Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-15
THE N EW s.

THE legislature of Nebraska met on tn
9th inst. at Omaha.
THE order to disband the negroes in Mis-
sissippi, issued by the Governor of tha
State, has been revoked.
GEN. scHoFIELD had complimentary din
ner given him in Paris on the anniversary
of the battle of Nashville.
WV. MAoKAY, cashier of the Sub Treasury
at San Francisco, is defaulter to the gov
ernment to the amount of $4,000.
The total number of national banks nov
in existence is sixteen hundred and twenty
six.
A. CALL and Provisional Gov. Marvin
have been elected to the United States Sen
ate from Florida, and are on their way to
Washington.
PRESIDENT JUAREz writes from chihuahua
that he has the universal approval of the
Mexicans in holding on to the Office OF
President.
GEN. BRIssIN has drawn up plan for the
reorganization of the regular army, which
does not differ materially from the plan
proposed in the bill before the Military
Committee.
EETHE Iowa Legislature on Friday elected
Samuel J. Kirkwood U. s. Senator for the
short term, and Jas. Harlan for the long
term.
GEN. MERRIrT and not Custar is the officer
charged with uttering reasonable language
at public meeting in Texas recently.
GEN. GRANT does not recommend the i'm
mediate withdrawal of all the troops from
the South, and doubts the propriety of arm
ing the militia.
TIE fellow who called on Senator Wade
and made bowie-knife demonstrations, is
from Massachusetts,, and is said to have
been in trouble. Undoubtedly he was
drunk or insane. AS
The colored people of st. Louis on the
I1th inst, had grand celebration of the
anniversary of the emancipation of slavery
in Missouri. Mr.. Langston, of Oberlin,
cOlored, was the principal orator of the
occasion. 74a
Miss HARRIET LANE, who presided over
the White House during the administration
Of her uncle, President Buchanan, was mar
ried on the 14th inst. at Wheatland to Mr..
Henery E. Johnson, Baltimore banker.
PARIS people have been in the habit of
getting their news from the Independence
Beige, but late decree of the Emperor pro-
hibits the circulation of that paper in Paris,
and it is rumored the same course will be
pursued with English and American jour
nails.
GEN. SHERMAN has written letter to
friend in Alexandria, La, contradicting the
report that he owed the position of Super
intendent of the Louisiana Military Acade-
my, which he held before the war, to Bragg
and Beauregard Measures the South that
it was better he should have scourged them
than that it should have been done by Gen.
Butler or some others of that school.
A DELEGATION of northwestern distillers
and whisky dealers are in Washington, for
the purpose of urging upon Congress the re-
duetion of the tax on whisky to one dollar
per gallon, They represent that the pres
ent tax is ruinous to their interests, and
amounts almost to prohibition of the pur-
suit of this business.
AN old-time instance of pre- slavery ruff
ianism happened at GordOnsEille, Va, last
week, where the people informed the agent
in charge of mail train, who was Yam
kee, that no Yankee should run on their
roads; and but for the escape of the agent
would have done him bodily injury. The
Postofice Department have stricken Cor
louisville from the list of postofices, and
mail trains now run by that point.
The breaking up of the ice in the Missouri
and Mississippi caused great destruction
of steamboats, at st. Louis, on the 18th inst.
The field of ice came crashing down stream
like an avalanche, brushing steamboats,
from the wharf as if they were canoes.
Nineteen boats, aome of them the best on
the river, were carried away from their
moorings and crushed between the ice
cakes. The total loss by this disaster up to
midnight of the 18th, was over half mill
lion.