The Sun (New York) Newspaper, June 17, 1865, Page 1

THE THIRTY.THIRD VEAR. ) NUMBER 10,278 f The Latest News OUR WACHINGTON OISPATCHES, THE COTTON TRADE. All Restrictions Removed. THE PIRATE “ALABAMA” QUESTION, Continued Demands Upon England | THE RICHMOND COLORED DELEGATION. Interview With the President. A Prayer For Protection. THE CONSPIRACY TRIALS. STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS. Varge Sums of Rebel Money Sent to this City. AFFAIRS IN THE Ss0UTH. Rapid Return to Law and Order, The Peonle Thankful for Peace. &e., WCe, From Washington. Free Trade in Cotten. Our Kelations With Eogland, bic Washington he officers in charee of the Quartermnarte torehouse at Nashville, cestro,ed br fire, have aeved many stores from the ruios, and Bow estimate the total lowe at abouta million anda | quarter As there appears to be a wide ¢ June 6. ference of opinion. even ainong well informed men in all quarters, as to the precise effect of the Er cutive proclamation of th inet thel on the cotton trade, it fe thought proper tortate that restrictions on trade in that article east of (he Mississippi, are removed, and the only tax itis now juired to pay te that of ¢ per pound, impored by the i. ¢ The Burlieh and Ameri p Much to say in relation to a ae Btales (iovernmeut upon Great Ub inthe matter of the Alelr . » one cent nal Kevenae lawa eof late have had sand of the United o for indemn'r Whoever teade the published diplomatic conte we, will sev that | thie demand is no recent th. bas boon repent edly made from time to thine tor tle iat threo sean, | Hon, M. B, Ficid terminated hie ore at on me Assistant Secretary of the Treawiy unde voy | felicitous circurnstances, having beoeu t on his retirement, of a highly flatteris { com Miendatory letter from Secretary McCulloch, and of @ resolution of a eimuilarcharacter from the clerks and heade of burenus of the Treasury De: waited on him for that purpose, i ment, who Ile retires with the esteem of all who have been brought in connection with him in the discharee of bis date Mr. Field sreunies Lie duties aa © ctor of the Sisth [Internal Revenue Metrict of New York on the let proxime Judge I J. Gioding, of Indiana, arrived thie evening, to accept the Marahalebip of the Dietrict of Columbia, In place of Col, Lamon, re Ue will @uier upon his duties to-morrow The Young Meu's Christian Association of this eity, for themeelves and kindred Associations throuchout the country, to-day received a definite proposition from John T. Ford for the rale of his theatre, in which President Lincoln was ossassina- ted, the building to be used for public that organization, The pric Aveociation herve until next Tuesday whether ibey will accept the terms The Richmond Colored People, Interview with the President-A Prayer for Protection, Washington, June 10,—The President to-day re- ecived the committee appro uted by a public meeting | of the colored people of Richmoud, to make knowa to him, ar their bert cvive them to be In the addic e wh fneulta, immpri signed purposes by fixed ia flu,00, The to decade friend, the wrongs, aa they con- by which they are sorely oppressed htley roeented they ui plain of uel punish | Onineut, aud tl oat « ments, the like of which wae never heard of, even in the slave poow of Southern traters, Tho address concludes ne follower glorious old lag again streaming bougut a © wick. 1; and t ver our bearta sont etsie ot ouratinirs, we have | 1 love forthe ? nion, or et Macietrate, nad thereto @ as t e ask your our Learte ond | r re with un of ue te- | biine | . ihe nth Be tian jeanpie h tie ye who exe er, that Cred babe ib usttiog The President + the tollowing eadorsement on | the papers presented ; | tTive Mansons, June 16, Kes fio Maj.-Gien, Howard, Chilet of the guteaa en, @e. tor his consideration, anu leport .@ to the action necessary and proper to be | bad. ju view of the within esate: ent. President « \ f the Uniied states, From North Carolina. A Council ot Loval Men Union Meetings Low Price of Land, hte (Corre en f The Suny NSewhern, June WY tiovernor Holden has invited the leading | niog menuof the Siate tomeert bhimin coe icil at Raleich, prior to the anpearance of his pro- elamation, which is daily expected, ‘Tbe North Caroe | linay eure iu fihe procee dines of | dineet inge which aro belng Seld in ¢ town tn the Agate All pay high tributes to tie lamented Lincoln; ele | to Andrew Johnson en, The richest states laut 4 anle in all parte verth Ce st t 4 Ole ever re wit! ovetnenta, Their own having decided to | go Ne sre welling at werentaacritice, Judge ¥. If lears, Cor flo al Revenue, laa arrive ed bere and will open an office in Raleich. An office has toen opened at Beaufort John R, French and one at Newbern by Hiram Potter, Ji, The people ay ‘hel: taxce ym pily, considering the act equiva- nt to ® testorstion their property President | gho+on \4 fast gaining the confidence of the people of the State. Gov, Holden fs aleo disarmlug bis enemies by his rervices in endeavoring to restore civil law to Bo Siac |} Yefore him dally? HH | bute properly, ete, ete, What be proposes to do with | himeelt, or where he haa vone to—if anywhere dows | hot appear jhe Lhoustom Trtiubari says, with | regard to the eurrender | “Et de eorm that ihe @ nieatonera of Texas | Teach d New «ht ane in time take any portin the | miatter, while the Cominisrioner appointed by the Governor at Maria, ' to the Federal | lines at all, had no weg whatever, Gen, Buckuer, that we are unter Federal auth thority is be enforced, in all | military garrivou hile thie tate be rewetted, it etlil loaves ua but one thins to do, and that ie to submit aa uracefully ae weean, We must necept the Affairs on the Mexican Border, | The Fvacaation of Brownsville Mexican Fears of an lovasion Slanghter Kadger- ed by his Snbordinates—Lopez Whipped by Cortinas. Via New Orleans comes Matamoras news to the tit, and Brownaville to June Kascurn, of the “let, bas an account of the evacus | tion of Brownsville by the “ Contederstes,” under | Gen, Slanghter On Friday, the 26th, a mimor having eained cine lation and credence that General Kirby Sroith lad ‘tet agreed to surrender the Trans-Missis#ippi Depart. Ment to the Fer and thet the torees of that Ih. partment © to be paroled, the snidiers of Gen, | Blauehter’s command etepped forward and rook ine tere into their owe hands. A further obiect wae developed fn the movement, which wae to ar. cure pay for past services, in conformity with | Apromige made them ata public merting in Rrowns- ville & week or two prevtously town of | wnarile immediately taken possession 1 iiers, ant some of the | among them ieneral Bla | wae strongly earcieoned: wore on every corner, Asageneral thine the t | of ordor was maintained. Ane mpte to rob or | majority, and A collector of and every effort was made by ernment property the wae their due, and which Atter Gen. Sinughter bed 4 lunder were discountenanced by the n some inetance verely ponished 8 Wane eppolpte er to obtain fre y which they clain had been promised thera tenderadan account of the moneys expended, which | sidiers surpored to be etill fn hae ban waa | wed, During eathering up of pr pre- | paratory toa etart homeward, there was sone sheot ing among the soldiers, bus for the mort part ther bes | haved in an orderly manner eallth had left, aatrone home euard of Mexicans Orsanized, who matoteined order until the me cf the Such, wben the Federals took possession of thu | town, | The Bancrrno, commenting on the care exereieod in perm i persons to crore between Matamorsa and Brownaviile, saye Let it but be remembered that every paperin the l States comes here teeming sith alarm Mexic Colonization & 36.00 colon ete are rf wo of colonizing the grazing be te of Mexico, They are to come “with musketein their bands. tnstead of having the of erend ein as many ae marek for the pur woud tilmeral aistr | ehepherd’s crook aud the pick and space, it can | hardly be powed that the ln orities look | upon the ne impli to raire flocks and bring out th ing met the bowes of mother earth, Hence we aay Auy one expect Gen, Mein to set otherwise than with | due en awhile there unfriendiy ac is he 'o khoow © would ask tou Trowueville te to be the musket in band’ colunization are dirplaved hat the taoveme wleus tor tt eran Socie (ren, Slanehter, with about fifty followers, is ald to | be somewhere on the Rio Grande, atowe Browneviile When Gen, Brown entered Brownsville it was peo pled almost exclusive by Mexicans, the American re silente Laving all fled to Matamorae and the interior, fome to cecape rebel plunderers, othore the hated Yankeos, Well d ed citizens are and ali are delighted at the ooeu our troepe, Gon, Hrown hoe tin eit hundred bales of cotton, severnl hundred head of horees and tuules and a vast drove of cattie. Lt ia re. Inted that just becore the cecupation of Lrowuaviile by General Brewn and his forces ou the Sist, Col Due, avidoa, C, 8. Ay at the heal ot about five hun cre? taen, came inte town fiom up the country, and eturnine dail nm of the town by ew prize of five or deat led of Gen. Slaughter and Col, Ford payimeut or the services of bimecl{ and bis soldiers, Col, Bue- awe wave BSlaugh'er and Ford thirty houre ww pay she ca led for, threatening them with hanging if the money should not be fortheoming at the explra tion of thatsime, ‘This peremptory mandate evidently terrified the persone to whom it waa addressed. Lhey tautiysentto a bank at Mataruoras for the requi funds, end complied with the request of Col, Buenavidos, by paving bim and bly men in apecie On the Sd inet., a report was brought to (several Brown, commanding at trownevile, thata tiaht bad taken place that day bet n the forces of Gen, Cor tinas, Liberal, and Gen, Lopes, Imperialiet, about 76 miles above Matamoros, ‘The streneth of the oppor lug joices wae estimated to be Letween 30s end 4000 under Cortinas. and about 1,6) under | fa and that Lopez driven acroms the river, Lopez expeced rein ements, but they did not arrive in tine to mating until they had ok nor Matance, Cortinas ia hated, | clase oi Mexicaue and they wou of bisdeath, ‘They consider him a robber, Latest From Texas. Kirby Smith Did Not Sorrender tis Army Deserted Him How the Texans Take the New Order of Things ‘The : eruer Calle a state Convention and Con- venes the Legislatare, Galveston and Hourton papers have come to hand, whieh bring dases tothe 4th fnstant. It appeare that the recent aurrender of Kirby Sunith was not by that individuale authority, but inepite of it, In an order which he istued at Houston, on the oth ult, he states that he intended to either secure temne of euricuder to hisown * To struggle to the last, and with any army anited in purpose, tirm in resolve, oud batulag for the tient, It el that God would ret vive ua the victory Teachod here to tind the leans troops disbanded ar hastens to their hor they hw ut iking, or colors d commanders: had aban fur w ho we were etrugeling, end appropriated the ible property to their persona! use, so ciere! Lam left a cotmmancer Without a0 afi) ow Henerm with You have made your chole It we uke The ene vill’ now pormees } | | ont tocpe | ctate hie own Iawe, You have fd your organu.zation, aud thrown ed away all dae ance.’ Nevertheless, having “done the deed," Smith ad vises his men to go home, and behave themselves it hud heen reported, we 4 to muirene fas having authority to do re, #) uation, and t evidences Federal nuthortty, if cupa'ion,"* The Galveston New words * But yesterday p a te of the Conteders ates; and arueny the thinve that were, History aflord> no in- ance of such a eucden collapse: of a powertul vation, that tor four yeare hae supported aruies equal to the of wubmission te the | wibie, forestall military o« greote the surrender in these we were all looking wit) he future glo de career towtay It seem to be the moet largest ever risked bev the usa ione oo: Lurope, and armies that have sebioved victories that will be the admiration of fatme cenerstions ‘The vreatest war- riore ot ancient or modern times have been rivaled if nat ent pa be the cone wale genius | cf the comma the Conte ters e. It he bomiliatip that weare tb eople re- corded in bistery, nu ort weber fous ol trees | buweted Of Leuk tieemen, who rnor" Murr: ging the » feened an aderoeson | Ist inet.,t der, and aap ing “Your brethren from the battle-flelde he Mivsiesippi are on th Way to meet you heavy heats but they bring souls true to duty and jnetinet, with bouor, All that bravery coula dare oud inetinet suffer, they did lor you there, Here they ask trom you only fimnese and patience, a brief ume, for your common Texas, Soldiers! What will you have to tell thems? Soldiers! How will they re- gard you? Will they reeocnize the name ot ‘lexus soldie:' vo beiong to you, if you tail them and fail your country now? The flog of ‘lexas, iw ‘Lone Star,’ otill Aoate in the tree winds, Othermjave "one down, It is yet ‘tuil bigh edvanced, Ifiein yoar keeping. Lt dishonor aud shane ever stain ite biight giories, I tell you plainly you will be the men who do it, That fing te entitled to your allem- auce wad duty, Live to tit will romeiu the om. preeers ation of law aud or- ond the They bring NEW YORK, blem of honor and vow nukeglorious, T uphold no extreme views, | have ne tnopracticelflesigin, Tdcenef n ytotle peer ¢ of Lexos that ff the terus com be p.ocurea wuichT Le eve we are now in the course of obtain- they t eheall bow jo what eeeme the destiny which teturte Texas te the American Union; and in good fai. so long ae charged with your executive power, Iwill week to effect thie transit ) Which will beet protect the interest of the State, “Governor Murrah haa iseued @ call for a Stato Convention at Austin, on the loth of next menth de'eeataato be elected June 19th and a proclamation convoking the Legislature in extra rescion at Austin, July th Ma). ven. Magruder, rebel commander of tho Mie trict of Texas, sent his notice (before reported in the ars Ganive . on the 22d ult, LHe said that he desired to open & negotiation with the Federal General Com- manding at New Or' be sent to New OF as soon at tuay be afte: Tuesdey, the did inet, Cape Sande replied, acceding to the request, BY TELEGRAPH Cairo, Bl June 16.—New Urieana dates to the 10th inatant re be elved, Gi has called an extra reasion of the Legislature of Texas, to meet at Austin in Aucusrt, and has alao or dered an election for delegates to a State Conven- tion, to be held at the eame place Joly 1th, and has directed the Sheriffs to distribute all Confederate Property among the people, The retol ecarrison of Brownaville have ecired Gen Slaughter aud iniprisoned him until he pays them tor their paat eervices In he correepondence between the Poderal General Brown and General Mejia, the latter ie aeeured that the Lulited States Government will not intertore Mextean bell b bas captured 60 bales ¢ rnor Murrah witt gorents ie f cottor of cattle A tight is reported to have taken place on the &! between Cortinas and Lopex, 2s above Mata Steps wore mile moras, in which the latter war defeated being taken for the capture of Mataimoras by Cortinas and Negiotw, hey were only waiting for the occu | pation of Hrowneville by the | nited States forces be- fore making the movement An erplorion at Navasota, Texar, on the @idult., destroyed 200 buildiage and killing several persons The loss amounted to over Luu, A fleet of diemantied gunboats left Mound City terday for the mouth ¢ monitors lying there Direct From New Orleans. A Rebel Governor's Farewell, New Orleans There are and wiil be lim- ited restrictions on travel to porta on the Texne const, but free and unrestricted travel and communication willopen in five days by official orders, Only tiane porte are at present ruuuing, but @ private line oF steamors will be plying ina few daye, The etean- ship Fune Shoey bos arrive from New York Governor Allen hae pablished hie farewell address tothe poople of Leulsiana, wherein he advises tem Perate language, maniy dignity, and eulmomsion to the laws, In the inevitalie course of events, they mast depend npon the United States to make them contented,proeperous and happy, KRetugoes are advired to return home,take the oath of allegiance,work with redoubled energies, aod prove true and substantial citizens. Heannounced himself an exile, but praye for pertuancut peace and prosperity to those who live under the flag of our common countr The Kebel garrison of Trowneville homes before the arrival of Gen be paroled, Col. Ford escaped to Matamoras, lu New Orleans the Mayoralty question bas heen re'tied by Gen, Canby appointing H, W. Rennedy Weiltzei'*s command left the mouth of the Missiseippi on the loth, bound west Gold is quosed 135, Middling cotton 8T, From Alabama. Revival of Basiness In Mobile and Mont. f the Red River, totow up the June li, left for thelr Hrown, refusing to Gen, gomery Th lobile Explosi Keing Investianted— Troops Leaving Nootgom- ery Ceatederate Seidicrs tighting (.uer- rillas, Our New Orleane f from Mobile and Mo: Mobile correspondent cays: Agreat change in the past few months haa come over the people of the South. Passion has had ite bring some interesting news ihe N.U, Limes sey, Alay hour, and haa, with the surrender of the Confederate aitay, pareed away The people are begiuiue to bink aud ect. The traver epiritit yous soldiers and the paroled t t h aevi dence to all of us that these ie bo ine aure tor hoe SATURDAY, JUNE 17, . to our Capt. Sands, commanding the fleet off | ane, and that hie Commissioner | by aateamer from the fleet, | several | hundred head of horses and mules, and @ large drove | | look at thts bill ot | lowe tlie feciiuge Letweca citizegs ab the Cuited siatee, Bueiness in Mobiic la reviviug fast la the explosion district, Mechanics are at work tearing dow ‘lle and revulldine, ory (blag seomne to betoken that MolUk will te acnin The Mobile News of the Sth saye A few short eke exo and we had, in a business polnt of vie en Bundays Nut attare have taken # at chance, and for the better, The change ot cuitency adil the striugency ut the m tary organizations ‘ it.at titet eomewhat dilt to effect any mercentile t(ramemetion# ef uoy Le and euch persona ae contd run in goods an a Of any kind, found ready eae and enor weabewhue it wae d yyered thet inuney tore abundant than wt fire. raf d, dhe of military 1eetrict Hired for the time on trade, and the ubsesling of the port, enused at ONCE AL Miawenua Lc ot Koos Ob mil deer ptione 1) 18k, WAI YO Inet hh jedy ecie Alinost as roon Ae | ule wove Ofered Hie moet ts merchants, Day | y pened, and deaitabie ete t are being t wh oo the mark Phe t t vauioual Bank in Molile wid ehortly go tne tion General Canby ! julre into the caure of the thiaeity, and the tmeeting wae held on Monday of iast week, If tbe catastrophe was the work of dos- perate and wicked 4, @ #brict clear up the whole sipand bring dign puniehment euch diabolism deserves From Montgore comes reports that the maci eal inftuences of trate and commerce are already rip plying the place of 1 restrictions en terpriee are ren ne the debrie of f pessod Mor portance, ‘ opera. 14 appointed @ committer to in magazine explosion in investifation may iNitar enerey au ur years’ ruin; eod ine ehort old in will resuiwe ber Y and are to be rapidly muster teraa Corps to fill pont are beine pai ed out, leaving a portion of the V their places, ThepMath eays “A brigade of the mud jon lefton Thureday #4 route tor Mobi Lu eo eof the low mtact ot watering the rive fhe ing boats cannot pase higher than Porting. bence the troops had to much there. where they wil be takun on board, ‘Phe inva lids of the brigade took pa lett Imtevenme" |he axe on the Keaerve, whieh fame paper reporte that tor HOO ithe pact ther har been & gene of guerillas depredating u toend aud foe in the wietnits of Friasts Poon), Mireweihii Tuey numbered about lifty, and were recuias y officered, Last week some returned Confederay eoldiers teoin Johnewn's arny who hadcome home ( Te urn s0 poncetul vot after these geeriios and ruceveded in their eaptatn, Leutenaut, aud two of the men, aud capturing tire of them." The Recent Fire at Chattanoo, Nashville, June 1i.—The telegram in the Now York papers of the 14th, relative to the fire in this city, reflects injuriously upon Capt, W. A. Wain- wright. in charge of the warehousy destroved, All she books, papers and accounts aie bivworvui, ull them to the con- | 1865, triotieinof memories ard | jured. The origin of the fire will be investieated by , @ court of inquiry, The Conspiracy Trials. New ond Important Developments, Col, Tompkins, a member of the Court, was not present at the session of the Court to-day, on account of indisporition PXAMISATION OF ROWFRT PURDY, ty Jntee Advocate Holt Witness roakted fn Vir ginks an! bad been in the Government @ re since S61. A loiter heretofore publabed, pa ing te have heen dated at south ranch. Lorldgo, Vile, April 6th, 1845 addressed to “Friend With and refer- *, and suggesting an ee. Ting fo certain ou speculstic cape by wav of Thornten's Gap, in we the party failed to vet throueh on bis trip, after “atrikine fle," was shown to the withers, who etated that he had » seo ithefore Witness testified that the allu- sions to Purdy contained in the letter had reference tbat the writer was Roown to him ase to himeelt person by the uame of Jonas Me Aleer, and that aome of the operations of the latter, expecially that with reference ty aditiculty with the girl epokon of, wore untrue FXAMINATION OF DL MET Woon, Hy Jader-Advoeate Holt Live tn Montreal, Cana da am Aec«tant Manaer of the Montreal Kianch of the Ontaco Hank; am aequninted with Jaeot ‘Thompeon, formerly Secretary of the Interior, of the United States, and with the acconnt which he kept with the Ontario Hank ; the mon: deported in that Hank to liseredit accrued from collation of bille of exchange drawn by th retary of the Lreasury of the so-called Confederate States apon their aeenteat Liverpool, Q. State whether or net, in the course ot the dishursoments made by Jacoty Lbompeon of he fund placed to his credit, thie requi- rition wasdrawnon the Bank (exbibteing vo witnere A paper given below)? A. Itowae; itiein mv hand. writing, Q. Dcase read isto the Cours? A. (Read- ine the paper.) “ M Aueuet 10th, i564. Wanted trom = the o Wank, on New York, la favor of Benjamin Wood, Eeq. for 25,0) enrrent funds, $10.00 debit, ex $15,000," he poper shows that the reqateition wae orinally drawn to favor of Benjamin Wood, Kaq., and that the vame of D8 Kastwood wae afterwards eubetituted yr Tous order ot 1 how th e@ the exact condition of that paper? A. ow it lead su New York, payable to the B Pastwood, that is, myself Q State change in the requisition occurred? A, Tho tenjatuta Wood, a it apposied origiually, was eraeed at Mr, Thompson's request, and my ny fe an offlcerof the bank, was substituted. Q. fethe orixinal paper, de it not? A, It is, Q. ange [another paper wae ex Lilited to the witness), aod atate whesher it wae drawn upon that requisition, A It was Ky request of the Judee Advocate the witness thon tread the paper to the Court. tia dated Montreal, Avenet tioth, 1864, and ta dhiected tothe Cashier of the City Bauk, New York, and the wording ts ae fol At chree days sight please pay to the order of 18 Faatman, in corrent fundies, twent,-tive thou ddollars, value received, aud charge the same to wotof thie Beanel, The endorrement on the bill directs the payment to 4 to i to jion, Benjamia Wood, or order, signed B. Wood, Q. You state that the 26,000 dollars for whieh thi Dili was drawn, int efor whieh that requisition waa tnade by MrT peon in the name of Benjamin 1% A. itwae Q. State whether or not the bill of exchange you bave just read ie the original one? A Itie. Q. Where did son obtala ity A. T obtained itin New York trom the cashier of the bank on which it was drawn, Joes it bear the marks of having heen paid? A i am not @equainted with the usual uiarkeot cancelling in New York; bat Lunderstand that it wae a The witn stated further that he waa not aec- quatnted with the Benin Wood referred to, but suppored ib to be the wame who at the date of that tranenction, was a member of the Congress of the Uni States examined by Mr. Aiken, Did not recollect ine carhed any drafte or checks in favor of ra Watson Wallace, Richard Me ery lames thor John Wilkes Hooth vt the inet of » Tooth purehared a bitin mat Mon- , with which witnem waa connected; never d the nn of Joho TH, Burratk mentioned be- fore the Judee a Advocate exhibited to the witmenn a list ealities on which dratte bad been made by the Ontario Hank, and requested him togive the dates and aroounte ofthe dratte which, as ehown by the paper, had Leen drawn on New York, the witness stated that the following were among the numberof drattedrawn: On the Sd ot Getober Inst a dratt fr in weld; on the Lith of Getober one for hoe tn ds on Noewember Sd, 4th and Bth, ville for about $6,000 in United states currency; on the Tih aod 2st ot March leet small drafte were also diawa PSAMINATION OF GROG By Judeoe Advocate Holt yarnin Wood, of Ne ing. (Lhe endorse the bill of exchanve and the Kenjamin W thatatt Wwihnra, Am acquainted with Ben- York, and know his band@writ yok, “E, Woe mathe back of given above, wae exhibited to dwriting identified by him 1, of New York.» Witness tne atwhich the paper ap endated, Mr Wood waa ao tne { the United states, and he be- HNeced editor and proprietor of the Now York Datry News, FXAMINATION OF MIL ANRAITAM FD, ROGAELT, By Judee Advocate Liolt. Am aeqnainted with Renjat n Wood, of the city of New York, and know hie handwriting, (The endorsement on the bill of exchane hited 16) the vious witnena, identihed this witness to be the handwriting of Mr. Wood At the tine of the date of that bill of exchange, Mr. Woof was a toemberot the Congress ot the United States, aud editor and proprietor of the New York Datty News, ithess had been in the habit of receiving letters from Mr. Wood The Court thea joe ky and upon pated that if defeuce Toupking a uit, Who wee indispored, it would heave to te rem to him during a aubsequent see rwueof the Cout, He thought tiere would be no omaol tine to (he Court if an adjouruinent wie takea until Jay. Adjourned { ews items | (Dp Telegraph to the Now York Bun.) Con, Wawel ith of alley Tis west wing of wae burned Tharg lay Btate $40,000 to rebuild seeuubling, Judge y weuwent of the counsel for th nenced, in the absence of Col member of the ¢ ove oy of Jal!, Davista legion, took ¢@] ance at Wastin ston, yesterday, the State Pr aon at Jackson, M night. It will cost Tie report tat the Bu n iments have heer asced and demolis.ed by revels is contra- Foury thousand freedinen tn South Carolina are usly wt work cultivasing the soil, and uine thousand colored children are attending school bow industr regularly. Tur subseriptions, sesterday, to the Seven- Thirty Lo es reported to Jay Cooke, wore ,011,500, The number of individual aubserip | tons arnounted to 1,458, Tue delegation of colored men who arrived at Wasbington ov Tuursday, from Richmond, hade United States troopa at this | long interview with the lreaident yesterday, who tod them ld i 10ON he quiee inte their case, Govaan ge writes from Washington to the Verranaof the Reserve Corpa, belonging to Now York, that het ut with the re enlisted, Ge fo procure thelr muater- yeuts in which they originally r Curtin, on the other hand, uiust serve out their new term of enlistinent in the corps in which they volun. tecred vern writes that the General Intelligence, (My Mot te the New York Sun.) Ex-Geauat Cant Scuraz has errived in Was!- ington, Comuopons Nort and Minn'e Warre: about te be-—married in Loudon. Work in the Pennsylvania mining reg been resummed, the miners going in as 75 cents por wa. E1onr thousand nine hundred bales of Sc ushern cotton roachod Driah porto during the woek, end= R - rt {Two ONE CENT IN GOLD TWO CRNTS IN CURRENCY, | foe June tat, or equal to over 12 bales per day The bulk of this cotton came from Matarmoras, Ges. Grant tf budly engaged, in ctvilien’s drewm at bie headquarters in Washington, 4 wreat deal of business relating t rebel prisoners is necessanly brought before the Geveral just now Tre Roston boothlacka at @ recent meeting, ro ed to reduce prices to ault the times, and pow hine-em-np' lor five, instead of ten centre, & bi retofore charged, Hy the general onter lately promulgated, all ma jors and brigadier-enerala with “nothing to do* Werny, on Thuraday, ‘reduced to thelr abnormal con } Neg 04 private individuals, and so continue here afver, Boston Bae is has taken decided ground ft favor ol negrosutlrage Per eontra, bia brother, the General, though rejoicing over the downfall of very, doee not belleve that the emancipated bondamen are yeteapable of voting itelligently. Tre call which Governor Plerpoint b ed fo the re-nasembling of the Virginia legiplature relates to what is known a9 the Alexaudria legislatures compoeed of some ten meint and not the legia lature just elected, Mostof the nemlers of the former ere radical A persgation from Beotls capital of four millions of 4 hes arrived «& Washington with proposition to in in Bouth ern lands on account of peraoas composed of the industrial classes, who will etulgrate at once if em courayed to do Ho, Rerenns from Colorado Land Office show grem activity in land operations at Deuvel, in that Ter ritory, in the way of preliminary steps to securing Janda under the Preemption and Homestead laws At Beginew, Michigan, in May, 8,760 acres wore lovated with bounty land warrants, Tum New Orleans New in noticing some recent changes of military men into editors, thinks some cf them will ruin tin plunging Into ‘the seething csldron of « journslstic eatablishinent where sys tein, purposes, cousistent effort and ratopal effect have to Ce educed from a chaos of mori &nd mem tal agitations, persoval eormplications, and polith cal surprises nod e:verzencics, Exactly! Two Sundays ago, while Mr Fielding Apple berry and family were at church, bis dwelling honse, emoke-house, barn, corn<nb and atablee were set on fire and entiroly destroyed, From the tracks found on the premises, they are evidently negroes, Mr, Appleberry had lately returued from the Sousbern army, tt # residence was about twenty tive riles from Memphis Fuiautyet, accounts continue to be received of the ravaxes of sinall-pox in Jamaica, and the mor telity among the laboring classes, Iu the luterior istricta the people have been dying like rotten sheep; while about Morath Ray, those afflicted have been seen exposed on the bighway, there be ing no place provided for their reception by the puble i, representing « ’ & Mobile News, of the Int tnat., tella of the re- cout practicos of Mobile abarpers on the tender hearte! New Orleans fermnines, representing themselves ag on ther way to Kirby Bmith. The News saya: The ladies, dear, unsouhisiicated are, would ‘shell out their last red” aud ‘yo in heavy’ in the work of setting the somewhat dilapidated wardrobes of these * boya to mghts, and the “paroled” would set out imine dimtely to “ye Kirby" in ‘Texas, and **jine"* somebody ele in s social drink on Bt, Charles sires. © junction lately effected with Brith by some Foderal officers and soldiers, has, however, played the gaine out, It used to be long ako * Wake toe up when Kirby dies |" lately ib 4ee~ Dro all righe till Kirby caves,’* LOCAL NEWS. NEW YORK AND THE VICINITY, Bounry Jomvers, Reser Prisoners, &c.— Beventystive bouuty Juinpere arrived yesterday at the Battery Barracks, uuder guard of some Masea- chusetts troops, whoetatod that they gave them @& g00d deal of trouble. They were etarted for Wash ington, tobe tried by Court Martial, One thousand rebel prisoners, who were released from the several forts, aleo arrived. They were all poorly clad, and ome were almost naked. Ther are principally Ale bamians, and willeubark for their homes so soon ee transportalion cau be given them by the Govern- ment, Tuk Homicivg is THe Finer PRecinet, = Tun Auarotho Panty Juorieiey by tie Cononer’@ Jusy asy Disotance, Coroner Wildey held an inquest asthe Lith Precinet station House last even- ing, oo the body of Michael Cooxan, who died on Thureday night. It appeared in evidence that de- ceasod and Michael Gorman met at the house of de~ conved on Thursday night, and had « quarrel, the young man feeling grieved that his mother should live with a man to whom she was not married, De- censed, who wae a very powerful man, wok the pris- oner and was about tothrow him from the window, when he drow his revolver and tired two shots, one of which pierced causing death «few moments afterwards, The prisonerisa young man who has been in the army and navy both, aud bees honorably discharged, aud of good eharacter, The jury rendered the following verdict; “ That deceased came to Lin death from pletol shot wounda at the haude of Michael Gorman, aud tne Jury believe the ev shooting wae in self-defence, and, under the cir- cum-tances; was justifiable.’ The pris ner, who gave himeelf up immediately after the occurrence, was then diseharved by Coroner Wildey Tur Cooking ACADEMY—CANNING AND Pursenvine Fuorra Professor Blot, whose suceess aan tencherof the culinary art, is now acknowledged by hundreds of delighted pupll4, announces that be will instruct the indies im the art of canning end preserving summer veyetables and fruits, On Thare- day this aes of lectures were commenced as an aldition to the wun tuetruction daily given at th Academy, No, 00 Fourth avenue The blackpoart exhibited the following Hitt OF PARR: Freeh tongue—asauce piqnante, Calves teeta la poulette, Teas poire, Cornets, of etrawberries, Teas, canned Btrawlerries, preserved, A beeftoncnue, which the Profesor sald wae pre ferable to any other, waa placed iu a saucepan full of water, im which the cook aleo puta carrot, a turnip. « leek, an onion, with two cloves stuck therein, # bay leaf, a pluch of salt, pepper and burnteugar, The tongue having beea peut!’ boiled tor three hours, was placed in @ dish of cold water, and afterwards skinned and trimmed wih aebarp Bolle, Being ene Jlowin into thin elices, the sauce was prepared ant poured over the ment Half an onion anda, placed in a eau ay wit waa boiled down ciore saucepan, lalf an ounce of butter, a table spoonful of flour, # earlic, and eome barns @ugar, were mixed over the fire, with @ gill ef meat broth, aud whew ready, the chopped onions and picklo were addec, making @ piyuaute sauce forthe teugue already pre - pared, Three of the foet of a calf, having been ecaldey with hot water and cleansed, the skin waa eplit be tween the toes; then the laree bones were removed. Tho feet and bones © vext placed In a saucepan, with sorne salt, two «talks of pardey, a bay leaf, end balf a gill of vinegar. After boiling alowly for an hous, the meat waseorved with the following sauce 4 (Cemtineed en the Las Page) Kir, both chopped fine, ware 4 pint of vinewar This overabriek fire In another