Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-31
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from MGIisOn-RuraI Pleas
ures-LOeaI POIiIies-udicIaI Con-
tesf-Ihe Philadelphia Convention,
MAn1snN- O. Inlr % 1sef

NAbASoNl ~ ouiy 90 1000
Mr. LEADER: This is the country, with
grass-plots and trees, with meadows and
green fields, with bright streams and cool
shades. Madison is a comfortable town q
dozen miles east of gainesville and forty
from Cleveland. Owing to a curve in
the lake shore, the township is the largest
in the State, and, owing TO sundry other
dispensations of Providence and nature. II
is n of the pleasanteSt. 1t is a rich
farming tract here, and the crops are reas-
onably good this season. This is the great
potatoe region, and hundreds of acres are
now covered with long, clean rews of
peach-blow tops. The potato crop last
year was nearly 10000 bushels. The
merchandising of potatoes and grain is a
substantial business here, quite peculiar
to the town. There is a brisk competition
in the trade, and great piles of greenbacks
are every season divided among the thrifty
farmers.
Haying is quite over, and harvesting
nearly so, yet an unsophisticated city chap
with an itching for a farmers life. eould
find big stacks of hay and wheat to drop
his lazy body on the shady side of during
these long torrid days. But l fancy he
would soon give up agriculture and try
the fine art Of rural life in a stroll through
the avenue of naples west of the town. or
a lounge in the broad lawns and luxuriant
gardens bordering the street, or a ride to
the grove by the lake and a swim in old
Erie. If he can sleep on the grass, or fan
himself and drink iced lemonades-if he
can by any means, cheat the sun and save
his life during MIDDAY he can find a pro
fusion of delightful things to do in the
morning and evening, and bestow g fort
night here with profit and luxury. Sup
pose, Mr.. LEADER, you throw away that
old quill and scissors and come out from
the dingy newspaper den into the free air
and light of the country 1t is palpably
charming down here.
LOCAL POLITICS.
1t is never so hot and never 81 cold but
politicians will thrust their contentious
into everybody's faces, and throw the bur-
den of mighty affairs of state upon every
bodys shoulders. Hardly had little Lake
emerged from the fight for Congress be-
fore 1t rushed into q s~anguinary
Judicial combat. Here's business for
the great men-now you see ground
and lofty tumbling.' In the Ash
tabula, Lake and Geaugs Common
Pleas subdivision, the lawyers and farm
ers are having a tilt for the Bench. The
present Judge, Hon. N. L. ChafFee, of
Jefferson, is a large grain and stock grow
premium man on cattle and swine
at township and county fairs, a sort of
prince among Ashtabula herdsmen. As
4 legislator years ago, he made sometbino
Of a mark, and has served a term in Court
with varying popularity, and many of the
farmers are DESTROYS of retaining his SER
vices, n yet another is almost unani-
nously preferred-Hon. L. S. Sherman of
The friends of Mr.. Sherman
ire very anxious to carry their case. This
makes a very lively contest, Both candi-
iates are sound In principle and stand
high in private life. The Judge was once
tolerable lawyer and is a shrewd poiiti-
IAN, as well as a superb farmer. Mr.
sherman is put forward as one of the
learest-headed counsellors in Northern
)hio. He has long stood high as an adyo-
ate and ranks with Wilder, Hitchcock
Bissell, among the soundest iurists of !
bis part of the State. No doubt the bar l
hould have a loud voice in the selection {
nd they of course prefer the attorney to :
shepherd. The convention will be |
ED here pretty soon, when the momen- I
BUS question will be solemnly adiudicated .
y the high court of popular sovereignty. y
NATIONAL POLITICS. :
l have received never SO polite a little '
ttet dour, under the frank of the virtuous \
inviting attendance at the DOUGH- c
zee caucus at Philadelphia. But 1 t
idn't vote for Vsllandigham, and hadn't T
lie brassy face of D0olittle. Where a
'uld they stow away a hereto like me G
thought that F. T. Baekus, in a I,
convention, wa a marvel; but
see Judge Ranney representing the Re- il
rye in n Union convention is a paraoon h
wonderl
The weather at the Quaker city must "
glorious for the middle of Augustine "
ermometer driven down 70 zero by the su
and easy, cool and comfortable Con- AT
running a Union convention 7 w
lieve I'll 60 The Continental in sueb Il,
lightful weather, and with such sweet AZ
d oily companions, will afford a luxu- he
'us home in August. Count me in. ne
Yours, serenely, ~INDoLENr. to
William B. AstOr's income is Sl54,O5s, W,