The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1865, Page 6

4 eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETO!t OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AN@ NASSAU STS, New York, Saturday, May 20, 1865. — nn THE SITUATION. An important point in tho trial of the assagsination conspirators yesterday was tho complete identification of Payne as the man who made the attack on Secretary Seward, his@ons and others in his house on the night of the President's murder. Three witnesses who were | not yet been ascertained, though there have been rumors present on the occasion, including Major Seward, one of | both that the republicans had captured it and that they tho assaulted persona, swore positively to Payne's iden- tty. Other interesting evidence was taken regarding hig arrest at Mrs. Surratt's house, in the disgnise of a laborer, three nights after, and also in reference to the arrest of Spangler and O’Laughlin. A number of wit- noseca for the prosecution are yet to be examined; but an effort will be made to conclude the taking of their testi- mony to-day. The witnesses for the defence, of whom about twenty have been summoned up to this time, wore yesterday dismissed from attendance on the court till Monday. There are expectations that the trial will ————_————— NEW YORK HERALD. cesses cesses M@. 239 | Kentucky regarding the late removal of General Meredith NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1865. Je@ Davis and other leading rebels, and his subse- quent troubles after he deserted them and came within the Union lines on an independent, individual mission to negotiate for peace. ‘The rebel General Pillow hag been captured. Me was taken near Selma, Ala, ( There is considerable excitement among the people of What Shall be Done with the Negroes !— ‘The Great Social Problem of the Day. At the commencement of the war there were in the Southern States, in round numbew, four millions of slaves. Various estimates have been made of the number destroyed by the war, It ig quite safe to put the reduction by death at half a million. Perhaps the natural increase will balance the number that has made its way A eT that State, and meotings are being | O11 of tho country ; and we thus have left in nce those who caused his displacement | to Sonthorn States three and a half millions of and to urge his restoration upon President Johnson. persons bora end brought up in slavery that MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. have suddenly become free. Unquestionably The latest accounts from the Mexican side of the Rio | 34 jx of the mass of these that they have no Grande show that all is confusion along that river, owing tion of the finer ideas of frood to the presence in the vicinity of Matamoros of both re- | SPP¥eetstion Of the finer Ideas oe bet publican and imperial forces, A fight for the esion | Woultl vender the state of slavery intolerable to of the town had taken place, but with what result has | men of more intellect. Slavery is to them only compulsory labor; freedom is rest from that labor, and the right to “do as you like”’—that had retreated fro 4 ayy im before it, Business, however, there, | is, to labor or not. That is their simple, single, as well as at Bagdad, was at a complete standstill, aud the people were flecing across the river to Texas, carry- | Obvious idea. ing with them their portable property. Imperial rein- Labor is at the same time the prime neces- Teena for Matamoros were said to be on the way | sity of the country that these men are in. It is ‘rom Vera Cruz; but the adherents of Maximilian were i lomai much, troubled .over. reports that Kirby Smith, with his te lgger Smale’ tai? ene fe * see ese rebel army from Texas, was coming over to fight for Juares, ever saw produced from any given country. Itis Secretary Soward was at the State Department yester. | @bundantly able to support all the labor neces- day, and attended to some official business. The hopes | sary for its development, and to give in addition for Mr. Frederick Seward's recovery are now stronger | a crop that will belittle the riches of Oriental than at any previous period, story. Under the. worst system of labor ever | Foote a speci! case of State's evidence. Ifhe pro- | ferred to take the oath in good faith, he must be H prepared to tell all that he knows of those dark proceedings in secret session of the rebel Con- federate Senate, of which he was a very active member. It has been hinted that, if he will, he can tell a startling story, and perhaps he might be able to throw a flood of light on the affilia- tions between the rebel government and its agents “on detached service,” as highway rob- bers, spies, pirates, incendiaries and agsaasins. Would it not be worth while to invite him to Washington in this view, ufider a pardon, asa witness in the trial of the batch of assassins now going on, or a8 a witness against Jeff. Davis? We throw out this suggestion for the serious consideration ot the government. Progress of the Trial of the Assassination Consptrators. 2 the mass of testimony against the con- spirators presented to the Washington court our readers may have noticed a great deal which is technically illegal—that is to say, which would not be regarded as admissible under the rules of practice in our civil courts. | For instance, what Jobn Surratt said is not legal evidence, since Surratt is neither on trial nor in custody. What one prisoner said about another is not legal evidence, ‘unless the other prisoner were present at the time, or unless the we can return to the original status ante bellum, in which the counset of these prominent South- ern men may be useful—questions relative to labor, the reopening of trade, and other essen- tial points, presenting at the present moment some difficulties. Before Congress reassembles we may eee a very large convocation of this class of men in Waslrington, antious to lend their aid to the restoration of the prosperous condition from which the rebellion had de- throned the whole Southern States. It is remarkable, however, that, notwith- standing eo many of the leading men of the South, from Jeff. Davis down, have been accounted for, there ia not a word of informea- tion concerning Alexander H. Stephens. Sings the failure of his peace pilgrimage to Hampton Roads he appears to have taken no part in public affairs in the South; and, since the col- lapse, even his whereabouts is unknown. An unwilling rebel in the beginning, he seems to have reached the vanishing point in the ond. | Orewa or Tar Festive anp FassionaBie Sommer Srason.—The coming fashionable sea- son at the various charming watering places in our country will be at least two weeks in advance of almost any previous season. Here we are only in the middle of May, and, cold as it was yesterday, we. find the be concluded next week. ‘gail to-day at twelve M. for Queenstown and Liverpool, ‘The official order of Lioutenant General Grant for the | from pier #4 North river, Tho steamer America, Captain Grand muiitary reviews to take place in Washington on ‘Wonsels, for Southainpton and Bromen, will also sail at oon to-day. The mails will close at the Post Office for ‘Tuceday and Wednesday next has been issued, and is Doth vessels at balf-past ton A. M, published im this morning's Hunatp. The Army of the Baron Stoeck!, the Russian Minister at Washington, Potomee and General Sheridan's cavalry will be reviewed | has recently presented to the President a lotter from oa Tuesday, aud Sherman's troops on Wednesday. b ber ewuapenneett lasers Pt a. bee rarer e Russian government with the American people in Thorepertof Genoral William F. Smith and JamoeT. | gh gmiction suffered by the assasslantion of President Brady;-Beq., of this city, commissioners appoiated to | Lincoln. investigate the civil and military administration of A verdict for five hundred and fifty dollars damages ‘affaize at Now Orleans was mado to the President and ps Seber |p sf Pes Aged Court, before that one of the results of their statemonts ta the removal | years, by being run over by a cart which the defendant's of Qemoral Banks from command in that city, which is | #0n was recklessly driving through Fourth aveave io ‘eid to bave boon ordered yesterday, and bis supersodure | October last, bby Geaeral Canby. General Canby is to be reatricted to | ,, "ne Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions purely military matters, leaving civil affairs tothe control | Judge Russel, in thanking them for the efficient manner Of Governor Wells, The Sixth army corps, Major General Wright, com- menced its return march from Danville, Va, on last ‘Tuesday, and is oxpected to reach Manchester, on James | Prison for two years. Robert Randall, who pleaded | bread. It is true, too, and is the obvious view basi iver, Opposite Richmond, to-day, whence it will move om to Washington. Jeff. Davis’ whoreabouts atill remains a matter of mys- tery to the general public, Cincinnati and Nashville de- Spatches say that instead of coming North by way of tho Mississippi river he was sent vis Macon, Ga., to Sa- vannah, whence, on board a steamer, he was to be taken to Fortress Monroe and Washington. Tho people will no doubt soon again be informed just where Jeff. is. One of the Hugin correspondents with General Wil- fion's Cavalry column, writing from Macon, givos us very Intorestins sketches of the present conditton of affairs in Goorgia, civil, military, social and personal. All the peo- plo nearly, wherever the national troops are stationed, Profess to b> good Unionists. They admit that they have ‘eon. conquered, and have no desire for a continuance of the war. So groat are the security and good order insti- tuted'in all places ocenpied by General Wilson's forces" What the’ citizons are loud in praise of tte favorable change from robel rule. Thore is a great scar. city of food throughout the State. Starvation is im- minent, not only to the poor, but to many of the rich, ad some broad riots have occurred. Geueral Wilson has Commenced sasuing rations to the needy ia various parts of the country, Several conferences regarding public matters took place at Macon, between General Wilson and in which they discharged thoir duties, remarked that in the short space of ten days they passed upon one hun- dred and sovonty-cight cases. Jacob Bahr, convicted of picking the pocket of Mrs. Thayer, was sent to the State guilty of an attempt at larceny, was sent tothe Peniten- tiary for one yoar. The case of Samuel Phillip, charged with obtaining money under false pretences, was sud, donly brought toa close, After Mr. Dayton, the United States Revenue Inspector, testified that he gave Phillip authority to find out if cigar makers defraud the govern- mont, - Judge Russel instructed the fury to acq) which they did without leaving their seats. Annie Holman was tried on a charge of stoaling sixty. five dollars from Catharine Corcoran. Peter Riley end Bernard) Reynolds were convicted of an aggravated assault perpetrated upon John Disbley, a pri- vate in the regular army, on the night of the 7th of April, a short distance from the Grand street ferry. Tho soldier was stabbed in the bead and stomach, but was able to march tbe ruffians at the point of his revolver till he met a policeman, Arsistant District Attorney Bed- ford pressed for a convictionjfor an assault with intent to kill, but the. jury convicted of an assault with intent to do bodily harm. They were each sent to the State Prison for three years. A largo number of prisoners were ar- fuigned, and their trials were set down for next week. 4 The Excise Commis:toners met yesterday. Six appli- ‘cations for lHoenses were received and granted, on con- ition of the payment of thitty dollars by each applicant. They-then adjourned till to-day. Froderi'fchroeder, keopor of a grocery at the corner of Second avenue and Eighty-fifth street; his wife, and shia clerk, named Loniw Stock, were yesterday arrested by tho police on charge of being extensively engaged in passing counterfeit fractional currency.. On Schrooder's Premises and person were discovered bogus twenty-five and Afty cent notes representing about one hundred Govermor Brown, ayd the latter, as our readers | doimrs. The accused will to-day be takon before United havo already been informed, issued his proclamation | States Marsha! Murray for examination. calling on extra session of the Legislature; but | Charles Williams, alins Wesley Al'en, was yosterday tho General informed him that it could not meot | Comutted to the Tombs for examination, changed with picking a gold watch from the pocket of George without special permission was granted from Waabing- | 4 sweot, while the two were nding down ‘town t- tou, Before the time for theo members to assemble gether on Thuraday afternoon in a Broadway stago. arrived orders for the Governor's arrest were received, | Williams, on being arrested, atoutly protested his inno- ‘and he was started for Washington, which place he reached yoaterday. Governor Brown had proviously sur- rendered to General Wilson, on the latter's demand, all the State troops and public property, The General has dotailed officers at various points in Georgia and Florida to parole the rebels surrendered by Joe Johnston. A fine fold for Northern emigrants ts presented in the plantations of the Southern States. One of our cor- reapondonta says that land in Virginia and North Caro Vina which before the rebellion could not have been purchased for loa than one hundred and fifty dollars por acre, can now be had for two dollars and two dollars and shalf por acre. The pianters there take a very gloomy view of the proseut condition of affairs, and Consider thoir States irretrievably ruined becauso the abolition of slavery bas for the present deprociated the value of their lands, which, however, Will no doubt be soon taken up in small parcels by colonists from the North and from Europe, and ulti mately become far more valuable, under improved sys- tome of tillage, than they have over yet been. Already 8 plan, with the aid of Northern capital, is in course of Preparation whereby some of the large catates of Vir @ 01a will be cat up into small tracts, with tho view of thew purchase and cultivation by Northern farmers of Dioderate moans Governor Piorpont, of Virginia, will shortly issue his ‘PFoctamation appointing an olection for members of the Legislature of that State in the districts at proseut un ropresented. Twenty-two reber steamors, including the rams Nash- yilJé and Mary Ann and tho blockade ranuer Heroine, obontly captured by the natioual forces at and in the vicinity of Mobile, were expected to arrive from that age at Now Orleans on the night of the 15th inst inten of these steamers and the rams wore found up the Tombigvee river, whither the rebels had taken them on evacuating Mobile. Four other steamers were cap ‘tuted up that rivor; but it was feared that they could not * pe got down, asthe water was falling Mobile is being ‘overnin by the paroled mon of Dick Taylor's army KA diMoulty a5 arison between Governor Browalow, of Tenneaseo, and Judge Trigg, of the United States Dis- riot Court of that State, in regard to some abandoned property of rebels which Mr. Brownlow, while acting as a apootal agont of the Treasury Department, rented to Joyal perons, on bebalf of tho government, Judge ‘Trigg ordered these tenante to be dispossessed; but the m litary authorities, on being called upon, enforced Mr. Hrownlow's contracts; and on Tuosday last, at Koox- cence of the charge, but, it ia eald, informed Mr. Sweet that he knew who had stolen his watch, and ould recover it if he were allowod his liberty. He was therefore, in company with Mr. Sweet and an officer, allowed to proceed to different places in the city in search of the missing property; but he failed to dis- cover it, and was locked up. Jacob Levy, a German, waa yesterday committed for examination on a complaint of Caroline Kane, of Mercer street, who alleges that he stole from her over a thou- sand dollars and a gold watch. Levy says the money was deposited in bank in bis name, and Caroline says she entrusted it to him to deposit, with the understanding that he was to warry her, . Twenty female street walkers, arrested on Thursday night by the Fifteenth precinct police, were yesterday committed for examination. Immense damage bas been caused by the rise in the Miasissippi river above New Orleans, Tho levees from the mouth of the Red river to Donaldsonville have been forced, and a tract of country over one hundred and fifty miles in Jength and from thirty to fifiy miles in width has been inundated. The tugboat Success, plying between Chicago and Bridgeport, exploded her boiler on the afternoon of the 16th, killing one person aud severely scalding eight others. A fire, the origin of which is unknown, broke outinthe store No. 81 Naseau street, near Fulton, between seven and eight o'clock last evening, and extended to a five | story rear building, used principally for manufacturing purposes, the upper three floors of which, with their con tonta, were entire'y destroyed. Some damage was also done to the adjoining buildings, Noa 138, 140 and 142 Fulton street and No. 79 Nasean street. The entire loss ix estimated at Ofty thousend dollars ‘The stock market was extremely dull yesterday, and a fraction lower, Governments were ty Gold was firm, and closed at 151% a 19134 at five P.M. At night the closing price was 130% There was a fair basiness done in most articles of | domestic produce yesterday, but imported merchandise was goneraily quiet. The export movement in bread. | stuffs noted day before yesterday continued and further engagements wore effected by the steamera—mainly for ® week ago it would have been taken at Id. Cotton was firmer. Petroloum was heavy and lower. os were steady. On ‘Change flour and grain were more steady. Provisions were firmer, Whiskey was nominal next week, at 5d. a Td; Geserat Macruper and Tae Texas Resers— Tary Have a Netoupor.—That famous rebel Bombastes Furioso, General Magruder, recently The ‘Inman steamship Etna, Captain McGuigan, will known. the same country supported: a popula- tion of twelve milltons, and had an accumulated wealth that enabled it to carry on for four years one of the most gigantic wars in history. There is no country in Europe so rich. Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain are poor to itin natural possibility. What, then, may not be the result of the development of this district under a proper system. of labor? But can that system be so arranged as to solve the difficult question: what is to become of the negro? Certainly it ought to be. There is the land in need of labor, and the owners of it propose even to import labor, considering that otherwise they lose the land ; but there on the spot is the labor, and it is a aving finished their labors yesterday, wore discharged. | great problem what we shall do with it. How | gence and cast every doubtful word aside, 5 can we arrange it that these two shall be com- plementary to each other? It seems easy enough to answer that the land must support the labor, and that the negro must earn his own taken by all. Henry Highland Garnett, who wrote us a letter on the subject the other day, said that the negro appreciated this. President Johnson tried to impress his colored visitors, some days ago, with the fact that work was the real solution of the negro question. And Gen. Howard, as this letter shows, takes the same view:— Farepunn’s BUREAU, Wasnivetox, D. C., May 16, 1865. 40 accoraance wu weneral Orders of the War Depart- Ment, No. 01,1 enter immediately upom the duties of joner of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. The bureau contemplated in the order will be located at the corner of I and Nmeteenth strécts, All commissioners, bowever appointed, who have charge of freedmen, are requested to make a rey as s00n as possible of the character and extent of their work. The commissioners or superintendents in ‘a, South Carolina and Louisiana are requested to report direct to me the amount: of land they may have under super- vision for their use, The department commanders in tl ben pee States will do me the favor of trans- mittlog ® copy of the different orders issued by them- =i os, by. yr district somieaniers relating to the ernment and employment men. le it shall be my object to ab, as much uniformity ja sible !n the matter of employment and instruction of freedmen, I earnestly solicit co- ton from all officers and agents whose position or duty renders it possible for them to aid me, should understand that he = plan lol La weve if able to work, should 6 bai 0 tl port, him fn idleness. oe RD, Major’ qencral 0. 0: HOWARD, ’ missioner of Freed Major Ger men's Burosu. General Howard, as chief of this import ant buresn, is the head of three and half mil- lions of men. He holds a most important poai- tion, and we believe that it was a very wise selection that put him there. He is a man of ability, eminently practical and thoroughly conscientious. He stands in the position to influence an immense amount of human happi- ness or misery. It is wise to impress upon the negro very distinctly that he cannot live in idleness, and it is good for all to agree that he must depend upon his labor. But it is not enough’ to do this.. We do not believe that the negro appreciates the mecessity that he should, labor, or that he can be induced very easily to go on with the same life that he has hitherto led, seeing prac- tically but little difference between the slavery he hated and the liberty he longed for. It will not do to tell him that he must. It will need the calmest judgment and the nicest discretion to devise a system of labor or apprenticeship that shail encourage the negro to labor and the white-man to employ him. Upon the wis- dom with which such a: system is adapted to the wants of the case it will entirely depend whether or no the South shall become a deso- late wilderness and the negro race a great national difficulty. The absolute natural ex- termination of the race, too, depends upon this; and this, therefore, is the real field of labor for all those philanthropists who have cried out for justice to the negro. ri Tne Grand Review at Wasninetox.—In the early part of next week there will be a grand military spectacle in the vicinity of the na- tional capital, such as has never been witnessed in modern times under similar circumstances, Two hundred thousand veteran troops, trained’ in-a hundred battle fields, and commanded by all the leading generals of the service, who shared with them the dangers and have won: with thom the honors of victory, will be re- buds and blossoms, the beautiful flowers, the green slopes and meadows and fields, the em- erald plumage of our matchless American for- est trees, the transcendent floral charms of our magnificent Park, already approaching the height of their natural splendors, It is not usual, even by the first of June, to find the country so far advanced as it is at present. Corresponding with this precocity of the vernal season, we find our fashionables already pre- paring for a grand hegira from the great cities to the groves, and shady nooks and sylvan grots of our rural districts, the seaside and the colder mountain regions being, of course, a little behind the interior fashionable season. Thus we hear an sriel voice from Saratoga descanting upon the ripening and expanding beauties of that famzd resort of fashion. We statement referred to the general scope and object of a previously proven conspiracy. But the military court at Washington is not ited by the rules of evidence insisted uy . yers. That court is engaged inthe of trying assassins and investiga con- spiracy. It combines the duties ofan examina- tion as to suspected persons and of a trial of the persons under arrest. Great latitude is, therefore, givem to the witmesses so that the whole matter, unrestricted by the limitations’ of civil courts, may be clearly placed before the public. In this view the admission of valua- ble, though technically illegal, testimony is not | indefensible. But if we adhere to the strictest rules of evi- sufficient legal testimony has already been elicited to prove the organization of @ con- spiracy to capture or kill President Lincoln, and to show the guilt of all the prisoners at the It seems that some kind of an attempt was made to carry out the conspiracy a few days after the 4th of March. Booth said in New York that he could easily have killed the Presi- dent on inauguration day, as he stood very near him; but for some reason or other, proba- bly because no means of escape were yet pro- vided, he did not want to do the bloody deed at that time. Of the subsequent attempt we have but few particulars; but we know that Booth, Surratt and Atzerott were engaged in it; that Mrs. Surratt knew of it, since she cried while her son was away; that Arnold was privy | to it by his own confession; that the scheme, whatever it was, dismally failed, and that the three assassins came back to Mrs. Surratt’s in a great rage, disappointed, vexed and disheart- ened. After that Mrs, Surratt appears to have notice that besides the usual attractions of the place, and the medicinal advantages of its | maarvellous waters, that a celebrated hotel firm— the Messrs, Leland—have vastly enlarged and improved their hotel, the Union, and added to the general attractiveness of Saratoga by con- structing an elegant Opera House, which, for beauty and chasteness of design and finish, will vie with similar establishments in any part of Europe. The Opera House has been leased to Mr. Leonard Grover—a gentleman well known throughout the country as an operatic director. All the other hotels in Saratoga have becn un- dergoing improvements, and in a few weeks the» whole place will be alive with fashion, grace, fan, folly and frivolity. It is reported that the little French Prince Imperial will visit Saratoga’ this season provided recent great efénts do not change the programme of travel. previously arranged for the young Napoleonic acion by his insperial father. . With the dawn of ‘peace the American people require all the re- lent them her brains, for they sadly lacked tains.before. Then the scheme which proved partly succcssful was arranged. Booth was. assigned to kilt the President; Atze- rott to kill the Vice President; Payne to kill Secretary Seward; O’Laughlin to kill Grant; avother man, probably Surratt, to kill Secretary Stanton; Spangler to look after the private box in the theatre; Mrs. Surratt to see that the car- binges were ready at Lloyd's; Dr: Mudd to point pose they can oftain, atid most surely should they have opportunities to enjoy it. They have had excitement evough the past four years to Tast an ordinary people Lalf a century. Now let them take a few months rofaxation, and durfng the coming summer prepare themselves for the great deeds that may be required of them ere another year rolls arounti Szersrary Stanton’s Ennorser&—General out the road and furnish refreshments, and| Grant and General Meste, before tile Commit- Harold to assist Bootly aut make himself gen- | tee of Congress on the Conduct of the War, erally usefal. Had not Booth been tripped by | have testified to the “great ability” with which the American flag amd brokew his leg his es- | Secretary Stanton bas conducted the business cape would have been pretty certain; but this, | of the War Department. Montgomery Blair like all the rest of the conspiracy, except the | ang Alphabet Barlow must’ now proditce their President’s murder, fell through completely. The evidence connecting Jeff. Davis and the Canada rebels with the conspiracy is morally very strong. We can judge’ from the endorse- ment which Davis gave to plots to burn our cities and throw trains off the’ track whether his soul would’ bave revolted from the crime of assassination. We can understand from the evidence before’ us why Surratt went to Rich- mond and Bootlito Canada. It'was to obtain advice and directions in regard to: the conspir- acy. We think that, when the time of the first attempt is more definitely settled by witnesses, it will be made apparent that’ suggestions from Jeff. Davie revived the drooping spirits of Surratt, Booth and Atzerott, and derers. Surratt déclared after his first fail- ure: that his prospects were ruined. Booth was-terribly agitated. Atzerott was also ex- cited: Arnold, according to bis own story, withdrew from the plot. What was it that gave these-men new courage? It was Jeff. Davis’ advice and Jeff. Davin’ goit:. They would never have repented their attempt bad they not been urged on: by those: at Richmond. Booth himself declared to Chester, the actor, that he had abandoned the idea of capturing the President. Sarratt, who was foremost in thé first attempt, got out of the way when the seeond attempt wag mado, or if he was at the theatre, as one wifness swears, he took a very subordinate part in the assassination drama, leaving the principal work to. his associates. We hold that if it had not been for the incen- tives from Richmond the conspiracy would viewed by the Lieutenant General, the Presi- dent and Cabinet. This mass of men will cover | a vast area of ground, and we can well imagine how sublime a scene it will be, excelling any- thing that has been witnessed at the conclusion of any great war. The Army of the Potomac have broken. down of itself, and the principal actors of it would have retired in disgust. But it is evident that Jeff. Davis had determined that President Lincoln should be put out of the witnesses on the other side, or their case may go by déefwalt. Inrorsattos Wantep—By the editor: of the Richmond: Times, a deluded Virginia politician of the antediluvian epoch, who seems to think that with the restoration of tle State under “the old filag’” she is again as she was:before the flood, State sovereignty, Extra Billy Smith, niggers end all. JEFF. DAVIS. His Arrivat at Macon, Ga.—He is to be Sent to-Kortress Monroe, via Savannah. | Cinciwnany; Mey 10). 3665. A dezpatch, from Ressacca, Georgia, says that Joff. tramsformed them from kidnsppers. to. mur- } Davis arrived: at Macon on Monday, and: was sent to Augusta, witha strong guard, Thenco he will betaken to Fortres@. Monroe, via Savannah. Nasuvitie, May 19,1965. It was given out at headquarters that Jom. Davis would pass through Nashville on his way to Washington, and a steamer, with a portion of the Thirteenth. regulars, was in readiness tovreceive him, and is still at the levee with steam up; but it was deemed injudicious to. send bim through this way, although the route is shortest, and accordingly he moved East. A despatch from Ressacca, Ga., says that Jeff. arrived at Macon on Monday, and with a strong guard was sent to Augusta, From that point he willbe sent to Savannah, where he will tke vessel for Fortress Monroe. An officer of Johnston’s army, who has arrived here, says that Jeff. gave up pearly all hie specie as payment for services of oMcers and men of bis own escort, WEWF FROM KENTUCKY. The Removal of General Meredicn De- ‘nounced. Papucau, Ky., May 17, 1866. An tnmenso mags meeting of Union men in this city have wnanimdnsly passed resolutions denouncing the men whose representations caused the removal of Gen oral Meredith from command in this district as unworthy way, and he clung to his purpose tenaciously. will be there, and the Army of the James, and | ‘As in the case of McCullogh’s scheme to burn see and the cavalry of bold Phil. Sheridan—all p had discovered a “plan for overcoming the historic names, which will live as long and bq | difficulty heretofore experienced.” With this cherished with as proud memories aa the gran/i | plan, and with the strong-minded Mrs. Surratt made a speech to his soldiers at Houston, Texas, on the subject of General Lee’s surren-' der. He thought it was a pretty heavy shower, but it was not the deluge. Texas would fight it out, He would never submit to the Yankees. In winding up he said :—“I will only add that we have a neighbor near at band. I do not armée ot Napoleon. Practical reviews there | to arrange its details, the death of President have been of all these gallant troops om s¥any | Lincoln was accomplished. bloody battle fields, but never before apayceant | Coxvocarion oF SOUTHERN CELEBRITIES 1x such as this, where the laurels of all the /armies Wasuinotox.—Quite @ large number of South- of the Union will be interwoven into orie ever- erners—late rebels—are gathoring’ together gteen wreath—a fitting decoration fory the com- | in Washington for various purposes. Thore feel at liberty to say anything further concern- silie, th Jadge; te charging the Grand Jury, diroctod ing the matter at present; but it may be that t))om, in strong language, to indict Governor Browntow. Honry 3. Foote, formerly.of the United States Senate, we may bave aid from a source unexpected, and at a time when we least dream of it.” latoly of the rebel House of Reprosontatives, hes issued | From these hints it would appear that the rebel frou Monteoal, his prosont abiding place, m address to | leaders in Texas have been hobnobbing with | his search for “some J’ “ident Johnson, asking permission to return to this Maximilian ; but we guess that, so far from ex- manding general who planned their ampaigns * “ and calmly watched the triumphs 9/, his splen- _ gwcllig. ig Beto os grovel be aid sete ng ls SR didate for Governor of North Carolina; Gexrrat Foote, of tae Rens’, Conormss—A | ex-Governor Swain, of that State, and a Proposrrion.—That most unfortunate rebel, in | host of other prominent mon, officials and seques‘ered spot,” ral H. 8. Foote, tate of therebel Congress, isnot | the purpose of being tried for high treason ; Country, To this paper, whtoh is of considerable length, | pecting him to come over to Texas, Magruder, satisfied with his segrestered situation in | some to be used as witnesses against thoir Mr rotiring t Caltforyia, Soopateh from Foote tolls how, after requosti 4 privilege of Stanton, Kirby Smith and Company are really preparing to go over into Mexico. They will remain in 40 Ich he complains was not of the Chesterfieldian style, Texas till all their cotton is sold and trans- 6: totod his departure from this city and the country | ported, reviews for several yoars pout the political carsera of the Prosident and hitit- \ #in forty eight hours; Geli and gives & sketch of his di Manttiae with and then they will be very apt to clear out; but whether to support or supersede Maximilian remains to bo seen. As bis friends or onemias ‘hey will be dangerons customers: fase enn Canada, and wants to come back under “the | late chief, Jeff. Davis, and many, no doubt, old flag.” But the #ifficulty, we presume, in his | who are weary of the hostile attitude they had case, is that he wns a member of the rebol Con- | assumed against the logitimate government, and gress, and that bis absolution on taking the | have come to assist, by their advice and influ- | oath of allegiance would bea precedent proba | ence, in the reconstruction of the country and | bly requiting a similar pardon to all bis Con- | government thay had attempted to dostroy. * qroagignal Rot why not make | There aro many oyeations io be aottled before yn fodap tea of belief, as the very worst enemies of the Union cause, and as opposed to the restoration of peace. The resolutions then goon to thank General Meredith the Army of Georgia, the Army of the Tennes- ff our cities, so in the case of the assassination he | for nis patriotic policy, and urging President Jobnsom to reinstate him in command. The resolutions also pledge the most earnest support wo the present administration. Similar meetings of loyal men are being bold through- Out the district, at which the men who caused Genery| Meredith's removal are bitterly denounced. Fatal Altercation at Shelbyvitte. Lovnvitis, May 19, 17:66. Mr. McGrath was shot an@ killed in Sbeihyviie this Morning by ® negto soldier, of Captain Kitt’s company. McGrath and two or three others violently objected to the oconpancy by the negro troops of the United States of the rendezvous, and in this altercation the ehooting took place. , Tasopors Taowas’ Concant.—There Bas been raroly, if over, givon in (this city #0 complete and enjoyable a Gene- | non-officials. Some of these are there for | concert as the testimonial to Theodore Thomas at Irving Hall on Thursday evening. The interpretation of the German composers by tho orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Thomas, was perfect, and received a tribute of approbation unmistakable, Mrs. Van Zandt never sang better, nor exhibited more command of ber voice. The applause, which was not sparingly given to both of her songs, was, We must say, well merited. Formos’ rendi- tion of Schubert's dificult baliad, “The Wanderer,” was admirablo, and waa great! sosteed by Onrl Anshuta’s Skillful accompaniment. | Mr. Mlle played tho Rakocsy March, by Liszt, with aplondid execution. Irving Hail waa, porhaps, never more crowded than on thi ion, and dy a critical, roQued and highly pleased aydiguee TT ad NORTH CAROLINA. FREE LABOR IN REBELDOM. An Opportunity to the Indus- trious of All Nations. A New Country Already Im- proved and Stocked to be Repopuiated. Depreciated Value ot Southern Farms. The Plantations Formerly Held at One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Per Acre Now Held at From Two and @ Half to Five Dollars Per Acre A GREAT FIELD FOR EMIGRANTS &., &e., &e. —— Our Wilmington Correspondence. ‘Witauisotos, N. C., May 16, 1865. Persons here sem to take a gloomy viow of the fu- ture. Thoy regard the losses éutailod by this war as too Brent to admit of the possibility, of revival from the tn- ° ternal rezources of the South within the nes thirty years, Thoy argue in this way:—Tho aggregate value of the whole property of the South beforo the war was about six billions, Of this the negroes of the South represented one-fourth intrinsically. The destructiow of that amount of labor, depreciates, it is estimated, the value of Southern property to a siill greater oxtont, both: combined producing a depreciation in its aggregate veins of about four-fifths. It is stated, moreover, that tHe-efft- ciency of white labor in the South has been matorintiy impaired by the war, thus diminishing still further the actual resources of the South, and its availability are producing region. I have beard instances cited by way of argument to sustain these viows. Lands have been mentioned to me which before the war would have brought one hundredt and fifty doflers per acre, that now would not bring two" dollars and filty cents. 1 am informed that » nagnificont farm, owned by James C. Bruce, of Halifax county, Vir- ginia, brother-in-law of James A. Seddon, late Secretary of War in the rebel government, estimated to be worth from one hundred and fifty dollars to two hundred dol- lars an acre five years ago, is now held to bo worth not more than five dollars per acre, Tho colebrated Elk Island farm, on the James river, vaited before the war at two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, is now esti- mated to be worth not much over ten thousand. The de- precfation, ‘it will be rememborod, is attributed to'the destruction of slave labor, whiely, in the estima- tion of Southern plat se acho its chicf value to Southern land. [n the therm States, especially in the cotton growing States, winc-tenths of the labor was per‘ormed by slaves; and, measuring even approxi- Inately, the deprocistion of Southern property by the destruction of this large amount of productive labor, the standard of depreciation reached, according to thi Southern view, ig not unreasonable. - In short, the estt- mate would seem to be based upon the idea that can be'no substitute found for slave labor, amd that white or free labor cannot be made avaitable, which ls per. foctly fullacious. The Southern pthnters—those cially imthe cotton States—believe alive: labor to be tie only systera of Inbor applicable to Southern. lands, inas- much as Southern prodiicts require an/unremitting care, and attention in their culture that is not consistent with free labor. They. caleufate upon the’ contingencies of Jaborers i@aving at the most important: crisis in the sowing of their crops, sickness from climatic influences, tna many other, causes not incident to'the peculiar class of labor to which they have been hi @ecustomed, au these obgections, howere, 1 more from a aay taal disadvantage likely to be found in the systems itself; Northern capitalists-would find it tortheir tate. rept to avail themselves of these ideas, and’ to invest largely in ric: Southern plantations, from witich will-be certain 20 derive valuable returns. Death of a Wealthy Loyal Citizon—His Rebel Relatives Disinherited—What: the Paroled Rebel Soldiers are Doing, wees Raneron, N.C. May 15, 1965. James C. Johnson; ono of the wealthiest mem in the South,.died on the 12th instant, at his home, near Edenton, in this State. He digiphorited all) bis rela- tives tecause they left him and’ {identified them- selves with the rebel cause. His property amounting to many millions of dollars, Ito left t @ few personal friends. His immense possessions onthe Roan- oke river comprise the richest lands in the coumtry. At the outbreak of the rebellion he told:hie-slaves, aurmber- ing nearly a thousand, that the war would make them free, and that they could remain’. with Kim or go where they ploased.. He was a personal frtend ot Henry Clay, whose: indebtedness, which» amounted to over thirty thousand! dollars, Mr. Johnson is said to have caneelled, without Mr. Clay’s knowledge, whe was never able to ascertain who his benefnetor was. He was about cighty years of age when he died, and was a devoted Union man up-to the hour of bis death In the absence of mail facilities and all intelligence from the principle centres the people in the interior of this State are afflicted with rumors and reports both alarming and ridiculous, which can better de - imagined than described. ‘The report that Jeff, Davis and his generals ace or ganizing a large: army on the other side of the Mississippi- and that France has recognized the confederacy leads Jobnston’s and hee’s paroled men to suppose that they will be called into the field again. Many of these paroled men are. preventing the people from helding Union, mectings, on the ground that they are liable to be called into the field again, and that it is their duty to sup. press any attempt to return the State to the Union while they remain. soldiers. It would not bo safe-for a Norfhern Union mam to. remain in any place insthe South, after the withdrawal of our troops unless the negrows are used for garrison duty, ——$————————— Fire. im Messau Street—Loss About Fifty ‘Thousand Dollars. Betwoen oven and eight o'clock last night a fire broke out. in the boot and shoe store of Eugone Ferris, No. #1 Nassnu street. The flames extended to the upper rooms Om th.e rear part of the building, and also commu- nicated to a five story brick building in the centre of tho bloeke —entrance Nos. 16 and 17 John street; and be- fore the fire was extinguished the three upper floors were dow troyed, together with their contents. The en tire loa will probablg. not be much short of $50,000. cick to the absence of the various owners particulars a4 t@ finsurance or losses could not be accurately ascer- toine 4. Yr. Ferris’ loss on stock will be about $8,000, and on the» building about $3,000. His property is insured for $'15,000 in tho Adriatic, Croton, North American, New ‘World and Park insurance companies, The offices in the upper floors were ocoupied by Gousret & Co. and others. ‘The basement is occupied by Henry Mouquin, importer of wines, and asa restaurant. Loss about $1,000; fully insared in the Gebhardt, Commonwealth and Germania Insurance companies. ‘Some damage by water was done to the stock of fural. ture in the auction store of Mr. Dougherty, 70 Nassaa street, |The stock of clothing of, H, 8. Smith & Co., 185 and 140 Fulton street, was slightly James Scott, olothier, 142 Fulton bas sustained damage by waler to the extent of abou ; fully in- sured. ye buildin, ‘are damaged abo The five story building in the rear of 15 and 17 John firoct wan occupied for manufacturing purposes by Richard Oliver, Jeweller; John P. Waters, assayer; Wim. Brand, enamellor, and others. The three upper floors ed; loss probably about 000; om stock ‘Owing to tho difeulty were not extinguished until after mid. of the fire is at present unknown. J wae. po Sire cesd Ot the rear pass af A the fire is supposed to have commenced. his store, where cos of the it patrol, under Captain Cornwell, were fully ht into play, owing to tho Great number of places to |, and the police, under Captain De Camp an his sergeants, wero very efficiont. nn) Oyurio TazaTae— Maroree,—The splendid fairy piece, “The Sleeping Beauty,” which has been presented nightly for some time past at the Olympic with euch fenmenso and well merited success, will bo given to-day ata matings, This is without doubt one of the grandest efforts of aconi¢ art ever produced on the stage of Now York judiee to whito Iubor tham. ~