Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-14

Ohinuahua.
II is now sttted that General Logan ba
certainly declined the Mexican mission.
n A COMPANY has been organized in spai.
10 lay telegraph line between Cuba ant
lhe United States.
A BOAT named John c. Heenan drifted
o ne ashore on the 18th at Port Maitland, c. W.
L in which two men were found dead.
A FIRE in GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 18th. de-
atroyed $4,000 worth of property; and one
In ottawa, Ill, destroyed buildings.
THE Boston, Hartford and Erie R. R. CO..
POratiUu hvid n -11evtirrs m 4s,-s,..,.. II -.
18th, and elected Board of Directors.
J GEN. scorr arrived at Key West on the
18th, and left for New Orleans. He will
spend the month of January at Key West.
A DrsFArcH from St. Louis, last night, says
navigation on the upper streams may be
! considered closed.
FoRTr thousand dollars worth of property
was destroyed by fIe in Detroit on the 18th
inst.
ACALIFoRSIA Judge has decided that legal
tender notes cannot be received for fines in
the county courts of that State.
A RESOLUTION was offered in the Senate
yesterday, looking to the employment Of a
reporter to prepare the reports Of the proceed
ings Of that body fer the associated press.
TIE pAste-OOard mills at South Dudham.
Mass, which were burned down about IL
months ago, were again destroyed by Ere on
the 18th Loss s2O.OeO.
ANOTHER murder was committed in Nash
vile on the 18th. The keeper of toll-gate
on the Lebanon pike was shot by band Of
robbers.
TIE government has realized but 1854
from the sale Of public buildings, dismantled
forts, &c, in the department of the District
of Columbia.
ONE branch Of tie Quartermaster's Depar'-
ment has discharged l,7OO employees since
last July, thereby reducing expens,s s
100000.
THE question has been raised in Sou h
Carolina whether debts incurred in the pur-
chase of slaves before the Emancipation
Proclamation teek effect are now collect
able.
GES. GRANT states that the negroes in the
South generally believe there is to be divis-
ion of land among them on Christmas. He
thinks the Southern people are sincere in
their professions ofloyalty.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, in declining the
United States senatorship from Georrfa.
made the sensible suggestion that men be
elected to office who ha not been identi-
fed with the Confederacy.
IT is understood that the Joint Congress
ional Committee on the death of Lincoln will
report in favor of holding memorial services
alT1UTuuI =, Z. ". stanton as ora
tor.
A LARGE fire took place at Cairo on the
18th. Nine dwelling houses on Commercial
avenue and 18th streets We're DESTROYED
loss $4,000. The boiler in the depot of the
Illinois Central Railroad, at Cairo, exploded
the same day, killing the engineer.
The first bill passed by Congress this
session is that prohibiting the importation
of foreign cattle to prevent the spread e t
disease. 1t now awaits the Presidents
signature.
The River street bridge Buffalo. broke
down on the 18th, letting into the water a {
drove of cattle and coal wagon. The '
horses were drowned, the driver badly in.
Iured, and a few Of the cattle were also =
drowned.
PROposITIoSs have heen submitted to the !
Senate to amend the Constitution by declar- :
ing the indissolubility of the Union, and
providing that no debt contracted by towns.
counties or States, in aid of rebellion, shall !
be assumed either by any State or the United
States.
MEXICAN news of the 2sth ult states that c
the Liberal General Dioza is reported 10 o
have been twice repulsed by the French a
forces in the District of Ignalto. The a
French hold Mazatlan. A dozen soldiers d
dressed in uniforms of the United States e
were captured by the 1mperialists. Il
The Fenian Congress opened in New York b
on the 18th. The new President, Roberts, "
sent in his address, in which he says the 81
present difficulties will serve to strengthen h
The organization. o'Mahony ordered the !,
out of doors which had called on
him for the books and papers ofhis Office :.
THERE is a rumor that Napoleon, short a.
lime since, asked of Seward the recognition
by the UnSed States of Maximilian's govss
srnment, on the ground that it had main :
aimed itself two years and was Titled to
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no ground for such recog gnition. That the n
pvvPiv of tho Unitei States were pledged :,
against it, and that the people of Mexico
have net yielded, and do not intend to yield r
obedience to Macmillan. cl
IN the Senate, yesterday, there was con- =
siJi14ativ ,yr.4 y
freedom Of the emancipated slaves, Mr.. Will u
son, of Massachusetts,, advocating it. Mr.. u
of Delaware, opposed it. Messrs. 3
Trumbull, Sherman and Cowan, while not "
opposed to the bill, regarded it as prema- s.
ture. They were doubtful of the right Of V
Congress to legislate on the subject until the I
adoption Of the Constitutional Amendment b
was officially announced. I
THK news from Europe is to the I'd. The Il
Fenian excitement in Ireland is on the in b
crease. Stephens, who escaped from D, b a
lin, is reported to have reached Paris. The :
keeper of his prison has been suspended and
committed for trial. The editor of the
Irish People has been sentenced to twenty t
years penal servitude. Captain Corbett who r
commanded the pirate Shenandoah wh,n
she first left England has been tried and
acquitted on the charge of violating the .
foreign enlistment act by selling the steam
boat to the rebels and enlisting men for her.
John Bright condemns the brutality of the
English officers in Jamaica
CERTAIN parties in Kentucky having been
indicted for treason in the Circuit Courts of
that State, and reprieved until the end tf
the present session Of the Legislature, the
Governor sends message to that body, re-
commencing general pardon of all who
stand indicted in the State Courts for the
crime of treason, based upon acts committed
in levying war within the State against the
government of the United States" In the
opinion of the Governor the structure of the
Government necessarily merges treason