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

GOLD closed last night at 146I.
WAR has been declared between Spain an
Chilli
THAr the French troops will shortly evs
euate Mexico, is again positively asserted i
the foreign news.
D. R. ASHLEY, Republican, is elected t
Congress from Nevada The election ther
took place on the 7th inst.
HoS. JACOB CoLLAMER, U. S. Senator from
Vermont, died in Woodstock, Vt, night be
fore last.
WN- JOHNSON, only brother of the Presi
dent died on the 9th inst, at Galveston
Texas, from the effects of an accidental gun.
shot wound
TIE wives of Fenian prisoners have pub
lished an appeal to the women of Ireland
for assistance, setting forth their great des-
titution.
TIE business of the Provost Marshal's bu-
reau is being wound up as rapidly as posi-
ble- 1t is supposed Congress viii abolish
this branch of the military service.
AT Alexandria, Va, a fracas- occurred ve,s-
terday between q. S. Paymaster and
Virginian, in which the paymaster was
mortally wounded.
OLIVER MARTIN and Jas. Norman were
picked up at sea on raft, the only survi-
VIvors Of IA who attempted to save them
selves from the wreck of the steamer Re-
public.
The eOroner's jury in the St. John case
have closed their inquiry. They fail to cen
sure any of the officers, or other persons. as
having been responsible for the disaster. II
was proven that the boilers were defectiv.
that ehisel-eut, made while cauIkiue had
further weakened them, and that they were
not capable of resisting the hydrostatfc
pressure to which they had been subjected.
THE rebellion in Jamaica is reported to be
ABOUT at an end. The principal leaders
have been captured and dealt with in a
summary manner. The refined sensibilities
OF the English people will undoubtedly re-
eeive fearful shock, when the operations,
IN a Jamaica port, of one of their naval
officers are made known at home That gal
liant representative of the most christian
nation in the world, dispersed a collection
OF about 500 women and children, so the |
dispatch says, by exploding 23-pound shells
n their midst.
HENRY WIRz was hung in Washington,
yesterday, between the hours of 10 and IL |
o'elo the forenoon. Our regular eve
nlng dispatches gjgEHse jgEHeGERti6n EBIti N was witnessed
6y a few hundred people, besides the mill
tary on duty, and representatives of the
press. The condemned bore himself with |
remarkable irmness, evincing no signs of |
fear, The charges on which he was convict
ed, and which, with the findings Of the |
eourt-martial and orders ef the. Pres
ident, were read to him, accusep |
him of combining, eonspiring and con- |
with JEFF. Davis, seddon, |
Cobb, Winder, and others, who were engaged |
in armed rebellion against the United |
States, and maliciously and in violation of
the laws of war impairing and injuring the |
health and destroying the lives of federal |
prisoners at Andersonville, n-'64 and '65,
to the number of Al, 900, by subjecting them |
to torture in a variety of ways. Wirz' last
words words were: +" am innocent.
have to die, but I can die like a man.
have hope in the future, and have no
more to say" So ended the life of Wirz,
the instrument of Davis and Lee, murder
ers yet unhung.
A COMMITTEE appointed for that purpose
waited on the President yesterday and pre-
sented him with a copy of the proceedings
of the Convention of North Carolina, 0rdi-
nances, &c. The chairman of the ,Conven-
ton, in presenting the documents, alluded
to their contents in a speech of some length,
averring that North Carolina had unre-
servedly returned to her loyalty, and earn
estly desired recognition by the Govern
ment; also asking the abolition of the test
oath. The reply of the President is impor-
tant, foreshadowing, as it does, his future
policy. He informed the committee that it
was necessary their State should adopt the
amendment to the Constitution abolishing
slavery, in order to render her restoration
Immediately practicable; and further, that
Provisional Governor Holden would be in
structed to continue in the exercise of his
Office until expressly relieved by orders from
Washington. This declaration, taken in
connection with the dispatch of Secretary
Seward to the Governor Of South Carolina,
gives definite character to the policy which
will govern the administration; namely,
that the late elections in the South will be
disreearded, and reconstruction will be re-
quired on a more radical basis.