Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-24
From Yesterdays I'd Edition
General News.
From washington.

NEW YORK, November 23.-Ths W0rld''
Washington special says 1850 men have beer
mustered out of the Veteran Reserve Corps
! leaving only one hundred enlisted men in
that department. Two hundred officers are
trying to hold on TO their commissions until
Congress shall authorize the continuance OF
the corps.
General Carl sehurz. in his report to the
President, stated that it was his belief that il
negro suffrage be enforced at the South at
present it would require large standing
army.
The forthcoming report of the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue will recommend
The aboIlshing OF The proprietary revenue
stamps, and all other stamps except those
used for legal documents.
The testimony in the case of Captain Pet
tit concluded yesterday.
The report Of the Commissary General of
prisoners is nearly concluded. It contains
a vast amount of matter relative to the num-
Der of prisoners taken by each side during
the war, l....as.i ...a.-s
The Auditor Of the Treasury has issued a
circular requiring the Southern post masters
to pay up all balances due the Government
at the breaking out of the war. Twelve
thousand dollars have recently been re-
eeived from the post office at Mobile.
Secretary Stanton has determined not to
publish a list of officers to be mustered out
till after Congress meets.
The Tribune's Washington special says
that paymaster Boardman, of New Hamp-
shire, sent out TO the Stonewall, died with
yellow fever at Havana.
Several reconstructed rebels filed claims
at the Treasury Department for balance due
before their participation in treason
An application was made in the Navy
Department yesterday for the appointment
of a young Virginian, seeessiOnist, as mid
shipman.
The Times's special says the number of
applications for pardon on file is about 2O,-
900. The number granted does not exceed
5000. None are now being granted.
Few members of Congress have yet ar
rived.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has consented to de-
liver lecture before the Press Club of Phil
adelphia next Monday evening. Subject
"Aeross the Continent"
The Herald's Washington dispatch says
General Grants report of military opera
tiOns since his appointment as Lieutenant
Gener-l will probably accompany the report
of the Secrata,- ~ ~ of War and be printed with
that document.
The feeling against England in
ton for allowing the officers and crew of -.
shenandoah to escape is one of undisguised |
disgust and hostility All agree thai thew
must be given up to our authorities under
the extraditiOn treaty. No doubt Is enter /
lained of our ability to prove from her log
book that she took many prizes after being
of the close of the war.
The interior of the Capitol is completely
prepared for the approaching session Of
Congress. The desks of the Southern mem
Ders have been replaced.
SurOaon MarU Welrar e.. ]
o receive Majors commission in the
United States army, the President has di-
rected that she be presented with the usual
medal for meritoriOus services. Her friends
Will ask Congress for more substantial tes-
.imonial.
1t is stated that all executive and miscel
aneOus documents of the 37th and 3sth
Congress have been printed.
A military commission is said to be order
ID for investigating the enlistment of Pru-
nan subjects by the State of Massachusetts
Turing the war, with power to sit in Wash
ngton and B. s onto accommodate the Prus-
nan minister and the Massachusetts officials
1t is understood that the
RUSSIAN Government demanded satisfaction
f the United States. The former expects
o establish the fact that fraud and eompuI-
ion were praeticed.
The Times Washington despatch saws:
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has
made the following decisions: Officers dis
harged to take effect from particular date |
rho do not receive notice of their DISCHARGE
ntil some time afterwards and who. in he
continue on duty, come within the
sth paragraph of general orders No. IOs of
S64, relating to resigned officers, and are
nttled To pay to the date on which the dis
barge or notice was received. An officer I
Gliding commission on the Sd of March.
S65, and continuing in the military service
the United States until August 18th, 1866. |
sndered supernumary by consolida-
on of his own regiment with another, and
l consequence is discharged, it is held that /
e was Eo.diseharged the service under any ]
rders OF the War Departmental for the redue- 6
on of the army, he is not entitled TO the s
lree months pay proper, provided by the {
ct Of Congress of March 3, 1865, inasmueh !
5 he has not served to the close of the war.
-ithin the meaning of the law
The Trlbune's special says: The recon-
tructed rebels in Washington do not dis
uise the fears that the bad faith OF MANY 1
their pardoned brethren in the South will {
sriously affect their political aspirations q
nd interests, and lessen the Executive con- {
dence, which they admit they deserved.
Mr.. Thomas Conway, late assistant Com ]
missioner of the Freednen's Bureau Of /
.ouisiana has been tenderediby Gen. How
I'd the superintendeney of all the Freed ,
len's schools in Tennessee and Kentucky.
New Orleans News.
NEW ORLEANS, November 22.-The steam !
hip Mereida arrived at Mobile yesterday.
he brought in Captain Horace Atwood and
art Of the crew of the ship Harry of West
rleans for Liverpool, burned loo miles from
outh West Pass, with 3,343 bales of cotton.
he origin of the fire is unknown. The bal 1
nee of the crew was taken by the shin (
lila, bound for Liverpool.