Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-18
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IS, 1866.
The NEWS

THE N z w s.
GOLD closed last night at 1884.
GIN. MEADE and staff left PhiIadelphia
yesterday for Eastport, Maine.
A DAILY paper is to be started at Hough-
ton, Lake Superior.
The municipal tax of New York city will
be eighteen millions this year.
TIE habeas corpus has been suspended in
ireland seven times in seventy years
OLE Bull, the celebrated viOlinist, died in
Quebec Tuesday morning of last week.
TIE pirate semmes is a candidate for
Probate Judge in Mobile. His election is
sure.
GEN. Lees name does not appear in the
list of Southern officers who have applied
to the President for pardon.
RECENT law of the State of Georgia
makes burglary and horse stealing capital
ofense.
THK City Council of Columbus, on the
two hundred and eighty-seventh ballot,
has elected Mr.. COmssOek, (UniOn) its Pres
ident.
The car drivers on several of the New
York street railroads yesterday resumed
work, the Directors promising to pay them
satisfactory wages.
The Boston city government has appro-
priated $4,000 for the establishment of free
salt water bathing places for uses this sum-
mer.
CAPTAIN BoND, of the regular army, for
merly muster-in officer at Columbus, did at
the Goodale House in that city, Monday af-
teruoon of pneumonia.
THE chicken cholera has made its appear
ance in Madison county, Alabama, and is
rapidly sweeping off the remnant of the
feather tribe spared by the negroes and SOL
diers.
OFFICIAL notice is given that the Presi-
dents recent proclamation does not remove
martial law or operate in any way 1pon the
Freedmen's Bureau in the exercise of its
Jurisdiction
A ACASAD1AN detective reports that the
Fenians have nearly ready for armament
on the lake fifteen vessels besides schooners
and transports, loading with arms and mu-
nitions of war
The United States Consul at Aspinwall
informs the State Department that cattle
disease, which he does not regard, however,
as the rinderpest, has made its appearance
along the line of the Panama railroad.
THIRTY ships, containing eleven thousand
passengers, cabin and steerage, sailed from
Liverpool to the United States in the month
of March. The greater number of the pas
sengers were Irish.
TIE Indianapolis Journal says that
strange disease, resembling diptheria, has
attacked the calves in that vieir.ity, SO that
veal has fallen into disrepute as an article
of meat.
The New Haven Pallaailns states that last
Wednesday firm in that city shipped a
splendid carriage to Macmillan, of Mexico.
The carriage was of the Landau style, was
lined with blue satin and cost $500.
ROGER A. PRroR, late General in the
Confederate service, as many of our readers
know, has resided in New York since the
close Of the war, and followed the practice
of his profession-the law In this he has
been very successful.
A DISPATCH from Eastr ort says most of the
special kilograms from tnat point touching
the Fenisns are false. The Head Centres
are merely indulging IN their favosite oc
cupation of speech-l making and issuing
proclamations.
OSE hundred and seventy Indians, who
have been held und sr sentence of death for
PARTICIPATION in the Minnesota massacre,
were recently iber ated, having received an
unconditional pardon from the President.
A YOUNG man who had lost large sum of
money in playing cards with professional
gambler aboard steam boat, brought suit
against the Captain of the boat. The case
was decided in the United States District !
Court ata late term in Mobile, in favor of
the plaintiff.
The Fort Wayne Gda,tts learns that man |
was killed at Burrows Station, on last Mon |
day by stroke fr ON a slung shot. The
same paper states that the bodies of two in
fant children were fbrnd in Indian Creek,
near Gosport, last Sunday A widow,
named Elizabeth Co,over, has been arrested
as the perpetrated of the double crime.
A MEMBER of the Tennessee House named
Williams, made hitter personal attack on
Governor Brownlo'E, during the session on
Monday last. He was subsequently met in
the capitol by Colonel Brownlow, son of the
Governor, who challenged him to fight with
pistols, he (Brownlow) rendering the use of
the weapons. Williams declined the invi-
tation, and the emeute ended by the inter
ference of bystanders.
Two colored soldiers went into the yard of
Ferdinand Gregory, in Christ Church Par
ish, South Carolina, last week He became
dissatisfied with their presence and delib-
erately shot one of them. A lsGge number
of negro soldiers went to his no use, fired a
velley into it, wounded a little girl, and
would have committed other violence had
not Colonel Bennetcommsnding at Charles
ton, sent guard to his relief.
IL Perryville, Kentucky, few days since
an old woman named Polly Bottom, was
murdered, and man named Bill TAYLOR
was accused by little girl as the perpt,trs-
tor of the crime. Taylor and his fat her
were arrested and taken to Perryvilie, ut
the people would not wait for the course of
justice, and took away the younger Taylor
from the officers and hanged him. The
father was spared as doubt existed in re-
gard to his completely in the murder.
TIE New York Herald, in speaking of the
bungling manner of the execution of Green,
the Maiden murderer, suggests that the du-
ties of executioners be taken out of the
hands of county sherifs and given to q
person appointed by the Government, who
shall go around to the different points of the
country wherever executions are to take
place, and do the work in scientific man
ner. That is the way it is managed in Eng
land and several other European nations.