Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-22
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The following Is the result Of the vote
for Mayor in New Orleans: John T.
Menroe, s,46s; Joseph H. Moore, 1885,
George Purves, s. William L. Robinson,
80.
The New York News formally turns
General Grant over to the radicals, with
whom it AYERS he has a complete under
standing, and who will undoubtedly nom
mate him for President in 1868.
Senator Nye, who has just returned to
Washington from stumping Connecticut,
says that State will second the action OF
New Hampshire.
Everybody in Rhode Island is speaking
in favor of the nomination of General
Burnside for Union Governor of that
State. and it will probably be done. The
Democratic State Convention, which was
10 meet on the 2lst has been adjourned
over.
The candidates for United States Sena-
tor i n New Hampshire are Clark, the
present incumbent Mr.. Rollins, Nj. Mars
ton and Mr.. Patterson, with the first
named rather ahead.
Among the recent expressions OF Secre-
tary Seward which there has been much
effort to deny, are the following; al am
responsible for it 1.-THE Reconstruction
policy.) made President johnson adopt
it, and President johnson, in following it,
acted upon my advice" And referring to
the Presidents fulminations on the z2nd
ult, he said: "When you take a man
out of q tailor's shop and put him in the
White House, can you expect anything
better of him2"
In the recent Union State Convention
of Pennsylvania, the name of Thaddeus
Stevens was repeatedly greeted with en-
thusiastic applause; and when the resolu-
ton in honor of Edward NJ. Stanton, Sec
rotary of War wal read, it was welcomed
with such shouts as have not been heard
in Harrisburgs since the day when Andrew
johnson, of Tennessee, in the streets of
that city, dashed rebels and traitors as they
deserved.
Mr.. Dan VOORHEES,, having been elected
from a seat wherein he had squatted in
Congress without title, appeared at the
Indiana State Democratic Convention as
chief orator, denounced the radicals as
disunionists, and was exaggerated in his
praise of the President, and assured his
auditors, to the alarm of some small boys
who stood around, that the Executive of
the Nation dis an uncaged Numidian
lion-a grim and terrible destroyer!
This is fearful
The Washington correspondent OF the
Dayton Journal says that President john
son had an interview a few days since
with Colonel ]. V. Guthrie, of Cincinnati,
in which he declared that A. c. Sands,
q. S. Marshal of the Southern district of
this State, had held his Office about long
enough. MI. johnson said that Islands
fat and hearty, and a change would
do him no harm" Col. Guthrie was de-
lighted at this announcement but hardly
so much pleased when the President init
mated tina. Mayor Lew Harris was about
the man to succeed Sands. The announce
ment of these facts will probably cause a
ticklish sensation about the throat Of Mar
shall Sands.
Senator Sherman, Of this State, on Sat-
urday night addressed a Republican meet
ing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in which
he dwelt on the importance of the success
of the party at the approaching election
in that State. He expressed warns prov
81 of the patriotic course and general Off
cial conduct of President johnson, and
claimed that there is really no essential
point Of difference on the reconstruction
question between the President and Con-
gress, the only variance being the fact that
the former thought each House should de-
eide separately on the question of admit
ting members from the lately rebellious
States, while the Senators and Represen-
tatives insisted on acting jointly, by vest
ing the consideration of the matter in the
Reconstruction Committee. Mr.. Sherman
thought the copperheads would find out
very soon that the President entertains no
design of political afaiation with them.