Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-24
The NEW S


Gold closed last night at 1907.
An order has been issued aboIishing the Provost
Marshal Generals Bureau,
Yergeunes, Vt, celebrated its Tooth birthday
yesterday. 81
Gen. H4rsee, late of the rebsl army, was in Gin
elnnati day bafOre yesterday.
Gov. Orr has issued a proclamation cOuyening
the South Carolida Legislature the 4th Of Sept.
The Buffalo Postmaster, A. N. Cnpp, has been
SUPERB sdsd ~ joseph oandee, JOhnsouite.
II consequence of the presence Of cholera the
Public Schools of St. Louis will not be opened un-
til September
slight shock of AR earthquake wss felt at Lit.
tie Rock, Ark, Sunday night, lasting several
minutes.
Seven lives are known to have been lost by the
ire at J,rssy City on Sunday, and it is believed
the number will be increased.
Thsre-are now sss prisoners in the Ohio Psnti-
tsntisry-the largest number since the war broke
out.
General Grant, owing the pressure Of official
business, will not be able to attend the Douglas
mouumsnt celebration at Chicago.
1t is stated that General Tfnson will succeed
re-u, some time during the month.
The municipal and national officers in New York
are making arrangements for the reception of the
President, who is expected to reach that city next
Wednesday.
Ice formed a an inch thick on the telegraph wire
at Mt. Washington, n. H, yesterday. One of
them was broken down in consequence.
One effect OF the last peace proclamation is to
ducs the pay Of private soldiers from sixteen dol
lars to eleven dollars.
Among other notorious visitors at the White
House the other dsy, were the ex-rebel General
Dick ray lor and Hon. Henry J. Raymond.
general Custer has en- appointed to Lieuten-
ant cOlonelcy in the regular army, in return for
his services at Philadelphia.
It is said that President Roberts a nd General
Sweeney are not on the best Of terms, and that q
new split in Consequence viii take plaes in the
Brotherhood
The eholsrsis riotlng in st. Louis The NUN
ber of interments in twenty-for hours up to ten
O'Clock Wednesday night was $50, of which the
greater number were undoubtedly cholera cases,
though the report says only Ils were from cholera
Two New Yorke.s, David RosenfeId and Frank
Sheridan, were arrested in Pittsburgh, on Mon
dEy, for forgery, at the suit Of Ciahin Co., one
of the iargs.t wholesale dry goods Arms in New
York City.
There is much dissatisfaction among army OIL
GERS on account of the clause in the army bill re-
ducing the Communication for rations from fifty to
thirty cents.
Napoleon is said to have informed the Pope
that the French troops will evacuAte Rome the
very day named in late order, and that His
uo1IHes isPaIitica'Iy aud hnaneialIyi
with Italy Afterward.
The work on the great suspension bridge at Gin
cinnati, still progresses very rapidly The cables
are coBpete in every detail. and the work Of put
ting on the iron bands and Suspenders, TO which to
attach the bridge-way proper, has been commenced.
Two negroes were found murdered Sunday night
nine miles from Nashville. One had his head split
open with a batchet, which was lying near. The
other was shot. Three bullets passed through his
heart.
Mrs. J. @. Carlisle, Secretary, has reported the
net proceeds Of the National Soldiers and Sailors
Orphsn's Fair az Szs SSS 81. OF this the Penn
sylvAnia table is credited with So 900; New York,
S. 1000 Kentucky, $500; Michigan, $500; Ohio,
$3.50; Missouri, $50.
General Sheridan has been applied to for protection
by many of the Union citizens, and the Tribune,
the only loyal sAIly newspaper in the city, has
been forced to suspend publication through fear of
mob violence.
The murderer, George Bishop, was brought into
court at Detroit on Tuesday morniug. His Honor
Judge wilkins, refused a new trial and SEN
tenced the prisoner to be hanged on Tuesday, Oct.
9th, at the Fort Gratiot Military Reservation. He
is, in the mean time, to be confined in the Wayne
county jail, 10 Detroit.
The Chicago Tribune's specisl from Washington
says that General Grant present st the inter
visw between the President and the Bread-and-
Butter delegation from the Phi'adelphis Conven-
sion, by the Presidents direction. To signify that
he was there under the orders Of his superior OIL
zee, he tsok his staff with him.
Persistent attempts are daily made, both at the
White House and at the Postofice Department, to
prevent the correspondents Of Union Journals from
learning anything concerning the public busi-
ness. To thiA attempt the President himself is a
party, and the object is to have the news of all
public events first reach the country through de-
eided Administration papers.
The following gentl,nen have been designated
by the committee appointed for the selection Of or
atOrs for the Soldiers and Sailors Convention to
be held in this oityon the I1th OF september hW-
ing Of Kansaa, Rousseau of KY, Crittsnden Of
KY, l. D. Campbell, steedmsn' and AeOook' oi
Ohio, Dix and HAlpine OF n. y Sol. hereoith oi
lad Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is named for
ChaplAia.
The MY. Post commenting upon the dispatch
from Europe announcing the aoanoonment oy ma
Poleon of his protest TO extend the ifontiers OF
.h. ae.ndonnsnt :so.ios: at once hi, Gva a, o'Sst vet