Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
Daily LEADER.
,THURsDAY,5 JANUARY IL, 1866.
THE NEW s.

, river on Sunday.
THE Maryland Legislature assembled yes
tsrday.
g ABnL was introduced in the lower Hous
of Congress yesterday, to punish counter
feiting with death. fstFft
soLoHoE L sPNK has been appointed
Secretary of the Territory of Dacotah, il
place of John Hutchinson, resigned.
The Fenian court-martial has rendered
verdict against the Senate. o'MahOny ha
yet to pronounce sentence.
A BRIG struck on the beach at East Sand
wich, Mass night before last and five o
the crew froze to death.
PRoFEssoR j. J. Mapes, writer on agri.
cultural chemistry,of considerable note
died on the 9th at Newark, MI.
IT is said Secretary Stanton is to be called
to account for paying salaries to the pro
Visional governors of rebel States.
A FREE high school, for the aocommoda-
ton of 800 negro children, was dedicated
in Nashville on the eth by Gen. Fisk, Gov.
BrownlOw and others,
BANCROFT has accepted the invitation to
deliver an address upon the life and charac-
ter Of Lincoln, before Congress on the 1st of
February.
A FIRE in New Haven, Ct, yesterday de-
stroyed three buildings. There was no wa
ter for. the engines, but one building was
saved by the falling snow.
TIE time for the reception of applications
for space at the Paris Universal Exhibition
has been extended from the LIST of January
to the 1st of March ]. C. Derby. No. 5
Spruce street, New York, is agent.
THE telegraph this morning informs us of
the arrest Of four of the persons implicated
in the late daring and extensive robbery
of an Express car on the New York and
Boston Railroad, and the recovery of $685.
600 of the money stolen.
Ar meeting held in Albany, yesterday,
Of those interested in the construction of the
"Oswego N. Y. Midland R. R." the or
ganization Of which was perfected some
time since, $225,O9 was subscribed and 10
per cent. paid in. tf5,
The next steamer that arrives will bring
NapOleOn's Speech to the Chamber of Depu-
ties, which will be looked for with interest,
as it is expected to contain something sig
nifcant in regard to the French troops in
Mexico.
YESTERDAY the President transmitted to
the Senate q message in regard to JEFF.
Davis, accompanied with reports from the
Secretary of War and Attorney General,
which will be read with interest, in the
special dispatches. 't
The colored people of Cincinnati cele-
brated the abolition of slavery by the Eman-
cipation Proclamation and the Constitutional
Amendment, by mass meeting on Monday
evening, january 9Th. Rev. J. A. Shorten
presided, and addresses were made by Judge
Dickson, Jddge Headley, Rev. Il. NJ. sterns,
Peter Clark, Esq, and others. .HeL
EXTREME cold, it seems, contracts the tele-
graph wire so that it breaks. Numerous
Instances of this kind have occurred during
the present severe weather, wherever there
was not sufficient slack in the wire between
the poles to allow for the contraction. We
may very well call this sort of weather
cold snap. 81 ,9sr5 -l.ri
O'MGH0ST foreverI The Fenian Congress
has abolished the Senate and established
Col. o 0'Mahony with the title of Head Cen
tre.s fTEver and ever as round we run; ever
the Right comes uppermost, and ever is
Justice DONE" Long live o'MahonyI
Our Columbus special says schenck and
Sherman have returned to Washington.
The feeling on. the senstorial question is
running high. A prominent Sherman man
from this city. declined to bet thousand
dollars on his candidate. Indications are
favorable for the election of Schenck.
A SPECIAL to one of the New York papers
says the Senate Committee on the District
Of Columbia have rejected the bill to confer
universal suffrage, but will report in favor
of permitting such negroes to vote as have
lived in the District six months and can
read and write. -.-
TEE Atlantic & Great Western Railway
Company and the Philadelphia Reading
Railroad Company have concluded a con-
tract whereby narrow guage track will be
Immediately laid on the line of the Atlantic
& Great Western to Cleveland, Cincinnati,
and other western cities; also a narrow
guage track to form continuous line from
the West to Philsdelphia and New York.
TIE Columbus Journal of yesterday gives
the particulars of raid on the Ohio Peni-
tentiary by an ex-convict who burglarious-
ly broke iato that forbidding institution,
which so many unfortunates would
be glad to break out OF. /" One
Mcdonald, recently discharged and still
more recently tried and narrowly escaping
conviction" for robbery, scaled the wall and
secreted himself inside, where he was dis
covered, having basket of provisions
which he said was for friend of his. The
more rational superstition is, that he was in
tending to assist couple of comrades in
crime to make their escape. He was ar
rested and given quarters in the city prison.