Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-14
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A FIRE at ST. Cloud, MINI, Sunday nigh
destroyed sS5,OOO worth of property.
A DISPATCH received yesterday Afternoon
announced the serious illness of Senate
Dixon. -.ass ers.s
Coz. EsTAvAS, confidential agent of Maxi
milan, has an office and reception room il
Washington.
TIE order of General Sherman granting
lands to negroes in South Carolina continue
to be regarded as valid.
No clue has been found TO the detection
of the thieves engaged in the late grea
bank robbery in New York
QUASTREL, the infamous, has been arrest
ed and will be taken to Washington fo
trial So says New York special
TIE Senate yesterday confirmed about &
thousand officers of and below the rank o
Colonel to be Brigadier Generals by brevet
GENERAL WARREs, who was relieved of hi;
command at the battle of Five Forks, has
written letter denying that he entertaini
any i'll feeling towards General Sheridan.
A MAN in New York, bearing the in
euphonious name of John Gee, Monday
night wounded his wife with pistol shot,
and supposing she was dead, shot himself.
Two boards of army officers will assemble
in Washington on the 18th inst, to make
recommendations for the promotion of Of
ficers in the regular service.
THE New Hampshire State election took
place yesterday. Returns indicate the sue
cess of the Republican ticket by over
5000 majority.
A BILLIARD match was played in New
York yesterday between Deery of Washing
ton and McDevitt of Indianapolis. which
was won by the former.
New gold mines have been discovered in
Columbia, South America, said to exceed
the California mines in richness. The mines
are five hundred miles south of Panama
TIE London Herald says a movement has
begun for re-lsying the Atlantic cable du-
ring the coming summer. 1t is expected
that the lost end of the old cable can be
found and grappled.
A GREAT Fenian meeting and procession
is announced to take place on st. Patriek's
Dsv at Burlington, VT, and an intimation
mt forth that Canada will be struck al
from that quarter.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury informs
subscribers to the Confederate Cotton
Loan that this so called cotton is liable to
seizure and eonfscstiOn by the United
States.
IL connection with statement that Sec
retar, Seward hss assured the Canadian
authorities thai our border shall be well
guarded, is the announcement that Federal
troops are on their way North.
OWING to some atmospheric disturbance
last night, the telegraph wires, with one
execution. could not be worked. No COM
mupicatiou was had with the Pittsburgh and
Columbus Offices.
A NUMBER of Indian chiefs, of the Upper
Platte and Sioux tribes, assembled al Fort
Laramie, on Monday, and held long CON
versation by telegraph with the Indian
agent at Omaha, giving him assurances thai
they would keep the peace.
The persons who tarred and feathered and
r,de on a rail q fellow in Melrose, Macs
for rejoicing over the news of the death O.
President Lincoln, and who were fined sSoC
apiece, were yesterday pardoned and had
their fines remitted.
SEVEN barrels filled with dismembered
human bodies and unjointed limbs, from the
dissecting tables of the medical colleges
were found on Wentworth avenue, Chicago
the other morning, where they had beer
deposited in the night without the slightes
attempt at burial. -
A TELEGRAM from Montreal states that th'
Canada Fenisn alarm is unabated; smother
from Detroit, that the Canadians are begin
ming to feel ashamed of their scare; anC
another. from New York, that the militar!
preparations are the result of distinct com
mands from the crown of Great Britain, il
order to precipitate the union of the Pro
vinces, and place Prince Alfred on tn
throne.
CONGRESSIONAL In the House, yesterday
the Speaker appointed select committe
on the civil service of the United States
the Secretary of War transmitted com
munication relative to the retention in ser
vice of certain Illinois volunteers; Mr.
sehenck reported bill, which was passed
amendatory of the act incorporating an ssy
Ium for disabled soldiers; the bill for tn
withdrawal of goods from bonded ware
houses, reported back from the Senate wit
some unimportant changes, was passed
some amendments to the bill to protect a
persons in their civil rights were agresd t
and it was then passed. yeas log, ayes Is
s bill passed sppropriating S50,oo0 for tn
survey of northern and western lakes; th
bill to provide for paying the expenses {
the United States at the Paris Exhibition i
1857 was taken up, but not disposed Of. -.
In the Senate, Mr.. Sumner presented II
solution asking for an international copy
right law; Lane, of Kansas, offered res'
luton, which was adopted, instructing tt
Judiciary Committee to report certain resi-
Iutions amendstory of the Constitution
some debate took place on the bill to adm
the State of Colorado, and a motion to pa
it to q third reading was lost.
It is said that in the recent Democrat