Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-22

TELEGRAPHIC.
Yesterday afternoons Report
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
RumOred Determination OF the
President to Veto 1t.
Illness of Senators Dixon and FOote.
Little HOpeOf Recovery Of the Latter.
General Spinner Sides with Free
man Clarke.
General News.

man Clafke.
General News.
The Gee Cas-
New YORK, March 2I.-The Tribunei
Raleigh correspondent telegraphs that thu
Gee case will last till June.
Released.
A citizen convicted by the Military
Commission at Richmond of the murder
of some Union soldiers, has been released
by the Secretary of War, because of 8
clerical error in the report.
Criminal Cases.
The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia
and North Carolina have turned criminal
cases over TO the civil courts.
Getting Worse.
Senators Dixon and Foote are daily
growing worse. Little hope is enter
tanned of the recovery of the latter.
Paid Up.
Ike Cook, of Chicago, who was sued by
the Auditor of the Post Office for a bal
ance due the Department from him as
Post Master of that city in 1862, has paid
up the amount Of $500, and the case has
been dismissed.
n Old Loan.
Comptroller Clarke states that twenty
seven million dollars Of the Ten-Forty
Loan was not issued that recently, how
ever, three thousand seven hundred and
/ e~ighty-fve dollars have been quietly
issued of this old loan and at six per
cent. interest.
Another Contribution.
Another contribution amounting to
nearly 81, 900 in value, from the Birming-
ham (England) Freedmen's Association
has Just been received by General How
ard and will be appropriated to the use of
the destitute colored people in the South.
Petroleum.
The Times special SAYS that several
Collectors Of Customs have sent COM
munications to the Secretary of the
Treasury, asking instructions in regard to
the transportation of crude and refined
petroleum. They ask if the penalties of
the law of August 30th, 1862, shall be en-
forced against steamboats, for transport
ing crude and refined petroleum without
special iicense2 In other words, does
petroleum come under the class of other
explosive burning fluids The SeSetary
replies that the Department has not de-
cided that crude and refined petroleum
are of that character, and, until otherwise
ordered, these commodities can be carried
as freight without special license, proper
care being observed in its storage with
reference to safety from the hazard OF
fires. Mr.. McCulloch has referred the
question of the explosive quality of petro-
leum to special Board of Chemists, with
directions TO report at the earliest mo-
ment. The session of this Board will
guide the Secretary in making rules there
Ger as to the transportation of petro-
leum.
W. L. Raining.
Among the passengers for Europe, by
the Java, to-day, is Mr.. W. L. Raining, Of
[. Paul, Minnesota, President of the
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad
Company, who takes out bonds to the
amount of four million dollars for sale in
the European capitals.
From Washington.
General Spinner publishes a letter in
the Washington Chronicle in which he
maintains the correctness of Comptroller
NldEhb ) sLdlGUlCuL TORdEukuE I1t dllOUul |
of government funds on hand.
A Washington special says it was cur
rently reported last night that the Presi-
dent has sigRifed his determination to
veto the Civil Rights Bill.
The Herald's special says the counter
feiting of government coupons has been
carried to such an extent that the Treasu-
~ Department has decided to engrave
.vignettes of She proper size, to be printed
upon all future issues, and thereby rem
der engraving as necessary toa counter
felt coupon as to the note or bond. Por-
traits of the President McCulloch, Grant,
Sherman and others are executed for this
purpose.
Richard @. Mccormick has been sp-
pointed Governor of Arizona, and not of
Idaho as was previously stated.
P. 7. Carter, of Tennessee, is made Sec
rotary of Arizona.
From Yueatan.
The Herald's Yucatan correspondent
gives an account of the seizure and con-
tiscation by the Mexican Imperial author
tiles of the schooner Wilson Crawford,
and the ining and Imprisonment of her
master, because some powder was found
board the vessel. The Masters SEN
tence was ten years penal labor, but he
was pardoned by the Emperor. Immedi-
ately after regaining his liberty, however,
he was once more arrested and sentenced
TO pay a fine of $500, which he avoided
~liquidating by secretly leaving the coun-
try.
The Fenians.
The Central Council of the Fenians re-
manned in secret session at the Union
Square headquarters yesterday. But
nothing could be learned of the proceed
ings.
Preparations on an extensive scale were
made last evening by the Fenian Sister
hood, at a meeting in their rooms in the
Moffett mansion, for the relief of the Irish
State prisoners.
EUROPEAN Jews.
European files bring an important speech
of Attorney General Palmer in Parliament
on the petition of Mr.. Gregory to the Queen
TO use her influence to make the private
property of ~neutrals at sea exempt from
seizure. He contended that it would not be
for the interest of England 10 relinquish
her supremacy on the ocean, and she would
he better able to meet the dangers of mari
time captuas thar any other power. He op-
posedthe petition.
The Wanderer ofYienna openly advises
the government of Austria to take advan-
tage Of the crisis in the Danubean prinei-
p~slities BY snnexing them TO the empire.
Bv adopting this course Austria would
escape from her Italian difficulties and dan
gers with which NJ. De Bismarck threatens
her in Germany. The two western powers
would be glad to see the exchange of Vene-
tia for Moldo Wallaehia and Austria could
then reckon on their moral and material
support against the p~retensions Of Prussia.
The copies of the New York Herald con-
tanning Bancroft's memorial GRAFTON were
seized in France by order of the govern
ment.
The Times correspondent writes that the
French government, it is said, has received
dispatches from Washington which put an
end to the Mexican question. The terms
appear to be those of our government.
Evacuation within a year and non-inter-
~ventfon during the evacuation.
TFThe Emperor was heard to say that his
own people as well as those of America
were against him in this affair, that the two
people did not comprehend it as he compre-
hended it, but it would be foolish on his part
10 push a policy which encountered so much
hostility, and that it was his duty to recede.
So long, however, as heremained in Mexico
he would not suffer himself or Macmillan