Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-18
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DAILY COMMERCIAL.
important from Mexico.
Progress Of the Liberal Cause.
Affairs in Nashville.
Interesting from Washington.
IMPORTANT TO SOLDIERS.
The Great Ocean Yacht Race.
UNION TICKET AHEAD IN GEORGIA,
THE IOWA ELECTIONS
Great Sale of Railroad Material,
FROM WARRINGTON.
THE CONSPIRACY ADVERTISEMENT.

FROM WASHINGTON.
THE CONSPIRACY ADVERTISEMENT
WASHINGTON, October lit will be recoected
that during the conspiracy trial two printers en-
ployed in the office of the Selma Dispatch testified
that George W. Gayle the author of an adver-
tisement which appeared in the Dispatch, soliciting
contributions to the amount of million of dollars
with which to procure the assassination of Pres
ldent Lincoln and certain members of the Cabinet
Gayle was in Washington when the testimony was
given, and had engaged counsel to conduct his case
in the event OF his trial in Washington but he was
removed South, where he has ever since been in con-
fncment Recently the President ordered that he be
transferred to civil instead of military court for
trial in Alabama.
THE PRESIDENT on TRYING TRAITORS.
During the interview on Friday between the Presi-
dent and the South Carolina delegates he said if rea
son has been committed there ought to be some test
by the highest tribunal, to the power of the Coy
ernmen to punish the crime. in order to the vndica-
non OF the Government and the Constitution, even il
'hc Executive clemcncy should thereafter be cxer-
csed This repetition of his intention certainly does
not comport with the assertions of at least news
paper correspondent land which have been extcn-
Sivcy published that the President has no idea of
bringing Jefferson Davis to trial.. The delay has GER
talnN not been the fault Of the Administration nor
has been abandoned. 1t is known that it is the
business Of the Judiciary and not of the Executive to
ntlate proceedings in the premises, but there is
unerence OF views among jurists. and the opinion
mas been advanced that in the present unsettled con-
dluon OF the Southern States, which are still under
martial law lin one of which the trial would have to
take place. and no general peace having been pro
claimed, further legislation by Congress may become
necessary; and, further, there would not be time
pnnupn tuVanp np r1 G,.@ l,
Der to try the ease for at that period the Justices Of
the Supreme Court of the United States will com
mence their regular term at the Capitol. Whatever
may be the ultimate disposition of Jefferson Davis
and Others, this appears to be the present condition
of the important subject.
THE COTTON FRAUDS.
Information continues TO be received here of frauds
and injustice connected with the seizure of cotton in
Southern States. Much of that article has been con
fscated the ground that it was Confederate pro-
pcrty, as distinguished from that of individuals
whether they were not voluntarily engaged in the
rebellion The only remedy for those aggreyed pro-
vded they nre loyal citizens, is before the United
States Court of Claims which will be crowded with
cases of this kind The Administration is seeking to
prevent further spoliatons and it is not improbable
that some plan will soon be officially promulgated rs
u remedy.
STATUS OF KENTUCKY.
The withdrawal of martial law from kentucky leaves
her in exactly the condition other designated
loyal States. The suspension of the writ of hobeas
corpus still applies to all of them in eases arising out
OF the army and the navy to deserters spies and
other classes of offenders.
No definite action has yet been taken in relation
to the application for the removal of Gen. Palmer.
but it has been determined to Withdraw the colorcl
troops from Kentucky. Troops of whatever charac-
ter will also DO withdrawn from all the Southern
States, with the exception of the few which may be
required for fortfcatons the public safety
will admit Immediately after the restoration Of
civil government.
IMPORTANT To sOUTHERNERs.
1t has come to the knowledge of the authorities
that persons who have taken no voluntary part in the
rebellion have had their property seized by officers
who supposed that the being worth over twenty thou
sand dollars was of itself sufficient ground for the
proceeding 1t does not seem to be generally under
stood that the exceptional clause in the Presidents
proclamation apply only to certain classes of often
ders, who are required to make special application
for pardon. All, saving the excepted classes, can
without difficulty obtain the benefit of the amnesty
Owing to the prevalent ignorance concerning this
fact the purchase and sale of real and mixed property
is prevented, in apprehension of litigation. In cases
where parties receive pardon they have restoration
OF all rights of property except as TO slaves, and eX
cept In where legal proceedings under the laws
of the United States providing for the coniscaon Of
property of persons engaged in rebellion, have been
instituted, according to the terms of the proclama
ton of the 10Th of May last.
Numerous parties in the South act ms agents or
pardon brokers. some of them coming hither and
each presenting us many as fifteen twenty applics
tons from both men and women for the Executive
clemency when the oath could well be administered
to them at home.
Strenuous efforts are made by friends of John
NJ lpos from
The information from Louisiana is that much con-
fusion and trouble prevail in that State, some of the
parishes refusing or being reluctant to recognize Mr.
Wells as the legal Governor; therefore it is not i'm
probable that either he or some other person will be
appointed Provisional Governor in order that har-
monous action may follow the present political con-
fusion.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Acting Surgeon Macgowan has just returned from
the great Council lately held in the Indian Territory
whittier he was sent by Secretary Harlan, having
been detailed by the Secretary of War a the request
of the American Geographical Statistical Society to
make certain chronological observations On his way
back he visited, at the request of the American
chronological Society, the Indian Mounds at Newark
Ohio, to make inquiries concerning the alleged dis
interment of cfiges bearing Hebrew Inscriptions
Without committing himself fully on the subject he
reports that the evidence is strong Us to the genuine
ness authenticity Of the etgies which were dis
covered several years ago, and that Of them ap-
pears to be of Chinese workmanship while there is
slight room ford0ubt to those which have just been
The question of their antiquity requires further in
vestigaton. The mounds at Coshocton, Ohio, which
contain bones, and have been described as belonging
to an extinct of Indians, prove to be merely the
burial ground of MOravian missionaries who resided
there about IL century ago. At Newark there have
been recently discovered traces of extensive sy
TEN of drainage, evidently of the period of the
Mound Indians, and indicating larger population and
higher civilization than antiquaries have hitherto
supposed
SALES OF RAILROAD MATERIAL.
AT public sale of the rolling stock at Alexandria
Va. to-day, by Col. IL. S. Robinson the locomotive
General j. C. Robinson, brought SIG 5O0 the General
Sickles Sl6,3OO; the General Meade Sl65OO and the
General Couch $4,000. These engines cost theXiov-
ernment about two years ago $1,000 each. There
were also sold q locomotives, 12l freight cars and
about l,50O tons railroad iron. The ears averaged
about S6i each and but four of the engines brought
less than their cost. The latter were bought by the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Northern Central the
Philadelphia and Erie and the Erie and pittsburs
Railroad Companies.
THE CONFEDERATE COTTON LOAN LIST
The publication Of the list of the principal issucs of
the shares of the Confederate Cotton Loan has it ap
created much excitement in Englan and call
ed forth several denials As to it. truth whatever er
rors may contain, it is proper to say that the orgi
nal document from which copy was taken and fur
nished simultaneously to the American Press is in
the possession Of this government together with many
Others of equally interesting character upon that
and other questions relating to Confederate proceed
lngs and obtained both at home and from abroad.
The Fenian Congress.
PHILADELPHIA Oct 20-At the Fenian Congress