, 1872-11-23

/ meut' Ats manufacturers have nicer lntell-
gence than m those OF Pittsburgh; and the near
ness of the spot to mines Of coal and to ores Of
| IRON and copper, as well as to the oi1-fields
promise Cleveland more rapid Development than
1ts heayy end @ grimy neighbor at the foot Of the
| Monongahela. Some Individuals Of C}oyelaud
and Pittsburgh we're guilty Of an attempt: some
| time ago, to make universal oil-cornor. Bv
such devices, Commerce eats its head OF.
In 1892 Cleveland City had but 1900 people, but
n a.a io4g TINS number mad ]umpea up to 6,0o0. In
was the fifth city on the Lakes, with 43, 600. In
1870 it vas the third Lake city, with $4,000. and
at present it contains 125, 900 people. Cleveland
| folks believe that in 1880 it will be the SECOND
mental energies Of Cleveland are not equnl to
those Of Chicago. The average Chicagozn is 8
! sort Of enormous human mosquito, while the
Clevelander has gentle, household disposition,
and goes along to fortune with quiet and
steady pull but the resources Of Cleveland grow
climate, full Of fruit; and it pos
6esses one Of the worst ports On the Western
| Lakes. They are now building water-tunnel,
like that Of Chicago, out into Lake Erie and
it may be, for augh I know, already opened.
| OUT ON LAKE ERIE.
Amongst the pleasant enjoyments Of the
town, o sail on the Lake, upon the yacht, is not
the least interesting; and went out twice NTH
q young banker by the name Of Weeks, who told
me that the City Of Toronto hadmore fine yachts
that all the American cities together on the
Lakes. He said that the inclinaticns OF Chicago
ran into base ball, with slight tendency
towards horse-racing. Yachting on the
Western Lakes is no great fun; for the squalls
such character that they can seldom be made
during a hard blow. A Western port looks to
| Eastern eyes like trough out OF horse-pond-
Some Of the Cleveland folks entertain the notion
that their great harbor in the future will be
| Rocky River, about seven miles from the city !;
! and there the imaginative propose to dig ont
great docks, and lot tho lake pass through solid
stone avenues to the said docks, and to put the
| manufactures around this new port, and relieve
Cleveland from the burden of coal and COM
merce.
THE HOLY PIG.
One Of the most enormous corporations begot-
ten in Cleveland is the Cleveland Rolling Mil
Company, Of which A. 3. Stone iR President
This concern comprises the Chicago Bridge COM
pany; rolling mills in Chicago and Decatur, ILL.,,
Cleveland and Newburs, o.; Bessemer steel
works ut Newburg enormous furnaces SO, 900
acres Of conl-land in Illinois and 3 large wire
mill near Cleveland, which constructs for Phila-
delphia Wire-Bprings to replace rubber in freight
cars.
A gentleman interested in Cleveland iron told
ne that it cost but 1913 q ton to make pig-iron,
and the price of it under the tariff was 354;
while nails worth $50 ton year ago are now
worth from 800 to 395. Theae.pricas may have
changed some little since the summer.
| Some few figures Will convey to you an idea OF
the rising business OF the Forest City: Three
hundred cars are said to run daily between
REGION laden with fuel and ore. The Standard
Oil Company, in Cleveland, refines 1000 barrels
per dion, which. at $50 barrel, makes $2l0,000
a day Of mineral value; and according to some
accounts, there are eight trains OF crude oil
coming into Cleveland day.
TIE OLD OHIO ADoL1TroN1sT5.
Cleveland il ono Of the banner cities Of the
Republican party; brt, during the past cleo
tion, everybody was perfectly good -hu1nored,
if he carried bull-pup Under his arm The
Btate gave it's most tre---endous Republican ma
jority during the war, when John Brough beat
Tallandigham by about l0o, ,oG0.
Ohio possesses some noble names in the his
tory cf tho country. Perhaps no man Of his
class had more stature, and is 80 nearly for
gotten, as Joshua Giddings. Many people who
are now living On the Republican pnEty were
dislikers of Glddings while he lived, and few
daughter married the Hon. George " Ju-
liam, who was Greeley champion in Indiana.
His sons reside in Jefferson, Ashtabula County,
and are lawyers of the usual class The Repub-
lican movement in the State of Ohio took
dimensions and organization soon after the year
ls4O Salmon P. Chase was in that year law
yer of Cincinnati, and be IVES an Anti-SlaVery
man as early as 1872. In TINT year DR.. Ganaliel
Bailey and Meesrs Lewis j. Chase were leaders
Of the Liberty party. Lewis died nearly twenty
years ago, after running for Governor in the
year 1886. In the years 1891, 1e42, and 1s43, the
greatest anti-negro mobs broke out in this
State. Giddings remained Wing until 1S48, and
voted in that year for Henry Clay: He made
carried it by from 1000 to 1000 votes. Gid
lings, Ben. Wade, and Rufus P. Ranney we're
all 1aw-partnerB in the Town OF Jefferson ; and
it is doubtful whether any legal firm in the
country ever contained three men Of such singu-
lar and unequal force and vigor- Ranney has
been considered for many years to be the leading
lawyer in Northern Ohio, and one Of the best
and most patriotic Democrats in the country.
mendous force, and, as Pleader, is
statement inyecti7e, and dissection. Dr..
Bailey who published the great organ
against Slavery, first at Cincinnati, and after
wards at Washington City, whose press WAS
thrown into the Ohio River, and whoge Office WAS
mobbed and his life threatened in Washington,
has left an interesting family, OF which the ladies'
aro now in Europe. and the o1dest son is sue
cessful practitioner OF patentclaw ii Wash
ington.
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER E11GRES.
Amongst the good-humored men whom Imet
at Cleveland was F. ". Greene, publisher Of tho
Plaindeoler. He related with good deal Of
humor how he, and Chauncey 0lds, and D: G.
Desney, voted, in 1854, for the repeal OF the Mis-
souri, Compromise.
The value Of the newspaper property N CleVe-
land has enormously appreciated. In 1860 was
offered either O. third OF q nall link on6-aa1
of the Cleveland Plaindealer for SO, 500. That
paper cannot now be purchased for $50, 900. The
Leader is stocked, believe, at 9a5o, 900, and its
proprietors also publish an evening paper, with
another name, deriving news botn from the
American and the Western Associated Press.
Out Of this city proceeded, in large part. TIE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Joseph Medin published the
Forest City in this city as early as'1652. He had
been preceded in the publishing interest BY the
Cleveland Gazette, which was issued as early as
1918. The present Cleveland Herald WAS pub
ished in 1873. The Forest city and True Demo
crat we're united in 1858, and the outire estab-
lshment in 1854 became the Cleveland Ledder
In 1865, acting in part upon the suggestion Of
Horace Greeley, Joseph Mediu left Cleveland
for the rising City of Chicago, and he, and John
Z. Vaughn, and Alfred CoWles engaged in the
enterprise which has passed through 50 many
memorable years of Chicago's afauenee. Vaughn
had been formerly publisher Of the Free An,e1s-
can, at Lexington, Ky, which paper moved to
Cincinnati afterward He is the father OF q
well-known literary lady by the'name of Virginia
Vaughn. ...--
sHER3IANs AND BROWNS.
The Sherman family is greatly occupied IN
holding Offices in the State Of Ohio. Charles T.
Sherman is United States Circuit Judge in Cleye-
land his ann in Assistant District ATTORNEY. and