Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-27


the Indians with the overland mail. Its
very probable the section of country now
infested by the Indians will be so organized
as to prevezt any future trouble.
CANAL AROUND NIAGARA FALLS.
The same special says that the scheme
to appropriate six millions to the ship
canal around the Falls of Niagara has
about exploded. A motion will be made,
when it comes up, to indefinitely postpone
it.
REBEL DEMONSTRATION.
The Worlds army correspondent from
the james says the rebels on the night Of
the 24th made a demonstration OF our
picket line in front of Bermuda. They
found the pickets prepared for them, and
there was but short firing through the
night.
FROM RICHMOND.
An intelligent deserter reports that JEFF
Davis left Richmond on Friday on visit
to Wilmington.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 25th says
We violate no confidence in sta ting as we
do upon the inadequate authority that
the House of Representatives has not de-
votsd thirty minutes of all its secret ses-
siens since the commencement Of the
present term, to the consideration of
Peace proposition. We are to be under
stood as saying that no proposition has been
presented, but we a1e satisfied there is no
danger Whatever of the passage of any
irregular measures however honestly
proposed.
AWAKENING.
The Examiner of the 23d says; There
are some who feel disheartened, beaten and
conquered already, and they would fsin
wiggle out of what they imagine to be
psrilous position, by any bOle or crevice;
Now it is to offer England and France bribe
if they will only save US from the terrible
Yankees; again, to offer the Yankees
whatever they ask if they will take US into
their ranks to fight England and France.
We cannot get out of the affair through
any of these holes. If there be any in the
Confederacy who cannot bear to look full
and abide by the ISSUE it were better for
US all that they were on the north side Of
the Potomac.
RUMoR.
The Enquirer of the 2Sd says: Yester-
day evening an alarming rnmor attained
circulation that General Bragg had been
appointed Secretary of War. Notw;th-
standing the sbsurdity of the rumor, and
we'll known fact that the Senate would not
confirm such nomination, yet the rumor
was widely circulated, and produced uni
versal gloom. Without any knowledge
about the appointment, we feel justified in
stamping this rumor as utterly without
foundation.
BRAGG IS CERTAIN OF HOLDING wILMING-
TON.
The Erqminer says that it is announced
that General Bragg tslegraphed to the
War Department yesterday that he iscon-
fdent OF his ability to hold Wilmington.
His telegraph has rendered many people
quite uneasy, and at once gave occasion
to reports about the insecurity of Will
mington, which have no other foundation.
LEE THE FAvoRITE FOR eENBRAL-N-
CHEF.
The leading editorial of the Whig, Er-
anaiper and Enquirer are devoted to the
recent action of the Rebel Congress with
a view to making important changes in
the command of their armies All three
concur in the hope that Gene raj Lee will
be selected for the position OF General-in-
chief, and urge his appointment as the
only way to satisfy the public mind and
restore confidence to the people generally.
There is a similar unanimity in favor
of the assignment Of General Johnston to
thecommsnd of the Army of the Ten
nessee.
GENERAL LEE.
The Eranui7aer adduces numerous exam
pies to show that it is quite practicable fol-
General Lee to remain in command of the
Army of Northern Virginia and at the
same time control the movements of other
armies by the exercise of general super.
vision of the field of operations. Some
disappointment is evineed that the act o.
Congress does not expressly guarantee Il
the General -in-Chief power to appoint his
subordinates in command of the different
armies.
CoNsCRIPTIOE OF NEGROES.
The Enquirer takes occasion to renew
its appeal for the immediate conscriptiOr
of the negroes. It urges Congress t,
Danish all thoughts of negotiations fo
peace and devote its whole time to wa
measures, and says, let all resolve that un
til the enemy, who made the war, shsl
offer honorable terms of peace, no mai
in these States will wish for peace, but ths
war and continual war shall be the oBjec
and purpose of this people.
FROM CHARLESTON.
) A Charleston letter to the Richmon
Dispatch says; Many of the most furiou
advocates of secession of 1860, as well q
many of the most confident and resolut
supporters of our holy cause in 1868, ar
now the most querulous and despondiDl
Reverses which have overtsken our arm
and the demorslizing influence of th
!, blockade-running trade have wrought tn
great change so that Charleston of to-ds
is no longer Charleston of former days
/. The city abounds with prophets of ev
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