Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-10
From Washington.


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New YoRK, May 9.-The Commercials
special says: The Secretary of War has
ordered General Terry in regard to the
Presidents peace proclamation that it does
away with martial law in Virginia.
Spain and Chill.
An official decree from the government
of Chilli declares that neutral vessels which
communicate with the ships of the Spanish
squadron, or which furnish them fuel, pro-
visions, ammunition or any other supplies,
will not be permitted to touch or land at
any port of the Republic.
The Department of State has been off.
cially informed by the Spanish government
that fossil coal, the product of the mines of
Chill, is declared to be contraband of war
by the commander Of the Spanish squad
ron in the Pacific, but will only be consid-
cred contraband of war in case of its being
dispatched from Chilian ports for the enc
my's ships.
The Posts special says the debate in the
House indicates that the third amendment
to the Constitution as proposed will be
stricken out.
Messrs. Fessenden, Sherman and Morgan
of the Senate Finance Committee are known
to favor the loan bill
. The Commercials special says the Senate
Finance Committee has agreed to raise the
salary of the Treasurer of the United States
to $4,000, and the pay of the Senate Clerk
from $3.50 to 5000.
POstOffice Contract.
The Postofice Department has made a
contract for the carrying of the mails from
New Orleans to Mobile and back, daily, in
suitable steamers. Also to carry the mails
from New Orleans via Galveston to Indian
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steamers.
TeIeSraPhIe.
The President has approved the bill to
encourage telegraphic Communication be-
tween the United States and the West In
dia Islands and Bahamas. 1t provides that
the Internal Ocean Telegraph Company, in
corporated under the laws of the State of
New York, their successors and assigns
shall have the sole privilege for fourteen
years to lay, construct, maintain and ope-
rate telegraphic and magnetic lines or ca
bles in and over the waters, reefs, islands,
shores and lands over which the United
States had Jurisdiction, from the shores of
Florida to the Island Of Cuba and Bahamas,
either or both, and other West India Is
lands The Company shall at any time give
the United States the free use of said cable
to telegraph operator, of its own selection,
military, naval, and diplomatic agents,
and the Company shall keep all its lines
open TO the public tor the daily transmls-
sion ofmarkets and commercial reports and
intelligence, and all messages, dispatches,
and communications shall be forwarded in
the order in which they shall be received,
and the Company shall not be permitted to
charge and collect for messages trans nit
ted through any of its submarine cables
more than the rate Of SO so for messages of
ten words, subject, however, to the power of
Congress to alter and determine said rates,
provided that the International Ocean Tel
egraph Company shall within the period of
three years from the passage of this act
cause said submarine cable or cables to be
laid down, and that said cable or cables
shall be in successful operation for the
transmission of messages within said period
of five years, otherwise this grant to be
null and void, and Congress reserves the
power OF any time to alter or repeal the
above act.
The President and the N. f. Confer
ence
The President to-day, by appointment,
gave an audience 10 the delegates of the
General Conference of the Methodist Prot
estant Church, now in session in George
town. North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia.
Maryland and the District of Columbia
only are represented, it having been said
that those appointed from the other South
\ ern States had not the means to pay the
expenses of travel. The presiding officer oi
| the Conference introduced the delegates
| severally to the President, and remarking
that they had unanimously adopted reso,
luton to come and pay their respects tC
him. Abiding to the fiery ordeal through
| which the Southern people had passed, he
needed not to remind the President of the
| difficulties which environed them, and to
the poverty under which they were suffer
| ing might be ascribed the small mum.
Der of members and delegates present at the
Conference. He might continue his re.
marks but he feared to trespass on the Pres
| ident's indulgence he, however, prayed
| that the blessings of Almighty God nigh
rest upon the President, and that the LORD
would give him the requisite wisdom and
| strength to perform his important duties
To this the President responded with al
enthusiastic Amen. The President thanked
the delegates for the compliment which
they had paid him by this visit. HI
trusted that the prayer they had Offered
would be heard and answered by the powe
to which it was addressed, and that all th'
| honest efforts of the Conference would b.
crowned with success. He hoped that tn
day was not not distant when peace anC
prosperity would be restored to our undi
Yided country.
| The Freedmen
Official reports of the Assistant Commits
sioners of the Freedmen's Bureau to tn
Commissioner are now being received 70
the month of April They show continues
improvement in the relations between tn
white and black races in the States latel,
in rebellion. The freedmen seem to aequir
more correct notion of their responsible
ties as well as privileges in their new char
acter Of free men, and where they conduc
themselves inofensively ne whites are be
coming more disposed to treat them civil,
and deal Justly with them.
New Quartermaster's Depot.
Jeffersonville, Ihd., has been announce
as principal depot in the Quartermaster'
Department in place Of City Point, Va, dis
continued. Capt. R. C. Rutherford, A.
NJ, has been placed in charge of the depot
Pard0ns.
The President has ordered warrants c
pardon to be issued to nine persons to-ds
two from Louisiana, four from Mississippi
one from Georgia, one from Alabama, an
one from Tennessee-sll property owners
| the amount of 500 000