Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-27
THE NEWS.

nA. fAkMENTERJ formerly member oi
Congress from Massachusetts,, died Sunday
: in East Cambridge.
r a SoUrHERs paper states that the greatest
Southern victory that has been achieved
3 achieved since the battle of Bull Run was
,, the capture of President johnson.
! WIsFALL escaped from Texas about three
weeks since-so says dispatch from Gal
weston. Where he came from or went is not
mentioned.
IT is stated that Commodore Vanderbilt
has sent Chas. D. Ashcroft to New Orleans
to ascertain prospects for establishing a reg
ular line Of first class steamers 10 ply be-
, tween New Orleans and Havana.
AMoSe the letters from Washington which
we print to-day, on the inside of the paper.
is one written by Cleveland lady, (which
gives an interesting description of society
in the capital.
A LETTER is published in our special dis
patches from Gov. Cox of this State, who is
now in Washington, which gives the sub
stance of the statements made by the Presi-
dent in an interview he had with him on
Saturday.
TEE steamers Dictator, Luna, Leviathan
and Antopa were burned at the levee, St.
Louis, last night, together with a large
amount of freight. The loss has not been
aseertained, but will probably reach
$780, 900.
THE controversy between the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company, and the Atlantic 4
Great Western Railway and the Catawissa
& Reading Railroad was yesterday decided
in the Supreme Court at Philadelphia in
faver of the Pennsylvania road, the injunc-
tion prayed for being granted.
MORE than half dozen letters were yes
terday received by Representative Mckee,
of KY, detailing outrages against the
Freedmen of that State. One case of the
shooting of two negroes and robbing them
of all their families, had occurred, and
upon the arrest of the perpetrators of the
act they were discharged on writ of habeas
corpus sued out and tried before Circuit |
Judge of the State Court.
WRrrs of habeas corpus were issued yes
terday at Louisville, KY. by Judge Ballard |
for the bodies of Captains Reed and DENIM
who were lately fined and committed to |
jail in Campbell county KY, for protecting |
the polls at the late election. The cases are
important and will present the whole |
subject of the powers of the military where
martial law prevails. Eminent Union law
yers have volunteered their services to Gen.
Palmer.
On Friday morning an accident occurred |
on the Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati |
Railroad. The mail and passenger train
which left sandusky in the morning had |
proceeded as far as Green's saw-mill, when |
two of the passenger coaches were thrown |
from the track by the breaking of a rail. |
The coaches were badly smashed, but none |
of the passengers were injured. The train |
was detained some two hours before coaches |
were obtained to accommodate the passen-
gers.
An affray occurred at Deerfield, Warren |
county. Ohio. Friday, between DR.. Littleton |
and VIM. Lee, of that place, by which it is |
supposed the latter will lose his life. Lees |
entrails were cut so that they protruded
from his body, making it highly improbable
that he can survive. DR.. Littleton is at
Lebanon, in the custody of the authorities.
The trouble originated is some family diff !
Guilty.
ANose those who had interviews with
the President yesterday, were Governors
Cox, of Ohio, sharkey, of Mississippi, and
Parsons, of Alabama; Generals Steadman,
McCook and saxton, and also number of
old Democratic members of Congress from
the State of New York, who are temporarily
in Washington. The latter expressed to
him their approval of his policy for the res
toration of the States and their desire to CO.
operate with him in carrying out the same.
In the House yesterday petitions were
presented from publishers and booksellers
asking q repeal Of the duty on finished
books, and asking for a duty of % cents per
pound on imported books in addition to the
present ad vaIoreH. A petition asking for
repeal of the tax on barrels and casks, and
memorial from the Minnesota Legislature
asking for post route from Redwood Falls to
Montana Fails, Minnesota.
THE stern-wheel steamer Mamie Byers,
which left Cincinnti for st. Louis on Friday
evening, when near Eagle Hollow, one and
half miles above Madison, Ind, at three
o'clock Saturday morning, collided with the
Peoples Line large side-wheel steamer 6.
/ E. Hillman. The Hillman's bow hit the
Mamie Byers on the larboard side, just for
ward of the cylinders, criPpling the engine,
cutting through her guard into the hull
which rapidly filed with water, causing
her to sink almost instantly. All the pas
sengers and the officers and crew, save those
on watch, were in their berths and asleep.
ALL the officers aud cabin crew were saved
The bartender, the colored chambermsid,
several of the deck hands and fifteen pas
sengers were drowned. An Irish deck pas
senger named John Quinn, of Cleveland,
lost his wife and child.