Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-07
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e NAVIGATION of the Hudson to Albany vii
: be open in few days.
RoBr. DALE OWEN and others are urging
7 Congress to endorse new Mexican loan.
A DrsFATcH from Cincinnati gives further
details of the disaster to the steamer Lock-
wood.
A NEGRO man brutally murdered a negro
> girl in Nashville, Monday night. He was
arrested and is now in jail.
GEN. CHEATHAH, late of the rebel army,
will marry wealthy Tennessee lady,
TO- morrow.
GEN. JoE JonSsroy is in Washington, to
testify before the Reconstruction Commit
tee.
THE New York UIora appears in new
type and enlarged, the enlargement being
equivalent to five columns of the old size.
a CONVENTION is called to meet in Mon
taDa Territory, at Virginia City, on the 2sth
inst, to form State Government.
GEN. AsBOrH has been appointed Minister
to the Argentine Republic, instead of to
Venezeula as at first reported.
TIE municipal election at Newport, KY,
on Monday, resulted in the election of the
whole Union ticket, exc yt two ward
officers.
IT is said the Supreme Court will pro-
nounce the trial of civilians by military
commission unconstitutional.
Cor. Bowers, Gen Grants Adjutant, was
killed yesterday, in Garrison, y. Y, by
falling between two cars while attempting
to get on the train while 1t was in motion.
Our special dispatches this morning fur
nish mass of evidence given before the
Reconstruction Committee, bearing upon
the political state of the South.
QUARANTINE is to be permanently estab-
lished, in New York, on the west bank, two
miles south of Fort Tompkins and an equal
distance west of Coney Island.
n. Y. DISPATCHES this morning announce
the award of prizes, to soldiers who lost their
right arms in battle, for specimens of left
handed penmanship.
MISS Anna Dickinson lectured Saturday
night to a crowded audience in Crosby's !
Opera House, Chicago. Her subject was
d" The Assassination and the Suicide"
GEN. GRIERsoN, the Union raider of war
times, testified before the Reconstruction |
Committee yesterday that he believed an
organization existed in the South whose
purpose it was to renew the rebellion.
Our Columbus special says David Bent
ley, convict from Cleveland, escaped from
the Penitentiary on Monday night by dig |
ging into the chamber below his cell, in the
same manner that John Morgan, the rebel,
escaped. A reward Of 500 is offered for his
apprehension.
THE trial of Coovert for the murder of the |
Roosa family is still in progress at Lebanon.
The evidence for both sides was all in on |
Monday. The testimony, both on the part |
Of the prosecution and on the part of the |
defence, is neither convincing of the guilt |
or innocence of Coovert. 1t is difficult to |
anticipate the verdict of the jury.
The Lincoln Delaware Herald congratu-
lates the people of that State, that owing to
the killing of the peach buds in New Jer-
sey, the Delaware peaches VIII command a
good price this year. It says that although |
many of the peach buds in Delaware were
injured by the last cold weather, yet there
are enough unhurt to insure a crop.
CONGRESSIONAL: In the House, yesterday, |
Mr.. sehenck offered an amendment to the
military academy bill, prohibiting the use
of any public money towards educating at
West Point any cadet from the lately rebel |
lious States until they shall have been re-
constructed, which called out some debate
communications were received from the |
President relative to the rewards offered for
the arrest of the assassins Of President Lin
coin, and in answer to a resolution calling
for information concerning Provisional Gov
ernors; the bill regulating trade with the
British North American Possessions was con-
sidered In the Senate, resolution was
offered authorizing the Secretaries Of War
aud Navy to adopt stringent quarantine
regulations TO prevent tie introduction of
the cholera.
LEGISLATIVE: The principal features of
the proceedings yesterday were the passage
/ by the Senate of the bill amending the act
to exempt from execution the property of
the militia of the State, which is now law
the introduction, in the House, of a bill pre-
seribing, in cases of conviction for murder
in the first degree, that the Clerk shall GER
/ tify the same to the Sheriff. which certif-
cate shall be the Sheriff7s warrant to hang
the criminal also the introduction of bill
establishing the rate of interest at per
cent; Mr.. Williamson's bill to incorporate
Boards of Trade was ordered to a third read
ing to-day; Mr.. Dangler's Metropolitan
Police bill passed the House. 1t has yet to
| 20 TO the Senate.