Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-29
THE NEWS.
ed Saturday night ct 1893

GOLD closed Saturday night ct 1893.
TIE two murderers of otero have beer
sentenced to be hanged on the 9th of March
TIE editors of the Police Gazette having
published disclaimer, Mr.. A. T. stewar
has withdrawn his suit against them.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco announces
the discovery of diamonds as well as gold
and silver in Idaho. ~
AN sffray, resulting in the shooting o.
two officers, took place in New Orleans Sat.
urday.
SATURDAY nights dispatches furnish ed
ditional particulars of the railroad accident
rear Sing Sing.
GEN PRIH, leader of the Spanish insur-
gents, has isued a stirring PROCLAMATION to
his troops.
GEx. sIckLEs has issued an order annull-
ing the acts of the South Carolina Legisla-
ture which were cruel and oppressive to the
freedmen.
FoUR executions took place in Nashville
on Friday last, of men under twenty years
of age. They were the murderers of Hef-
ferman.
THE friends of General sweeny are max
ing active efforts to have the order dismiss
ing him from the army revoked, and are
confident of success.
A STEAMER loaded with cotton was recent
Iy burned on the Altamha river. Georgia.
Five or six negroes on board the bpat were
lost. --
GEN. SHERMAN created quite sensation in
Washington, on Friday, by visiting the SEN
ate Chamber. Everybody on the floor, as
wel1-a5 in the galleries, was anxious to get
a good view of the military hero.
oUR Columbus special gives an account of
a railroad accident on the Cincinnati Road,
fifteen miles from Columbus, Saturday
night, by which fireman was killed and
several other persons injured.
The N. Y. Heralds Richmond correspond
ence gives credit to a rumor that President
johnson intends supereeding the present
State government of Virginia by appoint
ing Provisional Governor. We wish we
eoald-say the report was entitled to credit.
President JOHNSON, in conversation
with prominent Senator, yesterday, the
substance of which is given in dispatch
from Washington, expressed his views at
length on the subject of constitutional
It is said Liverpool is great center of |
Fenianism, that secret meetings are con-
stantly held there, that uninterrupted com
is had to and from America,
Ireland, Scotland and towns in England,
and that the British spies are bafHed in their
efforts to discover them.
IT turns out that the capture of Bagdad |
was accomplished by mob of Mexicsns,
suffers clerks and adventures, together
with few American soldiers, who, how
sver made nights frolic Of it, returning to
heir camps in time to anzwer at the next |
roll call.
THE petroleum case in Few York city, in
which Col. VIM. D. Mann and Capt. D. B.
'tratton, formerly of this city, are parties,
vas closed on Saturday last Mann and
'tratton we're honorably discharged. The
'ase has been before the courts for FIVE or
ix months. The paper from which we
,ather the above information says "a
areful perusal of the testimony would show
hat Col. Mann was entirely innocent"
THIEvEs resort TO sharp practices to Sc
ure their plunder. One of this gentry in
Vew York arroitly possessed himself of the
mug sum of $1,000 the other day, by dress
ng himself as policeman and arresting
'snk porter who was carrying a box with
be money in it. He called g regular po-
icenan to take the porter to the station
ouse, representing him to be a counter.
siter, while be Mr.. Bogus, would take the
OK and report the arrest at headquarters
# course he made off with the treasure.
TITusyLLE has been engaged of late
tearing out the thieves, gamblers, pimps,
&c, which had accumulated
here in dangerous numbers. Immediately
fter the recent fires, which were supposed
o have been the work Of incendiaries, a
-igilanee committee set to work overhaul
ng disreputsble characters Of the town.
The result, as we learn from the Titusville
Kerald, has been the banishment of fifteen
r twenty gamblers, vagrants, bar-tenders
nd keepers of houses of ill-fame, and some
evenly or eighty prostitutes. They turned
heir backs on oildom glade to escape
hanging. Nearly of them were from Buff
alo and Rochester. r
LONDON has Fenian scare on of no little
if we may believe the reports
The English Government claims to have
Information of plot to blow up the public
It is intimated that the result Of
he panic viii be to place Ireland under
martial law, and demand on the United
'tates for the suppression of public Fenian
in this country. If the de-
nand should be made, Johnny Bull will
most likely be informed that free speech is
he right of all our citizens, and that it will
,e time enough to suppress" Fenian or
ther demonstrations when they become
lostile in deed, and not in words merely, to
foreign country.
The SuItana Disaster.
The Trial of Capt Frederic Speed, of
daine, A. a. G. of Volunteers, for i'm
placing on board of the steamer
,ultana. last Auril. Mt Vicksburp where |