The Indianapolis daily herald., 1865-11-25

The Mysterious Prisoner Freed
mems Affairs-B0unties ON nj
Ex-Governor Cum nm iugs-Tne Cost
Of Killing an Indian-Whitc Wen
Sentenced To be Hung for killing
Srasson mpanies"N"rIn Carolina
Election = English Capitalists at
Home. Etc.
NEW YORK, November 24.-The Uorlfs
Washington special says; The prisoner re-
Gently brought from the South. under circum-
stances Of great mystery, and incarcerated in
Old Capitol Prison, il Major Gee in charge OF
Salisbury Prison during the rebellion. He
was arrested in Florida.
Reports from nearly all the States where
Freedmen's Bureaus are established. state
that there is considerable suffering among the
negroes General Howard is strongly opposed
10 aholisllg the Bureau at present.
The reports Of freedmen schools I'm Ken.
lucky and Tennessee show one hundred schools
in active operation for cOlored children and
destitute refugees. The total number OF
scholars in attendance in the month of Sep
TENDER was twelve thousand four hundred and
eighty, and the total number Of teachers en-
ployed in active service one hundred and
eighty.
The reports to the Freedmen's Bureau from
Appomattox county, Virginia, announce a
very noticeable kindness of feeling toward the
freedmen from the old residents there.
The War Department have decided no claim
for veteran bounty will be entertained unless
the claimant has heretofore been recognized
and borne on his company rolls as such vete-
ran. Colored soldiers applying for bounty.
should state whether they were mustered a
free on or before April 10, 1861,
Ex-Governor Cummings, Buchanan's Terri
tOrial Executive Of Utah, was at the Treasury
Yesterday for the purpose Of drawing the bal
ance Of the salary due him. He has taken all
the oaths and been pardoned, and to-day ex-
poets { o draw his greenbacks and leave for
Georgia.
The forthcoming Treasury report will show
a more encouraging condition of our national
finances, than has been hitherto anticipated
The 1ri6uRe's special says: \ novel docu-
ment was received at the Indian Bureau to-
day. Ii is a tabular analysis of the cost per
head to the Government OF killing Indians and
squaws on The Western plains. The average
cost of killing an Indian has been about half
million of dollars. while for squaw the cost
il nearly two millions.
The War Department has. and is now una
BILE TO furnish the transportation TO refugees
and others it has heretofore measurably fur
nlshed.
The Herdlds Washington special of the 23d
SAYS: Mrs Bishop, daughter of the eX-rebel
Secretary Of the Navy, is i'm the city interceding
for her fathers release on parole.
Two white men named John NJ. Brown and
Christopher {. Rease having been committed
by a Military Commission for the murder Of a
negress named Nellie West in TaliafcrO county.
IL
President has approved the sentence. and or
dered them to be executed on the first Friday
in January.
Many well informed persons hazard that Mr..
and Mrs. Cobb, plaintiffs against Gen. Baker,
will not appear against him when his trial
comes up. They have altered their opinions
considerably of late. Gen. Baker threatens 10
produce in court the history Of their seven
years i'm Washington.
Theodore Martinez Bellecer, Cuban. was
-tgl
just about To sail for Havana on suspicion of
being implicated i'm the murder of Othero. Cir
cumStantial evidence against him Is strong.
Joseph Ganzales, man who left the hotel with
the murdered man has not vet been found.
The authorities are making every effort to dis
cover him and others upon whom suspicion
rests.
The Herdld's Washington special says emil
igration companies are forming in many sec
tions Of the North to furnish the South with
the labor and capital necessary 10 produce
their accustomed crops, and also 10 substan-
italy benefit the emigrant.
The United States Mutual Protection Com
pany of this city, with the First \ Assistant Post
mater General at its head, has already leased
many valuable plantations in Northern and
Central Mississippi, and as many applications
from southern planters for tenents and labor
ers. some 800 families are preparing to move
South in the month of January. under the aus
pices of this association.
Major Heque, of Newbern, Is i'm the CITY.
He says the people Of his State look upon the
recent elections there a complete farce.
None of the Congressman elect can take the
oath. II. +. Lehman, the only candidate i'm the
state who could do 30, was defeated by a large
majority.
The English capitalists, who sailed from
this port on the LIST inst, had pleasant pas
sage home.
Sir Morton Peto. in letter to a friend i'm this
city says, that their visit was am exceedingly
happy one, and he cannot but hope that il will
be of some little use in dispelling the clouds
which, with more perfect knowledge Of SEN
timents and feeling which really exist between
the two countries, would never have appear
ed. as.