Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-08
FROI WAsHINGTON.

w ASHINGTON, July Z.
The mail steamer Keyport arrived here
this morning at 10 o'clock. Yesterday NOR
ming the Keyport left City Point. Heavy
firing was heard there from the direction
of Petersburg, but it was not known at
City Point whether the fsing was any
thing more than an artillery duel
The hospitals at City Point haYe been
cleared of nearly all the sick and wounded.
The Star says:
We have imformation-direct from Ha-
gerstown to the effect that on Tuesday af-
ternoon at three o'clock, a rebel squad, con-
sisting of fifteen cavalrymen, commanded
by Lieutenant Shaver, formerly of Mar
tinsburg, Va, entered that place This
force appeared TO be a reconnoitering par
ty, and they had only been in the town
moments when a detachment of our regu-
lar cavalry from Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
commanded by Lieutenant Mclean, dash
ed into the place A brief cavalry fight
Immediately ensued in the streets of Ha-
gerstown, which resulted in the rebels be-
ing driven out of the town with the loss of
a Lieutenant and two privates taken pris-
oners.
About hatf an hour after this fight the
rebels again entered the town, their forces
consisting of cavalry und mounted iufant-
ry. Lieutenant Mclean, of the Union
cavalry, finding his force too small to cope
with the large number of rebels, slowly fell
back to the Pennsylvania line, carrying
with him his prisoners. The rebels, after
entering the town, set to work to destroy
the telegraph, but they had made no DEM
onstrations against the railroad, when our
informant left They also plundered
many of the stores and seemed to have
adopted different plan from the onethev
pursued last summer e
DR.. c. F. MacDon aid has been appoint
ed Superintendent of the new money
order system Of the Post Office Depart
ment, and Mr.. B. f. Wilkins to the prin--
clpal clerkship In the Finance Office.
The certificates to be issued to persons
ladies OF geD.tiemen) who furnish repre-
sentative RECRUITS under the recent plan
announced 'Dy the Provost Marshal Gene
raj, are ~ ing sent to the Provost Mar
shals. II hey are handsomely executed,
and WlAl hereafter be source of pride to
those " he possess them
Ehae Commercials special, dated Wash
ingtqE q, July 7th, says:
I'd regulations by which loyal State;
Gang recruit at the South will be soon an
no need
There is no authentic information here
of rebel force in Maryland. 1t is thought
to be a horse stealing expedition.
| A Memphis dispatch dated July 4th
says important movements are going o1
there. The general officers and comman
DARTS of city regiments and of militia me
at General Sanfords headquarters thi
morning, when it was expected orders t.
march would be promulgated, but Genera
Sanfard said he coald not proceed furthe
until receiving additional instructions from
l Washington. Another meeting will b
held tomorrow.
ii Recruiting by the Supervisors Commit
tee is brisk to-day. The class of men en-
listing is about the average of former en-
listments- l..s ll.
| 1t is rou ghly calculated that Congress:
5 during its late session appropriated owe
lsI,OO00OO 900, including the bounties I
new troops, to be paid from the specis
, income tax. ~ gtaHtI Il
The contract of supplying stationary
5 Interior Department and Pension, LanC
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