Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-03
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FENIAS excitement in New York is on the
increase.
GENERAL AsBoTH has been nominated as
Minister to Venezuela.
RAILWAY trains commenced crossing the
new bridge at Albany regularly yesterday.
IT is reported that Governor Andrew,
of Massachusetts, is to be Secretary of the
Interior.
The Legislatures of Wisconsin and Min
nesota have passed resolutions sustaining
Congress.
OUR New York telegrsms mention that
considerable activity exists in preparing
Government vessels for sea.
An attempt was made in Washington a
few nights since to fire a cluster OF frame
buildings occupied by negroes.
TIE United States Senate yesterday
passed bill granting lands in aid of rail
road from Springfield, Mo-, to the Pacific.
A DISPATCH from Louisville says that
Berry. the one-armed guerrilla, under SEN
tence of death, has been granted respite
of fourteen days.
The slave trade is still carried on in Cuba.
A recent cargo of Africans sold in Havana
for $50, 900. The Mayor of Mantanzan was
assassinated because he would not engage
in the schemes of the slave traders.
A WOMAN in Adams, Mass, yesterday, at
tempted to rescue her young child from the
railroad track while train was advancing
and both mother and child were killed.
She was a widow and left eight orphans.
TEE United States Senate yesterday, by
vote of yeas %, nays Is, passed the House
concurrent resolution refusing seats to
Southern Representatives and Senators
until Congress shall declare such State
entitled to representation.
A MEMORIAL was presented to Congress
yesterday asking for an international copy
right law. 1t was signed by several hun
dred authors, editors and publishers, includ-
ing Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Sparks
and Lowell.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Pittsburgh
Commercial of the lst inst, from Petroleum
Center, Pa, announces that new SOO-bar-
rel well was that day struck on Bennehoff
Run, belonging to the Petroleum Company
of New York.
The Fenians profess to believe that their
brothers in Ireland are already fighting;
while in this country so bitter is the feeling |
between the Roberts and the O'Mahoney
factions that it is feared it will break out
into acts of violence.
Iy the United States Senate yesterday
resolution was introduced, and ordered
printed, instructing the Judiciary Com
mittee to report upon the expediency OF
passing a law calling a national convention |
to consider amendments to the Constitu-
ton.
The Washington Chronicle having stated |
that Mr.. Doolittle was Missed at q meeting |
in New Haven, Conn, for speaking dis
paragingiy of Mr.. Sumner, Mr.. Doolittle in
the Senate yesterday, denied that he either
spoke disparagingly of Mr.. Sumner or was
hissed.
IL the lower House of the Legislature
yesterday, Mr.. Dangler's Metropolitan
Police bill was ordered to be read, the third |
time, on Tuesday. In the Senate Mr.. Viii
liamson's bill to prohibit the erection of
rolling mills, &C., near the State benevolent
was postponed until next We'd
nesday.
DR. SAVERS, of New York, has presented
to the Senate Committee on Commerce a |
plan to be incorporated in a quarantine biIl
to prevent the invasion of cholera. 1t is
founded on the principle that the cholera
is portable, controlable and communicable
disease, and that the means Of preventing
its spread consist of an absolute non-inter-
course with persons and effects which have
been exposed to it.
The total amount of presents received by
General Grant, in money and other articles,
since the close Of the war, is something like
$4,000, as follows: From the citizens of |
house and furniture valued
at $50, 900; from the citizens of GaIena, Ill,
a furnished house, $4,000; from the citizens
of New York, cash 100000; from the citi-
zens of Boston, library worth $4,000; from
various sources, horses, swords and equip
ments valued at $4,000. After the battle
of Waterloo the British Government
donated an estate to the Duke of Yelling
ton worth goo, 900, or sI,OOO,O zoo.