Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-02-21
Condition of Rogecrans' Army
Splendid Spirit and Disoip-
line--Forward Movement
Shortly.
The Army Of the Potomae--Alarm'
ing Amount Of Sickness.
Movements Of the Enemy.-They
are Concentrating near
CulpeppeF--Their De-
signs.
The slaves Of the SOuth.-Ex.
penses, 1925, 900; Receipts,
26,00O--A Profitable
Investment,
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.
Special to the Inquirer from Washing
ton:
A bill authorizing the President to con-
fer the rank of Fleet Surgeon on eighteen
senior Surgeons of the Navy, was reported
back to-day, and will be put upon its pas
sage in day or two.
The Committee also reported back bill
repeating the law to establish and equal
ize the grade of line officers in the Navy,
and restoring the old law. This is an i'm
portant bill, and will be passed by the
Senate at an early day. There seems to
be determination to rereaI this law of
the last session before Congress adjourns.
Vice President Hamlin, who left here q
day or two ago, has gone to the Eastern
States to assist in the speedy organization
of the Ullman brigade, his son, who is a
Colonel, having been assigned to General
Gllman for that purpose.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means will report on the Tax bill to-mor-
row. No committee of conference has yet
been appointed on the Finance bill.
General Meigs was again before the
Committee on the Conduct Of the War to-
day, and is understood to have fDally Civ
en- all the information in his possession as
to the case of the Western Quartermasters
charged with fraud and treason.
General Palmer, commanding the Second
Division of Rosecrans' army, who has
been here for day or two, gives a most
glowing account of the condition of that
army The spirit and discipline of the
men were never better. The recent VIC
tories have instillled them with confidence
in themselves and their leaders. A for.
ward movement will be made as soon as
the wretehed state Of the roads will per-
nit
The Inquirer's dispatch from Falmouth
the 10th, says the aggregate of our morn
ings sick report is fearfully on the in
crease. Diarrhea and its kindred com.
plants are the chief ailments, being
brought on by the frequent and unusual
changes of weather, to-day like summer
tomorrow like dead Of winter, all of which
of course necessitates the granting of moi
only numberless furloughs, but an equal
number of discharges. The Surgeons are
doing all in their power to stay this all.
ment or epidemic, but until the weather
settles down into either hot or cold, We
doubt much if an abatement will be ap.
parent
Within the past week an unusual com
motion has been apparentamong the forces
over the river. Many of the heights il
the rear of Fredericksburgh which have
lately been tenantless arc now sprinkleG
With the tented habitations peculiar tc
troops in the field, and to such an extent
as to warrant the assertion that in tht
vicinity named, our secesh friends are
strongly in force. In addition to this il
is definitely aseertained that their forces
have been moving. on Culpepper, and sc
rapidly, and in such numbers have they
been moving, as to establish the beliefherC
that they are in the latter named neigh.
borhOOd oncentrating an extensive force
but for what reason, is as yet matter OF
doubt, some believing the move bent tC
establish a base, from which to send out
another raid into Maryland and Pennsyl.
vsnia, to obtain what they are greatly in
need of, supplies, while others are of opin.
ion that they are trying to- permanently
to establish themselves somewhere neal
Brentsville, on the Orange and Alexander
Railroad, and from thence send out par.
ties toward the Potomac to annoy ou1
transports. The latter seems most plausi.
bic, but until the weather settles down into
something like permanency, the good
people of Maryland and Pennsylvania
need not be fearful of molestatiOn, mol
need additional gunboats be placed upon
the river to protect our commerce.
A special Washington dispatch to thC
Press says a resolution was adopted by tht
House, calling upon the Secretary of thC
Treasury for information respecting tht
expenses for the sustenance Of slaves, SC.
in the Sea Island cotton districts Of Soutl
Carolina, from the commencement of thu
rebellion to this time A reply was made
from which it appears that there was ez.
pended for agricultural implements, in
round numbers, was seventy thousand ant
eighty-One dollars; the purchase Of tht
schooner Flora thirty-one thousand thret
hundred and fifty dollars; white labor
eight-two thousand seven hundred ant
forty-eight dollars; cOlored labor, thirty.
four thousand FIVE hundred and twenty
seven dollars total expenses two hun,
dred and twenty-five thousand seven hun.
dred and I'VE dollars. From this ezpendi
ture there has been realized, se4sn hundret
and tBenty.siK thOusandnine hundred ani
eighty-four dollars. Dsdueting the sbO7t
expenses, there remains on hand from this
fund FIVE hundred and one thousand two
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