Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-27
From Saturdays I'd Edition.
Washington News.
Washington Items.

Nav YORK, November 25.-The Times
Washington special says: Hon. Edward
Mcpherson, Clerk of the House, has arrived
and is devOting himself to arranging the
preliminaries for the session. Under hi:
direction the Hall of Representatives is be.
ing handsomely reftted.
There are few if any calls on the Presi-
dent in reference to the New York Collector
ship.
| The Secretary of the Treasury requests
the heads of departments to include unex-
| pended balances in their estimates, in order
that he may appTise Congress as nearly as
possible of the amount necessary for the use
| OF the government for the ensuing year.
The State Department received advices
| yesterday morning from our Consul at Liv-
erpoOl in reference 10 the surrender Of the
Shenandoah.
the Attorney General has not vet received
the rebel pirates application for pardon.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister, had
lengthy interview with General Grant
yesterday.
The Worlds Washington dispath says
there appears to be no opposition to the elee-
tion of Schuyler COlfax to the Speakefship.
Yesterday evenings Republican saws he
has received letters from Henry j. RAYMOND
and General Banks announcing that they
will not be candidates.
Small pox is prevailing to a great extent
among the freedmen OF Alabama, Georgia
and Virginia.
There is no truth in the report that Assis-
tant Secretary Otto, of the Interior Depart
ment, is about to be removed, or intends to
resign.
Major Bournestein, of St. Louis, has been
sentenced by the court martial here TO be
dismissed the service for unofficer-Iike con-
duct.
The Tribune's Washington special saws:
new paper, TO be called the Reconstruc-
tionist, edited by Jane Swisshelm, is TO be
Immediately commenced here.
The Times special says: Colonel Morgan.
superintendent of the New York Soldiers
Agency, has been in Washington several
days and is eonsummating arrangements
with the military authorities for the care of
disabled New York soldiers. 1t is eontem-
plated to fit up at once the Ira Harris Hos
pltal at Albany for temporary use as a SOL
diers' home.
Major W: II. Gibbons and Geo. f. Tavlor.
rebel quartermasters, and Robert Heth. a
private in the rebel service on the breaking
of Lees army, were IN Richmond and had
about $4,000 in gold belonging to the rebel
government in their possession. After leav-
ing Richmond Heth, under orders from
Taylor and Gibbons, buried about S2O, 900 of
Carolina, which they subsequently, dug IN |
and spent nSrIy IN IrfU IIni5yIIrt. |
The facts becoming known TO the Govern
ment, Taylor and Heth, about two weeks |
ago, were arrested in Richmond, brought to
this city and placed in the Old Capitol 1t |
is supposed that nearly all the money has !
been spent by them. The Government sue |
eeeded in obtaining possession of about |
$4,000 of it. The prisoners are still held to |
await further developments.
The Tribune's special says: The German |
Beaume, who figured extensively in |
the Wirz trial, has been dismissed from the |
Interior Department, 1t having been shown |
that he was deserter from the 7th New |
York Steuben Regiment. His real name is |
Felix Ossel.
The Worlds special says: The. British |
Minister has been instructed to urge upon |
our Government the prOPriety of making a |
new Canadian reciprocity treaty. Negotia-
tions to that end will be opened at as early |
a day as possible. The Government of the |
United States have been for some time OBJ
tanning information relative to that matter.
Colonel Edward NJ. Lee, late of the Mich
igan Cavalry Brigade has been breveted |
Bugadier General of Volunteers.
Lieutenant Colonel o. H. Hart, Adiutant- !
General, formerly of the Sd Army Corps. has |
been breveted Brigadier- General. General |
Hart is now on the staff of General Ord at
Detroit.
The Herald's special says that one of the
late acquisitions to the House of Represen-
Lasives is a carpet, imported from England,
costing the round sum Of $1,000. 1t is very
elegant in pattern, and of the finest quality |
but the opinion is not wanting among the /
crowds of people that daily visit the Capt.
Lol and examine the splendid appointments
of the Representative Chamber, that the |
fabric in question could with greater pro-
priety have been had from an American
loom instead OF one beyond the seas.