Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-22
General News.
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NEW York, January 2O.-A dense foe
overhangs the water and city this morning
Yesterday Edward 0'Brien was arraignec
in the Essex County Court of Oyer and Ter.
miner, and plead not guilty to two indict,
ments for manslaughter in causing the death
of Messrs. Gordon and Baybritt at the time
Of the recent railroad accident at Newark
The Bank Robbery.
The cashier of the Farmers and Citizens
Bank, Brooklyn, modifes the statement thai
their messenger boy was robbed of seventy
thousand dollars in checks. 1t was seven
thousand, making the amount stolen eigh-
teen thousand dollars.
From the Rio Grande.
NEW YORK, January 20.-The Herald's
Washington special says Geographic dis
patches Of the 18th inst. from General Sheri-
dan, at New Orleans, disavow all knowledge
on his part of the fllibustering attack on
Bagdad, and state that his orders 10 sub
ordinate officers have been to preserve a
strict neutrality. He disbelieves the popu-
lar account of the affair and considers it a
sensational story.
A Brownsville correspondent gives the full
official correspondence between General
Weitzel and General Mejia, the Imperial
commander at Matamoras, and General
Crawford, the American General Of the
Mexican Republican army, In rels-
ton to the Republican prisoners con-
demned at Matamoras to be shot, in accord
ance with Maximilian's decree for the exc
cution of all those found in arms against his
forces.
General Weitzel in the name of his Gov
ernmen protested against this barbarity,
and Mejia responded thatit was a matter in
which the Americans had no right to inter
fere, and that the execution of the decree
must be proceeded with.
In an another letter Of Gen. Weitzel's, in
which, ia accordance with Gen. Sheridan's
instructions, he informs Mejia that in future
correspondence with our officers he must
net style the Mexican Republicans bandits,
the Imperial General again replies to what
he considers q foregone declaration, and re-
plies that all future communications of sim
liar purport will remain unanswered. 1t is
rnmored that Mejia is to be superseded at
Matamoras. The preparations Of Generals
Escobido and Crawford for another attack
on that place continued, but the Imperialists
have greatly strengthened its defences. The
latter officers efforts to raise men in Texas
for Juareg do not seem to meet with success.
1t is supposed that Crawford has q nice
financial speculation in his eye which can
be greatly subserved by the capture of
Matamoras, and which it is thought will be
much dearer to him than the Macmillan
Republic.
The Imperialists are reported to be pre-
pairing for q new and vigorous campaign in
the North.
A statement ofaffairs in Mexico, prepared
by the Imperialists for circulation in Europe
describes a fine and Aourishiug eondi-
ton of matters under Maximilian's rule.
1t represents that the Republican military
forces have nearly disappeared and that the
remnant of the armed opposition to the I'M
perialists which still exists, has degenerated
into mere rowing bands of robbers, and that
order and civilization are being rapidly es-
tablished throughout the country, under the
benign sway of the Emperor.
An investigation into the attempt to cap
ture the Imperial gunboat at the leves near
Matamoras reveals the same facts as hereto.
fore published.
Captain Nelson Plato, formerly Acting
Chief Quartermaster Of the Army of the
James, has been appointed Supervising
Quartermaster of the Rio Grande.
Captain W. H. DeCochrane, formerly Of
the Eighteenth Corps, has been appointed
Depot Quartermaster at Brazos.
Execution OF Mrs. Grinder.
New YoRK, January 2O.-The execution
oil Marina 0rlnOcr, al HlLb5OurgnJ yebUcr-
day, is described by the Herald's special as
awful scene. The wretched woman fell
q distance of about three feet. Owing to an
oversight in adjusting the rope connected
with the upright under the trap the fall was
not sudden, the neck was not dislocated,
and she slowly ~strangled to death. Her
contortions and writings for several min
utes were most agonizing 10 behold. The
knot, too, had slipped and the circulation of
the blood on the right side of the neck was
wholly uninterrupted. Her death was
literally a hard one.
From Richmond.
The Worlds Richmond special says that
to-day Virginia is as quiet as New York,
and the people white and black, suffering
from nothing but poverty. All the %insinua-
lions about the violent antagonism between
the whites and blacks-all the hideOus allu-
sions to negro insurrections as the result
of the oppressive and offensive measures
of the whites towards the blacks are all
sheer wicked inventions. Gentlemen from
the interior declare that never were the ne
groes more quietly disposed toward those
who were thar former masters, and never
were the latter more kindly disposed toward
those who were SO lately dependent upon
them.
The negroes are gradually giving up their
notions of the Millennium that was TO come
with New Years's day, and are rapidly seek
ing and obtaining work quite as rapidly as
the impoverished landlords are able to en-
DIov and nov than