The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-27
THE SITUATION.

foreign trade.
THE SITUATION.
Tho President has become SO much exhausted by the
pressure his time energies Of business and Of
oev'ns the almost innumerable delegations and visitors
calling him. that the usual reception the Executive
Mansion had yesterday TO be dispensed with.
BY the arrival here yesterday Of the steamship Hava-
IA, from Havana the 21st inst, we have Intelligence
OF tho seizure by her crew. while the way to Liver
pool of the ex-bIockadc running British steamship
Wren The mutinous crew had taken the Wren to Key
West Fla, and the British Consul at Havana had
made a demand for her surrender, with what
result not known. General Breckenridge and
his accompanying fugitive rebels still in
Havana Some of the wealthy secession sympathzcrs
had shown Breckenridge great attention. and offered to
present him with house il he would remain among
chem II rumored however, that he intended to 60
TO Spain Tho exrebcl ram Sonewall alias Olnde, still
ned in Havana harbor but doubted that she
would ultimately be given up government. A |
number of the steamers lately engaged running the
blockade of our Southern ports are now lying idle at
Havana Among them is the Harriet Lane
General Terry commanding at Richmond, has issued
order announcing that, slavery having to
Virginia. all the State and cipal laws restraining the
personal liberty persons have become obsolete
and that hereafter the coored people will enjoy same
personal liberty the whites and be subject only the
same restraints and punishments. vagrancy however,
will not BIO permitted the part Of the negroes any
more than that Of white citizens. The testimony Of
colored persons he also states will be received in all
cases before the military courts in his department
General Hartsuf, commanding at Petersburg, Va,
has forbidden, in official order the holding OF any
meetings by the planters to establish price
for the labor of the negroes to make distinctions
prcjudcial their interests and no difference in rate OF
compensation for the labor by whites and blacks
Is to DO allowed. .sa.a
The Virginia Legislature adjourned sine die on Friday
evening last after session of Ave days Nearly all
measures required by Governor Picrpoln him
In the work Of reconstrucling the State government
passed, cliciling little or no debate in
their passage. The most important of these
that extending the elective franchise to
persons who excluded from 1t by the Alexandria
constitution. These persons those who have
voluntarily given MD and comfort to the rebellion since
The LIST of January, 1864 The election OF members OF
Congress and OF the Legislature is to place on
the 10Th Of next October At election tho people
also To decide whether the Legislature shall have
power repeal the constitutional provision which ex
cudes from holding Office all who have been engaged in
the rebellion
The rc5cI General Ewc in n letter written from Fort
Warren his present abiding place. to friend furnishes
his statement of how he became cngulfcd in the mael
strom Of the rebellion The somewhat SINH.
lar those given by Alexander Stephens for the
mis- 'ortune Ewe said he saw prominent Northern
In and out of Congress advocating secession and decar
ing that the rebels right, and he thus led
believe that dissolution OF tho Union inevitable,
and therefore, though very reluctantly resigned his
commission in the national army and entered that of
JoG Davis
Tho constitutional amendment abolishing slavery
Throughout the United States comes up in tho New
Hampshire Legislature oday pursuan: to adjournment
from last Tuesday.
Camp Douglas, Chicago, and Jo,nsons Island, Lake
Erie, are botl now nearly clear OF rebel prisoners.
Forty four gunboats, seven tugs and a number of
other vcssols lately composing portion Of the Misss
spp squadron will be sold Mound City, ON August IT,
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