Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-26
Rebels 80 Miles from Fred
ericksburg!
Lord Lyons not Gone to Rich.
mOnd
NAPOLEON AND lRON-CLAD VES-
SELSI
Stirring Debate in the HOurse !
Especial Dispatches to Cleveland Leader.)
WAsHEoToH, April %.
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FROM EREDERICKsBURG.
Capt Wyman, Commander Of the Potomsc
fiOtilla, who has just returned in the Yankee
from Fredericksburg, says the inhabitants
report the Rebels in force no nearer than
Milford, thirty miles on the railroad to Rich
mond; that the main body retrestsd three
days before MoDoWslrs advance, leaving
500 cavalry to skirmish with him and burn
bridges. His movement was thus known
to the rebels beforehand, although unknown,
according to the Associated Press, to more
than half q dozen persons. The Freder-
icksburg people say that the rebel troops
there knew no Law, but that the command
ing General had taken the property Of per-
sons without notice or payment Captain
Wymsn says Tappahannoek, which is only
forty two miles from Richmond, could have
been occupied any time this winter. The
only Notifications on the river below were
at Urbanna, at the mouth, where one gun
was mounted, since carried of to Richmond,
snd Fort Lowrie, ten miles above, mounting
seven guns, Of which three were taken away
and four sunk in the river. The latter is
built on low sandy point, and would be
easily shelled ont by gunbOsts. Above Tap
pahaunock the stream nsrrows to Freder
icksburg. The only obstruction was at
-o:,e ,,,-.- ill. L,T,-- a. e., H.,
schooners were sunk. No guns were ever
mounted there, but the stream flows like a
gutter between banks thirty to one hundred
feet high, with occasional swsmps. Gun
boats could not use cannon with effect, and
could not turn. They would have been ex-
posed to musketry and field pieces from the
banks, unless accompanied by infantry to
clear out the woods. The Yankee was fred
at by rebel scouts several times, but no harm
was done. The railroad bridge over Potomac
creek, long and expensive structure, is to
be rebuilt.
TIE sEWARD-LYoEs TREATY.
The treaty for the suppression Of the slave
trade, ratified yesterday, defines and settles,
within specified limits, the right of search as
regards slave traders, thus removing great
source of irritation between England and
America.
NAPOLEON AND IRON.CLAD STEAMERS.
Letters from Paris say Napoleon has sp,
pointed a military and naval commission,
since the Monitor and Merrimac fight to
study the iron-clad subject thoroughly, with
a view Of turning it to practical account
LORD LYONS NOT GONE TO RICHMOND.
Too late to telegraph to you last night
learned that the report of the departure of
Lord Lyons for Norfolk and Richmond was
without foundation.
THE REBEL STRENGTH AT MANASSAS.
A gentleman from st. Louis, just returned
from a visit to his mother near Manassas,
says the general opinion of the people in
that vicinity, is that johnson never had more
than $4,000 men there, most Of whom were
lily diciplined. The size and efficiency of the
rebel armies everywhere he believes greatly
exaggerated.
INTERESTING DEBATE.
Dawes made damaging speech in defence
OF the Washburn Committee against Thad
Stevens and other assailants. BE hit right
and left, at Pennsylvania and Cameron, who,
it was intimated, had served notice in the
District on each member Of the Committee
that he should not be reelected. Kelley is
replying.
sICKLH.
Dan Sicklea was II. nominated q BriRadier