The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-26

numbers and great terror fully possessed with the
idea that general butchcy by the freedmen was 70 DO
yesterday and continued during the holidays
Though the military authorities have made the proper
dspost ions 10 check any such outrages should they
OCCUR they have unable to discover any traces of
the alleged plot on the part OF the negroes and
correspondent believes that 1t has existence Some
think that the fghtful rumors have been started by
leading OK rebels themselves with the object Of inducing
the Inauguration of system Of repressve measures
which will again place the freedmen in state Of semi.
servitude.
An important trial is going on at Savannah, some
particulars OF which give in correspondence from
that city There existed at Savannah 1854 battalion
Of soldiers in the rebel army composed OF Union pri
who had enlisted in the rebel ranks 70 keep from
starving These men took every opportunity to desert
to our lines and occasion seven Of them were
caught, tried for deserton and shot This occurred
while General Mercer in command, and he has been
placed trial for their murder Evidence for the pro-
secuon Is difficult to secure, and the trial has been de-
ayed General Mercer put In his parole by Sherman in
defence claiming United States protection under the
Johnston Sherman agreement.
The Toronto Leader Of Saturday last concludes article
the excitement among Canadian merchants caused
by the recent notification Of Consul General in Mon
treal relative TO shipments of goods from Canada to the
ouuOuucement
Brown has withdrawn his late resignation Of his position
In the Canadian Cabinet
The Senatorial party Of Fenianism have promulgated
certain documents bearing upon the present Fenian
troubles letter from James Stephens obtained at the
Dublin trial, denomnates O'Mahony drag chain and
stumbling block. There is considerable excitement
garding the matter The movement for compromise is
going on and the rank and 1le begin to favor the retire.
ment of both O'Mahony and the Senate.
To-day the festival of St. Stephen, the first martyr,
will be celebrated in the Catholic Episcopal churches
Two young men named Patrick Henry and James
Farrell giving their residences respectively 567 Second
and 173 East Twenty street. were yester
day committed for trial on two complaints Of felonous
assault, the first charging them with attacking Peter
Fidoback of Sc East Houston street. early yesterday
morning, in Second avenue and dangerously stabbng
him in the back and the second alleging that they
tered the drinking place 1916 Second avenue and with
out provocaon beat the proprietor, Matthias Bush,
seriously injuring him.
Both Miss Dayton and W. H. Russ the parties to the
tragedy in Clinton street. Brooklyn, last Saturday
evening, still living II is now believed that Russ
win recover and hopes even entertained that the
lady will survive her injuries, though one bullet still re-
manned in her head yesterday
The schooner Buena VISTA from Alexandria Va, for
this port, laden with COAL sprang leak and sans on
Sunday morning last of Sandy Hook. AL the persons
on board were rescued.
The steamer Bosphorus, from Liverpool went ashore
in the bay OF Fort Hamilton, yesterday morning.
The schooner Haines Captain Ettrup, from Hayti for
Boston, ashore Nantucket island during the gale
of last Friday night and all the persons board
men, persisted
The Merchants Exchange in Montreal was completely
destroyed by fire on Sunday night last
Five men we're sufiocaed and another seriously af
fected that no not expected to recover, by the
escape OF gas in at the Bremen Hotel Chicago,
last Saturday night
singular and fatal collision occurred the North
western Railroad, Ridgeied, forty Eve miles from
Chicago on the Goth inst Three trains running
close together the track and in the drec
ton when tie first out of water and signalIed 70
hose behind W stop, which the second train did but
owing 10 snow storm which prevailing at the time
some other cause the signal was not observed by
those charge Of the the third tran which continued
course driving the middle train into the foremost
one. Ono OF the fremen instantly killed, another
fireman and engineer and number Of other persons
severely injured and several Of the badly
broken.
Henry Wilson, who was hanged on Friday last, at
Gcneseo. Livingston county in this State for tho muir
der the night Of the 10th Of May last in the town of
Portage Of Henry Devoe appears to have been one Of
the most hardened Of criminals sketch OF such por
tons OF his brutal known appears in
columns this morning During his imprisonment he
confessed having committed three murders, and ntma
ted that he had been connected with others, but OK
pressed compunctions on the subject BE met his
fate with complete indifference, and manifested the
same brute courage up his last the gaows
that had characterized his guilty life.
An extensive and most completely fitted up locomotive
and machine shop has just been finished by the Harlem
Railroad Company, Fourth avenue between Forty
third ana Forty-fcurth streets description OF IL ap
pears in another column OF to-day's HERALD
The Irish MIDDLE and the jam afca Mas