Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-19
From Washington.
Circular.

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Circular.
| WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE followina
circular letter to commanders of military
departments was issued to-day by General
Grant:
HEADouARTERs ARMIES OF THE Q. S.,
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1865.
You will please send TO these headquar-
ters as soon as practicable, and from time to
time thereafter, such copies of newspapers
puohshed In your department as contain
sentiments Of disloyalty and hostility to
the Government in any of its branches, and
state whether such paper is habitual in the
utterance OF such sentiments. The persist
ent publication Ofarticles calculated to keep
up ceiling of hostility between the people
of the different sections of the country can
not be tolerated. This information is called
Tor with a view to their suppression, which
Will be done from these headquarters only
By command of Lieut-Gen. Grant,
[signedl T. S. Bowers,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
Agricultural Department..
The President and Secretary of the Inte-
rior have received copies of resolutions
supplied by the Massachusetts State Board
OF Agriculture wherein the executive is
asked to appoint competent man to super
wise the Department of Agriculture at
Washington. Similar recommendations
are now on file from ten of the leading
agricultural States of the North.
Mail Service of Texas.
Adviees received at the Postoffice Depart
ment, within a few days, indicate that the
mail service Of Texas is not yet sufficient
for the necessities Of that State. Upon the
coast, the department is depending for the
carriage Of postal matters upon Government
transports, which are running very irregu-
lar and disarranging and unsettling all the
mails for that region of the country.
Negotiations have been pending with prom
nent capitalists and steamship companies
in New York for supplying the deficiency
in this respect, but thus far the department
has deemed the proposals toe nigh for the
amount of service offered.
Not Murdered.
Airport has recently been circulated to
the effect that Capt. Horace James, of the
Freedmen's Bureau, and others, had been
brutally murdered by the rebels in North
Carolina. In reply to a letter from General
Fullerton, Colonel Whittlesey, Commis-
sioner of the freedmen for that State, teIe-
graphs that there is no truth in the state
ment, and that neither James nor any other
officer of the Freedmen's Bureau is in dan
ger at the hands of the rebels. Reports |
like this and that of the death of 0sband in |
Mississippi, at the hands Of the rebels, are |
becoming too plenty for credenee. Investi- |
gagation by the heads of the Freedmen's |
Bureau invariably proves them to have |
been started for effect against the lately re- |
bellious people. They have become so nu-
merOus that they are disbelieyed.
Richmond Examiner.
1t is ascertained from gentleman edi- |
torially connected with the Richmond Ex- |
lminer that the late military order sup |
pressing that journal has been revoked, and |
that the publication of the paper will be |
resumed.
Jubilee Sermons.
The second of the series of jubilee ser
mons prepared by distinguished divines of |
different christian denominations was to-
lay delivered by the Rev. DR.. VIM. Ames,
If New York, at the Capital, on the subject
If the advantages of written revelation.
AFOnian Meeting.
A Fenian meeting was held last night,
which was addressed by George Francis
Tram, Killian and Hon. Messrs Roberts.
If New Jersey, and Hogan, of Missouri
Letters were read from Michael Boyle and
Capt. McCaiferty, dated at the jail in which
,hey were confined on charges against Her
Majesty's Government, from which it ap-
pears that the United States Consul, East
nan, and Minister Adams declined to in
erfere in their behalf.
Capt. McCafferty had served in the rebel
Irmy and subsequently taken the amnesty
'ath. The meeting passed resolutions de-
,laring the replies Of these functionaries to
hese prisoners and ignoring all the claims
hey had TO be entitled to for protection as
.itizens of the United States as unjust
Alss requesting the President to insure n
proper representation of American opinions
md principles at the Court of st. James and
lifferent consulates throughout the king
lom of Great Britain and Ireland.
A committee was appointed to communi
ate the resolutions to the President. Reso-
utions were also passed denouneing the ac-
ion of the British government in condemn
ng to penal servitude citizens of the United
tates who went on private business to
Europe and committed NO overt act against
ny country.
The resolutions formed in part of the
asis of animated and earnest speeches in
he course of the evening. A resolution was
dopted declaring that the Monroe Doctrine
ras swindle on American nationality.