Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-24
sInop.oF.wAR ST. LOUIS.

bench. In the reconstruction Of the Cab
met there is no probability of change in
that Department.
CORRECTING THE ENROLMENT.
The Times says the recent order Of Gen
eral Fry does not relate to future drafts,
and makes no allusion to them. 1t is sim
ply the intention of the Provost Marshal
General to keep the enrolment lists cor
rect.
REBEL LITERATURE.
The adventures of Miss Bell Boyd with
the Confederate army will soon be pub
ished in England.
ESCAPED PRISONER.
NEW YORK, Nov. %.
Thomas Cheshire, an escaped prisoner
from Andersonville; Ga, arrived yester-
day. He was the Union scout from East
Tennessee, captured in September, 1853,
and since that time has been prisoner at
the South. He lately made his escape
from Andersonville, with four others, and
travelled through the swamps of Georgia,
hiding by day and travelling by night, IN
til he reached our blocksding squadron.
NAVAL RECRUITS.
-Four thousand two hundred and hfty
recruits have been received on board the
receiving ship Vermont, at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, since the 10th of August
These men have received, in Government
bounty and advance pay, over $170,O 900.
IMPORTANT TO MILITARY NyALIDs.
The daily average number of men now
being received on board the Vermont is
thirty.
The protective war claim Association
intends to establish an Office in this city
for the purpose of furnishing employment
to sll disabled and discharged soldiers who
desire it.
A collision took place on the Camden
and Amboy railroad yesterday morning,
between the gravel and wood train, by
two persons were seriously injured, both
engines were smashed and considerable
other damage done.
The gunbost Neptune sailed from Phil
adelphia Sunday, on special service con-
nected with the conveying Of California
mail steamers, the new plan of conveying
having been adopted, which for pruden-
tiaI reasons cannot be published.
CANADIAN RAIDERS AGAIN.
The Tribune has letter from Brashier
Falls, N. Y, dated goth, reporting fu-
rore of excitement along the line
NOR reports large body Of raiders col
lected in Canada, who have armed them
selves for the purpose of making az as
sault upon this section Of the State.
It is their intention TO tear up the rail-
road track, destroy the locomotives, burn
depots, and commence the task of house
breaking and highway robbery.
A force of men, sufficient to rePel the
would-be robbers, have been armed and
stationed along the road, and every train
is prepared to resp nd to an assault.
LATER.
The Yice-Consul at Montreal has sent
word that the robbers intend to make an
attack upon Malone, New York, rob. stores
and burn the village. Several persons
have been arrested. Their baggage was
examined but the authorities failed to
find positive proof of intentions to join in
the assault on st. Albsns. A despatch Of
last night, announcing a slight attack on
Rouse's Point says;
A communication reached that place
last week from an unknown person sd-
dressed to the Government officers at
Champlain, purporting to come from Mon
treal. which stated that the places along
the frontier line of Lake Ohsmplain would
be destroyed within nine days.
1t would appear from what happened
at Rouse's Point, that the citizens along
the entire frontier would do well to be on
their guard.
BUTLER's CANAL.
It was currently reported at Fortress
Monroe on Monday morning that Butler
had blown the end out of his canal, and
had let the water in.
FROM PETERSBURG.
An officer who left our lines in front Of
Petersburg on Monday morning, reports
that there are no signs of the evacuation
of Petersburg. The rebel works are vel
manned, and the pickets on both sidei
keep up the usual firing.
The Richmond Enquirer says, no gov
ernment Is so despOtic as that of popular
leaders when they are relieved from al
control on the part of other power. Oi
the state we are experiencing it now, but
we are not yet fully awake to the e1ten'
10 which we have abdicated the popular
government, for we have not entrusted
supreme and unlimited power to dicta
tor but have almost drifted into it, q
nations ever do who areleft without leader
at the irving period of their life, we hav
seen wsr, the national debt, the power Q
resistance, hereadiness to suffer and sacri
fee for our sacred cause. We have ssel
them all grown from insignificant begin
, ings to gigantic proportions. In tie sam
manner we have intelligence and s,nt
denoe, ,unbounded in theannals ofmaI kint
, stripped ourselves as people Of one r.st
= after another till the power has pas,e
almost without reserve from many to on
: INCREDIBLE STATEMENT.
Washington special to the Boston AZ
4 vertiser says:
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