Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-22
POLITICAL

letter TO the Lafayette Ind) JoEraaI an.
nouncing that he will not be a candidate
for reelection. Governor Morton will
probably succeed him.
Colonel. Sloo, Postmaster at Cairo, H.
has been removed, and Colonel Graham i.
named as his successor.
There is quite aprospectofa deadlock
on Senator. The postponement for q
week looks like a break, and there are
many rumors of disafIection among the
Republicans, which may prevent an cleo
ton.
Robert Dale Owen in a lengthy com
munication to the New York Post, advo-
Gates an amendment to the constitution,
providing, first equality of civil rights;
seconds just basis of representation; third,
q prohibition to assume the rebel debt or
to pay for slaves.
The official majority for Governor at
the recent election in New Hampshire is
as follows: Whole number, 65,636. Fred
eriek Smyth had s5,13T; John G. Sinclair
SO,4Sli scattering, Is. Smyth's majority,
4,sss. The FIVE Republican oounselors
are elected by majorities ranging from
1850 to I5z
In the Non-Episcopal Methodist Con-
vention at Cincinnati on Tuesday a reso-
luton in favor of equal suffrage was Of
fered, and after a warm debate, a motion
to lay it on the table was lost by a large
majority, and it WAS referred to acommit-
tee.
The Du Quoin Progress of the 18th
says: General Logan has written a letter
to his Radical friends in this city positive
ly declining to become q candidate for
Congress in this district. 1t is generally
understood that General Green B. Raum
of Saline county win make the race"
Johns Morgan, the former partner of
s. johnson in the tailoring business re-
Gently ran for Mayor of Tuscumbia, Ala,
and was badly beaten becausehe expressed
himself in favor of loyalty to the United.
States. The feeling of disloyalty in that
section of the State is such that sven A.
johnson could not secure a majority.
A Union mass-meeting was held at
Bedford, Ind, on the 18th inst, which was
eloquently addressed by the distinguished
Judge Thompson of Terre Haute, and In
disna's favorite hero, General Nathan
KimbaIl, candidate for Treasurer of State.
The New York Times says that the
New Hampshire S~enatorship is now in a
mixed condition. The candidates for the
position are Hon. Daniel Clark, the pres
emit incumbent, Hon. E. E. Rollins, of
Concord, Representative TO Congress from
the Second District, General Gilman Mar
ston, Of Exeter, Representative from the
First District and Hon. ]. W. Patterson,
Representative from the Third and last
District. The four candidates have each
good delegations in the Lower House.
Should neither of these gentlemen get the
nomination, a 9ernier resort would look
towards the election of either Hon. Geo.
e. Fogg, Col. Mason w. Tappan of Brad
ford, or the Hon. Austin E. Pike ofFrank-
Lin, the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the State.
A correspondent of the Bedford IL
writing from LecomptOn, Kansas,
"The Union party of Pennsylvania
may well be proud of their standard
bearer, that honest man, and tried patriot
Generl GearY. BE made an enviable re-
cord during the war in battling for his
countrys rights, while his opponents did
al they could to overthrow the best po-
litical government among men. Living
Lecompton, where General Geary acted
Is Governor during part of the exciting
Of the Kansas troubles, 1 have made
considerable effort to inform myself as to
low Geary was liked during his stay in
and find that while he made him
elf obnoxious to every old ~pro-slavery
and his partisans, he won the
of every Union man, Republic
an or Democrat. If the people of Kan
had the verdict to render on the End
of October next, Clymer would
e willing to join his friends in Mexico
The Minister Resident to Haytf.
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