Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-20
THE NEW s.
COIN closed last night at 1854.


GOLD mines, said to yield 50 to the ton,
have been discovered in New Jersey.
Full and interesting foreign news will be
found in our dispatches this morning.
MAN recovered $4,000 from the city Of
St. Louis, last week, for injuries received
by falling into hole in the street.
THE police continue to make seizures Of
unwholesome meat in the New York mar.
ket
TIE house painters of Brooklyn, n. Y,
are on strike for higher wages. They re-
eeiye $500 per day, and want $3.50.
Az organized band of letter thieves has
recently been discovered by the postoffiee
detectives in New York city, and on satur-
day some important arrests were made.
A BILL has been introduced into the New
York legislature to establish board of rail.
road commissioners to secure the safe con-
struction, ETC., of roads.
Hon. HENRY s. FooTz, father-in-law of
Senator Stewart of Nevada, is said to be the
author Of the resolutions on reconstruction
offered by Mr.. Stewart last Thursday.
The planning mill of Althof 4 Co., in Erie, |
Pa blew up on Friday last, killing an |
elderly man named Liddell, and hurting
several others.
THE lower branch of the Wisconsin legis-
lature has defeated bill restoring the
death penalty. The Senate has adopted
resolution striking the word white" from
the law defining the qualification Of voters.
LATE dispatches from Secretary Seward
to France settle the Mexican question, so it
is said. The terms agreed upon are: With
drawal of the French troops within year
and nOn-interventiOn during the with
drawal.
PROVISIONAL Governor Hamilton, ofTexas.
gives more hopeful view of matters in the
Lone Star State than any that have found
their way North. While admitting that
the convention which has recently sd-
iourned accomplished nothing, he thinks
eventually all needed reforms in legislation
will be made.
YOUNG man named Alex Stevens at
tempted 10 commit suicide in the st. Louis
calaboose the other night by hanging him
self He was cut down before life became
extinct, and when asked why he tried to
kill himself gave as q reason that fthed-d
IAlA@a -4.---I i-rf7r--aIIy YVES enough u
make anybody do itp The police intend
cleaning the calabOose!
The muddle over the mayoralty of New {
Orleans begins to assume clearer propor- ]
tions. Mr.. Kennedy, the old mayor, it s
seems telegraphed to the President ex-
pressing doubts of the loyalty of Mr.. Mon
roe, elected to succeed him, and asked
whether he should yield up the office; to
which the President replied, in effect, that
he knew nothing about the matter, and in
the absence of positive official information )
against Monroe, it was to be presumed that {
he was entitled to the Office. Mr.. Monroe g
himself telegraphed the President that he e
was intensely loyal, approved the Presiden-
tial policy of reconstruction, and SO forth.
It is to be supposed, therefore, that the
Monroe doctrine" will prevail without U
further opposition in the Crescent city. E
CONGRESSIONAL; House-A bill was intro
iuced to amend the Pacific Railroad and
Telegraph act of '62. Mr.. Dawson, Of Pa,
introduced resolutions adverse to guarantee
ing the Mexican bonds, but no action was q
-aken on them Mr.. Farnsworth, of Ill, v
offered joint resolution appropriating S2O,-
300 for the survey of Rock river in Illinois,
with reference to water communica-
lion between the great lakes and the
river. A joint resolution Z
was adopted, yeas 80, nays 81, that both b
Houses should adjourn, (if the Senate con- \
,ursl on the - day of May. Mr.. Garfield /,
moved reconsideration of the vote on the !,
Loan Bill, and the House by vote of 81
against 81 reconsidered the vote by which n
hat bill was rejected last Friday. res a
'lution was introduced instructing the
Committee on Military Affairs to report a
bill at an early day to e9ualise bounties.
....Senste-Petitions relative to recon- p
'tructiOn, International copyright law, tariff a
N wool, increase of pay of army officers, s.
'tc., were presented also s petition from
he former slaves of 7. W. Custis, asking
hat portion of the Arlington estate be Ii
et apart for their use, all of which were g
'eferred to the appropriate committees.
The Military Committee reported the Home
oill to establish a national home for totally
disabled soldiers. The bill passed the Sen
lte and is ready for the signature of the
President. Mr.: Wilson introduced bill to !.
'qualize bounties, a synopsis of which is
given in the proceedings. The House joint
-esolution on adjournment wes received
md referred to the Committee on Finance.
were passed eondemning the ;
lttempt TO send a Swiss convict to this v
country. c