The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-14
The City of Manchester, to-day, took
out $50, 900 in gold bars and the Africa
from Boston $4,000.
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out $5O,OOO in gold bars, and the Africa
from Boston $4,000.
Money continues easy.
PETROLEUM STOCKS.
Petroleum stocks are lower to-dsy. The
only activity is in United States. The sales
were at the following rates Buchanan
Farm, 7l3; Cherry Run, 80 f; Pithole Creek,
$40; Watson, 100; Germans, %; Mon
sans, s25; Oceanic, 20; Oil Creek, 225;
Webster, l6s.
| PETROLEUM.
Crude is dull, at 34@35; refined in bond
is steady at 57@59; free at 77@7O.
PARDoNs
The Herald's Washington special ssys
it is reported that the project of establish
ing an Executive Bureau for the speedier
transsction Of business pertaining to psr.
dons, gives rise to considerable discussion
concerning the business as at present man
aged. There is class Of men who feel
Vindictlve, and believe no pardons should
be granted until the people of the rebel.
lious States have at least passed through
severe probationary period. Others are in
favor of granting pardons, but believe the
present laborious method of examining
cases as wholly impracticable.
LABOR QUESTION IN THE SOUTH.
An illustration of the change going on in
minds Of Southern men, concerning negro
la-ha.- tAe bvsE method OF ua.p4;-a
themselves to the conditions by which they
are surrounded was revealed in converse
tion this morning with gentleman of con-
siderable wealth before the war, and the
present owner of two large plantations in
Georgia. He intends returning home I'm.
mediately, subdividing his plantations into
small lots, containing from ten to fifteen |
acres each, and leasing them out for q
number Of years to the most reliable and |
industrious Of his former negroes, at such
rates IS they will agree 10 and can well
afford to pay. In some instances he will
give the right of purchase at the expira-
tion of the lease. When the negroes are
settled he will erect common gin and
open a country dry goods and grocery
store for supplying them with necessaries,
and he believes that in ten years his in
come will qusdruple what it was before the
war. He is too sensible to be long without
followers.
GOVERNMENT LANDS.
The rapidIty with which Government
lands are being taken up since the close of
the rebellion is unprecedented and a matter
of considerable marvel. The following
returns from Government land offices of
the operations last month, has just been
At Winnebago, MINI, offices,
1873 acres were entered for actual settle
ment; at st. Cloud Office, MINI, 1880
scres; st Brownsville, Nebraska, 6,5Is
acres. Advicss were also received from
distant points in Washington Territory,
Olympia and Vancouver, stating continued
activity in land operations in those
quarters.
PARDoNs.
The Worlds special says: Two or three
hundred applications for pardon are re-
ceiyed esch day at the Attorney Generals
Office The number on file is over 10000.
a large cleTsOal nOEOo 10 equirod to arrange
and classify them for examination by the
Attorney General Among the prominent
ones just pardOned is ex. Congressman De
Garrett of Virginia
LOUISIANA SUGAR CROP.
The Worlds New Orleans letter says
the culture of sugar has nearly ceased
The parish Of st. Mary's, which once made
45, 500 hogshesds, will not this year make
SOC, snd the most favorable estimate for
the whole State plaO1s she tetel c-op At not
over 10000 hogsheads, against 100000
The year before the war.
JOE JOHNSTON.
The Richmond Bulletin says the DAN
vile Railroad Company will invite General
Johnston to assume the Presidency of that
road.
HARTFORD, CONN, September l3.
The Horse Fair has been a grest success.
To-day over 10000 people were on the
There was splendid exhibition
Of family horses and matched horses. Old (
horsemen assert that it was the finest show {
IN these classes ever seen in this country.
It was, certainly the finest ever seen in
his city. The whole management as !
well as the display of horses gives the best !
,atisfaction. Tomorrow promises to be 8 1
zreat dav. both for the display of horses
and fast trotting.
STEAMER ASIA.
HALIFAX, September l3-11 P. NJ.
There are yet no signs of the steamer
Asia, now due at this port with Liverpool !
lates of the I'd, and Queenstown Sd inst.
The weather is clear.
JUDGE NELSON'S OPINION.
CooPERsTowE, N. Y, September 13.
The Freedmen's journal, of tomorrow,
will contain Judge Nelson's opinion in the
matter of L. L. Cutting and others versus
1iIber and SHOCK. The motion for in
JUNCTION against the assessors and collectors
S denied, for reasons set forth in the opin-
on, and the parties are left to their remedy
It law.
GEN. PENNYPACKER.
FORTRESS MONROE, September IL.
General Pennypacker, who was wound
I'd and captured at Fort Fisher, has SO far
as to leave the hospital for his
home in WesLchester, Pennsylvanis, &C
by his sid, Captain Bsrnum.
TIE wIRz TRIAL.
WASHINGTON, September 13.
The Military Commission will summon
part, if not sll the witnesses named yester-
day Dy Captain Wirz, through his counsel,
by whom he expects to prove that many
acts ascribed to him, were committed by
others higher in authority. The prisoner
has been sick ever since the trial COM
menced.
WARRINGTON ITEMS.
The Ante.room of the Executive man.
sion was again crowded to-day with pardon
seekers from all psats of the South, in
cluding number who formerly held clerk
ships under the government in Washing
ton.