Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-05
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1866.
DAILY LEADER.
MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1866.
THE NEW S .


G Com closed Saturday at 1881.
A MEETING 10 sustain the President
policy was held in Buffalo Saturday night
GENERAL ScoTT is at Pensacola. much i'm
proved in health.
A GREAT FIRE occurred in Jeddo, Japan, OF
the 2sth OF January. Thirty thousand
houses were destroyed.
The National Guard force Of New York
numbers $4,000, of which nearly 10000 are
armed and equipped.
CoxGREssIoNAL Saturday was set apart
for speech making, consequently the pro-
ceedings were unimportant.
LEGISLATIVE Our Columbus special fur
Rishes a summary Of the proceedings Of
both houses Saturday.
MR. W. T. CoGeRsHALL, of Columbus. has
been appointed Minister to Ecuador, in place
OF Mr.. Hassaureck, resigned.
The New York Times mentions the sail
ing, e fortnight or so ago, from eastern
ports, of several vessels with cargoes of war
material supposed TO be for Chilli
PExSsiLvAxIA has S,4sS miles of railroad,
built at a total cost of Sls3,735,219. The
earnings for 1865 were S65,O0OOOO, and the
expenses $42,OOO,O0O.
THE passage of the constitutional amend
ment abolshing slavery in this country,
was celebrated in London, on the 18th ult.,
by a large meeting at Exeter Hall.
FEMAN meetings, largely attended, and
at which considerable sums OF money were
subscribed, were held Saturday evening in
the principal towns and cities of the east.
TIE bill directing the Secretary of the
Navy to detail a steamer to accompany the
Russian Telegraph Expedition, having been
signed by the President, is now law.
The Washington Star states Maximilian's
force to amount to forty five thousand men,
and his artillery at one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve pieces.
BIZ the burning of a school and dwelling,
in Santa Clara, California, recently, one per
son was burned to death, and a woman and
three children were badly injured.
II is proposed to build iron bridges over
Broadway, New York, at crowded points.
The structures, it is estimated, viii cost from
SIC, 600 to sl5,OOO.
II is reported that Sir F. Bruce, the Eng
lisb Minister at Washington, has protested
agrinst the immunity enjoyed by the Feni-
ans in this country.
An official statement of the finances and
business Of one hundred and eight New York
insurance companies is given in Saturday
nights special dispatches.
Rev. DR.. HALL. for thirty years
pastor of the First Congregational Church in
Providence, r. /, died suddenly on Satur-
day evening of heart disease, aged sixty-fve
years.
OyE ". Duncan, late captain in the rebel
service, has been arrested by the United
States authorities, and will be tried on the
charge of cruelty to the Andersonville pris-
oners.
MILITARY board, composed Of Generals
Sherman, Meade, Sheridan, Thomas, etc, is
to assemble in St. Louis on the 18th inst,
to examine the claims of persons recon-
mended to receive commissions in the regu-
lsr army.
JoHN MCCAFFERrY, late State prisoner
in Ireland and an envoy of Head-Center
Stephens, has arrived in this country. He
had an interview with President johnson
on Saturday. Tie conversation" is not
published.
On the Slst of December, 1865, there were
go newspapers published in Ohio of which
twenty are dailies. Twelve are published
in the German language, weekly, except
two which are dailies. Cincinnati has seven
dailies, Cleveland three, and Columbus two.
TIE sum of s25O,OOO in coin was sent
south for safe-keeping by the bankers of
Richmond. previous to the fall of that city.
Of this amount $3.50, 600 was lost BY plunder.
The balance was seized by the United States
and deposited in the Treasury. The Presi-
dent has lately ordered that it be restored to
the bankers upon certain conditions.
THE last and youngest daughter of P. 7.
Barnum, the great American Snowman,
Miss Pauline Barnum, was married on the
lst inst, in Bridgeport, Conn, to Mr.. Ma
than Seeley, a merchant of New York city.
We add, for the information of our lady
readers, that the bride was dressed ia white
satin, and looked lovely"
IT will be recollected that a dispatch was
sent out from Washington, few days since,
to the effect that the wife ofa western mem
Der of Congress was about to enter a suit for
divorce against him. A special dispatch
from Chicago to the Cincinnati Gazette saws:
The wife of the Hon. J hn A. Kasson,
Representative in Congress from Iowa, has
commenced a suit for divorce in the Des-
moines District Court of that State. The
charge against Mr.. Kasson is adultery.
These are doubtless the parties referred to
in the Washington rumor."
THE trial of Samuel Goovert, charged with
the murder of the Roosa family at Deerfeld
in 1864, is now in progress in the Court of
Common Pleas of Warren county, in session
at Lebanon. The witnesses introduced BY
the prosecution, the first day, were Mrs.
Roosa and Jeanette Roosa, the only sur
viving members of the family who were at
home on the night of the murder; McNeal,
the brother-in-law Of Covert and several
others. 1t was proven that Covert told
about the murder in Morrowtown the
morning after 1t was rerpetrated, and sew
eral hours before the arrival of the daily pa
/ pers containing accounts of it, and before
any report of 1t by any other means had
! reached Morrowtown. Mrs. Roosa and her
daughter did not positively identify Coovert
as the murderer, but they thought ne re-
! sembled him.
A few days since our benighted and be-
wildered cotemporary, the Herald, pub
Iished an aneedote which it applied to the
present position of the Union party. The
story in question, was this: An Indian
was once off hunting and got lost. In
houndering about in the road to find his
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