Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-05-22

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The President has signed the Homestead
Bill.
/ PRRsoHAL.
Representative Conway Is well enough tC
be ont to-day, but is still very feeble. H'
has been advised by his doctor to change ali
BY taking trip North.
| Messrs. Hickman, PendletOn, Train, and
Dunlap have been appointed managers Of
impeachment Of Judge Humphreys.
AGRICULTURAL 0oLLsaRs.
Jim Lane made sn earnest speech against
Wsde's bill donating public lands for agri-
cultural colleges. he said 1t was ruinous
to Kansas, which needed her own lands for
school purposes, railroads, Sc, and could not
spare them for residents. he said no other
State had sent SO large proportion of SOL
diers to the war. Every other voter was in
the army.
FEELIEe OF FHE Army.
The Fredericksburg army are united In
favor of the most stringent measures against
the rebels. Hunters proclamation Is vel
coined by the soldiers. They have seen
slavery a. It is. One days beautiful fugi-
tive Octoroon, leading 3 white child, Of
which her master, rebel General Roberts,
was father, enlisted the wsrmest sympathy
of the soldiers, who cursed the institution of
which she was victim.
LEAD.
The Ordnance Department adVsrtises for
proposals in lots Of two hundred tons and
upwards, for Eve thousand tons Of lead, to
be delivered at watervleit, N. T., Allegheny
and Saint Louis arsenals. 1t must be Gal
eva or other American, staIburg, or soft
English, Of most approved brsnds
Col Brown, Of the Goth Indiana, camped
at Portsmouth, rode away towards the enc
my's lines on Saturday. His horse came
into camp few hours subsequent, with two
balls in his body. Brown is supposed to
have been murdered by bushWhackers.
PERSONAL.
Buckle, author of the History of OiViIiEa-
ton, is on his way to this country via syris.
R1REL EARTHWoRKs.
A reconnOitering party from Norfolk came
upon immense earthworks Eve miles toward
Elizabeth City, supposed to have been erect
ed as defense against Burnside.
TO WHOM HONOR Is DUE.
Examiner COwes, ef the Patent Office, who
has been examining the subject, says Thomas
Grigg, Of OOllingville, Pa, is entitled to the
honor of inventing metallic defensive armor
on the angulated system, for ships, to whom
a patent was issued in 1914.
FROM THE ADVANCE.
Letters from McOleIlsn's advance prove
Magruder still in command of the rebel
army, and whose retreat was conducted with
great skill and good order
TEN EToKs SPEECH.
Ten Byck said, in the course of the discus
sion whether to take up the con6scstion or
tax bill, that Hunter has the Presidential f.
yer, which had seized our generals wOrss than
the yellow fever.
WEAKEEss OF oUR ARNIEs.
1t is said our armies are too weak ct every
point.
THE HEW ORLEANS oAPTURE.
The Navy Department has received full
reports from the commanders Of vessels al
New Orleans, accompanied BY an elaborate
plan on large scale of the forts as they ap-
peared after the bombardment. Out o.
1900 shells thrown, l,l75 were counted or
the solid ground fort, 1850 exploded in the
air over the fort, 1899 in ditches and over,
flowed part of the fort; the draWDridge, bo'
shot furnaces and cistsrns completely de
stroyed. All classmates and passages Wer'
Ansd with water, the leves having been cut
platforms for tents burnt up, casemates al
cracked from end to end, the root of manJ
b oxen in, foar guns dismounted, clever
carriages and tra7erses injured, the QUITE
walls in many places cracked from top t.
bottom, scoWs and BEATS near the fort, saw
three small ones, sunk. The place Wher'
each bomb struck is marked on the plan.
FRENCH MINISTERS VISIT TO RIcHEoEr.
A semi-oficial Statements Is soon to b
published setting forth the real circum
stances Of Mercier's visit to Richmond. 81
simply expressed desire to Seward, If h'
had no objections, to see the rebel capita
with his own eyes. Permission was readi
" GRANTED.