The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-21
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We clip the following current items OF
interest from Washington kilograms to
the New York papers of Monday; Q
COOL vInGIEIAEl
Arebel mail carrier was importuning 3
distiD gushed public man yesterday for his
assistance to get q continuance OF his eon-
tract from Governor Dsnnison. The iDhG-
ence was declined, when the impertursble
Virginian insisted that he should have his
aid 10 secure his pardon, if he couldn't get
the Office.
DIsNEETLNa TIE PORTS AROUND WASH
NaToN.
The Engineer Department has received
orders TO dismantle al the forts and ford-
hcsticns around Washington, except TWEEN
ty.two forts and three or four batteries.
These are to be improved and strengthened,
and constructed in a permsnent form to
stand he test of time. They will be Sc
lected SO IS to form q circle of Washington,
and be sufficient for its defence in all d.
rections. The force in the Engineer De-
partment of the service is 10 be placed inn
medistely at that work.
4 RICHMOND CONSPIRACY.
It is ascertained that there is q secret
combination among the rebel real ESTATE
owners of Richmond not to sell TO any
Northern or Ysnkes purchaser. This ac-
counts for the fact that property there is
now held from loO;to 300 per cent. higher
than before the rebellion. A little whole.
come coniscstion by DR.. Underwood, it is
thought, may somewhat molify this disease.
The local clergy have 8 special fear Of
Northern preachers and teachers. The
other learned professions are similarly ex<
ercised, while the old business men look
with an evil eye upon every new Yankee
conner who brings brains energy or sapl-
tsl with him.
FoRD's THEATER.
The Board Of Managers of the Young
Mems Christian Association visited FJrd,s
thesteT on Saturday morning, for tbs pur-
pose of inspecting the interior RrTspge-
ments preparatory TO concluding the pur-
chase of Mr.. Ford, which will be done this
week. As soon IS the purchase is COM
pleted the executive committee will at
once send collectors throughout the coun-
try, and immediately prepare for its dedi-
cation. It is understood that it will be
converted into q hall for the delivery of
first class lectures and concerts, and IS a
depository for religious books and the
relics and cuIiosities of the Christian Com
mission during the war. The Association
will hold smeeting at the E street BAptaist
Church on Monday evening, in relation to
the matter. v-g
APoTHEosIs CT MRS sURRATT.
On Saturday the hotels and other places
Of public resort were profusely strewp
with hsndbills entitled 1.-THE Trial of
Mrs. Surrstt; or, Contrasts of the Past and
Present" In this document, written by
some iDjudicious partisan Of Mrs. Surrstt,
for effect on the public mind, the prisoner
is painted in the brightest col0rs as q
Christian lady, gifted with excellent qusli-
ties, and noted for her good deeds; 3 der
voted wife and fond m~other-pioul, kind
and charitable to q fault etc, etc. The
character Of the witnesses against her is
impugned, the restraints upon her liberty
etc, etc, are denounced as indignites and
cruelties, and q contrast between our wi
times and the dark ages, in relation to the
treatment of weak and defenseless women,
is drawn with the trial of Mrs. Surrstt ss
an illustrative case Of the one side, an the
story in SCOTS novel of "IvAnhoe,P of the
chivalrous treatment by msiled warriors of
the JeWess Rebecca on the other. .-.5s
THE CABINET.
An effort is now being made to revive
the rumors of Cabinet changes. The pub
lie may as we'll rest in peace; the time has
not come for the changes. That there Is
to be a reconstruction of the Cabinet, ss
we'll as the Southern States, may be put
down as a fixed fics; but from sill appear
ancss it will not take place for six or eight
weeks yet. .5r ~-7.,.
THE REPEETAET EBELs TIE ELKO-
TIV FRANCHISE. Ell u
Applications for executive pardon are
flowing in from professedly Tepentent
rebels to such an extent that hsexpedien-
cy of any extensive reinstatement of that
class of persons to the rights of citizenship
and elective franchise is e~liciting much
earnest discussion Many fear the Presi-
dents clemency will be abused, and urge
that justice should precede mercy in nine
tenths ofthe applications made.
Others believe the psrdons are solicited
in good faith, and all conditions will be
honorsbly complied with. ALI admit that
many Southern nan are entitled 10 a legsl
restoration. Mona advocate an indiscrim-
mate enfraDchising of them, neither is
there any dispute As to the fi~ghtfnlDess or
propriety of Presidential action in the in
dividusl cases arising; but the very i'm
possibility Of applying fixed rules to such
q variety of cases creates q feverish ankle
ty on the subject that time alone can sllsy.
Among the latest arrivals Of that class is
henry G. Burnett Of Kentucky, an ex-
member Of the federal Congress-, and late
Senator from that state in the rebel gov
l arnnant The nnrnan man Mn