Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-26
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1866.
DAILY LEADER.
THURSDAY APRIL 26, i866.
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GEORGE PEABODY has written graceful
answer to the letter of the Queen.
sUrEBIxrESDENrs OF various insane asy.
lums are holding conference in Washing
ton.
THE Pittsburgh postmaster was turned
out for using disrespectful language about
the President.
TIE May interest on $40 bonds will lie
paid the day it is due-the lst of AIay-and
not before.
AFULL synopsis Of the bill to amend the
internal revenue, reported in Congress yes
terday, viii be found in our Washington
dispatches.
PAETIcULABs Of the late signal victory Of
the Mexicans over the Imperialists, at Ma
zatlan, are furnished in thc dispatches this
morning.
MONROE, tho rebel Mayor of New Orleans
is in Washington, accompanied by some
others who want pardons to enable them to
hold offices.
Tue small pox is causing many deaths in
Cincinnati, mostly among colored people
The pest-house in that city is full of cases
Of this kind.
A WOMAN named Eva Glance, eighty years
old, was brought up before a court in Phil
adeIphia, charged with assaulting Maria
Calender, seventy-eight years cid.
TWELVE additional deaths from cholera
occerred on the hospital ship in New York
yesterday, and five more cases were re-
ceived from the steamer Illinois.
TIE Hillsdale STANDARD notifies Southern
Michigan, Northern Indiana and Ohio, that
there will be grand lth of July celebra-
ton a. Hillsdsle.
IL the examination fthe shipper of nitro
gIycerine, in New York yesterday, the in
ventor of the article was on the stand and
gave an explanation Of the properties of
the dangerous fluid.
II is reported that the President has re-
quested Chief Justice Chase to try JEFF.
Davis for treason at the May term of the
q S. Circuit Court in Norfolk, Va, and that
Mr.. Chase declines unless Congress restores
the power of the court by special legisla-
ton.
GEN. HOwARD has received from Sir Nor
ton Peto and Arthur Kinnaird, NJ. P, the
English capitalists who visited this coun-
try, a contribution OF $50, each, which they
request to be applied for the relief of the
destitute and suffering freedmen of the
Southern States.
TEE President has approved a Joint reso-
luton of Congress appointing Gov. Oglesby
of IL, Gen. Butler and Frederick Smith Of
Mass, L. B. Gunekle of O., Jay Cooke Of
Pa, and Gen. Osterheus and others. as Di-
rectors Of a national asylum for disabled
volunteer soldiers.
The effect Of high rents is beginning to
tell on the prosperityo of Chicago. Quite
number of business men have left and are
leaving the city, for tbs reason that thoy
find it impossible to sustain themselves
under the pressure of the enormous rents
exacted both for business places and dwell
ings.
J. H HoUsNAN, living at Bellevernon,
Pa, suddenly disappeared on the Cd inst.
Tuesday last his body was found in the
Nonongahela river near his place of resi-
dence, with a bullet hole in the head and
rope around the neck to which a weight
had been attached His wife and Richard
Thairwell have been arrested on suspicion
Of being his murderers.
RIcHNoSD editors have hard time of if
They have just got through with a trouble
with the printers, and now the proprietors
Of the Enquirer, having qnarreled with each
other, have adopted the novel expedient OF
susPending the issue of their journal until
their troubles are ended. They therefore
ask "the indulgence Of the public until
further notice. at which indefinite period
they promise to resume the publication of
the paper.
TEE Steamboat James Raymond, which
has been for some time al Memphis, while
proceeding up the river to ST. Louis, Tues
isy, at a moderate rate, was blown up, and
one man was killed, one was fatally in
jured, and six others injured more or less
seriously. A flaw in one of the boilers
seems to have been the cause of the disas-
ter. The boat was estimated to be worth
about 81, 200, and was insured for $4,000.
THE St. Paul Press describes as fearfully
grand the breaking up of the immense ice
gorge above the Falls of st. Anthony, few
days ago. Twelve boom piers between the
suspension bridge and the falls were de-
stroyed, causing loss of about $4,000. A
lumber sluice on the Minnesota side Of the
river was also carried away, involving
loss of 81 600. 4 portion of the upper bridge
was also broken down. About s., 900 worth
of logs were hoated of. The suspension
bridge was uninjured.
A MOST extraordinary occurrence took
place along the line of the Nashville & De-
catur Railroad, between Columbia and Pu-
laski, during the thunder storm last Friday
night, \ hair mIle or the JeTegrapH wires
were melted, and divided over that whole
distance into small fragments, irregular in
shape, and many Of them no larger than a
buekshot, or a small rifle ball, Fragments
were found along the whole distance, and
would not. if put together connectively,
make wire thirty feet in length. The
glass insulators were fused, and the poles
were shivered into fragments.
EWEzEz@
Over 400 Students are now in attendance
AT TBE UNION BUSINESS INSTITUTE, oBERLIN, ONO.
Why is this 3 usISEss CoLLEsE so popular Be-
cause Hits instructors work in hsTTaoHg, and it
stands upon its merits without trusting to the
a=egie Of s' chain - or HHHJsg q" associations. -