Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-14
SATURDAY APRIL IA, 1866.
THE NEW 8


GOLD closed last night at 1891.
ONE year ago to-day Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated.
ANOTHER lot of major generals and briga-
diers have been mustered out of the ser
vice.
TIE Government has sent the steamer
WinOoski to Eastport, Ne, to watch the
Finnegans.
Ex-Gov. JOHNSON, it is said, has been ap-
pointed Collector of Internal Revenue at
Pittsburgh.
IT is stated the Gee trial at Raleigh, n. c.,
will be discontinued at once under the Pre-
sidents proclamation.
TIE street car drivers in New York still
continue their strike. The uptown folks
are compelled to walk.
A PAIR of horses died few days ago in
GreenviIle, Pa, from eating the bark of
locust tree to which they were tied.
THz President has declared that his late
proclamation does not do away with martial
law in the lately revolted States
Hon. DANIELS. Dickinson died at the resi-
dence of his son-in-lsw, in New York city,
on Thursday evening; aged 66 years.
TIE first direct importation of teas from
China in several years is noticed in the ar
rival of ship at Boston, yesterday, from
Foo Chow.
The telegraph brings intelligence of the
arrest of one of the iends that committed |
the murder of the Dsering family, in Phila-
delphia
SPEAKER COLFAx was serenaded by q |
party of Indianians on Tuesday night, and
responded by making an eloquent speech on |
national topics.
An accident occurred on the Central Rail
road, near WillistOn. Vt, early yesterday
morning, by which one man was killed and |
six or eight others hurt.
PREv1oUs to the sine die adjournment of |
the Pennsylvania Legislature yesterday
resolution of thanks to Gov Curtin was
passed, every member voting for it.
The cashier of French bank, accused |
of aOscOnding with $4,000, has been ar
rested in New York, and will be returned |
to France under the extradition treaty.
TIE Springfield Republican tells of a citizen
there who beat his brother with a shovel,
knocked his wife down, and turned his
mother out of doors. Unpleasant style of
family man, that
THE New York Board of Health Yesterday
received report from Washington that a
brig and schooner have arrived at Bermuda
and been placed under quarantine, under
suspicion that the cholera was on board both
vessels.
The Illinois and Michigan Canal was for
mally opened to navigation throughout its
whole length on Wednesday, and up to IL
o'clock on Thursday forenoon twenty-five
boats and one propeller had arrived at
Chicago from Joliet, Lasalle, &c, nearly all
loaded with corn.
The English Minister at Washington lie
highly exercised at the Fenisn demonstra-
tlons and wants the Government to repress
them. Secretary Seward thinks there is no
present need of any additional measures to
prevent violation of the neutrality laws
yet it is understood proclamation will soon
be issued on the subject
A Mas. LTsrEB died in Philadelphia on
Monday, from stOppsge of the action of the
heart produced by chlorofOrm administer
ed by dentist, at her own request. It was
proved at the coronsr's inquest that the
chloroform was not used in excessive GUAM
tity, and was inhaled in the usual manner.
No blame was, therefore, attached to the
dentist.
THE steamboat " "Finencier," from Pitts
burgh to New Orleans, was burned on
Thursday night, twenty miles below Pitts
curgh. Ten lives were lost. The fire was
OccasiOned by the explosion of petrO-
leum lamp in the hands Of one of the ladies
who was lost. The names Of the lost are
given in the dispatch in eur telegraphic
column.
TIE Pittsburgh Commercial says q com
pany boring for oil on the farm of William
Cunningham, in Jackson county, Western
Virginia, struck, at the depth of two hun
dred and forty feet a vein of metal, eighteen
inches thick, yielding ninety-eight per
cent of pure silver. The strata in the well
are as follows First forty feet hard flint
rock next two hundred feet soft soap stone
then layer of blue rock; next soap stone
then the silver vein eighteen inches thick
next four feet OF quartz; and then bed of
black sand, similar to the sand found in the |
gold mines of California