Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-27
THE CAUSE OF GEN. BLENKER'S
RESIGNATION.
His Probable Successor,
CHANGES IN THE REBEL CABINET.
Panic in the Southern Cities
Preparations for Defending CO.
lumbuS!
This Mornings Report.
FROM wAsB1NeTON.

Gen. Mcclellan has addressed letter to
Gen. Blenker, containing such expressions
Of displessures as left to the latter no choice
but 10 resign, which he did this morning.
| 1t is said that the illegal tax of q hundred
dollars per month which he has levied from
each Of the suffers Of his division, has elie-
tied the sbove letter.
A committee has bNen organized for the
Investigation Of the accounts Of the Di
vision.
The mass of the Gernsns have never
considered Blsnker as altogether the right
man. for position so responsible, and the
Tumor that Gen. Sigel is 70 succeed him is
hailed with almost uni7erssl delight, |
An order will this week 60 out to St.
Louis directing the. payment of all the on
GERS appointed by Gen. Fremont.
The Richmond EnquiTer, Of ths 22d, an
nounces that arrsu gsments have been made
for quartering five hundred more Of the
prisoners ct present in Richmond, ct Tus-
calOoss, Alabama, and SALISBURY, North
/ Carolina. The 6rst detachment for the
former place Ess to start on Friday sf-
i ternoon. It is comprised of one hundred
and fifty men, inclusive Of twenty commits
stoned officers. Amoag them ara F. s.
]
/ Y. Preston, 1st Lieutenant of the Michigan
Atm; Jas. FaErand, I'd Lieutenant, Ken
lucky lst; w. B Fletcher, Assistant Sur
geon, Indiana 9Th; E. W. Hale, Lieutenant
of steamer fanny.
! The Enquirer ssys the prisoners selected
were generally averse to the trip. A few
we're grstifed ct the change.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 21st,
mn, lioho aAak NJ n-1,
dated the 20hd, Which states that intense
excitement prevails relative to the threat
ened attack on Columbus.
Commodore Rollins had gone there with
-sE0lI, sslisI - 49,
ram Manassas.
A floating battery of twenty guns was
| going up that night all the river pilots
had been impressed. Seventeen thousand
troops and seventy cannon we're st Golun-
bus. Z
The Government has sdvioss that Rich
mond, IS well ss Savannah, Charleston
Memphis and New Orleans are in panic
Families were packing up, to be in readl-
ness to leave when the Yankees approached.
1t vas generally believed ;hst the rebel
government had already commenced NOV
ing lis archives to Nashville, 30 suddenly
made the Capital.
Government also has intelligence that
the discount on the Confederate Treasury
notes is already thirty per cent, and that
on private issues mnst be still greater.
This morning, Companies A and b Of
Col. Freedman's cavalry regiment COM
msnded by Major Butler, went on tour Of
observation. A mile beyond Hunters
Mills they met a regiment Of rebel caval-
, II, supported by infantry.
Our men were fred upon BY the ecsvslry.
One horse was wounded, and one member
of Company A was injured BY his horse
falling upon him.
AT the order given by Lieutenant Paul
a for Company A to advance, the infantry Of
It the rebels took fright and retTested.
Count DeVillenan has been assigned tC
J Gen. McOlellan's staff, with the rank Of
s Colonel. BE is a graduate of the school Of
St. Cyr, and was Colonel by brevet in the
e French army. .a-
Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina, hal
been appointed rebel Attorney General, il
place Of Judith P. Benjsmin, made Score
+ tary of War. O.
- Herslds dispatch: Id
- A deserter from the rebels, named Wm
= West, son of clerk in the Treasury De
- partment, who was impressed five month
oe ago at Winchester, and st the time he LEI
the rebel camp was an Orderly to one Q
their Brigsdier Generals, came into ou
# lines to'day.e
liz He reports that the head quarters Of tn
ot enemy are still at OentFeville, and that tn
We force Immediately around that poiEt
ng 10000, and that number is supposed to b
To less than one-hslf of the whole rebel fore
ar on the Potomac Gen. johnson is in CON
msnd. Provisions are plenty, that is mes
ts- and bread. Coffee and sugar ara scare
- The troops are living in tents, They al
,as tolerably well clothed and pretty We
~ armed. Some Of their arms they lately r
ife oeiTed from Europe.
Iira The troops, be says, are in good spirit
foT They express the belief that they can mail
tain their line Of occupation in front Of l
against any force We can bring. They a
for told constantly by their officers, and esp
ees cislly by their Chsplsins, that this is
uth war Of subjugaion, devastation and abe
AID ition. Is
ing There are formidable entrenehmsnts
nm CenterVille, but no siege guns. There 8
and Eve entrenehments ct Ne nassss, and sor
rry, heavy guns. -a.ao5
ICED he says that no troops had gone sout
lon ward to his knoWledgs, the Goast opeT
tions NOT causing sny dispersion Of th'
IRA. forces. This is oORtradicted By other o
abIe thoritiss.
the He brought with him gcOd horse, q
-ins, is well clothed, with double Roolen und
I've I've clothing, and , hsgvy wooden 0Eercoat.
- had one Shsrp's rife, and presented as &C
-. an appearances as our Orderlies general
.sL ~ Information has been received tod
from rebel sources Of the intention Of
enemy to burn Hunters Mills.
J the Es FROM NEW YORK -
fares NEE TORK, Nov. 26
hem The steamer George PEABODY, nom
they Piekens the 18th, arrived ct this port
look Monday, previous to her departure II
at is Key West.
! IN The Conneetiout had arrived from i