Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-25
From Yesterdays I'd Edition
General News.
From Washinrton.

ated in Old Capitol Prison, is Major Gee, ar
rested in Florida He was in charge of the
Salisbury prison while mortality was great
est among the prisoners.
The Post Master General has completed
his report and it is now ready for distribu-
| ion. Ghe report exhibits the department
as being in a very favorable condition. It
will not require any additional sppropria-
\ ton for the next fiscal year:
Renorts from nearly all the States where
IN Froodme Bureau has been established
sta+e NAT there is considerable suffering
amono the negroes. General Howard II
STRONGLY opposed to abolishing the Bureau
al present. TherepOrts OF schools IN 'Ile Su
reau in Kentucky and Tennessee sho" eua'
| there are one hundred schools IN aetiEe "
Grafton for eolored children and deseI I'1ls
refugees These schools are supPorueI y
different benevolent associations Throughout
The north. bat they are placed under the au-
snices of General Fisk, Assistant Commls-
sioner. The total number Of pupils IN atten-
dance in the month ofSeptember was twelve
thousand four hundred and eighty-three,
and the total number of teachers employer
in active service one hundred and eighty.
Reports to the Freedmen's bureau from
AnncmotIox a--A-4Es5l1Aia- announce q
very noticeable kindness OF leelnS to"aru
the freedmen from the old residents there
The Tribune's Washington dispatch says
the Stonewall arrived late last evening and
anchored off Alexandria, and will come up
to the city to-day.
The War Department have decided that
no claim for the veteran bounty will be
entertained unless the claimant has hereto
fore been recognized, and borne on his
company rolls as such veteran.
Colored soldiers applying for bounty shall
state whether they were mustered as freA
on or before April 18th, 1861.
Hon. SCHUYLER COlfax will deliver his lee
ture Across the Continent in New York
and New England during holiday week.
Ex-Gov Cummings, Buehansn's Terri
t rial Executive of Utah, was at the Treas
uTy yesterday for the purpose Of drawing
the balance of salary due him. He has
taken all the Oaths, been pardoned, and to
day expects to draw his greenbaeks and
leave for Georgia
The forthcoming Treasury report will
show a more encouraging condition of our
national finances than hitherto anticipated.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says
a contract was concluded yesterday by Gen.
Sobagar. Minister of the Columbian Gov
eminent, by which Coils. A. Gilbert and
Preston C. F. West, two officers of the U. s.
Coast Survey, enter the service Of the Co
rumbia Government for the purpose Of
making the survey of the Magdelena River,
D stream emptying into the Columbian Sea,
four hundred miles east Of Aspinwall. The
object Of the Columbia is to deepen the
channel at the mouth of the river, and also
% overcome two falls some distance up, by
which eight hundred and forty miles of
navigation viii be saved.
The Tribune's special says novel Off
.ial document was received at the Indian
Bureau to-day. It is a tabular analysis
Il L - fAr.r~ ant e.N
,illing Indians and squaws. On the western
,lains the average cost of killing an Indian
las been about half million of dollars,
While for sqUaws the cost is nearly two mil
ions.
The War Department has disposed Of all
IS transports, and is now unable to furnish
to refugees and others, it has
heretofore furnished.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says:
Irs. Bishop, daughter OF the exrebel Sec
etary of the Navy, is in the city ihtereed-
ng for her fathers release on parole.
Two white men, named John NJ. Brown
nd Christopher Reese, having been con-
-ieted, by a military commission, of the
nurder OF a negress named Nellie West, in
'alioferro county, Georgia, were sentenced to
e hanged. The President has approved
he sentence and ordered the execution to
axe place on the first Friday in January
ext
Many well-informed persons have heard
he opinion that Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb, the
laintiffs against General Baker, will not
ppear against him when he is brought to
nal. They have altered their tone consi-
erably lately. General Baker threatens to
roduce in court the accumulated history of
heir several years in Washington.
Theodore Martinez, Cuban, was arrest
] last evening on board a steamer lust
bout 10 sail for Havana on suspicion Of be-
lg engaged in the murder of 0ttero. Cir
evidence against him is strong.
ose Gonzales, the man who left the hotel
18th the murdered man, has not yet been
'und. The authorities are making every
fort to discover him, as well as others on
hem Suspicion rests.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says
migration companies are forming in many
18th the labor and capital necessary to pro-
uee their accustomed crops, and also to
benefit emigrants.
The United States Mutual Protection Co.,
this city, with-the First Assistant Post
laster General at its head, has already
.ased many valuable plantations in North
rn and Central Mississippi, and has many
ppheations from Southern planters for en-
grants and laborers. Some FIVE hundred
imilies are preparing to move South in the
Ionth OF January underline auspices of this
ssOciati0n.
The Times Washington dispatch saws
en-. Winfield Scott viii spend the winter
a voyage to Key West and New Orleans.
Major Hogan of Newberne, is in the city.
e says that the people Of his State look
pom the recent elections there as a COM
lete farce. None of the Congressmen elect
IN take the oath. r. F. Lehman, the only
iRdldate in the State who could do so was
efeated by a large majority.
The English capitalists who sailed from
lis port on the lst inst, had a pleasant
Dyage home.
Sir Morton Peto, in letter to friend in
us city says that his visit was an exceed
lgly happy one, and that ne cannot but
oPe that u will be of some little use in dis
elling the doubt which with a more per
ct knowledge Of the sentiments and feel
lgs really existing between the two eoun-
les would never have appeared.
From New Orleans.
NEw ORLEANS, November 23.-Business
,ntinues active.
Almost every negro taken before the City
ecorder is possessed Of some unlawful
eapons-
An agent of the commercial houses Of
rance has arrived and announces 10 the
anters of Louisiana that he is authorized
contract for the immigration OF labOrers
oTc India and China.
The Louisiana Legislature met today.
ther than organizing, no business was
Dne-
The Matamoras Ranehero saws: The
liberals are eight miles from there in force
skirmish had taken place, resulting in the
illing Of one Imperial and the capture Of
lree others by the Liberals.
Genera sLandery has been appointed Lib
-al commander of Sonora.
JACKSON, Nov 2O.-Gov. Humphreys sent
messaRe to the Legislature recommending
lat negro testimony be admitted IN court;
lat the freedman be encouraged to work to
lpport his family and educate his children,
nj assuring him protection. To tax Freed
zen for the support of helpless Freedmen,
nd force vagrants to profitable employmenti
pass militia law enabling the militia to
rOteet our people against vagrant white
zen and negroes. He deems the passage of
lese measures Of vital importance, and
iay secure the withdrawal Of Federal
oops.
MoxTGoNERY, November 22.-Governor
arsons delivered his message to the Legis-
lture to day The message urges the adop-
on Of the amendment to the constitution
the United States abolishing slavery and
lie passage Of laws for the protection of
egro property. This course, he saws, will
.eure the admission Of our representatives
Congress and restore the State To all her