The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-05-19

port the utmost distress to be prevail.
ing among the Inhabitants. Many of
those even who have been wealthy
arc suffering for want of proper food
and clothing.
jeff Davis is directly responsible
for the starving of our prisoners =
This Internal work was carried out
in pursuance of plan deliberately
settled upon by him rs Commander
in-chief of the Confederate armies
1t was not only n violation of the
rules of war, but barbarity that was
never before conceived Of within the
pale Of human civilization. No edu.
Gated man, who bad not the spirit of
the liend, could have been capable OF
it. Mana Sahib, the leader of the
East India insurrecton, IL called q
monster ofthc human species for suf.
iering the Cawnpore massacre. But
what was this butchcry in hot blood
OF three or tour hundred. in compari-
son with the cold hoodcd murder by
slow starvation, of sixty thousand,
rpCtratcd under the leader of the
American rebellion.
jeff Divis will reach Washington
the lattcr part of the week. He will
at once be placed on trial, probably
before the commission now in session.
The circums'autial evidence implica.
ting him IN the conspiracy is becom-
ing more complete Positive testi.
monv from Richmond will not I've
wanting, as skillful detectives are un-
Travelling the movements OF Surratt
I who was in Richmond shortly before
the murder and had moro than one
interview with Davis AMI Benjamin
O,her reports say the prevailing
among officials is that jeff
Davis will he tricl for high treason
before the United States Court ofthi.
District, and that he will not he exam.
inc ! before the Military Commission
now trying the conspirators
The evidence thus Ear introduced
against the assassination conspira.
tors, now on trial at Washington. is
regarded there "a conclusive Of their
guilt Col Fornev, in lettel to the
Philadelphia Press, in Justification OF
I the public from the earlier proceed.
ings of the Court. hints that startling
\ disclosures were made which it was
important should not be published at
present The public, when this come.
to he published, will fully justify the
course that was adopted Col. For.
,nev writes; 'What if, in this tcstimo
ny, it appears the assassination of the
/ President and his cabinet. and others
was plotted in the re0ellion. paid
for with rebel money, and known tC
the rebel chiefs What ifthe raids in
ito Vermont. the hotel burning, tht
throwing of crowded trains from rail
roads, &c. were arranged under tho
same Influences and paid for out o
the same fnIds? what if George n
Sanders, who swcars he does not
know, or had neve,' seen Booth, i:
proved to have been his close com
,panionp ? Aud yet such facts as these
are believed to have been established
and yet are immatcrial compared &c
much more which came ont with the
doors of the commission closed
New York, May l6.-rhe Bermuda
! Advocate of the 2Gth contains Il re.
port Of the preliminary examination
of the plot to introduce yellow fever
into our Northern cities. The exam
nation has resulted in the commi,tal
Iof q resident Of the island named
Swan, on n charge of having conspir-
ed with DR. Blackburn to take charge
of certain trunks containing infected
clothing, Tor the purpose of having
them forwarded 70 New York, Phil
!adclphia, and other cities, with the
object OF Introducing yellow fever
Blackburn, whose hailino points
were Halifax, Quehec,aud the Clifton
House, Niagara Falls, Canada side,
made liberal promises to Swan, pro
Vided the contract was fairly carried
out The funds were to be supplied
freely from the Confederate eNrheq-
uer and meanwhile Blackburn himself
was TO retire 10 Halifax and watch
the progress of events until the
opening Of Spring, when the season
would probably he moie layorahly to
the spread OF the imported disease.
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