Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-10

The prospect is now that the Colorado
l.. admitted.

p n Rsrnum has been reelected to the
Connecticut Legislature from Fairfield by
the Republicans
Mr.. Hester Clymer, Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Pennsylvania, has
resigned his seat in the State Senate.
A National johnson Club has been form
ed st Washington, with MOntgomeryBlsir
for President and Robt. McCelland Vice
President for Michigan.
. The gainesville Telegraph declares
against the denomination of Judge spal-
ding for Con gress and in favor of some
younger and equally radical q
The death of Mr.. Dunnaway, a radical
member of the Tennessee Legislature, is
announced. 1t is thought g conservative
NAV be elected 10 succeed him.
The next Legislature of Connecticut
will stand: House, Union l4l, Demo-
cratic 81, majority Al. Last year Union
I5s, Democratic II.
The utter failure of the President to
give success to the English interest in
Connecticut is another salutary warning
to the Free Traders-
Texas will hold her State election on
the fourth Monday in June and the Leg
~islsture will meet on the fourth Monday
in August.
It is now stated that at the close Of his
address sustaining the first veto, Henry
Ward Beecher told several members OF
his congregation that he had never read
the Freedmen's Bureau Bill.
Governor Pierpont, of Virginia, has
addressed a strong letter to Senators van
Wrinkle and Wiley, of West Virginia,
earnestly and ardently supporting the
course of the Radicals in Congress.
Nashville, Tenn, has elected the con-
sentative candidate for the Legislature BY
1900 msiority. The franchise law was
only enforced in one ward, and that was
carried by the Republicans.
The New York Tribune facetiously re-
cords a rumor that Cleveland, Postmaster
of somewhere in Connecticut, was about
to again send his resignation to the Presi-
dent on account of the defeat of English.
This time it will probably be accepted.
Colonel N. G. Taylor, of Tennessee,
Member of Congress elect, went to Con-
necticut to speak for General Hawley, but
before he arrived there changed his mind,
and made speeches in favor Of the election
of Mr.. English.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Bulletin
has run up the name of General Grant for
President in 1868. The McGregor 1owa)
News puts its ticket thus: For President,
o. s. Grant; for President Andrew j..
Hamilton, of Texas.
In the New Jersey Legislature, yester-
day a resolution. was adopted %censuring
the President for his recent veto of the
Civil Rights Bill. The same body refused
to indorse a resolution having for its OBJ
ject the purchase of portrait of Andrew
johnson, to be placed by the side of that
Of Washington.
In a recent speech in Connecticut, Mr..
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, said :
aThe question of negro suffrage in Ten
nessee will be settled by and by in favor
of the black man, and 1 should not won
der if Tennessee gave the black man the
right to vote before Connecticut does.
And the black man will probably vote
sooner in North Carolina than in Penn
sylvania-
In the course of his speech in reply to
the arguments of the Presidents veto of
the Civil Rights Bill, Senator Trumbull
made the remarkable statement that the
bill was prepared after consultation with
Mr.. johnson, a copy of it was furnished
him while it was pending. and he was
solicited to make known his objections, if
any he had, that the bill might be amend
ed and made acceptable to him. He
never" says Mr.. T~rumbull, indicated to
me, nor, so far as 1 know, to any of its
friends, the least objection to any of the
provisions of the bill till after its passage"
Campo Bello Island, an attack on'which,
by the Fenians has been predicted by the
sensational papers of New York, is in the
Bay of Fundy at the entrance of Passam-
aquaddy Bay. 1t is about eight miles in
length by three in breadth, and is a part
of the territory of New Brunswick. st.
Johns, with its rich shipping and commo-
dious harbOr is about forty miles distant
from Campo Bello, and can be reached in
q few hours by means of steam communi-
cation. Directly opposite is the coast of
Move Scotia, thirty-six to forty miles dis
tant with good harbor for light vessels.