Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-02
FRIDAY, MARCH :, 1866.
THE NJ EW s .

yesterday for California.
The British Parliament has suspended
the writ of habeas corpus in Ireland.
FoRETaS news by the steamer Asia will be
found in this mornings dispatches.
Mns. LINCOLN has invested the s22, 900 ap-
propriated to her by Congress in 90 Z. 5
bonds
BANK robberies and continuance Of the
Fenian alarm are reported among the Can
adam items of news.
Resolutions endorsing the Union major
ity in Congress were yesterday offered in the
New York legislature.
The New York Times special dispatch
fran Washington states that Secretary
Stanton fully agrees with the President
SENATOR Doolittle addressed meeting at
New Haven, Conn, night before last and
called upon all Republicans to sustain the
President.
4 DIsrATCH was received at Columbus,
yesterday, announcing the death of Hon.
Isaac stookey, CDemocrat) a member of the
House from Ross county.
A MEETING held in New York on Wednes-
day night in favor of the eight hour labor
movement was largely attended by the
workingmen of the metropolis.
THE Republicans of Rochester. New York,
are taking time by the fOrelock. At their
city convention yesterday they nominated
General Grant for the Presidency in 1858, by
accIamation.
Mas. SwIssHEEU, who held clerkship in
the Qusrtermaster's Department at Wash
ingtou, has been dismissed from that posi-
tion for using disrespectful language of the
President.
An Intellectual attempt wss made to rob
the bank of Lima, Livingston county, New
York, on Tuesday night. The Post Office
in the same place was robbed the same
night of SO in money and 500 in stamps.
The report of the United States Revenue
Commission tavOrs the repeal Of all duty on
crude petroleum. 1t is estimated that duty
Of six millions of dollars will be collected
annually from refined oil at 90 cents per
gallon. the present rate.
FlESEGANs, awake The hour which was
to have arrOven has arriv i,-0'Mahoney
issues proclamation to The Brotherhood TO
prepare for immediate action in consequence
of news received OF the suppression of the
writ Of habeas corpus in Ireland.
THE delegate Board of Missions of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, are now hold
ing their first annual session in Detroit A
large number Of delegates are present, rep
reseuting every State in the West and North
west.
Az invalid soldier on his way to Camp
Butler, at Springfield, Ills, was ruR over a
few days ago by a train on the Toledo, Wa
bash & Western Railway. He was SO severe
" injured that the amputation of one Of his
legs became necessary.
A MAN by the name of stebbins, OF Pal
myra. Michigan, who was in the habit Of
getting drunk and beating his wife, was
killed by blow strucb by his nephew, who
came 10 the rescue Of his aunt while Steb-
bins was pounding her.
ABOUT a week ago an old man named
Kimball, was beaten and robbed Of $4,000
in $50 bonds in Woodstock, Champaign
county. A Cincinnati detective was put on
the track Of the robber who proved to be
grandson of the old man, and succeeded in
arresting him and recovering $4,000 of the
bonds.
The strike CT the operatives in the Rolling
Mills and-glass factories of Pittsburgh has
terminated. The strike was caused by a
proposed reduction of wages, and the strikers
held out for four weeks when the employers
withdrew their proposition and agreed, to
pay the old rates The strike among the
iron workers in Wheeling has also come TO
close
AT a convention held in Rockport, Ills,
on the 22d inst, a resolution was adopted
favoriug an improvement Of Rock river so
as to connect the Mississippi, by way Of the
former stream and Lake Winnebago, with
Lake Michigan; and suggesting a meeting
at Beloit, Wisconsin, on the 18th of March,
of the various county committees, to mature
plan and to take the necessary prelimi-
nary measures for carrying out that plan.
THk Detroit Advertiser corroborates the
report published Wednesday of an explO-
sion on the Michigan Central Railroad. The
accident occurred twenty-four miles west Of
Detroit. The names of the unfortunate vic
tins are Marshal Doty, conductor; Patrick
Lavy, engineer and William Keidle, fire
| man Their bodies wara thAra'=--- a~---- l.
tauce from the track, and torn and manglet
!. horrible manner, the head of Lazy be-
ing severed entirely from his body.
| THE second mate of a steamboat lying q
he Cincinnati wharf became SO incenseC
at a negro who was scrubbing the boat, ant
who spattered some water on the mate
clothes, that he punched him in the fac
with an umbrella which he had in his hand
The end of it penetrated the right eye
LODGING in the brain, and broke off shor
The niece remaining in the eve, which va
about three inches in length, was so frml
wedged that it required a strong pair
piuchers to draw it out The negro lingere
in terrible agony a few days when he die
The mate ran off.
AYrETINe of the Iron and Steel Assoei
y tiop was held in Washington on the PSI
' inst and was attended by large numb
Of factors from different parts of the cou
try The Association numbers three hu
dred and sixty-fve members, representa-
furnaces, rolling mills, &c, in nearly 4
the Northern States. The President of t
Association said they had met to ask Co
8 gress to ward off the dangers which aPPe
q to threaten the manufacturing interests
8 the country. A delegate from Pennsylvar
Z said that the Association needed g prot
tive tariff Of, say fifteen to twenty dollar
ea ton on iron, as one-ffth of the market
supplied by our greatest enemy-E1glal
President johnson, on the oath Of
tober. when Provisional Governor of T
nessee. declared to cOlored mass meeti
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