Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-02
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Gold closed in New York last night at 1ls5s.
See third page for telsgraphio news receives
yesterday afternoon.
General Sherman was serenadea in Washington
last night.
The Mayor of Baltimore has been re-Homiaalel
for third term.
The Johnson Convention of Connecticut yester-
day appointed delegates TO Philadelphia.
A steamship line has been established between
Panama and New Zealand. The first steamer
reached Panama IN twenty-si: days.
Aconvention of ofUnderwriters, representing Ohio
and all the Western States, is at Freop7rt,
Illinois, during the present month.
Major General W. s. Rosecrans and Major Gen
eraJ George Crock, United States Volunteers, have
been breyeted Major Generals in the regular army.
Joha Robinson, the circus proprietor, was lob
bed Of 81, 800 by piebp pocket in a Broadway, n.
Y, stage the other day.
A grand celebration took place in San Francisco
receipt Of the news OF the success of the Allan
tic csble.
There were thirty-three cases OF cholera and
eleven deaths in New York, Brooklyn and among
the troops on Governors Island yesterday.
The Southern correspondent of the New York
Times estimates the cotton crop at two and a half
million OF bales.
The United States District Court rooms ia San
Francisco were destroyed by fire day before yester
day. The records were saved.
Mrs. Jacob Thompson has boen at the White
House to obtain an interview with the President,
for permission for her husband, who is in Nova
a..
a woman named Richards was arrested on Mon
day, in Detroit, on complaint OF her husband, for
forging his name to drafts upon which she obtain
ed money at the bank.
The Commissioner of Agriculture states that the |
wheat crop of the country, though deficient in |
quantity, is OF quality making it equal in value
to she crop of last year.
A row occurred in Madisonville, Missouri, last /
Saturday, between the Radicals and Conservatives
in which one Of tha latter and two of the former /
were killed, and nine persons wounded.
The Douglas monument at Chicago is to have a
base of hfty feet high, shaft of forty feet, and
statue Of ten feet surmouutng the whole. Il is to
be composed of white Ii Eestone.
Cyrus W. Field telegraphs that he has chartered
a steamer to run between New Foundland and
Nova Scotia until the Gulf cabls is replaced which
be hopes will be this week,
Twenty messages for Europe over the cable were
ilod in New York day before yesterday afternoon,
and the cash receipts amounted to over three
thousand dollars.
The Seventh Street Railroad Company OF Cincin-
lati have commenced running cars every hour dur
ng the night The fare after half past eleven is ten
,ents.
An additional thirty-hye miles Of the Udion Pa
.ifc Railroad has been completed and accepted by
he Government Commissioners. The road is now
,uilt to within thirty-one miles Of Fort Kearney,
which point will be reach d by the first Of Sep
ember.
Our special dispatches from New York contain
xtraets from the Chinas mail, giving particulars
f the events .sls.L I--~~--a-a - s.-ss Il
london reported by the Atlantic cable; also the
relimin.ries OF the armstce negotiations and the
ase of peace.
General Baird telegraphs to the Department at |
Washington from New Orleans that the riot is
oppressed. He declared martisl law in the city.
forty persons were killed and large number
Wounded, nearly ali being friendly to the cOnven-
ion.