The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-14
FROM NEW YORK.

FROM NEW YOkH.
NEW YORK, August l3.
The Haralds Richmond eorresponder
says :..-..'.-. r' ..-a-
The reports in Northern papers bearinI
upon the movements of Gen. K. Z. LIE
are wholly erroneous. Six weeks or NOR
sgo Gen. Lee left this city and proceede,
TO the village of Gainesville, Buckingham
county, in this State, on the south side o
James River, 40 miles from Richmond
where he is living in the utmost seclusion
scarcely answering the million of letten
addressed to him. He resides in small
but not inelegant cottage, the property O
Mrs. Cox, adjacent and belonging to which
are some four acres of land, which he finds
recreation in .cultivating. Gen. Lee il
unusually reticient in his seclusion, and il
is probable ne will rarely if ever emerge
from it. -
The. HeIsld's Washington specisl says
In compliance with the recent order of the
Navy Department, all sailors who recently
we're attached to the vessels at the yard, and
uhUse TERMS or 0aiistaaant a-s not naasls,
out, have been granted 8 furlough for two
weeks to report st the end of that time to
any navy yard or station they may select.
About two hundred have, under this order,
been paid and sent off recently.
It is reported that Commissioner Hollo-
way, of the Patent Office, has signifed his
intention of leaving the Interior Depart
msnt the latter part of the coming week,
whether his successor be appointed or not.
The new appointment has been in limbo
for several weeks, and apparently is no
nearer contamination than it was immedi-
stely following Mr.. Holloway S resignation.
Brigadier, General Van Wick, command
ing the military district of Western South
Carolina, has Issued q general order
from Newbury, in that State dated
July IS 1865, which was called out
by the perpetration of continued violent
abuse of the freedmen. The offenders in
the more violent of these outrsges are now
IN jail, awaiting trial. The parties arrested
claim clause in their contracts with the
ill-trested blacks which permitted the ap-
plicstion of the lash in certain cases and
which Lad been introduced with the per-
mission of the local commandsnt, and was
regarded by them as full permission to in
hict punishment on their employees as to
them seemed proper.
The commaDdsnt in question is by the
terms of the sbove order, severely rebuked.
and is to be signslly punished for permit
ting the insertion of clause so repugnRnE
to the principles upon which the freed.
mems system is founded. The misguided
and stubborn planters who are attempting
to embarrsss the successful application of
the negro labor system, are warned by the
order, that their policy is short sighted and
selfiniurious, and the Objectionable clause
for the punishment of freedmen is rescinded
from sll contracts into which it has been
inserted.
The Herald's MatsmorRs correspondent
gives further particulars and an aversion of
the late attack by Oortinss on the Imperial
army train between that place and Monte
rey, the account of which from the journ-
ais of the former town we have heretofore
published. 1t was nothing like so formid-
able affair as the latter represented it.
The Republican soldiers, under CortInss,
are described as greatly lacking in disei-
pline and organization, but still as being |
quite well fitted for their chosen work of |
continually hsrrassing Msximillisn's |
troops on the Rio Grsnde border and keep
ing them closely confined to Mstsmorss.
The Times WsshipIggt2n Ig 81 special says:
Potomac are rapidly recovering from the
of the war. Refugees are re- |
turning TO their abandoned homes, and So
city is resuming its influence upou all sec
tions. A large number Of those who have
returned are Northern settlers who were
driven out in the first year of the war, and
who are aiding very materially in spread
ing loyal sentiments. Building and farm
ing is going on extensively, and the land
contiguous 10 Washington and Alexsndria
is selling in some instances at IS high rates
IS befOre the secossiOn.