The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-30
0orfolk, Va, the Probable Place Of
Yrial Of the Arch Traitor.
Confiscated Property in Virginia
Advertised for Sale.

Contract for Regular Mail SteaiAshir
Service Between San Francisco
and Hong Kong,
-. &c. &s.
WASHINGTON, August 20, 1866
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.
Tho following proclamation issued this afternoon -
0Ym PREsDKNr The UNITED STATES AMERICA -
Whereas, by my proclamations of the 18th and
4lth Of June 1885, removing restrictions in part upon
internal, domestic and coastwise intercourse trade
With the States recently declared nsurrecon certain
articles exempted from the effect OF said procama.
eons as eontraband Of war; and whereas thenecessty
for restricting trade In said articles has now in great
0easnre ceased It is hereby ordered that on and after
Che rst day Of September 1885, all restrictions aforesaid
b removed 90 that the articles declared by the said
Vroclamatons to be contraband Of may be imported
and sold in said States subject only such regua
eons - the Secretary Of the Treasury may prescribe
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal OF the United States to be affixed.
Done al the ctty Of Washington this Goth day of Au.
gust in the " OF our Lord 1885, and OF the Inde
pendence Of the United States Of America the nine
t,eth. ANDREW JOHNSON
ynIAs Z szz4RD, Secretary o, State
The trial Of Jenerons Davis will take place before
United States circuit Court but tho particular has
not yet been designated. There to be import
attached TO the fact that the Grand Jury of the Dis
orict Of Columbia some months ago found true bill
against him for constructive treason in sending his troops
70 operate against Washington in the SKINNER Of 1884
The Grand Jury Of the at Enoxve has indicted
him for treason for there Davis harangued the people
Igainst the United States government The trial. how.
ever cannot now take place In that town, or at any
other place in the Tenth Judicial District for the
that the vacancy occasoned by the death Of Associate
Justice Catron has not yet been filed. As military
operations against the United States directed by
orders given from Richmond, IL Is probable that the
tTal will take place at Norfolk Virginia, In yhich event
Chief Justice Chase win preside, that State is
Sneed in the Judicial 6iiuii assigned 10 him.
8. POST OFFICE CONTRACTS.
The Postmaster General has made eontract for con.
veyance Of the mails from Norfolk, by Hampton, TO
Old Point Comfort and back six times per week. He has
also ordered the opening Of various post Offices in North
and South Carolina a..es4
The Postmaster General yeterday accepted the tender
made by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for
the mail steamship service between San Francisco
and Hong Kong, China, touching at Honolulu in
the Sandwich Islands, and Kanagawa, in Japan as
authorized by act Of Congress and approved February
and back, is $500000 The company Is to build four
ns class sidewheel steamships Of from three thousand
I've hundred 10 four thousand tons burthen each,
eminent measurement and the first steamship OF the
lire is to leave San Francisco for China before the
LIST Of January 1857 The term Of the contract is ten
years from the date of the commencement Of the
vice. The distance from San Francisco to Hong Kong is
thousand and ny miles, and from San Francisco
70 Kanagswa the nearest coal depot FIVE thousand four
speed Of the steamships while at s to be not less
than two hundred nautical miles per day.
APPLICATIONS FOR PARDON.
A. o. p. Nicholson, at time editor Of the Wash
ng,on Union and Gideon J. Pillow, late general in the
rebel army, were to-day among the applicants for
ooNPIscATRD PROPERTY IN VIRGINIA.
II reported that among the owners Of large amount
Of property in Virginia advertised by General Howard as
oonascated appear names OF General Eppa Hutton,
late Of the rebel army Commodore French Forrest and
Kinchaloe the guerilla. The property is divided into
two hundred and three lots, situated Loudon Fairfax
Elizabeth City, Prince william Warwick York and Nor
folk Counties and in the cities Of Portsmouth aud Nor
folk
rHB ACCIDENT TO GENERAL NELL.
The accident 10 General Nell! Of Pennsylvania, las
night is serious than was at the time supposed
He had just stepped from street car when he wa
knocked down by horse, which was ridden at rapt
te He is slightly injured in the left temple, and by
fracture Of the left shoulder His ribs supposed u
be affected, as be was splitting blood to-day.
TIE LATE TREASURY DEFALoArIoN.
The late Treasury defacaton not disastrous a
q nrs supposed Is by any means certain that tn
government will sustain loss at all In the nnal settle
ment Nearly twelve hundred thousand dollars wer
involved, reports be true or this amount ha
transpired that about seven hundred thousand dollar
promptly settled by convoyances and assignment
puporting 70 be good for the balance have also com
into possession Of the department. In addition to thi
bail bonds held for nearly quarter of million o.
dollars From all these sources the government cal
certainly realize the bulk Of its unpaid balance
VESSELS TO BB SOLD.
The following naval vessels the services Of which
no longer required will be offered at public SALE at tn
Navy Yard in this city, the 18th Of September: :
Jacob Bell, paddle wheel, 229 tons; Yankee, psddl
Wheel 32s tons; Keystone State, paddle Wheel 1,3o
tons; John L. Lockwood, paddle wheel $50 tons; Vic
toria screw 2H tons; Alpha, screw; Delaware, paddl
Wheel 96i tons; Fuchsa, screw, $50 tons curritucl
screw 1893 tons Moccssn, screw, 1o2 tons; Ella, paddl
wheel, 23o tons; Eureka, screw, so tons.
YANKEES IN VIRGINIA.
Brigadier General Dent has Just returned from Char
lotssve and reports the highest type Of model Var
kecs 10 be found throughout the Old Dominion. Tn
Oldest families fast becoming transmogned and ar
yielding the manifest destiny that stares them 10 the
fAos ~ every turn.
cRUBLrIHs TO TIE rREEpMEN IN ALABAMA.
General svsyne, Assistant Commissioner Of Freed
mems Affairs for the State OF Alabama, teographs frou
Montgomery, under date Of the 2sth inst, to Genera
Howard, superintendent Of the Freedmen's Bureau
calling for 40 additional military force 10 put stop