Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-08
TELEGRAPHIC.
GEN. LANES EXPEDITION.
How and Where lt will March.
MORE TREASON IN HIGH PLACES.
An Officers Daughter the
Guilty Party.
CHANGE IN BURNSIDE'S DESTI-
NATION.
Fighting On the Upper Potomac
This Mornings Report.
MORE TREASON IN HIGH PLACES.
Fighting on the Upper Potomac
This Mornings Report.
FROaI WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6
Judge HeGrne one Of the counsel for Col.
Kerrigsn, emphsticslly contradiots the
report that evidence has been ELECTED es-
tablishing without doubt the charge Of hsv-
ing given information to the enemy. The
evidence for the prosecution has not yet
been closed.
An error in yesterdays dispatches rela-
tive to the proposed military expedition
from Fort LesvenWorth, makes it appear
that Gen. Lane is to hold subordinste Do
sition therein. The reverse is the case
The expedition, second to none if euualled
| BY any in Numbers, character and purpose.
is to be under the sole and exclusive com.
mand Of Gen. Lane, who PROPOSES TO dam.
onstrste with his Western crusaders The
ways and means through which the rebel
lion can be crushed and the Republic re.
stored. To carry out this purpose he is
supported by the active energies Of The
Administration in the various depart
msnts.
A dispatch from Hancock this evening
says that nobody has been killed on our
side in the shelling Of that town by the
rebels.
Tribune correspondence:
A bill will be presented tomorrow to |
confer power upon the Assay Office in New
York TO coin gold and silver.
The COMMITTEES Of Ways and Means have
also under consideration bill for the same
purpose.
This Committee viii probably report to.
morrow the bill authorizing the Secretary
OF the Treasury to issue 100000 900 Of
treasury notes, and to make them Illegal
tender, public and private, within the Uni
TED states Also to make the notes author
lzed in July last legal tender.
Worlds dispatch:
Gen. Mcclellan for the first time in sew
eral weeks appeared out Of doors today,
being able to ride in his carrisee. He has
nearly recovered his health.
In connection with the rumors respecting
the leakage Of news from Washington to
the rebels, it is said the daughter of
high officer is one Of the guilty parties.
1t IS now we'll understood from the
movements Of the rebels they were aware
Of the destinations of Burnside's Expedi-
tion. The story goes that it was talked
Of IN the family Of the officer alluded to-
and By the daughter communicated to her
lover, who is with the rebels. The destin-
alton Of this Expedition has been changed
in consequence.
The young lady left town recently, and
has not since returned. Her father, it is
understood, viii shortly leave for Europe,
for the benefit of his health.
Herald's special;
The Cabinet is in session tonight. 1t
had not adjourned at ten oelook. Becre-
tary Seward, who returned to night is at {
the meeting.
The city is full Of rumors of desperate
light on the Upper Potomac. At head
quarters it is known only that the rebels
have been firing at Hancock, and our own
forces have been returning the Ere, and Z
that neither have been able to reach the
ooJects aimed at No later dispatches have
been received
Times special: >
The President has sent 10 the Senate the
name of Col. Dana, of the 1st Minnesota
Regiment, IS Brigadier General. g