Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-28
NATIONAL MILITIA
From New York.


aids Toronto special says reports from
the English detectives at Pittsburg say
the Fenian General Sweeney's plan is to
make a demonstration against Canada
about the middle of March, with a small
force, and strike New Brunswick via the
Maine frontier with his main columns.
Gen. Grant.
Gen. Grant left this city for Washing
ton last night on the midnight train. Du-
ring yesterday forenoon and afternoon
he made an inspection of some fast trot-
ting stock, and visited some Of the manu-
factory and mercantile establishments of
the city. During this last visit to New
York Gen. Grant has been presented by
several of our leading wealthy citizens
with a purse of $4,000
Among the subscribers were A. 7. Stew
art, w. b. Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt,
j.. B. F. Lanier, L. W. Jerome and others.
Thirty thousand dollars of the amount
were used to discharge a mortgage on the
Generals house in Washington, and the
balance, $4,000, is being invested in Five
twenties.
Major-Genera Daniel Butterfeld is the
agent who collected and paid over the
sum The money was presented without
any ceremony.
Last night a brilliant reception was
given to the General by the 23d Guard
Regiment, at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music. On leaving the Academy, he was
driven to the Brooklyn Club House, where
an ovation was prepared for him.
General Steadman.
The Herald's Washington special says
that General Steadman was telegraphed
to last week by his friends to come on to
Washington at the earliest practicable
time, for consultation with the President
on the phase of public affairs. He arrived
yesterday morning, and had an interview
with the President during the forenoon.
Many profess to believe that in event of
a Cabinet dissolution he can have the
Portfolio of War.
The Worlds Washington special saws:
The Senate Committee on Military Affairs
yesterday, decided to report a Joint resolu-
ton that it is the duty and privilege of
Congress to express the gratitude Of the
Nation 20 the officers, soldiers and seamen
of the United States, by whose valor on
the land and on the sea, the rebellion has
been crushed and its pride and power have
been BUNDLED; by whose fidelity to the
cause of freedom the government of the
people has been preserved and maintained, |
and whose orderly return from the fire
and blood of civil war to the peaceful pur-
suits of private life, the exalting and
ennobling influence of the free institutions
of our Nation has been so signally mani
tested to the world.
Assassination OfFred Douglass.
Fred Douglass writes that an attempt
was made to assassinate him in Baltimore
last Sunday night.
National Militia System.
The Worlds Washington special saws
the Senate Military Committee resolved
their meeting yesterday to report q bill
to provide for the national defense by es-
tablishing an active and uniform national
militia force throughout the United States.
The first section makes every able
bodied male person between twenty and
forty years of age subject to enrolment
for militia duty.
The second section exempts all of the
executive and judicial officers of the Gov
eminent and of all the States, members of
both houses of Congress, postmasters,
pilots, mariners, telegraph operators, and
all persons in charge of the mails.
Several sections provide for the estab-
lishment of a Militia Bureau in the Adiu-
tant Generals Office of the Wal Depart
ment.
SEC. s-Requires the appointment of an
Adiutant General of militia in each State,
to be selected by the Government, who is
to attend reviews, inspect the militia, &c.
Section 10 says that there shall be or
in all of the States one regiment
of active volunteer militia for each Con-
gressional district. All officers of this &C
tive force are to be appointed by the Gov
ernors of the States and Territories, but
the War Department is to furnish all the
and equipments, and the said militia
the President caa order all or any
part into the service at n time. The
General, in order to secure
uniformity in the militia may cause an in
spection to be made from time to time.
The Pirate Shenandoah.
NEW YORK, February PA letter
Melbourne, Australia, says that while
the pirate Shenandoah was in that port,
American residents laid plans for her cap
They chartered a small steamer
and selected a crew, who were TO board
the Shenandoah and if successful tow her
ont to sea, meantime getting up steam,
when they would abandon the small
and steer for an American port.
Everything was conducted with the great
secrecy, but the Shenandoah went on
dock for repairs the day before the time
for the enterprise. Afterwards a
was fixed in front of the dock SO
as to blow up the Shenandoah as she
Aoated out, but the apparatus was defec-
tive and the torpedo failed to explode.
Denied.
John 0Mahony publishes a letter to the
editor of the Herald stating that the
assertion that he was about TO dismiss
is untrue.
Accident to General Grant.
General Grant narrowly escaped a fatal
accident yesterday while examining a
newly invented rifle. He took hold Of it
in such a manner that it was accidentally
discharged, part of the cartridge entering
his left hand and lodging in the palm and
thumb, and wounding him, the report
says, very seriously. The scene of this
unfortunate accident was in the apart
ments belonging to General Grant, his
aids and four children of the General
being present. The bail lodged in the
wall of the room opposite to where Grant
was standing at the time of the accident.