Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-23

TUE New York legislature is down q
the deadhead system, having passed BIZ
prohibiting the issue of free passes on rail
roads.
LIEUT. GEN. GRANT, family and party o
friends are in Richmond, Va, on visit t
e relative of Mrs. Grant.
Cor. CooPER, one of the CongressmeI
elect from Tennessee, is acting as privat.
secretary to the President, temporarily.
Br the tumbling down of the walls of az
old building in Boston, yesterday, thret
children were killed and one young woman
badly hurt.
Thai large class of the poor of New York
who live in cellars, are to be removed tc
healthierlOcalities, and temporary cholera
hospitals are to be established.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch announces that
JEFF. Davis is to be released soon on a parole
similar to the one on which C. C. Clay was
liberated.
The Connecticut Arms company are man
ufacturing sheep-shearing machine, which
is said to be marvel of mechanical tri-
umph.
A GENERAL jail delivery of colOred pris-
oners in Washington, took place Saturday,
with the consent Of the auth critics. They
were all sent to Louisiana.
Mrs. GEN. GRANT is President and Mrs.
Gen. Sherman Vice President of National
Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home Asso-
citation just organized in Washington.
TzE first installment of the proceedings
of the Bruner court martial, new in session
at Nashville, will be found in Saturday
nights dispatches.
Az organization has been formed in New
York for the purpose of supplying the poor
with medicines, &c, if the cholera should
prevail there.
A QUARTER of an acre of Gland" has been
made in Chicago within short time by
emptying cart loads of ashes into the lake
1t is said to be worth $4,000.
The cholera among the passengers of the
steamship Virginia is said to be increasing
at an alarming rate. Thirty-three new
cases are reported.
TIE City Council of indianapolis has de-
cided in favor of the eight-hour system, by
a vote OF 10 to !, instructing committee 70
report an ordinance making eight hours
days work for all city employees.
TaE Charleston South cr7oliniaa chrOni-
cles new phenomenon in that city, name
ly, a-demand on the part of the blacks for
higher wages. The colored stevedores are
TO work unless paid two dollars
a day.
GEN. t. w. SHERMAN, commanding the
Eastern District of Louisiana, has ordered
that the power of convening courts-martial,
and of military sentences and pardoning,
cease at his headquarters. General Candy
will organize a new court for the trial Of
such cases as yet remain undisposed of.
THE Presidents message was read in Chi
ma forty-three days after it was read in |
Washington Itwas telegraped from Wash
ington to San Francisco and carried thence |
to China by a sailing vessel, that made the |
remarkable quick passage of forty days.
TIE Trustees of the Soldiers Home have
adjourned until Tuesday next, without ap-
pointing the officers, OWING to the fact that |
there was no quorum present. Capt. Isaac |
Brayton, says the Cincinnati Commercial, |
VIII probably be re-appointed superintend-
ent
THE Cincinnatians have taken hold of |
the work of increasing their commercial |
with the South by the building |
of Southern railway. -Four ofthe railroads |
leading into tho city have subscribed S6GO,- |
600 towards the project, and individual sub
have been made of 500, 900 more.
A committee of Influential business men has |
been appointed to canvass the city with sub
papers.
A HEAVY robbery was committed last |
Thursday night on the premises of a Mr..
Pellet, farmer near Norwich, Chenango |
county, y. Y The robbers entered the
house in ihe absence of the old folks and
tortured a boy until be informed them
where the money was kcF-ss- They secured
5, 600. |
THE French Minister at Washington has
the State Depsrtm ent that the
French Government accedes to the neutrali-
y proposal made by Secretary Seward in
-egard to Mexico, and will wi tbdraw the
srech troops by installme1ts-tshe first in
November next, and the rest in May, 1867.
A RETURNED New Hampshire older, who
lad been sent to the State Prison two years
or stealing turkey, has been pr srdoned by
Governor Smythe, who took into considers
ion the temptations in that d ireetion to
which he had been subjected wi ale in the
Irmy.
gan armed mob, represented as number
ng from 25 to 200, attacked tlse tanks of
harley Co., at shaFer, Pa, on the Goth,
rove off the watchmen, and set fire to the
anks, which were entirely consumed. The
mob defed the people, and prevented any
fort to extinguish the q ames. The guilty
'arties are known TO be teamsters who are
ut Of work. The tanks had been set IN
re on the 18th, probably by the same par
les, but the flames were extingaished after
he destruction Of about 1000 b,lrrels of oil.
81. F. Marry, Dire ctor of the National
at Washington, ex-rebel and
resent eolonizer in Mexico. is now in Paris
ngaged in petitioning the rebel sympathiz-
rs in England and France for the relief of
estitute southerners- He h as written q
hTee column letter to the London Morning
Herald, in which he estimate the pecupia-
Y losses of the peopleof the Southern Con-
ederaey at $1,000, ,OOo, zoe, falling on less
han eight millions of Uhites
IT has been known for 50 me years that
here were gold washiHgs in Brown county,
nd, but no persevering attempts were
aade to develop their reso1i ees. Recently,
.oTeTer, more attention b as been paid to
he subject The Fndianspe lis Journalssys:
We have seen and exam ined some gold
rom Brown county, and 1t is as near the
ure metal and is found IN as large quanti-
les as it is ealifornis. Old miners say that
be mines in Brown county viii pay equal
: as well, if not better, th; an the mines of
he golden El Dorado; and it only remains
II some adventurous pers0 rs to set the tide
owing BY enbarking = little capital and
'ying the question thor eue bly," !
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