Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-30
THE NEWS,
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II Gold closed last night at 1454.
COuETERFE1T SIS on the Central Bank o
Brooklyn are in circulation in New York.
The pirate Semmes has arrived at Wash.
ington and is a nriAA-.-- = A. - . al a
= The English papers speak in favorable
terms of President JOhnsOn's message.
A national Sorghum Convention is in
session at Washington. VIM. Clough, of
Ohio, is Chairman.
A FINE steamboat depot and telegraph
Office were burned at GrOton, R. /, Thurs
day night. Loss $1,OOO,OOO.
HEAVY rains in Georgia have so raised the
streams as to wash away several importsnt
railroad bridges. r
TIE banking house of Smith & Co., Du-
quine, Ill, was robbed of $4,000 Thursday
night.
Two fires in La Crosse, Wis, Thursday
night, destroyed number of buildings, the
post Office, and foundry. Loss $4,000.
J. G. GRAHAM, father-in-law Of General
Meade, died suddenly Of hears ai..~-- yo-
terday, in Boston.
IN Washington no political Importance is
stSoehed 70 tho risit of General Schofeld to |
Europe. He is said to be abroad merely on
Al ordinary leave Of absence. iaI6f
TIE Cumberland river is on bendsr-is
very high, thirty-fv feet on the shoals and
still rising. At Nashville the only means
Of crossing is in skif. Preparations are
making to rebuild the suspension bridge.
An ice-hood in the west branch of the
susquehanna river is doing immense dam
age. Many million feet of logs have been
washed from the lumber regions Of Penn=
syIvaniA- e- ~ ~. 1
Hos. VIZ. H. SEWARD, his daughter, and
Col. Clarence A. Seward and wife, are soon
to visit foreign parts. The New York Herald
says their passports have been made out at
the State Department. rgEa II
GEoRGErowS, in the District of Columbia,
has held special election to ascertain the
sense of the people on negro suffrage. Of
! ZOO ystes cast only one was in favor of
suffrage. AI A-aA 45-Es
Ak important order has been issued from
he Var Department. providing for the dis +;
,hargeof all civilians employed at military !
posts, where their duties can be performed
oy soldiers. kE E !.
BosrON people intend presenting General
irant an elegant library as soon as he Occu-
,ies his new home; and the New Yorkers
re raising 100000 as testimonial, $75, 900
f which have already been subscribed. IN
een received from Morehead City, N, c., \
f the wreck of the steamer Constitution, b
rom Savannah for New York, with fifty Il
,ur persons aboard, all of whom were lost
kept fourteen of the crew. 4
A STATE Convention of colored people is
a session at Baltimore. They have passed
giving some excellent advice to n
he people of color not only of Maryland but =
+ all the Southern States. - b
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE is reported as say II
lg that he will try JEFF. Davis whenever p
Is ease is on the docket, but under no cir q
lmstances will he try him in Virginia 80 y y
ing as that State is occupied by the mill ;r
ary. 2 z. ti - CT
ASoTHKR item of expense to be charged to a
lie rebellion is the wear and tear of carpets -
! the Attorney Generals Office at Washing
N, on account Of the tramping of the null
tude of pardon-seekeFs { He states this as ia
reason why an appropriation should be
Iade for contingent expenses. zH rs
AEoNe the rumors from Washington is one a'
the effect that an understanding has been \,
rived at between the United States and W
rance on the Mexican question, according in
which Napoleon is to withdraw the Of
reneh troops leaving Msximilian to his "
En resources, |, and the United States is to d'
revent any interference in Mexican affairs
= Americans. Another rumor states, SO
ell satisfied is the President with our for -,
gn and domestic relations that he has de- in
rmineda on reducing the army still fur of
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