Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-10
BUFFERS NOTE TO GRANT
SHARP, Short and Decisive
From New York.
TriaI of a Countorfoiter.

Trial of n C~Ount0rfoiter.
A verdict of guilty was yesterday rem
| dered by the Jury in the case of Nelson
Stewart, tried in the United States Dis
trict Court in Brooklyn, on the charge OF
! counterfeiting national currency. He
will be sentenced on Wednesday next
Rumor OF Murder.
A report prevails in this city to the
effect that Archy Hughes, the well-known
minstrel, WAS shot by "A South American
rebel refugee, in Montreal, G. :, on
Wednesday night.
Military Arms.
The Tribune's Washington special says;
The board of officers will assemble at
Washington, March 10, 1866, or as soon
thereafter as practicable, to examine upon
the following questions and recommends
lions thereon /:
First-What form and ealibre Of breeeh-
loading arm should be adopted as a model
for the future construction of muskets for
Infantry.
Se:ond-What form and calibre should
bs adopted as a model for the future con-
struction of carbines for Cavalry.
Third-What form of breech-loading
arm should be adopted as model for the
change of muskets already constructed to
breecn-loading muskets.
Whoever submits an arm to the above
Board will be required to state in writing
the lowest price ut which it will be fur
nished in the event of its being adopted
by the Government. The Chief of Ord
nance will furnish the Board all the in
formation in his power, and will also
provide it with Office room, stationary and
a place for experimental firing, targets,
ammunition, &c. The report of the Board
will be made through the Chief Of Ord
nance. Major-General Hancock 10 the
senior officer of the Board.
II. F. Butler.
The Tribune's Washington special gives
the following as the true note that was re-
turned by b. F. Butler, Esq, to the
Lieutenant-General invitation to his
reception:
sNGeneral Butler has the honor to de-
cline the invitation of Lieutenant-Genera
Grant. General Butler has now no desire
for further acquaintance"
Letter from Senior Maekenna-
Senior Mackenna publishes a letter in
the Herald this morning attempting to
explain the circumstances connected with
the recent proceedings against him of
the authorities on suspicion Of his impli-
cation in a scheme to fit out an expedition
in this city to assist Chill. He says
that all the mysterious details; the novel
incidents of his arrest; and the incidents
of all sorts published by the Press are
each and affections gotten up to excite cur
iosity or perhaps have been dictated by less
noble motives. He is assured that Span
ish agents were found in the neighborhoOd
of his house at the time when the attempt
to take him TO prison took place, and that
these same agents insisted that the public
funetionary should exact it.
He says that Mt this time he will not
say a single word with regard to his
alleged proposition to ct out an expedi-
ton against tie dominions of the Queen of
Spain, neither will he explain the errors
made by the telegraph in its transmission
For all this the proper time will come be-
fore the tribunal of justice and before the
grand jury Of public opinion.
He adds: l will come forward alone
to maintain the justice and legality OF my
proceedings, and then the people Of the
United States and the civilized world in
general shall know if the grand princi-
Piles which were the glory, the power, and
the prestige of this country In the old
time, are to-day only shadows of the past,
or if they may still be seen like a rain
bow of hope by freemen and free peo-
pie who may be subjected to the aggres-
sions of crowned usurpers from the Rio
Grande to the archipelago.
The War in South America.
The Buenos Ayers correspondent
writes
All the Paraguayan troops that had in
vaded Brazil by crossing the Uruguay,
were obliged to make a precipitate retreat
10 their own territory, together with their
forces that were occupying Corrientes.
For more than a week the work Of COLI
centrating the allied bands and naval
forces had progressed, SO that on the 25th
of January they would make a grand
combined attack with 40, 900 troops and
thirty war steamer on the Paraguayan
stronghold of Humata, on the Paraguay
river. This is a place of immense strength,
mounting over one hundred heavy gurs
and rendered difficult of approach by
CEdlu5 t4LtuuGu dCTOss LuE CudlAClT anu IL
is also supposed by submerged torpedoes
and other distractions, and back of that
a Paragusyan army of $4,000 or TO-
900 and a considerable feet. The march
of the allies in pursuit of the retreating
Paragraphs across the Province or Cor
rientes to the Paraguay River for three
hundred miles, through an almost unin-
habited country, is described as one Of the
greatest difficulty and suffering, and hun
dreds of the troops persisted on the Wsy
and many others deserted.
Arrival of the AusdraIasIan.
New YORK, February 0.-Tbe Austria
~lasian, with two days later European
is in the Bay.
The New York, from Aspinwall, with
California mails and treasure, is also sig
nailed.
Express Robbery.
ST. MARY 5, Q. w, February 9.-Mr.
Phelps, agent of the American Express
Company, a~bseonded taking $4,000. He
has gone to Europe.
Kansas State Constitution.
OMAHA, February 9.-Ths Legislature
has formed q State Constitution, to be sub
mitted to the people on the I'd Of June.
The election Of State officers Is to take
place Mt the same time.
Execution.
Nav YORK, February 9.-The execu-
ton Of John Haekett, for murder, which
was to have taken place at the Toombs
to day, has been postponed, a stay of
proceeding having been granted fer the
purpose Of taking his case to the Supreme
Court.