Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-19
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PARK GoDw1x, one of the editors of the n.
Y. Eueaiag Post, sailed for Europe Saturday.
TITUsvILLB held its first city election on
Saturday. J. NJ. Angler was elected Mayor.
A STRIKE Of the iron moulders in Albany,
y. Y, was inaugurated Saturday last.
NAVIGATION between New York and Al
bany opens to-day.
A Young man in New York, Saturday, got
rid of his mother by blowing her brains out,
aecidentIy, while handling pistol.
THE Reciprocity treaty between the Uni
ted States and the British Provinces expired
at u o'clock midnight Saturday.
DISPATCH from Fortress Monroe states
that beautiful mirage occurred there Fri
day afternoon, lasting half an hour.
GEN. GRANT has appointed Col. Eli Baker
to be his Chief-of-staff, in place of the late
Col. 7. S. Bowers.
TIE excellence of American iron-clads is
a subject Of earnest discourse in England
just now.
GEN. GRANT has instructed department
commanders to reduce the number of vol
unteer organizations in their commands.
BIZ the steamer Germania we have Liver
pool dates to the 7th and the latest news
from all parts Of the old world.
A UyrTED STATES revenue cutter is re-
ported to be closely watching the Fenisns
of Ogdensburg.
THERE are 10000 regular troops and H.
600 volunteers in Canada, besides $4,000
armed militia. Reinforeements are ex-
pected from England.
The President has sent to the Senate the
nomination of General Frank P. Blair, as
Collector of Internal Revenue for the First
District of Missouri.
The charter election in Meadville took
place last Friday. VIM. Reynolds was
elected Mayor, and Henry McCloy High
Constable.
ALL the stage lines and express companies
west of the Missouri rives, have been con-
solidated under the name OF HslIiday's
Overland Company, and the fare reduced
twenty-five per cent.
A FRu1rLrss attempt was made to rob a
banRin Schuylkill, N. Y, on Friday night,
by three burglars. They left in such
hurry as to abandon span of horses which
they had taken with them to the village.
FvE-TwExTIEs are looking up in Ger
many. When news reached there that gold,
in this country, had fallen to 1S7, they
went up to "A cents, and it is expected they
will reach so cents when news is received
that gold has gone down to l3O.
TRrcHSIA, or some other epidemic, has at
tackled the livery horses of New York city.
It is supposed to have been caused by con-
tact with army horses. Probably the bet
ter explanation is to be found in Sunday af-
ternoon fast driving.
Our dispatches from New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Montreal, Toronto, Titusville,
Washington and other cities show that St.
Patrick's Day wS celebrated more gener-
ALLY and with moro parade than ever be-
fore in this country and Canada.
JuAREz and his army of twenty -five7
slipped into the city of chihuahua On the |
heels of the departure of the French and oc-
cupied it twenty days, when the French re-
turned, and he skedaddled to El Passo once |
more.
Gov. WELLS, of La, refuses TO give GER
tificates of election to Monroe, rebel mayor !
elect and other city officers, and they in |
turn have applied to Gen. Candy, COM
manding the District who has taken their |
papers and promised to overhaul them, see
how matters stand and render decision.
In response to resolution of the House
calling for information, Secretary Mecul- |
loch transmitted a statement showing the
amount of money in the Treasury, from
which it appears that the balance in the
Treasury, is sl29, 42S, SIS 81, consisting of coin
and currency, of which sum s21, ,7sO, ,sss 55
is in deposit in national banks, designated
as repositories.
The Columbus Journal mentions the fact
that the Pension agent at that point, paid
the other day the pension due to Henry As
bury, a soldier of the war of 1912. He was
private in the Sd regiment Kentucky
Militia, and has been drawing a pension
ever siuee December l6, 1872. His pension
| certificate is rather an ancient looking doc
ument-was issued in the year 1919, and IS
signed by John C. Calhoun, Secretary Of
War. Mr.. Asbury is hale, jolly old gen.
tleman, seventy-six years of age, and in
sists that he will live to be hundred. He
retains all his faculties, and remembers
well the early war incidents of his lie. In
1864 he turned rhymester for the first time
in his life, and wrote carriers address for
a county newspaper.