Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-02
General News Items.

The Empress Eugenie is reported sick
with Jealousy. Wild boy Louis.
An oil well producing so barrels dav,
was struck in Washington county, Ohio, on
the 18th inst. The oil is said to be Of a
superior quality.
The barbarous rebels put ifty-three bull
lets through q lady's white dress on a
steamer descending the Ohio the other day.
Happily the lady wasn't in it.
AT the mass meeting Of peace men at
Springfield, Ill, lately, they had printing
press in a wagon that struck of sheets con-
tanning the Wade-Davis manifesto and the
Peoria peace resolutions. Ben Wade and
Winter Davis have got into pretty COM
pany.
A strange story comes to US from Abys-
sinia. The emperor Of that so called Chris
tian country, it is said, has offered his hand
to the British Queen, and because an an
swer did not come as soon as he expected
he put Mr.. Cameron, the British Minister,
in chains.
Franz Muller, who was arrested in New
York few DAYS since. for the murder of
Mr.. Briggs, a retired London banker, in an
English railway carriage several weeks
since, was, on Wednesday last, taken be.
fore United States Marshal MURRAY, who
has him in custody until such times as the
London detectives can produce sufficient
evidence to warrant his delivery under the
Extladition treaty.
The St. Louis Republican SAYS Gan IN
terestiDg document is now in possession Of
General Fisk, commanding the district oi
North Missouri. 1t consists of an amnesty
oath and certificate found upon the body
of guerrilla, its owner, recently shot and
killed in the Northern part of this State
The ball which killed the guerrilla passed
directly through the broken oath of loyal
| ty. The bullet-torn paper is Indicative oi
the punishment in store for treason and
! perjury, as we'll as an evidence of the use
TO which the amnesty in Missouri has been
widely put"
A man named Peter Murray was
drowned in vat containing only three
feet Of liquor, on Monday last, in Boston
1t is stated as fact that the liquor was Sc
1 poisonous that the owner of the distillery
in attempting to descend into the vat K
rescue Murray, Immediately tainted away
and almost met the fate of his employee
The dead body could only be taken out by
the use Of hooks.
The Fremont Radicals of New York ar,
agitating State Convention, to be heit
at some central point in September, prims
/ rily to advance the interests of Genera
| Fremont and further, as the Principle
says, to substitute some other name fo
Viee-President in place of John Cochrane
A man named George Mason, from Gov
ington, Ky7 was arrested at Cincinnati OF
Sunday; fer conspiring with another to as
ssssinAte Gen. Burbridge, the commando
OF the department.
Hood IS described BY recent deserte
from the rebel commissary department a
q white-headed, homely, spindle-shankeC
fellow, about thirty-two years of age, anl
over six feet tall; had been pretty vel
hacked to pieces--one leg gone, an arm
useless, lot of bruised ribs and broker
?, collar-bone. He further said that, il wha
was supposed 10 be dying state, after tn
battle of Chickamauga Hood was bsptizet
by blshop 1OlilT Aud Inab since InaL TIN
neither an oath or a glass of liquor hai
passed his lips and that his whole cDnduc
has been strictly Christian-like -t
The Richmond Wing says there is \
money in the hands of Msjor Amblel
Paymaster for the sick and wounded so
diers, and consequently the sick and wound
ed whe are receiving furloughs, and t
whom there is due six months pay, al
obliged to 60 TO their homes without
cent. The Wing thinks the Confederat
Treasury department is wasting time i
trying to get up their notes in too fine
style, and suggests that any kind of
piece of paper with the handsome phiz (
: any great rebel on it and the signatures
two beauteOus young women viii answ'
every purpose.