Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-05
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CLEMENT C. CLAY arrived at his home il
Alabama last Sunday.
ErGHTEEE men in New York pay tax oi
5000 ounces of silver plate.
EDwIK FORREST arrived in San francisco
yesterday.
The bill reviving the grade of Genera
was passed by the House yesterday.
TIE joint resolution passed the House
yesterday, unanimously, congratulating the
Emperor of Russia on his escape from as
sassination..
TEE National Bankers of Indiana were in
convention Thursday ct Indianapolis. The
proceedings were private
A HIVE of stingless bees has been received
by the Agricultural Committee, from Hon
duras.
GEN. JOE JoHssToN has been defeated N
the election for President of the chic and
Mobile Railroad.
The 56th Ohio Infantry arrived at Cairo
Thursday on its way home for final dis
charge.
CHATTANOOGA has sold its water works to
private company, who agree to enlarge
them.
GEO. c. BOWER, Jr., war correspondent
Of several of the Philadelphia papers, died
in that city yesterday of heart disease.
The Government is understood to approve
the action of Commodore Rogers in the Val
psrAiso affair.
TIE Southern Methodist Conference, that
has been in session in New Orleans for the
last three weeks, has adjourned sine die.
THE Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of Hon. L. D. Campbell as Min
lister to Mexico.
WH. HuTeHIEGs, of Penobscot, Maine, the
last surviving revolutionary soldier in that
State, and the last but two or three in the
Union, died Thursdsy, aged IO2 years.
GES. SHERMAN left St. Louis day before
yesterday to inspect the defenses in the
Lake Superior region. He will be absent
month or six weeks.
DISCOVERIES of petroleum in Western
Louisiana attract much attention. A com
pany has been formed for bringing it to
market. -..
Ma. NAVAL, London photographer, has
invented a new solar camera by which he
can magnify small cartes de visits to life
size portraits.
TEE work of removing the dead from the
Bull Run battlefield has commenced. They
will be removed either to Arlington or
Winchester.
THE Nova Scotia Legislature has voted
$4,000 to the widow of DR.. slayter, who
died by cholera while employed in attend
ing on the England's passengers.
TEE Cincinnati Enquirer is temporarily
re-established in its old Office, which has
been rebuilt since the great fire which de-
stroyed it.
A RESPECTABLE young girl of New Orleans
has whst is pronounced by physicians to be
ancient leprosy. One Of her feet has rot
ted of, and one arm is nearly gone.
HoS. A. BURLNeaANE, American Minis
ter in China, was standing within forty feet
of the great nitrO-glyeerine explosion, in
San Francisco, when it occurred.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion occurred at a
saw mill in Wayne county, Iowa, four days
since, by which VIM. Robson was killed
and two men dangerously wounded. The
mill was torn 10 atoms.
TIE Hartford and New Haven Railroad
intends 10 substitute peat for coal as q fuel
for locomotives. All the peat beds con-
tiguOus 70 the line of the road have been
bought up.
THE postofice at Bellaire, Ohio, wss
robbed by some unknown parties, on the
night of the Cadiz Bank robbery. Two
hundred dollars in stamps were left un-
touched, but letters, and other articles Of
value, were all taken.
Mas. JEFF. DAVIS, accompanied by her
youngest child and two servants, arrived
at Fortress Monroe on the Sd, and was
escorted into the Fortress BY Lieut.. Fessen-
den. She has an extra amount of baggage
with her.
THE United States slOop-of-war Kear-
sarge was at Lisbon, Portugal, on the 18th
of April. On her passage from Sierra Leon,
seven officers and seven men died of yellow
fever. There was on the 18th but one case
on board that was not convalescent.
Ex-sESAroR WrGFALL, of Texas, who sue
ceeded in escaping from the South on the
collapse of the rebellion, has been the sub
ject of many surmises and inquiries. A
London correspondent of a Boston paper
states that Wigfall reached the English
capital some time in March.
The Mississippi river, from its source to
It's mouth, is just now higher than it has
been known for many years, and in many
places is overaowing its banks. Ali its
many tributaries, especially those in Min
nesota and Wisconsin, are also unusually
high.
TIE Merchants National Bank Of Wash
ington failed yesterday. It has notes in
circulation to the amount of SIsO, zoo, which
Of course are secured by q. S. bonds. Tht
failure is attributed TO large amounts loaned
to Baltimore firm of brokers who hav,
suspended.
A CANADA vessel, arrived at 0swego yes
terday, reports picking up skif contain
ing two boys nearly dead from exhaustion
and the body of little girl. Two othe
girls had been washed overheard. None o
the children were over 15years of sge. It j
understood they drifted out from oakvilIs
Canada.
SoNE of the BestOnians are trying to escap
the cholera by rushing into and crowdin
the suburban towns and villages Every
thing in the shape of a dwelling house 70
radius of twenty miles around Boston ha
been rented for the season, and as high a
$75e per month is paid for a furnishe
house of ordinary size from May until Ser
tember.
The British subjects at Valparaiso ba1
had A public meeting, and adopted resolJ