Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-29
DAILY LEADER.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1865
THE NEW S.

Tar closing quotation of gold is not re
ported.
HoN. A. NJ. Harrington, Chancellor of tn,
State-Of Delaware, died suddenly in Wash
ington yesterday.
A RECRUITING Office for the Haytien navy
has been opened in New York. $50 pei
month is offered.
srPOoS, late rebel Secretary Of War, and
MeGrath, Of S. C., have been released from
confinement by order of the President.
iETHE Union Central Committee of Tennes-
see have addressed eongratulatory letter
to the people of New York on the result of
the recent election.
TIE citizens of New York intend to
pay off a mortgage of $4,000 on house
which General Grant has recently purchas-
ed in Washington.
THE South Carolina legislature organized
yesterday. The House elected a staunch
Union man Speaker. Gov. Holden has been
seriously i'll.
Gen Shepley has been appointed Supreme
Judge of Maine, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of Judge Wood
bury
0UR special dispatches from Washington
state that Colfax for Speaker and AIcPher-
son for Clerk will probably have no opposi-
hon.
IT is officially announced that the Gov
ernment has received no information what
ever of the reported difficulty on the Rio
Grande
A rOUNG man, whose name was supposed
to be J. Westcall, was run over and torn to
pieces by the cars at the Jersey City depot
night before last
IT has been decided to employ no work
men in the Brooklyn Navy Yard who have
not served in the army or navy, in the late
war.
NEW Methodist church in Brooklyn, n. |
Y, was blown down by violent gale which
swept over the city at midnight night be-
fore last.
AUG. BELMONT, agent for the Rothsehilds,
has put in a claim for the tobacco seized in
Richmond the other day by the Treasury
Department
FoRD's theatre, at Washington, has been
and turned over to the govern
ment in readiness to receive rebel relics and
archives.
a WAsHrXGToS dispatch says the Presi-
lent has devoted especial care in his mes
age to the Mexican question, but does not
interference on the part of the
United States.
FIVE days later news from Europe is
brought by the steamer Nova Scotian The
London Times begins to think the release of
he officers and crew of the Shenandoah was
ather too hasty proceeding on the part of
he British government, and disbelieves the
tatements made by Waddell. Napoleon
ras reduced the French army 1900 officers
md $4,000 men. The Emperor of Austria
will soon be crowned King of Hungary and
,rotia.
TnmrY-Two women on railroad train
rom Canada to the United States, the other
ay, had babies A shrewd government
eteetive aboard observed that they were
he quietest little bundles of juvenile hu-
nanity he ever saw, as not a peep was
Ieard from them on the journey. This led
Iim to investigate the baby question, which
esulted in the discovery that what were
opposed to be little dears, were tin cases
from five to ten gallons Of whis-
Y each. An ingenious method of SNUG ,
ling, truly.
The telegraph reports some lawlessness on
he part Of people living on the line of
he La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad in
as burning bridges tearing
p the track, &c. When the La Crosse and
Milwaukee and the Milwaukee and Prairie
u Chen roads were projected, the farmers {
long the lines gave mortgages on their
arms to the Companies, taking stock in pay
lent. These mortgages We're hypothecated, ,
nd funds raised TO build the roads. The !
arm mortgagors, it seems, have had the
IMPRESSION that the Railroad Companies $
-ere bound to redeem the mortgages, but
5 that has not been done. and the holders {
n many cases commenced foreelosing,
he farmers are venting their rage by com
litting acts of violence on the Railroads. !
he question has been an important one in
Y Wisconsin, entering more or less into every
lection, and this is not the first nor is lit
lkely TO be the last outbreak.