Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-02-03
BATTERY OF WIZARD GUNS
SENT TO GILMORE.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE OHIO
LEGISLATURE.
CAPTURE OF THE SIOUX
CHIEFS LITTLE SIX AND
MEDICINE BOTTLE.
LAST CALL OF PRESIDENT
ENDORSED BY THE MIN
NESofA LEGISLATURE.
Especial 10 the Cleveland Leadsr.l
WAsHIaToz, February 2.
SENATOR WILSON'S BILL.

SENATOR WILSON'S BILL.
By the provisions of Senator Wilson's
bill Just introduced. ouartermsstsrs. Com
misssries, Psymasters and their assis-
tants, are to be required to appear before
board and to be examined as to their
qualification for the discharge Of their
duties. The boards are to be constituted
by the Secretary Of Wsr, ouartermasters,
Commissaries and Psymaster Generals,
at such places as they may designate. Un-
qualified officers are to be dismissed with
one months pay on recommendation Of
head Of bureau to which he belongs.
INDIAN TREATIFs.
Twenty thousand dollars are nppropris-
ted Ia bill in the Senate for the purpose
of negOtistioga treaty with the several
Indian tribes of Oregon.
CLAIMS OF DECEASED SOLDIERS.
A bill facilitating the collecting of ihe
claims of deceased soldiers, passed the
House to-day.
REBEL DEBEkIEHbs
Forty deserters came in from the front
to day. They are filed with great disgust
at the Southern COnfederacy. The Amnes-
ty Proclamation and the slender rebel
cOmmissariat were the immediate causes
of their desertion.
REBEL PRISONERS ENLIsFIEd II OUR ARMY.
Five hundred rebel prisoners at Point
Lookout have enlisted in the service Of the
United States. Three thousand have ex-
pressed desire tc take the benefit of the
Amnesty Proclamation.
PERSONAL.
Governors Doty, OF Utah, Goodwin, Of
Arizona, Edmunds, Of DacOtsh, Reed.
Secretary of Utah, Admirals Porter, John
Rodgers, 8. C. Rassn, and E A. Rollins,
Deputy OUmm1EsTUu-F vf E-~~----I -Ro---
enue, were confirmed in the Senate to-day.
cLARK's RESOLUTION.
The resolution OF inquiry, by Freeman
Clark, agreed to today, suggests an in
crease of taxation upon luxuries to make
our revenue from foreign goods one hun
dred and twenty millions, al increase in 6
similar way Of the internal revenue to
two hundred and thirty millions, the re-
s!rioticn of paper currency to three hun
dred millions and the issue Of more bonds.
VERMONT RESOLUTIONS.
The Vermont resolutions, in favor Of
skip canal, were presented in the House
to-day.
MODIFICATION or THE ENROLMENT ACT.
Wilson has modified his bill to promote
enlistments in the army BY equalizing the
pay SO as to provide, simply, that negro
soldiers shall receive exactly the same
smoluments as white soldiers, except as
to bounty, and that they shall We
whatever bounty, in different States and
parts Of States, the President shall order,
not exceeding one hundred dollars.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE OHIO RIVER.
The resolutions of the Ohio Legislature
on the bill under consideration in Congress,
request the early passage Of an act prOvid-
ing for adequate and permanent improve
msnt of the Ohio river by the Government
of the United States.
GENERAL STEVENS WIDOW.
The widow Of General Stevens, who was
killed at the battle Of Chantilly during
POpe's retreat, asks Congress for the addi-
tiOnsl pay of 81 900 per annnm, during
the time be served as Governor of Wash
ington Territory, in consideration Ofextra
daty there performed. The House Commit
tee on Indian Affairs have recommended
the allowance Of the request.
TIE WIZARD 6UH.
Since the bursting Of the large ParrOtt
guns which we're sent to Geueral Gilmore
for the purpose Of shelling Charles
ton, the Ordnance Bureau have sent
field battery of steel rife guns made by
Norman Wyard for the first Burnside ex.
pedition, and which have proved to have
greater accuracy and longer range than
any other guns in service. These guns
throw shells, it is said, into the heart Of
the city. Mr.. Wyard has also gun near
ly ready which is q feet in length, and
a calibre Of six inches with q circular pow.
der chamber sixteen inches in diameter
capable of containing eighty pound: et
powder, and which is designed to throw an
] hundred pound shsl seven or eight miles
! This gun is made Of different metals SO al
! to insure ample strength and conpensa
ton for the unequal expansion from tn
great heat of the exploding charges.
Mr.. Sumner will soon introduce ser;e
Of resolutions in the Senate on ounhsca
ton, embodying some different feature
from existing or proposed legislstiOn.