Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-25
days leave, having re enlisted for the
war.
TELEGRAPHIC.
SAFTRDAY5s DTsPIFOHEs.i
FROM THE POTOMAC ARMY.
RumOrs OF the Gradual EEacua-
IIOn OF Richmond.
DeseFters from the Rebel Army
Still Coming.
Proposed Amendments TO the
Military Bill by the House,
The Amnesty Proclamation De-
mOFallZing the Rebel
army,
Maryland House OF Delegates
RenOmInate President
Lincoln.
Sanitary Fair OF Cincinnati
Yielded 100000.
Proposed Amendments to the
Military Bill by the House.
Sanitary Fair OF Cincinnati
Yielded 100000.
FRnlI NRW YnRK.

! A special 10 the Times dated Washing
ton January 22d, states that musketry
firing continuing several minutes heard at
8 O'Clock Thursday morning among rebels
over the Rapidan near Ely's Ford suppos-
ed to be oeeasioned by q concerted attempt
to desert all at once by considerable body
Of men.
Reports that Richmond is being grad
uslly evacuated by the rebel Government
continue to be brought here by persons
from that plscs.
It is positively stated the removal ofgun
making machinery from the Tredegsr iron
works to Columbia has been going on for
weeks.
The Unionists of Louisiana are trying to
have the State elections postponed by the
President until after Convention Of the
people is held to adopt new Consti tuition
and regulate the old State laws recogniz-
ing slavery.
Governor Pierpont and the Alexandra,
Virginia Legislature have protested
sgainst General Butler's vigorous admin.
istration at Norfolk.
Colonell States, President of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, who was sent to
Fort lafayette by General Schenck, was
to-day discharged by the Secretary Of
War.
Six deserters from the rebel army came
into our lines Wednesday. Two of them
have been placed on picket. Tae number
coming in for day or two past has been
unusually large.
World special:
Mr Cox of Ohio will introduce bill in
the House next week, taxing holders, OF
gold and bills Of exchange-foreighn and
otherwise two per cent der month.
1t is not positively decided that Gen.
Roseeraus goes to Missouri, though every
indication is to that conclusion now.
General Sshoheld left yesterday for
Knoxville.
The Senate Finance Committee has bill
before them requiring the seiusl transfer
Of gold when purchased instead Of sale
on q margin
Ex-Attorney Black has resigned the Law
reportersbip Of the Supreme Court.
The Ways and Means Committee has re-
ported $4,000 to supply the deficiency in
appropriation to facilitate telegrsphic COM
municstion with the Pacific States.
The Tribune's special from Washington
the 22d makes q statement ss TO the re-
duction in the Navy appropriations which
is likely to be misinterpreted. The Ways
and Means Committee took the ground
that the Navy Bill should only cover es-
Inmates for current expenses and work on
hand to be completed during the year
The building Of ironelads or additional
steamers is To be made subject of special
appropriation.
The House Military Committee will re-
port a bill to amend tbs Enrolment Act,
differing somewhat from that adopted by
the Senate It provided that enrolled per-
sons previous to the draft may furnish
substitutes who are not liable to draft
Any person On the military service, not
physically qualified, who mas served more
than one year, and whose term and unex-
pired service shall not at the time Of sub
stituison exceed six month, may be en-
pioy ed as substitutes 10 the troops Of the
State in which he enlisted. Drafted per-
sons who pay their Communication by sub.
siitutes shall only bs relieved from draft
in filling their quota, and their names
shall be retained on the roll for future
draft. Drafted persons exempt for physi-
osl disability whose income exceeds 81, 200
81 al pay F1DO ONuA 4AAAlAou uOuOJ " AuC
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Herald special;
Navigation Of the Army of the Potomac
is resumed. Several vessels have arrived
which we're ice-bOund.
The six deserters who came into our
lines were from the lst North Carolina
cavalry. They report many others anxious
to leave their reRiments gAicb is stationed
ten miles from Fredericksburg. The Pre-
sidents amnesty proclamation is creating
a state of feeling in the rebel army Whicn
indicates its utter decentralization.
Rrecruits and returning convslescents
are daily SWELLING the ranks of our army,
which, if they continue to rush up, will be
materially enlarged.
A Havana letter to the Tribune reports
TIE arrival Of the side wheel steamer Rap
hazel at Msntanzss from New York, in
tended for blockade runner.
The Worlds New Orleans correspondent
writes that the light draft river feet is fit
ting for active duty, and thinks they and
the troops returning from Attskspss are
intended for combined advance up Red
RiTer.