AMERICA.

Evening Post, Issue 225, 27 October 1865, Page 2

AMERICA.

Mr. Daviß remains a close prisoner ; he is not manacled, but a guard is kept constantly in his room ; and although allowed occasional exercise, in company with the gene, al in command, he is forbidden all books save the Bible, and strictly prohibited the use of writing materials. As yet no time has been fixed for his trial ; there is a growing feeling in favor of clemency— Hen,ry Ward Heeclier, amon^s others, advocating banishment ; ami it begins to be whispered, though nobody knows with what authority, that lie really will be permittid to leave the country But the charges commonly made against him of inhumanly treating the Northern prisoners of war are such «s, if they could be {proved, would degrade him to the rank of the lowest criminal, It is stated for instance, that "at Anderconville, the Confederates put the Northern prisoners on a piece of land without even a tent to cover them, that a tropical sun beat down upon their heads, and that they had not food enough given them to keep a dog alive;" that they were stripped of every little comfort, subjected to the roughest treatment, shot doWu if they overstepped in the least their narrow bounds ; that they were laid low by fever and starvation ; and that 15,000 of them now lie buried there. There are no more helpless and pitiable

people under the sun than the liberated^ slaves of the South. Their troubles are not yet over. A system of free labour is being extensively organised, and where it has been cordially adopted one-third more work has been accomplished than under the old rule; but in general neither pai ty —neither masters nor servants —are yet ready to accept their new relations. General Thomas has been compelled to remove a mayor in Tennessee for ordering or permitting the grossest ill-treatment of colored persons, having actually inflicted 25 lashes on one man for attending school. Outrages upon the negro, both in the North and the South Have been more frequent, and of worse character, than for years past. There have been street riots and murders; and at Charleston the violent and mutinous conduct of the New York Zouaves, in respect of the black people, was Mich that they had to be forcibly disarmed. In North Carolina, also, the payment of wages has been with difficulty enibrced. The negroes themselves in many places will not work; there is much vagabonding and running off nobody knows whither. From Kentucky, where the Constitutional amendment is yet in abeyance, a remarkable exodus is taking place across the Ohio. General Palmer i has undertaken to give " passes', to negroes in scearoh of employment; and many thousand have availed themselves of his permission. For a single week more than 25,000 pi these " slaves" crossed the river! This breaking of old bonds, and dispersion through the country of multitudes untrained and unprovided, alarms even the friends of the black. Famine and death are sure to follow on his track, unless speedily arrested. v Fredmen's Aid Associations" are being formed to meet the emergency; and considerable sums have already been subscribed in this country to help in securing the necessary means. General Sherman, meanwhile, has expressed his opinion that the negroes might be advantageously colonised in Florida, and allowed a representative in Congress. — English paper. ¦