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Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-06-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

WAsHIseToH, june 6.
The Postmaster at Memphis refusing to dis
tribute mails, the Postmaster General ordered
Memphis Office discontinued, and all POstmasters
TO forward TO the dead letter office all matter d-
rected to Memphis
1t having been reported that 9 quantity OF
arms were stored at Havana under the British
flag for the Confederate States, letter has been
received from our Consul which says the matter
had previously engaged his attention, and It Is
impossible to land there 200 900 rides, as stated.
The Government of the Island would not permit
Illicit importation to suoh an amount of arms.
A Spanish house ordered from Belgium 20 0O0
rifles for speculation. The house has failed, and
the order probably, will not be filed. The Con-
sul Is under the impression that 10000 rejected
Spanish muskets have been sent 20 the Southern
ports
A letter received from Lieutenant Craven
of the steamer Crusader, at Key West, says he
detained for Government use the steamer Suwa-
nee, belonging to parties who loaned the Dusk,
which captured the Star OF the West.
The bark Mystic, which caused much anxiety,
is at Key West, notwithstanding Southern re-
The rebels made great preparations to attack
Pickens about May 10th Previously Capt. Ad-
ans informed Bragg that the port was strictly
blockaded. Bragg replied that he considered the
notification a virtual acknowledgement of the
independence of the Confederate States. He
told Adams to consider the port closed against
all United States vessels. He would not permit
any vessels to enter, except dispatch boats with
The Prize Court was in session in Washington
TO day. Several vessels we're restOree to their
oyners.
The Post Office Department has received a
copy of Reagan's Confederate Circular instruct-
ing Southern Post Masters to retain all mail
Bugs, locks, key, stamps and all property con
nected with the postal service-ledger accounts
up to the 18th of May showing the final balance
IN heir possession.
The military matters in Washington are con-
Quoted with unusual caution. Reliable informa-
tiOn is unattainabie.
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Important from western virginia.

A special dispatch from Grafton to the
Cincinnati Gazette ofyesterday, says:
Col. Kelley is much better, but not out Of
danger. He was brought over to-day from
Phillippi. There are twenty companies oi
infantry and several of artillery there as a
garrison #AiH s3fS sE1
A wonderful change Of sentiment has taken
place there. The Union feeling is now
largely predominant. Nearly seven thousand
troops are here and at Phillippi, viz: The
Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Indiana Regiments,
First Va, and Coils Irvine and Andrews,
and .Steadman's Regiments, with the Clsve-
land Artillery of Ohio.
Gen. Morris of Indianapolis is in command.
he, with Love, Brigade Major, and Hascall,
aid to the General, are allW est Pointers, and
experienced United States officers.
tits not known how many rebels were
killed at Phillippi. They were under the
command of Uol. Ruter6eld, of Eastern Vir-
ginia.
Many Union men were impressed into their
ranks. They are utterly scattered and dis
organized now.
Erroneous statements have been made
about the troops engaged in the Phillippi
affair. Col. Dumont Seventh Indiana Reg
iment led the attacking column. Col. Crit
tenden's Regiment did not get up in time to
participate. The march that night was
really wonderful.
In looking at the ground, one is astonished
that they could travel the distance, under
any circumstances, in the time they did. Il
was never exceeded in the military history
Of the country. The troops are moving to
Phillppi tonight. A-
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rl,e phIIlinI Cnnture.

Among the prisoners taken at Grafton,
was one Wiley, one of the parties who cOun-
seled the burning of the bridges above Man
uington on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
It IS said he is a brother of the Wiley who
figured so extensively in the Wheeling Con
vention as an advocate of "peaee measures
and avoiding "civil war" With relation to
the shooting of Col. Kelley, the Wheeling
Intelligencer Gays;
g. After the secessionists had fed, and Col.
KELLEY was marching into town at the head
of his command, he was approached by 0
desuerado named Mart johnson, OF Prunty-
town. who shot him with revolver, the bal
taking effect in his breast. JOhnst n was I'M
mediaiely seized, and would have been In.
stautlv pinned to the earth by hundrec
bayonets but that the maenanimous Colone
ordered the men to spare him. 1t IS thought
that had the Indiana regiment delayed nj
teen minutes longer in opening the fire, tht
whole sixteen hundred secessionists coulC
have been captured. Colonel Kelley's Wounc
Is not mortal, and hopes Of his recovery arr
entertained"
a GraTUUn correspondents of ti1v FistsSuFsl
Chronicle, writes;
The first battle was fought this morning
at Phillippi, about twenty miles from TIM
pla e, where the rebels were eneamped
about two thousand strong. Yesterday tb'
whole camp was in motion. The Fourteenth
and Sixteenth Ohio, the Seventh Indiana, anG
the First Virginia Regiments, all under com
mand of Col Kelly, left on an expedition Z
Phillippi. They disembarked from the rail
road about five miles from the rebel camp
ard at about three o'clock, a. m, moved OF
them. When within one and half miles
the rebels, a woman fired pistol and alarm
ed their outposts. They received our mel
and poured into our advance guard sever
fire, killing one man, member of the Six
teenth, and severely and seriously Toundinl
Col. Kelly, the commander. Our men re
turned the FIRE and charged, killing sixteen o
the rebels, and wounding many others. W.
captured many horses, about three hundred
prisoners, and their entire camp eqaipage :
The command of this post is now "ndei
Brigadier General Morris, of Ohio, who vii
have command Of this division of the army
The men are in high spirits and demand tC
be led on to Harper's Ferry at once. W.
have but poor opinion of the bravery o
the secession troops. Some of them arr
brave men, but the majority will not fight.
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We claimed, when the report Of fighting
at SewalI's Point was cOntradicted BY tele-
graph, that there had been fighting there,
and in support of that opinion, We find the
following in Washington dispatch Of two
days ago:
'qniormation hss been received here To-
day from an individual who visited SewalPs
Point Battery, on the morning after the Mon
ueelio's attack upon it, that fragments Of
human remains were seen scattered about /;
that It was admitted there then that nine Of
its defenders had been killed, and q larger
number wounded, and It is not now denied
that the battery was we'll nigh destroyed,
having been sileneed and abandoned for the
time teing."
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Items.

Alta cost of s4s, 900 the Montrealers are
about to build five new markets in that city.
The Richmond Examiner says that there
are not less than 5000 unemployed negroes
in Richmond. Business generally is at a
stand still.
MNjor General Butler is forty-three years
old.-He was born in Desr6eld, Rocking
ham county, New Hampshire, in 1918.
A Massaehus tits man, sojourning in New
Haven, who was in Fort Moultrie during the
bombardment Of Fort Sumter, offers to take
his oath that Sumter's guns killed six or
seven hundred rebels. .us
Two pretty girls, Catherine Quirk and Re
becca Ellenstein, rsn away from their parents
and homes in New York, Joined the Garibal-
di regiment as volunteers and are now with
that regiment in active services. a- -
Steamer Northern Light arrived at New
York on Saturday from AspenwalI, vi h
1913, 900 in specie fom California. She
brings report that two British subjects have
been murdered by the Peruvian authorities.
One was sufocated and the other starved
in prison because be killed robber who
attacked him.
The Firemen Zouaves, now at Old Point,
Virginia, are said to be very comfortable as
regards their commissariat One account
says ''thev have provoking way Of getting
things," and among the articles procured for
their table is a liberal supply Of spring
chickens
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The Army Worn.

The army worm is doing considerable
damage in various localities. In twelve
mile prairie the young corn is being literally
devoured by this pestiferous insect. One
gentleman informs US that he has at least
forty ceres of young growing corn utterly
destroyed by it, and others in the same local.
ity have suffered Just as much as he has.
The neigborhood of Mascoutah has also
been devastated considerably by this worm,
but the farmers are trying to prevent its
spread by an extensive system Of ditehing--
BeLIeViHe Dispatch.
A subscriber at Monticello informs us that
this pest has made its appearance in that vi
cinity within the last ten days and the num-
bers of the invaders appear to be increasing
rapidly. The rayages Of the worm, so far are
confined mainly to meadows, but should they
continue 20 increasn, they will doubtless, also
attack the grain fields.-AItoH Democrat.
We are Informed by the farmers Of this
county, that the Army Worm, the most de-
structive of all the foes of the husbandmani
has made It's appearance in vast numbers in
various portions of the CJuuty. From the
descriptions we have had of It's depradatiOns,
we should dread an onset from so formidable
an adversary. Mr.. Lewis Bryan has LOST
entirely twenty-five or thirty acres Of fne
grass. u 49, r1sf .r
Mr.. G. R. Rogers states that they have at
lacked his wheat fields, and that he would in
all probability lose his entire crop, valued al
between two and three thousand dollars
Messrs Gillispie, Garner, Lougmire and
others ara sufferers. We have not heard Of
its attacking the hemp as yet, though it is
probable it will. They leave the field a:
clear as a McOormiek's Reaper, or a fire
Mr.. Bryan has succeeded in destroying them
to certain extent, by turning the hogs up
on them. They devour them greedily. Thi;
is the second time this pest has visited this
vicinity. Many years ago they destroyed the
entire crop of the country; and there il
great danger that like result will follow the
attack this year.--PalmsFa Mss Courier.
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Beauregard Turns up at Ma
nasas Junctiohl
SEIZURE OF REBEL MUNITIONS OF
WAR AT BALTIMoREl
An Early Advance upon
Harpers Ferry
Expected!
PROBABLE ACTION TODAY
Last Nights Report.
FROM NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, June o.
Special 70 the COmmeroisl.-Col Cummings of
the World newspaper, has been appointed Brig
adler General, PRIOR to an appointment OF QUAR-
ter Master General.
A large quantity Of letters received here, des-
tined for the South, are stopped.
Special to the Post-Marshal Bonifert, OF bal
| timOre has begun a thsrOugh work against the
| Maryland rebels. Yesterday, large quantities OF
| powder and other eontrabands, and also con-
| siderable amount of specie, evidently intended
/ for the rebels, were seized and put in safe
/ place. The Government has approved the Mar
/ shals acts.
Before closing the postal communication In re
/ bs.lious States the Department sent circulars to
/ all Southern Post Masters, informing them OF the
intended suspension large number have re-
| piled, expressing loyalty to the Government.
| Several of the three months troops IN VIZ
i ginia are TO be removed and replaced by three
/ yeGrs' volunteers,
A citizen from Baltimore says be saw and con-
! versed with Gen. Beauregsrd at Manassas JUNO
tion last Sunday.
Ii is understood here that the rebels have sent
secret agents TO Brazil to form Gn alliance win
/ that power.
Two brass guns belonging to the New 1orE
eth Regiment, were found to-day aboard reDel
schooner at Alexandria-the captain OF Whicn
refused to hoist the Federal flag. when mem
Der of the New York 9th Regiment shot hin
through the hand.
Secretary Seward remarked this morning thal
he expected TO hear very soon of sharp WORK u
Harpers Ferry. M
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rue Days OF tue traitor. Numbered.


We have the positive assurance OF the Chi
csgo Tribune, that Gen. Scott has definitely
settled the day when he shall make final
disposition Of the traitors. It states that it
has unquestionable authority for announe-
ing that the General has 50 far matured his
plans for the war ss to be able to inform the
President and Cabinet that the last secession
dag shall be torn down, the authority of the
Federal Government reinstated on every foot
Of American soil, and JeE. Davis hung or
driven out of the country, sOithin elereR months
ron the day sShsn Fort S'gnter lOas surrender
ed" Upon the same "unquestonable author
ityp it states it is part of his plan to occupy
Virginia and Tennessee completely on or
before the goth OF July. Sixty-6ve thousand
Northwestern troops will move down the
Mississippi as far as Memphis, under com
maad Of Generals Fremont and Mcclellan
and remain in camp until the sickly season il
past, when they viii move on toward the
Balize, there meeting the conquering army o.
the East and celebrating Washington
birthday in New Orleans.
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Especial BY Telegraph to Cleveland Leader.l
FROM WASHINGTON.

WAsHMGToS, June 6.
Last night the troops on the Virginia side
all he'd orders to sleep on their arms all night,
ready to repel an attack of the rebels which |
was expected to be made in large force, ae-
cording to information brought to General
Scott BY cavalry scouts at late hour last
evening.
A terrible rain storm prevailed all night,
causing great discomfort to the troops. Most
of them were soaked to the skin while on
the alert for the enemy. No hostile demon
stration, however, took place.
tits now positively ascertained that there
is a very large concentration of rebels at
Manassas Junction, and that they are de-
termined to defend that position to the last
but advioes received to-day st Headquarters
show last nights information of an ad-
vance of the enemy en- nas's to have been
erroneous. The scouts were misled BY the
strong rebel pickets, which they supposed to
be an advance guard OF the army.
It will now take large force to drive the
rebels from Manassas Junction, and will
perhaps cost a heavy loss of life. The opinion
now prevails in military circles that it was
great mistake not to make adash ct that point
two weeks ago with the whole force, and
, then advance into Virginia.
Gen. BeauregRrd is certainly in command
at the Junction. Several parties that saw him
arrived here during the last twenty-foul
hours.
saw a virginian Unionist who slept a
e Fairfax Court Hou 'e last night at Alexandra
d to-day. He says there are eight thousand reb
It els there. Incessant rains have rendered tn,
IS roads so bad that an advance of the Fedora
IS army cannot possibly be made at this point
'e Artillery, baggage, and provision trains coul'
ie not be got through knee-deep mud.
; Great excitement was produced at lat
Of hour last evening by rumor that amonl
Is the seized dispatches some had been foun'
K branding ]. E. Harvey, Minister to POrtugs
le as traitor. The rumOr is confirmed to-day
d The dispatches prove him to have been /
ol traitorous correspondence with the rebels.
ID The refusal of the Austrian Governmer
ne to receive Burlingsme as the United STATE
N Minister, is doubtless due to prejudiees cr'
rs atei by dispatches known to have b0en ser
w by Ohevalier Hulseman. The latter may g
u his passports. .vfE.r
5 Heavy ordnance are now being transpor
ed across the river for the bastion erectin
n. opposite Georgetown. It will be provide
n with battery of sixteen heavy pieces.
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FROaT NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. June Q.
The Chamber Of Commerce has resolved to pre-
sent a suitable medal to each and all Of Major
AndersOn's and Lieut.. Slemmers command at
Forts Sumter and Pickens.
The City of Washington brought more w hit
worth's rihed cannon Tor the use Of the Govern
ment from the loyal citizens of Europe.
A dispatch TO the TIibune says Those VINO
witnessed the firing from Newport News Win
good glasses believe shells from the Harriet Lane
took effect within the works and cars were seen 70
move off It Is conjectured with The dead. The
battery has ten or twelve guns. The Lanes pur'
pose was merely 10 feel their fire and determine
The character Of the work She received one shot
through the bulwOrks from rihed gun. There
Is another battery further up the james river
and It is evidently the purpose of the rebels to for
tfy the shore at various points, fearing that Gen
Butler may land forces on that side of the river
with view of commanding the rear OF hortoli
and cut off the railroad connection with the
South and Richmond.
A large number of laborers are engaged il
throwing up fortifcations in the neighborhooC
fNrT 1fa nj
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FLOUR-Markets somewhat irregular; extra state
and one or two otner brands are bringing little
more m9ny, while other descriptions are without
stat- Of which there was none to e had below So 10
Bales are IL 700 bbls t4ySkd4sQ for superno state
S3O@5,29 Tor extra ststei S4,I5s4,s5 for suPerhne
western; S4,9Afo5,2n Tor common TO medium extra
Westerni f5I35G50 Tor shipping brands extra round
hooped Ohio; S5;6o97,25 for trade brands do.
mon grades more steady. sales are LOO bbls at
S5,l067, 80 for inferior to choice extra
RYE REOUR-Small sales at 50, ,iO6ln0
CORN HIEAL-Market quiet and pricos with
WBIsK YIN good request at Bettsr prices
SAFES are ll09 bbls At l61s0Hc,
WHEAT-Market for good sound wheat has ed
vanced @2c, with pretty good xport demand in
part for France, and interior still Tnles heavy
sales are 1900 bush Chicago spring ct $3.50 ~
60 500 bnsh Milwaukee club at SO,gOGli5 600 bush
Racine prime u 20l 6; 1000 husn red state 1t S.
very handsome amber Green BAY at ST. rs; IA SO bT
winter red westrH at 49, ls i05 bush Canada
cl1e az 4.5O9 bush white western ct 81 u
II RHB-MaIke. quiet at 6766Sc
BARLEH-Market dull at 556o65cs
GORN-Market rules hrm with pretty good de
mand for home consumption. Sales arr $4,000 bust
at 4l0e4656c for mixed western; 46f61c for new
yellow weatern CSC for white western; Sc for olC
OATs-Market duh at sl@s2s<c for Western ant
| Canaiiian; 33@ss1Sc for State. -
POR Rk-Market dull and lower. Sales are 4O
bbls at s $50 Tor mess SI20061 I2S7z for pine
BEEF-Market dull, with trihfng sales at &, a
/ OSLO Tor country primes S',s796, ,5for c0untrl
mess, SlO,O@ll.OO for repacked mess; Sl ,250l2, .
PRIME MISS BEEF-Markst dull, and v it'll
BEEF HAMs-Marketf faies quiet at Sisal4.
| CUT BIEATS-Quiet. Trihing sales at Sc fo
sboulders; 696k for hams;
| BANiON-Quiet ana unchanged
LAR - ~ ma dull and prices ara dFooping-
| .BUTTRR-Sslling At s9i4c for Ohioi s9i5 70
OmREsE-Market steady at sasc. as In quality
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Irems frnun ..nixIe., >,

The arch traitor Twiggs, has been appointed
Brigsdier General in the rebel army, and
viii make his head quarters in New Orleans.
Rx Secretary Floyd has been commissioned
by Jss. Dzvfs- q Dr riyatiiyr etzrrvrul und
viii raise brigade in Virginia. he will
probably steal their rati0ns and appropriate
the proceeds.
Captain Avis, John Browns jailor, is the
commander Of a company in charge of the
hospital near Harper's Ferry.
Governor Letcher has sent for the family
of the slayer of Colonel Ellsworth, who will
hereafter be provided for by the State, and a
monument viii be erected to his memory.
The Richmond Examiner says that Rich
mond contains at this time not less than
Eve thousand unemployed negroes. All the
tobacco factories are closed or working short
force. All the usual occupations of manual
labor are at stand still. Slaves walk the
streets whose masters can find work neither
for hire nor for clothing.
The Louisville Journal, in commenting
upon the reign of terror in Tennessee and
the outrages upon Union men, says
"We saw yesterday two gentlemen who,
being known to contemplate visit to
Tennessee, have been warned that it would
be at the peril of their lives. Yet one of these
gentlemen Is g native Of Tennessee, where
his ancestors have lived for sixty or seventy
years and the siep-son of a distinguished
Tennessee statesman, who recently betrayed
the Union party; and be knows of no better
gro1nd Of complaint against himself than that
he once entertained at his house free soil
United States Senator.
A gentleman from Fortress Monroe says
that fugitives still fee to the fort Gen.
Butler has now about ll5 negroes, not $50,
as reported, employed in and about the fort
ress. Many families have departed in the
direction Of York. One man, Mr.. Jones,
had twenty slaves, all but one of whom left
him, and sought refuge in the fort. Thil last
chattel was devoted afFectionately to ole
massa, and declared be loved hin. am
nsbber leab yer, massa--nebber p swore this
ehattel, very promising sable, ''Tll stick to
my ole massa qongs libP' and master and
man left together for the interior. Next
morning, when massa rose to proceed on his
journey, his devoted property had decamped
foT the North, taking with him massa's horse,
and neither 0ufee nor horse have since been
heard from.
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In nIcnoriam.

The funeral of Senator Stephan A. Doug
las viii DO attended this (Friday) morning,
from 10 TO II o'clock. As but ftting testi-
monisl Of respect to the illustriOus dead, we
suggest to our business men the propriety of
closing their stores at that hour. This viii be
done throughout the country, and we believe
Cleveland viii not be backward in giving
this token of respect. We are informed that
the Father Mathew Temperance Band viii
play solemn dirges from the balcony of the
Neddell during the hour above named.