Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-12
G E N ERA L N EW S.
JEFF. DAVIS CAPTURE DOUBTFUL.
Progress of the Assassination Trial.
The Volunteer Cavalry TO be
Mustered Out.
THE STATUS OF THE REBELLIOUs
STATES.
The .uerican Fever Umabafed.
RECRUITING PROGRESSING BRfsKLY.
&c, &c, &c, &c. &c.
&c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
from New YORK.

INV YORK, May 1.-THE Tribune's Wash
| ington special of the 9th contains the follow
ing:
The sanguine expectations Of some of captur-
ing JEFF Davis not INDUCED in to a very great
extent by intelligent army officers The gov
eminent is making every effort possible for his
capture and may succeed, but il is thought that
success will be the result of accident and the
fidelity of the contraband rather than any assist.
ance which will be rendered by the native white
population.
The trial of the assassins aud consprators &as
resumed to day in the large room adjoining the
old psntentiary in which the prisoners are con-
fined. assembling at ~ O'Clock and remaining in
session until g. Harold was arraigned and con
siderable testimony was taken in the case and
gratifying progress made.
Testimony has been or will be offered showing
that Harold went to Canada and conferred with
the rebels about the assassination of Mr. Lin
coin
Since Booths return from Canada Mrs. Sur
ratt who seems to have been one of the chief
instigators and participants and is kept closely
guarded, is defiant and unreentiug.
Mrs. Surratt's daughters do not seem to have
been implicated. and will be kept and called as
witnesses. One of them il very sick, and is re
ported to have poisoned herself.
1t is positively known that Surrat. is in Cana
da, and there is little doubt but that he will soon
be taken.
The commission sets with closed doors, but it
is believed that the secretary of war will send an
abstract of the trial TO Gen. Dix after the man
ner of his war reports
Fred. s. Cone has undertaken the defense of
DR.. Mudd, who, with Cox. is charged with enter
tanning and concealing Booth and Harold
Mr.. Jones is charged with ferrying them
across the river.
volnptaar cavalrv xho.a tarn,s @ Miro rrior
to October LIST, will be mustered out of the ser
vice.
The psymaster general is ordered to make i'm
mediate pay ment to all soldiers discharged
Thirty eight ordnance bureau clerks were dis
charged to day.
1t has been sscertained that the prisoners in
the Old Capitol and Carroll prisons were set at
liberty by subordinate officers This will be
stopped, and none released except upon order.
of the general commanding the department
Tumbety, alias Blackburn, has been lodged in
the Old Capitol
The Times Washington special, dated the
10Th, says:
The executive order of the president, putting
In operation the suspended functions of the ma
tional government in the state of Virginia, was
agreed upon at the last cabinet meeting held by
President Lincoln on the day OF his death, at
which Grant was present.
nc arc tnat tue state Oh virginia Is
not recognized ever having gone out of the
union; that the functions of the United States
government were simply suspended within her
borders, and are now put in operation again; that
no vestiges of confederate or rebel state govern
ment recognized and that Gov. Pierpont
and the loyal Legislature of Virginia are made
the nucleus of the organized state government {.
Wm. Lloyd Garrison has resigned his position
as president of the Anti-Slavery Society. and
Wendell Phillips has been selected to fill bis
place.
special to The Herald, dated Washington
10. says:
Virginia has been divided into four districts,
aud the secretary of the treasury has appointed
the requisite number of assessors and collect
ors
An order has been issued TO muster out of
service all soldiers whose term of service expires
on or before the 3lst inst
The Herald says that the Mexican emigration
furore continues unsbated Several new Offices
have been opened in the cities of Brooklyn, Phil
adep phia and Washington.
The return of Gen. Ortegs from Washington
Is anIously looked for, AS he is expected to
bring definite programme of proceedings.