Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-08-27
This Mornings Report.
FROM WASHINGTON
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WAshiNoroS, Aug. 25
Tribunes correspondence
A false alarm occurred during the morn.
ing church service to. day A picket guard
reported the enemy advancing from Falls
/ Church. Gen. McDoWell telegraphed Ia
Gen. Mcclellan, aud preparations were
making for meeting the enemy, when an
other telegram came explaining Tn 1t the
frat was unfounded. 1890, .-sr
+ Government is considering the propriety
Of organizing . natiohal detective police
force. New York, 81 Louis, Chicago, and
other cities were represented in the OOnfers
ence. The plan is to have agents distrib-
uted through the country, forming net
work Of surveillance. -51
The detective force in Washington is
largely increased by recruits from New
York and Philadelphis. % 2
A woman from Besuregard's headquar-
ters was arrested to-day while passing
through our lines into Alexandria. An
Irish woman searched her. and found some
twenty letters addressed to and duplicating
prominent citizens in Washington and
Alexandria. 1919. -
All the mutineers sulI in custody, includ-
ing those Of the Second Maine and Thir-
teenth and TWenty7First New York, were
sent to the Dry Tortugas this afternoon.
Several persons we're arrested TO day,
among them Mrs. GreenhoW, widow of the
former librarian and translator 1t the
State Department. -, ~ y $3.50 ~ 1
Mrs. Senator Gwgn's trunk, ordered to
60 on to West Point by express, was exam
ined, aud plans of the forti6cations lat the
Chain. Bridge and on the other side tof the
Potomac, traced on paper BY some clerk in
the War Department. were found.
DR., Msnning was also arrested today.
Other arrests Will soon be made,
-- Times correspondence: ,--
Yesterday Mrs. Phillips, wife Of Phillip
Phillips, q well known counsellor of this
city, was arrested at her residence, charged
With holding reasonable communication
with the rebels. II is said that when ar
rested Mrs. Phillips attempted to swallow
portion Of q letter she was writing TO o
rebel. Mrs, Phillips prepared. to iIl1minate
her house in commemoration Of +ths rebel
victory at Bull Run, and was only dis
suaded from doing SO by her more prudent
rebel officers. -. -'-.5---t 5--'
1t IS understood orders we're sent from
here TO cause the arrest of Mrs. Gwyn,.
now at West Point, and that her arrest was
probably effected yesterday.
An officer who came from Banks column
yesterday, says the Maryland side is filed
with refugees from Loudon county, Va,
who are keeping out Of the way of the reb-
els now engaged in impressing the men
and plundering the country. -
1t is stated that Lieut.. KimballJ of the
I'd cavalry, who was at Bull Run with
part OF his regiment has resigned his COM
mission and accepted a csptaincy in the
1''N4 "a - - :. AIissnnri Hebad 4be new
commission before fke 6atIIe.. e.s Z hzu a lne new
Authentic intelligence received from
Manassas states that Immediately after the
battle Of Bull Run the rebel authorities
made extraordinary exertions to bring for
ward troops, resulting in the Transportation
of large forces from Tennessee to Virginia,
which had been held at home for defensive
operations on the Mississippi. 5-.-.
The Cotton States had. also forwarded
large numbers, all that could be! spared
from home, and Beauregard, has now. Q
larger force than at any previous time
However great the necessity for him to
commence an onward movement to prevent
his army from dissolYing, yet no fears are
expressed that he will venture al attack
upon our lines. HOa4 -.---.
Foreign mails by last steamer were re-
ceived to-day at the State Department.
Advices from our Ministers are written
under the pressure of the Bull Run dis
sster. -1tg So sz.
European governments appreciate the
disaster at its full extent, but there is a
disposition on the continent to give the
| Northern troops more credit for bearing
and endurance than our own papers have
claimed, and their fighting in front O.
heavy works being considered by military
men IS giving them 80 great an advantage
ss to make it amatter Of wonder that raw
| recruits could have been induced to assaul
them under such disadyantaees Our min
listers do not disguise the fact that the Gov
ernment has suffered severely in the esti
mstion Of Europeans by the disaster, bu
they are confident that no movement I
recognize the rebels as Q nation. will b
made so long as the Government maintain
its forces on the soil of the rebel States
The feeling on the Continent was senerall,
that the North would be aroused By the dis
aster to its army, and that the defeat close
I bu6 uOOE " an arrangement win lu6 IoD
4 els. British government ofioislss aPpea
to1be impressed with the belief that th
battle and defeat would only prolong th
contest without deciding anything 81.
Herald. .corTespondence: -t. n.
The city has been thrown into q state Q
excitement this morning by the report tha
martial Law was TO be Immediately declsr
ed. The authorities have not decided {
take such q step. 1al sf soa= f
, A commission from Boston has beei
here endeavoring to persuade the Presiden
that be ought to change his constitutions
advisers. II is said these gentlemen REP
resent the sentiments Of certain prominen
monetary interests in Boston, who demsn
that the heads Of the Wsr and Navy Dc
psrtments must come of, else they will nc
risk their capital further The presenta
ton of their case here has created eonsid
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