Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-30
A CHAPTER ON THE aPASSED.'
Peregrinatlng Editors in a FIX.
NO MoRE DEAD Heads.
BY HaRIs.n

as got caught away from home. W. I'M
derstand that a large number of those
wretched creatures accumulated at the
principal points along the line of the New
York Central Railroad, principally at
Utica and Syracuse. Their passes playing
out, and having no money, of course they
had to stop over until they could hear
from home.
The Union Telegraph Company kindly
permitted them the free use of the tele-
graph wires to send dispatches home. A
friend has forwarded to us copies of some
of the dispatches sent from Utica, where
q large number of country editors were
stuck" Through the b~eneyolence of
some of the citizens the Soldiers Home,
which had been vacant for some months
passed, was fitted up for the accommoda-
ton of the %impecunious editors until
money could be forwarded to them. Some
of them, rendered temporarily insane by
the decapitation of "dead-heads," had to
be CHARTERED In the Lunatic Asylum.
One editor telegraphed to his partner as
follows:
aSend me some money. Five dollars
will do if sent Immediately. Don't sus-
pend the paper in consequence if you can
possibly avoid it"
Another, rendered savage and profane,
telegraphed his foreman
"Sell the office stove and send on the
proceeds. We don't need it in warm
weather. Discharge the devil.
"P. S.-Give the Legislature blazes for
this"
One poor fellow, who is caught a long
way from home, it being a small town on
the Illinois river, nearly despairs Of ever
getting back again. This is his dispatch:
UTICA, NY, May 10, 1861
BLUE LION TAyxRs.
"Dear Wife-SeIl my 'tother clothes for
what they will bring, and remit at once.
Had my linen buster for supper, and my
spare shirt viii have to go for lodging.
May be able to make a light breakfast on
a German silver comb and a pair of
shears that l CHANGED to have with me.
Don't know when l shall get home. It
will depend a great deal on the walking.
Don't marry for a Few months there is a
bare possibility of my getting back.
"SIMoN."
A St. Lawrence county IN. " editor
telegrsphs to his assistant editor:
of my letter isn't printed, cut out that
puff of the New York Central Railroad.
Give them something about 'Swindling
Monopoly, Dangerous Roadway Rot
ten Bridges &c. Send me ten dollars.
"P.S.-Take any advertisement that
offers for the present, whatever its char
acter.n
The editor of the Pondunk Stuffed Club
telegraphs his partner
"Dear Sam-Forward me at once all
the money you have, even if it is five
dollars"
"P.S.-The editor of that hireling
sheet, whose puny efforts to rival the
Stuffed Club have so often excited our de-
rision, the cringing tool of the opposition,
whom 1 threatened to horsewhfp if he
dared 10 address me, has Just refused me
the loan of half a dollar. Ye godsl Re
view his disloyal course during the war in
a column leader, double loaded. Make it
as able as you car Go
P.P.S.-Bring down the Stuffed Clab
with all its weight on the head of that
giant monopoly, the New York Central.
"PHM.'
A Buffalo editor who had his pass taken
up at Schenectady, attempted to make his
way home on foot. He got as far as SYRIA
cuse, when he gave out, (hi3 shoes gave
out two or three days before, and he had
hoofed it along barefooted,) and dropped
by the wayside. He is performing the
remainder of his journey on board of q
bull-head canal boat. Walking from
Schenectady to Syracuse on the railroad,
he said he wRs never 3aSsed SO much be-
fore-every train passed him, he has OBJ
tanned ONE interesting statistics. He
says there are nine thousand four hundred
and sixty-two ties laid between those two
points, only one hundred and t~hirty-two
of them showing signs of decay. There
are n thousand seven hundred and one
telegraph poles, all being pealed of their
bark except two hundred and thirty-one.
The Atlantic and Great Western Rail
way Company were even more strict than
the Central in enforcing the new law. If
an editor was caught with a psss and no
money, the pass was taken up and the
train stopped, when the editor was put off
frequently in the woods and miles from
any h~abitation. There are over q hun
dred editors wandering today in the
woods along the line of the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway in New York
State. One poor fellow from Cleveland,
supposed to belong to the Herald, wan
dered about for several days in the vi
einity of Salamanca, inquiring for the
State Line, but SO confused that he was
totally unable to state what Line. He.
was last seen employing a leather-eased
pocket-aask as a compass to find out
where he was. The flask was inscribed
Fairbanks" supposed to have been a
present from the Scale man..
Companies are being organized for the
purpose Of searching out the lost editors,
and restoring them to their distracted
families.
A large number of the press gang who
live in Eastern New York, and who had
been West, are stopped at the Pennsyl-
vania line, unable to get any further.
They are a~nxiously watching and waiting
'over the border for succor. 1t will re-
quire a whole string of suckers to go
around. The Atlantic and Great Western
Company have very kindly extended TO
them the use of their water tanks to
lodge in. aEC-r
The following dispatch has passed over
the wires from Oattaraugus county, D.
= 10 INC 6ulLOT VI tuo 1OSeJ OOuuly
Indiana) BLoloer;
CATTARAUoUs Co. Poor HOUSE, l.
May Is, 1866.
Editor Of the Posey County BlO,0er;
SIR:-An emaciated and partially de-
mented creature was picked up in the
woods in this vicinity yesterday, who had
apparently been wandering for some days
without food. He could give no intelli-
gible account of himself, but upon search
ing him the following articles we're found
in his pockets, to wit:
l lead pencil, greatly worn.
! pencil sharpener, patent.
l pair wooden pocket-combs.
l paper collar been turned
An annual pass on the Pesey Co. Plank
Road.
And a letter from the Posey County
indorsing him as an attaehe of the
paper, and requesting railroad superinten-
tents 10 extend the "usual courtesies, 2
&c.
He is quiet and inofensiye for the most
part of the time, but Is seized with an &C.
,asional frenzy, in which he calls for pa
Der, and writes furiously until exhausted.
[ can make out only a few sentences, such
IS "Mr. Editor,"-aBroad Gauge a failure,
-"Atlantic Road, Gilderoyp
-"Crush it out,"-"United press"-"Not
Ehat we thought it was, &c, &c. If you