Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-13
THE NEW S.

| Gold closed in New York last night at l4ets-
The President has ordered full investigation 0
The reported riot At Helena, Ark.
The receipts from internal revenue last wecl
were over seven millions.
Secretary Seward arrived at Auburn on Satur
day, and will remain until Tuesday.
There were six deaths from cholera in St. Loui'
up to noon Saturday.
The Inauguration Of the new State officers o.
Texas took place on Thursday.
General John a Logan is to sddress the FeniaHi
at Chicago on Tuesday next.
The army worm is making fearful rayages in the
cotton fields Of Texas.
Attorney-GeneraI staubery is to be Acting Sec
Rotary CT State during the absence Of Mr. Seward
at his home, in Auburn.
A public school building in Adrian, Mich, was
set On fire Thursday night and totally destroyed.
The loss amounts to $4,000.
The President has commissioned Hampton as
POSTMASTER r, snd james Lowrc, jr, IS Surveyor Of
the Port Of Pittsburgh.
The sandu,ky Register Gays Babsr IS to tho
Franklin District what the Immortal J. N is to
Ohio" That is cruel to -. N"
The cable across the Gulf Of st Lawrence has
b.en repaired, and dispatches will now be received
direct from Europe, without delay.
IUt is reported that a vessel laden with arms and
ammunition for the Liberals in Mexico sailed from
Baltimore a few days since.
General Carried received 35S votes to 30 for John
Hutchius, in Warren, the home Of Hutchins, at
the primary Congressional election Saturday.
gThe large Gothic mansion of James Riley, near
Mobile, fell last Sunday evening, buTying seven-
teen people in the ruins. All were more or less
bruised, bat, strange to say, none were killed.
General Sherman, in his trip to the Rocky
Mountains, will be accompanied by Senators sher-
man and Sprague. The party will start from st
Louis on the Goth inst.
Professor Sassiz has presented to the city o
Boston a South American ostrich, which is now
occupying a portion Of Deer Park on the Commons,
where it is attracting great attention.
Facts multiply that the Freedmen's Bureau
feeds more whites than it does blacks The agent
for Arkansas calls for 90 ratOns for tho whites
and 5 OU0 for the blacks.
Some Of tIle prominent delegates from the South
to the Philadelphia Convention arrived in Wash
inston Saturday and had an interview with the
President.
The chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee Of Nevada appoints Hon. Gideon j.
Tucker and Hon. Geo C. Barnard, Of the city Of
New York, to attend the Philadelphia Convention
as delegates from Nevada.
The citizens of New Orleans at present in New
York have called meeting at Cooper Institute,
Wednesday evening, to bring before the public the
facts Of the late riot
Ths murderer of the young girl in a house Of ill
fame in Philadelphia has been arrested. His name
is Newton Champion, and he was formerly an as
sistant engineer in the navy.
General Sherman, who had been announced to
speak at Frank Blair's Conservative Soldiers
meeting at St Louis, peremptOrily declines. He
wants nothing to do with politics. He moreover
declines to let Frank have tine Of artillery 10
fre salute, referring the application to the Sec
retary War.