Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-10
LATER FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY,
SURPRISE OFAREBRL FORCE.
FROM WASHINGTON.


The President has recognized Adolpb
Rosenthal as Consul for Prussia at Mil
waukee, also at the same place Sidney Won
Baumbach, Consul for the Grand Duchy of
! Odenburg, and Antonio Maria De Cuba
Soto Mair, Consul General for the United
| States.
Among the arrivals to-day is Capt. F. G.
| Young, direct from Richmond, having LEFT
there Thursday, by q flag of truce down
the James River. He, with Mai Barney,
Of New York, was captured on the 2Ist of
| September, while on n horseback tour in
the vicinity Of Bull Run, by the Both Vir-
ginia Cavalry, under Col. Chambers, q
graduate of West Point.
The prisoners spent four days pleasant
ly on their way to Richmond, and were
treated kindly and Hospitality by their cit
liens, and by all whom they met on the
route
The cavalry regiment of Chambers was
handsomely mounted and uniformed, and
fully equipped. There appeared to be an
| abundance Of salt, -four, fresh beef and
shoes, among the soldiers, and good disci-
pline prevailed.
They treated each other with great kind
ness and courtesy, no whisky drinking or
card playing was allowed. Much com
ment is made by the rebel troops as to the
! careless manner in which our dead were
| buried on the plains of Manassas. All
the rebel soldiers denounce General Pope,
but speak in the most complimentary
| terms Of Mcclellan. The country dis
tricts are exhausted of food for man and
beast, and in consequence, apprehensions
exist Of great distress among the people
during the coming winter. Everybody
has plenty Of paper money of all descrip-
| tons and denominations.
The treatment of Federal prisoners at
Libbey prison has been changed for the
better, and those confined with Captain
Young had no cause to complain Hewith
30 others were put in large and pleasant
room and were attended by the guards
and servants with marked kindness. Ra-
tions were served regularly and a sutler
constantly present. The morning news
papers were served at daylight.
Colonel Daniel Ullman and Lieutenant
Colonel Brown of New York, and about
100 others, arrived at Annapolis to-day,
having left Richmond Tuesday morning.
The rebel troops are rapidly receiving
their new uniforms, consisting Of dark
gray jackets and ight-blue pants There
is no lack of arms, and they have more
cannon than can be used.
The general impression among them is,
that the war VIII not end until the expira-
tiou Of Lincoln term of Office Every
body, however, is sick of hostilities, and
the troops desire to return to their homes.
Yet one constantly hears the remark,
" You may extcEminate US, but you cannot
subjugate US"
! The New Merrimac is not yet finished.
Eight dollars bushel was asked for
sweet potatoes. Rye, coffee and sugar
brought dollar pound each. There is
little or no mOlasses on sale. Ten drink
ing cups sold for 75 cents each acd all
other necessaries in proportion.
Major Barney is still detained at the
Libbey prison. Captain Young was re-
leased unconditionally.
1t is probably that this battery, on the
lst, was shelled by the gunboats, simply to
occupy the enemy while troops we're land
ed at GreenVille Point, to march on the
enemy works from the rear.
Rumors of cabinet and military changes
are from time to time revived, but gentle
men in official positions seem altogether
ignorant of such arrangements.
Postmaster General Blair has returned
to Washington from the North
Secretary Smiths absence in Indiana
will continue several weeks.
A more cheerful and hopeful feeling as
to the entire discontinue of the rebels ex-
lists here now among all loyal classes than
at any former period during the present
year.
Brigadier General J. B. Mcpherson has
been promoted to a Major General for
meritorious and distinguished services in
the West
The following appointments have been
made under the excise law, in place of the
original aPpointees declined: VIM. F.
TOwles, Collector Of the fourth district of
Iowa; Horace Eyenhof Council Bluffs,
Collector ffth district of Iowa; Robert D.
Holman, Of CentraHa, collector of the
eleventh district of Illinois; Dexter Mus
sey, of Rome, collector of the fifth district
of Michigan; James G.. Hutchinson, of
| Vinceunes, assessor of the first district of
Indiana, and Samuel Mcfarland, of Ports
mouth, collector Of the eleventh district of
Ohio.