Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-18
FFUm Yesterdays ID Edition
General News.
Female DETECTIVES.

NEW YoRK, November 1.-THE Tribune's
special says the Government has decided 10
appoint female detectives for the pupose of
searching suspicious women, who are exten
sively engaged in smuggling silks, laees,
furs, &c, between Canada and the United
States Their chief operations are conduct
ed byayay Of the Grand Trunk Railway,
and it is believed that Buffalo is the main
depository for these smuggled goods.
News Items
It is rumored that the gun-boats at Ports
mouth Navy Yard are being fitted for sea,
but it is stated at the Navy Department that
The report is untrue.
From this date the Government will
cease purchasing cattle for our armies atthe
North. -.- Id.
The Worlds special says Gen. Duff Green
is not dead as was reported, but alive and
we'll in Washington.
Governor Curtin, of Penn, who has been
III in this city FOR the past two weeks, IS re-
covering.
The Times special says an application was
made to-day to the Navy Department by
Ethan Allen, of New York, IN behalf OF the
Russian and American and Overland Tele-
graph Company, for vessel to aid IN laying
the cable across Behring Straits. The ap-
plication was denied by the Assistant Sec
retary of War on the ground that it was ex
clusiyely private enterprise.
The Tribune's special says: The wit
nesses thus far examined III the Craven
Court Martial case have given weight to the
testimony decidedly in favor of the COmmo-
dore. .-....-
The Worlds Washington dispatch says:
The trial of Captain Petit, an artillery Of
fcer at Alexandria, on the charge OF cruelty
| to prisoners is progressing before general
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| dueed has been very strong in support OF the
| charge.
The Heralds Washington special says A
batch of sixteen prisoners, three fourths Of
/ whom were colored, convicted of offences
ranging from grand larceny upwards in the
/ catalogue. were to-day forwarded to the Al
| bany Penitentiary.
I Bricadier General P. s. Niche, successor
| Or JreIerHI Nyvita0i chief engineer under
! General Butler, has been granted a years
| leave Of absence, which he will spend in
| Florida.
A dispatch from Toronto, dated on the
| evening Of the 10th, says: The excitement
| has somewhat subsidized. Troops are still
unJfuT arms and patrols arc out. Hon.
Darcy McGee in a speech made at Montreal
last night, denounced the Fenians as raw
| ishers. Speaking of the anticipated inva-
sion he saws: To the Banks, would be the
tcry or Uue set, ~ the Convent, Of the other.
| The hate of Cain and the cupidity of Judas
and the lust of Belial would be the justitiea-
ton Of the well sorted aliens, for the objects
of both would be piunder, and Of all out
rage.
4lfne Times special says that amongst prop
ertv captured by the Federal forces just be-
fore the close Of the rebellion was a draft
belonging TO the rebels, dated January 18th
1865. for three thousand bounds sterling
drawn by the rebel government on the
house of Brown, Shipley & Co., London. A
short time ago this draft was sent to New
York for collection. To-day the Secretary
of the Treasury received official lntelllgenc'
: that the draft had been paid, the netting
T sum Of SI4, ,633 in gold.
Z Yesterday General Grant visited Dubois
: private trotting track, where grand dis
! play Of trotting horses was made. In th'
E evening he visited Niblos.
r The Worlds Washington dispatcl
s I saws intelligence has been received
Z here to-day and been communicated to tn
proper authorities relative tO-the situation
in Mexico.
A gentleman has arrived here whose wor,
can be vouehed for, who says that on n
: way from Tabasco to New York within IN
> last two weeks he met an agent OF Maxi
! MILAN who stated that affairs were nearI
. in the extreme Tor the AhPeIteiiSss' an
Z that every reported victory OF the lmperi
n aIists brinrs with it no substantial results
IS and that on account Of their inability
o dTaw from the rural district supplies, an
Is the war against Liberals was carried on &
dead expense. He further added that
had been dispatched by Maximillla
.e to France to ask for one hundred millie
10 dollars and forty thousand troops, and thi
.e in theeyent Of Nspoleon's falling to furnis
$ men and means, the evacuation Of Mexit
re BY the French must follow. 7- -s----- s...