Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-23
RumOrs Of a Cabinet DiSrupture
Denied.
Resignation Of Minister Hassaureck.
General Grant in New York City.
From New York.
False statements.

raise BN0lofneuNA.
NEW YORK, February IA Washing
ton special to the Tribune says: The state
ments telegraphed here that there is to b.
an immediate general disruption of tbs
Cabinet are entirely groundless.
Died.
Rev. Rufus F. Buell. died here yester-
day. He was for many years an eminent
missionary to Greece.
Circular.
Major General Baird, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for
Louisiana, has published a circular to the
planters of st. Martin, in reply to certain
resolutions adopted at a meeting to regulate
contracts with the freedmen, in which he
compliments them for their liberality and
justice and speaks of the resolutions as
highly creditable to them, but suggests a
few improvements that would render the
rules acceptable to all concerned.
General Grant in New York.
General Grant is stopping at the Metro
politan Hotel. Last evening he was
feted by the Union Club. The recep-
ton preparing for him this evening, by
the Union League Club, will be a grand
affair.
Resignation Sent In.
-. The Times Washington special says:
Mr.. H~sssaureck, Minister to Ecuador, has
sent in his resignation to the State Depart
ment. Already there are four or five can
didates for the succession, all from Ohio.
Among them aretwo members OF the Ohio
Legislature, namely, Stanton and Nixon.
Official Report Published.
The official report of Chief Engineers
Fithian and Kellogg, Chief In
spectors of the chief machinery in the
Navy, appointed by the Secretary of the
Navy to conduct the competitive expert
ments of the Winooski and Algonquin, is
published. 1t declares that the con-
for the machinery has failed in
every guarantee and that the vessel is
unfit for naval service. 1t also declares
that neither vessel steered we'll.
rha Banquet to our Minister I'm Russia.
NEW YORK, February 22.-The banquet
our Minister in Russia by the merchants
IF Moscow was a very brilliant affair. 1t
designed as an acknowledgment of
he courtesies shown the Russian fleet
at this port. NJ. Lyman, Presi-
lent of the Imperial Exchange, said that
he Americans, settinglnside all considera-
ions of minor importance, and paying no
egard to the changing aspect Of politics
AVE ever shown themselves friends to this
people and government. Let us, there
ore, gratefully acknowledge their amiable
disposition toward us, and let us drink to
he health of the highly esteemed Andrew
Johnson, the President of the United
A protracted hurrah followed
his toast, the band joining in with Hail
Columbia atthe request of the Committee.
General Clay permitted the following
to be sent to the American Con-
III at Liverpool for transmission by mail,
ddressed to His Excellency Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States
f America;
1.-THE Merchants of Moscow, in welcom-
ng " their city the Minister of the United
Signed by the President of the Com
of Reception.
Mr.. Clay responded in a suitable man
returning thanks to Mr. Curtin.
American Secretary of Legation. l1al-
usion to the Russian American Telegraph
70 SoAN hoJ POhhb w ~ ANNSo
american Telegraph as a common achieve
both nations and as a work of world
Eide renown and Importance. 1 venture
D say that no enterprise ever enjoyed any
hing of like popularity which rewarded
he scheme of binding the two countries
= y .
n the past, Russia and America, firmly re-
ying on God, have both battled for their
Independence and the humiliation of for
ign influence in their midst. Whatever
hape it might assume thus far we have
cen successful, and We wish for nothing
etter than that God may be as gracious
, US and our children as has been to
ur ancestors.
As regards the future, the two countries
I'LL be only more intimately connected,
aving learned TO know each other in the
asst. l am convinced that the more in
mately acquainted my c~ountrymen shall
with yeu, the more they will love
After the address Mr.. Curtin was seized
nd kissed by every Russian present.