Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-27

FATAL RAILROAD
PEEKsKILL, N. Y, June 26.-At three
o'clock this afternoon the up gravel train,
when near this place, was thrown from the
track, killing C. B. Wheeler, the conductor,
and three laborers, and seriously injuring
Martin Lee, the foreman, and several
others. The disaster occurred from some
persons placing by accident or design q
telegraph pole upon the track. The cars
were thrown off the track and were badly
broken up. There were about thirty labor
ers on the train.
RE-NoNINATED.
PORTLAND, Me-, June 26.-The First Dis
trict Union Convention at Saeo to-day re-
nominated Hon. John Lynch as Represent
ative to Congress. The resolutions were
the same as at the State Convention.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
New YORK, June 26-Quite a number of
cases of sunstrOke are reported by the
police to-day. The thermometer stood at
90 in the shade.
CHOLERA.
1t is seriously doubted by surgeons il
there be any such thing as Asiatic cholera
on our shores. The cases heretofore classed
as such are of the usual character brought
on by impurity or intemperance.
FENIAS MEETING.
A large Feni6n meeting was held bv the
friends Of Roberts and Sweeny, in Union
Square, last evening. Resolutions were
passed denouncing the President and the
neutrality laws. Mr.. Greeley could not
attend but sent polite letter of excuse.
SANTA ANNA.
According to the Tribune, General Santa
Anna has ten millions of dollars on deposit
in the Bank of England. He proposes to
establish new and stable government in
Mexico, with a constitution and laws republi-
can in form, with the church for its head.
One of its conditions is, however, COM
plete association of principles and interests
between the United States and Mexico up
on the following basis: The United States
to advance to him Santa Anna) one million
dollars and three thousand men, in ex-
change for which he will swear eternal
gratitude to the American nation and give
it in security certain Mexican provinces
Id territories.
The contract cnce sealed Gen. Santa Anna
will immediasely start for Mexico, where
his presence, his men and his million will
create quite an enthusiasm. According to
his own statement the Church will take
him by the hand, the army will prOstrate
itself at his feet and the best part of the
Liberal party, renouncing its present
| leaders, will form an intimate alliance with
| him. As to the Imperislists, who stuck 10
Maximilian not through love but through
fear and eompulsiOn. they will be too hspPy
to place themselves under projection Of the
General and to abandon a cause without
dignity or strength in the present or pros
poets in the future.
NEW TARIFF BILL.
The Post says of the new tariff bill: 10
many cases the method of enumeration and
| of declaring the duty is so complicated and
so ingeniously altered from the present tar
| iff that it is impossible for any bnt experts
to make tho comparison, and even they
will find it difficult in some cases we sus-
pect. The tariff except en- few articles,
appears to have been raised from 80 to l5O
per cant. on some of the most necessary ar
/ ticles. Fer instance on manufactures OF
/ iron. The increase is SO great that II
will be felt as very heavy burden
upon all the most important interests in the
| country. 1.-THE railroads which transport the
| Western farmers produce, and ships which
| in building and sailing give employment 10
/ a great number of our most Intelligent
mechanics will be made SO much more
| costly that their increase will be stopped,
and freights must be enormously burden
some. The proposed tariff is evidently not
for revenue but simply for protection
FIRED ON THE COWS"
ST. ALBANs, W., June 26.-Special to
| Tribune says: Tho report Of skirmish on
Pigeon Hill on the 23d, was caused BY the
volunteer pickets mistaking some cows for
an advance guard of the Fenians.