The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-27

pardon for Trenholm and x-GOyerno
Aiken. The President has referred tn
subject to Attorney General Speed for hi
decision. The President informed the gen
tlemen on Saturday that he had finally de
termined to grant psrdons to prominent
rebels in exceptional cases only.
MosBY PARoLED.
The Lynehburg Republican, 18th, state:
that the notorious Col. Mosby has been
parOled by General Halleck on the term:
of the surrender of General Lee,
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
The Worlds correspondent, writing from
Charlotte, N. O., says that the gold mines
In that vicinity are richer than is gener-
ally supposed. They are attracting some
attention. For hundred miles west and
southwest of Ohsrlottethe streams abound
in gold dust, aud nuggets are frequently
found. Negroes frequently obtain two or
three dollars worth in a day by washing
with pan.
Everything isquiet in that part of North
Carolina and the people sre anxiously
waiting for civil government to be fully
restored. Someplsnters are hiring negroes
and pushing agriculture as rapidly as pcs
sible.
The Commercials intelligence by the
Damascus, the late steamer from Liverpool
on the 10th says that the cotton brokers
report the sales of cotton this week at lOO,-
600 bales, including 25, 900 to spectators
and $1,000 tosxporters. The market is buoy
ant and prices are Is. higher for American.
The sales to-day are $1,000 bales.
A PROCLAMATION,
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS, As it has been the desire of
the general government of the United
States to restore unrestricted inter
course between and in the several
States as soon as the same could be
safely done in view of residences of
armed insurgents, and, whereas, that
desire has been shown in my procla-
nations ef the 29th OF April, 1865, the
18th of june 1866, and the 23d of
June, 1865, and, whereas, it now
seems expedient and proper to remove
the restrictions on internal, domestic,
cosstWise trade and commercial inter-
- - course between andHin the States snd
Territories west of the Mississippi
river.
Now, therefore, be it known that 1,
Andrew johnson, President of the United
States, do hereby declare that all restric-
tiOns on internal, domestic aud coastwiss
intercoure and trade, and upon the pur-
chase and removal of products
of States and parts of States, and
territories heretofore declared in insurrec.
tion lying west of the Mississippi river,
excepting only those to property hereto
fore purchased by agents or captured and
surrendered to the forces Of the United
States and to transportation thereto or
therein, in private accounts of arms, am
munition, ali articles from which ammuni-
tion is made, gray uniforms, and
gray cloth are snnulled, and I do
hereby direct that they be forthwith
and also that the commerce of
such States and ports shall be conducted
under the supervision of the regularly ap.
pointed officers of customs, who shall re-
ceiVe any captured or abandoned property
that may be turned over to them, and dis
pose of the same in accordance with the
issued by the Secretary Of the
Treasury.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereuuto set
my hand and caused the seal OF the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
City of Washington, the twenty-fourth
day of June, in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
five, and of the independence of the
United States the eighty-ninth.
(Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President: w. HUNTER,
Acting Secretary of State.
TRIAL OF JEFF DAVIS.
Its positively ascertained that there has
been no official consultation by the execu-
tive branch of the government as to when,
where or how JEFF. Davis is to be tried.
TO THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
The President, on the recommendation
of the Secretary of the Navy, hss ap-
pointed to the Naval Academy, as mid
lhipmen five apprentice boys. They were
selected by comparative examination from |
300, by board of which Admiral Farra-
gut was chairman.
POSTAL AFFAIRS.
The third saction of the nnstsl law Of |