Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-19
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THE President has decided TO order th
muster out of all white volunteers.
MASON, of Trent notoriety, is stopping {
the s.. Lawrence Hotel in Montreal.
TIE proceedings of the Unconditions
Union Convention, in session at Alexandri:
Va, viii be found on the third page.
Tax Senate in Executive session yester
day confirmed number of civil and mill
tary appointments.
A LARGE meeting of the unconditiona
Union men of Baltimore was held las
night.
The Merchants National Bank of Wash
ingtOn will be able 10 pay about three pc
cent. on the amount of its liabilities.
THE Rev. Geo. Burgess, D. D., Bishop o
Maine, died while returning to this country
from the West Indies last month";
TEE Ways and Means Committee hav,
decided that sugar made from sorghum
shall be added to the free list.
THE steamer Lion, on trial trip Thurs
Thursday afternoon, exploded her boilers
two miles below Montreal. Six lives were
lost and seven persons severely injured.
A FIKE at Goldsboro, y. C. Thursday
night destroyed block of four buildings,
including printing Office and an express
company.
HEAD Center Stephens starts on a tour
through the United States next Monday.
sweeny says Stephens is nothing more or
less than British spy.
A CONVENTION of officers of Southern rail-
roads is in session in Richmond, Va, to
prepare q uniform schedule of time and
rates.
A New YoRk dispatch reports a single
sale of gold in that city yesterday on Gov
ernment sccount to The amount of 81, ,50O,-
900 at 1903.
The two hundredth anniversary of the
settlement Of New York City was celebrated
by the Historical Society at that place, and
also by the-civic and military authorities.
TIE Senate yesterday passed resolution
authorizing the Adjutant General of Ohio to
distribute through the mails, free of charge,
the medals voted to veteran soldiers of the
State by the Legislature.
TaE proprietor of the N. Y. Sunday Times
was robbed at the opera house last Wednes-
day evening of $500 in Treasury notes
md $500 in stocks.
BELIEF prevails in diplomatic circles that
l European war is inevitable, thatNapoleon
will withdraw his troops from Mexico at an
sariy date, and that MaximiIisn will find
himself obliged TO return with them for
want of money.
The House resolution declaring Mr..
Delano, Representative from the 18th Dis
trict of Ohio, entitled to his seat. was yes
terday called up and passed. Mr.. Follett,
was allowed mileage and pay
for loss of time.
The steamer Helvetia, which left Liver
pool on the 2nd inst, for New York, after
being out one day put back with several
eases of cholera on board. Two German
smigrants died with the disease. The
steamer had sly passengers aboard.
BREvEr Major General Chas. R. Wood,
at Mobile, has isiued an order
oy direction Of the President Of the United
States, prohibiting Raphael semmes from
the duties of Probate Judge of
Mobile, or any other civil or political Office
If trust while be remains unpardoned by
he President.
1T has been some time since we have had
. railroad accident to chronicle, but one is
reported 10 have occurred on the bridge at
Tenn, day before yesterday, by
which seven lives were lost The bridge
gave way and let the cars down 100 feet in
70 the water.
Much surprise is expressed in Washing
on because Baron Stoeckel, the Russian
Minister, has called upon Senior Romero,
he latter not being recognized by any
,ther member of the Diplomatic Corps
not from personal considerations, but be-
,ause he is not regarded as representing
any legitimate Government
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the House
yesterday, instructing the Committee on
Public Lands to inquire if system cannot
be adopted by which the treeless plains in
he interior ofthe continent may be planted
with forest timber. It is thought this OBJ
ect may be partially effected by granting
alternate sections of the land in those regions
10 corporations and individuals, provided
they will plant trees on the adjoining sec
lions.
IT is rumored that Mr.. George Peabody
will soon add large sum to the Internal
Revenues of the Government by paying his
income tax, as citizen of the United States
resident in London, for all the years 1862,
'6s, 'e4 and '65, including the extra war tax,
on his income for 1864, levied by act of
Congress July 3, 1864. Mr.. Peabody, it is
said, will make his returns to the Assessor
of Revenue, at Danvers, Massachusetts. It
will thus be his good fortune to contribute
to the support of the public debt of his
native country, incurred in the war for the
preservation of its great Government
against treason and rebellion, while hon
ored at the same time by the Queen ofGreat
Britain for his munifcent gifts to the poor
Of London.
Cleveland Law Library.
Shall we have a public law library in
this city? Shall we be excelled in this
respect by Cincinnati, Columbus and
Detroit2 Shall this city be, judicially,
the metropolitan city of the United
States 7th Judicial Circuit in preference
70 Detroit, or Cincinnati, or Columbus
Shall the United States Court of Appeals
about to be established for Ohio and