Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-01
Special Dispatches.
REUxIYED UP TO 5 O'CLOCK, AN.
speslsI pispatshss 70 the westsrn Press.
NEGROES DRILLISs.

NEGROES DRILLINS.
NEW York. July 31.-The Philadelphia
Enquirer call attention to the fact that the
negroes ore forming themselves into mill
tary companies in Richmond and drilling
by night, and asks where they got their
arms from. The impression is that some
cOmmOtion may occur
CoUNrERFEIrISG CASE.
The evidence given before Commissioner
Osborn IL the recent case of counterleiting,
goes TO show, if it is to he relied upon, that
one Holmes and confederate named Treat
consocted plan with Eli and Edward
Langdor, father and SOM who were print
ers iE the Treasury Department Holmes
was ts furnish Langdon through tie agency
of Treat, with lead plates, known teehni-
eally As 4'leads.' The Langdons were to
take the impression from the genuine
plates in the Department on these '1eads"
and to return them TO Holmes. Edwin
Langdon, the aor, had woman wh1 lived
with him as his wife, and they passed for
husband and wife IN Washington. This
womsn was employed n the Department to
Law sheets on the press and was known
there by the name of Minnie Morton
Witness testifies that these "leads' were
given to Holmes by Langdon. Minnie tes-
titles that she knew the plates were DeIng
cOunterfeited by her sO-ealled husC C'and and
his father. She also testifes that he (the
father) knew of it.
At the close of the prosecution oRe of the
counsel stated that the Solicitor of th e
Treasury had agreed to let the counter
felt plates be put in as evidence.
The case was then adjourned
Holmes says he was positively promised
By Mr.. Jordan that if he would give up the
plates and have no more TO do with coun-
terfeiting he would not be prosecuted If
this assertion be true, q most singular
denOuement will be given TO this affair
None of these counterfeiters will be pun
ished. Holmes will be let go by one Of the
government officials. Langdon, Treat and
the two women have been allowed to turn
States evidence, Edwin Langdon is dead
a nd no one remains to be punished.
DECISION.
IVEw YoRK, July 31.-Judge Brady de-
eid,sd that the Board of Health was con-
stitutiOnal as the representative of the peO-
ple III regard TO the health Of the public,
and the injunction against fat boilers
was acknowledged. This viii close up all
these n uisanees within the city limits.
INJUScTIOS.
Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Courl, ks-
day issued an injunction against the fClf u
ment Of the contract to light the streets Of
this city with coal gas.
FREHDMEN's BUREAU.
A Washington special says that report
visa made TO the fceedmen's Bureau a snort
time ago, by an agent, OF Annapolis, Nd,
of interference with the operations OF the
Bureau at thst place, by white citizens
Gen. Howard presented the report to Gen.
Augur, commanding this military depart
f,r of Nuhi Ia
troops 20 assist the agent when he was on
duty. Gen. .AggUr referred the matter to
Gen. Grant, WITH whom Gen. Howard had
personal interview Gen. Grant declined
TO furnish the troops, because Maryland was
not one Of the lately insurrechOnary States
in which the army is required to support
the Bureau and moreover he was opposed to
the interference of the military wherever it
could be avoided It tends TO increase the
the evils t attempts to allay.
FOREIGN ITEMS
Details by foreign files say the Rew Prus-
sia a-Gernan Parliament is to be based on a
universal manhood suffrage.
At dinner given by Mr.. Girardin, Prince |
Nspoleon points out that France should at
once side faithfully with Italy and Prus-
sia and sid in crushing out Austria, the
center of reactionary Catholicism. France |
must defend the revolution and aid the re-
ligion of the "Great Luther
A Florence letter says Victor Emanuel |
cannot be classed in the number of great |
generals, and his assumption Of the com
mand explains the defeat. Moreover, the
Italian army is very loose organization
n is an army full of splendid material ma
terial. but it is raw, feeble and sipshod. |
Some armies win victories in spite of their
generals, and some generals win victories
with any sort of armies, but Italy posses
ses no such army nor general
DIED.
NEW York, July 3l.-Lieut. W. F. Smith,
of the 9th o. S. Infantry, died this evening,
at his quarters, on Governors Island He