The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-20
FRnI NEW 1ORR.

New York, June 10.
The Hera'd's Richmond CORES poudsnt
says a conferences took place in that city
on Thursday last between Governor Pier
pont and tie members of the Virginia Leg
stature, the subject under consideration be-
ing a proposition to extend the right of suit
frsge beyonfthelimits imposed by the Al
exsndris Constitution, by which ali who
have taken part in the rebellion are ex-
cluded from the privilege of voting.
Il Virginia is not represented in the ne1t
session Of Congress it will not be becauss
Vnginians, willing to ill seats IN that body
eaunos be found Candidates for these pO-
sitions are coming light rapidly, lnclud-
ing some gentlemen who short time agO
would have considered themselves insulted
by being called citizens of the United States.
It is even ssid tnst the late Rebel Gov.
ernor, Extra Billy Smith, proposes TO run
for election if he can first get President
johnson TO pardon him
The l42d New York and the 7th New
York Hssuy Artillery have arrived here.
The different places Of rendezvous in the
city for the war worn veterans keep well
crowded with them, fresh regiments srriv-
ing ss otber,sdepsIt There are a. immense
number Of rebel prisoners now st Battery
barracks. Several hundred OF them lett
IJT Ju5 r5SuytI yesterday Tue .s-izssg-
are expeci ed to leave ia few days.
The Herald says that Generals Butler,
Banks and Heintzleman, neglectingto send
in their designations on or before the 10Th
inst, were mustered out Of service on Fri
day last.
The Times Washington special says
The Past Offices at Winchester and Dan
vile, Virginia, have been ordered re-
opened.
Provisional Governors for Florids, Als-
bans and South Carolina remain to be and
will soon be appointed uuder the ssms
general principle that the other, lately re-
bellious States, have thus been supplied.
The remsining g appointments for Georgia
will be made early this week
The following gentlemen will probably
be selected: John Erskine, of Atlantis,
for United States District Judge; A. w.
Stone, Of Savannah, for United States Dis
trict Attorney; E. L. Downing, or Z }.
Riddell, Of Savannah, for United States
Marshal. .....
The following troops, among others, left
Washington on Sunday: The l4th Mich
igsn battery for Detroit and ths 49sh New
York for Buffalo.
The Times special, dated Washington
18Th, ssys the claims of the cotton seized
At Savannah are now coming before the
Secretary of the Treasury, and the whole
Of 1t will be claimed ss belong 10 private
owners, bat the well Informed citizsns oi
Savannah nowhere sssert that more than
5000 bales Of the 10000 can be proven tc
belong to loysl citizens.
Among the rebels Psrsoned within the
last forty-eight hours is G. q. Bruce o
Kentucky, late member of the rebel Con
gress, and formerly of the firm of Bruce
Armstrong and Co, of Nashville, and sub
seouenty one of the Atlanta heavy con
tractors for the Rebel Government. II
hss made over million Of dollars out o
the war, which Is safely invested, and b
now receives sbsoluiiOB and protection 10
his i'll gotten gains His application We.
strongly endorsed by George w. PtentieI
| of the Louisville Journal
A great many instances ofhoFpitalitY +
our prisoners are eomingtO light, which
straIg to say, weree never heard Of before