Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-08
Spec1aIDispatches.
Especial Dispatches to Western Associated Press

sENMEs' TRIAL.
| NEw YoRK, January IA dispatch from
Washington says about thirty commanders
of vessels destroyed by the Alabama have
already been summoned as witnesses in the
approaching trial of Semmes.
AMOUNT REALIZED.
The government has realized within the
last two years the sum of 81, 200 900, as the
proceeds of cOn6seated cotton, sugar and
other property in the State of Mississippi.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
A movement is on foot in the Southern
States TO erect memorial cathedral to the
Confederate dead. It is proposed to build
house of refuge for the widows of fall he
rOes, and a college for the the sons, the whole
to be placed under the charge of the Protest
ant episcopal church in the United States.
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
voked so much of the circular forbidding
the importation of foreign cattle, &C., as re-
fers TO Canadian horses, mules and asses.
Such animals may be brought into the
United States from that country, provided
| they are not imported from other countries
via Canada.
PARDON APPLICANTS.
Applicants for pardon appeared in in
creased force at the White House to-day.
The applications of dozen or so unimpOrt-
ant AlabamaiaRs were granted. Mrs. Jane
Moore, sentenced for mail robbery, was also
pardOned.
SUPREME COURT.
Twenty-four important prize cases will
come up in the Supreme Court on Monday
The Attorney General has engaged addi-
tional counsel to argue them.
CANADIAN NEWS.
The Tribune's letter from Montreal saws
the Executive Council is in session but all
the members are not present Mr.. Blair the
new President has not been sworn in.
Nearly all the Canadian Chieft of De-
partments are in Montreal.
Fhr- Governments -hus--riuuitfcyf- to iIave1
Canada well represented at Paris in 1867
and the sub Committee Of the Board of Arts
and Manufactures for Canada East has sug-
gested to the Minister of Agriculture to hold
Central Fair this year at which selections
could be made from prize goods for trans
mission to Paris.
NAVAL BOARD, :
NEW YoRK, January THE Navy De-
partment has ordered Board TO meet at
the New York Navy Yard on the 7th Of
February for the examination of applicants
for the office Of Assistant Naval Constructor
in the naval service. The Board is compos-
ed of naval contractors s. NJ. Park, Z. J.
Delano and Edward Hartt.
WHAT IT WILL COST.
It will require two million dollars to re-
establish the lighthouses on the Southern
coast destroyed by the rebels.
ABANDONED. IN ru
Advices received by the Acting Commis-
sioner of Customs represent that the SNUG
Cling business has been to great extent
abandoned.
APPLICATIONS.
During the last week over 400 applica-
tions for clerical appointments were re-
ceived at the Treasury.
APPLICATION FOR coxPEysATIcx.
A H. P. Nicholson, the former Senator
from Tennessee, having made application
for his compensation between the time he
left the Senate in 1881 to the period of his
expulsion. His petition has been refused
by the Secretary Of the Senate.
FIRE.
RUTLAND, W., January IA fire broke
out last night in G. F. Richardson's livery
stable, adjacent to the Rutland Herald
building. The horses, carriages and sleighs
were saved, but the building was consumed.
The Herald was not injured. Loss $50 900.
Insured in the North American Office. Z
THE WEATHER.
PHILADELPHIA. January THE weather
to-day has been the coldest of the season,
the thermometer ranging from ten to eight
degrees above zero, a
From PTTTsBURGH.
PITTSBURGH. January THE weather is
intensely cold. "A
A number Of boats in here cannot get up
on account Of the ice,