Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-29
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Washington yesterday morning at o'clock
THE evacuation of chihuahua by tn,
French is confirmed. Jaurez and his cab
met were expected to return there abou
the goth inst
TEE Secretary of the Treasury asks Con,
gress to appropriate s2Oo,eOe t5 enable the
Dismal Swamp Canal Company to go OF
with their work.
A MADISON, Wis, telegram says thai
negroes in that State are allowed to vote
under law of 1s49, which the Supreme
Court has just decided to be constitutional.
A New JERSEY committee presented a set
of resolutions to the President yesterday
and received speech in return, which is
duly reported in our special dispatches.
IT is stated, in our midnight market re-
port from New York, that Culver & Penn
have made en- assignment to Howard &
Prough.
TIE testimony of Gen. Lee before tire Re
construction Committee, the commence
ment Of which is in yesterday afternoons
dispatches on the third page, will be found
completed in this mornings report.
JUsr before Senator Foote died be et
pressed desire to tste last look at the
Capitol. Accordingly he was raised in his
bed that he might do so, and as his eyes
rested on the building he expired.
applied to the New York Agency for space
at the Paris Exhibition. 1t is proposed to
collect in New York, this fall, all articles
intended for exhibition, and select from
them the best, TO be sent TO Paris.
AN artist in New York *ss instantly
killed yesterday by an accidental pistol
shot, the weapon being in the hands of a
friend; and foolish young fellow commit
ted suicide because he had been swindled
out of all his money.
AsoUr the middle Of next month a vessel
will sail from Republic Bay for the Arctic
regions, which will afford an opportunity
to communicate with Capt. Hall. Letters
or packages addressed TO B. C. osborne, 1872
Nassau street, n. Y, will be entrusted to
the captain Of the vessel.
GEN. BAKER, detective Of the War Depart
ment was yesterday sentenced to pay a
fine of one dollar and the costs of the suit
amounting to about $50, which he paid in
court and was released. The remarks of
the judge, in pronouncing sentence, are
given in fullin our Washington dispatches.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco says a
ledge of gold bearing rock of great richness
is reported to have been discovered within
fifteen miles of Victoria, Oregon. An earth
quake shock was recently felt at Montana.
A regiment of volunteers has been sent to
Fort Benton, from Montana, to repel a
threatened Indian attack.
In the Senate of the State legislature yes
terday the bill authorizing cities of the
irst class to levy tax for sewerage pur-
poses, was passed. The Senate Committee
on Agriculture reported in favor of locating
the Agricultural College in Licking county.
No action was taken on the report. Both
Houses are rushing business with reference
to an adjournment on the 9Th of April.
IN the Senate proceedings, yesterday
morning, the vote on Mr.. Clark's motion
declaring Mr.. Stockton not entitled to his
seat, was enormously transmitted. Mr..
Stockton was ousted, and is not now
member of the U. s. Senate. The motion,
by the Senator's friends, to postpone action
in his case was lost: yeas is, nays %. The
figures in yesterday mornings report were
transposed, making it appear that the New
Jersey Senator was not ousted.
JACK CoOPER, the Rhodenbaugh murderer,
who is to be hung April 9th, has confessed
t lat his real name is Samuel Wittum; that
his father lives in Erie county, Pa, and
once lived in Ashtabula county, on what
was called the ''old Grant farm = also, that
he (''Jack Cooper has been married twice,
his first wife being dead, and that he has
several sisters and brothers living. He is
silent on the murder, but promises his cler-
gyman to "tell all" before he dies.
Caesar, who built the Chicago Opera
House, failed shortly after its completion,
owing more than the establishment cost
Much sympathy was felt for him by the
citizens of Chicago, and now, that the time
for the disposition of his property for the
benefit of his creditors has been postponed
till the first of June, they have given prac-
teal direction to their sympathy by inaug
urating the plan of putting up the Opera
House in lottery scheme, with capital of
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
with one hundred and fifty thousand tick
cts at FIVE dollars each, which they hope
will result in relieving him of his embar-
rassments.