Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-25
The Mayor and Common Council Of
Washington Getting into Trouble.
General Grants Christmas Gift
Associated Press Report.
From New York.
To PreyentFraud.

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New YoRK. December 24.-Isaac B. We'd
/ der, Esq., special inspector of the Navy De-
partment, is now engaged in inaugufating
a new system of navy accounts, by which
it is expected to prevent any future frauds
on the Government. He has visited the
navy yards at Philadelphia and Boston,
where the new system has been successfully
Introduced, and is now discharging the same
duty at the Brooklyn navy-yard.
Attempt to Murder.
A startling case of an attempt to commit
murder, and a subsequent attempt to com
nit suicide, transpired in Brooklyn last
evening. The parties in the affair have
heretofore occupied the highest positions in
the estimation Of their friends. and the char
acter of the lady is still unimpeached.
Their names are W.. H. Russ, a book keeper
in the office of the Mexican National Loan
Company, in this city, and Miss Francis NJ.
Dayton, native of Washington, litchfeld
county, Conn The former, lover of the
latter, thinking he had been deceived, or
made insane by some unknown cause, while
walking with the lady near her residence,
suddenly drew revolver and fired four
shots at her, wounding her severely in the
head, and then turning the weapon upon
himself fired two shots into his own skull,
Thinking the woman dead he then ran to the
river and threw himself into the water, but
afterwards escaped from it, and was finally
arrested. When taken into custody he had
the weapon still in his possession, and his
wounds were bleeding profusely. The young
lady is not expected to survive. Russ was
conveyed to the hospital. His wounds are
not considered dangerous.
Postage Stamps.
The Uerald's Toronto special says an
agent of our Post Office Department and Che
United States Consul at Toronto, Canada,
have recently found in bond in the Custom
House in that city $4,000 worth of United
States three cent postage stamps, Of the con-
signment of which to a house there by the
rebel agents-in Liverpool our Government
received information in August last. It is
supposed the stamps were captured by the
pirate Florida. An injunction on. the
stamps has been Cotton out, and it is ex-
pected that the question of their proprietor
ship will be shortly argued before Cana
dian court s7t g -. +, Ma
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NEW YoRK, December PA charge of
scandalOUs Outrages, on the part of the
members of Fenian Circle in Jersey City,
was yesterday made by man named Ohas.
W. Newman, living in that town. He al
legese that he was seized on the street, on
Friday night, dragged into Fenian lodge
room, charged with being British spy, put
upon trial and subjected to various indigni-
ties. During a struggle which ensued he
succeeded in making his escape.
Under Adviseme1t.
New YoRK, December 24-A dispatch
from Washington says: Strong efforts have
been made, within few days, by parties to
have the Secretary of the Treasury issue
United States bonds to the Pacific Railroad
Company, for the alleged completion of
twenty-five miles of the Road west from
Lawrence, Kansas. Protests have also been
entered against their issue and the whole
matter is now under advisement.
Cholera. a.
The Tribune's letter from Constantinople,
November oath, says: Cholera continues to
rage in the interior of Asatic Turkey. At
Aleppo, Marash and 0dona it has been
as malignant as in Constantinople. 1t is
said that ! 1000 died in Aleppo of the epide-
mic and it has again just broken out there
anew. In Constantinople and in most of the
cities of Turkey there are still spasmodic
cases, but nothing like an epidemic. The
locusts are so abundant, ip Syria. that It is
feared the pestiIence there will be followed
by famine. AT Aleppoi wheat has already
doubled in price. -" seNil '''' ''.D, b