Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-19
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GOLD closed Saturday night at 1875.
THE Virginia Legislature on Saturday
took trip to Norfolk on a new railroad.
GEN. LEE was before The Reconstruction
Committee in Washington on Saturday.
LOT of Cashmere goats from Tennessee
passed through Columbus Saturday, en- route
to Guernsey county.
A s5O,0OO private residence, belonging to
! Howard Potter, in New York, was destroyed
by fire yesterday.
A LETTER from Havana contradicts the
rumor that Mr.. Seward, while there, had an
interview with an agent of Maximilian.
REPoRrs of the murder of several officers
of the Freedmen's Bureau, in differents parts
of the South, are officially denied.
TIE New York Commercials Washington
special says twenty-three Senators will vote
against the Constitutional Amendment
THE Chinese Empress has abdicated in
favor of young Prince who is willing To
open the ports of the Celestial Empire to
foreign interests.
NEARLY two million dollars of currency
was issued by the Treasury Department last
week. The total amount issued up to this
time is two hundred and ffty-fve million
dollars.
SATURDAY nights telegrsms from New
York state that considerable damage result
ed to the shipping from floating lee in North
river. The ferry boats had hard time ma
king their trips.
A FIRE occurred in Georgetown, D. c.,
Saturday last, which consumed several
buildings, the principal one of which was
warehouse of the New York and Wash
ingtOn Steamship line.
A GENTLEMAN connected editorially with |
the Richmond Examiner, announces that |
the order suppressing that atjournal has been |
revoked, and that its publication will be i'm
mediately resumed.
The report that there were two thousand |
cases Of smallpox in Buffalo is pronounced
incorrect. There have not been over two
hundred cases, and the disease is Oh the de-
crease.
The western bound passenger train
on the Wabash railway, near Wab-
bash station, Ind, last Friday, was thrown
from the track by broken rail. A brake
man killed was the only person injured.
In the lower branch of the Legislature on
Saturday, resolution was introduced, re-
questing the President to negotiate treaty
with the Mexican Republic, for territory in
which to colonige the negroes of the United
States. 1t was promptly tabled.
GEN. GRANT has issued an order, dated
Feb. II, requiring all Department comman-
ders to report to him the names and send
copies of sneh newspapers as utter disloynl
sentiments, This proceeding is called for
with view to their suppression, which will
be done by him only.
NATHANIEL WISsLow, of the 4th U. s.
Cavalry, was murdered below Brownsville,
Texas, while carrying dispatches about the
Bagdad affair, from Gen. Wright to Clarks-
vile; and another man, on his way TO
Clarksville to testify in relation to the Bag
dad affair, wrs lassoed and beaten to death.
The "Lake Erie Press Association" held
its second session at Meadville on Thursday
last. Representatives were present from
nineteen papers, fourteen Of them from
Western Pennsylvania. No business of
general Importance was transacted. The
proceedings were concluded by pleasant
supper at the the McHenry House, and the
Association adjourned to meet in Cleveland
on the first Thursday in June.
The latest foreign dates are TO the 4th
inst. The English Parliament was opened
on the lst by the Royal Commission. The
Queens speech would be delivered on the
9th inst. Mr.. Peabody, the American ban
ker, resident of London, has given another
hundred thousand pounds for the benefit of
the poor of that city, making quarter of a
million pounds he has given in the aggre-
gate for the same purpose.
Our New York kilograms furnish pretty
full abstracts of late letters from Mexico to
the New York Herald. They state that
Maximilian's finances are at the lowest ebb
he spends twenty-five or three millions of
dollars more than his receipts. His army
is said to be 10000 strong. Between 10000
and Ii, 900 Mcxieans, altogether, have been
executed under the barborous decree out
lawing the Republican party. In Vera
Cruz there was rumOr that Gen. Grant
with large army was on the Rio Grsnde,
in person.
UP in Minnesota numbers of people are
frozen 10 death every winter. We read in
a late Wisconsin paper letter from lady
residing in Fillmore county, that man
by the name of Iberson, while returning
from the mill with an OK team, on the 20th
of JAM, was frozen to death within mile
and half of his home; and that ten other
men persisted in the same storm-six of
them all together in asleigh froze Jas they
were sitting in the sleigh. Three other
men bad been to the timber, and it seems
they could not keep up with their teams;
one was found, the other two were not; the
one found was frozen in a standing posture,
with both hands covering his face, within
three rods Of house.