Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-11
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TEE Presidential veto of the Colorado b
. has been written, but not vet sent to Co
gress.
A New YORk telegram announces the a
rival yesterday of James Stephens, Fenil
Head Center, on the steamer Napoleon II
A CONVENTION of delegates from non Epi
copal churches is in session in Cincinna
to discuss and effect basis of Union.
TEE ship carpenters of New York hsv
been on e strike FOR eight weeks. The
number about four thousand.
TIE Senate yesterday confirmed the nom
inatiOn of Mr. smythe as Collector at Me-
York.
An article from the London Erau.iaei
brOaching an entirely new theory of choler
treatment will be found on the inside O
this mornings paper.
We print on thesecond page athorougl
and accurate account of the late Memphi.
riots, prepared by a correspondent of tn,
Cincinnati Gazette.
Tar city railroad companies at New Yorl
are quietly discharging the drivers engaged
in the late strike, as fast as they can supply
their places.
GEE. scHoFIELD has been making a two
months trip through Italy and the South Of
France He has now returned to Paris
where he intends to remain for some time
FIVE hundred and forty thousand dollars
in mutilated currency was redeemed and
destroyed, and four hundred and twenty
two thousand issued, last week
Ma. C. RosE, citizen of Terre Haute, In
diana, has contributed, within the last two
years, $4,000 to the Give Points House of
Industry" in New York
SECRETARY Seward is in Washington, the
telegram yesterday announcing his passage
through Harrisburg en- route for New York,
being incorrect
THE "secesh" of New Orleans in private
circles are particularly severe on General
Sheridan's testimony before the RecOnstuc-
tion Committee.
TIE joint resolution reported by the Re-
construction Committee, providing for an
to the Constitution. Yestcr-
day passed the House by the requisite two
thirds vote.
THE pirate Semmes was elected Judge of
Probate for Mobile county, Alabama, last
Tuesday. The papers there describe this as
an emphstic Endorsement of the President
policy.
THE anniversary of the death of Stone
wall Jackson was celebrated in Richmond,
Va, yesterday, by the ladies decorating the
graves of rebel soldiers with flowers.
THE Republican caucus of the Connecti-
cut Legislature Tuesday evening nominated
Gen. o. 8. Terry as their candidate for U. S.
Senator.
TIE l25th U. s. Colored Regiment with a
train of lis wagons, passed through Topeka,
Kansas yesterday, on the march to New
Mexico. Many of the officers had their
families with them.
Miss FRASCIs II. DAYTON, the young lady
who, it will be remembered, was shot by
VIM. Russ, on the 2Sd of December last, in
Clinton street, Brooklyn, New York, has SO
far recovered as to be able to be removed to
her home in Connecticut.
THE British Government has offered to
he widow of George Gordon, executed for
ais alleged participation in the Jamaica in
the restoration of all his conf,-
,ated property pretty severe criticism
ipon the course of Gov. Eyre.
IT should be understood that packages of
nutilated national currency, in sums
to more than s., will be received
It the Treasury. So many packages with
ust that sum are received, that it is thought
hat people believe that to be the limit.
THE remains Of seven Ohio soldiers, be-
onging to General Mitchelrs famous "Rail-
'Oad Expedition" who were hanged by the
'cbels, have been removed from Atlanta to
where they have been prop
'rly buried.
A TREATY has been made with the Bais-
Dot band of Chippewa Indians, by which
hey eede to the U. S. Government all the
aud heretofore held by them. The gov
'rnment is to make provision for their future
comfort.
A SHE'LL, purchased for old iron, exploded
n an iron foundry at Waltham. Massaehu-
Otts, Tuesday afternoon, killing three per-
Ons, and severely wounding another. One
# the persons killed was formerly captain
n the S5th Massachusetts,.
A REVOLUTION in Spain is talked Of, having
or its object a change in Sovereigns, son
If Victor Emanuel being named as success
'or to Queen Isabella. As General Prim is
Engaged in the movement, it will not of
course, amout to anything.
Az early reduction of the rates of inter
postage may be expected, as the
British Government has decided not to al
low the Cunrad monopoly of carrying the
mails. The heavy subsidy paid to that
line by the British Government has here
iS4OA0 DCoA tAS NAlSl VO5edctc 70 EcuuceO
-ates of postage.
TIE Commissioners appointed by the
President to treat with the hostile tribes of
Indians on the Upper Missouri last fall, ez-
press the opinion that it will be highly dan
yerOus tomake any further surveys of routes
for the wagon roads projected through that
country, before the treaties with the In
aians are ratified and the amunities paid.
LrKur. BLASDISe, Adjutant of the Freed
mems Bureau, while walking the streets of
Mississippi, in company with q
Mr.. Woodruff, the other night, was shot BY
some unknown person from behind, and
pierced BY three bullets, which caused his
death in about two hours. Tbs citizens of
held meeting and denounced
the act, and adopted measures to prevent
such atrocities in the future.
II was an interesting day in both houses
Of Congress yesterday. The debate and
vote on the amendment in the House at
trasted crowded galleries,a1d the announce
nent of its passage called forth great ap-
plause. Thad. Stevens made one of his
hitting speeches. Mr.. Nye, in the
Senate, in the debate on the pending Post
Office appropriation bill, which has brought
the whole policy Of the President into re-
view, alsc made speech remarkable for its
energy and spirit Mr.. Doolittle INDUCED