Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-22
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NEWS.
Gold closed Saturday at fS0.
Associated Press Report.
From New York.
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NEW YORK, January A---Mr. A. T. Stew
art IS the party upon whose affidavit the
publishers of the Police Gazette were arrested
yesterday. He charges. them with a gross
and malicious libel in the last issue Of their
paper IN sensation article purportin0 to
give the particulars of the sudden disap-
pearance of a Broad street broker and a lady
recently connected with the French Theatre
Ice Bridge of the st. Lawrence, u
The Herald's Montreal dispatch saws The
ice bridge of the st. Lawrence being formed
at all points has led Commander Sir ].
Mitchell to look after the state of the forts
Ihat at Prescott has had new guns mounted
ana heavy armstrong guns are being placed
in battery at Quebec.
Avafling Themselves of the Treaty.
great quantity of lumber is changing
hands at 0ttowa that it may 20 free into
the United States while the treaty is in
force. A Boston firm is making terms for
the carriage of two thousand car loads be-
fore the 18th of March. ~
Fire.
NEW YORK, January 21.-The storage
warehouse of Miller and Conger, No. 24S
and 249 South street and 4S3 and 4s5 Water
street, between Pike and Rutger streets,
was destroyed by fire last night. Loss
about S5OO,OO0. The building contained
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owned by various parties.
Gillian PriVateers.
A report says that the steamer which has
been fitting out here for sometime, has gone
to sea as Chilian privateer to prey onSpanish
commerce Three gunboats are also said to
De building for the Chillan government.
The DefnuIter, John A. Cooke.
John A. Cooke, late cashier of the CatskiIl
IN. ~ National Bank, is reported to be a
defaulter to the amount of 100000. Direc
tors of the Bank, it is added, have obtained
collateral securities enonnh= 20 cover dafalaa
The Reciprocity Treaty.
The Heralds Toronto special says The |
Goldman Trade Reviews profess to know |
that the United States Government con-
sented to renew the Reciprocity Treaty, if |
Canada viii raise provisional excise duties |
to American standard, and admit certain |
manufactures free and enlarge canals. The
United States bearing part of the expense, |
and the whole matter to be arranged by re- |
spective Legislatures without treaty.
Robbery.
Captain s. s. Smith. ex-confederate officer,
is under arrest at Toronto, on charge Of |
robbing an old man of 1000 in q. s. bonds |
at Windsor, where Smith keeps hotel.
Marine Disasters.
A Monroe letter of the 18th reports the
arrival of the ship Elvira Owen, from Phila-
delphia, December 18th, for Antwerp, with
a cargo Of petroleum. She had lost her
spars, was strained and shattered, and lost
500 barrels of oil, which were thrown over
board. She had six feet of water in the
hold. Ship and cargo are Insured.
The schooner Polite Martin, of Philadel
phia, was wrecked at Hatteras Inlet on the
7th. Captain Smith, of Camden, N. j., and
the colored cook were frozen to death. Two
others were rescued badly frozen, after re-
naming on the wreck five days. For the
last twenty-four hours they fed on the body Of
the negro cook.
Arrival of the Steamship Asia.
HALIFAX, January 2O.-The steamship
Asia, from Liverpool the moring of the 9th,
and Queenstown the 9TH, arrived here this
Her dates are two days later.
GREAT BRITAIs.-The Army and Navy
Gazette, referring to its announcement, last
week, of the reduction in the army,
says that at present what is already decided
upon is that each battalion in the United
Kingdom shall be reduced from twelve to
ien companies, and regiments abroad to be
reduced in like manner on their return
home. +
Bright's reform speech. at Rochdale, is uni
Tersally regarded by the press as a mcdif-
,ation of his reform demand, and as indica-
ing that he is prepared to accept such mod
rate measures as the Cabinet may be ex-
1ected to propose. His political enemies
,redit him with being far less offensive
han in any of his previous speeches.
FRANCE.-The weekly receipts of the Bank
# France show a decrease in cash on hand
# twenty-five millions of francs. The Bank
N the 4th, advanced it rate of discount one
Yer cent, making it per cent. ~ l.
The Senate and Corps Legislatif have !
,een summoned to assemble on the 22d of
January.
1t is stated that the opposition deputies
leld a meeting at Paris to consider their
curse Of procedure in the aPgT09aeIhihHlg sss
forts chiefly TO the Mexican question.
JAPAN-The Imfado of Japan has given
lis formal sanction to the ratification Of the / I
reaty for opening the ports of 0saca and '
siago and they were to be opened on the 1st I
f January, upon the terms of the existing I
arif with other open ports. /
In the London money market, notwith-
tanding the advance in bank rate to per
ent, the demand continued of dull char
cter. !
The Times city article attributes the con-
ition of the London money market to I
cries of unlimited consignments of goods,
n credit, to America, without any imme-
late returns, either in bullion or produce.
,nglish funds are rather steadier.
Barring Bres' circular says that American
ecurities, in common with all others, are e
oppressed.
The military revolt in Spain is not ex- q
ending. 1t is reported that General Prim e
the insurgents.
General News.