The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-23

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ets HEAVY DEFALCAnoN.
,ro -, There have been some developments e
eV day in the defslcstion of Smith s. Ess
th man. The more the case is sifted the wors
ito it looks. The loss will probably reac
=, 100000 which is sustained by man.
es prominent flour and provision houses.
IN TRoTTING MATCH.
n In the trotting yesterday at FAsniol
"a Course, Long Island, best three in five, fo
y $4,000, between Commodore Vanderbilt
n and Black Diamond, the former won tn,
as lst, Sd and 4th heats: Che best time mad,
10 was 1851.
: SUSPENSION OF WORK
9, Work has ceased at the Portsmouth Ms.
2 w Yard on all the principal vessels in
course of construction. The Franklin, Il
= linois, Pssssconsps and the Coutocook have
. not been lsunched.
4 GENERAL GRANTS ORDER.
3. The Army and Navy Gazette publishes
Z the following dispatch from General Grant
+ to General Halleck, ordering the latter to
. di-sAsa-A 81 As-----'-s-vsee. rssuUn0 nave
r accompanied Hsllecks letter.
FORTRESS MONROE, April %, 1866.
: Major General HGlLsek, Richmond, "a:
The truce entered into BY Sherman will
will be ended SIS soon as 1 can reach Ra-
leigh. Move Sheridan with his cavalry
towards Greensboro as soon as possible. 1
think it will be well to send one corpsIof
infantry, also, the whole under Sheridan.
The infantry need not go farther than
Dsnville unless they receive orders hereaf-
ter to do so.
(Signed) U. S. GRANT, L.. Gen.
FROM HAVANA.
A Havana letter describing the escape of
Breckenridge and party says: They pro-
cured small boat at st. Johns and hauled
it across the country to Indian river and
launched it in the inlet communicating
with the ocean, and moved down the coast
sixty miles, living on she'll fish and turtles.
a United States gunboat saw them ard
sent boat to see who they were. Colonel
Wood aud two others went out to meet the
boat, and said he was wrecker and fisher
man, and the balance of the party were
parOled prisoners. They exhibited paroles
and were allowed to go. Colonel Wood in
vited the officer who examined his papers
to go on shore and dine with them OF shell
fish, but he declined. That evening they
left shore, having few dozen eggs and
some CLAIMS. They reached Cardenss
about thirty-six hours afterwards, having
spoken vessel and procured some supplies
of fresh water. They suffered much from
hunger during the journey and only one
person could sleep in the boat at a time.
APPLICANTS FOR PARDON.
The Tribune's Washington special says
among the vast number of applications for
pardon filed, there is not a single instance
where the applicant does not assert that he |
opposed the Inauguration of the rebellion.
Several parties in the South, who were
acting postmasters when the war broke
out, have reported their amounts ofindebt-
edness and desire to have it liquidated. A
few have forwarded maRsv.~-s4--
The Post Office Department is preparing
to open bids for transporting the mails
over several of the old postal routes in the
South. Schedules will be advertised IS
soon as completed.
PROMOTION.
Colonel Q: o. Loomis of the 1st Mich.
Artillery has been promoted to a full
Brigsdier General, deserved tribute to
one of the heroes of Stone River.
HONESTY.
A gentleman from Mississippi is in town
on his way to New York, where heintends
to sstonish his creditors by paying large
sums of money he owed before the war.
PHILADELPHIA. June %.
sEYEN-THIRTIEs.
Jay Cooke reports the subscriptions to
the Seven-thirty loan, to-day, 81, ,246, 300,
including the following among the largest:
Ocean National, New York, 100000;
Fourth n ational, New York, $50, 900; First
National, Norfolk, $4,000; First National,
Richmond, $4,000; Second National, Chi
cago, $lI5,OO Fourth National, st. Louis,
$lO,OOO First National, Harrisburg, $IO,-
900; First National, Toledo, $4,000;
Faneuil Hall Bank, Boston, $40 600; Ex-
change National Pittsburgh, $50 900; ].
G. Parker & Co, Mobile, $6O, 1000; Hanna,
Hart s. Co, Pittsburgh, $4,000. There
vera also 1878 individual subscriptions for
sums of $50 and $lOO each.
DELEGATION To THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, June %.
In view of the action of Governor Pier
point in calling the legislature of Virginia
together for the purpose of removing the
disabilities of those who have been engaged
in the rebellion, and allowing them to vote
and hold Office, large delegation of the
loyal men of Virginia, visited the Presi-
dent and laid various matters Of import
ance before him. During the interview,
letter was submitted from General Wells
who rendered such efficient service in the
arrest of the assassin who murdered the
President.
General Wells who is Provost Marshal
(1v-e--I--s- n:-L-:>E ~A..GL 1.F thA paAa-l
mac says: Very soon after the fall of Rich
mond, I became aware that many leading
secessionists despairing of resisting by
force of arms the power of the govern
ment or the mighty logic of events which
was soon to make Virginia free, had deter
mined to attempt by policy, what force
could not do, and there it was that soon
after that event these persons in consider
able numbers and in sucn concert as to in
dicste the common purpose, appeared and
took the oath of allegiance. The election
of members of the Legislature was soon o
be held, and among those who announced
themselves IS candidates were some who |
had refused TO take the oath and preferred /
to lose their property and be expelled from
their homes, rather than acknowledge the |