American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-05-24
Insurrccfion af Memphis.

MEMPHIS, May 10, VIA CAIRO, May 21.
The influx of prisoners caused great
excitement among the soldiers here. A
plot to rise and murder every rebel in
Memphis, to aveage the Fort Pillow
massacre, was discovered last night and
white troops were put on guard. Du-
ring the night the negroes attempted
to come out of the fort, but they were met
by the white troops and after sharp skir-
mish, in which twenty we're killed and
wounded, were driven buck. They are
now under strong guard.
Natchez dates OF the 10th, says: Gen.
Farrar has just returned from an expedi
ton to HarrsonburE, where he captured
the entire rebel garrison.
CAIRO, May 2l.
Three thousand two hundred and nine
bales of cotton passed here to-day, 1856
ofwhch were for Cincinnati, / ,480 for
st Louis, and the remainder for the
East.
Gen. John L. Smith, supercedes Gen.
Washburne at Memphis.
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The magnificent farm, owne by Jas
G. Bruce, of Halifax county, Virginia,
bIother-in-law of james Seldom late
Secretary of War in the rebel govern
mcnt, estimated to be worth FROM one
hundred and fifty dollars to two hundred
| dollars an acre five years ago. is now held
to be worth not more than FIVE dollars per
acre. The celebrated Elk Island farm on
the James river, valued before the war at
two hundred and sixty thousand dollars,
is now estimated to be worth not much
over ten thousand The depreciation, it
will be remembered is attributed to the
destruction of slave labor, which, in the
estimation Of Southern planters, impart-
ed its chief value to Southern land.
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REBEL TuIEvING.-Major Hammond
Assistant Paymas'er United States Ar
my, informs the New Bedford Mercury
that III the warehouse of IIaxall & Co.
Richmond was discovered lot Of blank.
cts from five hundred to one thousand
marked "U. s., which it was confess
ed were stolen from our men imprisoned
there not one of whom during last yeaI
had a blanket.
The emigration from the northern tc
southern States will be quite large II
has already set io, as will 5e observed by
the subioiued paragraph from the New
York Journal of Commerce. in reference
to the passengers going south, by the feet
Of vessels leaving that port for the cities
| of Southern seaboard.
Passengers are going along with the
freight. Mechanics and industrious per
sons of every calling are preparing to try
their fortunes not only in the chief cit
les of rebedom, but in the interior a,
far as they can penetrate with safety
The demand for carpenters and other me
chanics is said to be good, but upon thi,
point it is too early to have any definite
information.
From all parts Of Indiana we have
the most fattering prospects for large
and remunerative crop the coming au
tumn, Notwithstanding the late cold wet
weather which has materially retarded
the spring work. The irosts of the las
month have somewhat damaged the grape
vines, though not seriously. Winter
wheat looks healthy; the hay crop will be
abundant, and fruit of every description
looks prosperous. The county look,
beautiful in its present garb of green
The grape crop in West Virginia and
| other reoions has bccn much iniured