Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-22
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over to the civil courts.
AMERICAN papers containing Bancroft'G
grafton were seized in France by order Of
the government. e
A WAsHISeTOE special says it is believed
the President will veto the Civil Rights
bill.
A CANDLE factory was blown down and
two houses unroofed, in Columbus, by the
storm that prevailed Tuesday night.
The report that the cholera has reached
Mobile is denied in telegram from Mont
gomery, Ala.
The Democratic State Convention of
Rhode Island met in Providence yesterday.
No ticket was nominated.
The London Times, in an editorial,
strongly supports President Johnson's veto
of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
A CONVENTION of Kentucky soldiers is to
be held in Louisville on the 10th and 18th
of April.
SENATOR FooTE, of Vermont, is not ex-
pected to recover from his illness. Senator
Dixon's illness is also growing worse. Both
are in Washington.
TIE bill fixing the time of manual labor
at eight hours a day has passed both
branches of the Ohio State Legislature and
is now law.
A NEW company has been organized for
laying the Atlantic cable. 1t is called the
Angio-American Telegraph Company, and
on its board the old company will be re-
presented.
CLEMENT G. CLAY, on his parole of honor,
is allowed the freedom of Fortress Monroe
in day time, but at night is locked up in his
cell.
A MAN by the name of King, in Louis
vile, who confessed himself guilty of the
attempted assassination of Secretary Sew
ard, endeavored to commit suicide yester-
day by opening blood vessel of his arm.
IKR Cook, formerly Postmaster of Chicago,
was sued by the Postofice Department to
recover a balance due by him. He mas
paid the amount over five thousand dol
lars, and the case has been dismissed.
A BILL was introduced in the United
States Senate yesterday to aid the construc-
ton of the Kansas & Neosho Valley Rail
road, connecting Iowa, Missouri and Kansas
with the Gulf of Mexico.
A CITIZEN convicted by the military com
mission at Richmond of the murder of
Union soldiers has been released by the
Secretary of War, because of a clerical
error in the report.
A PHILADELPHIA judge has decided that
negroes must not ride in street cars pro-
vided for white people. The case calling
forth this decision is to be carried up to the
Supreme Court.
a GERMAN savant has written letter to
Secretary Seward in regard to the rinder-
pest, prescribing petroleum oil, by external
application and internal doses, as means
of preventing the spread of the disease
among cattle.
IT appeared, in the course of the House
proceedings yesterday, that the Arlington
Estate, including the cemetery where the
Union soldiers are buried, was bought by
the United States at tax sale in 1854, for
$26,sOO, and afterwards turned over to the
military authorities.
THET make the gentlemen of the press
toe the mark" in the Sandwich Islands.
An editor in Honolulu, who charged the
Legislature with bribery in a certain case,
was imprisoned month and only released
on condition that he produced his authority.
But then, they are only half civilized in
that locality.
CLARK, Comptroller of the Treasury, has
addressed note to the editors of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, in which he
states that he understands they have pub
lished an "infamous slander against him."
and suggests the necessity of proper re-
traction.
THK House of Representatives of the Ohio
Legislature has accepted the invitation of
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and
arranged to leave Columbus at lao P. NJ.
on Friday. The Senate, yesterday, also
accepted. The Cincinnatians are making
preparations to extend hospitable welcome
to the legislators.
GOVERNOR Cox was on Monday presented
by members of his staff-Generals Cowen,
Day and McDermott, and Colonels Nc
Cleery and Bliss-with painting by Prof.
William Mcleod, of the United States
Treasury Department, Washington, repre-
senting "Cox's Bridge at Antietam," the
central point of the great struggle on the
left in which General Cox's division bore SO
conspicuous part.
THREE prisoners attempted to break out
of the Columbus jail last Monday, by dig
ging through the wall of their cell into the
hall and from thence tuRnelling out; but
after performing an incredible amount of
labor they emerged at a wrong point, from
which escape was impracticable, and re-
turned 10 their cell in no amiable humor.
The regular evening inspection of the jail
by the keeper discovered the attempt that
had been made, and the prisoners engaged
in it were ironed and sent to the dungeons.
LIQUOR is the cause of most all disturb
ances, and it is now at the bottom of an
tissue" between the United States and the
State of Massachusetts. Massachusetts, has
laws sgainst the selling of liquor, and re-
Gently seized quantity which was being
vended unlawfully. The United States
grants licenses to liquor sellers, and the
other day the liquor in question was re
seized by the United States Marshal and
returned to itsowners. An important ques-
ton is thus brought before the Supreme
Court for settlement.
On CRY and Reno are rival points in the
petroleum district. Reno is ahead and
wants to be more so. A consolidation Of
railroad lines has recently been effected by
which a third track on the line of the
Atlantic Great Western is made to run
directly through Oil City to Reno, whereai
Oil City is boiling over with indignation
having no idea of being made q peanut
station on q Reno railroad. An indignation
meeting was held in Oil City on the 4th
inst, and a set of resolutions passed pitch.