Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-16
NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
COUNTRY.
Gold last night closed t47.
Associated Press Report.
From New York.
Quarantine.

QUARANTINE, November 15.-Dr. Wind
burn, the health officer, thinks he will b,
| able to permit the steamer Persia to go t,
her dock and land passengers tonight, ol
| early tomorrow morning. There is NJ
sickness on board of the vessel, but as there
are few passengers from Paris he has or
dered the baggage to be fumigated before
allowing them to land or the steamer to &c
| in to her dock.
King.
New YORK, November 15.-0n Monday
morning Mr.. King went TO store and pur-
chased a twenty-five pound bag of shot
and didn't want it sent to his room, saying he
would take it himself. He is supposed tc
have placed it in bis clothing before he
jumped overheard. Hopes are entertained
that the body may be recovered.
Mcclellan.
General Mcclellan is not passenger by
the Persia.
The Persia and Bavaria were allowed to
come in to the dock this afternoon.
Verdict.
A verdict has been given in the Supreme
Court against certain lottery dealers to the
amount of nearly 100000. The suit was to
recover for advances made to lottery men.
The Japanese corvette Fusyans, built
here, made a passage to Rio JaneirO in
twenty-eight days, en- route to Japan.
French Canadians.
The convention of French Canadians at
the St. Charles Hotel opens tonight, at
eight o'clock. .s
The plan of the meeting is to form an or
ganization throughout the country, with
headquarters in New York, with the view
to promote the interests of the French
Canadians of this country and Canada.
The delegates from Rochester, 0swego and
Syracuse, New York, Springfield and Wor-
cester, Massachusetts,, Detroit and Chicago,
have arrived here.
Among the delegates is the French Cana
dian writer DR.. J. Cadeux, of Elmira. N. Y.
The meeting bids fair to be largely attended
and to solicit some spirited discussions.
Among the resolutions to be presented by
DR.. Cadeux is the following:
ReSolUed, That in the name of fourteen
thousand French Canadians who have paid
with their lives their homage to holy hber-
ty and for which they fought in the late
American war, we emphatically deny that
mercenary ideas were the only motives that
caused us to barricade the American Ma
tional Capital with our breasts and pro-
claim to the world that we are not only
proud to have shown our adopted citizens
that we are worthy of the liberty we enjoy,
but we sOlemnly assert that we will ever
be ready to rally to the defence of this re-
republic.
Taxes.
The Commercials special says that Secre-
tary of the Treasuary is considering the
best method of promptly collecting the di
rect tax of 1861, due by Southern States.
He has refused the application of South
Carolina to assume her quota, to be paid in
one year.
New York politicians are beginning to
arrive, and wires busily at work for appli
cants for vacant collectorship.
Attempted Murder.
The Savannah Herald of the 1lth states
that Sam. Whaley, a freedman, in the latter
part of last month, attempted to shoot Rev.
George H. Eaton, Superintendent of freed
men on st. Helena Island. Whaley was in
stantly shot by several freedmen. Hope
mUIntosl., ahattnr of Whaley's, was shut
up in the Savannah jail
Eighty freed people arrived in Savannah
from st. GATHERINGS and 0sabaro islands.
They left there with all their household
furniture and crops, and the islands were
surrendered to the owners.