Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-23
POLITICAL.

The Columbus Statesman says: "1he
whisper is running through the city that
Governor Cox is revising the p~roof-sheets
of a speech he intends delivering in be-
half of the Radicals and against the Pres
ident.'.
The Congressional Convention Of the
Twentieth Pennsylvania District Will be
held in Franklin On the 18th inst. The
probability at present points to S. Newton
Pettis, of Crawford county, as the sue
cessor of the Hon. C. V. Culver.
The New York Citizen thinks General
John A. Dix will probably be asked to
preside over the Philadelphia Conven-
ton.
MI. John Davidson, of Elizabeth, is
named as the Union nominee for Congress
in the Sd New Jersey District.
Gideon j. Tucker writes TO Mrs. Boil
meyer, offering fifty dollars toward a new
monument 20 her husband.
There will be a State Convention at
Petersburg, Va, on the 26th of July, to
elect delegates to the Philadelphia Con-
vention, August IA.
The following gentlemen are named as
probable delegates from Maryland to the
Philadelphia Convention, August IA
William II. Purcell, recently rejected as
postmaster at Baltimore; Governor Swan,
Ex-Governor Pratt, Reverdy johnson and
Benjamin G.. Harris.
Colonel StiIwell and Colonel j. P. G.
Shanks are the Republican candidates for
tho Congressional nomination in the
Eleventh Indiana District.
The Bureau Ill.) county Convention
has INSTRUCTED its delegates in favor of
the denomination of Hon. L. C. Inger-
soil to Congress, and for Gen. Logan for
Congressman at large.
The Philadelphia Press says the forth
coming Convention in that city will be
the third rebel invasion of Pennsylvania.
The fate of the two previous attempts in
dicates what will follow this.
1t is reported in Washington that VIII
liam Cassidy, of the Albany Argus, or
Manton Marble, of the World, is to be ap-
pointed 10 the Naval Office in New York,
50 as to give Mr.. Smythe, the new Col
~lectoF, the benefit of sound advice in
welding the patronage Of the Custom
House.
The Democratic Congressional ticket in
New York city, for the fall election, ap-
pears TO stand about as follows: Ben
jamin Wood in place of Morgan JONES'
John Morrisey in place of Nelson Taylor;
James Brooks in place of VIM. f. Dodge;
Robert B. Roosevelt in place of Henry ].
Raymond; and George McLain in place
of VIM. E. Darling.
General John Colburn was nominated
on Thursday as Union candidate for Con-
gress from the Sixth Qndianapolis) Dis
triet of Indiana, now represented by Cen
eral Dumont. The course of the latter
was endorsed. On the same day, General
William Harrow was nominated from the
1HlFO OlsLrlct@A lDlacE $
A telegraph from Lancaster to the
Cincinnati Commercial announces that
Hon. Thomas Ewing has written a letter
to Hon. G. II. Browning, indorsing the
call for the Philadelphia Convention.
Mr.. Ewing has no political prospects to
throw away, and can afford TO take this
course better than a younger nan
Gov. Dennison has rendered his services
to the Union State Central Committee
during the coming campaign. He has
promised to speak in New York and In
diana.
The johnson men of the Third Con-
gressional District mean to beat Schenck
by putting up Gen. Durbin Ward, OF Lee
banon, a War Democrat, who served in
the army during the rebellion, against
him, with the understanding that Ward
should receive the Copperhead vote.
Judge Thurman, of Ohio, will probably
go to the Philadelphia Convention as a
delegate from the Seventh Congressional
District, and Vallandigham as a delegate
from the Montgomery District.
Dan Rice, the circus man, has formally
consented to be Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Erie district.
General Grant approved of the Consti-
t%utional Amendment.
Three hundred heads of Radical post
masters fell under the Presidents chop
ping knife ON Thursday, and their success
eors were nominated to the Senate.
AT a meeting of the Democracy held at
Omaha City OF July II, George Francis
Train and VIM. F. Lock were chosen
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.
Among the delegates appointed TO at
tend the Philadelphia Convention from
Iowa are Augustus Cesar Dodge, Henry
Clay Dean, and I. W. Claggett-ss bad a
trio of C~opperheads as can be found north
of Mason and DixJn's line.
When General Sherman reached Wor-
cester, an enthusiastic genius in the crowd
cAlieu lot bhIee cheeTs lOr SHc AeAI Iresl-
dent General Sherman" but the General
protested that he was not g candidate, and
said that during the next campaign he
should be fighting the Indians.
A Washington correspondent of the
Worcester Spy intimstes that Senator
Foster, of Connecticut, may possibly join
the johnson party, and the Boston Post
intimstes that Senator Poland secretly
favors the Philadelphia Convention. Both