Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-31
Associated Press Report.
General News.

ELEes
PHILADELPHIA, January 9O.-A fire COM
menced at midnight in a block of stores on
Water street and Delaware avenue below
Vine street, occupying the site of the great
fire in 1871. Among the sufferers are VIM.
B. Jones, Cory, Cox & Co., Tomhnson &
Hill and John G. Davis. The contents of
the stores were badly burned and the loss
will be heavy. The buildings, owing to
their substantial character, were not very
seriously damaged, the fire being confined
to the upper portions. TomlinsOn d Hill
ere the heaviest sufferers by the FIRE, los
ing 800 barrels of -four, 2,lOO bushels of
grain and ten tons of mill feed, besides
other miscellaneous goods.
NEWARK, N. J., January S0.-The Petro
leum refinery of Mr.. James Chantens, on
the corner of johnson and McWhartOn
streets, was destroyed by fire this forenoon.
Two of the stills exploded and terrible
eonhagration ensued, and seriously iDjuring
three Of the workmen. A large quantity of
material and all the buildings were de-
stroyed. Loss estimated at $20.060.
Escape of the Notorious Jack shepherd
SING SING, January SO.-Tho notorious
Jack Shepherd, jr., as he styles himself,
escaped from Sing Sing prison at half past
II o'clock this afternoon. He dressed him
self in citizens clothes and seized horse
and sleigh standingin the prison yard be1
longing to Mr.. Bowen, of the shoe manu-
factory, and drove through the village, tax
ing the route towards Pleasantville, on the
Harlem Railroad.
Expected.
OTrAwA, C. w., January 30.-Lord Monck
is expected to arrive in Canada shortly,
when, it is reported, an early session Of Par
lament will be called.
Reinsfated.
Judge CARAT is to be reinstated.
From California.
SAN FRAycIsoo, January 29.-Adviees from
Yerka say that the weather up the coast for
the past two weeks has been the most severe
ever known. The snow on South Mountain
is from II to 10 feet deep.
No mails have been received from the
south in twelve days.
The telegraph line is broken in hundred
places.
Communication with Washington Terri
tory over the mountains is broken off,
The telegraph line is reported to be al
most totally destroyed in Washington Terri
tory, and much damage to other property
has been sustained in Willamette valley.
General Halleek has issued a general
order directing the military posts in the
harbor and vicinity of San Francisco be
detached from the District of California.
The order materially reduces the heimportance
of the Department of California, and re-
lieves General Mcdowell OF fully half his
duties.
A large public meeting was held here last
night for the organization OF branch Of the
American Freedmen Aid and Union Com
mission.
Gov. CurtIn's Message.
PHILADELPHIA, January SO.-Gov. Curtin's
message was communicated to the Legisla-
ture to-day.
The financial report shows an improve
ment in the condition of the Treasury, since
November 80, 1860, of over 81, 100000, not
withstanding the large expenditures made
for military purposes. The extraordinary
expense growing out of the war, not refund
ed by the general government is S4OO, 600.
On the lst day of December, 1865, the State
debt was nearly half million dollars less
than on the 1st of January, 1861. -
The Governor then gives highly inter-
esting statement of the action of Pennsyl
varia in the prosecution Of the war for the
Union. He alludes to the promise of the
| Federal authorities to reimburse the exPen-
ses of the emergency troops and the failure
of Congress to do so, and recommends the
Legislature to adopt measures to bring the