Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-28
General News.
From Chill.

NEW YoRK, August IA Santiago,
Chill correspondent, of July,15tb, states that
seventy guas have been purchased of Mas
sachcsetts for S60e,0 600, without carriages.
This ordnance includes four 450-pounders,
six 500 Founders and six 6S-pounder Blakely
guns, the remaining consisting of servicea-
ble.artillery Of various cali0res, but not very
heavy. The English guns are those pur-
chased BY Massachusetts, during the late
war fo- the protection of Boston Hsrbor
from rebel pirates, &c. As the carriages are
to be built in the United States, some time
will elapse before the ordnance can be
shipped.
AChili agent writes from New York that
he has been trying TO buy the Dunderbsrg.
He says that Mr.. W. H. Webb wanted 81
5000 0 for her there, and offers to deliver
her complete in Valparaiso at his own risk
fer s., 500, goo, one million extra. Nobody
here expects Chill to buy the Dunderberg.
though her agents are doing their best to
get the vessel.
Mr.. Benjamin vicuna MeKenna is to be
appointed to fill the place OF CHILEAN envoy
to the United States, IN place of Senior S. F.
Asia Bursuga. present Minister from Chill
to that Republic.
The captain of a bark from the Malvern
Islands says hat on the 9th Of May he
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Islands, a battle between two Gillian and
three Spanish vessels, but could not learn
the result Of the fight, owing to a sudden
storm having arisen. The Valparaiso pa
pers attach no importance to the news, but
consider il, IN the contrary, unreliable.
The Government official organ does not give
any credit to the story of the Captain.
There are reasons TO believe however, that
the Captains story may have some founde-
ton.
From PeAfn.
A Pekin, China, correspondent Of the
Times states that .he Chinese government
have decided TO send a Commissioner to the
United Ststes.
Tho Pay of Soldiers.
A Tribune special says The Psymaster
General announces that the recent procin-
nation of the President does not in any
manner affect the pay of soldiers.
Affairs In Texas.
A letter from Capt. Bingham, from Texas,
says: We in Texas are on the eve of another
war which will be more desperate than the
one out Of which we have Just emerged.
The former leaders in the rebellion, save
some dozen Union men elected to fill unim-
portsnt county offices, have all been elected
and they are more hostile and labid than
klEI hEEb AlLANk the war VI DE4uIe AuG
State seeded; and unless troops are kept
in the most important towns there viii not
be a Union man left in Texas in six months.
The disloyal from other States are coming
in more or less every day, and thousands
are returning from Mexico who went OF
with Price and Shelby, and 8 more despe-
rate set never before infested any country.
Murders are an every day occurrence, and
civil law is defed and trsmpled upon. The
freedmen sre held in many parts of the
State in as strict bondage IS before the war.
Union men dare not speak their sentiments
openly. Secret societies, called the X. 6. C.
are organized all over the State, and unless
the State is held under strict military rule
we viii have another outbreak in less than
SIX months"
Cholera Report.
CrScINEATI, August 27.-Eleven deaths
from cholera were reported yesterday. The
disease has lost its epidemic character and
is rapidly sbeting.
Sale Of Pews-
The sum Of S200, 600 was realized from the
sale Of the pews in the new Jewish Syna-
gogue yesterday.
Convention.
At Convention Of radical Union men
held in Lexington, KY, on Saturday, dele
gates were appointed TO the Philadelphia
Convention. Resolutions were adopted cen
surfing President johnson and endorsing
the reconstruction policy Of Congress.