Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-02

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CLEVELAND LEADER COMPAER.
e Gen. B. F. Mullen, Secretary of Military
J. and Naval Affairs has published a similar
appeal, and tells the Brotherhood to look
/. out for secret orders.
Y The Irish People newspaper extra saws
I that gentlemen just arrived from Paris says
D that the moment the Irish population as
! sumes a bellgerent character towards Eng
: land they will be 20 recognized by Louis
{ Napoleon.
PUBLIC DEBT.
: The following is a statement of the public
t debt on the first of March, 1866:
D The debt bearing coin interest is 81 ,77T,-
s6T, ,29l so. The debt bearing currency
2 interest Is Sl.s55, ,42S,95O SO.
Matured debt not presented for payment
SY85,979 Ga; debt bearing interest 1863, $780,
I52. Total debt S2.s27, sos, $50 46 amount
IN Treasury, coin and currency, 116,O1s, ,959;
amount OF debt less cash in the Treasury,
S2,1u, $50 p. The foregoing is a correct
statement of the Public Debt es it appears
from the books and Treasury returns in the
Department on the first Of March, 1866.
[Signedl HUsH MCCULLOcH,
Secretary Of the Treasury.
BURGLARY. -
ALBANY, March The Bank of Lima.
Livingston county, was entered by burglars
on Tuesday night and an Intellectual at
tempt made to blow open the safe. The
burglars then visited the POstofice and
stole therefrOm $40 in money and SI00 in
Postsge stamps and stamped envelopes.
MEXICAN NEWS.
A letter from FL Paso February I'd. SAYS
that q new force of 500 Republicans, lately
organized in the State of chihuahua, being
without arms, was dispersed by a detaeh-
ment Of Freuchmen and natives favOring
the Imperial cause. An Imperial force has
occupied Preside del Norte, and thus cut
off the retreat Of Juarez to the Lower Rio
| Grande.
LEGISLATIVE ITEMS.
TRENTON. y. J., March Governor
| Wood signed the Newark d NeW York Rail-
| road bill.
There was lergth- and animated dis
cussIOu IN the Senate to-day on the Jersey
City Police bill. The question will not
probably be taken before Monday.
INTERVIEW WITH THE PEEs1DEyr.
| WASHINGTON, March To-day the com
mittee appointed by the Baltimore mass
meeting waited upon the President and
| pretented the resolutions adopted at the
meeting. On being admitted, the members
were Introduced to the President, and Gov
| Cox made a short address in which be as
| sured the Executive that Maryland is true
| 6uDDOrL
| policy of the President. The President said
/ in reply that he could make no speech fur
ther than to say that his policy was before
| the country. 1t was not the result Of an i'm
| pulse, but the result of conviction; that it
was the principle upon which the Govern
ment was founded. 1t was before the
country and would continue to be. He said
| this to give assurance that the Government
will be administered on thai principle, and
he II moi mo Vvaa ha-
lieved that the safety of the Government
| rested on these principles.
| He believed the country would be restored
/ to its former condition Of prosperity and
| harmony. He entered the contest express
| ing the same views he did now, and he
stood now as he did then by the Union aud
| the Constitution, not having sweryed hairs
breadth Taunts which had been uttered
/ against him had no effect upon him. His
| only work was the restoration of the coun-
| Try through the reconciliation and har-
| mony Of the nation. We have, he added,
steadily accomplished the work. We have
seen families who were divided amongst
| themselves and had considerable dissensiOn
amonst them, but we see them all after
| wards harmonious and living in peace and
| friendship. So be il with us. If we can do
this it will De something Of which to be
| proud. 1t Will come right in the end, not
withstanding the opposition on this matter
| from the extremes of both sections, while
| pursuing different means, lsbOred steadily
| to accomplish the same enG-the destruc-
ton Of the Union. So far as the dissolution of
| the Union was concerned one is as bad as
| the other. When the rebellion is put down
| and we find that the party for consolidation
and concentration is the same in spirit as re-
bellion and leads to the same end-the de-
struction Of the government, desire moth
ing but to effect this reconciliation thorough
| ly. When can do this l can exclaim with
| full heart | have no other ambition.
My only object is to restore the Union to its
full and reconeiled normal condition. Then
| my work will be done. I thank you gem
| tlemen for this mark of your countenanee
and support
| The company, after q few moments, with
crew, and the delegates to the Iron and
Steel Convention then called on the Presi-
dent.
Hon. J. K. Moorehead, of Pennsylvania,
accompanied the delegation. Capt. E. B.
| Ward, Of Detroit, President of the American
/ Iron and Steel Association, presented the
/ gentlemen who were the representatives, to
| the convention to the President The
| President said he was much obliged to
| them for the visit and thanked them for
| the compliment of calling on him. He
| sympathized 10 the utmost in what they
/ desired to perform in reference te the in
creasing happiness and promotion of the
/ interests of the working classes. His whole
| life had been devoted to the work of elevs-
ting the condition of the working classes.
| Every action of his life had been in con-
sonance with that principle. Whether in
| the means he adopted he had been right
| time would decide. He would say TO them
| that while they were here engaged IN their
| object he hoped there was another object in
/ which they were equally interested. The
| thorough restoration of the Govern ment and
the full and complete reconciliation of the
| country ought to be precursor to all other
events and should be the rrst object.
| Such reconciliation would produce devel-
opments Of industrial interest Of the coun-
| trv He spoke of the state of the currency
! and the different views entertained Of con-
| traction and expansion, and said when we
look at these things the first object is the
restoration Of the Government. You there
| bv en. arpe the area for currency to cireu-
late in which we would have the effect of
| promoting contraction. While It would
| give all practicable benefit to be derived by
contraction it would give it sOunder basis
to rest upon. By bringing the products of
1.-THE South, some three hundred
> million dollars worth of tobacco, cot
: ton. &c, into our commerce, it would avert
: | any possibilitv of a financial crash 1t would
make currency perfectly sound, and 1t
| would develope all the industrious resources
| promote
| country. The restoration Of the govern
ment is the greatest stiniulaus tnat oah ,t9 Oe
i-1rI:-I. nat only to the manufacturing OUT
T | AGRICULTURAL, cOmmerCIa1 and other indus
the IiiffsrTdi lteveeh1e,, ana the fesT0rdri6n
of the government in all lts branches would
have the effect 10 remove all The burden
some internal tax of the country. If there
t was ANYTHING he could do to promote all the
interests Of the country, he assured them
he would do.
Mr.. WaId then said the great danger to
e the country was the vast importations from
Europe. which cannot be checked except
r bv the imposition Of high duties.
: The President replied that by creating
2 Greater demand for currency in extending
D he area of its circulation, thereby obvlating
| the necessity Of diminishing it, all danger
T. would be averted. The paramount object
however, is to secure restored Govern
Z | ment and a united Union.
: The members of the Committee were
- then severaIly introduced to the President
n and the delegation withdrew.
% The miscellaneous appropriation OIL
II which psssed the House to-day approprlates
e 60 buTdred thousand dollars for the pur-
10 chase Of Ford's theatre for the deposit and
If go I,eeping of documents and papers relat-
! INNS of the