The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
(Per the Belgian.)

NEW YORK, July 21.

President Johnson has announced his intention
to sustain the administration of Governor Pierpont
in Virginia.
It is said that an effort is being made to induce
the President to suspend the processes issued under
the confiscation law against property of late rebels
in Richmond, until action had been taken on their
applications for pardon.
The effect of the recent operations under the Con-
fiscation Act in Richmond is said to completely sus-
pend the efforts which were making to rebuild the
burned district, and to have excited the greatest
consternation among property holders, who thought
they were going to be exempted from the liability
of confiscation of their property.
The Tribune says a prominent senator asserts
that it is positively determined to try Davis by a
military commission.
The World says all cavalry corps attached to
the Department at Washington have been mustered
out.

The South Carolina delegation are still here con-
cluding the arrangements for the reconstruction of
that State.

Governor Perry has prepared and forwarded to
his State a proclamation calling a convention to re-
vive the constitution. The delegates are to be elected
on the first Monday, and the convention will meet
on the third Monday of November next.
Provisional Governor Perry made a remarkable
speech at Greenville on the 3d inst., just before he
knew of his appointment. Its tone may be inferred
from the following expressions :—" Mr. Chairman,
I will here frankly say, as I have often said during
the past four years, that there was not a man in the
United States who more deeply regretted the seces-
sion of Southern States than I did at the beginning
of the revolution, and there is not now in the South-
ern States any one who feels more bitterly the
humiliation and degradation of going back into the
Union than I do. Still, I know that we shall be
more prosperous and happy in the Union than out
of it." He also said Jefferson Davis was not
specially to blame for the failure of the rebellion ;
that the people, tired of fighting, had skulked from
the field; that Johnson had 70,000 men on the mus-
ter rolls of his army, but only 14,000 in its ranks ;
and adds, " Congress, too, Mr. Chairman, is greatly
to blame for exemption. All between 18 and 45
should_ have been forced into the army and kept
there. It matters not whether he was a doctor,
lawyer, preacher, politician, editor, or school-
teacher, if an able-bodied man, he should have been
sent to the army ; but, strange to say, the three
classes of men who were mainly instrumental in
plunging their country into this mad revolution were
all exempted by Congress from fighting. I allude
to politicians, preachers, and editors. This was not
fair. The man who gets up a fight should always
take his share of it." He also said President Lin-
coln's death was no loss to the South ; that he was
a Whig and non-slaveholder, while Johnson is a
Democrat who has held slaves, and who voted for
Breckenridge in 1860 ; therefore the people should
have every confidence in him. He ranks Lee next
to Washington.
The Herald's Richmond correspondent says :

" The election in Richmond, on Tuesday last, resulted
in the success of the candidates denominated Secessionists,
who are not suspected of any great love for, or loyalty to,
the national Government. The voting is said to have been
done principally by the paroled soldiers of Lee's army. It
may be added that the election of to-day has been con-
trolled by such men as composed the committee sent to
President Johnson to induce him to withdraw and nullify
the $20,000 exemption in the memorable proclamation."
Major James Osborne, of the Judge Advocate
General's office, has lately returned from a visit to
the Southern prisons, -where he had been collecting
evidence with a view to bringing to justice those
who maltreated Union prisoners during the war.
Captain Wise, late commandant of the Anderson-
vile prison, has been arrested, and is now lodged
in the old Capitol.
The Times says no official information has been
received by the authorities announcing a decline in
the health of Mr. Davis.

The World says Judge Advocate General Holt
has gone to the White Mountains, and it is thought
General Grant will make a similar tour.
San Francisco advices to the 18th inst. announce
that the cable of the Russian telegraph has been suc-
cessfully submerged across Fraser's River.