Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-24
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GOLD closed last evening at 1853.

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chant of New York City, died on Thursday.
TIE cattle disease in England has extern
ded to the sheep.
A WESTERN Union woman sends to the
Secretary of the Treasury $40 as q" the wild
ows mite" toward paying the National debt
SENATOR Focte, the physicians report, has
much improved. Senator Dixon, although
not out of danger, seems TO be convalescing.
A SKETCH of the Quebec scheme of con-
federation of the British Provinces is furn-
ished in our special dispatches.
PETROLEUM has been struck in Rock Is
land county, Illinois, at the depth of 4jO
feet.
PREPARATIONS are being made in Paris
for the accommodation of the 18th New York
regiment, who will visit the Great Expesi-
ton.
ThE principal creditor who procured the
arrest of Geo. n. Sanders, is Arthur Parker,
of Windsor, Canada. His claim amounts to
$4,000.
The Emperor Napoleon recently held an
extended private interview with recreant
American who is editor of a London news
paper, the topic of conversation relating to
Mexican. and U. S. affairs
KALAMzoO, Michigan, is to have woolen
and paper mills, both to cost about SI5O,0O
Subscriptions are now being solicited for
that purpose.
THE State Senate of California has passed
resolutions endorsing the action of the ma
jority in Congress, as against that of the
President by vote of 81 to 29.
A LETTER from the Secretary of the Treas
ury to the Chairman of the Ways and Means |
Committee is given in our Washington dis
patches.
ADAMS Express Company lost three car |
loads of goods valued at sl5O,OOC, by the
Opera House fire. They were insured on
office fixtures $4,000. The Enquirer lost |
100000, insured for s3s, 900.
BRIeADIER-GENEBAL G. H. GRTERsON has |
been made full Major General of Volunteers,
for meritorious service, and it is expected
will be assigned to duty in the West.
The Loan Bill passed the House yester
day, ayes SO, nays So. The Ways and
Means Committee reported it with amend
ments, providing that the Secretary of the
Treasury shall not retire and cancel mere
than ten millions of U. S. notes within six
months after the passage of the act and not |
more than four millions monthly thereafter.
The U. S. Senate yesterday voted on the |
contested election case of Senator Stockton
of n. J., and failed to oust him. The SEN
ate allowed Mr.. Stockton to vote, his name |
being on the roll, and his vote decided the |
question in his favor. On the motion de-
claring him entitled to the seat the vote |
stood, ayes %, nays q.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch says the Fenians |
of that city are discouraged They looked |
for the coup de grace to be given to Canada |
on the 18th inst, but as nothing of the sort |
was ever attempted, they are not as enthu-
siastic or strong in the faith as month ago. |
An Irish schoolmaster is teaching the |
Mexicans English at twenty-five cents per |
lesson. His pupils progress rapidly, and |
now approach every American with An
faith, how are ye % D." The top of themornin' |
to ye," &c. There is some suspicion that |
the master is Fenian.
A FREScHMAx named Heron Flacidus |
Sigisbert Desox, who lived in Cincinnati, |
was found dead Sunday evening last near
Lafayette, Ind. Hs was on his way to Il |
linois to buy land, and had S, 200 in his |
possession, for which sum he had been killed. |
THE Presidentas yet has neither approved |
nor disapproved the Civil Rights Bill. He |
has asked the counsel of distinguished jur- |
lists in regard to its constitutionalitY. II he |
vetoes it, his objection will apply to the
second section. He approves the general
principles of the bill, it is said.
HAVANA letters say that Cuban gentle |
man named Francisco San de Juan, who |
died recently, left his entire estate, valued |
at 100000, to Spanish female school, with |
provision in his will that if the Spanish |
Government shall in any manner interfere
with the legacy, it shall revert to the Uni
ted States. The Cubans are again excited
by rumors that Chilian privateers are off
their coast. Among the late arrivals at Ha-
vana, of ex-rebels, is Robert Teombs, of
Georgia, who has been negotiating for Por-
ton of the Egar estate, but it is said be
could not raise the necessary amount Of
funds. ToOmbs is reported as intending 70
/ settle in Mexico as soon as he is convinced
/ that Maximilian's q throne is on a firm basis