The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-28
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From VEashinEtor.

The TmeS Washington special says Shs
cabinet meeting to-day was brief, bat was
more fully attended BY the Secretaries
bnAn has been the case for six weeks past,
AZ she Secretaries being present but Sec.
ret1Iy HArlan, who has Just left on . visit
/ Fourteen Post Offices were reopsned IN
the lste Iebellious States today, ten Of
which are IN South Carolina. Including
Abbeyyille Court House and Chester
Court House. - : E
David AtWater, the Qaarssrmsster's am.
ployee. who parlOined part Of The Ander.
sbnVille records, has been sent TO Auburn.
New York States prison tor eighteen
months BY the order of Msjor General
Augur. q;
The Herald's special says it is currently
reported that General oftsga. who viii be
7 constitutional successor of President Jau-
rez In few months has succeeded in eff
fecting very large loan from the RepUb-
hcsn GoYernment in Mexicio, based on the
security OF confseated property. Il Is well
known that il San Francisco several hum
dred thousand dollazs have recently been
subscribed, and it is thought here If the
lpAn was properly put before the pnblic it
would gam very largely in amount Since
rebel loan Was negotiated openly, both in
Paris and London, neither the French or
British government could object to q Mex
ican loan being taken in this country. The
Mexican Republicans want money rather
more than men. .---t
In conformity with an act Of July, 1861,
the Commissioner of Pensions has appoint
ed; about eight hundred examining snr.
geonkfor that bureau, who are so oistribu-
ted throughout the country that any sp-
phcant .tor pension on physical grounds
need not go more than twef " miles st the
greatest distance to procure q proper ex-
Summation OF his bodily ailments. This
list of surgeons is now haing closed np. To. !
day were appointed John s. HiIysr, Of
HlLsborough, Illinois, T. T. AlhLg Of
Neogs, Illinois, james II. Maxwell of
NoUion. Illinois, Robert Il CuIversoD,
Of Bowling Green, Indiana, J. l. Bells, Of
Spencer, Indiana, w. o. Meagher, of Tom
kInsvilles New York, j. L. Smith, of Lex-
ington, Kentucky, j. w. Parker, Somerset,
Missouri, s shook, of Laclede, Missouri,
Chester L. Harris, Macon, Missouri, VIM.
7. Baker, of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
FUr the encouragement of those who
haEe applied, or intend to apply, to the
Secretary Of the Treasury for elerkships in
bis Department. It should be known that
all applications are fled and pigeon holed,
and will sometime come up Tor considers
ton. About ten thousand applications
have slready accumulated and 8 msjorisy
Of which have been received since the
disbsndment Of the army. All Of them
are deserving and come well recommended.
8. Yorke Atlee, Of the Navy department,
returned this morning from tour of ins )
spection to the Marine HospitaIa Of the
east, west and south. He will probably
recommend the sale Of Marine Hospitals
owned by the United States and the Aban.
donment Of the expensive system OF keep
mg up an estsblishHent in which not half
. dozsn patientss sre annually admitted, and
the contracting with established hospitals
for the treatment of all Government
patients.
In the list of passengers lost on The
Brother jonathan r few weeks ago, wss
the name of DR.. A. g. Henry, figured as
the newly appointed Governor OF Wash
ingtoa Territory. Under the spprehen-
sion that vacancy was occasioned by his
death. The authorities have been impor-
tuned BY scores Of persons for the positlon.
To end all expectation OF the kind, it may
be stated thsS neikher Dr.. Henry nor any
one else have been appointed. Governor
Pickering is still Governor of Washington
Territory and bids fair to remain so.
The Tribune's sdecial sage; Francis
Smith, OF Alexandria, Va, formerly par
ticipant in the rebellion, having received
pardon from the President, delivered long
and elaborate argument 70 day, before
Judge Underwood of the United States
Court Of Virginia, endeavoring to prove
his eligibility to practices law before any
court in the Union without taking the or
dinary oath prescribed by law, 70 the eff
tect that ne had never sympsthizad with
Or sided the enemies of the United States.
smith asserts that he cannot consistently
take the prescribed oath and argues that
and penalties of his spos.Acy.
Judge Chandler, Attorney General for
the State, viii reply tomorrow. He will
assume that each court should decice his
claim &c practice before it IS they think
proper. The former citizens OF Virginia
against whom action had been taken pre-
viOus TO the Presidents amnesty Pr0elams-
ton for the eoniicatiOn Of their property,
are now having the same duly restored IS
to the courts, and on paying the
costs incurred by its libel and SEIZURE by
the government. ---f "a u
The second controller of the Treasury
has decided that in order 10 entitle soldiers
discharged for wounds TO the whole of the
bounty, as if they had served their full
time, IS provided by section 4 of the act of
March 81, 1865, the wounds for which they
were discharged must have been received
during the term of enlistment which they
were serving out when discharged. a
discharge for pre-existing disability, or
for wound received In the service under
3 previous enlistment, does not bring the q
soldier within tho intant of the law.