Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-17
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GOLD closed last night at 1855.

e GEN. soorr left Havana for New York OF
the l1th inst.
The carpenters in Boston are demanding
three dollars day; the bricklayers foul
dollars day.
HOS. CHAs. SHAW, Mayor of Biddeford
Maine, has been appointed Commissions,
to the Paris Exposition.
IT is stated that not single case of sick
ness occurred among the cabin passengers
of the steamer England.
THERE is a story that gold has been dis
covered on the Potomac about fourteen
miles from Washington.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says another
batch of Generals of high grade will soon be
mustered out of service.
NAN named Charles MeCutheon, SUD-
posed to be one of the Philadelphia mur-
derers, was arrested yesterday in London,
C. W.
The New York Tribune Association paid
"a week to fourteen employees who entered
the army, during their term of service,
paying out in all for this purpose ss,s77.
NINE of the EARNED" Fenians at Eastport
Me-, captured an English revenue flag on
India Island Sunday evening, "Not a shot
was fired"
II is stated in the Washington news that
Henry stanberry. of o., has been appointed
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States vice Catron deceased.
NEw YoRK is "blessed" with strikes lust
now. The ship eaulkers there have struck
for reduction in the number of hours of
labor.
ALEx STEPHENS recent testimony before
the Recons truction Committee is very voIu-
minous, being over four of our columns in
length. A portion of it is furnished by tel
egraPh this morning.
A GENTLEMAN in Boston has received q
telegraphic dispatch, via San Francisco,
from Japan, which was only twenty-six
days coming. This is believed to be the
quickest time vet made.
THE car drivers of New York still hold ont
in their strike. A dispatch yesterday af-
ternoon stated there was some apprehension
that they would resort to violencs-tearing
up the track, etc.
GEN. GRANT, Senator Wilson and Thad.
Stevens have signed recommendation for
the release of Clement c. Clay on his parole,
which Mrs. Clay has laid before the Pres
ident.
CoNcERSiug cholera in New Orleans, the
Memphis Post, of the Ilth, says. "Tne
papers are silent, but private letters and
gentlemen coming from New Orleans report
few cases of the cholera at that city,"
A BOTTLE drifted ashore at Cape May yes
terday containing paper on which was
written: Schooner J. L. Diess, of New
York, lost March I6, 1s66-all lost but Ned
COnkling and silas Rogers. Please report,
if found"
A TELEGRAM from Toronto, C. w., received
last night, states that the examination of
Mcconnell, the olmsted Falls murderer,
has been concluded and he has been deliv-
cred up to Sheriff Nicola, to be returned to
this city under the extrsdition treaty.
TIE President yesterday sent to the Sem
ate the names of Mr.. smythe, President of
the N. Y. Central National Bank, for con-
firmation as Collector at the port of New
York, and Samuel G. Courtney, to be U. s.
District Attorney vice Dickinson deceased.
THE Fenian residents of Bradford, Eng
land, on the Sd inst, raised big row with
the English residents of the place and drove
them into their houses. The rioters were
particularly severe on the Queen in their
exclamations.
THOMAS BOUCHER, recently on trial at
South Bend, Indiana, for the murder of
Alexander Landrum, has been convicted
of murder in the second degree, and SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment in the
Northern Penitentiary of Indiana.
MosEBY appeared in the streets of Lees
burg, Va, the other day dressed in Confed-
crate uniform, and an attempt was made to
arrest him by L. S. Troops, but he escaped
into the woods. Several shots were fred at
him.
TIE funeral car which bore President Lin
coins remains from Washington to Spring
field was bid off ut auction in Alexandria,
Va, the other day by U. S. Marshal ". H.
Lamon, for $500. Mr.. L. bought it to pre-
vent it falling into the hands of showmen.
WHILE procession of negroes was passing
through the streets of Norfolk, Va, yester-
day, celebrating the passage of the Civil
Rights Bill, difficulty occurred between
them and the whites in which one of the
latter was killed and his brother mortally
wounded
An express train on the Great Eastern
Railroad was thrown down an embankmen
twenty feet in height at Logsnsport, Ind.
on the I4th, and the Conductor, Mr. R. NJ
Bloomsfeld, was so badly injured that he
died in few moments after being taken
from under the wreck.
The anniversary of the assassination Of
President Lincoln was commemorated il
9 Cincinnati by the tolling of the bells, pro
eessioa of various civic societies, and, OF
many streets, the display of the insignia o
mourning.
FsE Toledo Boat Club last Saturda!
launched the "Albertine," q new boat
named after the wife of the President Q
the Club. She (the boat, is 20 feet il
length, 204 inches in width, III inches Il
cockpit, weighs 1S5 pounds and cost $3.50.
: CApr. GRAHAx, of Erie, has atwenty-fou
: pound cannon ball, which was dug out
the soil about four feet beneath the surfac
of the garrison ground, on the bank OF tn
, lake. 1t is supposed to have bsen throw
s by the British in 1871.
!. THE opinion seems to be entertained i
~ philadelphia that the man Antoine Gantel
4 alias Probst, had no accomplice in commit
ting the Deering murder. Several arrest
- of parties suspected of completely in th
v. butchery have been made, and after exam
ination discharged, as nothing could
= proved against them.
oy A D1seRAcEFrL affair occurred in the
s. Senate yesterday, in the course OF heste
inc personal discussion between Senators Col
'rk ness and McDougsi of Cslifornis- II
MS drunken McDougal insulted the Senate al
= the country and outraged deeency BY =
ts. peating story containing the most bla
! phemous and filthy language to be found
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