Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-05
THE NE W s.


GOLD closed Saturday night at Is9a@1S95
FIFrY dollar counterfeits on the Tenth
National Bank of New York have been
detected.
THI Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff and County
Clerk of Pope county Ark, were recently
killed by assassins.
. GENERAL FeRREsr, ex-rebel, wa. in Vera
crus, Mexico, recently. A letter writer
says he was evidently strapped.
THE State Legislature on Friday. there
being no quorum in either branch, ad-
j0urned over until Tuesday of this week.
TIE Canadian Fenians are violently op-
posed to the plans of the Roberts and
sweeny faction for invading that territory.
TIE opening of the Whitewater Valley,
Indiana, Railroad was celebrated at Brook
vile, the present terminus, forty miles from
Cincinnati, last Thursday.
PRINCE MURAr and NJ. Rocheford, a liter
ary man, recently fought duel in Paris.
The former was badly wounded in the
sairtl and the latter in the hip.
The Bleeker street and Fulton Ferry
street railroad stables, New York, were
burned down Saturday night. Seventy
horses were burned to death. Total loss
$40, 900. ~ -45g-
GENERAL PAM, instead of flying into
Portugal, it would seem is making good
headwsy against the Queen and o'Donnell,
and his insurrection has the appearance of
terminating successfully.
A DISPATCH from Fortress Monroe says
JEFF. Davis temper is soured, and that he
spends his time reading the Bible and fault
finding. Evidently he does not profit much
by his reading Of the Good Book.
TIE excitement in Canada on the Fsnian
invasion question. still continues. Roberts
and sweeny passed through Hamilton, O.
W, the other day. The Mayor, it appears,
had the intention Of aTresting them, but
was dissuaded from it.
TIE members Of the Wisconsin and Iowa
Legislatures propose, at no very distant day,
to meet in Chicago The Board Of Trade
and citizens generally of Chicago, it is
understood, will Immediately move in the
matter, looking to a sonsummation Of the
event
II is said the French Government has |
purchased share in the London Daily |
Telegraph newspaper, and that articles
fayoring Napoleon's Mexican policy are |
furnished it by his orders, and then re-
published in the Paris NoRitsGr as genuine |
English opinions.
York, has caused the arrest Of R. T. Colburn |
a sub-editor Of the New York Tribune, and |
George Knapp proprietor of the st. Louis
Republican, the former for writing and the |
latter for publishing some Objectionable
personal matters relating to Stewart in
New York letters to the Republican. They
gave bail and will answer to the charges in
st. Louis court. T...-
TIE Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune regards the authority
good upon which he makes the statement
that information has been received by the
Government Of an official character, to the
effect that Napoleon has decided to with
draw the French troops from Mckee,
without delay, asking nothing of the United
States Government except that it remain
neutral between Maximilian's monarchy
and the Mexican Republic.
A WIDOW lady, named Henrietta Watts,
from Dayton, Ohio, accompanied by her
children, arrived in Chicago on Wednesday.
On the ears going there she formed the
acquaintance of aman who, after many in
quiries as to her history, proposed to marry
her. To this she consented, and they pro-
ceeded to hotel for that purpose. While
there the man, by the practice of his
strategy, got possession of $3.50 belonging to
Mrs. Watts and absconded, leaving her
entirely destitute in strange city.
A COLUMBUS correspondent of the Cinein.
natl Commercial, speaking of the agricul-
tursl college, says: The special committee
of one from each Congressional District in
the House will have the whole subject under
consideration at an early day, when, it is
believed, there will bassn effort to carry
through the proposition of the Commits
sioners appointed by Governor Brough, and
locate one college in the southern part of
the State, with the view of giving one to
the northern section at some future day.
It is stated that of the ninety-one mem.
bers of Company B, Third Regiment United
States Cavalry, who were on the hurri-
cane deck of the in-fated steamer Miami,
nearly all were lost, instead Of only thirty,
as was at first reported. The boats crew
numbered in all thirty-twO, only seven of
whom escaped alive. The number of lost
swells to from $50 to 200 persons. Thirty
bodies have already been picked up and
buried st the place Of the disaster, and fifty
wounded are now in the hospital at Selma,
Ark, most of whom will die. Nine or ten
skeletons of persons, burned to death, are
to be seen near the boilers on the deck.
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