Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-27
THE NEW

GOLD closed last night at l255@126.
TIE Government is about to commenc
the rebuilding of Fort Sumter.
TIE Reconstruction Committee have mad
up their report, including General Lee
testimony, and will probably present it to
day.
AsroR contemplates building an immens
hotel in New York, on the Square bounde,
by Forty fifth street, Broadway and Seventh
Avenue.
A STATE convention of colored people me
in Lexington, Kentucky, on the 2Sd inst
General Fisk delivered an able address.
Gov. MORTON telegraphs from New Yorl
to indianapolis that his health is somewha
better. He is expected to return during tn,
present week.
IT is announced from Rome that six new
Cardinals are to be appointed in June next
Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, s. c., is to BIZ
one.
A WOMAN in Madison county, -Nabama
was killed by lightning on Thursday night
while seated in her home, with child in
her lap. The child was stunned.
TIE number of deaths in the o. S. army
during the rebellion, exclusive of those
who died from wounds and other causes
after reaching their homes, amounts to 25S,
900.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York Times
says that the Canadian authorities have
made arrangements to destroy the Niagara
Suspension Bridge in the event of Fenian
raid.
COLORADO" JEwErr has issued an appeal
for a ''no party" convention to meet in Phil
adelphia in December next to nominate a
candidate for the Presidency.
A WAsHISGToN special says the Senate
galleries were crowed yesterday in antici-
patton of the veto of the Civil Rights Bill,
but it was not sent in, and may not be un-
til tomorrow.
A DUEL was fought yesterday morning at
daylight, between two Ksntuckians in Lex
ington, Kentucky. At the second fire one
of them was shot through both hips.
THE Legislature was in session yesterday,
the members having returned from Cincin-
natl Sunday night. Our special says they
were greatly pleased with their visit but
probably made very little progress in the
settlement of tine Agricultural College ques-
tion.
A LETTER of Secretary Seward to Minis
ter Adams, published in the dispatches on
the third page, gives an official history of
the famous Hampton Roads conference be-
tween President Lincoln and committee
of leading Confedrates.
A FELLOW in Colorado was recently arres-
red for knocking a man down for the pur-
pose Of Eobbing him. He escaped from jail,
was retaken by the Sheriff, and taken from
the Sheriff by vigilance committee and
hung.
A NOTION was made in the United States
Senate yesterday to reconsider the vote by
which Senator Stockton, of New Jersey,
was declared entitled to his seat. Mr..
Sumner made an argument against the
right of Mr.. Stockton to cast a vote in the
case. The vote to reconsider was lost. So
Mr.. Stockton retains his seat.
ADoLPH KRAMER, of tie firm of J. NJ
Slime, Kramer 4 Co., well known and
highly esteemed merchant of Chicago, was
sufOcaied to death by the escape of gas in
his lodging room Sunday night. He went
to bed about 10 o'clock, and as was sup
posed, turned off his gas, but from some de-
feet in the jet, enough escaped to produce
death, as when found in the morning life
vas extinct.
TSx Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday says:
"Anofher big strike has been made in the
Bennehoff Run. The well was at first
pumped, but the force of the gas became so
great as to soon render this unnecessary.
The dimensions of the saream seem to be
only limited by the size of tbe tubing. The
production will probably amONnt to seven
hundred barrels per day."
EreHrEEx men were accidentally poisoned
in the town Of Lisbon, Michigan, short
time since, all of whom have died, The
men were engaged in logging, and had
hired man 70 do their cooking, and he
had used csrelessly package of stryeh-
nine, mistaking ii for ssleratus.
LrEUr.-GEE. GRANT, who during the war,
was bearded like pard, but whose whiskers
was invariably kept neatly cropped in ac-
cordanee with the rules of military eti-
ouette, appeared on the street in Washing
ton, the other day completely shorn of his
facial hirsute sppesdage.
WEEKLY meetings of the National Lincoln
Monument Association are held in Spring
',lA, Illinois. Gov. Oglesby is President
A. the last meeting the report of the treas
10. = showed that $500 had been re-
,oirs I within tie week. 1t is designed to
noLatNe anniversary of the death of Mr..
rincoln the occasion Of the issuance of
,resh appe.s1, and adoption of more vigorous
for securing funds for this object.
ArTER their first night in Cincinnati, the
members of the Legislature were shown the
ions. toasted, drinked and dined in fine
,tvle. Saturday morning they visited
spripg Grove Cemetery, Longyiew Asylum
for the Isnane, and College Hill. In the az
.ernoon they had another reception st the
of Commerce, where there was
speech making. Among the
legislators who were called out, were
Sorthew way of Ashtabuls, Sawyer of Huron,
Gardner of Fayette, Thornhill of Coshoe-
ON. and others. Mr.. Pike, of the Opera
House that was, was presented and made
neaf little speech. Some of the members
eft for Columbus on the Saturday evening
.rsiu. brat the most of them stAid over un-
il Sunday night
soNKr1u in October last, man by the
name of H..E. Durfee accompanied by q
woman and Itte girl, put up at hotel in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, registering at the
hotel as man and wife. The next morning
he party left town in buggy, and the
next day Durfee returned alone. The day
after the little girl was found abandoned
twenty miles north of Grand Rapids, and
afterwards the body of the woman was dis
covered IN the woods, evidently having
been murdered. Last week the Sheriff OF
Grand Rapids arrested Durfee in Writ
county, West VVirginia, anal returned with
him 70 Michigan. a e
s The London Times, speaking fer the