Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-14
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NEw YoRK, August13.-The HeraEfs
Richmond eorrespondent says:
Reports in Northern papers bearing
upon the movements Of General r. E.
Lee, are wholly erroneous Six months
or more ago Lee left@this city aud pro.
ceeded to the village of Csrtersgille,
Buckingham countyfin this State, on
the south side of James river, forty
miles from Richmoud, where be is
living in the utmost seclusion, scarcely
an answering the miscellaneous letters ad-
dressed to him. Heyresides in a small
cottage, the property Of Mrs. Cox, ada
cent and belonging to which are some
four acres of land, which be finds re-
creation in caltivating .I.
General Lee = unusually retired in
his seclusion and it Is probable he will
rarely, if ever, emerge from it
The Heralds Washington special
says:
In compliance with recent orders of
the Navy Department, all the sailors
who we're recently attached to the yes
sells at the Yard, and whose terms of
enlistment were not nearly out, have
been granted furloughs for two weeks, to
report at any time to any Navy Yard or
at any Station they may select About
200 have, under this order, been paid
off, 80 3
It is reported that Commissioner
Holloway, of the Pstent Office, has sig
ni6sd his intention of leaving it the lat
ter part Of the coming winter, whether
bis successor viii be appointed or not
The new appointment has benin limbo
several weeks and apparently is no
nearer con6rmation than it was at Hol.
ioway's resignation.
Brig. Gen. Van Wyck, commanding
the military district Of Western South
Carolina, has issued a general order
from Newbern, dated July 18th, which
was called ont by the preparation of
continued violent abuse of the freedmen.
The offenders IN the more violent of
these outrages are now insiail awaiting
trial. The parties arrested claim
clause in their contracts with
the ill-treated blacks which permitted
the applications Of each in certain cases,
and which had been introduced with
permission of the local commandant,
and was regarded by them as full per-
mission to inhict such upon their en-
ployees as to them seemed proper. The
0ommandant in question i, BY the terms
of the above order, severely rebuked for
permitting the insertion Of a clause SO
rspugnant to the system upon which the
freedmen's movement isufounded
The misguided and stubborn planters
who are attempting to EN- barrass the
success of the negro labor system, are
warned in direct terms by the above Or
der, that their policy is shortsighted
and selfiDjuFious, and claims for the
punishment Of freedmen is rescindHd
from all contracts into which it has been
inserted.
The Hsralds Matanoras correspond
ent gives particulars and ansimpartial
version of the late attack by Cortinas
on the Imperial army train between that
place aud Monterey The account from
the journals of the former town, we have
heretofore published. It was nothing
| like the formidable affair the latte re
1 presented it. The republican soldiers
under Cortinas are described as greatly
lacking discipline and organization, but
as quite well fitted for their chosen
work Of continual harrassing Maxi
milian's troops on the Rio Grande, and
keeping them closely confined to Mata-
j moras.
! Timer Washington special says: 6 =
/ Counties of Virginia bordering on the
Potomac, are recovering from the de-
vastation of war, refugees are returning
to abandoned homes, society is resnm.
ing its influence upon all sectionsr A
large number of those returned are
northern settlers who were driven out
in the .6rst year Of the war, and who
are aiding very materially in spreading
loyalty. Building and farming are GO
ing on extensively, and land contiguous
to Washington and Alexandria, is sci
ling in some instances at as high rates
as before secession. rAE