Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-02-03
Yesterday Evenings Edition.



OF the 2Sth ult, reiterates the statement
regarding the Union men of Georgia hay
ing held meetings and organized sssocia-
tions for their mutual protection, and have
called on General Sherman for assistance
which had been promised. He says the
movements extend over nine counties.
Ten thousand bales of the captured cot
ton had been shipped North, and large
number of other vessels were being loaded
with it.
The distribution of the supplies of food
snd clothing, from the people of this city
and Boston, was being proceeded with.
A meeting to express the thanks of the
people of Savannah for these welcome
gifts was held at the Exchange on the 25th
ult. Addresses we're made by the Mayor
ard others and appropriate resolutions
adopted.
The gunboat Dai Ching got aground in
the Csmbehee river, on the 26th, and was
set on fire by the rebel guns aud burned to
waters edge.
a rebel dispatch dated Wilmington,
2sth, says:
About 400 bales of cotton were Destroy
ed by fire on the Custom House wharf at
that place, and two csr loads four miles
from town on the Weldon Railroad on
the 2Sth.
Whether the burning was accidental or
the commencement of carrying out the
reported rebel design to destroy all the
staple in the vicinity does not clearly sp-
pear.
In connection with their announcement
of the departure of their peace agents for
the North some of the journals of Rich
mond give rumor that bearers of dis
patches from the English and French
governments had arrived in that city, but
add that they could trace it to no authentic
source.
The Dispatch has report that the
French Minister at Washington has de-
manded his passport. r
The HeTdLds st. Louis dispatch says A
fight took place at Dsrdanelle, Ark, on
the I4th ult., in which it is reported that
Shelby was whipped and obliged to evscu-
ate the place
It appears by correspondents state
ment that the rebels turned over to Sher-
man, in and about Savannah, 2s6 service
able cannon.
The TTibtlHes Washington special says:
General Singleton, Just returned from
L
there will be no peace, and can be
none, unless the rebels are granted their
Independence, or we abandon ours Of
reunion. The Confederate leaders are
entirely sanguine of their ability to con-
quer their independence without srming
the slaves.
The Times Washington special says Of
Mr.. Stewards mission TO Fortress Monroe
that he does not carry out any ultimstum
from the Government, neither is the Pre-
sident sware of what the rebel commits
sioners propose, and until he sscertains
that fact it is uncertain whether they will
be allowed to proceed to Washington.
The HerdLds Smithville, n. C., CORES
pondence, Of the oath, says that by the
blowing up of Fort Caswell the rebels com
pletely destroyed the river front of that
strong work. All the guns in it we're spiked
and their carriages destroyed.
At Smithville, small place on the west
side of Cape Fear river, ten miles below
Fort Fisher, the Union forces secured large
supplies of commisssry stores, tobacco, and
; other valuable property.
! The rebels hAd planted terpedOes IN and
around nearly all the forts.
A Petersburg dispatch, in the Richmond
papers says there was heavy firing be
tween the Union and rebel batteries OF
James River on last Sunday morning.
The report that General Breckinridg
has been appointed rebel Secretary of Wa
is confined.
The bill for the employment of negroe
e in their armies passed the rebel House ol
9 Saturday.
o 1t was said that Lees nomination q
General-in- Chief would be sent into tn
rebel Senate by JEFF. Davis on last Mon
}. day, but the latter had not yet made an,
d movement toward the reinstatement c
s Joe Johnston.
.fI Mosby's admirers say he is to be in tn
saddle again in few days.
u The HerGLfs Eastport correspondence
of the 2It, ssysa reconnaissance from I1eI
Y Thomas army, at Eastport, Miss, Shove
n that the main portion of Hoods force, o
the 10th ultimo, was at Tupelo, Missi
sippi. On the appearance of the Unio
troops before Corinth, some 400 rebels, ST
pi toned there, evacuated the place, aft
, burning the railroad depot and Tishsming
House. Between twenty and thirty
70 them were captured.
D, An order has been issued by the militsl
authorities in Missouri for the banishmel
A from that State of the wives and childrt
of all men in the rebel military service.