Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-03
wAsHIXGToN TOPICS AND GOSSIP.

We extract the following from recent
special dispatches and letters from Wash
ington to our exchanges:
THE HEAD OF THE FREEDMEM's BUREAU
During the long debates upon the bill
first passed in the Senate, Gen. Howard
has been a close attendent. His whole
soul is interested in the cause. and it is
doubtful whether any department Of the
Governments business has ever received
more conscientious attention than that be-
s!owed-6y Gen. Howard upon the impor-
tant lab0rs with which he is intrusted.
A single incident which occurred dur
ing the late cold weather, is but a fair in
d~icati"n of the spirit always manifested
by this gentleman.
Late at night a woman came TO his
house and told him that a poor negro wo-
man in a distant part of the city, who was
sick with consumption, had no bed to
lie on. Instead of disInissing the case AS
many high officials would have done, and
turning it over to those under him, he at
once took measures to relieve the woman.
After looking in vain for amattress, he was
about to send out to buy one on his own
I NNADAllLs W AltNA IL was uSSNl 1AlAC NAab OAN
of the crdeTlies was using two of those
furnished by the government. One Of
those he at once sent by tho orderly TO the
suffering negro woman Surely one who
will thus carefully attend to the minutest
details of his laborious position, is en-
inently fitted TO hold it.
SCI. MEREDITH's oowHIDIEG.
The trial of james d. Mcbride, OF Mans
field, Ohio, late Lieutenant Colonel of Ar
tillery in the colored service, on charge
of cowhiding Gen. Sol. Meredith, has just
been concluded, with a verdict of guilty
against the accused, and q mulet in the
sum of $50, including costs. 1t IS much
to be regretted that Soils courage should
have 80 far failed him, when Mcbride at
tackled him, as to compel him to seek re-
dress in a law court and it is a matter of
surprise that one whose courage was so
great, on a recent occasion, when he at
tackled Mr.. Julian, should have quailed be-
fore the task Of retaliating in kind upon a
man of considerably less than Julian's
inches, and not more than half of his
own
1t is now MeBride's turn to have the
law on Meredith, and he prefers the fol-
lowing charge against the ex-Brigadler 4:
That in e~ndeavoring to procure his Nc
Bride'sj removal from his position, he re-
sorted 10 deliberate falsehood; that in
trucking to the p~rejudices of rebels and
rebel sympathisers against his (McBride's)
colored regiment he fJulian) offered re-
peated insults to him and his subordinate
officers; that no was constantly giving
entertainments at Paducah TO avowed re-
bells, who had by former commanders
been excited to Canada for giving aid and
comfort 20 the rebellion that he placed
guards over rebel property in no way en-
dangered, with Instructions to shoot any
of McBriie's niggers " who might come
into the vicinity of it, and that under
these orders one man was actually shot.
l mentioned in a fornerletter, referring
to this subject, the great delight that Sec
rotary Stanton took in listening to the re-
eitai of the cowhiding scene as related by
Mcbride. Since then the divine person
of the War Office has recommended Nc
Bride fer promotion to a Brevet Briga-
diership, for gallant and Bseritori-V IL SER
Uiee, which, it is strongly suspected, may
be rendered into less ambiguous English,
thus for eowhiding Sol Meredith.