Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-01-10

COLOEIAL
Considerable opposition is manifested it
some Of the British North American Pre-
vinces to the proposed Colonial Confeders-
tion. In Prince Edwards Island it has
caused Ministerial designations, and it is
claimed that nine-tents of the inhabitants
there are opposed to the scheme. In Nova
Scotia numerously attended and enthusias-
tic meetings of influential citizens have
been held to protest against it.
BENEFIT TO REBELS
The TTi5,ne's letter says The proceeds
of the Liverpool Fair are to Ee given to
the rebels abroad, who are grea' ly in need
of it.
HARD UP.
At the principal hotels in Paris over
four hundred trunks have been pawned
by the Southern gents as security for their
bills.
ANOTHER PIRATE
The same letter says: Rebel agents
recently bought the steamship Rattlesnske,
sister to the Tallahassee, evidently design
ing fitting her out as pirate.
RAISING ToRPEDoEs.
The HeTalds Newbern letter gives ad-
ditional particulars of the Roanoke river
expedition: The gunbeats Otsego and
Bazely were sunk by torpedoes. The riv-
er is found full of torpedOes seventy-fve
were taken up in distance of twenty-five
miles. Sometimes eight or nine were
| found stretched across the river in single
line. The feet proceeded to Poplar Point
but found the batteries too strong to be
taken without the cooperation of the land
| forces. The boats on returning were
somewhat annoyed by sharpshOoters.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A Union officer writing from rebel
prison IN Columbia, says. Many officers
are escaping, 100 got away in one day.
The rations to the prisoners consist of
corn meal and sorghum molasses.
The HeTdLdS Savannah letter saws: On
the night of the 18th, four hours after Col. /
Mulford's flag of truce left Fort Sumter,
blockade runner got by the feet and
reached Nassau.
1t is rumored that a rebel ram is prepar-
ing to attack the feet.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The Posts Washington special SAYS
The Ways and Means Committee had the
tobacco question under consideration this
morning. The interests are clashing and
it Is difficult to reconcile them.
The HerGLFs Washington special says
The delegation from the Michigan Cen
tral and connecting roads, to secure a
modification OF the passport system, had
an interview with Secretary 81 ward, but
were unable to accomplish anything.
COMMUNICATION RESUMED.
Communication with Newborn by canal
has been resumed.
SHERMAN.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 9th says
General Sherman is doubtless moving on
Branchville.
The Erami'asr says A dispatch from
Hardee reports the enemy before Hardee-
Vile, but there are no immediate indica-
tions of an attack.
GEORGIA AFFAIRS.
The Augusta ConstitutionaList declares
that there were only seventeen persons
present at the meeting in Savannah.
The Chronicle comments on affairs in
Savannah, and warns Georgians against
submission, saying it is reasonable.
The Erdmi1ler demands public meetings
in Georgia, to keep up the spirits of the
citizens, and prevent their trusting in the
promises of the Yankees.
COL. KEYS REPORT.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 9.
The President to-day, in answer to the
resolution of the House, communicated the
report of Col. Thomas M. Key, giving an
account of the interview between himself
and Hon. Howell Cobb, on the 18th of
June, 1862, on the banks eff the Chicka-
hominy. The report is addressed to the
Secretary of War.
Col. Key says: l am instructed by Mai. |
General Mcclellan, to report to youthe
substance of an interview held by me with
Hon. Howell Cobb, now acting as Briggs
dier General in the rebel army at Rich
mond. l was ordered to proceed with
flag of truce, to be met by Gen
eral Cobb, for conference, with
regard to the exchange of prisoners, max
ing arrangements fOr a seCUuu meeting. l
also received permission to converse with
General Cobb upon general subjects of
the existing contest. Such conversation
was purely personal and not in an any re-
| spect of official or Representative character.
I went 10 the place appointed and 1 was
met on the bridge by General Cobb, in re-
gard to the exchange of prisoners. He ex-
6ibited written authority from General
Lee, giving him full power to make any
convention ofsubject as to any or all pris-
oners of war, wherever captured,
He expressed his readiness to make an
agreement embracing all prisoners held on
either side, and make such agreement ap-
plicable either to existing prisoners or
those hereafter captured. he stated that
he would sign any article which was
based upon principles of entire equality,
and proposed that the exchange should
take place according to the date of capture,
first, however, exhsusting the list of Off
GERS. The scale of equivalents to be any
one which we might present, which would
operate regularly. For instance, for one,
exhibited to him by General Wool, at the
conference between them, and which was
taken from the cartel between the United
States and Great Britain in 1872, ex-
changed persons to be conveyed by the
captors, at the csptors' expense, to some
point of delivery convenient to the other
party, the rule of exchange to operate
uniformly, without any right of reserVa.
ton or exception in any particular case.
He professed ignorance Of any complaint
against this government in any matter of
exchanging prisoners, and pledged him
self for the removal of any cause of COM
plant upon representation being made.
He suggested the propriety of releasing
upon parole any surplus of prisoners re-
naming on hand after exchanges had ex-
hsusted the other party.