Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-23


The commercials Washington special
says;
General Hancock is summoned to appear
before the War Committee to testify as to
the management Of the Army Of the Poto-
mac.
Indications are now that General Meade
will be temporarily returned in command
Of the Army Of the Potomac. which is to
SedgWick, Hancock and Warren.
General Grant will also have two CORPS
under Burnside and siegel.
Official sdyices from Arkansas, state
that there is q steady return there Of citi-
zens to their allegiance. Many prominent
rebels are among the number.
General Albert Pike, it is averred, has
made oVertures for an amnesty.
The Posts special says the charge that
the government has paid transportation
for civilians to return home to vote is as
certaintd to be false.
The Committee on Elections has taken
up the Kentucky contested election case.
1t is upon alleged military Interference.
The Philadelphis Inquirer's New Or
leans letter says that General Banks took
the field on the 9th, leaving for franklin
to direct the operations. The force is
compossdd Of 1900 cavalry, with "a
light guns, in four brigades, under Gen
oral Lee, and will sweep across the coun-
try and thence into Texas.
Specials state that the tax bill is nearly
completed, and will be reported to Con-
gress the first Of next week.
The most Of General Grants staff Ar
rived at Washington this morning and are
making preparations for the General to
60 to the front.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has given
positive orders prohibiting the shipment
Of American coal to Canada.
The jury to-day gave verdict Of three
hundred dollars damages sgsinst the Ex-
press newspaper, for libel.
A special to the Herald, dated Army Of
the Potomsc March 2lst says:
Richmond papers Of the 18th have bsen
received. The following is all they con-
tain:
Governor Clarke has ordered q meeting
Of the State Legislature ct Macon Georgia,
on the oath inst.
The telegraph is working, ss formerly,
in Mississippi, all the damage done to the
line by the Yankees, having been re-
paired.
A large force is at work on the roads,
and repairing is going on rapidly.
General Lee has declined the proffered
house from the Richmond Council.
PETERSBURG, March 14-Captain Eden
borough and eight men Of the signal corps
boarded and captured on Friday night off
Mansemond river, the schooner Julia Bs-
ker, Of Portland, loaded with valuable
stores. The captain and crew and three
negroes were brought of, and the vessel
burneJ. She was valued ct $1,000
Several vessels and gunbost we're close
by, but our men we're not interfered with.
The Herald's Key West letter reports
that the English blockade running steamer
Newman, while attempting to run the
blockade Of Servsnee River was run ashore
to prevent her from falling into our hands.
She was burned by the crew. Some fifty
Eve bales Of cotton were saved by our
vessels.
The opening Ct the great Sanitary Fair
is postponed to April 4th.
lis showing in Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia. The weather is very
cold.
A Washington dispatch to the Tribune
says:
The reports circulated Of the war Of Gov
ernor Vidauerri and the Jusrsz Govern.
ment are fabricated. Vidsuerri and two
other governors suggested that Jusrez re-
sign. he refused, whereupon they with
drew their request and promised to support
him with the force Of their respective
States. Urago was about to attack Quad
sljsra with ten thousand men.
The hostility Of the people to the French
| intervention was unsbsted.