The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-07

pointed st the ~prolongaiion Of their term of
service What the object of this move is no
Onspretsnds t0divine, and most sven think
that General Grant knows little of it. We
shall see. J. B. q.
Washington Items.
nIMKEsE REDUCTION OF THE NAVY.
An idea may be had Of the extent of the
reduction in the active naval force of the
country, and of the expenses Of the Navy
Department. from the fact that the num-
Der of vessels in commission on the Allan
tic sea-board, Of all descriptions, is ordered
to be reduced from about six hundred 10
ninety. The West Gulf Squadron is 70 be
reduced TO twenty, and the Mississippi
squadron to fifteen vessels
DUFF GREEN TAXES THE ANXIETY OATH.
Duff Green, of ancient notoriety here
and elsewhere, hiss returned 70 this city and
has taken and FLED the osth prescribed in
the Amnesty Proclamation, but sccomps-
MES it with written reservation of the
right to express his views on the emsDci-
patton measures, negro suffrage, &c. The
Aitornev General having advised him that
he probably belonged to the excepted Glass
Of apersons who have voluntarily psrtici
pated in the rebellion; the estimated value
Of whose taxable property is over twenty
thousand dollars" he has made special
application 70 the President for pardon.
RUMoRED EARLY MEETING OF CONGRESS.
It is as erted on credible authority that
the subject of converting Congress at an
early day, say thu lst of October, is being
considered BY the President. A variety of
reasons are urged for this action, among
them the fact that much inconvenience is
being experienced in consequence of the
failure of the Civil Appropriation bill last
session, and also that q grest amount of
time must necessarily be consumed in set
Ting the cases of members from the re-
VOTED States.
THE TRIAL.
The President yesterday settled the ques-
ton of the trial. A Congressman remind
cd him of the desire of some of the people
that Davis be tried By a court martial, on
the as~ssssinstiou counts, to vindicste his
proclamation off5ring 8 reward for his ar
rest, to which the President responded thst
it seemed desirable that he be tried before
8 civil court for high treason IS 8 perpetu-
al reminder that treason is the highest
crime known 10 our law; and he was will
ing to spresd before the world the secret
testimony in the assassination csse, and
trust to their verdict as to Davis compile
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BROWN, sTEPHEEs, AND BoTCE-
You know that Governor Brown, oil
Georgia, has been released from the Old
Capitol and is at large. He is not at all
reticenh but converses freely in regard to
his position and the prospects of the South.
The Governor is a swsrthy, dark-complex-
toned man, about six feet in height, long
black hsir, broad forehead, sunken eye and
cheeks, sharp features, face clesn shaved
and apparently about fifty years OF age
but really only forty-6ve, the difference
being credited to the anxiety and rough
experiences of the last five years. His Ap-
peErsnce is decidedly Southern; but his
manners are bland, and he is IS docile as
though he had never believei in the heresy
Of State Sovereignty. He says earnestly
that the gsme is up the sword has settled
the questions which the ballot could not
settle satisfactorily, and now it is the duty
things and adapt themselves to it IS coon
Sc possible. He announces his own deter
mination to do SO, and says, with q lAugh,
that he may yet come to adopt the North
ern views OF slavery and labor. He dep
recstes an appeal again to the ballot on
the old questions which the war has settled.
Governor Brown speaks freely of his
arrest and makes the iLquiry: "Where is
Toombs 2" He says thai himself, Stephens
ami Toombs dined together at Stephens
house, two days before he was arrested,
and Ct the dinner they discussed the nov
city Of "the situstioo," and he and Steph-
ems agreed that it would be unmanly, and
probably also futile, to fee, but resolved
to remain at their homes and meet their
fac, whatever it might be. Toombs differ |
ed from them, and told them thst he was
going TO run, and should take the lower
road next day. Brown and Stephens were
captured in Cherokee county, Georgia,
where they reside, the former being
brought away on q special train, and hsv. |
ing less than an hour in which to get
ready 70 leave his home and family.
Brown expresses himself as utterly aston
at the ridiculous figure which Js7
DSvis cut in the presence of "the enemy"
Though not an sdmirer of JEFF personally
or politically, lsnd having no faith what
ever in his policy, yet he knew
hiE as q man OF ability, dignity
and nerve, and does not under-
stand how he ever could have lost his self
so far as to attempt to run away
10 his wife's clothes. He says it was a hu-
initiation which surprised the whole South.
He thinks the occurrence shows that Davis
was SO bewildered with the failure of his
and 30 completely unnervsd
BY the hsrassing incidents of his flight,
hat he yielded Rfthe advice of the women
in Disgusting himself Brown has had
several conferences with the President
and thinks he will be permitted to return
home to Georgia, though this ia not settled.
Boyce Of South Carolina lie also here, be-
tide many Others prominently identified
the Rebellion in most of the Southern
States, and the President, after personal
% nferences with him, is himself decidlnR
he question whether it is txpedient to per-
nit them to go st large.
LATgR.-It is settled that Governor
Brown is no longer required to report and
will be permitted to return home in q lew
lays on his pledge TO take hold heartily to
estOre Georgia to her allegiance and reor-
rAniEe the Government there. When the
lieutenant was conveying him North, un-
er arrest, and had arrived near Dslton,
brown rallied him pleasantly about his
msll force. The Lieutenant asked him
that he should do if the squad should be
empowered by guerrillss. The Governor
splied that he should run with the Unio7
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