The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14
Sund Night Report.


NE~ oRK. Aug. Ia.
The Herald 8 Richmond correspondent saws
the reports in the Northern papeTs bearing
upon movements Of Gen. Robert f. Lee are
wholly erroneous Six weeks or more ago
General Lee leftihis city and proceeded to
the village of Gainesville. Buckingham Coun-
ty In this State, on the South side of the
James River, forty miles from Richmond,
where he is living in the utmost saeIusion.
Scarcely answering the myriad of letters ad
dressed W hlm, he resides on small but not
ineiegant cottage, the property Of Mrs. Cox.
adjacent and belonging Ia, which are some
four acres of land which he finds recreation
IN cultiyating. Gen. Lee retired to this saclud-
ed spot sion, and il is probable will rarely, if
ever, anserge from il.
The Hsraids Washington special saws tha.
in compliance with recent order OF the Ma
w department, all the sailors who recently
were attached 10 the Yard. and whose terms
OF enlistment are not nearly out, have been
granted two weeks furiough. to report at the
end OF that time TO any Navy Yard or station
they may select. About 200 have, under this
order, been paid and sent off recently.
1t is reported that Commissioner HOLLOWAY.
of the Patent Office, has signifed his intention
part Of the coming week. Whether 'II ns a,e' sue'
cessor be appointed or not, the new appoint
meat has been in limbo for several weeks.
and, apparently, is no ne lrer coasummatlon
than it was Immediately following Mr.. Hollo-
ways resignation.
Bngadier General Van Wyck, commanding
the military district of West South Carolina.
has issued general order from Newburg. in
that State. dated July 18TH, which was called
out by the preparation Of continued violent
abuse Of thu freedmen. The offenders in the
more violent OF these outrages are now in iaiI
awaiting trial.
Parties arrested claim q clause in the con.
tract with the ill-treated blacks which permit
ted the application of the lash in certain cases,
which had been introduced with the permission
OF the local eommandant. ami was regarded
by them as full permission to inflict such pun
lshment upon employees as to them seemed
proper.
The commandant in question is. BY the terms
of the above order, severely rebuked and to
be signally punished for permitting the nser-
ton Of a clause so repugnant to the principles
upon which the freedmen system is founded.
The misguided and stubborn planters who are
attempting to embarrass the successful appli-
cation of the negro labor system, are warned
in direct torRs BY the above order that the
policy is short-sighted and self-iniurious, and
the Objectionable clause for the punishment
of freedmen is rescinded from iii contrscts
into which it has been inserted.
The Hrsafs MaAanoras correspondent
gives further particulars and An important
version Of the late attack BY Cortinas on the
Imperial army train between that place and
Monterey. The acooant which, fromt the
Journal of the former town, We have hereto.
fore published, il is nothiag like % formid-
able An affair as the latter represented it
The Republican soldiers, under Cortinas,
are described as greatly lacking in dicipline
snd Reaaiuation, bat sill a beans quite we'll
fitted & their work and continually harrass
ing Maximillian's troops on the Rio Grande
closely confined to Matamoras.
The Times Washington special says that
the counties Of Virginia, bordering on the
Potomac, are rapidly recovering from the de-
vastation Of war. Refugees are returning to
their abandoned homes and society is resum-
ing its influence upon all sections. A large
number Of those who have returned are
Northern solliers, who were drawn out in the
first year Of the war, and who are aiding very
materially in spreading loyal sentiments.
Building and farming is going on extensively,
and the land contiguous TO Washington and
Alexanria is selling, in some instances, at as
high ratesas before secession.