And all kinds Of SHIRTS, DRAWERS and
WRAPPERS,
And HANDKERCHIEFs nice for the nose.
Then, too, we have for the Ladies,
SINGER SEWING MACHINE, Ca
A blessing in every household,
The best in tho world 20 be SEEM.
We know that those who want presents,
viii be pleased If they give us a call,
For the prices are low and tho goods the best
At IsAhCS' famed UNION HALL.
Corner Superior and Union Streets,
nB-Look out for the Giants. ~ del
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
he Columbus Journal says :

Very few of the county papers of Ohio
have attempted the publication of the
Governors message. The S~teubenville
Herald has commenced the publication in
serial form. 1t will be suspended long
enough to publish Governor Cox's Inau-
gural, after that shall haYs been delivered
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10

The annual "week Of prayer" which is
pw celebrated by thu Protestant religious
immunity throughout the world, CON-
encing with the first Sunday in January.
gaE on last Sabbath It is celebrated
appropriate religious exercises in this
y and elsewhere throughout the coun-
..
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
,Judge spaIding's speech, D

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says of the recent
speech of the Hon. R. P. Spalding
The speech was listened to with great at,
t~ention, especially the closing part of it,
in which he ~eloquently alluded to the i'm
putation thrown upon the President, that
he was employing his Executive patron
age for the purpose of carrying his meas
ures through Congress. 81 5
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-10
RENO OIL AND LAND COMPANY.
Proposals for Putting Down
Fifty OIL Wells,

PROPOSALS will be received by the
il above Company, at their Office at Reno, Pa,
until January 10th, 1866, for putting down Fifty
Wells on their lands at Reno.
Bidders will make proposals as follows, viz:
First-For doing all the work and finding En-
gines, Fuel, DerTicks and Fixtures.
Second-For doing the work, the Company sup
plying the Derricks without machinery.
Third-For doing the work, the Company find
ing everything.
Bidders may stipulate to put down one OF more
wells. Bids for single wells preferred.
The work must be commenced as soon as prac-
ticable after proposals are accepted, and prosecu-
ted theoretically day and night until completed.
Address GALUSUA A. GROW, Pres't,
Or JAMES JENKINS, Sup't,
.~RENO OIL &LASD Co.,
janS27S Reno. Pa.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20
a5..P0RT MISSISSIPPI E ] AIRY 20, 1866

saa. =
never witnessed SO great o political
crime as that committed in the des-
tructions of the Confederate Govern
.lnent by armed force. Other nations,
in ancient as well as modern times,
have fallen under the yoke of the con
cquerer or usurper, because their own
follies, vices or crimes had prepared the
way for their subjugation. Many tears
have been shed over the fate Of unhap-
Ply Poland, but we cannot shut our eyes
to the fact that the Poles had shown
their incapacity to manage their own
Government ere they were consigned
to foreign rule. In our case, however,
the civilized nations Of the earth have
stood aloof and seen. a brave and patri-
otto people politically murdered, while
maintaining an unprecedented struggle
for the right of self-goyernment, and
manifesting ateyery step their capaci-
ny for it, and this, too, when under an
assumed neutrality, the resources of
men, money and munitions of war Of
those very nations being freely used to
Econsummate the monstrous deed and
thereby give the final blow to q genu-
inc republican government even in the
United States. 900 s39A ssa 81
On behalf of my down-trodden coun-
try. I make the appeal tothose nations
that they will notLcommit the further
injustice of.receiving the history of this
struggle from the mouths and pens of
our enemies, but that they shall wait
until the time shall come for placing a
true history before them In the mean
time, let all my countrymen who were
in condition to know the character
Of the contest, put in tangible form, to
be preservation thefnse of the future
historion, such facts and materials for
that history as are in their knowledge
or possession. -. J. A. EARLY.
gl.. ss9n4r Lieut.. General C. s. A.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20
The Last Great Quake.
safed rs IGlifnnE SO I9YfI9b p5 .8i5el
EARTHouAkE SCENES IN SAN FRANCIS

Eai ed 10 IgEfnfFE aft l8Fu9D o. .9K1EEf
EAARTHoyAKE "a SCENES Sl' IN san FRANCISCO sI e
It is o grave matter to joke, upon
but the scenes in San Francisco, = on
the happening of the late earthquake
are most harlnoniously set forth, by
the correspondent of the New York
Review The correspondent says; 81
1fg gsss4,d a STREET RUSH. Is s9gl bue
O AS I walked down the street4dOwn
tho middle of the street frequently
glancing up with d sagacious eye at the
houses on either side. to see which way
they were. going to- fall I felt the earth
sl1iyering gently under me, and grew
moderately sea-sick, and remained SO
for nearly an hour; others became. ex-
cessively SLEEPY, as well as seaTsick, and
were obliged to go to bed and refresh
themselves with a sotndnapa A minute
before the earthquake had three or
four streets pretty much to myself as
far as T could see down them (for We
are o Sunday-respecting community,
and &c, ont Of town to break the Sab
bath but five seconds afterrI was lost
| in q swarm of crying children, and
coatIess, hatless men and shrieking
women. They were all in motion, too,
and no two of them trying to run in
the same direction They charged SIM
ultaneously from opposite rows d
houses, like opposing regiments from
ambuscades, and came together with q
Ecrash and yell in the centre of the
street. Thcn came chaos and confu-
sion, and d general digging out fol
somewhere else they didn't know
where and didn't care.m Is vfoes3aa
esesg 8H HOTEL EMprrED. noFllsd9d
I turned to Mission street and walk
ed down to Second, without finding
any evidences Of the great tEague, but II
Second street itself Z travelled half /
block on shattered window glass. The
larger hotels, farther down town, were
Inn standing, but the boardsrs were al
the street. The pIastering hadfalleI
in many of the rooms, and o gentleman
Emho was in sana attic chamber of thl
Cosmopolitan at the tinae Of the quake
told mo the wafer asIoslieda' ont Of HI.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20

crime, and WAS not IN the least incon-
sistent with the loftiest patriotism and
the most sillustrious virtue. ao'i1 laIs
We. should despise ourself if we were
wanting in the integrity and courage
to thus plainly utter our honest opin-
ions in relation to a public character
whom we believe to be one of the fore
most men, as well as one of TIE purest
patriots. of his age. And it is a ques-
ton which impartial and inexorable
history viii have to settle, whether q
success on his part would not have
proyeda benefit to his country, by pre-
serving the grand principle of self
government and liberty which was
established here byonr fathers. & The
Union. as it was established by oun
fathers, was dear to Gen. Lee, as itwas
to, everybody in the land, except the
negro equaiizi,.g reyoluionists now in
power. They were and are the. real
foes to the Union. They, and not mer
like Gen. Lee. are the traitors to the
great American principle of govern
ment. And we have quite as little re-
spect as patience for that by no means
small number of Northern journalists
who fully understand 4 this question,
who know that the distractions to the
lasting peace Of this Union are even
now, as they ever were, not in the
South, but in the North, and yet most
culpably fail in rebuking that impu-
dent noisy, and isenseless public sar4a-
go, which would regard men like Lee
and Stephens as traitors, and men like
Ben. Butler and Stanton as patriots,
Shame! Eternal shamei There is not
a single leading statesman in the South,
nor. indeed, a single Southern man,
who is not belieyerin, and an admirer
of the principles OF the Constitution
and Union; but there is not single
leader of the Northern faction now in
power who does not hate, and who is
laboring to overthrow those principles.
Disunioaism, !. e.. enmity to the
principles of the Union, is at this mo-
ment confined to the Northern States.
Here it scowls and sneers, and mum
bles its internal incantations in, the
face and eyes of honest patriotism, and
there are not twenty editors to be
found, in oil the country, who have
the pluck and manhood to strip the
false covering from the foul and sedi-
tious monster. TheyFenture to utter
some tinid, doubtful protests, but they
leave the monstrous usurpation, the
shameless fraud, in the full possession
of the field. When every Democratic
editor win speak out his, real thought,
and say boldly and defantly that he
believes men like Gen. Robert E. Lee
tobe patriots, and men like Stanton and
Seward to, be seditionists and traitors,
there will be more honest men In the
land than there are now, and there
will be better hope for libertyAfor
our countty's lasting peace and honor
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