Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-02

pregnant results, in Georgia, and at least
one important naval action along the
coast.
NoEEws
No news of Importance up to this hour
from the army of the Potomac.
HEAVY FIRING.
The HearIas army of the James special
says;
The enemy recently opened a severe
fire which is being maintained with great
vigor, though with small effect.
DISMISSED THE SERVICE.
General Butler has issued orders dismiss
ing several officers from service for various
causes.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The Worlds Washington special says,
parties who are best acquainted with the
general tone of the Presidents Message
say it will be exceedingly conservative in
character, and aim at the Cancellation of all
parties and classes in the North.
DEsERTERs IN CANADA.
Six hundred deserters, from the Federal
armies, are in the immediate vicinity Of
Niagara Falls, on the Canada side, most
of whom have obtained bounties. They
are in q wretched condition, and many
have asked permission to return.
TO BE PAID AND FURLoUGHED.
The Secretary of War has ordered al the
paroled prisoners of war, now arriving at
Annapolis, to be paid in full and furlough-
cd for thirty days as soon as necessary
papers can be prepared.
PREPARATIONS IN NHINGToE.
The Posts Washington letter says The
members of Congress are arriving rapidly.
A quorum will doubtless be present on
Monday. Mr.. Ste vens, of Penn, Chair
man Of the House Committee of Ways and
Means, is here and Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio,
who is to be Chairman of the Senate FL
nance Committee.
The interior ofthe Capitol has under
gone considerable change since the ad-
Ournment OF Congress
INTENDED EVACUATION OF RICHMOND.
The HerGIds Washington's special says
it is believed in official circles that thetone
of late Richmond papers relative to af-
fairs before Petersburg has been governed
by the conclusion that the rebel capital
must be moved this season, and that the
Southern journals are preparing the public
mind for the evacuation of Virginia.
Prominent military men express the
opinion that Lee has been sending of
troops by rail for several days, and is
about to accept the alternative of steal
ing off from Grant with most of his army,
if possible, and hurting overwhelming
numbers upon Sherman No fears for
the latter are entertained.
Released prisoners say that the
people intimated that there were forces
under Beauregard and Johnston, at Macon
and Augusta, to oppose Sherman, but
they did not believe he would encounter
much opposition at Savannah, as there
were only one numbered and fifty men
who would make feeble resistance.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes
Sherman's official order of his campaign,
and quotes literally from the Northern
and Western Journals that have
pretended to give numbers to each branch
of this army. 1t slso publishes a fair
specimen of what it calls Yankee news.
CANARD.
The Philadelphia rumor about the
Governors of Alabama, Georgia and Mis-
sissippi offering terms of peace to Sherman,
is a csnsrd.
BRECKINRIDaE IN RICHMOND.
The Wing of the 28th says, General
Breckenridge arrived in Richmond on the
night of the 9th.
UNION SPIES IN THE SOUTH.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 2sth
says:
The whole South is full of Yankee spies.
They are known to have regular lines of
communication, and our evening papers
reach Grants headquarters before three
o'clock the next morning after their pub
lication-
EAST TENNESSEE.
The Bristol Register of the 25Lh says
All is quiet in East Tennessee. Our forces
at Strawberry Plains are confronting the
Yankees on the opposite side of the river.
NEW YORK, Dec l.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Augusta Chronicle, of the 25th ult.,
says:
A large number of veteran troops have
already arrived, and many more are on
the way hither. Sherman will be fortu-
nate if he succeeds in making good his
escape.
1t is stated that large cavalry force
has left Greenville, s. c., and is moving
across the country in the direction of At
lanta, probably with the view of cutting
off the Yankee column which is moving
down the Georgia Railroad in this direc-
ton.
sHARHAN's SUPPOSED DESIGNS.
The Richmond Examiner of the 26th
says
No doubt can now be entertained OF
Sherman's designs or destination.
When Davis sent Hood, he only took an
army oppressive to the country off his
shoulders and carried it through the
mountains, to stick in the mud between
Tuscumbia and Florence.
SHERMAN made an attempt on the line
of communication between Virginia, the
Carolinas, and the rest of the Confederst,
Ststes. His work in Northern Georgia