Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-24
THE N EW s.

OoLD closed last night at 1869.
The Washington Aldermen have endorsed
the Presidents veto.
GEN. BURNSIDE was in MeadviIle day be-
fore yesterday on his way to Reno.
GES. GIANT was guest of a. t. Stewart,
in New York, yesterday.
TIE present effective strength of Maxi
milian's army is stated at 2O,O0e.
The City Council of Toledo has made 9
movement toward providing a workhouse
and House of Correction for that city.
THE conservative Union convention of
Missouri, yesterday telegraphed the Presi-
dent that they greeted him with 100 guns.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Louisville journal
says he thinks the peach crop in middle and
Eastern Kentucky to be an entire failure.
THE steamer Gilmore sunk near Louis
vile Wednesday. Boat and cargo valued
at over hundred thousand dollars-total
lost
OFFICIAL correspondence between the
British Foreign Office to Mr.. Seward, rela-
tive to the Shenandoah, is given in our
Special dispatches.
The Missouri Legislature Wednesday
passed joint resolutions condemning the |
Presidents policy of reconstruction, and |
sustaining the Union majority in Congress.
The steamer Winchester, laden with pc
troleun, and containing passengers from
Parkersville to Pittsburgh, was burned
Wednesday near wellsville. 1t is reported |
twenty lives were lest
AN accident happened yesterday morning
on the New Jersey Railroad, the through
Washington train running into wood train
at East Newark. Three brakemen were
badly injured, one it is feared mortally.
a NEW Union paper is to be started at
Rochester and one also at Albany, for the
reason that the existing papers have said
something the men who propose to start the
new papers don't like.
THE steamer Atlantic, the Pioneer of the
Northern American Lloyd Steamship Com
Pany sailed yesterday for Bremen. Til
steamers Of this line will perform regular
service hereafter.
A CALL appeared in the Chicago papers {
Wednesday, very numerously signed, for /
mass convention to be held in that city on I
the evening of the 22d, of all those in favor t
Of home labor Vs. foreign free trade.
TIE speech of President johnson in re-
sponse to serenade on the evening of the .
I'D, and the Henry Winter Davis Memorial +.
services in the Hall of the House Of Repre- :
.entatives, will be found on the inside ol
This mornings paper.
TIE contested election case between
Washburn and Voorhees, Of the Terre Haute,
Congressional District, was deci-
led yesterday in the House of Representa-
lives, in favor of Washburn (Union.) Voor- /;
nees is therefore no longer a member of :
Congress-.
DISPATCHES from Washington say it is !;
stated that the Ways and Means Commit .
ZEE are favorably considering the PROPOSE
ion to tax all tobacco in leafinstead as now
lpon the manufactured article. 1t is thought
his mode of taxation will prevent many 1
md considerable frauds upon the revenue. d
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A MAN by the name of Harland A. Ed
Yards, well known in Cincinnati and form
rly Councilman from the Second Ward, y
hot dead, man by the name of Orlando e
]. Murray in the streets of that city last il
Wednesday night An old feuds existed b
'etwecn the parties in consequence of il
aw suit. Edwards gave himself up to the r
,olice Immediately after committing the
murder.
In Congress yesterday, the House was oc- n
'upied principally with the contested cleo
ion case between Voorhes and Washburn, :
# Indiana. In the Senate, Mr.. Sherman T
wanted to postpone the debate on the Con-
amendment until the excitement
Produced by the events of the past few days
ubsided. Mr.. Wilson introduced bill 10
continue the present Freedmen's Bureau Il
wo years longer, which was referred to the d
Military Committee. Aside from this the
business transactions was unimportant
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