The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-29
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
YARIOUN ITENN

NEW YORK, June 70.
The Posts Washington special says that
internal revenue officers have been ap-
pointed for Virginia. Louisiana, Alabama
and Georgia, and the arrangements for its
collection will be completed as rapidly as
possible.
The Judgeship left vacant by Judge Ca
tron's death lies between Ex-OOngre9sman
Maynard and Judge Darrell, of louisiana
General Grant has not yet completed his
official reports.
Mr.. Harrington, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, will leave that Department
July 10th.
A letter has been received at this Gus
tom House, addressed to the State Depart
ment, by our Consul at Port Mshon, an
nouncing that the Russian plague is ex-
tending westward more rapidly than gene
islly supposed, and advising that all
steamers arriving in Russian or Turkish
ports BE- rigidly scrutinizsd before landing.
The disease is said to be the same as that
which visited London q century ago.
A serious fire occurred in Jersey City
to-day, involving the total destruction of
the American Mills, owned by d. q. Greg
CORY, IT,, some oil mills in the immediate
vicinity, and Cummings & Co.'s car shop
was much damaged.
The Post ssys: The ocean monitor Die
tstor, which has returned from trip down
the coast, has had her machinery altered
TO slight extent. She is to sail through
the Sound and TO Halifax. Il is reported
that if her sailing qualities prove perfectly
satisfactory she will cross the Atlantic.
Her officers are confident of her success.
1t is said that she has recently made the
speed of ten knots an hour.
An intelligent officer of the navy, says
the Commercial Advertiser who has been
for two yesrs with the South Atlantic
Squadron, and who has enjoyed unusual
opportunities for looking at the South and
iuc ging of the condition of society there,
has communicated some important facts to
us. The quantity of cotton from Georgia
and South Carolina will be less than has
been expected. In q wide lot of territory
between Savannah and GreenVille all the
cotton was destroyed. Outside of this and
toward the coast the cotton is unginned
and unbaled. 1t is hidden away and will
not be brought out for fear of cODfscstion,
the owners very generally coming within
the $4,000 range of the Presidents am
nesty.
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These States are drained Of goods of sn
sorts, and although many goods have been
taken there, many have been reshipped,
owing to the difficulty of selling them.
Our informant thinks they should be left
there TO revive as rapidly as the vexed
question of title are settled.
The lands of;,the sJuth Offer g great ad dVan-
tsges to labor and capital, and will be u
great source of wealth, mills are needed
and men to direct them.
eSThe draft animals are gone and labor is
pretty thoroughly demoralized. There is
needed an infusion of northern enterprise.
Men skilled in managing free lsborers and
who comprehend the relations Of system
60 unfamiliar to the South.
The rice districts are partially planted
on shares and cultivated by free labor, but
the cultivation is inadequate and the crop
promises TO be small. The freedmen do
not work well yet they are mdecently
treated, and there is too much humani-
tarianism in their management. Provost
Marshal law is the law of the country and
is oppressive, sudscious and i'll hammered.
On the Sea Islands are 120, 900 negroes who
WOIk litbIo duu dE6 4out III phAtJ Dg buo
Government. These islands are partly
owned at the North, and it is thought that
General Shermsn's assignment of them to
colored occupation will not hold good IS
they will be reclaimed by the real propri-
etors.
The region in the st. Johns river offers
great advantages to emigrants and to in
solvent capitalists.
The Southern railroads must be managed
and owned by Northern men. They are
in a very distressing state. The rolling
stock and tracks are gone.
Our informant does not fOresee an imme-
diate return for Southern Investments, but
predicts the smplest return in q very few
years, say thrss or four, when intercom-
municstion shall be re.Opened and society
shall be re organized.