Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-18
THE N EW s..


Cob closed last night at ISss.
GEN. GRANT expects to settle down in hi
new home in Washington next week.
THE White House ia 30 be re-furnished be
fore the close of the. present month.
TAE lower branch of the New Jersey leg
= fslature passed the Constitutional Amend
ment yesterday by vote of 42 to 10.
Gov. GuETIx and family, of Pennsylvania,
arrived at New York in the steamer Eagle,
from Havana, yesterday.
You've KErcHUx, the:upper-ten forger, has
Commenced an apprenticeship to the shoe
making trade in Sing Sing.
CHICAGO has been selected as the place to
hold grand sonveEtion Of Fenians on the
lst of February.
Con. WIEsIow, the principal witness
against the piFste eemmes, has arrived in
Washington. The trial, it is supposed, will
take place soon.
THERE Is arumor in New York that "a well
known ngoyernnentdetectivev has absconded
deeply in debt 10 his subordinates. Wonder
if it is Bakerl -.--
THE LegIslature of West Virginia met on
the 10th. The report Of the Adjutant Gen.
eral shows that 81 900 men were furnished
to the Union army from that State.
IT turns out that Kerrigan mauled Phelan,
instead of Phelan beating Kerrigan, in the
prize Hght in New York the other day. As
il is an important item, we make the cor
rection.
Mrs. DOUGLAS was published" last Sun
day at st. Aloysius (Catholic) Church, at
Washington, as engaged to Col. Williams,
Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the
U. S. A.
A 5000 fire, the muster out of batterE
Of cOlOred troops, the sentence of four mur-
derers to be hung, and an aitercatien in the
Tennessee Legislature, are items of some
pith in a Nashville dispatch of yesterday.
Ex-REBEL Generals Pillow, Hood, Long
street and other notable southerners, lately
hired 1O,OeO white labofers in Cincinnati
and purchased 800 cotton plOws. That's
better evidence of reconstruction by far,
than running for Congress would be.
Tar Republican caucus of both branches
of the Legislature last night nominated
John Sherman for the Q. s. Senate On the
second ballot. The vote stood, Sherman 40;
schenck rs !; Bingham 10. The Democratic |
caucus nominated Allen 6. Thurman, of
Columbus. @z
A FAMILY fend betweenthe Gapulsts and
Montaigues, otherwise the families of Kav-
anaugh and Parish, of Richmond, KY,
broke out into regular blood letting few |
days-aso -sen.n- sixty persons were en-
gagged in the melee, Of which number ono
was killed, three mortally, and half a dozen
seriously wounded.
"A FEAtew who INDUCED in the pastime of |
passing counterfeit money and making him
self otherwise distasteful to a law abiding |
community, has been assuming the name
of Gen. E. W. MeCook, of the celebrated Nc |
Cook family. He was brought up short at |
Wheeling, Va, the other day, and is now in
limbo.
REPORTS come from the Rio Grande that
on the lEh inst. . party Of IiIlihusters from
the American side surprised and captured |
the garrison of French troops in Bagdad,
Mexico, IT'S strong, plundOred the town and /
still held it at latest dates. A French man
of-war shelled them but without much eff
feet, The hllibusters are said to be 500 |
strong, under command of Col. Reed.
Br New York dispatch it will be seen
that one D. ]. Herriek, surgeon OF the ship |
Neptune, Is held fesponsible for the death
Of q woman which occurred on board that |
vessel on recent voyage from Europe to
this country. The facts, as we learn them |
elsewhere, reveal a most disgusting case of |
cruelty. The women was a poor Irish emil
grant, who died from being frozen while un- |
dergoihg the perils Of childbirth. The sur
geon of the ship paid no attention 10 her as
she lay in her berth, with stin-born child, |
with such insufficient clothing that her |
limbs were frOEen to her knees, and her life |
made a sacrifice to this terrible cruelty.
BUFFALO papers furnish particulars of |
fearful adventure on Niagara river, on Sat-
urday last, in which one man lost his life,
while two others were wonderfully rescued, |
the survivors having, for three hours, foated |
on ice-cakes seven miles, drilling toward |
the falls. Mr.. William A. Thompson, of |
Buffalo, President Of the New Erie and Nj |
agara Railroad, having found himself on
the Canada side on Saturday, attempted to |
cross Niagara River in skiff, accompanied |
by black boy named Bartlett and man
named Warren. They pushed out from |
shore ct five o'clock in the afternoon, and |
avoided the floating ice until they had |
reached the middle of the river, when
their boat was wedged in between the drift
ing ice, and partially stove up. Disembark
ing on large cake, they just succeeded in
pulling the boat on it likewise to bail it out.
when rush of ice-cakes swept them off and
upset the skiff. Warren was drowned
Thompson and the black boy, by dint Of
great effort, crawled upon 81 assy piece of
ice some thirty feet in length, and thus,
with frozen clothes, hoated down stream
rapidly, with the crashing and grinding of
the ice in their ears for music, and the dis
tant roar of the falls coming up through the
darkness as a song Of hopelessness. As
they passed the lights on the shore, they
yelled at the top of their voices, but no sue
cor came until they had hclplessly drifted
seven miles. At last they were heard and
answered from Grand Island, and were res
cued by boat which put out from the shore.
The Cory Telegraph daily of recent
birth in the Pennsylvania oil region, hith-
erto neutral in politics, has pronounced in
favor of the Republican party. We wish
it success.
The editor of the Dayton Journal ac-
cuses the Rev. ]. T. Headley Of plagiarism
| in bis life of General Sheridan, adding that
twenty pages of said book were the lucu-
bration of the editor, who was a war cores
pondent. The same author was many
yeaas ago charged with extensive and
frgrant plagiarisms from George Lippard.