The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-30
FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.
The Trfhnnals BroRnsville. Texss. coz.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.
The Tribune's Brownsville, Texas, cor
respondence August 9th, says:
This evening Senior Robles, Mexican
Minister Of Public Works, came over the
river on visit and was received BY Gen.
Steele, who gave his visitor q quiet dinner
q Ailler's Hotel Among the guests were
Gens- Weitzel and Draper. Aftsr pleas
ant repsst at which friendly sentiments
were exchanged, the party broke up, Senior
r. crossing the river.
Senior Romero and Gen. Ortegs are said
70 be on the WHy here, and are looked for
daily. The visit of these two distinguished
Liberals seems TO point to something about
TO be done on the Rio GrAnds.
All quiet along the river at present.
The Heralds Vera Cruz correspondent
Of the 18th says that on the 2eth of last
month the town of Zongolies declared itself
infavor OF the Republic. Its the chieftown
Of one Of the most populous districts Of
Vera Cruz. This District lies adjacent to
Orizsba and extends TO the foot Of Sierra
Madre, which slopes to the coast south OF
this place, the whole section as far IS Ibes-
co being devoted to the Republican csAse,
and commanded by General Garcia, i've
hundred men, armed with good rifles are
maintaining the independence of Zongoliea,
which is too difficult of access to be easily
conquered.
A force Of two hundred Austrians, who
recently marched from Orizabs with the
intention of whipping the insurrectionists,
fell into an ambush on the road and were
forced to take flight, leaving thirty dead
on the field.
A fewdAys since the Austrisns met with
another reverse to the North of Puebla, in
which, according to the city of Mexico pa
pers, one company Of Infantry and fifty
dragons fell victims to the ferocity Of the
Repubicsns.
A Perusal Of the newspapers o. this coun-
try will show that in addition to execu-
tions deersed by Court Msrtials encounters
are daily taking place between the I'm
periAlists and Republicans, in which the
lssses in killed alone range from twenty
to thirty and more on each side.
The Heralds Washington special says
Col. Samuel Thomas, Assistant Oommis-
sioner Of Freedmen in the State Of Missis-
|sippi reports from Vicksburg under date
of August 18th, that out Of SAG, 600 freed
men in the State only 5000 are subsisted
10y Government. Five thousand are earn
ling good living by cutting wood in the
forests.
The colored colonies and farms are re-
ported TO be doing finely, and as harvest
time approaches the help which has been
afforded them by Government is being
gradually Withdrawn. About. 10, 600 bales
of cotton will be produced by those negroes
who have undertaken the culture of that
staple.
In the interior Of the State the corn erou
is looking promising. The msjor part of
tbs freedmen have contracted their labor
and are working well, and are getting bet
ter ideas of their condition. The more in
telligent and honest Mississippians are re-
ported willing to assist in developing new
order Of things, but they cannot be made
to see the feasibility of projects calculated
to secure the Independence and success Of
the freedmen.
Post Master Dennison has today accent
ed the tender of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Allen Mckenzie for mail stesmshin
contract between San Francisco and China
via. Honolulu with Sandwich Islands. au-
thorized by act of Congress approved Feb
ruary II, 1865.
The tender of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company was only received for service.
The compensation is $500, 600 per snnum
for the performance twelve round trips be-
tween San Francisco and Hong Kong,
touching at Honolulu in the Sandwich Is
lands and KsDagWa in Japan. The Com
pany are to build for the service four frs.
class American side wheel steamers of from
$500 to 1000 tons burden. Each Govern &.
ment measure, to be constructed OF the best
nd aff hn a
models, with all modern improvements
adapted to sea going steamers of the first
class. The first steamer to leave San Fran
cisco with mails for japan and Chins, on
or before the lst of January 1867, and the
term of contract to be ten years from the
date of the sailing of the first steamer from
that pert.
Times Washington special says:
We learn authoritstively that the Gov.
ernments financial condition is easy, and
that the Secretary of the Treasury viii be
enabled to meet all demands with means
he has at his command. No statement of
the public debt will be made on the LIST of
September, nor viii there be 8 statement
hereafter oftener than once in two months.
so that the next statement of the public
debt will appear on the 1st of October en-
Suing.
Investigations just closed show that
sharpers have swindled soldiers terribly in
discounting their claims. One of them
alone must have made $45, 600.
A special dispatch to Tribune, Wash
iDgton 2s, says: The efficisl, recently sent
down BY Treasury Department., to invest
igate the affairs of Col. I,oomis, Special
Agent of the Treasury at Richmond, has
returned, and reports everything correct
in his department The Secretary of the
Treasury has lately received Intelligence
OF extensive smuggling operations on the
Canada border in silks, sugars drugs and
ether articles on which there is q high
rate OF duty have lately como into the
country evading all duty, in large qusn-
titles. Detectives of this department are on
the track of numberlof suspected par
ties" the able Commissioner of Customs,
I. Sergeant, Esq, has been despatched by
the Secretary of the Treasury to the
Canada line for the purpose of giving his
personal supervision TO the matter.