Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-02

times confounded the rights of a citizen and
the duties of a subject, he never COMPOUNDED
the soldiers of treason and freedom. The
writ of hd5eas corpus that he served at last
upon the body of the rebellion was q noble
argument for civil law, and when he burst
the doors ofLibby Prison and Castle Thun=
der he blotted out the licentiousness of his
secret police. If We wish hat Carnot had
been his only model, to the rejection of
Fouche, we remember the prompt disbaAd-
ment of his armies at the moment of peace,
and the perfect restoration of civil law in
this happy Northern country.
GRANT.
Nature and geography combined to give
US in Ulysses Grant q satisfactory man for
all the people. He was not so brilliant that
he wen to his side any personal faction nor
so graceful and commanding that his per-
son obseured the cause; nor so eloquent
with his tongue or his pen as to be tempted
into the consideration Of civil principles.
He looked over the head Of no abstraction
at the enemies he fought. He fathomed the
policy of Mr.. Lincoln, and "pegged" stead
lily away and his successive campaigns in
the West finished in the splendid climax at
Richmond. = 8 { He lacked the imagi-
nation of Sherman, who was h Columbus
of soldiers, and a poet in the dazzling reach
of his coniectures but Grant was a safer
man for a Republican people, and never
forgot as a commander that he was. to be
again q citizen. : 1t was well that
he set the calm seal of his condemnation |
upon AIR. Butler, whose fame, in one period, |
Grant has as strongly bottled and corked as
did that shrewd lawyer bottle and cork his
own,army between the james and the Apo
mattox.
SHERIDAN. w
Nd AZ n-1,,- .D,~,k af fka nay urhar l
the girls of Richmond still mention with
fear, shall sweep forever on his black stall
lion, like a whiTlEind of the night, OF the
skirts of this historic city. The meteor that
burst upon Richmond with as frequent repe-
tition as a seven-shotted Roman candle, fired
by old Orion, with his legs wide set and the
triple stars in his belt heaving with his bur
den, was Philip Sheridan. The railways that
be broke like the green withes of Sampson
acknowledged his speed to pass the space
of steam. He swept the Shenandoah like q
mile of thunderbolts, and drained the last
canal that fed the doomed city, as Cyrus
marched into Babylon on the dry bed Of the
Euphrates. Tn foxes of the forest heard
his cavalry pass by night, and his saddles
were filled ere the larks of the morning as
cended. He threw his s9uadrons, as if
every horse was a solid shot driven from a
eolumbiad, upon the amazed infantry of the
rebellion and set his carbineers on foot,
when the souls of his stations shrsnk FROM
the yawning ~fosses, to gallop in their stead
up the blazing parspets. He halts to-day
by the brink of the Rio Grande, with his
unfinching eye surveying the enemies of
republican freedom on the other side and
when the bugle sounds to advance, his col
umns, like so many ptero-dactyls, shall
swarm to the Mexican shore, and, galloping
by the old road OF Buena Vista, straight for
the cathedral spires, shall make the heights
Of ChePultepec practicable to cavalry.
The NEW YORK WEEKLY M~AeAzINE.-The
number for February sd has been received.
We understand that the publishers have
been threatened with prosecution, by par
ties who think they are referred to in the
showing of how bogus companies are or
ganized in the popular story, How made
a fortune in We'll Street" 1t is well to
know how such things are done, and besides
the story itself is eharmingly written. The
best of the joke is, that the President of a
leading Wall street Company is understood
to be the author, and is quite prepared to
prove all he asserts. The publishes can
afford to risk the lawsuit. The other arti-
eles are, Training for the Race" a boating
sketch. "a Flight in the Dark" q thrilling
adventure. THE Streets of the World" by
G.. Augusta Sala. "The Bourgeois of Paris,'
one of q most instructive class of articles
upon foreign travel. "The Man in the CoTM.
servatory," "What I dreamt on New YearB
Eve" "Ridder Ro and Ridder Rap" besides
a variety of short articles on Natural His
tory, Scientific notes, tales, etc. This Mag
azine contains forty-eight pages, and is for
sale by all newsdealers, at 10 cents a copy.
Published by o. H. Bailey 4 Co., New York,
at 81 a year, or 81 for three months. Speei-
men copies ten cents.
IN MEMORY OF j. L. WEATHERLY.-At a
meeting of the Underwriters, held at the
rooms of the Board OF Lake Underwriters at
Buffalo, N. Y, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted -
WHEREAS, In the sudden and lamentable
death of Joseph L. Weatherly, this city
and community have lost an estimable
and valued citizen, his relative and friends
a warm hearted and social companion,
and we an invaluable associate, and advi-
ser and friend, and the world an h0nora
bic, unhinching conservator of Justice
and Right. Therefore, uF
Resoluea, That in onr irreparable loss of
associate, counselor, and friend, by the re-
moval of the deceased from our midst, we
recognize the hand of Almighty God, "who
doeth all things we'll"
ResolUed, That we tender the friends and
relatives of the deceased our heartfelt con-
dolence and sympathy, at the loss of one SO
beloved and esteemed by all who knew him.
ResolUcd, That we, the members of this
Board (Of which he was the founder) and
others of this fraternity, will in q body at
tend the last sad obsequiesg over theremains
of our lamented brother, ere their departure
for final burial in another city,
ResolUed, Thatthe proceeding ofthis meet
ing be published in our city papers, with a
request that the same be copied by the COM
mereial papers of all our Lake cities.
D. P. DoBBINs, President.
LAWRENCE WEBER, Secretary.