Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-26
THE NEWS

rate sound-readers are in demand.
EXTENSIVE frauds and thefts of o. s. prize
goods have been brought to light in the
Brooklyn, N. Y, Union storehouses.
A FAMILY of five persons was burned tc
death at fire in Baltimore on Saturday
last. .r..s rs--
PETRoLEux oil has been found in Mexico,
according to the latest news from that eoun-
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Tar Iowa Legislature endorses the Union
Congressmen from that State who voted for
the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
DISPATCHES from Albany state that the
floating ice passed down the river without
in the least injuring the railroad bridge.
THERE is said to be a great demand for
labOrers in Cuba, and cargoes of Coolies are
expected to arrive there.
A pIsPArcH is published, said to have been
sent to Washington from New York by Sec
retary Seward, that "the Presidents speech
is triumphant and the country safe."
There was an ice gorge in Oil Creek, at
Oil City, Saturday. The water was 1--WE feet
deep in Main street. Considerable damage
had been done and more was expected.
A. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia, made speech
on the 22d inst. at Milledgeville, sustaining
President Johnson's policy of reconstruc-
ton.
THB coroner's jury in the case of H. A.
Edwards, for shooting A. s. Murray, in Gin
cinnati, the other night, returned verdict
of fjustifable homicide.
CroAR and tobacco manufacturers are in
formed that boxes used second time with
out the .. s. Inspectors brand being scraped
of, makes them liable to penalty of $500
a box. The same applies to oil and whisky
barrels.
The Sam Gaty was snagged at Turkey
Island chute, in the Missippi, on Wednes-
day. She was valued at 100000 and insured
for $4,000. 1t is believed, however, that
she can be raised r,--.-.
THE trial of Major Gee, the commander of
the rebel prison at Salisbury, N. c., has be-
gun before a military tribunal. The charges
are violation Of the rules of civilized war
fare and murder. There are many specif-
cations of outrageous cruelty.
GES. GRANT, on Saturday, spent some time
in examining the specimens of chirography |
on exhibition in New York of left handed |
Union soldiers, and by request left spec
linen of his own penmanship with the Com
mittee. --e-.
TIE friends of the President in Baltimore |
have called public meeting to be held to-
night to endorse his policy; while the true
Union men have issued call for meeting
to be held on Thursday night to sustain the |
Union Congressman.
"A TORNADO passed over Knoxville, Tenn,
morning about o'clock, blowing
down thirty or more houses, tearing off tho
roofs off the depot and machine shops of the
Virginia Railroad, and off the round house
of the Georgia Railroad, and doing consid-
cradle damage to other property.
TeE steamer Hinman collided with the
steamer Mamie Byers, at 2 o'clock Saturday
in the Ohio river, near Madison,
Ind, sinking the latter boat almost instant
ly. A large number of lives were lost, some
reports say thirty, and others say between
sixty and seventy. The latest dispatch
says twenty persons were drowned.
A MASS meeting of the friends of the Eight
Hour Labor movement was held in Cincin-
natl on Friday evening last. Speeches were
made and resolutions passed requesting
and Legislators to support the
passage of bills establishing eight hours as
a days work.
tbs Memphis Commercial of the goth
says: ave understand that the rebel Gen.
Forrest was arrested on Saturday last by
U. S. Marshal Rider, on warrant issued
from the o. S District Court in March last
on an indictment for treason. Gen. Forrest
entered his personal recognizance for his
appearance at the ensuing March term of
said Court"
THE New York Reralds Washington
special says the reports that Secretary Stan
lon has sent in his resignation ire thicker
than ever on the streets; also that General
Stedman has been sent for to hold consul
iation with the President, and that strong
pressure is being brought,to bear to secure
he appointment of Frank P. Blair as Sec
retary of War. 4
TIE murder of the Roosa family in Deer
field, Warren county, Ohio, about year
lgo, as our readers will remember, was one
If the most bloody and horrible in the an
nails of crime. All efforts to discover the
perpetrators proved unsvailing. Numerous
arrests were made, but in no case could the
guilt be proven against the parties arrested,
and they were released. 1t seemed really as
f it were one of those instances of crime
which promise for all time to battle the at
,empts of justice to ferret out. But there is
/ probability that the authorities have now
yot on the track of the murderers, and the
,ft quoted proverb that "murder will OUT
nay still hold good in this case. Some time
Iince a man living in Cincinnati was ar
,ested for this crime, one Samuel Covert
having sworn that he heard him avow him
Ielf the perpetrator of it; but when the ac-
,used was brought to trial he proved an
Ilibi by perfectly trustworthy witnesses.
Covert was then convicted of perjury and
lent to the penitentiary. Since then an
other person by the name of McNeal was
arrested and from some information obtained
from him suspicion was directed against
Covert and the grand jury of Warren coun-
y found four indictments against him for
murder in the first degree. On Wednesday
last he was taken from ::the penitentiary to
Lebanon and arraigned before the court of
,ommoh pleas to answer the indictments.
BE plead not guilty. The trial commences
next Thursday.
A Special Messenger 70 Washington.
1t is reported that special messenger
eft this city for Washington, on Friday
morning, to look after the interests of
several gentlemen holding official posi-
ions in this locality. Will this messenger
be successful in accomplishing his pur-
pose ?--PLaiB Dealer.
Who can he be2 Is it G. B, s.? Has
be given his adhesion to the President as
against Congress.