The Portland daily press., 1865-10-06
BfTEhEGRAPH.
From Washington.

1sains WASHINGTON. Oct. 8. VA
The President granted fifty-eight amnesty
pardons to-day, IL of which were to Viroin.
ians. Among the moro important annifca-
lions for pardon, lately filed in the Attorney
Generals Office, are those of Gen. Peck. Of
the late rebel army, Col. Ould, rebel Commits
sioner of prisoners, and Mr.. Watts, Attorney
General Of the rebel States.
COL A. L. Robinson. Department Of TT g
Military Railroad, recently sold at auction at
Manchester, Va, 25 locomotives and 1850 pas
senger cars They were purchased principally
by Southern Railroad Companies and brought
S4l1,0OO cash, or about tWo-thirds the original
cost. Forty or fifty locomotives. and five hun
dred or six hundred cars are to be sold on the
18th, at Alexandria, Va. Much of this stock
was taken South to be used for transporting
Gen. Sherman's army, but Lees capitulation
rendered its employment unnecessary. 1t is
The Government has taken no recent ac-
ton, nor is it believed any is contemplated
consistent with the policy heretofore declared,
VIZ: The maintainance of absolute neutraii-
ty between the belligerents in Mexico. -
1t is said that Mr.. Russell, Postmaster of
Davenport, y. w, has been removed, and
George N. Saunders appointed in his stead.
Several weeks ago lady friend made APP
pllcation to the State Department for pass
port for Gen. Beauregard that he might avail
offenders to voluntarily exile themselves dur
ing the pleasure of the Government, but it is
understood that the same Southern lady who
was to-day at the Presidents house, is now
interesting herself to procure for him the ex-
eeutive clemency.
Col. Thomas, Assistant Commissioner of
Freedmen's affairs for the State OF Mississippi,
informs the Bureau here that he has notified
the Judicial officers and magistrates of the
Pr0Vi- ia0al G0V0r0manf IF Micciccs.zya;
when they allow the negro the same rights
and privileges as are accorded to white men,
before their courts, the officers of the Bureau
viii not interfere with such tribunals but give
them every assistance possible. Col Thomas
also writes that the mayor of Vicksburg hay-
Ing signified his willingness to allow negroes
the right to testify before his courts, and to
impose the same penalties in the negroes VOL
alton of the State laws, or the city ordinances,
as would be imposed on white persons commit
ing the same offences, the officers of the Bu-
reau in Vicksburg have been instructed in no
case to interfere with the city authorities in
tho discharge of their duties, and not to take
cogizance of cases coming within the iuris-
diction of the mayor, but to turn all such cases
over to the mayor for trial. e
The United States Consul at Port AIahon,
under date of Sept 18Th, says that the cholera
at Palma, Majorca, had carried off many peo-
pie, and there was no dimunition of the dis
ease. A panic prevails there. The cholera
has also appeared at Cindadela, and it is now
admitted that obout 70 pilgrims died at Port
Mahon, and others of various diseases
Cholera is represented as having broken out
in the west part of Mahon, but, thus far, this
scourge seems to have been confined to the
great channels of human travel and the marts
of commerce. There is no information that it
has appeared in the interior Of Spain. IGI
The COnSul saws that iOfnrTna flor, hoe
also been receceived there that the Russian
pest, which was thought to have disappeared.
has broken out in Siberia. The accounts Of
the pest are frightfIl beyond anything hereto
fore known. - 80 e s. 7. y
Nothing additional to what is already
known was developed to-day in the Briscoe
trial. 's'7 ~. stEesl1ff ~