The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-11

have not been repaired.
AT THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WARRINGTON, August 10.
The Executive Mansion was again be.
sieged to-day by large crowd of visitors,
one-third of them women. The President
opened his office to ell of them as the same
time, and paid attention to their respective
calls on business, aided by his Private Sec
retary. The most importunste of the
throDg presented matters of the least i'm
portance, some of them having previously
been unsuccessful with Heads of Depart
ments. Ex Members Of the United States
Congress, VINO have been prominent in the
rebel service, waited in the ante-room in
order to obtain private interview with
the President after the crowd had retired.
THE INDIAN GRAND COUNCIL.
1t probAble that the Society of Friends
will be represented in the commission ap-
pointed to meet the Oherokees, Chickssaws
aud many other Indian tribes, in grand
council, on the first of September. The OBJ
jeet of the Government is to insure peace
among them by improving their social con-
dition, and by removing, as far as possible,
some of the causes which have provoked
them to hostilities.
REVENUE RECEIPr.
The receipts from customs for July are
represented to be ten millions of dollars,
and those for the present month will be
much larger. Five eighths of the revenue
is collected at New York.
MosBY.
Agsntlemsu of this city, who was in Al
exandris yesterday, says Colonel John s.
Mosby attracted q crowd wherever he
made his appearance, and his presence oc-
cssioned much indignation among the SOL
diers on duty in the city. He came down
from Wsrrenton to be admitted as mem
Der of the bar, but General Wells arrested
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role. The Colonel briefly but respectfully
controverted the point with request to
telegraph to the Secretary of War for in
structions.
REMUNERATION.
The Tribune's Richmond correspondents
says: A very important case will shortly
be brought before the United States Court,
to decide whether slaves, held to service af-
ter President Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation had gone into effect Janu-
sry 1st 1864, shall not be entitled to re.
munerstion for their labor.
Colonel Brown, Superintendent of the
Freedmen's Bureau, is busy preparing
such case against John Minor Bolts, who
refuses to pay the wages of negro SER
wants hell up 10 the time of the surrender
Lee, Notwithstanding that the negores
could have gone to the Union forces and
enlisted or labored in the Qusrtermssters
Department and received, at least ten dol
lars per month,
Mr. Bolts received $40, coo dollars from
our Government for trespass on his prop
erty. 80
The petit on of colored men presented
to General Terry last Friday has been re-
ferred to the Provost Marshal of the Dis
trict for investigation.
r1 @ a ARRESTS.
Several arrests have been made, and an
important trial, q number of witnesses
having been subpensed, will reveal very
many surprising facts. d
MAD AS MARCH HAREs.
Many of the inhabitants Of Richmond
are making an open display of diSloyal
sentiment. a.l a-a.
CoLoRED SCHOOLS
All colored schools in the city have been
closed.
GENERAL THOMAS.
ELMRA, August 10.
Adjutant General Thomas was serenaded
at the Hathaway House this evening by
the band of the lst V. R @. The General
came out on the balcony and returned
thanks for the serensde. he said he had
CONS to Elmirs on business, and had hoped
to escape observation. He was perfect
stranger, and did not think he knew SIN
gle person in the city. He was very mich
surprised at the compliment He had
been through the war, and his whole heart
was in the cause of the Union. He said
Maximillian would have to get out of Mex
leo or we would hurry him out. The Mon
roe doctrine must be enforced. We were
in condition to hold our own against the
world. He hoped the soldiers would now
return to arts of peace, populate the ter
ritories of the West, and carry civilization
with them. He hoped and felt sure that
if ever the cause of the Union should be
again endangered every man Of them
would rush 10 its rescue. The General
again thsnked the assembly for the sere-
made, bsde them goodnight, and retired
amid storm Of cheers.
WASHINGTON, August 10.
Advices were received today st the
State Department from the United States
Consul at Mslts, stating that the cholera
was prevailing there to an alarming ax-
tent, and that communication had been
stopped with adjacent points.
At Ovissa great apprehension was felt
and the strictest regulations had been es-
tsbliahed, in consequence of the malig-
nancy of the epidemic at ConstantinOple.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OPINION.
The Attorney General in response to an
inquiry by President johnson whether
persons charged with the oFsnse of having
assassinated the late President should b