Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-27
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can and Nova Scotia viii be found in tn
dispatches this morning.
NEWS from Mexico confirms previous re
ports of the re-capture of chihuahua b,
the Liberals.
RENT payers in New York are holdinl
meetings to resist the exorbitant terms de
manded by landlords. --
OFFICIAL correspondence on revenue mat
ters is furnished in the dispatches thi
morning.
Mr.. CHAs. F. Browne, (Artcmus Ward
it is said, has been offered 10000 in gold
together with his travelling expenses, for
six months lecturing tour in England.
THE Senate yesterday confirmed great
number of civil and military appointments
among the former that of Geo, A. Benedict
as Post Master in this city.
TwEETr-THREE new cases of cholera have
been admitted to the hospital ship, New
York, and two deaths have taken place
since last report. ...--
An account will be found in our dispatch
es of the late capture of a ships cargo Of
arms and ammunition, intended for the
Fenians, at Eastport, Me.
YESTERDAY was celebrated in Memphis
and in other localities at the South in men,
ory of the Confederate dead. Their graves
were TO be strewn with flowers, and other
| demonstrations made.
PRoBsT, the murderer of the Deering
| family, continues to assert that he had an
accompliee, but those who are most with
him, including the minister who attends
him, do not believe it.
a CHOLERA panic occurred among the ne
groes of Washington yesterday, occasioned
by the sudden death of two of their num-
Der. An investigation showed that the
cause of their death wes eating too much
fried fish.
GovEREoR POTTER, Of Alabama, has issued
a proclamation declaring the new penal
law of the State in force on and after the
lst of June. The law Furnishes horse and
mule stealing with death.
In the Senate, yesterday, MIR. Sumner Of
fered a resolution providing for the expul-
sion of Garrct Davis, of KY, who had as
serted if the Civil Rights hill became law
he would be an enemy to the Government.
The resolution was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
MEMBERS Of the Board of Trade and 9TH
ers whose influence has been asked to has
ten the passage of the Northern Pacific
Railroad bill, viii find instructive matter
relevant to the subject in the report of YES
terday's Congressional proceedings.
CoSGKATULAToRr messages were yesterday
exchanged between the Governor of Van
couver's Island and the President and Sec
retary of the United States on the compile
tion of the telegraph line between that ISL
and and the United States.
IT is estimated that the government will
save from $4,000 to 1000 year by sell
ing the returned mutlsted currency, the
paper being reduced to pulp, TO the paper
makers, instead of burning it as tie prac-
tice has been heretofore.
The civil and military authorities at
louisville have got twisted up in a jangle
over writs of habeas corpus in the Nash
Vile court martial case. The Judge of the
U. S. District Court yesterday issued an or
der for the arrest of Gen. JEFF. C. Davis,
who forcibly resisted its execution. At
tachments against Davis, Gen. Thomas and
others have been issued by the Court, re-
turnable in Nay.
SOME revelations of sensation character,
in regard to the old Cunningham Burdell
murder have been recently made by pris-
oner in jail at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
He claims to have been intimate with the
Cunningham family; that Mrs. C. offered
him S25 600 and her daughter Augusta in
marriage if he would kill DR.. Burdell, by
whose death she would receive S1OO, 600 ;
which offer he refused, but slept in the
house the night Of the murder, knowing
before he went to bed that the deed had
been committed.
WHILE the circus Of John Robinson was
exhibiting at Crittenden, Ky, twenty eight
miles from Covington, Wednesday of this
week, party of six or eight rufians rode
up to the door, dismounted and demanded
admission. The door keeper refused to let
them in unless they would purchase tick
cts, whereupon they drew their revolvers
and commenced firing into the circus. The
master of the ring, RobinsOn's brother, wss
killed, and several of the performers and
spectators were wounded, several OF them
mortallY. After firing about forty shots
the scoundrels mounted their horses and
gallOped of.
CArHARISE JOHNSON, of advanced age,
Jumped from third-story window in Phil
adelphis, on Tuesday night, while laboring
under fear and nervous excitement. She
had heard much about the murder Of the
| Deering family, and was in constant dread
at night of her apartments being entered
BY those who would do her harm. A short
time before she made the leap she heard
voices in the lower part of the house, and
faneied her only means of escape to be out
of one of the windows, but before jumping
she dressed herself fully, even to putting
on her bonnet. Strangely enough, she did
not seriously injure herself, one of her
wrists only being slightly sprained. The
voices which Mrs. johnson heard proved to
be those of occupants Of the house, SO that
her alarm was entirely groundless.
THE Pittsburgh Commercial has further
particulars in relation to the finding of the
body Of Mr.. Housman in the Monongahe
Ia river at Bellevernon, Pa, and the ares
Of his wife and one Thairwell as the sus
peeted murderers, mention Of which wa
made in our news items yesterday. Mrs
Housman has confessed the following: Sh'
says Housman and her were quarreling
when ThsirweH came into the house. A
the sight ef Thairwell, Housman beeam
greatly exasperated, and attempted to shoe
: him. ThairWel returned the shot, killing
Housman. Thairwell and herself then pu
q rope around the neck of the murderes
I man, toek the body to the river and anch
ored il in the water. This man Thairwel
boarded in the family for some time, AM
it was proverbisl that the wife and b.