AMERICA.

West Coast Times, Issue 26, 29 July 1865, Page 2

AMERICA.

The new President, Johnstone, is inclined to severity, and will treat treason as tho greatest of all crimes. A large number of the alleged accoraphces of Booth are in custody. Johnstone offered a reward of 100,000 dollars for the capture of Davis, and other smaller amounts for thejj|MjsljOT*lSfl"*wnKa JjHAtaghßwnwfflKalEy' in President Li n^>Wn*lnurder. The trials are prooeeding with closed doors. Mr Seward's attempted murderer has &?&n g^peliouded and identified. -• „-*,. „ ' The' Confederate cause has been abandoned. 'General Johnstono surrendered soon after Lee. ( Sherman offered terms bo liberal that ithjey , were repudiated by the President. General Johnstone accepted the same con? ditions as Lee. All the othor Generals followed the same example. The President considers the war over. The President is disbanding his soldiers, is withdrawing orders for new ships, and jta reducing his expenses one million dols. per day. \ An attempt has been made to make war vith tho French in Mexico by armed emirrants from the North. i The resources of tho South are comiletely exhausted. i . Tho forces surrendered by Johnstone aro wciity-seven thousand men ; and Generals k'duregard, Hardy and Breckenridge, with thoj North and South Carolina, and half States Militia. %xm alone holds put* resolving to maintain war. Ifc policy has yet been brought forward 08 Wthe future settlement of the Union by thii president. It the interview with Sir Frederick Briitp he spoke sensibly of the. importance of England and America preferring amiOalro relations; but his policy to tho Soith was avowedly cruel. (wing to crowds of disbanded soldiers daiV flocking to Mexico to support Juarez in jlirect violation of the neutrality laws, so nuoh clamored for by the North , v great anjjety is Manifested as to the courso of Fnhce.

f Jho opinion is expressed that sh6 will tlec'are war- if American sympathy for jffictsialie jjotput down at once. - 1 lie President has issued a proclamation for the renewal of efforts for the capture of rebel ohiiser*. He will refuse hospitality to the ships of neutral nations giving refuge in theivjports tp Confederate cruisers. , Tho ambassadors have presented their 'credentials. . t . ' " , The latent southern advices speak of dosolation and misery everywhere, owing to tlie prosecution of the war, ; tho means of tie rich are exhausted, and the poor are reduced, to want and starvation.

> In South Carolina and Georgia, thoso of gentle blood and also the poorest are almost starved to death and await daily for relief, Such havoo and ruin wero never before witi ossed.

'Lincoln's death was unaccompanied by r#in. Ho. was utterly unconscious after recoiving the fatal shot; . Within twelve days al\er tho murder, Booth, and Harrold (tho aoconiplice), were tracked to a swamp at tho mouth of tho Potomac, concealed in a barn, which the Federal cavalry surrounded, givi^ them five minutes' grace to surrender.. Harr.old gave himself up, but Booth

refused : upon which the bam was set fire to. During the progress of the five, Booth •was shot by Corbett, an Englishman, in the Federal service, and ono hour before his ileatb. he prayed to be shot through the h6art. His last words were, "Tell my mother I die for my country.'* President Davis and family, General Regan, and others, Davis's suite, were captured by General Wilson's cavalry, at Irvinsville, Georgia, seventy-five miles 6outh-east of Macon> at daybreak on the 10th May. The troops who made the capture divided into two parties, and as they approached Davis's in tlie darkness, from opposite directions, they mistook each other for the President's escort. A fight ensued, in which- several lives were lost. Mr Hunter, ex-assistant to the Confederate War Secretary, was arrested, and also Governor Vance, of North Carolina* . Detachments of Federal troops we're told off for the protection of the whites, and to compel the negroes to support themselves. The latter, on being declared free, refused to work, and conflicts between the whites and blacks took place in consequence. Gold, 130£; exchange, 109J in gold.