Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-28
LEADER.
tbs Jay, NOYEMBER % 1865.
THE NEWS.
CON closed last night at 1473.

: iate georgia Convention, IS IN Washington
THE murderer of General McCook is to be
executed at Huntsville, Alabama next
Friday.
PRESIDENT PIERCE is reported to be slowly
recovering from his illness, and is con
sidered out of danger.
TIE rebel Gen. Elliott, who defended Fort
Sumter against Gen. Gilmore's attack, has
been pardoned.
EGEN. GRANT arrived at Richmond, Va,
yestefSay afternoon and took quarters at
the Spotswood House.
A COUNTERPART plate oflO-4O United States
Bonds, well executed. has been seized by the
Treasury Department
! A FREScH Republican club has been or
ganized at Montreal for the purpose of ad-
voeating the annexation of Canada to tkai
United States
GENERAL LOGAN says he will decide
whether he will accept the Mexican mis-
sion, when he arrives in Washington, about
the first of December.
4 LEADING member of the Congressional
Finance Committee intends urging a reduc-
tion of government taxes one hundred mil
lions.
AcoLoRED clergyman has just returned
from England on a mission to collect funds
in aid of the freedmen. He collected $780,
GEO.
REWARD of one thousand dollars is Of
fered by the Adams Express Company for
the apprehension of Rudolph T. Dodge,
charged with robbing that company.
TIE New Workers have petitioned the
President to appoint Henry A. smythe, of
the Central National Bank, to the collector
ship Of the port Of that city.
Mosr of the locomotives, cars and rail |
road iron owned and used by the govern
ment during the war, have been sold to
Southern railroads.
As but few credentials of members of
Congress have been received, either from
the Southern or Northern States, the Clerk |
of the House has not prepared list ofmem-
bers.
THE item in our dispatches this morning
to the effect that Preston King did not COM
NIT suicide, but is still alive, though insane,
in a retreat known to few friends, is eyi-
IDENTIFY a canard.
NuTISY took place iE she 5th Q. S. col
ored troops, stationed at Savannah, recent
ly. The Lieut. Colonel of the regiment was
wounded, and several of the mutineers were
shot.
WOMAN in New York has brought suit
against chemical manufacturing house to
recover damages for the loss of her son,
whose death is alleged to have been caused
by the inhalation of carbonic acid while in
the employ of said house.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx lectured at Philadel-
phia night before last. Subject, his recent
trip across the continent. In the course of
his lecture he spoke of the Republic of
Mexico-calling it the Republic, because he
no rightful Empire there, which
sentiment was vehemently applauded. :
YENDERs of soda water have been in
formed by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue that the tax of six per cent. levied !
On all such manufactured beverages cannot
be remitted, whether they buy their foun-
aims already charged with carbonic acid gas
'r hire person to charge them, as they
ire considered manufacturers or producers.
IMPROBABLE as it may appear, it is yet )
stated as a fact by the Treasury Department, c
hat more wheat, hams and bacon were ex- I
ported to foreign countries from the United |
States in 1925, than in 1S5S-9-6O-not-
we had a million of men in /.
he army, great proportion of whom were
withdrawn from agricultural pursuits. /
ADvICEs from Vera Cruz to the 18th state t
hat business is unsettled, distrust prevails,
md Maximiliau's power is daily lessening.
'uebla has been selected as the depot of :
upplies for the Imperialist forces, and is T
,arrisoned by Austrian soldiers. The En- d
,ress has gone to Yueatan. Her reception c
long the route was tame, except at Vera
'ruz, where it was quite grand. The Em-
,erOr follows her in January. The Liberals,
900 strong, are encamped ten miles from !
datamoras.
A GRAND banquet was rendered by the t
capitalists of Eastern Pennsylvania to Hon. c
lisa Parker, at Bethlehem, Pa, on Thursday
asst. Its Immediate cause was Mr.. Parker's :,
nunifcent gift to the cause of education of I
ifty-seven acres ofland adjoining the lovely 4
,illage of Bethlehem, and $500, 900 in o
money, to build and endow Polytechnic f
chool. Among those present were Senator a
Ramsey of Minnesota, General Diven, Col
= W. Forney, Hon. Morton Nc Michael, y
Henry C. Carey and Daniel Dougherty. n
Az attempt was made to rob the safe in k
he Treasurer's office of Sandusky county, b
1t Fremont, about two o'clock last Sunday
morning The burglars blew the safe door
'pen with powder. A man living near by
heard the explosion, guessed the cause, and n
vent to the Treasurer's house and woke b
lin up. The two, reinforced by several o
leighbors, hurried TO the office, but the b
burglars had escaped, having been warned
1y the whistle of pretended drunken fell .
ow on the watch, who was arrested. He /.
proved to be machinist who was working f
in the town, and was let off but disappeared v
the next day. The safe contained $4,000, e
which the robbers did not get, but would i
have secured in a few moments more. i
The Result in the Reserve.
The official returns of the vote at the
October election in this State, which we S
published yesterday morning, demonstrate I
a very material falling off in the Union
maiorities on the Reserve The following !
table exhibits the exact amount of that /
decrease, as compared with the Union {
majorities for President in 1864:
u Mai. 1864. U. Mai. 1865 Decr'se
Ashtabula =. 5,015 3,l0S 1907
3,IS2 2,I3S I,O4
... $40 800 800
Lake -. 2,199 I,475 722 {
tIeauga .... 2.495 l,675 $50
Portage. 1,56O 92l 639 |
Summit ... 1859 l,34l LO2s ,
CuyahOga ... 4,iS3 l,663 2,470
Mcdina.... 1926 SS5 All
7 Grain - 2 936 SOC l36