The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-09
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The roioubtable ex-Msjor General Fitz
John Porter was al the late Iowa Demo
cratic Convention.
The Oopperheads of Dubuque county,
Iowa, have renominated D. A. Mahopy for
Sheriff. Comment is unnecessary. Hemp
stead, their candidate for County Judge,
had 8 son in the rebel army.
Colonel S. G.. Van Anda, nominated for
Lieutenant Governor by the lows Copper
heads, on what they call 8 "SOldiers'
ticket" declines the dishonOr, and pledges
himself 10 support the Union ticket.
There seems 10 bs no doubt but that
Colonel Alexander q. Bullock will receive
the Union nomination for Governor of
Massachusetts,. The most prominent
names mentioned for Lieutenant Governor
are VIM. ClsHin, of Newton, and Moses
Kimball, of Boston.
An election took place in California, on
Wednesday, for supreme judges and mem
bers of the Legislature. The Legislature
elect viii choose q successor to United
States Senator McDougall. No returns
hAve as yet been received. The contest
was mainly between different divisions of
the Union party. i1a-F si % i77
In lows, where negro suffrage is at issue
between the parties, it is reported that out
of LOCO negroes in that State, $50 volun-
teered for the war, while out Of 10000
~Ccpperhesds but seventeen enlisted; and
for this, IS we'll as the fact that $50 negro
enlistments enabled $50 COpperheAds to
stay at home and vote, say nothing about
ssqing the lives of two hundred of them,
it is argued that the Co~pperheads are very
ungrateful in opposing universal suffrage.
The Minnesots Union State Convention
met at st. Paul on Wednesday. Mark Il.
Dunnell, or WInoha, was selected as PresI-
dent. General Marshall wis nominated
for Governor, on the twenty-second ballot.
The resolutions adopted favor negro suf-
frsge and advocate an ultimately lower
rate of interest on the national indebted
ness.
The Wisconsin Union Stata CnnEantion
met at Madison on Wednesday. Major M.
L. Martin, of Green Bay, was chosen Pre-
sident. General Fsirchild was nominsted
for Governor; Lieutenant Governor
Spooner was renominated; Colonel T. s.
Allen was nominated for Secretary of
State, and w. e. Smith for State Treasurer.
The Committee on Resolutions made two
reports, the msjority report saying nothing
about negro suffrage, while the minority
report advocated it. After q debate which
was continued until Thursday, the majority
report was adopted.
Official Reports OF h Progress Offhe
Cholera.
Advices have been received at the State
Department at washington of the progress
of the cholera. Under date of August 18th,
1865, the United States Consul at Port
Mahon informs the Department that there
is now at the quarantine q Turkish steamer
which left Alexandria, Egypt with eigh-
LeeH hundred PEil6riHs, @0d arrived at
Port Mahon with but twelve hundred and
eighty. Five hundred are reported as
having died N route from the effects of
Asiatic cholera. The captain of the vessel,
on arriving at Port Mahon, reported to
the authorities that there were no conta-
gious or other diseases on board, but, upon
examination of the steamer by the qusrsn-
tine officers, deal bodies in an advanced
state of decomposition were found. The
captain pleaded ignorance of it, and aver
red that he was not aware that any such
cases existed. This statement, however, is
not credited, and the five hundred not &C.
counted for may have persisted from the
cholera. Very little faith is placed in his
statements, and the discrepancy of the re-
port with the facts as developed leave i
it in great doubt The Consul reports that
all mails and dispatches from quarantine
are now delivered. Reports received at
Port Mahon concur In the opinion that the
UhUl1r1 is gradually progressing Westward
ly. The Consul reports that thus far the
G GAS9elkeggaa has gf9slglfRYHad The R QllgSggfa EhfaH ASe
religion does not allow them, while passing
TO and from Mecca, to sleep in beds, to
wash or TO eat any warm food. They are
covered with filth and vermin, and are
spreading disease all over the Mediterrs-
mean.
The United States Consul at Palermo,
under date of August l4tb, informs the
Department that owing to = serious spread
of the cholera at Ancons, where alresdy
some eight hundred people have died, and
isolated cases having also happened in 9TH
er towns of Italy, France and Spain, the
local authorities have imposed seven days
of quarantine on all arrivals from French,
Italian and Spanish ports including Glib
raltsr.
Port Mshon is 8 fortified town Of Spain,
capital of Minorcs, one of the BaIearic
Islands, on its south side. It is the resi-
oence of the Military Governor and of
the Bishop of Minorca. Its Pct is one
of the best and most commodio9 in the
Mediterranean 8
A letter TO the Chronicle, dated Constan.
tinOple, August 18th, states that the ehol-
era is increasing in its rsvsgeA -Four
hundred persons are buried every day and
the population is fleeing to the mountains:
There is a wholesale depopulstion of the
lAboring classes. The scenes, IS described
by the correspondent IS taking place in
OonstRntinople, are terrible beyond con
ceptlon. Much of the mortality is in con-
sequence OF poor and insufficient food.
TeIkiBg short and Talking strong.
Mr.. Crawford, member of the Mississippi
State Convention, from the County of
Jones, which, during the wal, being q
Union county, seeded from the
State and set mp for itself, spoke as follows:
Mr.. President-Sir-I have come up here
to express the feelings of my constituents
on this great subject. 1 came up here, sir,
10 represent nay constituents where 1 come
from. People boot and wink on the
streets, and ssy, There goes messy back
rom Jones'" but, sir, 1 have no prejudices;
am disposed to treat my enemies in a
more christian a more missionary spirit
han they trea toll me. 1 am a mossy.back, |
ii, and l stand here to-day to represent
County OF Jones, other wise known as
he free State of Jones. But let not peo-
,le think 70 ms uIs "a ~ish inruni.r-