Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-22
WAsHLNGTON ITEMS.

MAsHIhGTohJ March Zl'
In the Supreme Court the cases under
consideration will occupy Monday, name
ly: Number 1853, United States vs.. ]. s.
Folesome's executors. This will be sue
ceeded by numbers 169 and ITO, L. Q.
Rswson ct al plaintiffs in error, vs.. n. s.
Railroad company. This case involves c.
A. Woods patent anvil for repairing and
Welding shattered ends Of railroad bars.
Number 173, John s. Parker ct al.
Admiral Dahlgren left Sunday for Fort
ress Monroe, and it is expected the body Of
his son will arrive in few days.
An inquiry having been made ss to
whom the contract for carrying the over
land mail was awarded, it is aseertsined
thst the advertisement for the overland
mail was Withdrawn February 9th, 1864,
at the request Of the Senate Committee on
Post Offices.
The Secretary Of War, In a communics-
ton in response to Senate resolution,
says no orders concerning elections were
ever issued from his Office. He encloses 8
letter from Assistant Adjutsnt General
Townsend, replying that he has given no
order to Provost Marshsls in Kentucky,
Delaware, Maryland, or Missouri, relative
to elections in those States; also letter
Of the same tenor from Provost Marshal
General Fry, which, however, excepts q
dispatch of October 31st, to Assistant Pro-
vost Marshal Jeffries, ct Baltimore, ss
follows:
"Direct your Provost Marshsls to give
their aid in carrying out General Schenok's
orders for preserving the purity Of the
elections at the polls in Maryland"
The fund. set apart for coloniEing pur-
pose is $500, 900, Of which SS5,0 900 have
been expended. The scheme having proved
failure, Congress will undoubtedly re-
peal the law making that appropriation.
The sum drawn by Senator Pomeroy has
all been accounted for, and the particulars
Of his transactions have been filed in the
proper Department. This Government
volunteered to ht out an expedition to
Chiriqui, which was defeated by the protest
of the New Grenada Government. The
Secretary Of the Interior, in recent Off
cial communication, says but little DISPOSE
ton, 80 far as the department is informed,
has yet been manifested by the freedmen
Of the United States, and doubt if it be
any Just cause Of regret.
A letter from the army Of the Potomac
says:
Nothing Of importance is going on.
An order has been issued from the War
Department that all men transferred
from their regiments to others FOR the pur-
pose Of serving out their time, on account
Of not re-enlisting according to former
order, shall be returned to their original
regiment.
Lieutenant-General Grant is soon ex-
pected to review the army.
Deserters come into our lines at an sV-
erage Of from go TO 80 per day.
A caucus Of the Republican or Union
members Of the House was held tonight at
the Capital. Mr.. Morrel, Of Vermont, in
the chair.
The object was Q hsrmonizing Of views
on the important pending question Of ef-
effeoting an early adjournment Of Con-
gress, including financial measures neces-
sary to the support Of the government;
and the bill reported by Mr.. Davis, OF
Maryland, from the Select Committee on
the rebellious States 10 guarantee to cer-
tain States, whose governments have been