The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-17
THE SITUATION.

Tho Secretary Of tho Interior, in communication Of
instructions to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
states that in future dealings with hostile Indians the
Interior Department will subordinate its action 20 the
policy and operations of the War Department. and the
Commissioner is requested to instruct the superin
tendenw and agents make deliveries Of money or
goods any tribes bands in hostility to the govern.
meot and to suspend all intercourse with them, except
Ing no far as may be sanctioned by the Of the War
Department
The rebel OK Governor Joseph Brown, Of Georgia,
IN an address which he has issued to the people OF
that State, advises them TO submit gracefully to the
emancipation OF their slaves take the oath of ale
glance and qualify themselves for voters, to cheer
fully join in maintenance Of the national govern
ment To acquiesce in the taken for the
restoration Of civil government in their Common
wealth, and 10 give the administration OF President
johnson cordial support
In his description of trip from Augusta Georgia, to
Montgomery, Alabama, Of the HERALD correspond
throws much additional light affairs in the States
uamed including matters relating to the system Of
labor tho crops and the confused and impoverished
in which the left the people and the various
:, enterprises The freedmen generally having
rom their jubilation over the acquisi.
:, ,,,., IN, 'rty, have settled down to work on
-. ,,.,.,,0ns. but ,'any of them have yet to be
,,,.h, ,bs, freedom and idsness are not syi
, ,oovmoua In Georgia, Is said, the planters
th.ve this year to great extent instead Of cotton
,,.n,sd corn Of which an immense crop is anticipated
Though some Of the landed propreors arc determined
not 10 employ their Former slaves Ms hired aborer he
nac,y are disposed give the free labor system lar
ira, ana are confident that the negroes win work IL
uustriously both they and their employers viii be pene
od nv tho change and that the lanes and all othc'
t,as of property will in q very short time be far mor'
valuable than ever they were under the existence
slavery
7, the states of Mississippi Louisiana and Texas, GU
correspondence informs US, the cotton sugar ana COT
oroos promisc a most abundant ych. In Norther
y,a,ns Tho ,eyrocs as in other portions Of the cour
try. having mbbed erroneous ideas of freedom, wer
abandoning tho country for the towns and asrcu''ur
was in danger Of being seriously interrupted when ecu
raj Custer issued Alexandria an order ana ooN !"
necessary military to put stop to inc eVi'
The One Hundred and Fiftysccond New York regimc'
arrived In this city on Saturday night The follown
regiments arrived yesterday Seventeenth al
sixty .arst New York, the Eleventh and Fifty-eish
Massachusetts the Seventeenth Vermont and the secor
Rhode Island 1t Is expected that the Irish Legion wi
arrive this morning
EUROPEAN NEWS
The steamship Hansa, from Bremen on the I'd AZ
R,,,hampon on the 9th inst. with advices three da
later. arrived at this port early this morning
Mr. Stewards official despatch 10 Sir Frederick Bruc
Tho British Minister in Washington, In answer TO {
notification that Great Britain recognized the terminate
Of The rebellion against government, had been
before Parliament
The people Of England principally engrossed
The forthcoming elections.
The resiqnation Of Lord wes,bury the Lord Chan
IN, had been sent in the government, and u was
derstood that IL would be accepted After a long
animated debate on the % instant In the House oil .
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