AMERICA.

Evening Post, Issue 172, 26 August 1865, Page 2

AMERICA.

General Kirby Smith has surrendered ; but the Federal Government, have nevertheless, sent troops into Texas, it is thought with a view to Mexico. The negroes in the South are likely to I give great trouble, and they have excited

so much bad feeling in the North that in ' some places they are very harshly treated! In the South they demanded the franchise In Kentucky the whites refused to employ them, and they have, in consequence appealed to the President. The following description of their conduct we take from the intelligence brought by the mail which left New York on June 10 :—: — The condition of the freedmen at the South is said to be far from what their friends desire. They are flocking to cities and large towns in such, numbers that employment even for those seeking work cannot be secured, while, from the same cause, labour in the agricultural districts is becoming scarce. The negroes also hang about the military camps, a fact whicahas called forth from military commanders a nnmber of orders requiring the blacks to work, and refusing to issue to them rations to be eaten in idleness. In some sections the negroes are perpetrating gross outrages. The Macon (Georgia) Telegraph of the 23rd May, states that certain fanatical persons have in that section been inciting negroes to plunder. The same paper of a later date gives an account of an outrage perpetrated in Talbot county, bra part}' of forty -five, headed by a white man. They burned seyeral ginhouses and a quantity af cotton and wheat. They also robbed people of money and jewellery, and committed outrages of a more diabolical character. A party of citizens finally went against them, and secured a number of the offenders. The leader and four, others were shot, three who had committed rape were burned, and one hung. A few days later fifteen negroes were found lying dead within a space of fifteen yards on the banks of the river near Macon. No marks of violence were found ou their bodies, nor was it known how they came to their death. Outrages by organised bands of negroes in various other portions of the >-outh are reported. In South Carolina, the people were in fear of general insurrection -among the blacks, and isolated plantations, without military guards, were in many cases abandoued?; A vigorous retrenchment is progressing in the national expenditure. A large number of naval vessels are announced to be sold, and the number retained in commission is to be reduced to the actual requirement. Most of the iron-clads are to be laid up out of commission in the Delaware River. The home squadron is to consist of 150 vessels. Public feeling in the north is strongly in favor of putting down the Mexican monarchy, and of insi ting . upon the demands made upon England respecting the Alabama. The Washington correspondent of the" New York Herald, writes as follows : A formal demand has been made on the Spanish government for the surrender of * the rebel ram Stonewall. It is not the intention of our government to abandon or abate its demands on England for damages upon our commerce by re*>el pirates. Enough of our armies will be retained to enforce any demands upon foreign governments. It is understood that preliminary measures have already been taken to enforce the Monroe doctrine, and a notification has been sent to Napoleon that he must not only send no more troops to Mexico, but that he must withdraw those he has there, and leave the people of Mexico to decide for themselves whether they will have a republic or an empire.

The auxiliary steamer Great Britain arrived in the Mersey earlj on the 20th May, after a rapid voyage from Melbourne, which she left on the 16th March, having accomplished the run home in 64 days and 10 hours. During the voyage of the Great Britain to Cape Horn from Melbourne she passed through no less than 600 miles of icebergs. On the 26th March, 10 days after leaving Melbourne, an immense number of icebergs were discovered ahead ; the vessel's canvass -was at once reduced and the ship put under easy steam. On the 7th of April the steamer was completely surrounded by icebergs of immense t>ize 5 it took her 10 hours to run through; them, many being only -within three or four yards of the ship, and towering high and ominous above the lofty njgg^- of the steamer.