Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-25
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The Mysterious Prisoner Som thing
Relating to Freedmen and the Freed
mems Bureau-The StonewalI-An Elk.
Rebel after his A Arrearnges-Two U. 8.
Officers to make a Coast Survey for the
Colum bian Government Cost per
Head of Killing Indians aud Squavs
A Lady Interceding for her Rebel
Father-Tvvo Men Sentenced to be
Hung-Arrest of Suspected Murderer
Emisrants and Capital going South
Sentiments of English Capitalists.
New York, Nov. 24.-The Worlds Wash
ington special says that the prisoner who was
recently brought from the South under very
mysterious circumstances, is now confined in
the Old Capitol Prison. 1t has been ascer-
tained that the name of the prisoner is Lee,
a native of Florida. and during the war was
in charge of the Salisbury prison; he held the
rank of Major in the Confederate army. The
charges against him are those of cruelty 1nis-
treating, starving and numbering Federal SOL
diers while under his charge as prisoners of
war 's.s '.
The Postmaster General has completed his
report. 1t is now ready for distribution The
able condition. 1t will not require any addi-
tional appropriations for the next fiscal year.
Reports from nearly all the States where the
Freedmen's bureau have been established, state
that there is considerable suffering among the
negroes.
Gen. Howard is strongly opposed to abol-
ishing the Freedmen's Bureau for the present
The reports Of the Freedmeu's Bureau of
Kentucky and Tennessee, show one hundred
schools in active operation, attended by negro
children and destitute refugees. These schools
are supported by different benevolent socie-
ties throughout the United States. They are
under the auspices of Gen. Fisk, assistant
Commissioner. The total number of scholars
in attendance during the month of September
was twelve thousand four hundred and eighty
three, and the total number Of teachers en-
ployed in active service was one hundred and
eighty. Rep ports from the Bureau from Apo
tomax county Virginia, nrounce very notice
able kindness of feeling towards the freedmen
from the old residents and former Shareholders
of that county.
The Tribune's Washington dispatch says:
The Stonewall arrived late last evening and
anchored off Alexandria, She will come up to
the city to-day.
The War Department have decided that no
claims for veteran bounty will be entertained
unless the claimant has heretofore been recog-
nized on his company rolls as such. Veteran
colored soldiers applying for bounty should
state whether they were mustered as free on or
before April 49, 1861.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax will deliver his lecture
g Across the Continent' in New York and
New England during holiday week.
Ex.Gov. Cummings, BEchanans territorial
executive OF Utah, was at the Treasury yester-
day for the purpose of drawing the balance of
salary due INN. He has taken all the eaths
and been pardoned, and to-day expects to draw
his greenbacks and leave for Georgia.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says: A
contract was concluded yesterday by General
Tobogar, Minister of the Columbian Govern
ment, by which Col. A. Gilbert and Preston
C. F. West two officers of the U. S. Coast
Survey, enter the service of the Columbian
Government for the purpose Of making a sur-
vey of Magdelina river, stream emptying into
the Columbian Sea, four hundred miles east of
Aspinwall. The object of the Columbian Gov
ernment is to deepen the chanGel at the mouth
of the river, and also to overcome two falls
some distance up, by which $40 miles of nav
igation will be saved
The Tribune special says: A novel official
document was received at the Indian Bureau
to-day. 1t is tabular analysis Of the cost per
head to the Government of killing Indians and
sauaws on the Western plains. The average
cost of killing an Indian has been about half a
| million of dollars, while for squaw the cost is
nearly two millions.
| The War Department has disposed of all its
| sea going transports and is now unable to fur
nish the transportation to refugees and others
| it has heretofore furnished .------..-.
| The Herald's Washington dispatch says that
| Mrs Bishop, daughter of the ex rebel Secretary
| of the pavy, is i'll the city interceding for her
| fathers release on parole.
Two white men, named John NJ. Brown and
| Christopher N. West, in Talliaferro county, Ga,
were sentenced to be hung. The President
| has approved the sentence and ordered the cx-
| ecutlon to take place the first Tuesday in
| January next.
| Many we'll informed persons hazard the opin-
ion that Mr. and Mrs. Cobb, plaintiffs, against
Gen. Baker, will not appear against him when
he is brought to trial. They nave altered then
tone considerably lately.
| Gen. Baker threatens to produce, in court,
tie accumulated history of their several years
in Washington.
New YoRK, Nov. 24-The Don Marines
of Belle Cera, Cuba, was arrested last evening
on board of a steamer just about to sail fol
murder of Ohera. Circumstantial evidence
against him is strong. James Gouzcars man
who left the hotel with the murdered man, has
not vet been found The authorities are making
every effort to discover him well as other;
on whom suspicion rests.
The Heralds Washington dispatch says tina
emigration companies are forming in many sec
tions of the North to furnish the South with
labor and capital necessary to produce their &C
customed crops, and also to substantially bene
tit emigrants.
The United States Mutual Protection Com
pany of this city, with the first Assistant Post
master General at its head, has already Ieaset
many valuable plantations in Northern ant
central Mississippi, and has many application
} from Southern planters for servants and labor
ers Some 500 families are preparing to NOV
South in the month of January under the au
pices of this association.
The Times Washington dispatch says: Ger
Winfield Scott will spend the winter in u voy
age to Key West and New Orleans.
Mat II. Osborn is in the city. He says tina
the people of his State look upon. the recer
election there as complete farce. None c
the Congressman elect can take the oath
F. Lehman the only candidate in the Stat
who could do So was defeated by large ma