AMERICAN NOTES.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 450, 1 December 1868, Page 2

AMERICAN NOTES.

(From the Panama Star and Herald.) The government has at last got rid of one of its "elephants." The trial of John H. Surratt was brought to a sudden conclusion on Thursday last, by the release of the prisoner.. After the failure of the special plea setting forth the amnesty proclamation as covering the oase, counsel for the defence pleaded in bar of judgment the statute of limitation of 1790, claming that the indictment was void, not having been found within two years after the commission of the offence. Judge Wylie sustained the plea? and ordered Surratt's discharge. The District Attorney entered an appeal from the decision and gave notice that he would prepare another indictment and present to the next grand jury. Silas and Charles T. James, cousins, were hanged at Worcester, Mass., on the 25th ult., for the murder of Joseph G. Clark, of Boston, about six months ago. E. M. Stanton, ex-Secretary of War, has taken the stump for Grant at Coif ax. The report of the Sub-Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau on the riot at Camilla Ga. fixes the blame upon the whites, and says the affair was simply a massacre. The sworn affidavits of a

number of citizens, however, show that the negroes entered the town armeVl, and provoked, if they did not really begin, the affray. The correspondence of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington indicates a large aggregate increase in the present wheat crop over that of last year. The second match of the English Cricketers, at Montreal, was interrupted by rain, and declared a draw. In the first innings the Eleven scored 310 points, while the Canadians scored only 28. Another negro has been installed in the Louisiana Senate in place of a white man, declared ineligible. The bill passed by the Louisiana Legislature to secure to negroes the right to equal privileges with whites on railroads and steamboats, and in all places of public entertainment has been vetoed by the Governor. This action excites great indignation among the negroes and extreme Radicals. General Sully has administered severe chastisement to the Colorado Indians. He chased them South across the Texas border, whipping them bedly in several encounters, killing and wounding 70 of their number. i Col. Forsyth's command, which was engaged on the Republican River, with a large body of Indians, has returned to Fort Wallace with a loss of five killed. The Indians lost 80. The fight is said to have been the most desperate that has ever taken place on the plains. Two more white members of the Louisiana Legislature have been ousted to make way for negroes. The English Cricketers have beaten all the matches so far played, the closest being with the Philadelphia club. A game is now in progress between the Eleven and a selected Twenty-two from all America. Thomas C. Hindinan, a Major-General in the Confederate army, was assassinated at his residence in Helena, Ark., on Sunday night. He was shot while sitting in the midst of hia family. The cause of the deed is unknown, but the supposed assassin has been arrested. Ben Butler has been re-nominated for Congress. George W. Jamison, an actor, well known by his connection with the celebrated Forrest Divorce case, was run over by a train on the Hudson River railroad, at Yorkers, N.Y., on Saturday night, and instantly killed. Four thousand stand of arms consigned to Little Rock, Ark., arrived at Memphis, Term. , from St. Louis recently. It was believed they were intended to arm the' negroes of Arkansas, and no boat for Little Rock would transport them on any terms. They are still held by the citizens of Memphis.