Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-16
THE NEW S i.
nm closed lset MIGHT Al 12g!.

gard Santa Anna as French spy.
SECRETARY SEWARD left Washington u
terday for a weeks absence in New York.
The monitors anchored off Cairo since 4
close of the war have been ordered TO Ne
Orleans.
A TORNADO passed over Orange county,
Y, last Monday, tearing down trees al
blowing movable articles of the farms.
JOHN MINOR Boris has published a pla
of reconstruction, which he thinks will al
swer the purpose.
GES. BEAUREsARD was in Baltimore Tue
day on his way to New York, whence b
would sail for Europe.
TIE Massachusetts Legislature has de
feated the bill 10 license liquor selling i
that State.
JAMES STEPHENS addressed large crow,
of the 0'MahOny Fenians in Jones Wood;
n. Y, yesterday.
TIE Navy Department has officially sp
proved of the action of Commodore Roger
in the bOmbardment of Valparaiso.
MR. J. H. SAGE, prominent citizen OF Co
lumbus, O., died very suddenly on Sunday
evening last of what is known as paralysil
Of the brain.
oE Saturday evening, R. T. Armstrong
formerly of Chappell, Bruce & Co., dry
goods house, Cincinnati, was murdered by {
man named Merriwell, near Paris, KY.
ITEMS of news from Brazil, Mexico, the
West Indies, the United States of Columbia
and the Red river country will be found il
the dispatches on the third pdge.
The eleventh National woman's Right
Convention recently held in New York
adopted an appeal to Congress for the en-.
franchisement of women.
A MORMoN' editor and Mormon agent Of
emigration arrived in Washington from
Utah yesterday. Three thousand Mormons
are expected from Europe this summer.
Two New Orleans bruisers, named King
and Farrell, met in the prize ring at New
Orleans, on Sunday. Eighty-three rounds,
lasting one hour, were fought, when Farrell
threw up the sponge.
THE Tennessee Legislature has passed the
Metropolitan Police Bill. 1t will throw the
and direction of the police
force in Memphis, Nashville and Cbatta-
nooga into radical hands.
A WOMAN in Chicago, named Ann Eliza
Allen, aged eighteen and very pretty, com
committed suicide Tuesday by taking laud-
snum. She was jealous of her husband.
THE city marshal of Springfield, o.,whiIe
endeavOring to quel q rev at a saloon Sat
urdsy evening, was knocked in the head
by q slung shct or billy" and severely
wounded.
De. B. L. LAGO, assistant editor of the At
lanta Era, committed suicide at tho South
ern Hotel, St. Louis, Saturday last, by TAX
ing morphine. He was young man of fine
appearance and address. Loss of property
and disappointed love are the reasons as
signed for the suicide.
TIE stevedOres of st. Louis, on Monday,
struck for higher wages, the prices having
been put down from 50 to $3.50 per day.
The local packets complied with the de-
mand of the whites, but declined acceed-
ing to the request Of the blacks.
A race across the Mississippi between a
lkiff and a dug-out for fifty dollars took
place last Tuesday at Memphis. The for
ner won by half minute. There were two
,arsmen in the dug-Out and one in the
skif.
The Adjutant General Of Ohio, Mr.. Covan,
has received a commission as Brigadier
ieneral, awarded him for services in con-
lection with putting Ohio troops in the
ield, and especially in the speedy orgaui-
.ation of the hundred days men for duty in
he field.
The statement sometime since forwarded
rom Washington, that the Senate would
trike out the third section of the Constitu,
ional Amendment, recently passed by the
House, Is pronounced premature. 1t is evil
lent that somebody in the interest of the
manipulates the dispatches sent
o the press from Washington.
ONE ]. W. Way, of Roxbury, Massachu-
etts, has commenced suit against the lead
" of crowd who "hustled him aoout"
when the news Of the assassination of Pres
dent Lincoln reached that place, laying
lis damages at $50, ,OOO. Way probably was
me of those ineffably mean persons whoex-
pressed satisfaction at the assassination.
THK President yestereay returned the
colorado bill to the Senate with his veto.
His objections are, that the population of
he Territory is not sufficient to form State;
hat it does not appear that a msjOrity of
he people desire State government; and,
inally, that the admission of Colorado at
he present time is not compatible with the
of the country.
The value of the Collectors Office of New
York, TO which Mr.. Smythe has just been
appointed, is variously estimated. The sal
Try is S6,S4O per annum, but that is a mere
iea-bite compared to the,actual revenue OF
ais Office. 1t has been rated as high as $780,
700, but frequent party checks, personal
yifts, political disbursements, and the ext
,encies of personal and political friends"
40 doubt reduce the amount full cne-half
The Collector is allowed two assistants at
&, GOO and s., 900; chief clerk at sI,4Oe,
md two others at 81 200.
TIE act which has passed the Senate and
House of Representatives to authorize the
coinage of Eve cent pieces, provides that
The new five cent pieces shall be composed
of copper and nickel, not exceeding 25 per
cent of nickel. This coin is to be legal
lender to the amount of one dollar, and re-
deemed when presented in sums of not
less than one hundred dollars. 1t is pro
posed to make this coin exactly Eve dram
mes or u I6-lOO grains in weight. Three of
the coins will weigh one-half of an ounce,
and will be convenient in the pocket for a
postage weight. The law also prohibits the
issue of fractional notes less than ten cents
after the passage of the act. The color and
appearance of this coin will be similar 10
the three cent coin, authorized by act of
March 3, 1865.
On the train from Niagara Falls to
Rochester, the other day, passenger was
seized, while on the platform, by three
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