Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-02-16


e ee.r a. WAsHNaToN, Feb. Is.
PAYlGENT OF TROOPS.
The Secretary of War has commenced
paying troops. General SchoAelds army
has recently been provided for, and to-day
thesecretary commenced signing warrants
for the pay Of the Army of the Potomac
It is expected all other armies viii be paid
as rapidly as 1t can be done with safety.
INSTRUCTIONS TO PROVOST MARsHALs.
The following are the instructions issued
yesterday from the Provost Marshal Gen.
erals Office:
PRovOsT MARSHAL GENERALS I
BUREAU, WASHINGTON, Feb. I3. 1856. !
To all acting assistant Provost Marshal
Generals, except of Connecticut, Iowa,
California and Oregon, see that all boards
Of enrolment in your jurisdictions, which
are not busily employed in examining and
mastering recruits, proceed at once to COM
mence drafting, and report as soon as
possible what districts are not rapidly
filing their quotas, and the day on which
the Board in each will be prepared to
draft so that an order for q draft may
issue from this Office.
[signed,] J.B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
NEW YeRK, Feb. 15.
The World announces on the strength
of its advices from South Carolins, that
there is every reason for believing that
General Sherman has captured Branch
vile, and is moving directly on Columbia.
Il is also mora than probable that General
Gilmore has captured Charleston, and with
it Fort Johnston.
The latest reports say our forces have
crossed Ashley river, and were thus di-
rectly in rear of the city, so that the cap.
ture of the birthplace Of secession could
not have been long delayed.
ARMY MATTERS.
The TTi6Aps's army Of the Potomac
special says: The Boynton Road is not in
our hands it is about three miles from our
present line. The enemy cling to it with
tenacity.
Our cavalry on the left found out in a
that the enemy are not
building branch from the Weldon Rail
road to the North Side.
It is hinted that a move will soon take
place that may soon force the enemy to
relinguish greater pant of their line of
works on our left.
Our line now forms an apex Of an angle,
the 9Th corps having its laft thrown back
80 as to flank any move Of the enemy to
get around our left. This is the only point
of the line they are at all likely to attack.
LEES STRENGTH
The HeraLGs correspondent estimates
Lees army at $4,000 men, organized into
four corps of infantry and two of cavalry
with artillery in the ratio of two batteries
to q division, and a reserve of half that
ratio.
The lst and Sd Corps are the strongest,
three divisions being in each, In the I'd
and 4th Corps there are only two divi-
sions.
REBEL EEws.
The Tribune has the following extracts
from Richmond papers of the 18th:
The Ss1tinSE publishes an address to the
people Of South Carolina by Governor Ms
yrsth, calling the entire population to arms
10 resist the march of Sherman. All who
lear to I'LL place in the ranks are ordered
TO leave the State, including unnaturalized
foreigners who claim exemption from mill
sary service On the ground of aliensge.
The time is near at hand, says the Gov
srnor, when private business must fer
season be suspended.
He urges the futility ofhoping to concil-
ste the invaders by non-resistancs and
Ihun and escape the ravages of war, and
Isys that those only viii be spared who de-
Tend themselves. An property which can
not be removed is ordered to be destroyed.
S The Wh;g says: Information reaches
IS from Yankee sources, that Grant, Lin
,oln, & Co. have, at last, agreed to ex-
,hsnge prisoners, man for man.
We have been so often deceived about
his matter that we now receive this intel
igence with distrust. Nevertheless, dis
closures by Butler, the beast, Of Grants du-
plcity and hesrtlessnesS, and Of his own
7iIlAiny, are of SO damning character as
% call for some decisive measure on the
part of the Washington authorities to save
from the contempt of the world.
It is quite possible they may pretend 70 |
,estore cartel, and may actually evinee
IN exchange, but we may well hold our
elves prepared to see some new bubble |
'aised, and the exchange broken of before
has progressed far.