Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-11
From Washington.
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NEW York, january IO-The Tribune's
Washington special says: General Howard
is in receipt Of the November report Of the
Superintendent Of Co1ored Schools in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, in which he says
There are now in operation in the former
State nineteen freedmen's schools, with
twenty-three teachers and 2,349 scholars.
In Arkansas there are thirteen schools, with
seventeen teachers and LAYS scholars.
The Birmingham Association in England,
since the close Of the war, has largely con-
tributed toward the relief of the destitute
freedmen Of the U. g.. Their last invoice of
goods, mostly clothing, amounts in value TO
over $4,000, and the Secretary of the Treas
ury has notified the Deputy Collector at
New York to hereafter admit all such goods
free of duty.
Not Liable.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that canal boats enrolled and licensed and
on which tonnage tax has been paid, are not
liable to the internal revenue tax.
Returned.
Brig. Gen. Mulford, late agent for the ex-
change Of prisoners, returned from Rich
mond yesterday, where he has been for some
months engaged in closing Up the business
ACAoelA6 70 NC CACAdnkCs lnlo III udb HuC-
ceeded in doing, and in compliance with
orders, has turned over to Gen. Hitchcock,
formerly commissioner of exchange, all the
property forwarded TO Union prisoners dur
ing their incarceration, including boxes and
money amounting to between $4,000 and
$4,000 The money will be restored TO the
original forwarders, and it is supposed that
the express boxes will be turned over to the
Freedmen's Bureau.
Behind.
The northern trains are still considerably
behind in consequence Of the ice in the Sus-
q%uehanna at HaYre de Grace.
General Grants Bill.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says
that General Grants bill to increase ths reg
ular army is in the hands of the chairman
Of the Military Committee. If adopted it
will increase the regular army to over So
coo.
Committee on Freedmen.
The House Committee on Freedmen yes
terdsy authorized their chairman to report
a bill continuing the Freedmen's Bureau
and enlarging its powers in accordance with
the recommendations of General Howard.
The bill authorizes the President to set
apart unde the homestead law in the States
of Florida, Mississippi and Arkansas, three
million acres of Governmentlands, the same
to be allotted, in parcels of forty acres each,
to freedmen, at sue rental as may be agreed
on, giving the freedmen the right to pur-
chase the land at any time by paying its
valuation.
COunteFmRndSd.
The order recently issued mastering out
the troops in Virginia was countermanded
yesterday by the War Department.
A Proposition.
The Times Washington special saws that
a proposition has been presented to General
Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau, by a
nrm in Little Rock, Arkansas, to employ
the oolored troops in that department for the
completion of the railroad which connects
Little Rock with the Mississippi. The men
are to be paid extra pay at the rate of fifty
cents per day in land on the line of the
road. The proposition is favorably en-
dorsed by General Reynolds, commanding
the department Of Arkansas, and by Major
General Sherman. 1t has been referred TO
,Ihe Secretary of War.