Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-13
Morning Edition,

by the name of Snow for Congress. 1t i.
rumored that he resides in Wells county
though it is not certainly known.
The Springfield Republican seems to
consider General Buffers chances to sue
ceed Mr. Alley in Congress as good. The
same paper states that the johnson men
are talking of A. a. Abbott, of Andover.
Timothy Davis, of Gloucester, and Tim
othy Meservey, of Salem, for the nomina-
tion-all conservative Republicans and
the first two former representatives.
A Meadville correspondent of the Ii
tusville Herald says; The Congressional
Conferees, who changed base from Frank
lin to Meadville last week, are still in ses-
sion at the Occidental Hotel, Balloting
away in persevering earnest. They have
had about four hundred throws Of the dice,
with no result 1t is the'story Of the one
obstinate juror over again. OF the four
candidates, Mr.. Finney is strongest, and
receives n plurality of the votes nearly
every time, but there are one or two of
the Conferees who vary their votes with
the seeming intent 10 prevent choice.
This non-agreement can not be laid to any
obstiaacy on The part of the Crawford
county delegation, for upon one day last
week their three votes were cast every
time for the candidate from another
county, knowing which, certain other
delegations split their votes to prevent an
election. There is now talk, 1 am told,
of the adjournment of the Conference
sine die, to throw the matter back into the
hands of the people.
The following are the Union candidates
for Congress in Indiana:
First Districl-Gen. William Harrow, of
Evansville.
Second Distribution. W. 0. Gresham, Of
New Albany.
Third District-Gen. Morton c. Hunter,
of Bloomington.
Fourth Distribution. Ira G. Grover, OF
Grecnsburg.
Fifth Di5trict-Geo. W. Julian, of Center
vile.
Sixth District-Gen. John Coburn, of In
dianapolis.
Seventh District-Gen. Henry D. Wash
burn, of Newport.
Eighth District-Godloye S. Orth, of La
fayette.
Bend.
Tenth District-Major VIM. Williams, of
Warsaw.
Eleventh Distribution. J. P. C. shanks,
Of Jay C. Il.
GENERAL.
The rumor that the Hon. Henry j.
Raymond, member of Congress from
New York, returned his $4,000 extra pay
upon reading a certain article in the Times,
wants confirmation.
Ex-Gov. Neil 5. Brown made speech
to Copperhead Convention at Nashville
on Saturday, in which he declared the
rebels of that State would never submit to
be disfranchised.
The Norristown (Pa.) Herald says: of
General Grant should be nominated by
the Republicans and elected to the Presi-
dency in 1868, he will turn out the worst
President we ever had which would
be the handsomest turnout ever seen at
Washington.
John Wentworth tho Chicago Congress
man, had an immense audience Friday
night at Crosby,s Opera House Chicago
Thousands went away unable to obtain
admission. He spoke for nearly two
hours in his own peculiar way, and vas
applauded to the echo, The usual ae-
cessory of a presiding officer was dizPens-
ed with in his case. He said on opening
that he had hired hallaud q band of mu-
sic, but had neglected to hire presiding
officer,
The Illinois State Union Conventional
Springfield, nominated General George
w. Smith, of Chicago, for State Treasury
and DR.. Bateman for Superintendent Of
Public Schools.
Gen. Sherman's name having appeared
as one of the invited speakers at the Sc
called Conservative Soldiers meeting,
held at St. Louis last night, he kas pub
lished card stating that such use Of his
name was entirely unauthorized.
The soldiers of Missouri had q mass
convention in ST. Louis on Friday. Reso-
lutions were adopted which denounce the
course Of the President, and approve the
action of Congress. 4 resolution was also
adopted declaring that the principle OF
universal suffrage should prevail, and that
negroes and whites be required to possess
samequalifcations as voters.
The Delaware Union State Convention
met at Dover, on Wednesday, for the Pur-
pose of nominating candidate for the
gubernational office in that State. James
Riddle and George Tybout were the most
prominent names before the convention
On the second ballot Mr.. Riddle received
seventy-eight votes, and Mr.. Tybout
fortv-nine. Mr.. Riddle was then declared
the nominee Of the Union party FOR Gov
ernor of Delaware. The nomination wa;
. | ,ffor,r-ordg Tpa1a rluanimOus