Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-08
wAsHINaToN TOPICS AND GOSSIP.
photographic correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.
AFFAIRS In b SOUTH.

AFFAIRS IN FHE SOUTH.
The following is an extract from a letter
received to-day by General Spinner from
q gentleman now travelling through the
South, whose facilities for obtaining cor.
rect information in regard to affairs in
that section are ~unrivalled:
1.-THE tone of the rebels in New Or
leans Is improving. They have discover
ed that the North means to be safe, and
they do not seem to me near so offensive
as they were three months ago, in their
disloyalty. In Mississippi the hatred to
the Yankees seems universal. The same
is true of part of West Tennessee, Ala
bama and Georgia. Up the Mississip-
pi the Yankees are as good as anybody
else. Just now the negro is king. Hehas
set bis foot down and won't work where
he thinks they don't mean to give him a
fair show There is not q negro who will
go up into Mississippi, tor the that
the laws passed at the late session of the
Legislature are designed to re-enslave
them. In Louisiana they are in the main,
working well, and are as orderly as ever
they were, but there is net labor enough
in the south to do the requisite work, and
SO, as I said, the negro is King. Those
who get into his good graees are geing to
do well, but bad luck to the poor planter
who imagines that he can bully them as
he used to do in days gone by. He will
find it pretty hard to make a contract"
THE COUNCIL oF GENERALS.
Major General Thomas will start for
Nashville tomorrow, the council of Cen
erals having concluded its deliberations.
The recommendations of the council will
be followed. The minimum number of
the regular army will be about 90, 900
men, which the President is authorized
to increase whenever he may think 1t
necessary, by adding two companies to
zach regiment, and also by increasing the
number in each company, until the maxi
mum be 100, 900. 1t is believed that the
army thus constituted will be sufficient to
garrison the South till the insurgent
States are admitted. Thecouneil strongly
opposed the present system of arming the
militia at the South, and urged that it
at once be discontinued.
SoRTHERNERs DRIVEN FROM TIL SOUTH.
Several Northern gentlemen who had
made preparations to go into the cotton
planting business in Alabama and Missis-
sippi, were driven away, and ar
rived here this evening on their way
North. They say that it Is folly for a
Northern man to attempt to engage In
business in any locality in the South from
which our troops have been withdrawn.
REBEL MoDEsTY.
The Republican of this evening says:
One of the most alarming exhibitions of
faith in human forgiveness and govern
mental forbesrance was presented on Fri
day last in the appearance at the Treasury
Department of the wife of the notorious
guerilla John Moseby, asking for the pay
ment of the value Of certain tobacco, of
which. it is alleged, her ehivalrous husband
was unjustly deprived by the Yankee
Government in the capture of Richmond.
It is understood the money was not paid,
but the willingness of the freebooter to re-
his old relations with the Govern
is mont the less to be admired.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
The National Academy Of Science, at its
recent session in Washington, elected the
following officers: President AID. Bache;
Vice President Joseph Henry; Home
Secretary, Walcott Gibbs; Foreign Secre-
tary, Louis Agassiz; Treasurer, Faciman
Council N. G. Meigs, B. A.
Gould, Q. L. Lecoute. W. D. Ohristy, Gen.
w. L. Christy and w. A. Christy.
KENTUcK1 CONSERVATISM EXPOSED.
Mr.. Grinnell, of Iowa, in the debate in
he House on the Freedmen's Bureau bill,
,ook occasion to reply to the objections of
he delegates from Kentucky, who 80 near
reflect the sentiments of the present
.ebel Legislature of that State, both by
argument and repartee. Mr. Grinnell
disseoted the delegation, and
placed it in avery nnenviable light. His
illusions to the Senatorial aspirations of
Kentucky gentlemen were far
more amusing to the House than to those
personally interested. The whole speech
was marked by directness, ~elearness and
On Friday afternoon, January leth, a
Wind storm passed through portions of
and Boardman, doing consider
bile damage to buildings and other prop
rty. In Garfield it unrOofed the houses