LATER AMERICAN NEWS.
Sydney, 11th September. The Paramatta brings Californian news to the Ist July. The following are the latest items, New York dates being to the 20th June. New York, 14th June. Information has been received of the arrival of the rebel Secretary of State at Bermuda. Major-General Orde has been assigned to military command of Oregon. The military authorities have inaugurated a system of oppression and outrage upon the colored people of Eiehmond, and a deputation of colored men from Eiehmond have had an audience of the President. They represented their condition as not better than slavery. Washington, 15th June. General Grant arrived in the city this morning. A mutinous spirit has been shown in the Colored Cavalry of (lie 25th Corps, the men declaring that the Government had no right to send them to Texas. On the 12th, discontent took the form of an open mutiny. The mutineers were brought ashore under the guns of the white soldiers. All were disarmed, and sent back again to the vessel. ' The final disorganisation of the 25th Army Corps took place to-day. Twonty-two regiments were mustered out. All Major-Generals and Brigadier-Generals, without command, gd out of the service—including General Butler. A number of Carolina’s best planters, having taken the oath of allegiance, have begun making contracts for labor with former slaves, They endeavor to recover their plantations. Petitions for pardon from the loading men of the iafe rebellion are coming in by hundreds every day. Amongst the men of note who have petitioned are MajorGeneral Edward Johnston and Joseph S. Anderson. Mr Colburn, agent for the Government, has arrived from Florida and reports that great destitution exists, and in some districts actual starvation. General Browne, of Georgia, has returned to Washington.
Reports from the South represent the people as thoroughly weaned from Jeff. Davis. They regard his execution as a foregone conclusion. There is a manifest disposition on the part of the large landholders to 'encourage emigration from Europe to Virginia. Secretary Seward’s health continues to improve. He regularly attends to business. Large number of refugees, whites and blacks, are returning to South every day. John Mitchell, the editor of the Richmond Examiner, has been arrested and taken to Fort Lafayette. _ Governor Holden has issued hia first proclamation to the people of North Carolina, informing them that a Convention to alter and amend the State Constitution will be held at as early a day as practicable. Undoubted loyalty to the national Government will be required of the delegates to the Convention. All persons desiring to vote arc required to take the oath of allegiance. He appeals to the people to renew with cheerfulness their civil pursuits and their interest in the prosperity of the States and nation.
Colonel Cooper Gibbs, formerly in command of the post at Andersonville, and Captain Henry Wieiz, are in confinement, awaiting their trial for starving prisoners. Thirty-four warrants have been issued by the Secretary of State, all the parties implicated being citizens of North Carolina. New York, 17th June. Kirby Smith and Magruder were received on the United States steamer Fort Jackson, off Galveston. The articles of surrender included all the Mississippi forces, and were signed by Smith on tlie stlj inst. Captain Sands then proceed to the town, and landed and received its surrender. President Johnson favors retrenchment as a means of returning to specie payments, .which ho will recommend to Congress. Government has received documentary proofs winch are incontrovertible of the guilt of Jeff. Davis, in the matter of inhuman treatment of Union prisoners. Cairo, 19th June. The transport Kentucky, with nine hundred passengers, principally paroled prisoners, left for .New Orleans on the 9th. The same night the boat sank in abont twenty feet of water. The loss of life was terrible. It is supposed that two hundred persons perished. Boats have arrived here with 7954 of Jeff. Thompson’s army, including 686 officers, paroled. Thompson himself is awaiting the President’s decision relative to his petition for pardon. Private despatches notice the price of gold at 13S to 139 sterling. Exchange weak at 1084 to 109. Washington. The State trials continue. Advocate-General Holt will present the Huai argument bn behalf of tlie prosecution on the 2tth inst, and on the Monday iollowing the Commission will conclude its work. The sentence cannot be promulgated until it is approved by the President, so that the end of the trial may not be reached before the firsf of July. . War has broken out between the Argentine Republic and Paraguay. The Republic lias been declared in a state of eeige. The National Guard has been called out.
This war may become one of the most important that has taken place in South America. The forces of Paragus number sixty-five thousand men, and the Argentine .Republic and Uruguay have an army of seventy-live thousand. There are now in Mexico about forty thousand European troops. It is reported that Breckenridge and Tretnhold" had escaped out of the country, and that Smith, with fifteen thousand troops, gone to Mexico, taking with him four million six hundred thousand dollars in gold. It is expected that the army will be reduced to one hundred thousand men by the Ist January next. Mrs Lincoln has retired from the Executive Mansion—the White House at Washington ; and President Johnson’s family have entered into possession. It is estimated that there are thirty thousand hhds of tobacco in America. In Mexico, affairs are reported to be quiet. The Emperor Maximilian has given a very liberal subsidy to the Vera Cruz and New A'ork Steamship Company. An American Company has secured the exclusive privilege of constructing horse railways within the City of Mexieo. Another American Company has obtained a charter to construct a railway a hundred and twenty miles in length. Via San Francisco, under date June 30th, we learn that General Eigules on the 11th April, captured the town of Cardolas, garrisoned by nine hundred and fifty Mexicans. Two hundred and twelve were taken prisoners, and the remainder were either killed or wounded. On the 7th he had taken the town of Clutzer de la Laguna. Sydney, 11th September. The Paramatta, which arrived to-day from San Francisco, brings Californian dates te the 30th June. The overland telegraph line to the United States was out of order. - The flour market was unsettled, with a downward tendency. Quotations, Sdols to 9dols per barrel. Wheat, from If cents Ifcents per lb.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 310, 28 September 1865, Page 2
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