Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-23
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COLONEL srEADEAN, late of the 9th Obi,
Cavalry, has been made Brigadier Genera
by breYet.
A WAsHI=9ToN special to the Tribute say!
the reports of an immediate disruption O
the Cabinet are groundless.
RESOLUTIONS, introduced in the New
Jersey Legislature yesterday, favOring
negro suffrage and condemning the Presi-
dents policy, were voted down.
Hox. E. A. PARRorr, Speaker of the
House, was married Tuesday, at Dayton, to
lady of that city. The wedding party
arrived in Columbus last Tuesday.
A MATCH game of billiards for the cham
Pionship of Massachusetts,, was played in
Boston on Wednesday night, between E.
Daniels and L. W. 1angson. The former
won.
THE citizens of the village of " "Kerrtown," /"
just across The creek from Meadville, have
made application to court to be incorporated
as borough with the name Of French
Creek"
The National Intelligencer denies the
report that there was any i'll feeling be-
tween the President and General Grant
growing out of the suppression and revival
of the Richmond Enquirer.
A BANQUET was given to our Minister in
Russia, Cassius M. Clay, very recently, by
the merchants of Moscow. The dispatch
says that Mr. Curtin, Secretary of the
American Legation, was kissed by every
Russian present. ~.-.-.
President JOHNSON presided at meeting
of the Washington National Monument
Society yesterday, and made brief speech
in which he said he tried to be guided by
the principles contained in Washington's
farewell address.
The Decatur (Illinois) Magnet and the
Mattooh Gazette say the winter wheat crop
has been killed in those localities by the
cold weather, and the Springfield Journal
says the fruit crop thereabouts has been
hopelessly destroyed.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for Union
mass meeting ia New York, 10 follow the
pseudo Union meeting of Wednesday night.
Hon. s. SheIIsberger, Judge FrurabuII,
Colonel Deming and others have been in
yited to deliver addresses.
The memorial services in honor of Henry
Winter Davis took place in the Hall of
the House of Representatives yesterday
Senator Creswell, of Maryland, delivered !
the eulogy, a synopsis of which will be
found q our Washington dispatches this |
TRE Legislature and Governor of Cali
fornia have recommended Frederick Bill |
ings to a seat in the Cabinet. We have |
never heard of this gentleman before, but |
presume he belongs to different branch of
the Billings family than that represented |
by the irrepressible " JOSH"
The Governor of Alabama has issued a |
proclamation granting universal amnesty |
for all offenses-except rape and murder
committed between the commencement of
hostilities, April 1S, 1861, and the restora-
ton Of civil government by the proelama- |
ton Of the Provisional Governor, July 20, |
lS65.
ONE of the acts lately passed by the |
Canadian Parliament provides for the cleo |
ton of Medical Council, composed of
physicians, TO examine the qualifications of
all medical students before they are per-
mitted to practice. The first election under !
the act took place last Monday. oneJloctor |
was elected by vote of practitioners from
each Division in the Provinces
TnE Union Convention of Indiana, in
session at indianapolis, yesterday nominated
State ticket composed of D. R. William
son for Attorney General, C. Truster for
Secretary of State, T. B. MeCardy for
Auditor, General Kimball for Treasurer,
and F. W. Ross for Superintendent of Public
instruction. The resolutions adopted sus-
tain both Congress and the President.
The Cooper Institute meeting last night
was largely attended. Hon. Francis B.
Cutting presided, and David Dudley Field
read an address defending the Presidential
veto. The great feature Of the occasion,
however, and one that gives it national
importance, was the speech of Secretary
Seward. Mr.. Seward, while defending the
Reconstruction policy of President John |
son, appears in the character of Paci-
6cator.
The Fenian Congress, at Pittsburgh, was |
in session yesterday. All the delegates were
present. The committee nsminated to fill |
vacancies reported the names of P. NJ.
Duane, of Illinois, E. L. Carly, of New
York, James Donnelly, of Massachusetts, J.
II. Carlton, of New Jersey, A. D. Morrison,
of Missouri, ]. Darby, of the District of
Columbia, and they were all elected. Gen
eral Sweeny handed in report with plans
which was unanimously received. The |
Congress adjourned until this morning.
ADDITIONAL details concerning the war
between Paraguay and the allies have been
received. On the 23d of December the
Brazilian land forces, numbering twenty
five thousand, arrived in the vicinity of
the strong Paraguayan position at Paso De
Patria, and were to be joined in few days
by ten thousand Argentines and 0rientals,
soon after which it was intended to make
combined land and naval attack on the
Paraguayans, and to push forward into their
country Diseases Of various kinds still
prevailed to an alarming extent among the
troops on both sides.
Conversing one day with fashionable
and pretty belle, the fastidious Mr.. Spriggs
observed that "ladies that lisped wished to
be kissed" The young lady had before
been speaking unafectedly, but now re-
piled, "tho I've heard thay."
The Union party has no quarrel with
Andrew johnson for the simple acts of
vetoing the Freedmen's bill. Had he been