Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-12
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Id closed last night at 1874.

] | NOhD SAOSeu last nignb al lZl4.
; The President will issue an Amnest,
. Proclamation in few days.
j A. H. STEPHENS appeared before the Re
construction Committee yesterday.
) The ordinance creating Board of rI--'-'
f9z+d IN TINS mornings issue.
THE steamer Asia arrived from Liverpool
yesterday, bringing foreign dates to the 3lst
of March. The news is principally about
the Austrio-P Prussisn wrangle.
The French Canadians in New York held
meeting Tuesday night, in favor of an
nexing the Provinces to the .. S.
Mrs. JEFF. DAVIS has not been in Wash
ington. She was in New York City yester-
day, and is going to Canada.
The Mississippi river is now open to St.
Paul. The ice at the latter point broke up
yesterday.
TIE steamer Northern Light" was sunk
by the ice in the Mississippi near La Crosse,
Wis, yesterday. No lives lost.
SOME remarkable statements concerning
the cattle disease, will be found in our spec
ial dispatches.
GEN. GRANT, yesterday, " walked up to the
captains Office" and paid his fine for fast
driving in the streets of Washington.
A TERRIBLE crime in Philadelphia was
discovery yesterday-the murder of a family
of seven persons, supposed to have been
committed last Friday.
TIE Wisconsin Legislature Tuesday night,
passed resolutions, severely censuring Sen
ator DoOlittle for voting against the Civil
Rights Bill, and declaring it to be his duty
to resign.
TIE proposition before the Iowa Legisla-
ture to amend the Constitution by srasing
the word white" from the article on suf-
frage, has passed both Houses.
HTHE Toronto Globe is of the opinion that
the marching of armed Fenians towards the
frontier is an act of war, and that the U. S.
Government should interfere if it intends to
do its duty toward its neighbOrs.
TIE election in Jersey City Tuesday re-
suited in the choice of Democratic Mayor
and an equally number of Republicans and
Democrats in the Council. Hoboken went
Democratic.
AFATAL case ofcholera is reported to have
occurred in New York last Monday. A
physician and coroner's jury rendered that
opinion. The Superintendent of the Board
of Health, however, claims that it was not
cholera.
The new City Council of Columbus, being
composed equal of Union and Democratic
members, finds it impossible to organize.
One hundred and twenty-five Intellectual
ballots for a President were had Monday
night.
A CONVENTION of officers from various por-
tions of Illinois, who served as volunteers
during the war for the maintenance of the
Union, will be held at Bloomington on the
18th inst, for the purpose of organizing an
association to be called the Illinois Union
Guard.
MICHAEL MURPHY, President of the Hi
bernian Society of Toronto, who was arres-
ted at Cornwall, sn route to Portland, on sus-
picion of being Fenian, was to have had |
his trial yesterday. The Toronto Globe says
he is unquestionably jealous Fenian,
and his arrest is fully justified by his trea-
sonabie antecedentsj a Canadian |
standpoint.
TIE San Antonio (La,) Herald reports |
that Major Coopwood has purchased the
forty or more camels introduced into Texas
some eight or ten years ago, and expects to
start with them in his caravan for Califor- |
mia in short time, loading them with some
four or five hundred pounds each.
FRoM official returns, prepared under di-
rections of the Provost Marshal General, it |
appears that $50, ,739 Union officers and men |
lost their lives during the war. OF this
number, 1921 commissioned and 9O,SS6 en-
listed men were killed or died from wounds
while 1921 officers and l32, ,329 enlisted men |
died from disease, or, in few cases, from
accident.
FIRE broke out Tuesday afternoon in
the Titusville Pipe Company, at Pithole.
The engine, pumps, tanks, &c, of the com
pauy, three engines, derricks and tanks on
adjoining territory, together with nearly one
barrels of oil, were destroyed.
The lost is estimated at twelve to fifteen
dollars.
MERE MESTToS.-seYenty feet ofsnow fell
in the Lake Superior region last winter.
The Postmaster of Franklin, Tenn, is un-
der arrest, at Nashville, for robbing the
census of Indianapolis is Just
being completed. The population is about
40, ,OOO......An English gentleman from Mar
chester is now in Montreal to negotiate for
a site on which to erect cotton mill. The
capital is said to be two million dollars.
Johnson having ordered all Government
patronage withdrawn from the Washington
Chronicle, Forney's paper, a cotemporsry
that he must be hard up for feath-
srs to pluck "dead duck" THE Cairo
I'D Democrat asserts that during the
violent storm on Tuesday of last week,
log belonging to Mr.. Norman, near Com
nerce, No, was blown across the Missis-
;ippi river......T The hours of the Toledo High
school are TO changed, so that the session
shall begin at st in the morning, and con
.iuue until III, and then after a half hours |
continue until 3......The death
If Mormon bishop is thus announced in
Salt Lake paper: I" He was thirty seven
years old, and leaves an interesting family
If eleven wives and forty seven small chill !
lren to mourn his DEATH
Over 400 Studeats sre now in attendance
1T TIE UNION BUSINESS DESTITUTE, OBEBIIS, OHIO.