Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-05-01
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DIS.
PATCHES.
Tie New SurgeOn-General.
GOV. SPRAGUE TO HIS SOLDIERS.
Cotton Seed for DIstrlbutlOR.
special Dispatches to Cleveland Leadsr.I


WASHINGTON, April 80.
senator Cowau introduced bill to day re-
lieviog all persons in the national military
service from civil process during their term
Of service, and for thirty days thereafter, and
Tor quashing all Writs on motion, heretofore
or hereafter issued.
Senator Wilson introduced bill increas-
ing the Adjutant Generals Department, by
adding one Colonel, two Lieutenant OolonslS,
aud nine Majors, abolishing the grade of
Captain, and filling vacancies among Msjors
from Captains in the army.
Letters from the army before Yorktown
say drink of pure water is hardly to be
had upon the Peninsula.
Parson BrOwnlow, who is staying with an
old friend in New Jersey, is suffering from
severe sore throat, caused by his imprisou.
meat in rsbeldOm and public speaking since
his release.
Gen. Aiken, Aid to Gen. ". F. Smith, has
written letter to Preston King, denying
charges Of drunkenness at Warwick Greek.
He writes that he was by Gen. Smiths side
all day.
Gen. Mcclellan is said to have written to
Gen. Hooker, to the effect that he should not
have delivered up slaves coming into bis
camp upon the demand of their alleged own
ers, but should have protected them, leaving
the decision of the question of their free
dom to the Government.
Our Consul at Genoa writes that more than
one thousand Italians applied to him for
places in the American army.
Gov. Morgan pronounces Col. Crocker and
Major Oassiday prisoners, not deserters, and
declares that the stories being circulated to
the effect that the former has relatives in the
rebel army, and that he is under indictment
for murder, are false.
We have received news day later from
fredericksburg. Arefuges from Richmond,
who left there week since, says that but
three thousand rebel soldiers are between
that place and Richmond, who are all under
command of Gen. Field. This conflicts with
previous Information. One Of Gen. Fields
regiments, the Thirteenth Virginia, had
become mutinous and had been partly dis.
armed.
TIE guns formerly in the Notifications
around Richmond have been sent to York
town. It is believed that there is hundred
thousand rebels there. Unionists of un-
doubted loyalty, who have been driven from
Fredericksburg and are now within aur
lines, vouch for this information.
Gen. Mcdowell now has ample means for
crossing the RappahsnnOck. By his Ordey
houses of wealthy rebels have been protected
by guard, although women in them spit
from the windows on passing soldiers.
The House adopted the resolutions of the
Washburne Committee by triumphant ma
jority. w
The Holman resolutions of censure on Mr.
Cameron, fos the employment Of Cummings,
were adopted by 70 to 4b.
Wells, for the employment of Morgan, was
rejected, As to 70.
Especial Dispatches to Cleveland Leader)
WASHINGTON, April 30.
TAX ON LIQUOR
The Senate finance committee have raised
the tax on distilled liquor from 10 to 20 cents
per gallon, and struck out the taxes on car
riages; pianofortes, watches, retaining those
on billiard tables.
O0NFEoAuoH.
The vote of 1s to az against reference Of
the conRscation bills to select committee is
considered decisive in favor Of the measure
It is considered that Foster and Fessenden
who voted for reference will vote for the bill.
GOOD FOB sPRAGUE.
Gov. sprague, after finding Col. slocum's
and Msior Ballou's bodies mangled and
burned by the rebels at Bull Run, publishes
orders to the I'd Rhode Island regiment Of
which they were officers to the effect that
he shouldn't be satisfied until they killed a
rebel apiece.