The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-01
YesterdaY EYenlng's EdltIOT:
yvAsHINGTONTrEns.

WASHINGTON, July 81.
In the Quartermaster's Department one
hundred and fifty extra clerks are kept at
work all night, and the Department is em-
ploying all the temporary hands that can
be had for the purpose of working on the
vast amount Of business that has been
of the sudden close of the war and the mus
tering out of the great armies
H w. Corccran, one of the Oldest and
uaalthiest residents Of this District, has
inst presented his building on II street, be-
tween 18Th and lash, 70 Columbian Col
Iege. The property is valued at $4,000.
The building is especially designed Tor the
medical department of the college. IL.
Mr.. Chase has returned from his trip
Soutb. and it is said his observations Of the
condition of society existing where be has
been induces the belief that the black Is
destined TO be the ruling race throughout
the slsveholding States The whites are
demoralized and certain to be ersdicated
The blacks are vigorous, progressive, snd
hound TO become the dominant people II
less than quarter Of a century. s,...
He predicts that negro Arlstocrscy VII
spring into full existence in all those Ststei
aieet negro members TO the Fedora
'-Sost without opposition, anC
anu f~r that section com
Congress A.
hold the legislation A. -nnt
pletely in their own hands.
The rebel general Dick Taylor is exp
ed to return on Wednesday. His present
whereabouts occasion considerable specu-
latiOn. Those possessing the best means of
obtaining information intimate that he OBJ
tsins permission to visit his brotheT-in-laW,
JEFF Davis, and that he is now at Fortress
Monroe.
The delay in trying Verse charged
with i'll treating our prisoners at Ander-
sOnyille, is for the purpose of enabling the
Judge Advocate OF the Court to subpoena
important witnesses from Georgia, Tennes.
see and other Southern States. Over forty
witnesses have Voluntsrislly reported
themselves ready for examination.
Among the petitioners for pardon on
Saturday were j. 7. Lsmkin, Bx Con-
gressman from Mississippi z. ID. ROddy,
rebel General Of Cavalry in Alabams, and
William L. Riuers of Virginia. The lat
ter had a national reputation before the
war, but has not been conspicuous since
At one time he was a member of the lower
House of the rebel Legislature. .--4
A special to the Tribune, dated WASH
ington Both, says: A number Of the intel
Igent Freedmen of Virginia are requesting
the aid of Colonel Brown, OF the Freedmen's
Bureau in, Richmond, in collecting their
claims for labor rendered their former
of the occupation of the State by our
forces. They represent that the negroes
made free by the proclamation were held
and treated as slaves until their former
masters we're forcibly dispossetsed Of their
so called chAttels by cur GOVernmsnt, and
claim, with apparent justice, compensation
for the labor rendered. -.....
Colonel Brown has asked for Instructions
from the Freedmen's Bureau, and will re-
ceive the opinion Of General Howard in
few days. AL sf.l- D.
Pay master Walsh, one of the principle
officers of the Pay Department in this city
was, with his two clerks, arrested yester.
day and lodged in the Old Capitol Ru'
NOR has itthat heavy defAlcation hss been
discovered on his account.