Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-06
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An Indiana female has been fined one
cent by a Jury for cOwhidihg her defamcr:
Bihihger's extensive Idour establish.
ment in New York, was destroyed by fire
Thursday. The loss is not stated.
Senior Domingo Dulce, the Captain Cen
eral of Cuba, is to be removed on the l0th
inst,
In boring for oil in bunksrd Township.
Green County, Pennsylvania, a vein OF
ouartz was struck. Containing gold. A
{@iupret was ahalyzed in Philadelphia, and
found to contain gold over twenty carats
| fine. The vein is three feet thick. People
in the n~eighborhood are specializing wildly
in consequence.
Captain Girarde, of Augusta, Georgia,
has invented an engine by which he man
uFactures ice rapidly and of the finest
quality. He supplies the city of Augusta,
and a v hat when his establishment Is
perfected and in full. operation, he can fur
nish ice at one cent per pound
The Senate Chamber and Hall of Rep
resentatives are now being fitted up pre-
haratorv 10 the assembling Of Congress.
FHe Library foohis are also being; enlarged
nv the removal of the partition from
between the Library and old Committee
rooms.
Cooper Institute, Nsw York, is selfsup-
porting, the income for rents being about
$4,000. The gallery contains 400 pic
lures, the library 1000 volumes, and the
reading room $50 newspapers, besides peri
odicals. The School of Design, a leading
feature iii the institution, numbers at pres
ent about 200 pupils. The scientific de-
partment is supplied with valuable philO-
sophical and chemical apparatus. The
night school, which opened Oct. I'd, with
about 1900 pupils, is a very interesting
and admirable feature.
Extensive discoveries of copper ore have
been made at the summit of South Noun
tain, Washington county, Maryland. The
extent of this ore has not yet been fully
determined, but indications are most salts
factory. The ore occurs in the quartz,
and has the color of gross pite, and an
analysis by the Agricultural Department
in Washington, shows it to be almost pure
copper.
The now financial nGnnnV; ~ NJ VI
city, at 81 Broadway, established for the
negotiation Of tile loai Of thirty millioh
dollars to the Mexican republic, was for
mally inaugurated on Thursday, there be-
ing present on the occasion a large number
of American and Mexican gentlemen OF
distinction. The rooms were handsomely
decorated, a collation. was partaken of and
speeches were made by Mr.. Romero, Pres
ident Juarez's Minister in Washington
General Wallace, Robert Dale Owen, S. S.
Cox, of Ohio, and others.
A significant announcement is made in
our Washington dispatches, to the effect
that the War Department has ordered a
stop to be put to the sales of all manner
of army transportation mGterieL. Though
large quantities of this necessary adjunct
of military movements have already been
disposed of since the termination of the
rebellion, there is still a considerably sup.
ply remaining in possession of the Gov
eminent, for which it would appear Gen.
eral Grant and the Secretary think We
may have use.
Fuad Pacha has, TO the surprise of man.
kind, persuaded the Ulemos (Bishops) Oi
Turkey, to give up to the use, of the State
il large portion OF the surplus PROPERTY
that had accumulated in their hands fol
the endowment of Mosques, Khans, Car
avanserais, fountains, wells, &c, for the
use of religion, or the benefit Of the pool
and of travellers. The Pacha's success in
this is the more remarkable seeing that he
himself, is regarded as little better thar
an unbeliever, while the most piOus deyo
tees had hitherto failed in the reform
The amount thus conceded is about
100000 900.
Captain Hawthorn, who was a passenger
on the steamship Republic, Captain Young
which left New York for New Orleans on
the 18th ult., and was driven ashore on
the Georgia coast during the recent tenn
pestuous weather on the 25th and sunk
gives a brief but very interesting state
ment of the calamity. The Republic had
on board altogether seventy-four persons
of whom thirty @erg passengers. Of these
all but two, who remained on the wreck,
were distributed among four boats and a
raft which put off from the sinking vessel
Of these three boats, containing together
fifty-three persons, are reported as having
safely reached shore, though, from some
obscure kilograms in reference to the mat
ter, it is impossible to decide positively
whether more than two boats, with forty
persons, have been heard from. Captain
Hawthorn was in command of oneo of these
boats, carrying twenty-thres of the uhfor-
~tunates, and arrived at Port Royal, South
Carolina, after being tossed on the waves
for two days aid nights, on the 9th ult.